14. Believe it or not, it ____ to me that you are all mistaken about such data.

A.appears                     B. seem                        C. seemed                     D. Appeared

284. The officers led their men to _______ in battle, so all the villagers came out to award them with food and drink on both sides of the road.

A. victory                  B. a triumph              C. failure                  D. Defeat

264. The invention of the coal-burning_______engine revolutionized industrial production in the 18th century and opened the way to the development of mechanized transport by rail and sea.

A.vapour                  B. steam                          C. solar-energy__________D. atomic-energy

244. It is widely believed that a good _____ between the two countries is important for the development of both China and the USA.

A. connection               B. link                         C. relation                 D. Relationship

224. TV home shopping(电视直销) has changed the way of shopping and the ____ of people’s family life in some way.

A. meaning                 B. structure                 C. pattern                            D. Tense

204. The railways in China belong to ______, whereas the ones in Japan, to the private..

A. the nation               B. the country               C. the state                   D. the land

184. In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything --- the wheat, the corn, the grass and even the _____ on the tree.

A. leaf                    B. leafs                   C. lemon                 D. Leaves

164. Some people here don't work hard but they get a good _______ from their investments.

A. wage                    B. earnings                C. income                  D. Salary

144. The reason why the two _____ cannot speak _____ language is that they were born in America and were brought up in a Japanese family.

A. Germans; German                        B. Germen; the German

C. Germen; German                          D. Germans; the German

124. Albert Einstein had a great _____ upon science and technology last century.

A. effect                       B. affect                       C. effort                       D. Afford