[单项选择]Unloved and unwanted youngsters may be tempted to run away from home to escape their problems, ______ bigger ones in cities plagued with crime, drugs, and immorality.
A. have only found
B. only finding
C. only found
D. only to find

[单项选择]If you have an unwanted recorder player, you may go to______.

[单项选择]A group of youngsters sat under the big tree（）
A. chatting and laughing
B. chatted and laughed
C. was chatting and laughing
D. was chatted and laughed

[单项选择]His success in work has (tempted) many to try this new method.
A. attracted
B. called
C. implied
D. inspired

[填空题]

Changes include ______ walls in the youngsters’ blood vessels. American Heart Association spokesman Dr. Donald Lavan explains why that change in the arteries is ______.

[单项选择]Marianne was tempted to turn the large rooms into traditional French-style salons, while Howard was in （）of a typically English look.
A. spite
B. ways
C. favor
D. terms

[简答题]Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.

[简答题]Unwanted sound, or noise, such as that produced by airplanes, traffic, or industrial machinery, is considered a form of pollution.

[单项选择]A. In areas with few weeds and unwanted plants.
B. In areas with a severe shortage of water.
C. In areas lacking in chemical fertilizer.
D. In areas dependent on imported food.

[单项选择]

Motherhood may make women smarter and may help prevent dementia in old age by bathing the brain in protective hormones, US reseachers reported on Thursday.
Tests on rats show that those who raise two or more litters of pups do considerably better in tests of memory and skills than rats who have no babies, and their brains show changes that suggest they may be protected against diseases such as Alzheimer’s. University of Richmond psychology professor Craig Kinsley believes his findings will translate into humans.
"Our research shows that the hormones of pregnancy are protecting the brain, including estrogen, which we know has many neuroprotective effects," Kinsley said.
"It’s rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals," he added in a telephone interview. "They go through pregnancy and hormonal changes. "
Kinsley said he hoped public health officials and researchers will look to see i
A. The experiments on the rats have nothing to do with humans.
B. The experiments on the rats are very important for animals,
C. The experiments on the rats are much the same on humans.
D. The experiments on the rats are much the same on other animals.

[单项选择]"Motherhood may make women smarter and may help prevent dementia(痴呆) in old age by bathing the brain in protective hormones," US researchers reported on Thursday.
Tests on rats show that those who raise two or more litters of pups do considerably better in tests of memory and skills than rats who have no babies, and their brains show changes that suggest they may be protected against diseases such as Alzheimer’s dementia (早老痴呆症). University of Richmond psychology professor Craig Kinsley believes his findings will translate into humans.
"Our research shows that the hormones of pregnancy (怀孕) are protecting the brain, including estrogen (雌激素), which we know has many neuroprotective (保护神经的) effects," Kinsley said.
"It’s rat data but humans are mammals just like these animals are mammals," he added in a telephone interview. "They go through pregnancy and hormonal changes."
Kinsley said he hoped public health officials and researchers would look to see if having
A. Some researchers have told them.
B. Many women say so.
C. They know it by experimenting on rats.
D. They know it through their own experience.

[填空题] The Next Society
The new economy may or may not materialize, but there is no doubt that the next society will be with us shortly. In the developed world, and probably in the emerging countries as well, this new society will be a good deal more important than the new economy (if any). It will be quite different from the society of the late 20th century, and also different from what most people expect. Much of it will be unprecedented. And most of it is already here, or is rapidly emerging.
In the developed countries, the dominant factor in the next society will be something to which most people are only just beginning to pay attention: the rapid growth in the older population and the rapid shrinking of the younger generation. Politicians everywhere still promise to save the existing pension system, but they--and their constituents--know perfectly well that in another 25 years people will have to keep working until th