[单项选择]Few people know him, ______

[单项选择]What can people know from the crown of an ancient tree found in New York


A. It helps people know that ancient trees have no trunk.
B. It provides us new information about the appearance of the earliest forest.
C. It provides evidence for the existence of trees 397 million years ago.
D. It provides evidence for the bloom of trees 397 million years ago.

[单项选择]Woman: Some people know a lot more than they tell.
Man: Unfortunately the reverse is also true.
Question: What does the man imply
A. Some people tend to conceal the truth.
B. Some people are prone to tell lies.
C. Some people are dishonest.
D. Some people tell a lot more than they know.

[单项选择]When people ask him for help, he never turned his back ______ them.
A. with
B. off
C. from
D. on

[单项选择]Incompetent people rarely know the depths of their own incompetence because they ______.


A. are too dull to know what competence is
B. are not skillful at logical reasoning, grammar, and sense of humor
C. lack the basic skills to evaluate their performance realistically
D. have some ability to overcriticize themselves

[单项选择]I probably know him ______ but not ______.
A. by the sight; by name
B. by a sight; by name
C. by sight; by name
D. by the sight; by the name

[单项选择]Very few people understood her lecture, the subject of ______ was very obscure.
A. what
B. that
C. which
D. it

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Text 1
Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and company did away with all that and parents have been bewildered ever since. The child’s happiness is all-important, the psychologists say, but what about the parents’ happiness Parents suffer continually from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place apart. A good "old-fashioned" spanking is out of the question: no modern child-rearing manual would permit such barbarity. The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological wounds you might inflict The poor child may never recover from the dreadful traumatic experience. So it is that parents bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complexes which a hundred years ago hadn’t even been heard of. Certainly a child needs love, and a lo
A. at a loss.
B. on the alert.
C. under fire.
D. in the dark.

[单项选择]Without the help of the government few people along the river would______ the recent flood.


A. survive
B. retain
C. maintain
D. sustain

[单项选择]Very. few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered because its subject was very ______.
A. intriguing
B. indefinite
C. obscure
D. dubious

[单项选择]On that bitterly cold winter night, few people walked along the now ______ narrow street.


A. deserted
B. lonely
C. isolated
D. neglected

[单项选择]There are quite a few people who are willing to prostitute their intelligence for a mess of pottage．
A. 蝇头小利
B. 一锅粥
C. 眼前利益
D. 钱财