题目内容

Most members of the committee were in favour of the suggestion; only a ________ were against it.

A. majority B. minority C. quantity D. amount

B

【解析】

试题分析:A. majority大多数;B. minority少数;C. quantity数量;D. amount总数,数量。根据前半句:委员会的大多数成员都赞成这个建议,可知反对这个建议的应该是少数人。故选B。

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When he returned my paper, I was very, very surprised. There was a very large cross through each of my answers. And so it was with everyone else’s in our class. What had happened? Everyone was wondering and couldn’t wait to get the answer.

Very simple, Mr Whiteson explained. He had made up all that story about the cattytiger. There had never been such an animal. So why none of us noticed that and how could we expect good marks for the incorrect answers?

Needless to say, we got very angry. What kind of teacher was this?

We should have guessed it out, Mr Whiteson said. After all, at the very moment he was passing around the cattytiger skull (in fact, a cat’s), hadn’t he been telling us that it completely disappeared during the Ice Age? Clearly he was telling a lie. But we just kept busy making notes and none used his head. We should learn something from this. Teachers and textbooks are not always correct.

1.We failed in the test because we didn’t .

A. think carefully

B. show interest in what Mr Whiteson said

C. listen to the teacher carefully

D. take notes while listening

2.We got angry because .

A. Mr Whiteson didn’t tell us the truth about cattytiger

B. there was no cattytiger

C. we didn’t know why he played the joke on us

D. we failed in the test

3.Mr Whiteson gave us a special lesson .

A. to show his special way of teaching

B. to help us learn our lessons better

C. to play a joke on us

D. so that we would no longer believe him

4.Mr Whiteson meant that .

A. teachers couldn’t make any mistakes

B. textbooks might be wrong sometimes

C. we shouldn’t believe our teachers because sometimes they might tell lies

D. we should speak up if we thought our teacher or the textbook was wrong

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A.many children lack love from parents

B.robots helpful to the old will be in great demand

C.robots are the most useful to children

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