[单项选择]The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.
A. dile
B. mess
C. chain
D. mass

[单项选择]The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.
A. pile
B. mess
C. chain
D. mass

[单项选择]I read the letter ______ was on your desk.
A. what
B. that
C. where
D. and

[单项选择]The deskwas a chaos ofpapers andunopened letters.
A. pile
B. mess
C. chain
D. mass

[单项选择]One encouraging sign in the problem of chaos among the soldiers' ranks was their vow, for what it was worth, to act in a more______way.


A. concerted
B. ingenious
C. defiant
D. avid
E. (E) diligent

[单项选择]On receiving the letter, he found the letter ______.


A. to be opened
B. opening
C. open
D. opened

[单项选择]Examination papers of the class were marked without bias.


A. immediately
B. correctly
C. fairly
D. carefully

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Text 4
Reading the papers and looking at television these days, one can easily be persuaded that the human species is on its last legs, still tottering along but only barely making it. In this view, disease is the biggest menace of all. Even when we are not endangering our lives by eating the wrong sorts of food and taking the wrong kinds of exercise, we are placing ourselves in harm’ s way by means of the toxins we keep inserting into the environment around us.
As if this was not enough, we have fallen into the new habit of thinking our way into illness. If we take up the wrong kind of personality, we run the risk of contracting a new disease called stress, followed quickly by coronary occlusion. Or if we just sit tight and try to let the world slip by, here comes cancer, from something we ate, breathed or touched. No wonder we are a nervous lot. The word is out that if we were not surrounded and propped up by platoons of health professionals, we wou
A. increasing disease
B. improving health
C. reducing the number of death
D. helping people to live longer

[单项选择]You should read over the question papers very carefully before you begin to answer them.

[单项选择]Instead of researching and writing their papers, some students ______.
A. ask other students to write their papers
B. draw pictures instead
C. copy from reference books
D. copy papers or large parts of papers from the Internet

[单项选择]The senior librarian at the circulation desk promised to get the book for me ____________she could remember who last borrowed it.
A. ever since
B. much as
C. even though
D. if only

[单项选择]Chaos theory stresses the magnitude of the results produced by so small an event as the fluttering of a butterfly's wings.
A. size
B. volume
C. result
D. fame