[单项选择]The first time I tried shark-fin soup was at Time Warner’s annual dinner in Hong Kong. Shark-fin soup is a luxury item ($100 bowl in some restaurants)in Hong Kong and Mainland China, its biggest consumers; it’s a dish that embodies east Asia’s intertwined notions of hospitality and keeping (or losing) "face". "It’s like champagne", says Alvin Leung, owner of Bo Innovation, a Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong. "You don’t open a bottle of Coke to celebrate. It’s a ritual. "
Unfortunately, this gesture of hospitality comes with a price tag much bigger than that $ 100 bowl. All told, up to 70 million sharks are killed annually for the trade, despite the fact that 30% of shark species are threatened with extinction. "Sharks have made it through multiple mass extinctions on our planet, " says Matt Rand, director of Pew’s Global Shark Conservation division. "Now many species are going to go the way of th
A. It has a price tag much bigger than $ 100 bowl.
B. It carries rich cultural meaning.
C. It tastes like champagne.
D. It is expensive for its high nutrition.

[单项选择]The first time I tried shark-fin soup was at Time Warner’s annual dinner in Hong Kong. Shark-fin soup is a luxury item ($100 bowl in some restaurants)in Hong Kong and Mainland China, its biggest consumers; it’s a dish that embodies east Asia’s intertwined notions of hospitality and keeping (or losing) "face". "It’s like champagne", says Alvin Leung, owner of Bo Innovation, a Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong. "You don’t open a bottle of Coke to celebrate. It’s a ritual. "
Unfortunately, this gesture of hospitality comes with a price tag much bigger than that $ 100 bowl. All told, up to 70 million sharks are killed annually for the trade, despite the fact that 30% of shark species are threatened with extinction. "Sharks have made it through multiple mass extinctions on our planet, " says Matt Rand, director of Pew’s Global Shark Conservation division. "Now many species are going to go the way of th
A. escape punishment by law
B. make more freezer spaces on boat
C. prevent massive overfishing
D. exploit bad execution of law

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I remember quite clearly the first time I was really shaken by my wife’s intuition.
We were looking; for a second-hand car, and I had been much taken by a rather nice drop-head with a well-cared-for appearance.
"Well, she runs nicely,” I told my wife after the try-out. “Good start-up, engine sounds sweet, low mileage and the right price. What do you think"
"I don’t like it"
"Why not"
"I don’t know. There’s just something about lie salesman that I don’t believe. "
A few weeks after we had bought another car elsewhere, I happened to find out the history of the drop-head. It had been seriously damaged in a crash before we saw it, and cleverly done up. The car was, indeed, a very bad risk.
Of all the things about women that their husbands do not understand, perhaps the biggest question is this: How can she often be right about things of which she h
A. When they bought another car.
B. When he learned about the history of the drop-head.
C. When he realized she knew so much about cars.
D. When his wife spoke about the salesman.

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I can clearly remember the first time I met Mr. Andrews, my old headmaster, 21 that was over twenty years ago. During the war, I was at school in the north of England. As soon as it ended, my family returned to London. There were not enough schools left for children to go to and my father had to go from one school to another, asking them to 22 me as a pupil. I used to go with him but he had such a 23 time trying to persuade people even to see him that I seldom had to do any tests. We had been to all the schools near we lived, but the more my father argued, the more 24 it became. In the end, we went to a school about five miles away from home. The headmaster kept us waiting for 25 an hour. While we were waiting, I 26 around at the school building, which was one of those old Victorian structures, completely out of date but still standing. I could hear the boys playing in the playground outside when the headmaster’s secretary finallyA. looked
B. turned
C. played
D. ran