[单项选择]The word "significant" in Paragraph 3 has the similar meaning with ______.


A. fatal
B. meaningful
C. harmful
D. remarkable

[单项选择]The word "significant" in Paragraph 3 has the similar meaning with ______.


A. fatal
B. meaningful
C. harmful
D. remarkable

[单项选择]According to the second paragraph, what has led to a lack of support for entrepreneurs
A. Entrepreneurs have always preferred to act independently.
B. The requirements of big businesses have always taken priority.
C. It is difficult to find solutions to the problems faced by entrepreneurs.
D. Entrepreneurs are reluctant to provide information about their businesses.

[单项选择]In the third paragraph, the word" austerity" has a meaning closest to ______.


A. authority
B. stinginess
C. generosity
D. cleverness

[单项选择]In the second paragraph the word "paramagnetic" means ______.
A. slightly magnetic
B. a weak magnetic field
C. a strong magnetic substance
D. the under-water magnetic power

[单项选择]In the first paragraph the word "deal" could best be replaced by " （）".
A. barter
B. bargain
C. are playing
D. are concerned

[单项选择]According to paragraph 3, one significant difference between the father's and mother's role in child-rearing is ______.
A. the style of play encouraged
B. the amount of time available
C. the strength of emotional ties
D. the emphasis of intellectual development

[单项选择]According to Paragraph 3, one significant difference between the father and mother's role in child-rearing is ______.


A. the style of play encouraged
B. the amount of time available
C. the strength of emotional ties
D. the emphasis of intellectual development

[单项选择]In the second paragraph the word "dear" means ______.


A. Expensive.
B. Old.
C. Good.

[单项选择]In the second paragraph the word "dart" means ______.
A. glare C. stop moving
B. move rapidly or suddenly D. gaze


A. move rapidly or suddenly
B. gaze
C. stop moving
D. In the second paragraph the word "dart" means ______.
E. glare

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Text 1
The word conservation has a thrifty (节俭) meaning. To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good condition that others may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers had no idea the human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials; most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish idea that the treasures were "limitless" and "inexhaustible". Most of the citizens of earlier generations ’knew little or nothing,about the complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be harmful to all the others.
Fifty years ago nature study was not part of the school work; scientific forestry was a new idea; timber was still cheap because it could be bought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and river floods were not national problems and nobody
A. we plant more trees
B. we be taught environmental science, as well as the science of plants
C. environmental education be directed toward everyone
D. we return to nature

[单项选择]In the first paragraph the underlined word "inhabitants" probably means ______.


A. tourists
B. passengers
C. population
D. citizens

[单项选择]In reading, if you meet a new word which has something important to do with the sentence, you'd better ______.


A. stop to look it up.
B. not look it up and just go on reading.
C. stop reading at once.