A attended B. taken care of C. cultivated D. planted 9. Weapons of mass destruction must be strictly forbidden. Otherwise, if a nuclear war started would be the cataclysm for all humankind A. termination B. ca C. devastation D. destruction 20.This fur coat is indistinguishable from that one, except the size A. indifferent to B. indifferent to C. undistinct to D. identical to Ill Cloze(10%) passage 1 From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his not be his in the reporting trade, but for making money his pen would prove 9 regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist The instant riches of a mining strike would an hIs pickax. In the spring of 1864, less than two years after joining the Territorial Enterprise, he boarded the stagecoach 3 San Francisco, then and now a hotbed of hopeful young writes. Mark Twain 4 and experimented with his new writing 5, but had to leave the city for a while because of some scathing columns he wrote. Attacks of the city government concerning such issues as mistreatment of Chinese, 6 angered officials that he fled to the gold-fields in the Sacramento Valley. His descriptions of the rough-country settlers there ring familiarly in modern world 7 trend setting on the West Coast. It was a splendid population---for all the slow, sleepy. sloths stayed at home... It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through 9 a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she 10 onto this day--and when she projected a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says " Well, that is California all over 1. a channel b route c. hole d way 2. a. powerful b. mighty c. mightier d. forceful 3. a to b. for d at 4. a tried b hoed d. honed b. articles c practice d. strength 6. a that C. So d. such 7. a succumbed to b accustomed to c. scattered over d flirting with 8. a. slowly-brain b. sluggish-brain c.slowly-brained d sluggish-brained 9. a for b. through cby d. with 10.a. holds b ownsA. attended B. taken care of C. cultivated D. planted 19. Weapons of mass destruction must be strictly forbidden. Otherwise, if a nuclear war started, it would be the cataclysm for all humankind. A. termination B. calamity C. devastation D. destruction 20.This fur coat is indistinguishable from that one, except the size. A. indifferent to B. undifferent to C. undistinct to D. identical to III Cloze (10%) passage 1 From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his ___1___ to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist. The instant riches of a mining strike would not be his in the reporting trade., but for making money, his pen would prove ___2___ than his pickax. In the spring of 1864, less than two years after joining the Territorial Enterprise, he boarded the stagecoach ___3___ San Francisco, then and now a hotbed of hopeful young writes. Mark Twain ___4___ and experimented with his new writing ___5___ , but had to leave the city for a while because of some scathing columns he wrote. Attacks of the city government, concerning such issues as mistreatment of Chinese, ___6___ angered officials that he fled to the gold-fields in the Sacramento Valley. His descriptions of the rough-country settlers there ring familiarly in modern world ___7___ trend setting on the West Coast. “It was a splendid population---for all the slow, sleepy, ___8___ sloths stayed at home ... It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through ___9___ a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she ___10___ onto this day---and when she projected a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says ,“Well, that is California all over.” 1. a. channel b. route c. hole d. way 2. a. powerful b. mighty c. mightier d. forceful 3. a. to b. for c. from d. at 4. a. tried b. hoed c. hoped d. honed 5. a. muscles b. articles c. practice d. strength 6. a. that b. which c. so d. such 7. a. succumbed to b. accustomed to c. scattered over d. flirting with 8. a. slowly-brain b. sluggish-brain c. slowly-brained d. sluggish-brained 9. a. for b. through c. by d. with 10.a. holds b. owns c. bears d. possesses