[简答题]One of the most interesting new uses for glass is in telephone communication. Scientists have developed glass fiber as thin as human hair which is designed to carry light signals. When the light reaches the other end, it is first changed into electrical signals, which are in turn converted into sound messages.

[简答题]One of the most interesting new uses for glass is in telephone communication. Scientists have developed glass fiber as thin as human hair which is designed to carry light signals. When the light reaches the other end, it is first changed into electrical signals, which are in turn converted into sound messages.

[简答题]I bought a new bicycle,he still uses his old one.

[单项选择]She eventually married the most persistent one of her admirers.（　）
A. in a way
B. in due course
C. in the end
D. in any case

[填空题]What festival is the most important one in China
（）is the most important festival in China.

[填空题]The most important one of Jazz’s characteristics is the two "blue" notes.

[简答题]Lakey is the most beautiful one of the group of girls. She is also the most intelligent and the most resourceful one of them. (sentence with parallel structure)

[填空题]In 1993, most of the new AIDS cases were among minority populations, especially African-Americans and Hispanics.

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What if our society uses new-found technologies of "genetic engineering" to interfere with the biological nature of human beings Might that not be disastrous
What about cloning, for instance
Cloning is a term originally used in connection with nonsexual reproduction of plants and very simple animals. Now it is coming into use in connection with higher animals, since biologists are finding ways of starting with an individual cell of a grown animal and inducing it to multiply in the same way in the future.
But is cloning a safe thing to unleash on society Might it not be used for destructive purposes For instance, might not some ruling group decide to clone their submissive, downtrodden peasantry, and thus produce endless hordes of semi-robots who will slave to keep a few in luxury and who may even serve as endless ranks of soldiers designed to conquer the rest of the world
A dreadful thought, but an unnecessary fear. For one thing, there i
A. genetic engineers are experimenting with cloning
B. the cloning of human could produce a privileged class
C. worries about the dangers of human cloning are ill-founded
D. personality traits cannot be passed on through cloning

[单项选择]One of the most ______ educators in New York, Dr. Shalala ignited a controversy in 1984 by calling the city public schools a "rotten barrel" in need of ______ reform.
A. disputatious...little
B. outspoken...systemic
C. caustic...partial
D. indifferent...pretentious
E. sycophantic...superficial

[单项选择]One new（）to learning a foreign language is to study the language in its cul tural context.
A. approach
B. solution
C. manner
D. road

[填空题]One form of intelligent highway uses a controlling center beside the roads as a way to control smart cars.

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New York State education officials released a new set of graduation statistics on Monday that show fewer than half of students in the state are leaving high school prepared for college and well-paying careers.
The new statistics, part of a push to redispose (重新部署 ) state standards with college performance, show that only 23 percent of students in New York City graduated ready for college or careers in 2009, not counting special-education students. That is well under half the current graduation rate of 64 percent, a number often promoted by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as evidence that his education policies are working.
But New York City is still doing better than the state’s other large urban districts. In Buffalo, Rochester. Syracuse and Yonkers, less than 17 percent of students met the proposed standards, including just 5 percent in Rochester.
The Board of Regents, which sets t
A. the 23% college-ready rate would be rational
B. students would make more effort to study
C. the city would not know how to do
D. students would meet in the new bar