[单项选择]The writer thinks that the idea of building "New Town" in the U.S. ______.


A. will help to solve the present urban situation
B. will produce the same sorts of results as does in Europe
C. will by no means alleviate the urban problems
D. will prevent the present urban situation from getting worse

[单项选择]The idea for the new project came to Jack ______ to his study recently.
A. while devoting
B. while devoting himself
C. while he was devoted
D. while devoted

[单项选择]The writer thinks New Year's Eve in Rome is ______.


A. uninteresting
B. noisy
C. tidy

[单项选择]The best phrase that summarizes the main idea of the text is _______.


A. handicapped students and their problems
B. videodisc and special education
C. computer assisted teaching programs
D. normal children and handicapped kids

[单项选择]Most educators objected to Stokoe's idea because they thought______


A. sign language was too artificial to be widely accepted
B. sign language was not extensively used even by deaf people
C. a language should be easy to use and understand
D. a language could only exist in the form of speech sounds

[单项选择]A title that would best express the main idea of the passage would be______.


A. The Origins of the Cold War
B. Who Should be Blamed
C. A Complex International Dispute
D. American Foreign Policy

[单项选择]Which of the following is David Debut' s idea on the relationship between people and computers


A. Computer learning should be made easier.
B. There should be more computer clubs for experts.
C. People should work harder to master computer use.
D. Computers should be made cheaper so that people can afford them.

[单项选择]The idea of opening a new cinema here was not wise, as there are two here already, _________ usually half-empty.
A. neither
B. none
C. either
D. both

[单项选择]The idea for the new project came to Jack（）to his study recently.
A. while devoting
B. while devoting himself
C. while he was devoted
D. while devoted

[单项选择]The idea of choosing a new unit equal to 10 of the old units appeared very early in ______.


A. India
B. Egypt
C. Britain
D. America

[单项选择]I can't help but ______ that it's not a bad idea to spend this summer holiday in Dalian.
A. thought
B. thinking
C. to think
D. think

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Text 1
The idea of humanoid robots is not new, of course. They have been part of the imaginative landscape ever since Karl Capek, a Czech Writer, first dreamed them up for his 1921 play "Rossum’s Universal Robots". (The word "robot" comes from the Czech word for drudgery, robota.) Since then, Hollywood has produced countless variations on the theme, from the sultry False Maria in Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece "Metropolis" to the wittering C3PO in "Star Wars" and the ruthless assassin of "Terminator". Humanoid robots have walked into our collective subconscious, colouring our views of the future.
But now Japan’s industrial giants are spending billions of yen to make such robots a reality. Their new humanoids represent impressive feats of engineering: when Honda introduced Asimo, a four-foot robot that had been in development for some 15 years, it walked so fluidly that its white, articulat
A. in 2004.
B. in 2005.
C. between 2003-2004.
D. between 2004-2005.