[单项选择]The elephant had some ______ relatives called mammoths, which lived during the Stone Age.
A. remote
B. distant
C. relevant
D. distinct

[填空题]Although some people had an excessive use of the word "love", the author thought ______.

[单项选择]

But some persons who had leisure did enjoy hobbies．
A. 但某些有空闲的人确实从中得到乐趣。
B. 但某些有空闲的人过去确实从中获得乐趣。
C. 但某些人不知是谁很休闲，确实从中得到乐趣。
D. 但某些人，不知是谁很休闲，过去从中获得乐趣。

[单项选择]
While some forecasting methods had limited SUCCESS predicting the 1997 E1 Nino a few months in advance, the Columbia University researchers say their method call predict large E1 Nonevents up to two years in advance. That would be good news for governments, farmers and others seeking to plan for the droughts and heavy rainfall that E1 Nino can produce in various parts of the world.
Using a computer the researchers matched sea-surface temperatures to later E1 Nio occurrences between 1980 and 2000 and were then able to anticipate E1 Nino events dating back to 1857, using prior sea-surface temperatures. The results were reported in the latest issue of the journal Nature.
The researchers say their method is not perfect, but Bryan C. Weare, a meteorologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the work, said it "suggests E1 Nino is indeed predictable."
"This will probably convince others to sear
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[填空题]Only when I came across some trouble and had no one to rely on ______(我才意识到自立的重要性).

[单项选择]George had stolen some money, but the police had caught him and he had been put in prison. Now his trial was about to begin, and he felt sure that he would be found guilty and sent to prison for a long time.
Then he discovered that an old friend of his was one of the members of the jury at his trial. Of course, he didn’t tell anybody, but he managed to see his friend secretly one day. He said to him, "Jim, I know that the jury will find me guilty of having stolen the money. I cannot hope to be found not guilty of taking it—that would be too much to expect. But I should be grateful to you for the rest of my life if you could persuade the other members of the jury to add a strong recommendation for mercy to their statement that they consider me guilty."
"Well, George," answered Jim, "I shall certainly try to do what I can for you as an old friend, but of course I cannot promise anything. The other eleven people on the jury look terribly strong-minded to me."
George s
A. George
B. Jim
C. the other members of the jury
D. both A and B