单选题If you want to reduce your fat in a specific part, you ______.

单选题A: I thought you were Working until 6:30. B: ______, but we finished our meeting at 5:30 and were let go.

单选题The aim of the U.S. government in imposing rent controls on American cities in 1943 was to help ______.

单选题I know that if I start watching soap opera I will immediately become hopelessly______to it.

单选题To ______ their new shampoo, they are selling it at half price for a month. A. progress B. proceed C. promote D. propose

单选题I couldn't sleep because the tap in the bathroom was______.(北京大学2008年试题)

单选题The speaker, ______ for her splendid speeches, was warmly received by the audience. A. having known B. knowing C. being known D. known

单选题She was so {{U}}stubborn{{/U}} that she wouldn’t change her opinions.

单选题All the following works are written by John Updike EXCEPT______.

单选题It is reported that the thirty-ninth president of America Jimmy Carter has won the Nobel Prize ______ peace in the year of 2002.A. inB. onC. atD. for

单选题The Big Ben (英国大本钟) is located in the tower in London. It is very famous (41) the world, but nobody really knows why it is (42) Big Ben. There are two stories (43) this. Some people say that it was named (44) Benjamin Caunt, a boxer. People called (45) Big Ben. But more people believe it was called after Welshman, Sir Benjamin Hall. He was in (46) of this work in 1859. A story was told that during a (47) in a meeting on what (48) the bell, Sir Benjamin was going to give his ideas when an officer behind him shouted (49) , "Let's call it Big Ben!" From (50) on it was named Big Ben.

单选题______ as the best student, John was given a medal. A. Regarded B. Regarding C. To regard D. Being regarded

单选题At the fall 2001 Social Science History Association convention in Chicago, the Crime and Justice network sponsored a forum on the history of gun ownership, gun use, and gun violence in the United States. Our purpose was to consider how social science history might contribute to the public debate over gun control and gun rights. To date, we have had little impact on that debate. It has been dominated by mainstream social scientists and historians, especially scholars such as Gary Kleck, John Lott, and Michael Bellesiles, whose work, despite profound flaws, is politically congenial to either opponents or proponents of gun control. Kleck and Mark Gertz, for instance, argue on the basis of their widely cited survey that gun owners prevent numerous crimes each year in the Untied States by using firearms to defend themselves and their property. If their survey respondents are to be believed, American gun owners shot 100,000 criminals in 1994 in self-defense—a preposterous number. Lott claims on the basis of his statistical analysis of recent crime rates that laws allowing private individuals to carry concealed firearms to deter murders, rapes, and robberies, because criminals are afraid to attack potentially armed victims. However, he biases his results by confining his analysis to the year between 1977 and 1992, when violent crime rates had peaked and varied little from year to year. He reports only regression models that support his thesis and neglects to mention that each of those models find a positive relationship between violent crime and real income, and inverse relationship between violent crime and unemployment. Contrary to Kleck and Lott, Bellesiles insists that guns and America"s " gun culture" are responsible for America"s high rate of murder. In Belleville"s opinion, relatively few Americans owned guns before the 1850s or know how to use, maintain, or repair them. As a result, he says, guns contributed little to the homicide rate, especially among Whites, which was low everywhere, even in the South and on the frontier, where historians once assumed gun and murder went hand in hand. According to Bellesiles, these patterns changed dramatically after the Mexican War and especially after the Civil War, when gun ownership became widespread and cultural changes encouraged the use of handguns to command respect and resolve personal and political disputes. The result was an unprecedented wave of gun-related homicides that never truly abated. To this day, the United States has the highest homicide rate of any industrial democracy. Bellesile"s low estimates of gun ownership in early America conflict, however, with those of every historian who has previously studied the subject and has thus far proven irreproducible. Every homicide statistic he presents is either misleading or wrong. Given the influence of Kleck, Lott, Bellesiles and other partisan scholars on the debate over gun control and gun rights, we felt a need to pull together what social science historians have learned to date about the history of gun ownership and gun violence in America, and to consider what research methods and projects might increase our knowledge in the near future.

单选题"Cool" is a word with many meanings. Its traditional meaning is used to 1 a temperature that is fairly cold. As the world has 2 , however, the word has expanded to 3 many different things. "Cool" can be used to express feelings of 4 in almost anything. When you see a brand-name car in the street, maybe you can"t help 5 "It"s cool" You might think "He"s so cool," when you see your 6 footballer. We all enlarge the meaning of "cool". You can use it 7 many words such as "new" or "amazing". Here"s an interesting story 8 illustrate the usage of the word: A teacher asked her students to 9 the waterfall they had visited. On one student"s paper was just the one 10 , "It"s so cool." Perhaps he thought it was 11 to describe 12 he saw and 13 he felt. 14 the story also proves the shortage of words and expressions. 15 "cool", some people have no words to express the same meaning. So it is 16 to improve our word strength to maintain some 17 . As a popular word, "cool" stands for a kind of special 18 that people can accept easily. Excepting "cool", can you think of any other words that 19 your life as colorful? 1 can. And I think they are also very 20 .

单选题It was requested that the President ______ the students a performance at the New Year's party.

单选题Conceptual meaning overlaps to a large extent with the notion of " reference".（北二外2005研)

单选题It was 1985, and Rafe Esquith was beginning his third year of teaching in Los Angeles public schools. He faced a class of 40 sixth-graders from low-income homes where English rarely was spoken, and the best reader among them was two years below grade level. So, what the beck, he decided to teach them Shakespeare. Five families agreed to let their children play "Macbeth" for two hours after school. This proved to be so much fun that, within weeks, Esquith had 28 kids happily soaking up the drama of blood and betrayal in medieval Scotland. They were learning many words they had never heard before. But when Esquith asked a school district supervisor for official approval, he received this note: " Mr. Esquith, it is not appropriate that you stay after school to teach Shakespeare. It would be better if you did something with the children that is academic. " It would not be the last time that the narrow thinking of bigcity school administration got in Esquith's way. Yet the bearded, 6-foot-tall cyclone has proved that a teacher who thinks very big— much harder lessons, larger projects, extra class time—can help disadvantaged children in ways most educators never imagine. This was difficult at first, until he stumbled upon a concept of teaching that is at the core of his success. American children, even those from hardworking immigrant cultures, have in Esquith's view been wrongly taught that learning should always be fun, by teachers who think hard lessons are bad for kids from low-income homes. When faced with something difficult, such 'students don't know what to do. The Declaration of Independence says Americans are entitled to the pursuit of happiness, but the emphasis in public schooling has been on the happiness, he believes. "What happened to pursuit?" Esquith said. So he has created an entirely new universe in his classroom, cherishing effort and the slogan, "There Are No Shortcuts". As for their own dramatic performances, Esquith got around the original ban on his after-school "Macbeth" rehearsals by switching to Thornton Wilder's " Our Town. " When that class finally performed the Shakespeare play, a school district supervisor showed up. The high-ranking district administrator came up afterward and shook his hand. "Rare," she said, " I've never seen Shakespeare done better. /

单选题The Prime Minister denied that the president ______ any information about the transfer and transaction of the nuclear weapons in North Korea.