[单项选择]Meeting my uncle after all these years was an unforgettable moment, ______ I will always treasure.
A. that
B. one
C. it
D. what

[简答题]After years of fierce lobbying and months of secrecy, Beijing unveiled five mascots for the 2008 Olympics on Friday, opening a marketing blitz that is expected to reap record profits. In an elaborate, nationally televised gala at a Beijing sports arena to mark the 1,000-day countdown until the Games, senior Chinese leaders introduced the mascots—cartoon renditions of a panda, fish, Tibetan antelope, swallow and the Olympic flame, each one the color of one of the Olympic rings. The animals were introduced as Bei Bei, Jing Jing, Huan Huan, Ying Ying and Ni Ni—which, put together, translates to "Beijing welcomes you!" A plethora of real and mythic creatures were among the candidates considered by Chinese leaders, Olympic officials and design specialists over the past year. Among those that didn’t make the cut were the dragon and a magical monkey out of Chinese folklore. The choice, the subject of lively media speculation for months, has been a secret since it was finalized three month

[单项选择]After years of sharp increases, some colleges are trying to ease the burden on middle-class families. These years have been the best of times for many of the nation’s top universities and the worst of times for middle-income families struggling to afford their children to go to top schools. Thanks to a robust stock market, school endowments have risen quickly. Yet few institutions have held down steep increases in tuition. But that may be changing.
Williams College, a prestigious liberal arts school in Massachusetts, announced last month that for the first time in 46 years, its tuition would remain steady at $31,520. Last week students at Princeton University learned that their annual $31,599 tuition, room and board will rise just 3.3% —the smallest rise in 30 years.
These shows of restraint may signal a turnaround from the sharp tuition increases of recent years, as some schools now consider using their endowments to control price soaring. Since 1980, college costs have more
A. some top universities have made great fortunes out of high tuition
B. college tuition is so high that it becomes a burden for middle-income families
C. few colleges are trying to hold down the sharp increases in tuition
D. vigorous stock market enables schools to offer endowments to other people

[填空题]After years of trials, General Motors still fails to decide when to put its first battery-powered car into production

[单项选择]After years of promises and false starts, booksellers and technology companies are diving into the world of digital books. Sony Corp is selling the Reader Digital Book for $299, while giant online shopping company Amazon. com offers the Kindle for＄399.
New readers are lighter than the average hardback fiction bestseller, easy on the eyes and let readers carry around as many as 200 titles in hardware that weighs less than a pound. But to some people, there’s something missing. "It’s, I guess, the feel of holding a book that someone really put a lot of effort into writing, and you kind of lose that a little bit with a digital product," said Katy Farina,21 ,of Montgomery, New Jersey. Farina, a student at the Minneapolis college of Art & Design, was browsing at the Borders bookstore near Madison Square garden. As shoppers lined up at closing time, the subtle, comforting aroma of books permeated the store. “It feels real, whereas (the reader) kind of separates you a little bit from the
A. A book.
B. A lot of effort.
C. The feeling.
D. The writers.

[单项选择]

After years of research, Charles Drew devised a procedure for preserving plasma（）

A. transporting
B. saving
C. reusing
D. labeling

[单项选择]After years of false starts, with the first commercial sales possible within months, a new industry selling motor fuel made from waste is getting a big push in the United States. Many companies have announced plans to build plants that would take in material like wood chips, garbage or crop waste and turn out motor fuels. For decades scientists have known it was possible to convert waste to fuel. But success is far from assured. Some of the latest announcements come from small companies whose dreams may be bigger than their bank accounts. They are counting on billions in government funds. Big technological problems remain, and even if they can be solved, no one is sure what unintended consequences will emerge or what it will really cost to produce this type of fuel.
Virtually any material containing hydrogen, carbon and oxygen could potentially be turned into motor fuel. That includes plastics, construction debris (废渣), forest and lawn trimming (修剪下来的废料), wood chips, wheat
A. The industry is supported by the government.
B. A breakthrough in the industry is highly expected.
C. There have been only several false starts so far.
D. Motor fuel has been turned out in large quantity.

[单项选择]For one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing, America seemed ready to make peace with the SAT. When the University of California several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants not to buy it, the College Board junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what ), created a writing section (including producing an essay), added tougher math questions and more reading analysis—and had everybody talking about the new-and-improved SAT.
Then the first students to take SAT: The Sequel were seen stumbling out of the testing centers as if they had just run a marathon, and all the happy talks ended. With the three hours and 45 minutes stretching to five hours with breaks and instructions, it got worse. Nobody is sure how, but moisture in some SAT answer sheets caused pencil marks to bleed or fade, producing more than 5,000 tests with the wrong scores. Even after that was fixed, several u
A. The Shaky Credibility.
B. Repeated Promises of Reform.
C. Can the SAT Be Made Better
D. Can the ACT Take Down the SAT