Because most houses are primary residences.
Because people have locked in low mortgaged rates.
Because people could only qualify for smaller mortgages.
Because people don’t believe housing market would crash.
第1题：
A.Because people do not realize the harmfulness of it.
B.Because contaminated food products are easy to produce and sell.
C.Because those food manufacturers only focus on making money.
第2题：
Why does the author think the BMGF is the most innovative and successful in history? _________.
A． Because their money is ruled to be given to the really needy people.
B． Because they insist that good intentions should lead to good results.
C． Because their response is immediate if the need is immediate.
D． Because they have to know that every check from Seattle is actually used.
第3题：
People didn't leave their houses because __________.
A． they had no money
B． they were afraid of losing money
C． the city was not clean
D． they liked homes
第4题：
Teenagers do not want their parents to approve of what they do because _______.
A. they don’t like their parents’ way of life
B. they are not likely to win over the adults
C. they have already been accepted into the adult world
D. they don’t want to be isolated from people of their own age
第5题：
25． Why do we call the sun"a life-giving star"?
A． Because it gives us warmth．
B． Because there are some living things on it．
C． Because plants and animals can't live without it．
D． Because people have to live in the dark without it．
第6题：
Why does it take long for people to change their food?
A． Because labs are not easily accessible to researchers.
B． Because some people are reluctant to accept the new diet.
C． Because food consumption is a culture of conservation.
D． Because some scientists are against the growing lab meat.
第7题：
Why do people replace the term creationism with the term intelligent design nowadays?
A．Because "intelligent design" represents the modified theory of evolution.
B．Because they believe God created different species.
C．Because the term creationism is unscientific.
D．Because the term creationism is too direct.
第8题：
When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses.
What kinds of people rent tent officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couples - people whose job or buw homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.
One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think.
11.Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses?
A.Selling home furnishings.
B.Renting furnished apartments.
C.Selling used furniture.
D.Renting home furnishings.
12.Why do some people prefer to rent furniture?
A.Because the furniture they get in this way is new.
B.Because it saves them a lot of money.
C.Because it saves them much trouble and money.
D.Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.
13.What can you infer from the passage?
A.The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.
B.Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town.
C.Only those who don’t have enough money to rent furniture.
D.People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.
14.Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A.Rent or Buy?
B.A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings.
C.Furnished Apartments.
D.A New Idea.
15.Young people liked renting home furniture because_________
A.they have less money.
B.they don’t want to buy old furniture.
C.the new furniture is of good quality.
D.they don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture.
第9题：
What is the moral lesson of the story?
A. An act of kindness may help develop honesty in a person.
B. An act of kindness may turn all thieves into honest people.
C. People are honest because they have all been treated kindly.
D. People are dishonest because they have been treated unkindly.
第10题：
A.they dislike it
B.the crowd is too noisy
C.the landscape is a mighty distraction
D.the weather is very hot in the summertime