[单项选择]Two scores more, ______ we could have won the last game.
A. but
B. so
C. and
D. or

[单项选择]We won’t have safe neighborhoods unless we’re always （　） on drug criminals.
A. tough
B. rough
C. thorough
D. enough

[单项选择]We have won many victories, ______ more difficulties are still ahead of us.
A. but
B. therefore
C. so
D. for

[单项选择]In the last century, we have witnessed a remarkable phenomenon—the emergence of television as a totally new medium for communicating cultures and the development of a new set of dramatic principles for it. Cultural studies approaches see television drama as a form of popular culture, where formulas determine the product and the individual artist has no place. Film, by contrast, has achieved high culture status, with numerous critics. Television has remained film’s rather vulgar relation with most academic interest focusing on network ownership and audiences, or directed at its various popular genres such as the soap opera.
Film and television’s influence on individuals and society is now so obvious that it is scarcely necessary to provide a rationale for examining their importance. Even in casual conversations, people are apt to make note of the impact of television on voting patterns, use idioms they learned from popular films, discuss relationships by referring to the similar pr
A. a form of knowing what is happening around the world
B. a new medium of communicating cultures and corresponding principles
C. a substitute for film for its popularity with the audience
D. a more accessible form of entertainment and amusement

[单项选择]We want our children to have more job skills; we want their lives to be ______ and their perspectives to be broadened.
A. envisaged
B. exceeded
C. enriched
D. excelled

[填空题]We have ten more visitors, ______ (include) two from Britain.

[单项选择]Last year’s economy should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent; profits soared; exports flourished; and inflation stayed around 3 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans give the picture a lousy B rating The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic situation was good, but the microeconomic numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were permanent, good jobs paying enough to support a family. Job insecurity was rampant. Even as they announced higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were in a tailspin, cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as many as in the recession year of 1991.
Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so discouraged they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full-time work were only partially employed; and another large group was either overqualified or sheltered behind the euphemism of self-employment. We lost a mi