[单项选择]Much as we may pride ourselves on our taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we want because of advertising everywhere.
A. 尽管我们可以自夸自己的品位，但广告无处不在，我们已经无法独立自主地作出自己的选择了。
B. 正如我们可以自夸自己的品位一样，我们想不再自由地选择是因为无处不在的广告。
C. 当我们可以自夸自己的品位的时候，无处不在的广告已使我们不再自由地选择了。
D. 我们可以自夸自己的品味，但到处都是广告，我们不再自由地作出自己的选择了。

[单项选择]Our statistics show that we consume all that we are capable of producing（　）.
A. waste
B. buy
C. use
D. sell

[填空题]There is much in our life which we do not control and we are not even responsible for.

• A.is
• B.which
• C.and we are
• D.for

[单项选择]（） how much the price of our shares rises, we may be able to offer shareholders a larger return on their investments.
A. Depending on
B. Resulting from
C. Leading to
D. Relying on

[单项选择]

（）how much the price of our shares rises, we may be able to offer shareholders alarger return on their investments.
 

A. Depending on
B. Resulting from
C. Leading to
D. Relying on

[单项选择]We cannot be______the choices that our children are going to make, even though we have contributed to those choices.
A. subject to
B. susceptible to
C. accountable for
D. crazy about

[填空题]There (is) much in our life (which) we do not control (and we are) not even responsible (for).

• A. is
• B. which
• C. and we are
• D. for

[填空题]

When we use automatic teller machines (ATM), we are ______.

[单项选择]
Now we are altering the planet more rapidly and profoundly than ever, and much of the diversity produced by half a billion years of evolution could be lost in the next few centuries. We are triggering a mass extinction that could be as severe as the one that ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
Given enough time, biodiversity will recover. Extinctions create new evolutionary opportunities for the survivors: the blossoming of mammals after the dinosaurs died out ultimately led to our evolution, after all. But the aftermath of this Anthropocene ( 地质史上的新时期，称为“人类世”) extinction will not be like any other. Humans have become the main driving force in evolution--and life will never be the same again.
The list of threats we pose to biodiversity is long. We are killing many creatures directly, destroying habitats, introducing exotic predators and diseases, and pumping out pollution. Already, a tenth o
A. Nature.
B. Humans.
C. Mammals.
D. Dinosaurs.

[单项选择]We should do as much as we can __________ our country better and more beautiful.
A. make
B. to make
C. makes
D. making