[单项选择]Whether we like it or not，the world we live in has changed greatly in the last decade，and it is likely to change even more in the next decade．（）
A. 无论我们是否喜欢这个世界，它都在过去的十年问发生了巨大的变化，而其在未来十年内会有更大的变化。
B. 无论我们是否愿意，我们的生活在过去十年间已经改变了许多，而且在未来十年里可能改变变化更多。
C. 无论我们是否愿意，我们的生活方式令这个世界改变了很多，而且在未来还会有更大的变化。
D. 无论我们是否愿意，我们生活的世界在过去十年间已经变化了许多，而且在未来的十年里可能变化更多。

[单项选择]Whether we like it or not, the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred years, and it is likely to change even more in the next hundred.（）
A. 无论我们是否喜欢这个世界，它都在过去的一百年间发生了巨大的变化，而其在未来会有更大的变化。
B. 无论我们是否愿意，我们的生活在过去一百年间已经变化了许多，而且在未来一百年里可能变化更多。
C. 无论我们是否愿意，我们的生活方式令这个世界改变了很多，而且在未来还会有更大的变化。
D. 无论我们是否愿意，我们生活的世界在过去一百年间已经变化了许多，而且在未来的一百年里可能变化更多。

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Passage One
Animals are more like us than we ever imagined. They feel pain, they experience stress, and they show affection, excitement and love. All these findings have been made by scientists in recent years—and such results are beginning to change how we view animals.
Strangely enough, this research was sponsored by fast food companies like McDonald’s and KFC. Pressured by animal rights groups, these companies felt they had to fund scientists researching the emotional and mental states of animals.
McDonald’s, for instance, funded studies on pig behaviors at Purdue University, Indiana. This research found that pigs seek affection and easily become depressed if left alone or prevented from playing with each other. If they become depressed, they soon become physically ill. Because of this, and other similar studies, the European Union has banned the use of isolating pig stalls from 2012. In Germany, the government is encouraging p
A. are the largest fast food chains in the world
B. have little to do with animals
C. consume a large amount of meat each day
D. are notorious for their ill-treatment to animals

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Animals are more like us than we ever imagined. They feel pain, they experience stress, and they show affection, excitement and love. All these finding have been made by scientists in recent years——and such results are beginning to change how we view animals.
Strangely enough, this research was sponsored by fast food companies like McDonald’s and KFC. Pressured by animal rights groups, these companies felt they had to fund scientists researching the emotional and mental states of animals.
McDonald’s, for instance, funded studies on pig behaviors at Purdue University, Indiana. This research found that pigs seek affection and easily become depressed if left alone or prevented from playing with each other. If they become depressed, they soon become physically ill. Because of this, and other similar studies, the European Union has banned the use of isolating pig stalls from 2012. In Germany, the government is encouraging pig farmers to give eac
A. are the largest fast food chains in the world.
B. have little to do with animals.
C. consume a large amount of meat each day.
D. are notorious for their ill-treatment to animals.

[单项选择]Most of us would like to feel we have some influence over what happens around us and to us. Citizens speak out to influence policy on use of nuclear power, conserving the environment and endangered animals, local and state taxes, the appropriate use of funds by organizations of which they are members, proper land use and the nature of education in the public schools, and a host of other issues. Some of these affect the speakers’ immediate self-interest; others are attempts, to make the social environment conform more closely to their own ideas. To speak on such matters effectively enough to influence the opinions and actions of others is to exercise power.
Even in jobs relying on technical specialization, the opportunities and demands for public speaking skills remain more common than many college students realize. The engineer finds that if his career is to advance he must be willing to accept management duties that include speaking to groups of employees, or he must serve as a s
A. you are a student
B. you are an engineer
C. you want to study well
D. you want to influence others