[单项选择]A. The economy is very bad.
B. His age made him unpopular.
C. He is very picky about jobs.
D. He doesn’t have any skills.

[单项选择]The doctor warned him that his （）nature made him susceptible to a stroke and urged him to curb his temper
A. chronic
B. illusory
C. choleric
D. candid

[单项选择]What made him move production from his family kitchen into a commercial setting
A. Great demand for his jam.
B. Complaints from his parents.
C. Need for better hygiene conditions.

[填空题]His angry had made him（）(forget) army discipline.

[单项选择]Conversation 2A) Because of his age. C) Because of his family.
B) Because of his major. D) Because he liked the job.

[单项选择]When Julius Caesar made his triumphal entrance into Rome in 45 BC, he celebrated by giving a feast at which thousands of guests ate gorged (狼吞虎咽) poultry, seafood and game. Similar celebrations featuring excessive consumption of animal flesh have marked human victories-in war, sport, politics and commerce-since our species learned to control fire. Throughout the developing world today, one of the first things people do as they climb out of poverty is to shift from their peasant diet of mainly grains and beans to one that is rich in pork or beef. Since 1950, per capita consumption of meat around the globe has more doubled.
Meat, it seems, is not just food but reward as well. But in the coming century, that will change. Much as we have awakened to the full economic and social costs of cigarettes, we will find we can no longer subsidize (补助) or ignore the costs of mass-producing cattle, poultry,, pigs, sheep and fish to feed our growing population. These costs include hugely ineffi
A. justifying an assumption
B. giving an example
C. making a comparison
D. explaining a phenomenon

[填空题]_____ his age, he is unable to take the job.

[单项选择]In 1492 Christopher Columbus made his first (voyager) to the New World, (probably) landing (on the) island (which) he named San Salvador.（）
A. voyager
B. probably
C. on the
D. which

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