[单项选择]The auctioneer may decide to sell the "lots" out of order because ______.
A. he sometimes wants to confuse the buyers
B. he knows from experience that certain people will want to buy certain items
C. he wants to keep certain people waiting
D. he wants to reduce the number of buyers

[单项选择]Why does the auctioneer decide to sell the "lots" out of their numerical order.'


A. He wants to confuse some dealers and make them bid the highest price.
B. He can hold back certain goods until the interested dealers arrive.
C. He wants to keep certain people waiting in order to reduce the number of buyers.
D. He is sometimes bribed by certain dealers who want to buy certain articles cheap.

[单项选择]The auctioneer may decide to sell the "lot" out of order because _________.
A. he thinks that some are more valuable than the others
B. from the registrations, he knows that certain people will want to buy certain items
C. he fails to give full details of some articles
D. he is not in the world famous auction rooms

[单项选择]From the context we may figure out that the expression "a level six" refers to ______.
A. an exceptionally smart person
B. a person with highest possible cognitive intelligence
C. a person with highest emotional intelligence
D. a person who is smart enough to head a country

[单项选择]From the context we may figure out that the word "plagued" (Paragraph 1) means ______.


A. annoyed
B. infected
C. damaged
D. affected

[单项选择]You may move out any time you want to because you are old enough to live（　）you want.
A. why
B. when
C. where
D. what

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Text 1
It may turn out that the "digital divide"--one of the most fashionable political slogans of recent years is largely fiction. As you will recall, the argument went well beyond the unsurprising notion that the rich would own more computers than the poor. The disturbing part of the theory was that society was dividing itself into groups of technology "haves" and "have-nots" and that this segregation would, in turn, worsen already large economic inequalities. It is this argument that is either untrue or wildly exaggerated.
We should always have been suspicious. After all, computers have spread quickly because they have become cheaper to buy and easier to use. Falling prices and skill requirements suggest that the digital divide would spontaneously shrink--and so it has. Now, a new study further discredits the digital divide. The study, by economists David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, challenges the notion
A. quite insightful.
B. very contradictory.
C. rather shallow.
D. fairly illuminating.

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Text 3
It may turn out that the "digital divide" -- one of the most fashionable political slogans of recent years -- is largely fiction. As you will recall, the argument went well be-yond the unsurprising notion that the rich would own more computers than the poor. The disturbing part of the theory was that society was dividing itself into groups of technology "haves" and "have-nots" and that this segregation would, in turn, worsen already large economic inequalities. It is this argument that is either untrue or wildly exaggerated.
We should always have been suspicious. After all, computers have spread quickly because they have become cheaper to buy and easier to use. Falling prices and skill requirements suggest that the digital divide would spontaneously shrink -- and so it has.
Now, a new study further discredits the digital divide. The study, by economists David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, challe
A. to advocate the elimination of poverty.
B. to justify the influence of the digital divide.
C. to democratize computer access today.
D. to expose the myths of the digital divide.