单选题 Mary promised herself rapid progress. The italicized part is ______.

单选题Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are ______. ( )

单选题— Would you like to go shopping with me this afternoon? — ______.

单选题We got to the cinema late ____ the heavy divaffic.

单选题Had the doctor been available，the child______.

单选题 Questions12-14 are bused on the passage you have just heard.

单选题 中国有着悠久的扇子文化。最早的扇子出现在3000年前，由羽毛制成。如今，扇子的制作材料已变得多样化，最常用的是纸和真丝。扇子的用途很广泛，除了能使人凉快之外，还可用于舞蹈、装饰等。在中国文化里，与其说扇子是个工具，不如说它是一个艺术品。扇面上的书法(calligraphy)、绘画和诗歌为扇子增添了艺术价值。使扇子为历代收藏家所珍爱。

单选题He believed that the greatest of his ______ was that he'd never had a college education.

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单选题From the last paragraph we can see that ______.

单选题The passage uses the term "vegetative forms" to refer to ______.

单选题In the first semester, I asked my teacher __________.

单选题Jim's mouth watered for the apple, but he still ______ his work. A. took to B. stuck to C. saw to D. turned to

单选题For the cast of this mighty epic, Vidal ______ his brilliant family and social connections, which included Mary Pick ford, Marion Davies and throngs for the political world.

单选题The mental patient fluctuates between great excitement and deep depression.

单选题Obama reiterated his call today for Republicans and Democrats to ______ their differences in the face of the economic crisis.

单选题Compared with his ______, Putin adopted a more active, flexible and pragmatic foreign policy.

单选题They eat a lot of meats and dairy foods, along with a lot of ______ items that don't fall into any Nutrigroup, such as sugar, fat, and condiments. A. redundant B. miscellaneous C. versatile D. trivial

单选题 We live today indebted to McCardell, Cashin, Hawes, Wilkins, and Maxwell, and other women who liberated American fashion from the confines of Parisian design. Independence came in tying, wrapping, storing, harmonizing, and rationalizing that wardrobe. These designers established the modern dress code, letting playsuits and other activewear outfits suffice for casual clothing, allowing pants to enter the wardrobe, and prizing rationalism and versatility in dress, in contradiction to dressing for an occasion or allotment of the day. Fashion in America was logical and answerable to the will of the women who wore it. Implicitly or explicitly, American fashion addressed a democracy, whereas traditional Paris-based fashion was prescriptive and imposed on women, willing or not. In an earlier time, American fashion had also followed the dictates of Paris, or even copied and pirated specific French designs. Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as 'modern art' would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America. Its designers were not high-end with supplementary lines. The design objective and the business commitment were to sportswear, and the distinctive traits were problem-solving ingenuity and realistic lifestyle applications. Ease of care was most important: summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home. Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her. American designers prized resourcefulness and the freedom of women who wore the clothing. Many have argued that the women designers of this time were able to project their own clothing values into a new style. Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel(服装) on the basis of utility. If Paris was cast aside, the tradition of beauty was also to some degree slighted. Designer sportswear would have to be verified by a standard other than that of pure beauty; the emulation of a designer's life in designer sportswear was a crude version of this relationship. The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord Taylor. Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts. What the designers of American sportswear proved was that fashion is a genuine design art, answering to the demanding needs of service. Of course these practical, insightful designers have determined the course of late twentieth-century fashion. They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.