一位著名的运动员将传送熊熊燃烧的火炬。

单项选择题14（）

A.days 
B.hours 
C.months 
D.minutes

单项选择题After taking an inventory, if the owner found that he had got more money than he had spent, he made（）

A. a profit
B. a loss
C. an income
D. an interest

单项选择题Which of the following statements is NOT true（）

A. Some 260 million people in the world have an adequate working knowledge of English.
B. There are some 260 million native speakers of English in the world.
C. It is almost impossible to estimate the number of people with an adequate working knowledge of English.
D. People learn English for a variety of reasons.

单项选择题Why do you think they had not a backup computer（）

A. Because it was easy down.
B. Because it was very expensive.
C. Because it was not advanced enough.
D. Because it was not as big as the main computer.

单项选择题What is the author’s purpose in taking Cubatao as an example（）

A. To show that industry can develop very fast in developing countries.
B. To show that the pollution problem in Brazil is extremely serious.
C. To show that industrial growth can cause pollution problems for developing countries.
D. To show that pollution is killing many people and destroying the whole economy of Brazil.