[单项选择]The local residents were unhappy about the curfew in this region and decided to（　）it.
A. disgrace
B. disguise
C. defy
D. distress

[填空题]Local newspapers were collecting passionate letters _________________(对城市建设提出建议的).

[单项选择]A curfew and state of emergency were declared yesterday in the South of the Central Asian Republic in order to ______.
A. mourn for the two warlords
B. prevent violence
C. annihilate crime and violence
D. keep peace

[单项选择]
What were they mainly talking about

[填空题]What were the demonstrators protesting about

[单项选择]

Dinosaurs were reptiles which became extinct about 65 million years ago. The most intriguing question about dinosaurs has always been " (21) did they die out" There is no simple answer to this question, (22) many hundreds of scientists are studying the problem. They are not studying the extinction of the dinosaurs (23) , but the whole question of extinction. Many other plants and animals have (24) in the past, and it is important to understand (25) this happened. Having this information could help save many species that are (26) in the modern world. Humans are causing extinctions now, because of pollution and other damage (27) the environment. Maybe the dinosaurs can tell us how to save the earth today, (28) their extinction 65 million years ago! Some of the early dinosaur scientists, 100 years ago, thought the dinosaurs died out because the (29) changed, and they could not breathe. Others thought that the d
A. knocked
B. hit
C. collapsed
D. crashed