[单项选择]People like beautiful things, but the beautiful ______ not always the useful.
A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were

[单项选择]A beautiful autumn day like this ________for the wet summer we have had.


A. compensates
B. revenges
C. balances
D. compels

[单项选择]Most people would like to find apartments in this area. There are very few ______ apartments in the area.
A. free
B. vacant
C. empty
D. deserted

[单项选择]By" things like..." "happen in threes" ( Para. 3 ), the author indicates that people believe ______.


A. Personal misfortunes tend to happen every now and then
B. Personal misfortunes, plane crashes, and deaths usually happen together
C. Misfortunes tend to occur according to certain patterns
D. Misfortunes will never occur more than three times to a person in his lifetime

[单项选择]People who like to wear red clothes are more likely to be talkative and （）.
A. lucrative
B. introverted
C. vivacious
D. perilous

[单项选择]Some people would like to do shopping on Sundays since they expect to pick up wonderful articles in the market.
A. batteries
B. bargains
C. baskets
D. barrels

[单项选择]According to the passage, why are people more likely to tell the truth through certain media of communication


A. They are afraid of leaving behind traces of their lies.
B. They believe that honesty is the best policy.
C. They tend to be relaxed when using those media.
D. They are most practiced at those forms of communication.

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Text 4
People, like most animals, are naturally lazy. So the ascent of mankind is something of a mystery. Humans who make their livings hunting and gathering in the traditional way do not have to put much effort into it. Farmers who rely on rain to water their crops work significantly harder, and lead unhealthier lives. But the real back-breaking is that carried out by farmers who use irrigation. Yet it was the invention of irrigation, at first sight so harmful to its practitioners that actually produced a sufficient surplus to feed the priests, scholars, artists and so on whose activities are collectively thought of as "civilization".
In the past 10,000 years, the world’s climate has become temporarily colder and drier on several occasions. The first of these, known as the Younger Dryas, after a tundra-loving plant that thrived during it, occurred at the same time as the beginning of agriculture in northern Mesopotamia. It is widely believe
A. was accompanied by hardships of human existence.
B. is a mystery as yet unknown to mankind.
C. can be attributed to the innovative sparks of ancestors.
D. was recorded by history books ending at that time.

[填空题]People buy things with it.

[单项选择]（）people will like it if it's free
A. Naturally 
B. Nature
C. Natural  
D. Natured

[单项选择]Why do people like dogs


A. Because dogs are lovely.
B. Because dogs are clever.
C. Because dogs always try to please their owners.

[单项选择]I am not of those people who like a strenuous(费力的) holiday; I believe in ______ .
A. took it easy
B. taken it easy
C. taking it easy
D. taking it easily

[单项选择]（　） such a beautiful city like this one.
A. Never in my life I have seen
B. Never in my life have I seen
C. Never in my life I saw
D. Never in my life saw I