[单项选择]Man’s first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it.
The wheel is the simplest yet the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature—no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then did Man come to invent the wheel Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the dead body of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.
It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker a long time to imagine two thin pieces of log collected at their centers by a strong stick. This would roll along just as the logs did, yet it would be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and the axle came into being, and with them the first carts were invented.
The wheel is important because ______.
A. it was man’s first real invention
B. nothing was born with

[单项选择]Man’s first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it.
The wheel is the simplest yet the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature—no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then did Man come to invent the wheel Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the dead body of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.
It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker a long time to imagine two thin pieces of log collected at their centers by a strong stick. This would roll along just as the logs did, yet it would be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and the axle came into being, and with them the first carts were invented.
The wheel is important because ______.
A. it was man’s first real invention
B. nothing was born with

[简答题]Man bat im Interview den Politiker um eine klare Antwort.

[单项选择]One of the most spectacular qualities of man is notably his ______ to any kind of natural environment.
A. tendency
B. adoptability
C. adaptability
D. availability

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One day a man gave an ad. in most of the newspapers in England, saying that he himself was a young man of millions of pounds and of great knowledge. He’s like to choose a girl to be his wife, and the girl must be like the one in the books written by Somerest Maugham.
This ad. was at once known by thousands of parents and young girls. Parents went to bookstores to look for the book written by Somerest Maugham. They bought those books for their daughters as presents. Girls tried to get those books to read. They wanted to know what kind of person the rich man wished for.
Before long all the books written by Somerest Maugham were sold out and the writer was known all over the country.
Who was the richest man It was Somerest Maugham himself. The ad. saved his books, and it also made him famous.

What do you think of the writer Somerest Maugham（　）.
A. He was clever, but he didn’t tell the true thing.
B. He couldn’t have a wife because he wasn’t a good writer.
C. He couldn’t have a wife though he was rich and famous.
D. He was well received by the girls.

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

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