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W: Where do you live
M: I live in a suburb of London.
W: Is it far away from here
M: Yes. It usually takes me about one hour to drive to the office.

How does the man usually go to work（　）.
A. By subway.
B. By bus.
C. By his own car.

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Step Back in Time

Do you know that we live a lot longer now than the people who were born before us One hundred years ago the average woman lived to be 45. But now, she can live until at least 80.
One of the main reasons for people living longer is that we know how to look after ourselves better. We know which foods are good for us and what we have to eat to make sure our bodies get all the healthy things they need. We know why we sometimes get ill and what to do to get better again. And we know how important it is to do lots of exercise to keep our hearts beating healthily.
But in order that we don’t slip back into bad habits, let’s have a look at what life was like 100 years ago.
Families had between 15 and 20 children, although many babies didn’t live long. Children suffered from lots of diseases, especially rickets (佝偻病) and scurvy (坏血病), which are both caused by bad diets. This is because many families were ve
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

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Do you live in a happy country Chances are strong that you do. Results of a recent study have shown that many people around the world are happier now than in the past. The study is called the World Values Survey. Researchers responsible for the study are based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research in the United States.
The researchers gathered information from opinion studies done in more than ninety countries or territories. Those studies were completed between nineteen eighty-one and two thousand seven. University of Michigan political scientist Ronald Inglehart directed the World Values Survey. Mister Inglehart says the results surprised him. He said it is widely believed that it is nearly impossible for happiness levels for a whole country to improve. He said many earlier studies have suggested that happiness levels do not really change.
Denmark was found to be the world’s
A. Many people around the world are happier now than in the past.
B. People feel less happiness now than in the past.
C. Few areas showed rising happiness.
D. The level of satisfaction keeps same as in nineteen forty-six.

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Plugging into Electronic Databases
If you are looking (36) information, library shelves are a good place (37) . But if you need up-to-the-minute data or have specialized needs, you may (38) a computerized database more useful, (39) expensive, and less time consuming. A database, a file of (40) on one subject or family of subjects, can be (41) and maintained in a computer’s memory. The speed of the computer then enables you (42) any item in this file almost instantly.
The three main types of databases are statistics, bibliographies, and full text. Statistical databases store vast (43) of numerical data, such as wage and price indexes, census information, foreign exchange rates, and bond prices, bibliographic databases store references and (44) of articles (45) periodicals and newspapers. Full-text databases offer the complete texts of such materials (46) newspaper, magazine an
A. in house
B. out house
C. in-house
D. out-house