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A.saidB.supposedC.knownD.called

A. said
B. supposed
C. known
D. called

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A.butB.howeverC.besidesD.moreover

A. but
B. however
C. besides
D. moreover

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The Development of Rubber
Here is the story of rubber. From the earliest time it was common knowledge _________ (1) the Peruvians that when a cut was made in the outside skin of a rubber tree, a white liquid _________(2) milk came out, and that _________ (3) this a sticky(粘的) mass of rubber might be made. This rubber is soft when warm, so that it is possible to give it any _________ (4). The Peruvians made the_________ (5) that it was very good for keeping out the wet. Then in the early 1800's, the Americans made use of it for the first time. First they made overshoes to _________ (6) their feet dry. Then came a certain Mr. Mackintosh, who made coats of cloth covered with natural rubber. From that day to this we have been coating cloth with rubber as Mr. Mackintosh _________(7), and our raincoats are still named after him.
But these first rubber overshoes and raincoats were all soft and sticky in summer, and _________ (8) and inelastic (无弹性的) in the winter when it was cold. But the rubber we have today is soft and elastic (有弹性的), _________ (9) very strong -- even in the warmest summer and the coldest winter. This was made_________ (10) by a man called Goodyear. After many_________ . (11), he found that nitric acid (硝酸) made the rubber much better, but it is not hard and strong enough. Then a strange thing took_________(12).
A friend of his, Nicholas Hayward, had the idea in his sleep that rubber' might be made hard and strong if mixed with sulphur (硫磺) and put in the sun. Goodyear put this idea_________ (13) the test, and saw that it did have more or less the desired ~effect -- though somewhat less than more. The only effect it had was. on the outside of the rubber. It is common knowledge now that the _________ (14) to make rubber hard and strong is by heating it with sulphur. It took Goodyear four more years to find this method. When at last he did it, he had _________ (15) at all. Everything of the smallest value had been used to get money, even his sons' school-books.
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A. for
B. to
C. about
D. with

I wasn’t qualified for the job really, but l got it anyhow.

A. somehow
B. anyway
C. anywhere
D. Somewhere

One of the benefits of green roofs is the reduction of the heat islandeffect in cities.

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