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When Gavin gave his talk on BBC, how many people watched it

[单项选择]When invited to talk about his achievements, he refused to blow his own （）and declined to speak at the meeting.
A. trumpet
B. whistle
C. bugle
D. flute

[单项选择]What gave him many ideas about freedom
A. The writings of Thoreau.
B. The writings of Washington.
C. The writings of Coretta.
D. The writings of Martin Luther King.

[单项选择]When enthusiasts talk of sustainable development, the eyes of most people glaze over. There is a whiff of sack-cloth and ashes about their arguments, which usually depend on people giving up the comforts of a modern economy to achieve some debatable greater good. Yet there is a serious point at issue. Modern industry pollutes, and it also seems to cause significant changes to the climate. What is needed is an industry that delivers the benefits without the costs. And the glimmerings of just such an industry can now be discerned.
That industry is based on biotechnology. At the moment, biotech’s main uses are in medicine and agriculture. But its biggest long-term impact may be industrial. Here, it will diminish demand for oil by taking the cheapest raw materials imaginable, carbon dioxide and water, and using them to make fuel and plastics.
Plastics and fuels made in this way would have several advantages. They could accurately be called "renewables", since nothing is depleted
A. has brought about sustainable development.
B. proves to be nothing but an imagination.
C. will deprive most people of modern comforts.
D. contributes to the environmentally sound development.

[填空题]For all the talk of his sustained adolescence, no performer made a more compelling entrance into manhood than Michael Jackson did with the release of his 1979 album, " Off the Wall"just a couple of weeks before his 2lst (46) (day). It was all the more stunning because we had watched him during his child (47) and adolescence. He wasn’t an apparition rising out of obscurity, like Elvis Presley. To become who he was in" Off the Wall. " he had to annul-if not destroy-the performer he had been in the Jackson 5.
However, the change was (48) ( organ) as well as deliberate. Michael Jackson grew into his body, and out of that new body emerged wholly new ideas of what pop music, and the move (49) it generates, were. It can be hard to remember now, 30 years later, just how ubiquitous the hits from that album, especially " Rock with You," really were. In soul, in rock n’roll, and in pop, there is a long tradition of men singing in high voices, the h

[简答题]It could be difficult to him to talk with his parents.