[单项选择]Which one is RIGHT among the foreigners held hostage（）
A. There were five US citizens.
B. There were seven Australians.
C. There were some Lebanese and Australians.
D. There were no Britons.

[单项选择]It is commonly held among marketing experts that in a nonexpanding market a company’s best strategy is to go after a bigger share of the market and that the best way to do this is to run comparative advertisements that emphasize weaknesses in the products of rivals. In the stagnant market for food oil, soybean-oil and palm-oil producers did wage a two-year battle with comparative advertisements about the deleterious effect on health of each other’s products. These campaigns, however, had little effect on respective market shares; rather, they stopped many people from buying any edible oils at all.
The statements above most strongly support the conclusion that comparative advertisements
A. increase a company’s market share in all cases in which that company’s products are clearly superior to the products of rivals.
B. should not be used in a market that is expanding or likely to expand.
C. should under no circumstances be used as a retaliatory measure.
D. carry the risk of causing a contraction of the market at which they are aimed.
E. (E) yield no long-term gains unless consumers can easily verify the claims made.

[单项选择]The young man dangled in midair, held by one frail rope.
A. fragile
B. strong
C. thick
D. straw

[填空题]Certain phrases one commonly hears among Americans capture their devotion to individualism: "Do your own thing." "I did it my way." "You’ll have to decide that for yourself. You made your bed, now (36) in it." "If you don’t look out for yourself, no one else will." "Look out for number one."
Closely (37) with the value they place on individualism is the importance Americans (38) to privacy. Americans assume that people "need some time to themselves" or "some time alone" to think about things or recover their (39) psychological energy. Americans have great (40) understanding foreigners who always want to be with another person, who (41) being alone.
If the parents can (42) it, each child will have his or her own bedroom. Having one’s own bedroom, even as an (43) , fixes in a person the notion that (44) . She will have her clothes, her toys, her books, and so on. These things