[单项选择]For one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing, America seemed ready to make peace with the SAT. When the University of California several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants not to buy it, the College Board junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what ), created a writing section (including producing an essay), added tougher math questions and more reading analysis—and had everybody talking about the new-and-improved SAT.
Then the first students to take SAT: The Sequel were seen stumbling out of the testing centers as if they had just run a marathon, and all the happy talks ended. With the three hours and 45 minutes stretching to five hours with breaks and instructions, it got worse. Nobody is sure how, but moisture in some SAT answer sheets caused pencil marks to bleed or fade, producing more than 5,000 tests with the wrong scores. Even after that was fixed, several u
A. Many students now prefer to take the ACT.
B. The ACT could hardly be the SAT’s adversary.
C. The ACT has taken the lead over the SAT.
D. Some people think highly of the ACT.

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[单项选择]For one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing, America seemed ready to make peace with the SAT. When the University of California several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants not to buy it, the College Board junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what ), created a writing section (including producing an essay), added tougher math questions and more reading analysis—and had everybody talking about the new-and-improved SAT.
Then the first students to take SAT: The Sequel were seen stumbling out of the testing centers as if they had just run a marathon, and all the happy talks ended. With the three hours and 45 minutes stretching to five hours with breaks and instructions, it got worse. Nobody is sure how, but moisture in some SAT answer sheets caused pencil marks to bleed or fade, producing more than 5,000 tests with the wrong scores. Even after that was fixed, several u
A. the SAT is undesirable.
B. the SAT should be replaced.
C. the SAT’s keepers are blamed.
D. the SAT’s critics are praised.

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Fur one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing, America seemed ready to make peace with the SAT. When the University of California several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants not to buy it, the College Board junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what ), created a writing section (including producing an essay), added tougher math questions and more reading analysis --and had everybody talking about the new-and improved SAT.
Then the first students to take SAT: The Sequel were seen stumbling out of the testing centers as if they had just run a marathon, and all the happy talks ended. With the three hours and 45 minutes stretching to five hours with breaks and instructions, it got worse. Nobody is sure how, but moisture in some SAT answer sheets caused pencil marks to bleed or fade, producing more tha
A. the SAT is undesirable.
B. the SAT should be replaced.
C. the SAT’s keepers are blamed.
D. the SAT’s critics are praised.

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For one brief moment in April, Larry Ellison came within a few dollars of being the richest man in the world. The computer tycoon was holding a global conference call on a Wednesday morning, when the value of his company surged.
It was the moment he almost overtook Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, as the wealthiest on the planet. For a few seconds, as share of traders marked Microsoft down and Oracle up, Ellison came within US $ 200,000 of Gates. The self-proclaimed "bad boy" of Silicon Valley found himself worth more than US $ 52 billion, up from a mere US $10 billion this time last year. Then Microsoft’s share price, which had plunged in recent weeks, recovered and the moment passed.
Once, Ellison, founder of the software company Oracle, would have danced around his desk cursing like a pirate at fa
A. (A) comes from a strong family
B. (B) has a poor father
C. (C) does not spend much on charity
D. (D) was born in California

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Over the years, the fear of making human clones has polluted the debate about making cloned embryos for research. Not only has it been difficult for the American people to understand that human cloning may never work, it has also been difficult for them to understand that the real interest in human cloning is for stem-cell research.
Article Two:
Contrary to what many people think, researchers who really do understand the mechanisms behind cloning want to make it a reality in order to help people with spinal-cord injuries and diseases like Parkinson’s. There are no legitimate scientists out on deserted islands trying to clone for fun and profit, and even if there were, their chances of successfully making a living human person are remote if not zero.
Article Three:
In reality, no one knows how to create a healthy human baby through cloning. But more to the point, no respectable scientist wants to. And even if they did want to, there is no

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