[单项选择]The writer of this passage refers to the history of money in order to ______________.


A. show that silver and gold are previous metals
B. show that one should convert paper money to gold
C. explain the nature of money
D. show that anything can serve as money in modem times

[单项选择]The writer of this passage refers to the history of money in order to ______.


A. show that silver and gold are previous metals
B. show that one should convert paper money to gold
C. explain the nature of money
D. show that anything can serve as money in modern times

[单项选择]In the passage the writer mainly talks about ______.

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Passage One
Generation gap refers to the difference in ideas, feelings, and interests between the older and younger people. It is especially considered as causing a lack of communication and understanding between the two generations.
There is apparent generation gap between the young and the old nowadays. The younger generation is essentially different from the older generation. The young people live in a new age completely different from the old. They have grown up more happily and are not so dependent on adults as their parents were. They are better educated and enjoy more freedom. They easily accept new things and new ideas. They are more concerned with the present and the future, whereas the world of the older people has vanished, and they do not understand all of the problems of the modern world. They grew up in a world which was different from today’s world. They often talk about "the good old days" and tend to assert old things and id
A. They refer to those days of happy life.
B. They refer to the Gold Age in the Roman and Greek mythology.
C. They refer to the old time in which the old people grew up and which was deemed by themselves as good days.
D. They refer to the past days when the society was good.

[单项选择]We can infer from the passage that the writer shares the belief about fairies that ______.


A. they were spirits of wood and water
B. they were ghosts of unbaptised babies
C. they were a separate creation
D. they had something to do with the invasion of the Celts

[单项选择]Throughout the passage, the writer's tone towards the DNB was______.


A. complimentary.
B. supportive.
C. sarcastic.
D. bitter.

[单项选择]According to the passage, the writer looks upon the antismoking wall-builders' action ______.


A. optimistically
B. pessimistically
C. unconcernedly
D. skeptically

[单项选择]According to the passage, the writer thinks that______.


A. war is the only way to solve international disputes
B. war will be, less dangerous because, of the improvement of weapons
C. war must be abolished if man wants to survive
D. it is impossible for people to live without war

[单项选择]We learn from the passage that the establishment of Labor Day ______.

[单项选择]The last word of the passage "them" refers to ______.


A. rules
B. actions
C. personal rights
D. privileged positions

[单项选择]It can be inferred from the passage that the war on terrorism can not draw enough support to justify a U. S. -dominated order because______.
A. it is not a justified war.
B. it is not to the approval of other countries.
C. it betrays the principle of community.
D. it aims at hegemony.

[单项选择]In the last sentence of the passage, "they" refers to ______.


A. return privileges
B. all the factors
C. buyer and seller
D. money

[单项选择]The "Great Crash" in the passage refers to ______.
A. the end of World War I
B. the Great Depression
C. high employment figures
D. a slump in the stock market

[单项选择]After reading the passage, we may know the writer is a person of______.


A. observation
B. curiosity
C. encouragement
D. consideration

[单项选择]What is the writer of this passage attempting to do


A. Explain how present day reading habits developed.
B. Change people’s attitudes to reading.
C. Show how reading methods have improved.
D. Encourage the growth of readin