[单项选择]A. It will leave in 5 minutes. B. About 8 o’ clock.
C. You have to hurry up. D. OK. Let me tell you.

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Which country passed a law banning human cloning
A. The United States.
B. The United Kingdom.
C. Switzerland.
D. Russia.

[单项选择]A) Don’t mention it. B) At about 2 o’clock.
C) Thanks for your help. D) It’s 54576862.

[单项选择]Which of the following statements about theories of the yield curve is most likely correct（）
A. A liquidity preference cannot be consistent with a flat term structure of interest rates.  B. The liquidity preference theory suggests that a downward-sloping term structure of interest rates is due to investors expecting short-term rates to decline, and although there is a maturity premium to consider, it is not large enough to offset the expectation of declining short-term rates. 
B. The pure expectations theory suggests that an upward-sloping term structure of interest rates is a consequence of investors expecting short-term rates to remain unchanged for a period of time, followed by investors expecting short-term rates to rise for a period of time.

[单项选择]Which of the following statements about external otitis is true
A. External otitis is eharaeterized by pain when the pinna of the ear is pulled.
B. External otitis is usually accompanied by a high fever in children.
C. External otitis is usually related to an upper respiratory infection.
D. External otitis can be prevented by using cotton-tipped applicators to clean the ear.

[填空题]Many adults have a self-centered idea about what our mothers wants.

[单项选择]Have you any （） that you were not there at 9 o’clock last night.
A. statement
B. cause
C. words
D. proof

[单项选择]A. About 80 miles. B. About 80 pages.
C. About one and a half hours. D. Almost a year.

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Tomorrow morning the sun will rise at ______ o’clock

[简答题]It’’s about two o’’clock-three minutes and thirty-five seconds past, ________________(确切地说) .

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[听力原文]
M: Will Mr Power be here at 2 O’clock
W: No, he says he might be half an hour late.

When will Mr Power probably arrive （）
A. At 2:00.
B. At 3:00
C. At 2:30
D. At 1:30

[填空题]Why did he leave school after taking six O-levels Because he wanted to ______.

[填空题]Today scientists know something about the causes of earthquakes.

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There has been much speculation about the origin of baseball. In 1907 a special commission decided that the modern game was invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839. One hundred years later the National Baseball Museum was opened to honor Doubleday. Historians, however, disagree about the origin of baseball. Some say that baseball comes from bat-and-ball games of ancient times. It is a matter of record that in the 1700s English boys played a game they called "baseball". Americans have played a kind of baseball since about 1800. At first tile American game had different rules and different names in various parts of the country — "town ball". "rounders", or "one old cat". Youngsters today still play some of these simplified forms of the game.
Baseball did not receive a standard set of rules until 1845, when Alexander Cartwright organized the Knicker-bocker Baseball Club of New York City. The rules Cartwright set up for his nine-playe
A. persuasive
B. informative
C. biased
D. argumentative