________’s representative play is The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.

Which sentence is the thesis statement of the following introductory paragraph? We live in an era where television is the national pastime. Since the invention of the television set, people have been spending more of their free time watching television than doing anything else. Many of the television addicts feel that this particular pastime is not a bad one; indeed, they argue that people can learn a great deal watching television. I'm sure that if you look long and hard enough, you can probably find some programs that are educationally motivating.

Which of the following is true according to the third paragraph?

A．Levine played the game in the film with Will Wright.

B．In the e-mail of the film producers to Tabin, they told him something about Spore.

C．Shubin is a paleontologist at the University of California in Illinois.

D．Shubin treats video games with disfavor.

Which of the following is true according to the text?

A．People with surnames beginning with N to Z are often ill-treated.

B．VIPs in the Western world gain a great deal from alphabetism.

C．The campaign to eliminate alphabetism still has a long way to go.

D．Putting things alphabetically may lead to unintentional bias.

Which of the following is true according to the text?

A．Mr Stonecipher had worked for Boeing for only 15 months when he resigned.

B．The previous boss of Boeing also had an office affair before he was fired.

C．Boeing company makes great efforts to maintain its ethical standards.

D．Extra-marital affairs are not acceptable in most American corporations.

?Read the text below about the phases of innovation in market.

?In most of the lines 41--52 there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct.

?If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet.

?If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.

New Innovation Needs Three Phases

0 Almost every new innovation goes through three phases. When initially introduced

00 into the market, the process of adoption is slow. The early models are that expensive

41 and hard to use, and perhaps even unsafe. The economic impact is relatively very

42 small. The second phase is the explosive one, because where the innovation is rapidly

43 adopted by a large number of many people. It gets cheaper and easier to use and

44 becomes something familiar with. And then in the third stage, diffusion of the

45 Innovation slows down again, as if it permeates out across the economy. During the

46 explosive phase, the whole new industries spring up to produce the new product or

47 innovation, and up to service it. For example, during the 1920s, there is dramatic

48 acceleration in auto production, from 1.9 million in 1920 to 4.5 million in 1929. This

49 boom was accompanied by all sorts of other essential activities necessary for an the

50 auto-based nation: Roads had to be built for the cars to run on; refineries and oil

51 wells, to provide the gasoline; and garages, to repair them. Historically speaking, the

52 same pattern is repeated again and again and with innovations. The construction of the electrical system required an enormous early investment in generation and distribution capacity.

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