[单项选择]The chief concern of the American government in the area o agriculture in the 1920s was ______


A. to increase farm production
B. to establish agricultural laws
C. to prevent farmers from going bankrupt
D. to promote the mechanization of agriculture

[单项选择]The chief concern of the American government in the area of agriculture in the 1920s was ______.


A. to increase farm production
B. to establish agricultural laws
C. to prevent farmers from going bankrupt
D. to promote the mechanization of agriculture

[单项选择]The index is the government's chief gauge of future economic activity.
A. measure
B. opinion
C. evaluation
D. decision

[单项选择]The index is the government's chief {{U}}gauae{{/U}} of future economic activity.
A. measure
B. opinion
C. method
D. decision

[单项选择]The index is the government's chief {{U}}gauge{{/U}} of future economic activity.
A. measure
B. opinion
C. method
D. decision

[单项选择]Nowadays, the chief concern of British universities is how to ________ their present finan cial difficulty.


A. undertake
B. tackle
C. engage
D. experience

[单项选择]

Text 2
The government’s chief prosecutor has launched an outspoken attack on plans by David Blunkett, the home secretary, to try terrorists without juries and in secret.
Ken Macdonald QC, the director of public prosecutions, says in an article in today’s Sunday Times that plans for trials without juries of some terror suspects would undermine public faith in the criminal justice system. In his attack on proposals expected in Blunkett’s forthcoming draft terrorism bill to limit the right to jury trial for Al-Qaeda and other Islamic terror suspects, Macdonald says: "To be effective against... terrorism, we need to call on legislation that is clear, flexible and proportionate to the threat."
Nobody wants to throw out the baby with the bath water; we do not want to fight terrorism by destroying precisely those things terrorism is trying to take away from us.
"Open, liberal democracies fail if they try to protect
A. back up Macdonald.
B. introduce the argument about the plan for secret terror trials.
C. criticise the bill because of the indifference to the terrorist's basic rights.
D. argue for the independence of jury trials.

[单项选择]The government and the society show much concern for the well-being of the elderly and offer a variety of services．


A. 政府非常关注老年人的福利，同时也给他们安排了适当的工作。
B. 政府和社会非常关心老人的福利问题，并给他们提供了多种服务。
C. 虽然政府和社会对老人的健康非常关心，但拒绝提供帮助。
D. 政府和社会对老人的健康非常关心，并给他们提供了很多服务。

[单项选择]The author argues that a teacher's chief concern should be the development of the student's______.


A. social skills
B. total personality
C. learning ability and communicative skills
D. intellectual ability