[单项选择]Students who fly halfway across the world to study in another country get used to the new time zone after a few days.（）
A. 到另一个国家去的学生飞越了半个世界，在经历一段时间之后就习惯了新的时区了。
B. 到另一个国家去留学的学生飞越了半个世界，在经历一段时间之后就会习惯了新的时间了。
C. 飞过半个地球到另一个国家求学的学子，几天后就能适应新的时区。
D. 学生飞过半个地球去留学，几天后就能适应了。

[单项选择]People who fly with Bel Air______.


A. know they will travel a lot
B. get what they want quickly and safely
C. know that everything will be just right
D. always travel right across the world

[单项选择]Because of the mist, none of those who saw the flying object could tell its ______ shape.
A. steady
B. precise
C. likely
D. rigid

[单项选择]Geographers who study mobility are most probably interested in _______.


A. the fact that people of different nationalities or ethnical groups reside in different places
B. why people of one type prefer to isolate themselves from those of another type
C. peculiar characteristics of people from different countries in choosing living places
D. what types of people like to move frequently and why they keep changing their living places

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Text 2
Across the developed world, health-care spending is rising and will continue to in crease as populations age. As each country feels the financial strain, it is tempting to imagine that there must be a better way of funding medical care elsewhere. In Britain, for example, Bernard Ribeiro, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons, has called for the National Health Service (NHS) to be financed from social-insurance contributions, as in Germany and France, rather than from general taxation. He worries that a tax-financed system will not deliver enough resources to meet the demand for health-care spending in the longer run.
There are indeed good reasons for concern about the way the NHS is financed, for it has allowed the government to pump in too much money too fast. But there is no ideal sys tem for paying for health care. The European social-insurance model is in even more trouble than Britain’s tax-based model. By loading the burden o
A. supportive.
B. indicative.
C. negative.
D. comprehensive.

[单项选择]One study found that job applicants who make more eye contact are （） as more alert, dependable, confident and responsible.
A. referred
B. perceived
C. recommended
D. presumed

[单项选择]I'm afraid there are people in the world who literally do not know how to boil water.
A. liberally
B. actually
C. theoretically
D. solely

[单项选择]Their father had tried to fly around the world but failed．That was in 1931．（）
A. 1931年，他们的父亲曾试图做环球飞行，但没有成功。
B. 他们的父亲曾试图做环球飞行，但没有成功，那是在1931年。
C. 1931年，他们的父亲没有成功，就曾试图做环球飞行。
D. 他们的父亲尽量在1931年做环球飞行，但没有成功。

[单项选择]The world longest bridge across the Bay is now （　） construction.
A. at
B. under
C. in
D. with

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Text 1
The subject of my study is a woman who is initiating social change in a small region in Texas. The women are Mexican Americans who are, or were, migrant agricultural workers. There is more than one kind of innovation at work in the region, of course, but I have chosen to focus on three related patterns of family behavior.
The pattern I lifestyle represents how migrant farm workers of all nationalities lived in the past and how many continue to live. I treat this pattern as a baseline with which to compare the changes represented by pattern II and III. Families in pattern I work and travel in ex tended kin units, with the eldest male occupying the position of authority. Families are large7 Eight or nine children are not unusual And all members are economic contributors in this strategy of family migration. Families in pattern II manifest some differences in behavior while still maintaining aspects of pattern I. They continue to migrate but on a reduce
A. they migrate for part of each year
B. they spend less time contributing to family income
C. they spend more months on school
D. their parents sometimes work at jobs rather than fanning