[单项选择]Lumber Merchant: Because logging companies have long been replanting trees after logging, almost half of the tropical hardwood now sold is harvested from sustainable sources.
Environmentalist: On the contrary, barely one percent of the tropical hardwood sold is harvested from sustainable sources, since nearly all logging involves destruction of animal habitats that cannot be restored by replanting trees.
The environmentalist’s response to the lumber merchant is based on a reinterpretation of
A. "sustainable sources".
B. "tropical".
C. "replanting trees".
D. "hardwood sold".
E. (E) "harvested".

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Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in the World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information. Donovan believed in using whatever tools came to hand in the "great game" of espionage-spying as a "profession. " These days the Net, which has already re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovan’s vocation as well.
The latest revolution isn’t simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemen’s e-mail. That kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades. In the past three or four years, the World Wide Web has given birth to a whole industry of point-and-click spying. The spooks call it "open-source intelligence," and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential. In 1995 the CIA held a contest to see who could compile the most data about Burundi. The
A. received support from fans like Donovan
B. remolded the intelligence services
C. restored many common pastimes
D. revived spying as a profession

[判断题]Because prokaryotic cells have neither mitochondria nor chloroplasts, they cannot carry out either ATP synthesis or photosynthesis.

[单项选择]Rock Co. wants to purchase lumber from Logging Co.. Rock Co. and Logging Co. agree that a letter of credit will be used for payment. Who is the applicant（）
A. Rock Co
B. Logging Co
C. Bank
D. None of them

[填空题]Because Hong Kong have millions of visitors each year, so the Disneyland’s attendance is sure to be very high during the Labor Day holidays.

[单项选择]Logging is not banned chiefly because
A. scientists are overestimating the damage.
B. people benefit economically from it.
C. some creatures are only threatened but not endangered.
D. it provides jobs to the consumers.

[单项选择]A. Because I have got a cold.
B. Because I always have what I want.
C. Because I have to be on work at 6 a.m..
D. You have to leave early, didn’t you

[填空题]People choose to procrastinate because they have to deal with different kinds of complex work.

[填空题]Because they have to decide whether they should tell their patients the truth or not, __________________________ (医生常常感到进退两难).

[单项选择]And you would not be alone, because pollsters have found that people today do not choose political leaders who shape history for their “Most Admired” list, but rather movie and television celebrities, fashion models, professional athletes, and even comic book and cartoon characters.
A. people today do not respect political figures most...
B. people today do not believe history is influenced by politics...
C. people today look up to historic figures rather than political ones...
D. people today do not depend on political leaders to make up their minds...

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Pediatricians from a US university have taken a look at one measure of children’s well-being in Egypt, the Philippines and India, the extent to which children are subject to corporal punishment and abuse. The data revealed interesting cultural differences about what seems to be acceptable when it comes to physically disciplining children. Among the things we learned, for instance, was that in India, slapping a child in the face or head is more common than spanking them, the researchers say. And in Egypt, twenty-five percent of the mothers said that they had beaten their child up, which was defined as hitting them over and over again with a closed fist. And then the other interesting things were like the Philippines, the rate of telling people that evil spirits were going to get them, the kind of emotional, kind of threatening to lock them out of the home, was very high. However, despite the differences in punishment methods, some notable similarities have b
A. India.
B. Egypt.
C. The Philippines.
D. Not mentioned.