[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]"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.

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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]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。

[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

[单项选择]During its growth, how much of the water from the soil does the tree give off into the air through its leaves


A. About ninety-nine percent.
B. About one percent.
C. About nine-tenths.
D. About one -ninth.

[简答题]Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets. (Passage 1)

[单项选择]In "How much do you think he earns" how much is ______ of the Sentence.
A. the subject
B. the adverbial
C. the object
D. the complement

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Passage Four
The agricultural revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things: the invention of labor-saving machinery and the development of scientific agriculture. Labor-saving machinery naturally appeared first where labor was scarce. "In Europe", said Thomas Jefferson," the object is to make the most of their land, labor being abundant; here it is to make the most of our labor, land being abundant." It was in America, therefore, that the great advances in nineteenth-century agricultural machinery first came. At the opening of the century, with the exception of a crude plow, farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agricultural implements (具) on their backs; by 1860, most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form. The most important of the early inventions was the iron plow. As early as 1790 Charles Newbold of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast-iron plow and spe
A. Get the best yield from.
B. Raise the price of.
C. Exaggerate the worth of.
D. Earn a living on.

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Passage Four
Your Public Affairs Studies Courses requires that you understand a major investigation of any topic of interest and it also requires you draw together all the areas of your study. However, you do not need to give equal emphasis to each area. With this in mind, you can now start planning your project for investigation. Your course of study will bring you in contact with many issues; some of these will be of more interest to you than others. Your teacher or classmates may be able to make suggestions. Newspapers and magazines that you read carry issues of relevance (关联) to your studies; look at these carefully. You are sure to find sources of ideas from them, which you can adapt to form the basis of your report. Career interests are also a source for inspiration (灵感), as you may have in mind a career which you wish to enter. Whatever you choose, it must be something that you are interested in. It should have some meaning to you, either now or in the futur
A. Investigation.
B. Career interests.
C. Public relation.
D. Public affair.