[简答题] Madder plants, which comprise (a very) large family of (mostly) tropical trees, shrubs, and (herbal), (include) coffee and gardenia.

[单项选择]It is animals and plants which lived in or near water whose remains are most likely to be preserved, for one of the necessary conditions of preservation is quick burial, and it is only in the seas and rivers, and sometimes lakes, where mud and silt have been continually deposited, that bodies and the like can be rapidly covered over and preserved.
But even in the most favorable circumstances only a small fraction of the creatures that die are preserved in this way before decay sets in or, even more likely, before scavengers eat them. After all, all living creatures live by feeding on something else, whether it be plant or animal, dead or alive, and it is only by chance that such a fate is avoided. The remains of plants and animals that lived on land are much more rarely preserved, for there is seldom anything to cover them over. When you think of the innumerable birds that one sees flying about, not to mention the equally numerous small animals like field mice and voles which you
A. a large number of remains
B. a number of remains
C. only a small number of remains
D. few remains

[简答题]The reassessment, which can be very painful, is also very valuable.

[简答题]The computer, which is a very useful tool, is more and more dispensable in both our work and our life.

[单项选择]The plan had been （　）, which made him very angry.
A. called off
B. called up
C. called in
D. called on

[填空题]Which bear eats plants

[填空题]Very bulky large articles which do not ______ should not be put into the tumble-drier to dry.

[单项选择]The monitor theory, which is very popular among foreign language teachers in （）, was put forward by Stephen Krashen in the late 1970s.
A. America
B. Britain
C. China
D. France

[单项选择]Which list of plants does Linda mention in her garden
A. Tomatoes, beets, egg plant, and squash.
B. Strawberries, green peppers, okra, and tomatillos.
C. Basil, onions, cantaloupe, and banana peppers.
D. Carrots, cucumbers, pumpkins, potatoes.

[单项选择]In large companies the shareholders have very little to do with their day-to-day running.
A. 在大公司里股东几乎不参加公司的日常运作。
B. 大公司里的股民在公司的日常运作中几乎没有什么工作可做。
C. 在大公司里股民几乎与公司的日常运作没什么关系。
D. 在大公司里多是由数量很少的董事会成员来处理日常事务的。

[简答题] The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical words (1)______ have "less meaning", but in fact some grammarians have (2)______ called them "empty" words as opposed in the "full" words of 　(3)______ vocabulary. But this is a rather misled way of expressing the (4)______ distinction. Although a word like the is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; (5)______ there is a sharp difference in meaning between "man is vile" and "the man is vile", yet the is the single vehicle of this 　　 (6)______ difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they 　　 　(7)______