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a letter from alan

I have learnt of a plan to…..

1)to inform 2)because it is

a place 3)a building

4)have 5)say no

a tale of Scottish rural life

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s….

1)the lives of rural Scottish farmers 2)she married only once 3)the history of kinraddie 4)the Germans 5)the end of traditional life Americans get touchy The new york times…

1)nearly 2)embrace 3)diseases could be transmitted more easily through the extra-long body contact 4)in some countries,it’s usual for men to kiss each other on the cheek 5)positive

Can Buildings be designed to resist terrorist attack

In the aftermath of the…1)that was never thought of before the terrorist attack 2)was to find out why some buildings could survive the blasts 3)was part of the building close to the world trade center 4)some floor framing systems demonstrate resistance to explosion 5)blast engineering emerges as a new branch of science

clone farm

Factory farming could soon enter a…..

1)cloned 2)the 3)chickens could grow 4)origen has 5)farmers can Defending the theory of evolution still seems needed

Judith s.weis ,a bilolgy….

1)school boards oppose AIBS’seffort to defend the theory of evolution 2)darwin’s theory is denied as the central theory of biology 3)more than 80 societies and 250,000members 4)is fundamental to the development of modern genetics,molecular bilogy

and genomics 5)beause the

term creationism is too

direct

eiffel is an eyeful

Some 300 meters up…

1)tourists of 2)visitors

prefer 3)he climbed

4)conducting 5)visitors

can imagine

eat to live

A meager diet may….

1)we have to begin dieting

from childhood 2)to

illustrate the effect of

meager food on mice

3)they are more likely to

suffer from inflammation

4)the mice that started

dieting in old age 5)dieting

is not a good method to

give us health and a long

life

finding enlightenment in

Scotland

In 1740’s…

1)the ideas proposed by

some famous thinkers and

intellectuals 2)to find ways

to improve human society

as a whole 3)the prosperity

of all nations 4)it is still

alive in a broad sense

5)the radiation of Scottish

higher education

feast on turkey and good

wishes at thanksgiving

Four weeks ago US……

1)ghosts 2)on

thanksgiving 3)providing

them with 4)they can stay

5)1620

find yourself packing it

on?blame friends

Obesity can spread from…

1)their friends 2)people

were not likely to lose

weight when they have

skinny friends 3)friends

affected each others’

feelings of fatness 4)life

style 5)social networks let

the obesity spread rapidly

goal of American

education

Education is an

enormous…

1)to give 2)the subjects

3)acquisition of the ability

to be 4)the students 5)its

uunderlying

income

Income may be national…

1)the difference between

national income an GNP

2)the money 3)corporation

4)the money not 5)people

pay taxes somewhat

improtance of services

The United States has

moved…

1)services are important

2)32.4million service jobs

3)most of the fast growth

in…low-paying 4)by

money spent on business

services as well as on

consumer services 5)their

prices

”lucky”lord lucan-alive

or dead

On 8th November 1974

lord….

1)lord lucan has never

been found 2)it was dark

and he thought she was

lady lucan 3)sinking his

boat 4)thought he might

talk to the police about

them if he was caught

5)was really lord lucan in

modern sun worshippers

People travel for a lot of

reasons.

1)they wish to 2)to show

that 3)spain 4)every year

5)rainy weather

new us plan for disease

prevention

Urging Americans to….

1)they often result in

unhealthy lifestyles

2)higher survival rate for

cancer 3)much less money

needed for disease

treatment 4)promoting

disease prevention

5)cancer death rate

narrow escape

We had left the…

1)rocks loosened by

melting ice could be

dangerous 2)that climbers

above you might cause it

to fall on you 3)rocks are

falling 4)being hit by a

rock isn’t “pleasant”at all

5)the overhanging rock

would protect him from

falling rocks

outside-the-classroom

learning makes a bing

different

Putting a bunch of

college………

1)will not take 2)building

friendship 3)she’s a senior

student 4)passion 5)polish

orbital space plane

While scientists are

searching the…

1)carrying 2)NASA’s

3)years 4)a space

ambulance 5)be mainly

oseola mccarty

LA TE ONE SUNDAY….

1)she gave her life savings

to help others through

university 2)she had

worked hard, saved hard

and invested carefully

3)she wanted others to

have the opportunity

4)hundreds of people put

money into the fund 5)of

her generosity

older volcanic eruptions

V olcanoes were more…

1)because they killed off

life more easily 2)by

comparing the proportion

of life wiped out with the

volume of lava produced

3)65 4)the cause of their

extinction has remained a

controversial issue 5)older

volcanic eruptions were

more destructive

pool watch

Swimmers can drown

in….

1)artificial intelligence 2)it

can distinguish between a

swimmer and a shadow

3)it alerts the lifeguard

4)he runs 5)rated

pop music in Africa

Y oung musicians in…..

1)more serious than most

pop music 2)both familiar

and different 3)write about

serious problems 4)studied

music in Boston 5)she has

had a difficult life herself

shark attack

Craig rogers was sitting on

his surfboard……

1)bit his surfboard 2)often

let 3)are 4)great whites’

5)we now kown

single-parent kids do

best

Single mums are better

at……

1)two-parent families

produce less 2)the young

males 3)experiment 4)the offspring’s 5)the quality sumuggling

It is not unusual for……1)it had a very 2)as many as 3)25770 4)small smugglers 5)varied drug sleep

We all know that the normal

1)because shift 2)your 3)to employ 4)the third week 5)another routine spacing in animals Flight distance Any observant….

1)distance between an

2)begin to attack

3)psychological 4)strip 5)social distance is sometimes

some things we know about language

Many things about language…..

1)any 2)complicated 3)just as sophisticated 4)some 5)vocabulary

seeing the world centuries ago

If you enjoy looking through…

1)where three early travel

2)throughout the muslim world 3)they told of strange and exotic locales

4)chronological order

5)give proof of

sauna

Ceremonial bathing…

1)has various forms

2)saunas with smoke

3)curing asthma 4)pores are cleaned by sweat 5)all of the above

T elling T ales about People

One of the most common types of nonfiction,and one…….

1)the characteristics 2)an autobiography 3)want to present 4)defining it 5)varied or different

TV shows and long bus trips

Long bus rides are like……

1)Advertiesments 2)to talk 3)no billboards 4)they both have 5)exciting

the travels of Ibn battuta

“I left tangier,mu

birthplace…….

the adventures 2)left to

3)Ibn battuta had studied

4)Ibn battuta should 5)the

sultan

the changing middle

class

The united states……

1)a social 2)the family

3)prosperous 4)a

restatement 5)as a group

the development of ballet

Ballet is a dance form that

has a long history.

1)the way 2)louis 3)will

continue 4)in 5)elaborate

the Barbie dolls

In the mid-1940’s

1)to be 2)Harold mattson

3)build 4)lilli 5)she does

the sahara

The name sahara

derives….

1)life in 2)less than five

3)a place of 4)the sahara

5)group

the family

The structure of a family

takes…

1)what makes 2)a married

3)an anthropology

4)pointing 5)readiness

tales of the terrible past

It is not the job of

fiction…

1)two novels 2)in ohio

3)the books 4)portrayal

5)terrible

the only way is up

Think of a modern city

and the first…..

1)want to 2)the lack

3)most 4)uninteresting

5)in a lift

the national park service

America’s national parks

are like….

1)because they are always

out there 2)they protect the

national park system

3)molding the nation 4)it

is about the national park

service 5)the work that has

been done by the partners

the Cherokee nation

Long before the white man

came…

1)in the southeastern part

of the U.S.2)writing down

the spoken language

3)force the Cherokees to

move westward 4)all of

the above 5)they did not

have enough food and

clothes

to have and have not

It had been boring…

1)to have a change of

scene 2)the light coming

from inside 3)of top

quality 4)she seemed to

know him well 5)he saw

nothing he really liked

the operation of

international airlines

International airlines….

1)cater to the need of

passengers sitting at both

ends of the jets 2)the

tourist industry is

experiencing an all-time

low 3)showing more

movies during the long

flights 4)speeding up

customs procedure 5)they

do not travel on the flight

they have booked

the beginning of

American literature

American has always…

1)the hope to start a new

life 2)long before the year

1000 3)about the everyday

life of the native

Americans 4)early-day

experience provided the

foundation for American

literature 5)some British

writers had great

confidence in the future of

American literature

why so many children

In many of the developing

countries…..

1)can be an advantage

2)the birth rate generally

goes down 3)industrialized

country with a low birth

rate 4)factors other than

the economy influence

birth rate 5)has tried to

improve the condition of

women

women staying in

mini-skirts for longer

British women are….

1)a department store 2)the

climate of great Britain are

getting warmer in recent

years,thus women can

wear minis for a longer

time 3)most women no

longer wore mini-skirts

when they reach the age of

33 4)from the age of

23,skirt length increases

because girls are in their

first stable relationship

5)soar