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[单项选择]Some authorities trace the jury system to Anglo Saxon or even more（）Germanic times.
A. remote
B. similar
C. austere
D. barbaric
[填空题]Some retailers are still optimistic about their sales because they predict that consumers will be buying more gifts in the coming Christmas season as a result of renewed feeling of family and friendships.
[单项选择]Who became members of the Petty Jury
A. Those who helped before the court was open.
B. Those who had something to do with cases.
C. Those who were involved in the final decision.
D. Those who were assistants of the judges.
[单项选择]People can still talk about Anglo-Saxons today even though they came to Britain in the 5th century. This feature of language is called（ ）.
A. Arbitrariness.
B. Duality.
C. Creativity.
D. Displacement.
[填空题]The jury and witnesses were removed from the court___________________ (他们不能听律师们的辩论)
[单项选择]The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguishing epithets were rarely added. These might be patronymic, descriptive or occupational. They were, however, hardly surnames, Heritable names gradually became general in the three centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066. It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that surnames became fixed, although for many years after that, the degree of stability in family names varied considerably in different parts of the country.
British surnames fall mainly into four broad categories: patronymic, occupational, descriptive and local. A few names, it is true, will remain puzzling: foreign names, perhaps, crudely translated, adapted or abbreviated; or artificial names.
In fact, over fifty percent of genuine British surnames derive from place names of different kinds, and so they belong to the last of our four main categories. Even such a name as Simpson may belong to this last group, and not t
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Passage Two A jury in Northern California has found a doctor caused elder abuse. Family thought the doctor did not give enough pain medication to a dying patient. The jury gave one-and-a- half million dollars to the patient’s family. The patient’s children say they were sure they would lose. But the jury said the doctor was reckless and caused elderly abuse. The patient’s son says he wanted to tell the true story. His father had too much pain. The 85-year-old patient, William Bergman, died of cancer patient in February 1998. He spent six days at a hospital in Castro Valley, California. His children say he had too much pain because Dr. Wing Chin didn’t give enough painkillers. The trial lasted one month. Dr Chin said he used the usual pain control system. Dr. Chin’s lawyer said that the doctor used the usual standard of care. Family members said they didn’t directly ask the doctor for more medication. They trusted that the doctors knew ho
A. was eighty-five years old
B. was a young man
C. had never had children
D. was a middle-aged man
