[单项选择] So Near and Yet So Far
In many examinations, 90% is an excellent score, deserving a prize and a handshake from the headmaster. In Geneva this week, only full marks would do, and the world’s trade ministers failed. No matter that they came closer to a deal than anyone should have expected. No matter that they stuck at it for nine days and several nights, in the longest ministerial meeting in the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO). No matter, too, that this time they parted in stunned disbelief, heads shaking, rather than in acrimony(刻薄), quarrel and spite, as at Cancun in 2003. They managed "convergence" on 18 of the 20 topics set before them by Pascal Lamy, the WTO’s director-general, but they stumbled on the 19th, a device for protecting farmers in developing countries against surges in imports. They never reached the 20th, cotton. Failed.
You can construct a plausible argument that the collapse of yet anoth
A. nine days
B. ten days
C. eighteen days
D. twenty days

[单项选择] So Near and Yet So Far
In many examinations, 90% is an excellent score, deserving a prize and a handshake from the headmaster. In Geneva this week, only full marks would do, and the world’s trade ministers failed. No matter that they came closer to a deal than anyone should have expected. No matter that they stuck at it for nine days and several nights, in the longest ministerial meeting in the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO). No matter, too, that this time they parted in stunned disbelief, heads shaking, rather than in acrimony(刻薄), quarrel and spite, as at Cancun in 2003. They managed "convergence" on 18 of the 20 topics set before them by Pascal Lamy, the WTO’s director-general, but they stumbled on the 19th, a device for protecting farmers in developing countries against surges in imports. They never reached the 20th, cotton. Failed.
You can construct a plausible argument that the collapse of yet anoth
A. Cotton importation and exportation.
B. Protecting farmers in developing countries.
C. The elimination of trade protection.
D. Food safety and the environment.

[单项选择]Many scientists are so convinced of the benefits of challenging the brain that they are putting it into practice in their lives（）
A. 许多科学家都确信，在他们的生活中，经常练习挑战大脑，就会带来效益。
B. 许多科学家都对勤于动脑的益处确信不移，他们在自己的生活中也努力实践着。
C. 许多科学家都如此确信挑战大脑会带来利益，他们的实际生活证实了这一点。
D. 许多科学家都相信，他们生命中所实践的就是对人的大脑挑战，这种挑战是有益的。

[单项选择]Many cars ______ this year so far.
A. will be made B. have been made C. are made

[单项选择]Many critics consider that far more stress is placed on achievements in athletics than in the academic sphere. We’re told that it’s (31) to compel boys with no athletic (32) to spend hours of misery on the playground, when, if (33) to themselves, they would occupy their time far more usefully in some (34) hobby. The (35) to this argument, no doubt, (36) the simple assumption that every non-athlete has some good hobby. It’s not true; (37) even if it were, other hobbies are no substitute for being out, exercising the muscles and having (38) with our human beings.
(39) the youthful idolizing of athletes, which tends to upset a boy’s (40) of values and may do (41) harm to the objects of this hero-worship, (42) a very different matter.
The schoolboy (43) may suffer through being surrounded at an early age with feint (44) of a
A. sparkle
B. applauses
C. horns
D. cheers