[单项选择]The idea was just beginning to______in America and we knew that it was going to become the way that retailing companies were run.
A. show up
B. catch on
C. open out
D. get by

[单项选择]The idea was just beginning to （）in America and we knew that it was going to become the way that retailing companies were run.
A. show up
B. catch on
C. open out
D. get by

[单项选择]The idea was just beginning to ______ in America and we knew that it was going to become the way that retailing companies were run.
A. show up
B. catch on
C. open out
D. get by

[单项选择]The writer's attitude toward the idea of America family values is ______.


A. critical
B. objective
C. indifferent
D. ironic

[单项选择]Which is ______, North America or South America
A. biggest
B. the biggest
C. more biggest
D. bigger

[单项选择]Henning concluded that beginning and advanced students______.


A. have no difficulty holding words in their short-term memory
B. have much difficulty holding words in their short-term memory
C. differ in the way they retain words
D. hold words in their short-term memory in the same w

[单项选择]Andrew Carnegie was beginning to make investments ______


A. in 1861
B. when he himself was 26
C. when his brother was 17
D. when he was still working at a car company

[单项选择]The story happened in America.

[单项选择]The Agricultural Adjustment Act encouraged American farmers to______.


A. reduce their scale of production
B. make full use of their land
C. adjust the prices of their farm products
D. be self-sufficient in agricultural production

[单项选择]The individual experiencing the beginning of a panic attack usually feels as though he or she is on the ______ of dying or of losing his or her sanity.


A. margin
B. border
C. verge
D. fringe

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Passage Five
From the beginning rivers have played an important part in the life of man. Man of the earliest times used the rivers as a means of travel. Today rivers still serve as a great waterway for the transport and people.
In ancient times, man settled near rivers or on fiver banks and built up large empires.
Water is Nature’s most precious gift to man. Man needs water to irrigate his crops, to cook and to wash. In nations all over the world rivers mean life and wealth. They feed and clothe the nations around them.
Water is also a source of energy and power. Man constructs huge dams across the river to control the water for irrigation and get the energy needed to drive generators. The electrical power is then directed to homes, cities, factories and television stations.
Man uses water each day. His main source of water comes from reservoirs, which in turn get their water from the rivers.
Rivers also bring down soil
A. building bridges across them
B. driving generators into them
C. building dams across them
D. directing them into homes and factories