[单项选择]Nearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happened to her（）
A. 那女孩几乎用了一个星期才能够解释自己的遭遇。
B. 在那女孩能够解释自己的遭遇之前，已经过去了将近一个星期。
C. 几乎一个星期过去了，在此之前，那女孩本可以解释发生在自己身上的事情的。
D. 几乎过了一个星期，那女孩才说出了自己的遭遇。

[单项选择]The young girl ______ never being able to walk again.


A. resigned herself to
B. resigned to
C. resigned herself as
D. resigned as

[单项选择]Who will remain in jail until next week


A. Many students.
B. 41 people.
C. Prof. Mesfin Woldmariam and Prof. Berhanu Nego.
D. Those workers on hunger strikes.

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Passage Three
This week some big Internet sites were so busy that they stopped working. Hackers or people who break into other people’s computers did it. Experts think programs called Tribal Village or Trinoo were used.
The programs worked like time bombs. The hackers put software on other people’s computers. The people do not even know. The software just sits and waits until the hacker starts it. When the hacker wants, all the computers call the same web site. This week Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, CNN, Buy, eTrade and zNet were called.
The costs are growing. These web sites make money from advertising. People go to the web sites for information and news. If the web site is not working, they will go to other sites.
Yahoo got many calls. It was like 104-million people dialing in at once.
The website AntiOnline put the software on its site. They hope someone will make a fix.
The only way to stop the hackers is to stop them
A. stores on the web
B. large commercial web sites
C. small commercial web sites
D. public government web sites

[单项选择]Being able to move gives animals many advantages, but it also generates its own demands. For any animal, ______ movement can be unhelpful or even dangerous.
A. ransom
B. retrieve
C. random
D. redeem

[单项选择]Henry will not be able to attend the meeting tonight because （）
A. he must to teach a class
B. he will be teaching a class
C. he will teach a class
D. he will have teaching a class

[单项选择]Being able to speak another language well is a great ______ when you're looking for a job.
A. advantage
B. chance
C. assistant
D. importance

[单项选择]People should be able to come to a decision about ions in the air if they _______.


A. note their own reactions
B. move to a healthier, area
C. observe domestic animals
D. watch how wealthy people behave

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Text 2
Linguists have been able to follow the formation of a new language in Nicaragua. The catch is that it is not a spoken language but, rather, a sign language which arose spontaneously in deaf children.
The Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) emerged in the late 1970s, at a new school for deaf children. Initially the children were instructed by teachers who could hear. No one taught them how to sign; they simply worked it out for themselves. By conducting experiments on people who attended the school at various points in its history, Dr. Senghas has shown how NSL has become more sophisticated over time. For example, concepts that an older signer uses a single sign for, such as rolling and falling, have been unpacked into separate signs by youngsters.
Early users, too, did not develop a way of distinguishing left from right. Dr. Senghas showed this by asking signers of different ages to converse about a set of photographs that each could see. One sign
A. a non-verbal language created by deaf children.
B. an artificial language used by people in Nicaragua.
C. a language invented by teachers who teach the deaf.
D. a language described and modified by deliberate linguists

[单项选择]When will people probably be able to live on Mars


A. In 200 years.
B. In 10,000 years.
C. In 100,000 years.
D. Unknown.

[单项选择]Jane and Tom have been able to reconcile their difference and are a happy family again.
A. settle
B. arrange
C. balance
D. pacify