[单项选择]My father says he’s going to ______ smoking.
[A] give up [B] put up [C] set up

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Every night she listened to her father going around the house, locking the doors and windows. She listened, the back door closed; she could hear the fastener of the kitchen window’s click, and the restless pad of his feet going back to try the front door. It wasn’t only the outside doors he locked; he locked the empty kitchen too. He was looking something out, but obviously it was something capable of entering into his first defenses. He raised his second line all the way up to bed.
In fourteen years, she thought unhappily, the house will be his; he had paid twentyfive pounds down and the rest he was paying month by month as rent. "Of course," he was in the habit of saying, "I’ve improved the property." "Yes," he repeated, "I’ve improved the property," looking around for a nail to drive in, a weed to uproot. It was more than a sense of property; it was a sense of honesty. Some people who bought their homes th
A. He thought a lot about his daughter’s future.
B. He saved a lot of money for his daughter.
C. He thought that he was secure.
D. He avoided his neighbors on purpose.

[单项选择]One thing that Ismael Matos, 23, says he’s learned on his job as a special agent with the Geek Squad, is that there are no stupid questions—not even when a customer asks where the power button is. The goal, Matos says, is first to "strip out the jargon. " You know what he means: those terms like gigs, Ram, and motherboard that civilians don’t typically use in everyday conversations. Once he establishes a common language with the customer, Matos can focus on building a relationshipone that he hopes will pay off in the future. Matos knows that clients often don’t have the same skills he does. His customers ask for help not only with setting up new computers and installing software, but also with digital cameras, wireless Internet access and even getting their iPod synced with iTunes.
We live in the age of Web2.0, when Internet viewers are fast becoming content creators. We may log in to social networking sites such as Digg and Technorati, rate or even upload videos on YouTube, and c
A. an IT training school
B. a computer support service
C. an iPod sales agency
D. a public relations institution

[单项选择]Woman: John says that he is confident that he can win the game. Man: He’’ll succeed when pigs fly. Question: How does the man mean
A. John is as clumsy as a pig
B. John has never played a game like that.
C. John cannot win the game.
D. John has no confidence in himself.

[单项选择]Whom does the student refer to when he says "he"
A. The author of the text.
B. The student’s friend.
C. The Internet article’s author.
D. Professor Kin

[单项选择]The author says that he is a naturalist rather than a scientist probably because he thinks he （　）
A. comes up with solutions in a most natural way
B. lacks some of the qualities required of a scientist
C. just reads about other people’s observations and discoveries
D. has a great deal of trouble doing mental arithmetic

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David says that he thinks a gap year is unsuitable for
A. a few people.
B. some people.
C. the majority of people.
D. almost all people.

[填空题]In “Hobbyist”, the druggist says that he sells an undetectable poison simply to ________.