[单项选择]The author refers to his clearest memory of Samarkand as "humble" because ______.
A. it was an ordinary scene that he remembered
B. it was his last night in the city and his last memory
C. the elm trees were older than Genghis Khan
D. the trees looked impressive in the evening light

[单项选择]He ______ the memory of his dead wife though she has passed away for about ten years.


A. cherishes
B. haunts
C. persists
D. insists

[单项选择]From early youth, Karl Marx had ______ his memory by memorizing verses in an unfamiliar tongue.


A. ploughed
B. tamed
C. cultivated
D. farmed

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Passage One
Generation gap refers to the difference in ideas, feelings, and interests between the older and younger people. It is especially considered as causing a lack of communication and understanding between the two generations.
There is apparent generation gap between the young and the old nowadays. The younger generation is essentially different from the older generation. The young people live in a new age completely different from the old. They have grown up more happily and are not so dependent on adults as their parents were. They are better educated and enjoy more freedom. They easily accept new things and new ideas. They are more concerned with the present and the future, whereas the world of the older people has vanished, and they do not understand all of the problems of the modern world. They grew up in a world which was different from today’s world. They often talk about "the good old days" and tend to assert old things and id
A. they live in different ages
B. they live in different countries
C. they live in separate planets
D. they hate each other

[单项选择]The author refers to straw embeded in fence posts in order to show ______.


A. where tornadoes occur
B. who makes reports about tornadoes
C. when tornadoes take form
D. how tornadoes affect physical objects

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Stakeholder management refers to managing communications to satisfy the needs of,and resolve issues with,project stakeholders.The（）is usually responsible for stakeholder management.

A. PMO
B. CIO
C. CCB
D. PM

[单项选择]He raised his eyebrows and stuck his head forward and ______ it in a single nod, a gesture boys used then for OK when they were pleased.
A. shrugged
B. tugged
C. jerked
D. twisted

[单项选择]His eyes look like his ．

[单项选择]A loan refers to anything given on condition of its return or repayment of its ______.
A. excess
B. debt
C. currency
D. equivalent

[单项选择]（）refers to carrier picking up merchandise from the shipper＇s warehouse and delivering it to the consignee’swarehouse.
A. Through transport
B. Combined transport
C. Container transport
D. Door-to-door

[填空题] Body Systems
A body system refers to a group of organs, which are parts of the body that do a special job, such as the heart, lungs and kidneys.
Ten major body systems in the human body:
1) the skeletal system, which includes the bones and the (1) ______ (1) ______
tissues.
2) the muscle system, which plays the role of moving the body, pushing
the food through the body and making the blood (2) ______ (2) ______
3) the nervous system which is made up of the brain, the spinal
(3) ______and the nerves. (3) ______
4) the (4) ______system which comprises of the stomach and the (4) ______
intestines and (5) ______food to provide energy for the body. (5) ______
5) the respiratory system which consists of the windpipe and
(6) ______and takes air into the

[单项选择]The writer of this passage refers to the history of money in order to ______________.


A. show that silver and gold are previous metals
B. show that one should convert paper money to gold
C. explain the nature of money
D. show that anything can serve as money in modem times

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Communal nutrition refers to the behavior of certain animals, birds, and insect species to forage in the interests of the entire group and not just the individual animal. This is in contrast to species whose members forage solely for their individual benefit or, more commonly, as a member of a mating couple. Two situations commonly occur among group foraging species. The first one is where every member benefits by the group activity. The other is where some individuals are actually disadvantaged by the obligation to forage for the benefit of the group.
Question: Using information from the reading and the lecture, explain how the lecture is related to the reading passage.
Now hear a talk on the same subject.

[填空题]Weather refers to atmospheric conditions during a few hours or days.

[单项选择]In paragraph 2, "the most important four" refers to ______.


A. military position
B. business
C. cabinet posts
D. Kikuyus

[单项选择]The bold word "it" refers to which of the fallowing


A. Problem.
B. Material.
C. Difficulty.
D. System.