单选题The writer's attitude to the prospect of the ocean is ______.

单选题Mrs Black was glad to see her pet dog well ______ during her stay in hospital.

单选题In charge of an army of seven thousand men, he ______ the oriental city for nine months and finally defeated it.

单选题I regret ______ so much time and money on stamps.

单选题The teacher used a microphone ________ his voice could reach the back of the room.

单选题Whether work should be placed among the causes of happiness or among the causes of unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as a doubtful question. There is certainly much work which is exceedingly weary and an excess of work is always very painful. I think, however, that, provided work is not excessive in amount, even the dullest work is to most people less painful than idleness. There are in work all grades, from mere relief of tedium up to the profoundest delights, according to the nature of the work and the abilities of the worker. Most of the work that most people have to do is not in itself interesting, but even such work has certain great advantages. To begin with, it fills a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what one shall do. Most people, when they are left free to fill their own time according to their own choice, are at a loss to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing. And whatever they decide, they are troubled by the feeling that something else would have been pleasanter. To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Moreover the exercise of choice is in itself tiresome. Except to people with unusual initiative it is positively agreeable to be told what to do at each hour of the day, provided the orders are not too unpleasant. Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from toil. At times they may find relief by hunting big game in Africa, or by flying round the world, but the number of such sensations is limited, especially after youth is past, Accordingly the more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as if they were poor, while rich women for the most part keep themselves busy with innumerable trifles of those earth-shaking importance they are firmly persuaded. Work therefore is desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days. With this advantage of work another is associated, namely that it makes holidays much more delicious when they come. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to impair his vigor, he is likely to find far more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find. The second advantage of most paid work and of some unpaid work is that it gives chances of success and opportunities for ambition. In most work success is measured by income, and while our capitalistic society continues, this is inevitable. It is only where the best work is concerned that this measure ceases to be the natural one to apply. The desire than men feel to increase their income is quite as much a desire for success as for the extra comforts that a higher income can acquire. However dull work may be, it becomes bearable if it is a means of building up a reputation, whether in the world at large or only in one's own circle.

单选题Juliet is not at work. She is taking a ______until the end of this week.

单选题 Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?

单选题We may infer from this passage that ______.

单选题 Picture-taking is a technique both for reflecting the objective world and for expressing the singular self. Photographs depict objective realities that already exist, though only the camera can disclose them. And they depict an individual photographer's temperament, discovering itself through the camera's cropping of reality. That is, photography has two directly opposite ideals: in the first, photography is about the world and the photographer is a mere observer who counts for little; but in the second, photography is the instrument of fearlessness, questing subjectivity and the photographer is all. These conflicting ideals arise from uneasiness on the part of both photographers and viewers of photographs toward the aggressive component in "taking" a picture. Accordingly, the ideal of a photographer as observer is attracting because it implicitly denies that picture-taking is an aggressive act. The issue, of course, is not so clear-cut. What photographers do cannot be characterized as simply predatory or as simply, and essentially, benevolent. As a consequence, one ideal of picture-taking or the other is always being rediscovered and championed. An important result of the coexistence of these two ideals is a recurrent ambivalence toward photography's means. Whatever are the claims that photography might make to be a form of personal expression just like painting, its originality is closely linked to the power of a machine. The steady growth of these powers has made possible the extraordinary informativeness and imaginative formal beauty of many photographs, like Harold Edgerton's high-speed photographs of a bullet hitting its target or of the swirls and eddies of a tennis stroke. But as cameras become more sophisticated, more automated, some photographers are tempted to disarm themselves or to suggest that they are not really armed, preferring to submit themselves to the limit imposed by pre-modern camera technology because a cruder, less high-powered machine is thought to give more interesting or emotive results, to leave more room for creative accident. For example, it has been virtually a point of honor for many photographers, including Walker Evans and Cartier Bresson, to refuse to use modern equipment. These photographers have come to doubt the value of the camera as an instrument of "fast seeing". Cartier Bresson, in fact, claims that the modern camera may see too fast. This ambivalence toward photographic means determines trends in taste. The cult of the future (of faster and faster seeing) alternates over time with the wish to return to a purer past when images had a handmade quality. This longing for some primitive state of the photographic enterprise is currently widespread and underlies the present-day enthusiasm for daguerreotypes and the work of forgotten nineteenth-century provincial photographers. Photographers and viewers of photographs, it seems, need periodically to resist their own knowingness.

单选题 Urbanization—migration away from the suburbs to the city center—will be the biggest real estate trend in 2015, according to a new report. The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful. As smaller cities copy the model of these '24-hour cities,' more affordable versions of these places will be created. The report refers to this as the coming of the '18-hour city,' and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are 'positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.' Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials (千禧一代), will continue to put off buying a house. Apartments will retain their appeal for a while for Millennials, haunted by what happened to home-owning parents. This trend will continue into the 2020s, the report projects. After that, survey respondents disagree over whether this generation will follow in their parents' footsteps, moving to the suburbs to raise families, or will choose to remain in the city center. Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's failing infrastructure. Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail. The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive. Apart from the specific trends highlighted above, which cause some investors to worry, the report portrays an overall optimism borne by the recent healthy real-estate 'upcycle' and improving economy. Seventy-four percent of the respondents surveyed report a 'good to excellent' expectation of real-estate profitability in 2015. While excessive optimism can promote bad investment patterns, resulting in a real-estate 'bubble,' the report's writers downplay that potential outcome in that it has not yet occurred.

单选题Mark often attempts to escape______whenever he breaks traffic rules.

单选题We found that television and radio ______ far fewer complaints than did the printed media.

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单选题Make a note of it ______ you should forget it.

单选题A: Are there any seats left for the opera on Saturday night?B: ______

单选题In ______ century, computers will be used more widely. A. twenty-one B. the twenty-one C. twenty-fast D. the twenty-first

单选题I didn't know it then, but this {{U}}disruptive{{/U}} way of reading started with the very first novel I ever picked up.

单选题 Inflation is a period of rapid rises in prices. When your money buys fewer goods so that you get {{U}}(56) {{/U}} for the same amount of money as before, inflation is the problem. Sometimes people describe inflation as a time when "a dollar is not {{U}}(57) {{/U}} a dollar anymore". Inflation is a problem for all consumers, especially people who live on a fixed income. Retired people, for instance, cannot {{U}}(58) {{/U}} on an increase in income as prices rise. They face serious problems in stretching their incomes to {{U}}(59) {{/U}} their needs in time of inflation. Many retired people must cut their spending to {{U}}(60) {{/U}} rising prices. In many cases they must stop {{U}}(61) {{/U}} some necessary items, such as food and clothing. Even {{U}}(62) {{/U}} working people whose incomes are going up, inflation can also be a problem. The {{U}}(63) {{/U}} of living goes up, and they must have even more money to maintain their standard of living. When incomes do not keep {{U}}(64) {{/U}} with rising prices, living standard goes down. People may be earning the same amount of money, but they are not living {{U}}(65) {{/U}} because they are not able to buy as many goods and services. Government units gather information about prices in our economy and publish it as price indexes {{U}}(66) {{/U}} the rate of price change can be determined. A price index measures changes in prices using the price for a {{U}}(67) {{/U}} year as the base. The base price is set {{U}}(68) {{/U}} 100, and the other prices are reported as a {{U}}(69) {{/U}} of the base price. A price index makes {{U}}(70) {{/U}} possible to compare current price with that in previous years.

单选题The baby was found ______.