单选题John is the only One of the students who ______ to France.

单选题Either you or the president ______ the prizes to these gifted winners at the meeting． A．is handing out B．are to hand out C．are handing out D．is to hand out

单选题3. 选出下列选项中读音不同的选项（ ）

单选题This blue flower is known by ______ names in other parts of England.

单选题 There's No Place Like Home A. On almost any night of the week, Churchill's Restaurant is hopping. The 10-year-old hot spot in Rockville Centre, Long Island, is packed with locals drinking beer and eating burgers, with some customers spilling over onto the street. 'We have lots of regulars—people who are recognized when they come in,' says co-owner Kevin Culhane. In fact, regulars make up more than 80 percent of the restaurant's customers. 'People feel comfortable and safe here,' Culhane says, 'This is their place.' B. Thriving neighborhood restaurants are one small data point in a larger trend I call the new localism. The basic idea: the longer people stay in their homes and communities, the more they identify with those places, and the greater their commitment to helping local businesses and institutions thrive, even in a downturn. Several factors are driving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow deeper. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shape how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics. C. Perhaps nothing will be as surprising about 21st-century America as its settledness. For more than a generation Americans have believed that 'spatial mobility' would increase, and, as it did, feed a trend toward rootlessness and anomie (社会道德沦丧). In 2000, Harvard's Robert Putnam made a point in Bowling Alone, in which he wrote about the 'civic malaise' he saw gripping the country. In Putnam's view, society was being undermined, largely due to suburbanization and what he called 'the growth of mobility.' D. Yet in reality Americans actually are becoming less nomadic (游牧的). As recently as the 1970s as many as one in five people moved annually; by 2006, long before the current recession took hold, that number was 14 percent, the lowest rate since the census (人口普查) starting following movement in 1940. Since then tougher times have accelerated these trends, in large part because opportunities to sell houses and find new employment have dried up. In 2008, the total number of people changing residences was less than those who did so in 1962, when the country had 120 million fewer people. The stay-at-home trend appears particularly strong among aging boomers, who stay tied to their suburban homes—close to family, friends, clubs, churches, and familiar surroundings. E. The trend will not bring back the corner grocery stores and the declining organizations—bowling leagues, Boy Scouts, and such—cited by Putnam and others as the traditional glue of American communities. Nor will our car-oriented suburbs copy the close neighborhood feel so celebrated by romantic urbanism. Instead, we're evolving in ways fit for a postindustrial society. It will not spell the decline of Wal-Mart or Costco, but will express itself in scores of alternative institutions, such as thriving local weekly newspapers that have withstood the shift to the Internet far better than big-city dailies. F. Our less mobile nature is already reshaping the corporate world. The kind of corporate mobility described in Peter Kilborn's recent book, Next Stop, Reloville: Life Inside America's Rootless Professional Class, in which families relocate every couple of years so the breadwinner can reach a higher step on the managerial ladder, will become less common in years ahead. A smaller group of corporate executives may still move from place to place, but surveys reveal many executives are now unwilling to move even for a good promotion. Why? Family and technology are two key factors working against mobility, in the workplace and elsewhere. G. Family, as one Pew researcher notes, 'matters more than money when people make decisions about where to live.' Interdependence is replacing independence. More parents are helping their children financially well into their 30s and 40s; the numbers of 'boomerang kids' moving back home with their parents, has also been growing as job options and the ability to buy houses has decreased for the young. Recent surveys of the emerging generation suggest this family-centric focus will last well into the coming decades. H. Nothing allows for geographic choice more than the ability to work at home. Demographer (人口学家) Wendell Cox suggests there will be more people working electronically at home full time than taking mass transportation, making it the largest potential source of energy savings on transportation. In the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, almost one in 10 workers is a part-time telecommuter. Some studies indicate that more than one quarter of the U.S. workforce could eventually participate in this new work pattern. Even IBM, whose initials were once jokingly said to stand for 'I've Been Moved,' has changed its approach. About 40 percent of the company's workers now labor at home or remotely from a client's location. I. These home-based workers become critical to the local economy. They will eat in local restaurants, attend fairs and festivals, take their kids to soccer practices, ballet lessons, or religious youth-group meetings. This is not merely a suburban phenomenon; localism also means a stronger sense of identity for urban neighborhoods as well as smaller towns. J. Could the new localism also affect our future politics? Throughout our history, we have always preferred our politics more on the home-cooked side. On his visit to America in the early 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville was struck by the decentralized nature of the country. 'The intelligence and the power are spread abroad,' he wrote, 'and instead of radiating from a point, they cross each other in every direction.' K. This is much the same today. The majority of Americans still live in a combination of smaller towns and cities, including many suburban towns within large metropolitan regions. After decades of hurried mobility, we are seeing a return to placeness, along with more choices for individuals, families, and communities. For entrepreneurs like Kevin Culhane and his workers at Churchill's, it's a phenomenon that may also offer a lease on years of new profits. 'We're holding our own in these times because we appeal to the people around here,' Culhane says. And as places like Long Island become less bedroom community and more round-the-clock location for work and play, he's likely to have plenty of hungry customers.

单选题Scientists generally agree that the Earth's climate will warm up over the next 50 to 100 years ______ it has warmed in the 20,000 years since the Ice Age. A. as long as B. as much as C. as soon as D. as well as

单选题What does the author mean by "most people are literally having a ZZZ" (Line 2, Paragraph 5)?

单选题Staying in a hotel costs______ renting a room in an apartment for a week.

单选题It was no ______ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery.

单选题Friend A: Just call me dad! My wife and I had our first baby. Friend B:______.

单选题______ I love you, I cannot lend you any more money.

单选题The human body is composed of organs, each ______ a definite job to do.

单选题I sent him the package yesterday. He __ it by now.

单选题The Aleuts, residing on several islands of the Aleutian Chain, the Pribilof islands, and the Alaskan Peninsula, have possessed a written language since 1825, when the Russian missionary Ivan Veniaminov selected appropriate characters of the Cyrillic alphabet to represent Aleut speech sounds, recorded the main body of Aleut vocabulary, and formulated grammatical rules. The Czarist Russian conquest of the proud, independent sea hunters was so devastatingly thorough that tribal traditions, even tribal memories, were almost obliterated. The slaughter of the majority of an adult generation was sufficient to destroy the continuity of tribal knowledge, which was dependent upon oral transmission. As a consequence, the Aleuts developed a fanatical devotion to their language as their only cultural heritage. The Russian occupation placed a heavy linguistic burden on the Aleuts. Not only were they compelled to learn Russian to converse with their overseers and governors, but they had to learn Old Slavonic to take an active part in church services as well as to master the skill of reading and writing their own tongue. In 1867, when the United States purchased Alaska, the Aleuts were unable to break sharply with their immediate past and substitute English for any one of their three languages. To communicants of the Russian Orthodox Church a knowledge of Slavonic remained vital, as did Russian, the language in which one conversed with the clergy. The Aleuts came to regard English education as a device to wean them from their religious faith. The introduction of compulsory English schooling caused a minor renascence of Russian culture as the Aleut parents sought to counteract the influence of the schoolroom. The harsh life of the Russian colonial rule began to appear more happy and beautiful in retrospect. Regulations forbidding instruction in any language other than English increased its unpopularity, The superficial alphabetical resemblance of Russian and Aleut linked the two tongues so closely that every restriction against teaching Russian was interpreted as an attempt to eradicate the Aleut tongue. From the wording of many regulations, it appears that American administrators often had not the slightest idea that the Aleuts were clandestinely reading and writhing their own tongue or even had a written language of their own. To too many officials, anything in Cyrillic letters was Russian and something to be stamped out. Bitterness bred by abuses and the exploitations the Aleuts suffered from predatory American traders and adventurers kept alive the Aleut resentment against the language spoken by Americans. Gradually, despite the failure to emancipate the Aleuts from a sterile past by relating the Aleut and English languages more closely, the passage of years has assuaged the bitter misunderstandings and caused an orientation away from Russian toward English as their second language, but Aleut continues to be the language that molds their thought and expression.

单选题I managed to talk down the price and bought the coat ______ the discount of 20 percent. A. for B. with C. on D. at

单选题The news item about the air crash is followed by a detailed report made ______.

单选题(For) the grounds that fiction is not (objectively) true, there (are) those who (object) to it.

单选题Interviewer: Hi, Christopher, what do you do in your free time? ______ ? Christopher: Well, I have a lot of hobbies. I like to read, and I like to work on computers.