We were listening closely to the lecture yesterday evening when suddenly the light ________.

  A. had been gone out        B. go out                    C. was gone out                 D. went out

Judging from a large amount of evidence presented, we can safely _________ the Three Gorges Project will change the lives of a great number of humans forever.

A. challenge                        B. reject                       C. conclude                  D. suspect

It _____ we had stayed together for a couple of weeks ______ I found we had a lot in common.

A. was until; when                  B. wasn’t until; when

C. was until; that                    D. wasn’t until; that

Was it _____ he was playing volleyball on the playground _____ he got hurt?

   A. that; when              B. when; that          C. that; where            D. where; that  

Do you sometimes argue about what seems to you to be a simple fact ? Do you argue whether it’s cold outdoors or whether the car in front of you is going faster than the speed limit ?

If you get into such arguments, try to think about the story about the six blind men and the elephant．The first blind man who felt the elephant’s trunk said it was like a snake．The second who felt the elephant’s side said it was like a wall, while the third said it was like a spear as he touched the animal’s tusk．The fourth, who had hold of the elephant’s tail insisted that it was like a rope．The fifth man said it looked like a tree as he put his arm around one the elephant’s legs.

The sixth, who was tall and got hold of the elephant’s ears, said it was like a huge fan.

Each man’s idea of the animal came from his own experience．So if someone disagrees with you about a “simple fact”, it’s often because his experience in the matter is different from yours.

To see how hard it is for even one person to make up his mind about a “simple fact”, try this simple experiment．Get three large bowls．Put ice water in one．Put hot water in the second．Put lukewarm water in the third．Now put your left hand in the ice water．Put your right hand in the hot water．After thirty seconds, put both hands in the lukewarm water．Your right hand will tell you the water is cold．Your left hand will tell you it’s hot !

What makes people think about simple facts differently ?

     A．The fact that simple facts differ from one another

     B．The fact that people have different experience in the same simple fact

     C．The fact that people often disagree with one another

     D．The fact that it’s hard to make up one’s mind about simple facts

The writer’s advice is _______________.

     A．We should never think about simple facts

     B．We should never judge something with a one-sided view

     C．We should not agree about simple facts

     D．We must learn from the six blind men

After reading the last paragraph, we may think of __________.

     A．Newton’s law                    B．Galileo’s theory of falling objects

     C．Einstein’s theory of relativity       D．Marx’s On Capital (資本)

閱讀下列材料，從所給的六個(gè)選項(xiàng) (A、B、C、D

       E和F) 中，選出符合各小題要求的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卷上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。選項(xiàng)中有一項(xiàng)

       多余選項(xiàng)。

_____ Voluntary learning in organized courses by mature men and women is called adult education. Such education is offered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience as adults. Adults may want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out about new technological developments, seek better self — understanding, or develop new talents and skills.

____This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries, correspondence courses, or broadcasting. It may also be acquired collectively in schools and colleges, study groups, workshops, clubs, and professional associations.

_____Modern adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18^th and 19^th centuries with the rise of the Industrial Revolution.Great economic and social changes were taking place: people were moving from rural areas to cities; new types of work were being created in an expanding factory system. These and other factors produced a need for further education and re-education of adults.

____The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s, with the founding of an adult school in Nottingham and a mechanics’ institute in Glasgow. The earliest adult education institution in the United States was founded by Benjamin Franklin and some friends in Philadelphia in 1727.

_____People recognize that continued learning is necessary for most forms of employment today. For example, parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part in retraining programs at work or even to learn completely new jobs. Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet these and other needs.

Before Chinese Chang’e-2, the US sent up a space probe (探測(cè)器) to hit the moon to see ______.

  A. whether there was water on it                    B. whether was there water on it

  C. whether on it was there water                            D. whether was water on it

Tina, ________ for months to find a job as a waitress, finally worked as a tour guide at a local advertising agency.

A. struggling                B. struggled                       C. having struggled              D. to struggle

If you go into the forest with friends，stay with them. If you don’t，you may get lost. If you get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them find you. You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help. Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times together. When people hear you，they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help. If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches. Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass. When you need some water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk in order to go back again easily. When you are lost, the most important thing to do is to stay in one place.

Which signal is a call for help？

   A. shouting here and there                        B. crying twice

   C. shouting or whistling three times together      D. whistling every where in the forest

When you hear two shouts or two whistles，you know that ____________________.

   A. someone is afraid of an animal               B. people will come to help you

   C. someone needs help                         D. something terrible will happen

What’s the meaning of the underlined sentence？

   A. Leave branches to find your way back       B. Pick off branches to build another house

   C. Use branches to make a bed                 D. Drop branches to look for water

The main idea of the passage is________________________.

   A. how to travel in the forest                         

B. how to spend the night in the forest

C. what you should do if you want to get some water

   D. what you should do if you are lost in the forest

My plane         at 8:30 am, so I        home at 8:00 tomorrow morning.

A. leaves; leave                                             B. leaves; am leaving

C. is leaving; am leaving                                D. is leaving; leave