[单项选择]People who use words skillfully （　） instant attention and respect.
A. direct
B. order
C. turn
D. command

[单项选择]Ironically, people who use aspartame as a sweetener to reduce their caloric intake could wind up defeating their purpose, since studies show that high levels of aspartame may trigger a craving for carbohydrates by depleting the brain of a chemical that registers carbohydrate satiety.
Which of the following conclusions can most properly be drawn if the statements above are true
A. Aspartame can be more hazardous than carbohydrates to people’s health.
B. People who do not use aspartame are not likely to develop a craving for carbohydrates.
C. The caloric content of foods that are high in carbohydrates is significant.
D. People tend to prefer sweet foods to those high in carbohydrates.
E. (E) Food products that contain aspartame are typically low in carbohydrates.

[单项选择]Young people who drink or use drugs are mainly influenced by both their parents and peer pressure.
Other reasons they take that first drink are to be rebellious(反抗的), for curiosity or "kicks" (刺激)or to escape an unpleasant environment; And young people drink use drugs because alcohol(酒精) and drugs are at hand.
After first experimental use, young people continue to drink or use drugs because they believe these substances can relieve boredom, increase energy, decrease anxiety, solve problems, or help them socially. They may simply like the "high" they get in the early and middle stages of substance use. After continued use, they will become physically and psychologically(心理地)addicted(上瘾的).
Now that we have admitted that we have to solve this problem, we must decide how to deal with this challenge. Winning this will take a great effort involving local, state, and national government. It will require the effort of schools, but it cannot be clone by schools alone. It will als
A. The selling of alcohol and drugs,
B. Pressure from their parents and relatives.
C. Curiosity.
D. Their eagerness to experience what ,is not permissible to them.

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People usually use more words to sound more polite.

[填空题]Common people used words as they like.

[单项选择]In fact Orwell was a deep lover of words who never consciously misused them. If he said he had written a fairy-story (Animal Farm) with a political purpose, we cannot lightly suppose he spoke lightly. A political purpose suggests some kind of moral...There is perhaps a moral for farmers, don’t take to drink and let your animals get out of hand; but even so the villains will be comforted to find that everything comes out all right for them in the end. For the downtrodden animals there is nothing but misery, cruelty, and injustice; and in place of a moral there is only the tragic chorus of the donkey Benjamin... This is not like the kind of moral that tells us to look before we leap or not to count our boobies before they are hatched.
It is just this sense of purposeless cruelty, though, that gives the clue to Orwell’s purpose, as well as to his deadly serious reason for calling Animal Farm a fairy-story. The point about fairy-stories is that they are written not merely without a
A. Animal Farm was a fairy-story
B. Orwell wrote a fairy-story and he was good at it
C. Orwell had his reason for saying Animal Farm was a fairy-story
D. people should trust what Orwell said because he used proper words

[填空题]Who use steamboats today
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[填空题]Some people say that Americans pay too much attention to Christmas and that this interferes with ______ of those who are not Christians.

[填空题]Companies who use outsourcing usually

• A. become enthusiastic about it.
• B. have big markets.
• C. grow rapidly.

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