[单项选择]The House of Commons in the U.K. had its first woman speaker in ______.
A. 1990
B. 1991
C. 1992
D. 1993

[单项选择]Sociology had its beginnings as a separate science with ______.
A. Comte
B. Spencer
C. Latin
D. Darwin

[单项选择]Who first had the idea of forming the Red Cross


A. Mogen David.
B. Jean Dunant.
C. Clara Barton.
D. A person who needed help.

[单项选择]The newly-discovered medicine had its ______ only on ordinary colds.
A. influence
B. efficiency
C. impression
D. effect

[单项选择]World War Ⅱ had its ______ impact on American domestic life by at last ending the Great Depression.


A. profound
B. underlying
C. potential
D. intrinsic

[单项选择]The members of the House of Commons were shocked when the opposition speaker the character of the Prime Minister.
A. mentioned
B. disputed
C. lauded
D. doubted

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The appeal of the world of work is first its freedom. The child is compelled to go to school: he is (21) of authority. As he grows up, he sees what it is to be free of school and to be able to choose his job and change it if he doesn’t like it. The boys and girls, (22) he has long observed, revisit school utterly changed and apparently mature. Suddenly teachers seem as out of date as his parents and the authority of school a ridiculous thing. At the moment the adult world may appear (23) the school world that the desire to enter it cannot be satisfied by exercises in school books. This may not be the (24) but it is a necessary part of growing up, for every man and woman must come sooner or later to the point of saying "Really, I’ve had enough of being taught; I must (25) ". Some young people come to this decision sooner than they ought. Yet in a way this is not a bad frame of mind to be in (26) leaving school. At wor
A. at the
B. in
C. in
D. for the