There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
Mark your answers on your answer sheet.
They are considering _________ before the prices go up.

more than to go

than going

more than going D. rather than to go

As a home entertainment, (36) rapidly became more popular than any (37) form. A news broadcast became more immediate (38) people could actually see the scene (39) question and the movements of the figures. Films could also be available. One of the advantages of travel programmes was the (40) of far-away places which many viewers (41) not otherwise have seen. (42) much of the entertainment was of a popular (43) like quiz competitions, some remarkable cultural programmes were also broadcast. Just as (44) radio in earlier days, a group of actors and actresses became familiar in (45) household. (46) of the most popular programmes on television was sport and an interesting (47) of the television broadcast was the increased (48) at the actual events. How far this was due to a growth in interest (49) the game and how far out of the people’s desire to appear on the (50) is not clear.

it helps strengthen our ties with relatives

it enables us to eliminate our faults and mistakes

it makes our leisure-time activities more enjoyable

it draws our attention away from our worries and troubles

instrumental support

informational support

social companionship

the strengthening of self-respect

After living with his father for a few years, the youth was sent to Philadelphia for further study. He made good at once, and by the time he was twenty he was a full partner in the largest mercantile house there. In time he branched out into banking, and the job of financing the American Revolution ultimately fell to him. Without his efforts, George Washington’s army would have dwindled away in the early days before the young colonies had established a financial system of their own. His activities ranged from the bureaucratic role of Superintendent of Finance to the Congress, to the non-bureaucratic role of paying soldiers in the field out of his picket.

Before the Revolution, Morris was already the richest man in colonial America. He loved the challenge of money and sought to continue his successes after the war was over. He was far from a financial conservative, being inclined, rather, to the grand gesture. As a speculator he bought up millions of acres from land in the unsettled parts of the new nation and, at one time, held title to almost all the western half of the State of New York.

When Congress decided to locate the new capital city on the banks of the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia, he was on the scene early and brought 7,234 lots within the 100 square mile area. Of the two hundred in Washington in 1,800, he constructed fifty. His ideas for his own housing were grandiose in scale. Deciding upon a very unfrontier—like structure of marble, he hired Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the designer of the new City of Washington, to build the Morris Mansion for him. Before it was completed. Morris lost his fortune through overextension, was arrested for debt and imprisoned. The three years he spent in the Philadelphia jail has a certain style about them nevertheless. His visitors included George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and the Governor of Pennsylvania. He was released in 1801 under terms of the new Federal bankruptcy laws. Thus the man who kept the whole country going financially was forced to say: "I now find myself without one cent that I can call my own." He lived on the charity of his wife’s friends and died in 1806 at the age of seventy-two.

As a home entertainment, (36) rapidly became more popular than any (37) form. A news broadcast became more immediate (38) people could actually see the scene (39) question and the movements of the figures. Films could also be available. One of the advantages of travel programmes was the (40) of far-away places which many viewers (41) not otherwise have seen. (42) much of the entertainment was of a popular (43) like quiz competitions, some remarkable cultural programmes were also broadcast. Just as (44) radio in earlier days, a group of actors and actresses became familiar in (45) household. (46) of the most popular programmes on television was sport and an interesting (47) of the television broadcast was the increased (48) at the actual events. How far this was due to a growth in interest (49) the game and how far out of the people’s desire to appear on the (50) is not clear.

odd

odds

ode

odious

工程咨询行业自律性管理的主要内容就是质量管理

工程咨询待业的质量管理，突出一个标准，即ISO质量管理体系的标准

工程咨询成果的质量标准分为优良、合格、不合格三个质量等级，采用加权平均法进行综合评价

工程咨询成果的质量标准主要包括符合法律和政策、市场调查与分析、方案比选、经济分析、风险分析、生态环境论证等六个大的方面。

直方图是否满足公差要求

分布的中心值是否和规范的中心值重合

产品的合格率

产品出现质量问题的原因

fruitful

beneficial

valid

effective