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Students who say they never or hardly ever used dictionaries often speak English well but usually write poorly, because they make many mistakes.
The students who use dictionaries the most do not learn especially well, either. The ones who looked up every new word do not read fast. Therefore they do not have time to read much. Those who use small two-language dictionaries have the worst problems. Their dictionaries often give only one or two words as a translation of English. But one English word often has many translations in a foreign language and one foreign word has many translations in English.
The most successful students were those who use large college edition dictionaries with about 100, 000 words but do not use them too often. Whey they are reading, these students first try to get the general idea and understand new words from the context. Then they reread and use the dictionary to look up only key words that they still de not understand. They use diction
A. choose a good dictionary, and you’ll succeed in learning English
B. dictionaries are not very necessary to the students who learn English
C. it is very important for students to use good dictionaries properly
D. using dictionaries very often can’t help to improve writing

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Students who say they never or hardly ever used dictionaries often speak English well but usually write poorly, because they make many mistakes.
The students who use dictionaries the most do not learn especially well, either. The ones who looked up every new word do not read fast. Therefore they do not have time to read much. Those who use small two-language dictionaries have the worst problems. Their dictionaries often give only one or two words as a translation of English. But one English word often has many translations in a foreign language and one foreign word has many translations in English.
The most successful students were those who use large college edition dictionaries with about 100, 000 words but do not use them too often. Whey they are reading, these students first try to get the general idea and understand new words from the context. Then they reread and use the dictionary to look up only key words that they still de not understand. They use diction
A. Dictionaries have little effect on learning to speak English.
B. No matter what new words you meet while reading, never use dictionaries.
C. Small two-language dictionaries do little help to study English.
D. Reading Something for the first time, you’d better not use dictionaries.

[填空题]President Richard Nixon used to say that the first civil right of every American is the right to be free from domestic violence. That was 40 years ago, a time of civil (26) and high crime. "Domestic violence" really meant crimes between strangers. Now it means the (27) , with two recent reminders in the news. On February 12, outside Buffalo, New York, Muzzammil Hassan, a well-known local businessman, told police that his wife was dead. Officers found Aasiya Zubair Hassan with her head (28) . The couple created the Bridges TV network, an effort to unite American Muslims and increase understanding across cultures. In the days before her death, Aasiya Hassan had taken legal steps to divorce her husband. She had also (29) a restraining order demanding he stay away from her. Now he is (30) murder. Another case involved two popular young singers. On February 8, Los Angeles police (31) Chris Brown after a fight that reportedly le

[单项选择]Caroline has never ever broken her promise, ____.
A. neither had I
B. nor have I
C. not would I
D. never will I

[单项选择]There are Congressmen who say that the development of a space-based missile defense system will provide economic benefits only to military contractors. This claim is not true. A space-based missile defense system, even if it has no current applications for civilian businesses, will still benefit civilian businesses because those businesses will be able to find profitable uses for the government-developed technology in the future.
Which of the following statements, if true, provides the most support for the argument that a space-based missile defense system could provide future economic benefits for civilian businesses ？（）
A. Several new materials developed for the Apollo space program were later adapted to provide basic components of the modem computer and electronics industries.
B. The missile defense system in question will not require the development of any new technologies.
C. Space-based missile defense programs may be the only way to defend civilian populations against preemptive nuclear attacks.
D. Space-based missile defense programs, although more expensive than traditional land-based systems, are theoretically more effective than traditional land-based systems.
E. The scientists employed on the project could make extraordinary advances in the capabilities of intercontinental ballistic missiles used by the army.

[填空题]Some people used to say that Dad had so many children that he couldn’t keep track of them. Dad himself used to (1) a story about one time (2) mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and (3) him in charge at home. When mother (4) , she asked him if everything had run smoothly.
"Didn’t have any trouble (5) with that one over there," he (6) . "But a spanking (打 屁股) brought him into line."
Mother could handle any crisis without (7) her temper.
"That’s not one of (8) , dear," she said. "He belongs to next door."
None of us remembers it, and maybe it never (9) . Dad didn’t always tell the (10) ., because there was nothing he liked (11) than a joke, particularly if it were (12) him and even more particularly if it were on mother.
Dad was happiest in crowd, (13) a crowd of kids. Wherever be was, you’d see a stri