单选题 He ______ the check and deposited it in his account.

单选题Car makers have long used sex to sell their products. Recently, however, both BMW and Renault have based their latest European marketing campaigns around the icon of modern biology. BMW's campaign, which launches its new 3-series sports saloon in Britain and Ireland, shows the new creation and four of its earlier versions zigzagging around a landscape made up of giant DNA sequences, with a brief explanation that DNA is the molecule responsible for the inheritance of such features as strength, power and intelligence. The Renault offering, which promotes its existing Laguna model, employs evolutionary theory even more explicitly. The company's television commercials intersperse clips of the car with scenes from a lecture by Steve Jones, a professor of genetics at University of London. BMW's campaign is intended to convey the idea of development allied to heritage. The latest product, in other words, should be viewed as the new and improved scion of a long line of good cars. Renault's message is more subtle. It is that evolution works by gradual improvements rather than sudden leaps (in this, Renault is aligning itself with biological orthodoxy). So, although the new car in the advertisement may look like the old one, the external form conceals a number of significant changes to the engine. While these alterations are almost invisible to the average driver, Renault hopes they will improve the car's performance, and ultimately its survival in the marketplace. Whether they actually do so will depend, in part, on whether marketers have read the public mood correctly. For, even if genetics really does offer a useful metaphor for automobiles, employing it in advertising is not without its dangers. That is because DNA's public image is ambiguous. In one context, people may see it as the cornerstone of modern medical progress. In another, it will bring to mind such controversial issues as abortion, genetically modified foodstuffs, and the sinister subject of eugenics. Car makers are probably standing on safer ground than biologists. But even they call make mistakes. Though it would not be obvious to the casual observer, some of the DNA which features in BMW's ads for its nice, new car once belonged to a woolly mammoth—a beast that has been extinct for 10,000 years. Not, presumably, quite the message that the marketing department was trying to convey.

单选题You are quite wrong. She ______ like you.

单选题Calculations, which are astronomically exact, have been made ______ with the use of computers.

单选题I can think of nothing more ______ than arriving at the theater and discovering that I have left the tickets at home. A. vicious B. inviting C. vexatious D. immoral

单选题We forgot to bring our tickets, but please let us enter, ______?

单选题The authorities are investigating the ______ abuses of housing benefits disclosed online.

单选题In some California housing estates, a key alone is insufficient to get someone in the door; his or her voiceprint must also be ______.

单选题 中国传统元素是指被广泛认可的中国传统形象、符号或风俗习惯等。它们能够反映中国传统文化的精髓(essence)，是中国所特有的元素。中国传统元素体现在文学、艺术、建筑、饮食、服饰及风俗习惯等多个方面。从唐诗宋词、京戏脸谱(facial makeup)、雕梁画栋(richly ornamented building)、中餐茶品到唐装刺绣(embroidery)，无不体现着魅力非凡的(charismatic)中国元素。中国传统元素植根于深厚的中国传统文化，它对中国当代及后世的社会发展都有着不可忽视的重要作用，值得我们继续传承下去。

单选题The storm prevented ______ on a picnic.

单选题She felt dizzy and had to ______ something to steady herself. A. hold onto B. hold up C. hold forth D. hold down

单选题It is the first of several agreements the United States hopes to reach as it attempts to reduce labor costs by $5.8 billion and ______ bankruptcy.

单选题Although we hadn't met for twenty years, I recognized him ______ I saw him.

单选题We wouldn"t lose heart even if we ______ again.

单选题We always lay in a large ______ of tinned food in winter in case we are snowed up. A. proportion B. storage C. provision D. supply