[简答题]Our world is developing at an unprecedented rate today, which is certainly a good thing in most people’ s eyes. However, the side effects of development have become noticed by more and more people. Actually, there is substantial controversy over this accelerating trend of social development among the public. Write a composition of about 300 words on the topic: Is the End of the World at Hand

[多项选择]Our world is developing at an unprecedented rate today, which is certainly a good thing in most people’ s eyes. However, the side effects of development have become noticed by more and more people. Actually, there is substantial controversy over this accelerating trend of social development among the public. Write a composition of about 300 words on the topic: Is the End of the World at Hand

[单项选择]Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to re- establish the moral ends of our lives.（）
A. 我们希望创造生活并存在其中，并且继承这种重建道德的能力之中。
B. 我们希望富有创造性地生活在我们继承的这个世界中，这种希望存在于我们重新建立道 德标准的能力之中。
C. 我们的希望是建立生活的标准，这种希望继承在能够再次建立道德标准的能力中。
D. 我们的希望是有创造性地生活在世界家庭中，这种希望存在在再次建立道德规范的标准 之中。

[单项选择]According to Robert Foss, the high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to ______.
A) their frequent driving at night
C) their lack of driving experience
B) their improper way of driving
D) their driving with passengers


A. According to Robert Foss, the high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to ______.
B. their frequent driving at night
C. their improper way of driving
D. their lack of driving experience
E. their driving with passengers

[填空题]The highest rate of world population growth occurred in 1970.

[单项选择]The current rate of annual increase in the world population is about_________.
A. 9 million.
B. 5.7 million.
C. 90 million.
D. 20 million.

[简答题]World population is growing at such a rate that by the year 2050 nearly seven billion people will live on the earth. (Passage One)

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In our increasingly complex world, information is becoming the basic building block of the society. (46) However, at a time when the acquisition of new scientific information alone is approaching a rate of 250 million pages annually, the tide of knowledge is. overwhelming the human capability of dealing with it. So man must turn to a machine if he hopes to contain the tide and channel it to beneficial ends.
(47) The electronic computer, handling millions of facts with the swiftness of light, has given contemporary meaning to Aristotle’s vision of the liberating possibilities of machines: "When looms weave by themselves, man’s slavery will end." By transforming the way in which he gathers, stores, retrieves, and uses information, this versatile instrument is helping man to overcome his mental and physical limitations. (48) It is vastly widening his intellectual horizon, enabling him better to comprehend his universe, and providing the