[单项选择]Nearly 5,000 people below the age of 21 die because of excessive alcohol consumption each year. Oddly, this has triggered a new movement to lower the drinking age. In America, young people can vote, drive, marry, divorce, hunt and go to war before alcohol is legally allowed to touch their lips. Many states once set their minimum drinking-age at 18. But in 1984 Ronald Reagan oversaw the passage of the "21 law", which requires states to set 21 as the minimum drinking-age or risk losing 10% of their highway funds. Now campaigners want to move it back.
In the past, states have been too financially timid (胆怯的) to challenge the 21 law. But calls for change are growing louder. Two local judges in South Carolina recently ruled that banning 18- to 20-year-olds from drinking or possessing alcohol is unconstitutional. Public officials, including the former attorney general of South Dakota, have called the 21 law a failure. The about-face of Morris Chafetz, a doctor who served on the commissi
A. Fewer people die from drunk driving.
B. Many people want it to be increased to 21.
C. Drunk driving causes more road deaths.
D. Young people learn to drink more quickly.

[单项选择]Nearly 5,000 people below the age of 21 die because of excessive alcohol consumption each year. Oddly, this has triggered a new movement to lower the drinking age. In America, young people can vote, drive, marry, divorce, hunt and go to war before alcohol is legally allowed to touch their lips. Many states once set their minimum drinking-age at 18. But in 1984 Ronald Reagan oversaw the passage of the "21 law", which requires states to set 21 as the minimum drinking-age or risk losing 10% of their highway funds. Now campaigners want to move it back.
In the past, states have been too financially timid (胆怯的) to challenge the 21 law. But calls for change are growing louder. Two local judges in South Carolina recently ruled that banning 18- to 20-year-olds from drinking or possessing alcohol is unconstitutional. Public officials, including the former attorney general of South Dakota, have called the 21 law a failure. The about-face of Morris Chafetz, a doctor who served on the commissi
A. made a terrible mistake many years ago
B. supports lowering the drinking age now
C. insists that the 21 law not be changed
D. regrets that few people support the 21 law

[单项选择]Nearly 1,000 people are presumed dead as chances （　） of finding more survivors from the sunken Egyptian ferry.
A. bubble
B. dwindle
C. sway
D. shiver

[单项选择]The settlement is home to nearly 1,000 people, many of （　） left their village homes for a better life in the city.
A. whom
B. which
C. them
D. those

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China today is home to 13 billion people--nearly one quarter of the world’s population. The growth of China’s population is largely the result of modernization, which has brought with it more food, better medical care, less disease, and fewer epidemics and famines. The death rate in China has decreased, and more children survive. The higher survival rate in China means that more people are entering childbearing age. This population growth was threatening to destroy China’s chances to become a richer country: just providing food and basic necessities for everyone would consume all of its economic gains.
To tame the explosive population growth, the Chinese government launched a drastic policy of allowing one child per family. To enforce this policy, the government has a variety of incentives for those who comply and punishment for those who do not. For example, couples who have only one child get a monthly pay until the child is fourteen, special considera
A. predict the population problem in China
B. explain why the family-planning policy is adopted in China
C. illustrate the result of family-planning policy
D. demonstrate the cause and effect of the family-planning policy

[单项选择]Monique is studying business administration because she wants to be a highly paid （） in a large company.
A. primitive
B. executive
C. conservative
D. representative

[单项选择]Some interviewees lose their chances simply because they fail to display self-confidence.
A. 一些面试者失去了机会，简单地说是因为他们显得没有自信。
B. 一些面试者因为不相信自身的能力而轻易地放弃了这次机会。
C. 一些面试者轻易的放弃了机会，因为他们无法保持自信心。
D. 一些面试者只是因为他们未能表现出自信心而失去机会。

[单项选择]Afghan people are suffering from starvation because
A. melting snow begins to block the mountain paths.
B. the Taliban have destroyed existing food stocks.
C. the Taliban are hindering food deliveries.
D. an emergency air-lift of food was cancelled.

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Paper is different from other waste produce because it comes from a sustainable resource: trees. (1) the minerals and oil used to make plastics and metals, trees are (2) Paper is also biodegradable, so it does not pose as much threat to the environment when it is discarded. (3) 45 out of every 100 tonnes of wood fibre used to make paper in Australia comes from waste paper, the rest comes directly from virgin fibre from forests and plantations. By world standards this is a good (4) . since the world-wide average is 33 percent waste paper. Governments have encouraged waste paper collection and (5) schemes and at the same time, the paper industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that have (6) even greater utilization of used fibre. (7) , industry’s use of recycled fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin fibre over the coming years.
Already, waste paper (8) 70%
A. to which
B. in which
C. by which
D. through which