[单项选择]How long is one term of office for a representative from the House of Representatives in______. America


A. Two years,
B. Three years.
C. Four years.
D. Five years.

[单项选择]Logistics（）is the long term cooperation and business relationship between suppliers and customers.
A. group
B. partner
C. linkage
D. alliance

[单项选择]According to the conversation, how long one should take mild exercise a day to increase one's life span


A. Half an hour.
B. One hour.
C. Two hours.
D. 45 minutes.

[单项选择]Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will ______ down the economy.
A. put
B. settle
C. drag
D. knock

[单项选择]The term "One-to-One" in the third paragraph refers to ______.


A. an organization in the community that helps take better care of the mentally disabled
B. a device that helps the mentally disabled behave themselves
C. an organization that provides homes for the mentally disabled
D. a hospital that helps cure the mentally disabled

[单项选择]—This ruler is three times as long as that one.
It is not______ to discuss the question again and again.


A. worth
B. worthy
C. worthwhile
D. worth while

[单项选择]How long is the flight


A. 2 hours, 40 minutes.
B. 2 hours, 14 minutes.
C. 2 hours, 4 minutes.
D. 2 hours, 44 minutes.

[单项选择]How long has the man been sick


A. Since Friday.
B. Since Saturday.
C. Since Sunday
D. Since yesterday.

[单项选择]How long has the violence continued


A. Nine months.
B. One year.
C. Since last Friday.
D. A week.

[单项选择]How long has the violence lasted


A. For one day.
B. For two days.
C. For the whole summer.
D. For one year.

[单项选择]How long did he stay in the fiver


A. A few days.
B. Several hours.
C. A whole night.

[单项选择]For how long is a limited license valid


A. Less than one year.
B. Four years.
C. Five years.
D. Ten years.

[单项选择]How long does the TV play Sisters last


A. 30 minutes.
B. 55 minutes.
C. 90 minutes.

[单项选择]How long were they probably away from home that evening


A. Half an hour
B. Ten and a half hours.
C. A few hours.

[单项选择]What should one do when one intends to learn how to communicate with others

[单项选择]______ one has a child will one realize how great one's parents are.


A. Until
B. Not until
C. It is not until
D. Until not

[单项选择]—How long did the meeting last this afternoon
—It was supper time ______ the meeting was over.

[单项选择]How long has Miss Barnes been looking for a new job


A. A week.
B. A month.
C. Two weeks.
D. One year.

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Passage One
How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to ex press thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.
There power of words, then, lies in their associations the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which
A. They are used to express feelings only.
B. They can not be written down.
C. They are simply sounds.
D. They are mysterious.