[单项选择]Only in modern times have notional governments begun to tax incomes on a large scale.
A. 国家政府在现代开始较大范围的对收人收税。
B. 仅仅在现代，国家政府开始对高额所得征税。
C. 这仅仅是时代使得各国政府开始对高额收入征税。
D. 只是到了现代，各国政府才开始大规模的征收所得税。

[单项选择]No hero of ancient or modern times can surpass the Indian with his lofty contempt of death and the ______ with which he sustained the cruelest afflication.
A. assent
B. fortitude
C. concern
D. reverance

[单项选择]In one scene of Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin was shown trying _________ to keep in time with a rapid assembly line.


A. aimlessly
B. violently
C. hardly
D. desperately

[单项选择]Clothes worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of the fashion.
A. 衣服因为穿过几次就变得不时髦了。
B. 因为气候的改变，衣服几乎没穿就送人了。
C. 因为款式改变，衣服没怎么穿就被放在一边了。
D. 因为流行款式的改变，仅穿过几次的衣服也只好搁置在一边了。

[单项选择]Modern industry must have developed ______


A. before the Middle Ages
B. around the 19th century
C. in Greece or Rome
D. machines to take tests

[单项选择]Since ancient times people have found various ways to preserve meat
A. eat
B. cook
C. freeze
D. keep

[单项选择]EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY A. You only have to get in. B. You have to go out that way even if there is no emergency. C. You aren't allowed to go out that way except emergency.

[单项选择]TEXT D No matter how many times you have seen images of the golden mask of boyking Tutankhamen，come face to face with it in Egypt‘s Cairo museum，and you will suck in your breath． It was on Nov 4，1923，that British archaeologist Howard Carter stumbled on a stone at the base of the tomb of another pharaoh（法老）in Luxor that eventually led to a sealed doorway． Then，on Nov 23，Carter found a second door and when he stuck his head through it，what he saw was to stun the world．Inside lay the great stone coffin，enclosing three chests of gilded wood． A few months later， when a crane lifted its granite cover and one coffin after another was removed， Carter found a solid block of gold weighing 110kg．In it was the mummy（木乃伊） of the 19-year-old Tutankhamen，covered in gold with that splendid funeral mask．And all this lay buried for more than 3，000 years． Months after my trip to Egypt， I can relive the rush of emotion I felt and sense the hush that descended on the crammed Cairo museum’s Tutank
A. awe
B. horror
C. doubt
D. delight

[单项选择]They only have a limited amount of time to get their points across.（　）
A. large
B. total
C. small
D. similar

[单项选择]Small farms and the lack of modern technology have______ agricultural production.


A. blundered
B. tangled
C. bewildered
D. hampered

[单项选择]The hotel is not very modern, but it does have the ______ of being close to the city centre.


A. chance
B. interest
C. advantage
D. charge