[单项选择]Your arguments for claim ( ) .
A. is not convincing
B. are convinced
C. are not convincing
D. has been convinced

[单项选择]Your arguments for claim ( ) .
A. is not convincing
B. are convinced
C. are not convincing
D. has been convinced

[单项选择]Your arguments are ______ to criticize.

[单项选择]Service organizations claim that keeping checkout counters manned would result in ______.


A. a rise in the price for providing services
B. demands by cashiers for more money
C. insignificant benefits for the customers
D. the need to purchase expensive equipment

[单项选择]The arguments that cloning will have harmful effects ______.
A. are very convincing
B. have forced people to stop cloning
C. have forced people to question the concept of cloning
D. have compelled people to debate the implications of cloning

[单项选择]Jane Morrison always lost arguments because she was too timid to {{U}}assert{{/U}} herself.
A. state clearly
B. declare firmly
C. express boldly
D. speak publicly

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Passage Five
Scientists claim that air pollution causes a decline in the world’ s average air temperature. In order to prove that theory, ecologists have turned to historical data in relation to especially huge volcanic eruptions. They suspect that volcanoes effect weather changes that are similar to air pollution.
One source of information is the effect of the eruption of Tambora, a volcano in Sumbawa, the Dutch East Indies ( the former name of the Republic of Indonesia) ,in April 1815. The largest recorded volcanic eruption, Tambora threw 150 million ton of fine ash into the stratosphere. The ash from a volcano spreads worldwide in a few days and remains in the air for years. Its effect is to turn in coming solar radiation into space and thus cool the earth. For example, records of weather in Eng land show that between April and November 1815, the average temperature had fallen 4.5°F during the next twenty-four months, England suffered one of th
A. Weakened
B. Improved
C. Depreciated
D. Declined

[单项选择]What did the man claim to be


A. The first person to climb Nanga Parbat alone.
B. The first person to climb the Himalayas with the Alpine style.
C. The first person to reach the highest point of the Himalayas.
D. The first person to climb the Himalayas in winter.

[单项选择]One of the arguments against closing the railway line was that______.


A. a few tourists would come into the area
B. people from outlying districts would be unable to attend religious services
C. the economy of the people would suffer greatly
D. it would be difficult to go from Lynton to Barnstaple

[单项选择]The book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television written by Jerry Mander ______.


A. received extensive public attention and sold very well
B. was meant to arouse heated public debate
C. enjoyed popularity among those who live without TV
D. Won nationwide support

[单项选择]Their arguments （）most of the students.
A. appeal for
B. appeal to
C. apply for
D. apply to