[单项选择]

It is estimated that some seven hundred million people--about half of the world’s population are unable to read and write, and there are probably two hundred and fifty million more people whose level of attainment is so slight that it barely outlives a literacy.
Recently the attack on illiteracy (文盲) has been stepped up . A world plan has been drawn up by a committee of UNESCO experts in Paris, as part of the United Nations Development Decade, and an international conference on the subject has the aim. People must learn the basic skills of responsible citizenship: the ability to read notices, newspapers, timetables, letters, pricelists, to keep simple records and accounts, to sort out the significance of the information gathered, and to fill informs.
The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. In Africa
there are at least one hundred million illiterates, compromising(牵连) eighty to eighty-five per cent of the tota
A. approximately seven hundred million
B. approximately one hundred and twenty-five million
C. approximately eight or eight point five thousand million
D. exactly twenty-four million

[单项选择]

It is estimated that some seven hundred million people--about half of the world’s population are unable to read and write, and there are probably two hundred and fifty million more people whose level of attainment is so slight that it barely outlives a literacy.
Recently the attack on illiteracy (文盲) has been stepped up . A world plan has been drawn up by a committee of UNESCO experts in Paris, as part of the United Nations Development Decade, and an international conference on the subject has the aim. People must learn the basic skills of responsible citizenship: the ability to read notices, newspapers, timetables, letters, pricelists, to keep simple records and accounts, to sort out the significance of the information gathered, and to fill informs.
The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. In Africa
there are at least one hundred million illiterates, compromising(牵连) eighty to eighty-five per cent of the tota
A. zero point one per cent of that of the illiteracy in the world
B. zero point two per cent of the world adult population
C. thirty-five per cent of Europe’s population
D. three point five per cent of that of the illiteracy in Southern Europe

[简答题]To solve the problem of domestic violence, some people suggest that a kind of special service educating abusive partners should be used so as to ___________________________________.

[简答题]A reader in Florida, apparently bruised by some personal experience, writes in to complain, "If I steal a nickel’s worth of merchandise, I am a thief and punished; but if I steal the love of another’s wife, I am free."
This is a prevalent misconception in many people’s minds—that love, like merchandise, can be "stolen". Numerous states, in fact, have enacted laws allowing damages for "alienation of affections".
But love is not a commodity; the real thing cannot be bought, sold, traded or stolen. It is an act of the will, a turning of the emotions, a change in the climate of the personality.
When a husband or wife is "stolen" by another person, that husband or wife was already ripe for the stealing, was already predisposed toward a new partner. The "love bandit" was only taking what was waiting to be taken, what wanted to be taken.

[单项选择]Comets are still regarded with (fright) by some people.
A. dread
B. concern
C. detachment
D. resentment

[单项选择]It has been estimated that （）one hundred thousand men participated in the gold rush of 1898.
A. approximately
B. until
C. more
D. as much as

[单项选择]

At least 2.3 million people took some kind of online course in 2004, according to a recent survey by The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, and two-thirds of colleges offering "face-to-face" courses also offer online ones. But what were once two distinct types of classes are looking more and more alike—and often dipping into the same pool of students.
At some schools, online courses—originally intended for nontraditional students living far from campus—have proved surprisingly popular with on-campus students. A recent study by South Dakota’s Board of Regents found 42 percent of the students enrolled in its distance-education courses weren’t so distant: they were located on campus at the university that was hosting the online course.
Numbers vary depending on the policies of particular colleges, but other schools also have students mixing and matching online and "face-to-face" credits. Motives range from l
A. the superiority of online courses over traditional courses
B. the importance of online courses for college students
C. the popularity of online courses with college students
D. the wide coverage of online courses