单选题 The new technology has (made possible) for the doctor to (make) diagnoses (without seeing) the patient in (person).

单选题His theories were so ______ that few could see what he was trying to establish. A. logical B. scholarly C. theoretical D. vague

单选题Her lecture gave us a sense of how empty the universe is, in spite of ______ number of stars within it.

单选题In no way ______ from practice.

单选题Mary found it (difficult) to talk (calmly) about (which) she had (experienced) at the station.

单选题M: Maria, I want you to have all my laundry ready by the time I get home. W: You must be kidding! Question: What does the woman mean? A. She doesn't understand the man's request. B. She thanks the man for his kindness. C. She must get the laundry ready. D. She will not have the man's laundry ready.

单选题I'd rather have a room of my own, however small it is, than______a room with someoneelse. A. share B. to share C. sharing D. to have shared

单选题To clean up the pollution it creates, according to the passage, industry will invariably______.

单选题He"s mean and bad-tempered and lazy, but she loves him ______.

单选题The changes in the city will cost us a lot of money, ______ they will save us money in the future.

单选题The painting was larger than it appeared to be. For, hanging in a darkened recess of the chapel, it was ______ by the perspective.

单选题Please accept my ______ your great progress in the research.

单选题One of the professor's greatest attributes is ______.

单选题Would you please walk a little ______, I am in a hurry now. [A] more fast [B] more lastly [C] faster

单选题I'll ______ at the next stop.

单选题Speaker A: Excuse me. Could you show me the way to the nearest subway station?Speaker B: ______.

单选题He claimed that he would be a ______ in the presidential election, and would win the election at last. A. voter B. candidate C. partner D. comrade

单选题For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines—a never-ending flood of words. In【C1】______a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend【C2】______can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are【C3】______readers. Most of us develop poor reading【C4】______at an early age, and never get over them.The main deficiency【C5】______in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have【C6】______meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. 【C7】______, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to 【C8】______words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over【C9】______you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which【C10】______down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as【C11】______reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an【C12】______, which moves a bar(or curtain)down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate【C13】______the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch"him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, 【C14】______word-by-word reading, regression and sub vocalization practically impossible. At first【C15】______is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, 【C16】______your comprehension will improve. Many people have found【C17】______reading skill drastically improved after some training. 【C18】______Charlie Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute【C19】______the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can【C20】______a lot more reading materials in a short period of time.

单选题The narrator had finally decided to attend the fraternity party perhaps because ______.