[填空题]I couldn’t understand what the passage said, so I had my friend (translate)（）it for me.

[单项选择]-- Do you agree with what I said
--I couldn’t agree with you （）, that’s really a good idea.
A. little
B. much
C. more
D. 不填

[填空题]Her local doctor couldn’t tell what was wrong, so she had to see a (special) ______ .

[单项选择]We don’t understand the passage ______ there are few new words in it.
A. because
B. though
C. since

[单项选择]Passage Three When trying to understand why some people have trouble living within their means, we tend to blame factors such as high interest rates and irresponsible spending. Now researchers have found another possible factor to add to the list: a gene linked to credit-card debt. Earlier work has shown that genetics plays a role in how we handle money. But a recent study was the first to show that a particular gene affects financial behavior outside the lab. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the London School of Economics looked at genetic data and questionnaires already collected from more than 2,000 young adults aged 18 to 26 as part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. In particular, they looked at whether these young adults said they had any credit-card debt and what version of the MAOA gene they had. Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) (甲型单胺氧化酶) is an enzyme that breaks down the signaling chemicals called neuro-transmitters in
A. credit-card debt is mainly attributed to high interest rates
B. reckless spending is a major cause of a person’ s debt
C. young adults tend to spend more money than they earn
D. whether we overspend or not is probably determined by a particular gene

[单项选择]Forget what Virginia Woolf said about what a writer needs--a room of one’s own. The writer she has in mind wasn’t at work on a novel in cyberspaee, one with multiple hypertexts, animated graphics and downloads of trance, charming music. For that you also need graphic interfaces, Real Player and maybe even a computer laboratory at Brown University. That was where Mark Amerika--his legally adopted name; don’t ask him about his birth name--composed much of his novel Gramatron. But Grammatron isn’t just a story. It’s an online narrative (gramatron. com) that uses the capabilities of cyberspace to tie the conventional story line into complicated knots. In the four years it took to produce-it was completed in 1997-each new advance in computer software became another potential story device. "I became sort of dependent on the industry," jokes Amerika, who is also the author of two novels printed on paper. "That’s unusual for a writer, because if you just write on paper the ’technology’ is pret
A. differences between conventional and modern novels
B. how Mark Amerika composed his novel Gramatron
C. common features of all modern electronic novels
D. why Mark Amerika took on a new way of writing

[填空题]What you said has nothing to do with what we are (discuss) ______

[单项选择]What was said to have been stolen
A. A book.
B. $3,000.
C. A handbag.
D. A Christmas card.

[单项选择]What is said about the research paper
A. The paper came out as short as I expected.
B. Actually the paper was long enough to cover it.
C. The paper was short enough to present.
D. The paper turned out better than I had expected.

[单项选择]It was what he meant rather than what he said （） annoyed me.
A. which
B. as
C. what
D. that