[单项选择]People ______ that vertical flight transports would carry millions of passengers as do the airliners of today
A. convinced
B. anticipated
C. resolved
D. assured

[填空题]The people who survived from suicide attempts would definitely suffer brain damage due to acetaminophen poisoning.

[单项选择]149 people were aboard Flight 222 when it arrived at Los Angeles from New York City with Chicago as the only intermediate stop. How many people first boarded the flight in Chicago ？（）
(1)170 people were aboard the flight when it left New York City.
(2)23 people from the flight deplaned in Chicago and did not reboard.
A. 条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分．
B. 条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分．
C. 条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分．
D. 条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分．
E. 条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分．

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Wal-Mart announced Thursday afternoon that it would introduce a program nationwide called (61) "Pick Up Today" that allows customers to submit orders online and pick up their items few hours later in their local store. (62) The move is not revolutionary— Sears and Nordstrom, as instance, already have similar programs.
(63) Retailers say that tying online and in-store inventory together lets them to sell more products. (64) Nordstrom recently combined its inventory so that if the online stockroom is out of a jacket, a store that has it can ship to the Web customer. (65) Encourage customers to retrieve items they have ordered online in a store increases visits to the stores, which usually increases sales. (66) Best Buy offers both store pickup and "ship to store," where items are shipped free from a local store. Ace Hardware, J.C. Penney and Wal-Mart itself are am

[单项选择]
The Red Cross would like to thank its regular donors for all their contributions. Without your help, we could not continue with our good work. Every pint of blood that you donate allows us to help people in need. Your blood saves lives. Our next blood drive will (141) on December 22nd, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. It will be held at the Red Cross Hall on Lion Street. We are staying open later than (142) so that working people can drop by after work. If you have donated before, please bring your registration card to save time. First time donors are also more than welcome. Please (143) your friends and family members to come along, too.
Giving up less than one hour of their time could give many more years of life to another person.
A. common
B. usual
C. early
D. regular

[简答题]Talk about an organization or a club that you would like to join. Explain why you would like to join this organization or club. Please include reasons and details in your response.

[单项选择]You know that pearls grow inside oysters, but would you ever think to look for diamonds inside an ostrich Well, a hunter once shot an ostrich and discovered, to his great surprise, that the big bird had swallowed a bunch of diamonds. How could such a strange thing happen
Like many other birds, the ostrich swallows small stones that stay inside its "gizzard." The gizzard is a bird’s second stomach. It is where the food is ground up. The small stones help to grind up the food so it can be digested. They do the chewing, because birds don’t have teeth. In the case of the ostrich with the diamonds, the bird simply had expensive taste in rocks. He used the diamonds to help digest his dinner.
Diamonds and stones aren’t all that an ostrich will swallow. If there are no stones around, it will eat just about anything. Sadly for ostriches in zoos this can be a fatal habit. The tendency to swallow anything it sees has caused the death of many an ostrich. Cruel or careless p
A. enough food
B. bird seed
C. teeth
D. diamonds