[简答题]Even without taking the technology to its limits, the idea of education as a lifelong process is catching on throughout the industrialized world.

[填空题]The ruling party could even lose its majority in the lower house of parliament, started a period of prolonged struggling. A. ruling B. its C. started D. prolonged struggling

[单项选择]Without computers, much of the advanced technology （）
A. would not be achieved
B. would not be achieve
C. haven't achieved
D. would not have been achieved

[填空题]In______, Confucius’ teachings can even find its reflection in the Declaration of the Right of Man and of the Citizen.

[填空题]Banking, by its nature, entails taking a wide array of risks.

[单项选择]With its anti-terrorism campaign taking （）over anything else, the government is extending its job and running in more affairs.
A. superiority
B. priority
C. majority
D. polarity

[单项选择]Even after a ship has sunk, its cargo can often be ______
A. severed
B. shattered
C. salvaged
D. spattered

[填空题]
Note-taking Skills
Note-taking requires a high level of ability in many skills, particularly in the following four most important skills:
1. Understanding what the lecturer says as he says it.
--A non-native speaker of English is usually under a strain for he may be
unable to recognize words in speech which he understands in (1) ______. (1) ______
He may not know the meaning of a new word.
--A student should learn to infer the meaning of a new word from the
context.
--A student should (2) ______ only on important points so that he can (2) ______
understand much of a lecture.
2. Deciding what is important.
--Read the (3) ______ of a lecture carefully and understand its (3) ______
meaning, for it implies the major points of a lecture.
--Pay attention to a lecturer’s direct and indirect signals concerning
what’s important or unimportant. The direct signals

[单项选择]Taking pictures is fun, and taking good ones is not difficult if you follow a few simple rules.
Before you snap(快拍)a picture, thinking about it. Be sure that you are close enough to your subject. A pretty face against a clear background (背景), for example, makes a good picture. But a distant figure, lost among trees and clouds lacks interest. In a landscape(风景) scene, try to keep at least two thirds of the picture below the line where the ground meets the sky, for a sky-scene, keep at least two thirds of the picture above that line.
Study pictures in newspapers and books. Try to see why some are better than others. Use what you learn to improve your own pictures.
In a landscape scene, two-thirds of the picture should be ______.
A. land
B. sky
C. clouds
D. sea