[单项选择]I have certainly seen lots of changes in my lifetime! I look around my home and see "mod cons" that I could never have dreamed of 50 or 60 years ago. I spent the early part of childhood in a cottage without running water or electricity and yet these days, I feel paralyzed if there is a power cut for even just an hour or two! So, I have changed too. Things that I couldn’t even imagine in the past now seem quite normal.
Businessmen can travel from London to New York in three hours and lots of people exceed the seventy-mile-per-hour speed limit on motorways. A person of 75 is not old these days. A serious illness does not mean certain death because there have been so many advances in medical science. We no longer need to be afraid of contracting diseases like polio or smallpox. I can speak to my son in Australia from my own sitting room here in Manchester, watch athletes running a race on the other side of the world without moving from my own home and I can even do my shopping whil
A. People can travel faster nowadays.
B. In the past, a 75-year-old person is considered old.
C. Now a person will die if he suffers from a serious illness.
D. At present we will no longer be helpless victims of diseases like polio or smallpox.

[单项选择]I have certainly seen lots of changes in my lifetime! I look around my home and see "mod cons" that I could never have dreamed of 50 or 60 years ago. I spent the early part of childhood in a cottage without running water or electricity and yet these days, I feel paralyzed if there is a power cut for even just an hour or two! So, I have changed too. Things that I couldn’t even imagine in the past now seem quite normal.
Businessmen can travel from London to New York in three hours and lots of people exceed the seventy-mile-per-hour speed limit on motorways. A person of 75 is not old these days. A serious illness does not mean certain death because there have been so many advances in medical science. We no longer need to be afraid of contracting diseases like polio or smallpox. I can speak to my son in Australia from my own sitting room here in Manchester, watch athletes running a race on the other side of the world without moving from my own home and I can even do my shopping whil
A. How life has improved.
B. How life has become worse.
C. A comparison of life now and that in the past.
D. Memory of life in the past.

[单项选择]Have you seen my ______
A. keys
B. toies
C. stories-books

[单项选择]Have you seen my key to the kitchen door by any______
[A] change [B] check [C] chance [D] charge

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W: Have you seen my glasses
M: No, where did you leave them
W: Right here by the telephone.
M: Are you sure
W: Yes, I’m sure! I saw them here five minutes ago.
M: Maybe you left them in the living room.
W: No, I put them here by the telephone.
M: Well, they are not there now.
W: Maybe someone took them. I know I left them here.

What is the woman looking for（　）.
A. Glasses.
B. Telephone.
C. Grass.

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M: Have you seen my brother
W: No, I haven’t seen him since the day before yesterday.

When did she last see the man’s brother （）
A. Yesterday.
B. Two days ago.
C. Three days ago.
D. Early last week.

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M: Have you seen my school bag, Mom I’ve been looking for it everywhere.
W: I hope you didn’t leave it in school. You never know where you put your things. Where did you last see it
M: Last night before I went to bed, I think. I remember putting it on the desk
W: Really If you put it there, it should still be there. No one has been to your room. So it must be here somewhere.
M: Yes, but where That’s what I want to know. Oh, dear, it’s about the time for the school bus.
W: Hey, what’s that under your blanket at the foot of your bed

What is the relationship between the two speakers（　）.
A. They are brother and sister.
B. They are mother and son.
C. They are husband and wife

[单项选择]Have you seen Henry lately My boss wants to know ______ .
A. how he is getting along
B. how is he getting along
C. what he is getting along
D. what is he getting along

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Although recent years have seen substantial reductions in noxious pollutants from individual motor vehicles, the number of such vehicles has been steadily increasing. Consequently, more than 100 cities in the United States still have levels of carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and ozone (generated by photochemical reactions with hydrocarbons from vehicle exhaust) that exceed legally established limits. There is a growing realization that the only effective way to achieve further reduction in vehicle emissions — short of a massive shift away from the private automobile — is to replace conventional diesel fuel and gasoline with cleaner-burning fuels such as compressed natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, ethanol, or methanol.
All of these alternatives are carbon-based fuels whose molecules are smaller and simpler than those of gasoline. These molecules burn more cleanly than gasoline, in part because they have fewer, if any, carbon-carbon bonds and the hydro
A. countering a flawed argument that dismisses a possible solution to a problem
B. reconciling contradictory points of view about the nature of a problem
C. identifying the strengths of possible solutions to a problem
D. discussing a problem and arguing in favor of one solution to it