【T5】

A.TO OBTAIN

B.MADE OF

C.IS WORTH A.IT IS CHEAPER【T1】______SILVER

B.THE COINS WERE ACTUALLY【T2】______SILVER

C.THE SILVER IN COINS【T3】______MUCH MORE LESS THAN 40 YEARS AGO IN THE UNITED STATES, IT WAS COMMON TO CHANGE A ONE-DOLLAR BILL FOR A DOLLAR"S WORTH OF SILVER.THAT IS BECAUSE【T4】______.BUT THOSE DAYS ARE GON

E.THERE IS NO SILVER IN TODAY"S COINS.WHEN THE PRICE OF THE PRECIOUS METAL RISES ABOVE ITS FACE VALUE AS MONEY, THE METAL WILL BECOME MORE VALUABLE IN OTHER USES.SILVER COINS ARE NO LONGER IN CIRCULATION BECAUSE【T5】______THAN THEIR FACE VALU

E.A SILVER FIRM COULD FIND THAT【T6】______BY MELTING DOWN COINS THAN BY BUYING IT ON THE COMMODITY MARKETS.COINS TODAY ARE MADE OF AN ALLOY OF CHEAPER METALS.

【T1】

A.SEEK

B.LOOKED

C.PART A.TAKING【T1】______IN DANGEROUS SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES

B.WHO HAVE【T2】______FOR ADVENTURE

C.WHO【T3】______AN IMMEDIATE EXCITEMENT FROM A RISKY ACTIVITY AROUND THE WORLD MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE【T4】______.OF COURSE, THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PEOPLE【T5】______—THOSE WHO HAVE CLIMBED THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS, EXPLORED UNKNOWN PARTS OF THE WORLD OR SAILED IN SMALL BOATS ACROSS THE GREATEST OCEANS.NOW, HOWEVER, THERE ARE PEOPLE【T6】_______ WHICH MAY ONLY LAST A FEW MINUTES OR EVEN SECONDS.

Why was the young woman who had lost her wallet invited to dinner?

A．She was familiar with the writer"s aunt.

B．She was familiar with the writer"s uncle.

C．She happened to be invited so as to amount to 4 persons for dinner.

D．She was friend of writer"s uncle and aunt.

【T9】

A.POSITIVE

B.BEHIND

C.RESULT A.AFRAID THEIR COUNTRIES WILL BE LEFT【T7】______

B.WHAT WAS LESS VISIBLE THEN, HOWEVER, WERE THE NEW,【T8】______FORCES

C.AS A【T9】______ A GREAT DEAL OF ATTENTION IS BEING PAID TODAY TO THE SO-CALLED DIGITAL DIVIDE—THE DIVISION OF THE WORLD INTO THE INFO (INFORMATION) RICH AND THE INFO POOR.AND THAT DIVIDE DOES EXIST TODAY.MY WIFE AND I LECTURED ABOUT THIS LOOMING DANGER TWENTY YEARS AGO.【T10】_____THAT WORK AGAINST THE DIGITAL DIVID

E. THERE ARE REASONS TO BE OPTIMISTI

C.THERE ARE TECHNOLOGICAL REASONS TO HOPE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE WILL NARROW.AS THE INTERNET BECOMES MORE AND MORE COMMERCIALIZED, IT IS IN THE INTEREST OF BUSINESS TO UNIVERSALIZE ACCESS—AFTER ALL, THE MORE PEOPLE ONLINE, THE MORE POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS THERE AR

E.MORE ANDMORE GOVERNMENTS,【T11】______,WANT TO SPREAD INTERNET ACCESS.WITHIN THE NEXTDECADE OR TWO, ONE TO TWO BILLION PEOPLE ON THE PLANET WILL BE NETTED TOGETHER.【T12】_____,I NOW BELIEVE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE WILL NARROW RATHER THAN WIDEN IN THE YEARSAHEA

D.AND THAT IS VERY GOOD NEWS BECAUSE THE INTERNET MAY WELL BE THE MOST POWERFUL TOOL FOR COMBATING WORLD POVERTY THAT WE"VE EVER HA

D.

【C4】

A．signs

B．defects

C．diseases

D．symptoms

In the first sentence of Paragraph 3,the word "cushion" can be best replaced by

A．put a cushion under

B．relieve

C．eliminate

D．avoid