[单项选择]Over the last fifteen years, running has become a popular ______ for 30 million participants of all ages.
A. fantasy
B. pastime
C. symposium
D. penalty

[单项选择]Over the last fifteen years, running has become a popular ______ for 30 million participants of all ages.
A. fantasy
B. pastime
C. symposium
D. penalty

[单项选择]Over the last twenty years, Yasuda Electronics has established a high ______ among consumers for its unique and innovative products.
A. credit
B. reputation
C. consequence
D. substance

[单项选择]During the last few years, it has been realized that maintenance of programs is more expensive than development, so reading of programs by humans is as important as (67) them.
A. editing
B. writed
C. written
D. writing

[单项选择]In the last few years, he has ______ projects with the United Nations to study environmental issues in developing countries.
A. worked on
B. taken in
C. made for
D. set out

[单项选择]Over the years jazz has changed and developed but it has essentially ______ its fundamental characteristics.


A. remained
B. retained
C. reserved
D. resumed

[单项选择]For over 30 years, Belinda Davis has demonstrated her passionate ______ to this community, and she deserves to be elected its mayor.
A. commitment
B. communication
C. committee
D. commission

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Text 3
Over the last twenty years, scholarly and popular writers have analyzed and celebrated the worlds of leisure and entertainment in the burgeoning cities of mid-nineteenth-century America, greatly expanding the literature on these subjects. They have found an enthusiastic readership by offering glimpses of modes of leisure, performance, and charlatanism that passed from the scene in the early 20th century, indicating how lively they were and how comparatively impoverished our own entertainment choices have become in an era dominated by corporate electronic media.
Many scholars have been lured into a fascination with the extinct demimonde of dime museums, exhibition hails, saloons, and industrial exhibitions. During this period entertainment relied upon artful deception, comparable in importance to such contemporary forms of amusement as minstrelsy and melodrama. The cultural activities were forms of representational play in which spectators are caused
A. melodrama.
B. double consciousness.
C. electronic media,
D. artful deception.

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In the last ten years, the Internet has opened up incredible amounts of information to ordinary citizens. But using the Internet can be like walking into a library where the books are all lying on the floor in piles. While tools like Google allow some structured search, much of the data from such searches is outdated or of questionable value. Some web enthusiasts have taken up the task of organizing information through a democratic means that only the Internet allows: an encyclopedia of the people, by the people, and completely free to copy and distribute.
This people’s encyclopedia’ of the Web (a free site called Wikipedia) has provided a unique solution by inviting individuals to participate in the process of rationalizing and updating web con- tent. At the heart of this movement are wikis, web sites that allow users to directly edit any web page with one click of the mouse.
Wikipedia (the largest example of these collaborative efforts) is a function
A. is accessible by all the passersby.
B. can be edited by everyone.
C. is run by ordinary people.
D. is built to the taste of common citizens.