[单项选择]Ignorant people were______ of Columbus's theory that the earth was round.


A. mysterious
B. cynical
C. skeptical
D. tolerant

[单项选择]Ignorant people were ______ of Columbus's theory that the earth was round.


A. mysterious
B. cynical
C. skeptical
D. tolerant

[单项选择]According to this passage, some people believe that eventually______.


A. human societies will be much more cooperative
B. man will live in a highly organized world
C. machines will replace man
D. living beings will disappear from Earth

[单项选择]According to the passage, many people initially thought that E. L. Drake had made a mistake by ______.


A. going on a whaling expedition
B. moving to Pennsylvania
C. searching for oil
D. retiring from his job

[单项选择]What is probably NOT the problem most people in the bar are worrying about


A. How to get home.
B. When the electricity recovers.
C. It is too hot.
D. Another terrorist attack like the 9/11.

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Britain’s richest people have experienced the biggest-ever rise in their wealth, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Driven by the new economy of Internet and computer entrepreneurs, the wealth of those at the top of the financial tree has increased at an unprecedented rate. The 12th an- num Rich List will show that the collective worth of the country’s richest 1,000 people reached nearly 146 billion by January, the cut-off point for the survey. They represented an increase of 31 billion, or 27%, in just 12 months. Since the survey was compiled, Britain’s richest have added billions more to their wealth, thanks to the continuing boom in technology shares on the stock market.
This has pushed up the total value of the wealth of the richest 1,000 to a probable 160 billion ac- cording to Dr Philip Beresfod, Britain’s acknowledged expert on personal wealth who compiles the Sun- day Times Rich List. The millennium boom exceeds anything in Britain&rs
A. more and more people start hi-teach business to a mass fortune.
B. people are becoming rich at younger ages.
C. most of the richest make their fortune by inheritance.
D. all the richest millionaires are aged 30 or above.

[单项选择]I was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk I ______ to half a dozen other groups.


A. was giving
B. am giving
C. had given
D. have given

[单项选择]John Philip Sousa, (who) (many) people consider the (greatest) composer of marches, wrote his music during the era (known) as the Gay 90s.
A. who
B. many
C. greatest
D. known