[单项选择]Few things are impossible in themselves；and it is often for want of will，rather than of means，that man fails to succeed.
A. 从事情本身而言，有一些事情总是不可能的。因此，不是因为手段而是意志力的需要，人们失败了。
B. 从事情本身而言，没有很少有事是不可能的。
C. 事情很少有根本做不成的；之所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是决心不够。
D. 事情很少有不可能的。但经常由于人们意志力的需要，而不是手段方法使人们没有能够成功。

[单项选择]Few things are impossible in themselves；and it is often for want of will，rather than of means，that man fails to succeed.（）
A. 从事情本身而言，有一些事情总是不可能的。因此，不是因为手段而是意志力的需要，人们失败了。
B. 从事情本身而言，没有很少有事是不可能的。
C. 事情很少有根本做不成的；之所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是决心不够。
D. 事情很少有不可能的。但经常由于人们意志力的需要，而不是手段方法使人们没有能够成功。

[填空题]Optimists do not blame themselves when things go wrong.

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Fortunately there are still a few tasty things for us gourmands to enjoy in relative security. Their numbers, however, are depleted almost daily. It seems, by ruthless proclamations from the ever-vigilant Food and Drug Administration and its allies, our doctors. The latest felon to face prosecution is the salt of life, sodium chloride.
Ostensibly, overuse of salt muses high blood pressure and hypertension, the cause of half the deaths in the United States every year. A few years ago the anti-salt campaigners raised such a rumpus that salt was banned from baby food. Currently pressure is being applied to food manufacturers to oblige them to label their products to show sodium content. Bemuse doing so would cost mercenary manufacturers money, they argue that they have no idea how much salt remains on such things as potato chips and how much sticks to the bag. Furthermore, salt isn’t the only harmful ingredient in food. If the manufacturer has to provide sodium content
A. We must stop eating salt immediately.
B. She is not convinced that salt is harmful.
C. The Food and Drug Administration works well with doctors.
D. Soon there won’ t be anything tasty left to eat.

[单项选择]There may have been few things that protesters, politicians and activists share, but during the G20 meeting, they were united by their use of Twitter. The micro-blogging service was heavily used by all those involved with the meeting, be they debating in the chamber, quizzing politicians after briefings, or protesting in the street.
Social media was in use prior to the event too. The Metropolitan Police analyzed activity on websites such as Facebook, MySpace and many others to see how many were likely to join the call for protests at the G20. Plans for how many policemen and women should be put on the streets during the G20 were drawn up with regard to this analysis.
But it was during the two-day event that social media, in particular Twitter, came in to their own. Thousands of messages marked with a G20 tag passed through Twitter and organizations such as Indymedia had their own tags ’that helped to examine information about what happened during the protests.
For
A. Twitter can ease their temper and stop the debate.
B. They all enjoy the benefit of the service provided by Twitter.
C. With Twitter’s help, they can avoid attending the meeting from anywhere.
D. They can get useful briefings from politicians by using Twitter.

[单项选择]One of the few things you say about English people with certainty is that they （　） talk a lot about the weather.
A. need
B. must
C. should
D. can

[单项选择]Many things______ almost impossible in the ancient times are very common today.
A. being considered
B. considering
C. to consider
D. considered

[填空题]Many things (consider) ______ impossible in the past are common today.

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He lived in the 16th century. A few things, but not really that many, are known about his life. And yet around the world the comment is unanimous: he was the greatest writer who ever lived. His name was William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare was born in 1564 in a little town called Stratford-upon Avon. When he was in his twenties, he made his way to London. There he spent most of his working life. The theater was very popular at that time, and soon Shakespeare was writing plays. He belonged to an acting company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and wrote plays for them. (He also acted in some of the plays.) In 1599 the company built the famous Globe Theater. There Shakespeare wrote and acted until he retired in about 1607.
Shakespeare wrote three kinds of plays: comedies, tragedies, and histories. Many of the comedies involved mistaken identities, :women pretended to be men, and slapstick (滑稽剧) situations. One of his famous comedies is A Midsummer Night’s Dr
A. cause for argument
B. surprising
C. kept in written records
D. agreed on by everyone