-- No están Julio y Marisa en casa -- __________.

A．Sí, no están en cA

B．No, están en cA

C．No, no están en cA

D．Sí, están en su empresA．

Depression is regarded by many older people as__________

A．unrecognized and untreated depression

B．a character flaw

C．normal sadness and grief

D．a definite possibility

E．dependency and disability

F．a significant risk factor

Human irritability may be influenced by ______.

A．how nervous and aggressive people are.

B．reaction to certain weather phenomena.

C．the number of ions being generated by machines.

D．the attitude of people to thunderstorms.

The Middle East has called a "museum of religious and linguistic history." The origin and growth of the Copts in the Nile valley show the truth of this statement. The present Coptic language is the latest stage in a long evolutionary process beginning with the language of the Pharaohs influenced by many conquering tongues, such as Greed, brought to the Nile Valley twenty-three hundred years ago by Alexander the Great.

The Copts axe a mixture of the oldest known inhabitants of the Middle East with every successive conqueror. Today they number four million in what is now the Arab Republic of Egypt, a country of almost forty million. The word Egypt itself comes from "Copt", the Greek way of saying Ha-Ka-Ptah, or "the land where the God Ptah is worshiped." Coptic continued as a language and a nationality when Egypt became the bread basket of the Roman Empire. By 313 A.D., when Constantine embraced Christianity in the name of the whole Roman Empire, the majority of Egyptians were Christian by faith and Coptic by nationality.

The Copts were so persecuted by their fellow Byzantine Christians that the Arabs, when they conquered Egypt around 650, were actually welcomed by most of the Copts. The Prophet Mohammed had forbidden the persecution of Jews and Christians, but Islam required them to pay a sizable tax. In return their property and lives were protected. The minority were also forbidden to bear arms. While they may not have had an ideal life under Muslim rule, they were happier than they had been under Christian domination for three hundred years.

Many Copts became Muslims after the Arab conquest; some converted because they like Islam, some sought material gain, still others reacted to heavy social pressure by assimilating. Those who remained Christian soon became a minority. Since that time the word Copt has signified a religion more than a nationality. The Copts rapidly adopted Arabic and the ancient Coptic language was used only in their religious liturgy.

The Copts are loyal to family, to tradition, and to their religion. They have also remained remarkable loyal to Egypt. In spite of this fidelity, their faith linked them to the Christian West and made them suspect in times of crisis. In 1798, when Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt, the Copts were at their lowest point numerically and economically. Three years of French occupation made things worse for them because the other Egyptians suspected that they were responsible for this latest European incursion. When the Ottoman Turks regained control of Egypt from the French, many Copts suffered because they had cooperated with Napoleon. In 1882, when the British imperialists invaded Egypt, the Copts welcomed them.

It can be inferred from the passage that the Greeks invaded the Nile Valley ______.

A．in about 400 B．C．

B．in about 300 B．C．

C．in about 400 A．D．

D．in about 300 A．D．

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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

The cinema was in darkness when we went 【B1】 and it was no easy matter 【B2】 our way 【B3】 our seats. The old man who had come in 【B4】 of us was luckier: he had a stick to 【B5】 him find his way, 【B6】 a blind man.

"It's very funny not to have any lights 【B7】 before the film starts," I said.

"And no music, 【B8】 ," added my wife. '"Well, perhaps they are economizing (省钱)."

We are in one of the rows 【B9】 the entrance. We heard other people pass 【B10】 but we could not tell how 【B11】 the audience (观众) was. Obviously, however, the cinema did not 【B12】 very crowded at that time of the day.

"It 【B13】 be two o' clock already," my wife said, getting restless (不安). "Can you see your watch?"

My eyes had now grown 【B14】 to the darkness and by bringing my watch 【B15】 to my eyes, I could just 【B16】 out that it was a little after two.

Just then the programme started. But we were 【B17】 to find that there was a 【B18】 . The second of the two films, 【B19】 we were not interested in seeing, was 【B20】 shown first.

【B1】

A．in

B．out

C．up

D．out doors

Depression is regarded by many older people as_____________

A．a character flaw

B．normal sadness and grief

C．a definite possibility

D．dependency and disability

E．a significant risk factor

F．unrecognized and untreated depression

The interest rate is determined in______.

A．the money market and has no influence on the goods market

B．the goods market and has no influence on the money market

C．the money market and influences the level of planned investment and thus the goods market

D．the goods market and influences the level of planned investment and thus the money market

No bread eaten by man is as good as ________ got by his own labor. A．one B．that C．it D．those

No bread eaten by man is as good as ________ got by his own labor. A．one B．that C．it D．those