[单项选择]He was widely regarded as a ______ man because he revealed daily his distrust of human nature and human motives.
A. disrespectful
B. cynical
C. confused
D. misinformed

[单项选择]He was widely regarded as a ______ man because he revealed daily his distrust of human nature and human motives.
A. disrespectful
B. cynical
C. confused
D. misinformed

[单项选择]Because he was a man of principle, he was respected even by his opponents.
A. 他是一个有纪律的人，他被他的对手尊重。
B. 他是一个有纪律的人，连他的对手都尊重他。
C. 他是一个讲原则的人，他尊重他的反对者。
D. 他是一个讲原则的人，就连反对他的人也尊敬他。

[单项选择]Mike stopped his car because he saw an old man in front of him.

[单项选择]Why the woman tells the man he passes

[单项选择]One man saves wire because he ______.


A. likes to save wire
B. needs wire
C. uses a lot of wire
D. sells wire

[单项选择]The man was fined because he was caught _____ a tree.
A. cut
B. to cut
C. cutting
D. be cutting

[单项选择]You can believe him because I know he told the ______ truth.


A. serious
B. severe
C. strict
D. secret

[单项选择]The boys ______ their father because, although he was stern, he was fair.
A. looked down upon
B. looked up to
C. looked up at
D. looked up for

[单项选择]The man asked about bank loans because he_________.


A. was considering taking advantage of bank loans
B. wanted to obtain a loan of ＄ 450,000 from the bank
C. found the topic interesting
D. wanted to send some money to Cairo

[单项选择]They have always regarded a man of ______ and fairness as a reliable friend.
A. robustness
B. temperament
C. integrity
D. compactness

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Text 3
The kakapo is widely regarded as the world’s most absurd bird. It is a flightless, night-active parrot that lives in New Zealand. It is thus a prime example of the sort of evolutionary experiment that happens on islands that lack serious predators.
Now, sadly, the kakapo population has been reduced to a few dozen individuals. But efforts to preserve the species have led to another sort of experiment--one that has produced the best evidence so far for a so called sex-allocation theory.
Bruce Robertson, of the University of Canterbury, and his colleagues, have been studying a mystery. To keep the kakapo population going, conservationists have been feeding the birds--in particular, the females--so that they stay above the minimum weight they need to breed. That worked splendidly as far as it went. Between 1997 and 2005 the adult population rose from 50 to 83. But the sex ratio went haywire. Those 83 birds are divided into 45 males and 38 f
A. unexpected.
B. uncontrollable.
C. broken.
D. normal.