[单项选择]"According to its proponents, four times as much paper can be produced from land Using hemp rather than trees." What does "proponents" mean


A. People who are against something.
B. People who support something.
C. People in charge of something.
D. People who do research on somethin

[单项选择]"According to its proponents, four times as much paper can be produced from land using hemp rather than trees." —What does "proponents" mean


A. People who are against something.
B. People who support something.
C. People in charge of something.
D. People who do research on something.

[单项选择]"According to its proponents ,four tines as much paper can be produced from land using hemp rather than trees." What does "proponents" mean


A. People who are against something.
B. People who support something.
C. People in charge of something.
D. People who do research on somethin

[单项选择]Now in Britain, wines take up four times as much ______ in the storehouse as both beer and spirits.
A. block
B. land
C. patch
D. space

[单项选择]My income is now four times as much as I used to earn ten years ago.（　）
A. 我现在的收入是十年前的四倍。
B. 我现在的收入比十年前多四倍。
C. 我现在的收入是我习惯收入的四倍。
D. 我现在的收入比习惯收入多了四倍。

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Passage Four
Much of a parent’s job is to provide the gifts of caring, love, and emotional support to children. But one gift is often beyond their reach: the resources to meet the financial demands of college tuition.
For more than 54 years, the United Negro College Fund has fulfilled the dreams of deserving students by closing the gap between the cost of college and what their parents can afford. More than 300,000 students have graduated from United Negro College Fund member colleges since 1944, and 54,000 more axe currently enrolled (入学).
The oldest and most successful minority higher education support organization, the United Negro College Fund is a combination of 39 private, historically black member colleges and universities. Since its founding, it has raised more than $1.3 billion to keep the dream alive for needy families across the country.
What is it that makes the United Negro College Fund so important to America’s fami
A. Who Can Benefit from the Fund.
B. Bridging the Gap Between Dreams and Reality.
C. How the United Negro College Fund Operates.
D. Introduction to an Education Support Organization.

[单项选择]According to the passage, the original proponents of the Fourteenth Amendment were primarily concerned with ______.
A. detailing the fights afforded by the principle of equal citizenship
B. providing support in the Constitution for equal protection for all citizens of the United States
C. overturning the Civil Rights Act of 1866
D. asserting that the civil rights protected by the Constitution included nonracial discrimination as well as racial discrimination

[单项选择]They discussed the problem three or four times and finally came to ______.
A. end
B. conclusion
C. result
D. judgment

[单项选择]They discussed the problem three or four times, but could come to no ______.
A. end
B. conclusion
C. result
D. judgment

[单项选择]The people there will pay three or four times as much as they used to pay for dinner.
A. 那儿的人吃一顿饭付的钱将比过去多三四倍。
B. 那儿的人吃一顿饭付的钱将是他们习惯付的钱的四五倍。
C. 那里的人们吃一顿将是他们习惯付的钱的两三倍。
D. 那里的人们吃一顿饭将比过去多付两三倍。

[单项选择]China has to feed a population over four times ______ though its area is only a little larger than the United States.


A. large
B. so large
C. as large
D. more

[单项选择]The telephone（）four times in the last hour, and each time it（）for my roommate.
A. has rung; was
B. has been ringing; is
C. had rung; was
D. rang; has been

[单项选择]Its skin color follows a regular twenty-four hours cycle that exactly matches the daily ______ of the sun.


A. rotation
B. variance
C. rhythm
D. motion