[单项选择]When is the man going on holiday
A. This week.
B. Next week.
C. He will not go on holiday.

[单项选择]When is the man going on holiday
[A] This week.
[B] Next week.
[C] He will not go on holiday.

[单项选择]Why is the man not going to have a holiday abroad this year
A. He is saving money for a new car.
B. He dislikes the foreign custom.
C. He wants to spend his holiday with his family.
D. He hasn’t a long holiday.

[单项选择]Where was Jerry going when Jack met her
A. To the supermarket.
B. To school.
C. To her home.
D. To work outdoors.

[单项选择]
When will the man leave for his holiday [A] On Friday． [B] On Wednesday evening． [C] At 8:30．

[单项选择]Imagine a chart that begins when man first appeared on the planet and tracks the economic growth of societies from then forward. It would be a long, flat line until the late 16th or early 17th century, when it would start trending upward. Before then the fruits of productive labor were limited to a few elites — princes, merchants and priests. For most of humankind life was as the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described it in 1651 — "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". But as Hobbes was writing those words, the world around him was changing. Put simply, human beings were getting smarter.
People have always sought knowledge, of course, but in Western Europe at that time, men like Galileo, Newton and Descartes began to search systematically for ways to understand and control their environment. The scientific revolution, followed by the Enlightenment, marked a fundamental shift. Humans were no longer searching for ways simply to fit into a natural or divine order,