[单项选择]The visitors decided to stay in our city for（　）two days as they wanted to have a look around.
A. other
B. the other
C. another
D. other's

[单项选择]Visitors of our company decided to stay in that city for ______ two days as they wanted to have a look around.

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How long will the group stay at City Hall
A. (A) Two hours.
B. (B) Three hours.
C. (C) Four hours.
D. (D) Five hours

[单项选择]If it（）tomorrow, we will stay indoors to have our training class.
A. rains
B. rain
C. will rain
D. rained

[单项选择]Our house is about two kilometers from the middle school and there are not many houses________.


A. in between
B. far apart
C. among them
D. from each other

[单项选择]During our stay in London, we paid a visit to the hospital founded _________ the nurse Florence Nightingale.


A. in line with
B. in honor of
C. in favor of
D. in place of

[填空题]Passage Two Why is our appetite so powerful a driver of our behavior If that question has long defied easy answers, it’s no wonder. Understanding a single biological unit — the heart, the lungs — is hard enough. Understanding a process as complex as appetite — one that involves taste, smell, sight, brain chemistry, gut chemistry, metabolism and, most confounding of all, psychology — is exponentially harder.

[单项选择]In which city will the woman mostly stay？（）
A. Oxford.
B. Cambridge.
C. London.
D. Birmingham.

[单项选择]During our stay m Paris we were splendidly ______ by the Italian Ambassador.
A. sustained
B. maintained
C. retained
D. entertained

[单项选择]During our stay in Paris we were splendidly ______ by the Italian Ambassador.
A. sustained
B. maintained
C. retained
D. entertained

[单项选择]During his two-month stay in China, Tom never______a chance to practice his Chinese.
A. passed on
B. passed up
C. passed by
D. passed out

[单项选择]Two copies of our estimate you required in your letter of June 13 will be sent to you in a few days．
A. 我们会在几天后的6月13日寄上贵公司信中要求的两份报价单。
B. 两份估单会按6月13日的要求给你寄过去。
C. 我们会在近日内寄上贵公司6月13日来信中要求的两份估单。
D. 估计这几天会寄出6月13日要求的两份信。

[单项选择]"Even our own age has fought the two greatest wars in history." The author says this in order to show that ______.


A. the two world wars have profound influence
B. wars may happen at any time in any age
C. wars are closely related to the interest of mighty countries
D. our own age is not so civilized as those of the past

[单项选择]The manager said that there were two reasons（）our sales dropped sharply last year.
A. because
B. since
C. why
D. while

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Passage Two
The sense of sound is one of our most important means of knowing what is going on around us. Sound has a waster product, too, in the form of noise. Noise has been called unwanted sound. Noise is growing and it may get much worse before it gets any better.
Scientists, for several years, have been studying how noise affects people and animals. They are surprised by what they have learned. Peace and quiet are becoming harder to find. Noise pollution is a threat that should be looked at carefully.
There is a saying that it is so noisy that you can’t hear yourself think. Doctors who study noise believe that we must sometimes hear ourselves think. If we don’t, we may have headaches, other aches and pains, or even worse mental problems.
Noise adds more tension (紧张) to a society that already faces enough stress.
But noise is not a new problem. In ancient Rome, people complained so much about noise that government stop
A. We may forget what we have thought about.
B. Our thoughts may be disturbed.
C. Our mind may be harmed.
D. We may have difficulty finding the right words.