单选题The phrase “soak up” in the last Para. probably means____.

单选题Battles are like marriages. They have a certain fundamental experience they share in common; they differ infinitely, but still they are all alike. A battle seems to me a conflict of will with death in the same way that a marriage of love is the identification of two human beings to the end of creation of life--as death is the reverse of life, and love of hate. Battles are commitments to cause death as marriages are commitments to create life. Whether, for any individual, either union results in death or in the creation of life, each risks it--and in the risk commits himself. As the servants of death, battles will always remain horrible. Those who are fascinated by them are being fascinated by death. There is no battle aim worthy of the name except that of ending all battles. Any other conception is, literally, suicidal. The fascist worship of battle is a suicidal drive; it is love of death instead of life. In the same idiom, to triumph in battle over the forces which are fighting for death is-- again literally--to triumph over death. It is a surgeon's triumph as he cuts a body and bloodies his hands in removing a cancer in order to triumph over death that is in the body. In these thoughts I have found my own peace, and I return to an army that fights death and cynicism in the name of life and hope. It is a good army. Believe in it.

单选题Proper ______ can ease people"s relationship and make their conversation more pleasant.

单选题Though ______ in a big city, Peter always prefers to paint the primitive scenes of country life. A) grown B) raised C) tended D) cultivated

单选题Our boss was seen ______ a new car.

单选题It can be inferred from the text that the author feels that

单选题Elections often tell you more about what people are against than what they are for. So it is with the European ones that took place last week in all 25 European Union member countries. These elections, widely trumpeted as the world's biggest-ever multinational democratic vote, were fought for the most part as 25 separate national contests, which makes it tricky to pick out many common themes. But the strongest are undoubtedly negative. Europe's voters are angry and disillusioned-and they have demonstrated their anger and disillusion in three main ways. The most obvious was by abstaining. The average overall turnout was just over 45%, by some margin the lowest ever recorded for elections to the European Parliament. And that average disguises some big variations: Italy, for example, notched up over 70%, but Sweden managed only 37%. Most depressing of all, at least to believers in the European project, was the extremely low vote in many of the new member countries from central Europe, which accounted for the whole of the fall in turnout since 1999. In the biggest, Poland, only just over a fifth of the electorate turned out to vote. Only a year ago, central Europeans voted in large numbers to join the EU, which they did on May 1st. That they abstained in such large numbers in the European elections points to early disillusion with the European Union-as well as to a widespread feeling, shared in the old member countries as well, that the European Parliament does not matter. Disillusion with Europe was also a big factor in the second way in which voters protested, which was by supporting a ragbag of populist, nationalist and explicitly anti-EU parties. These ranged from the 16% who backed the UK Independence Party, whose declared policy is to withdraw from the EU and whose leaders see their mission as "wrecking" the European Parliament, to the 14% who voted for Sweden's Junelist, and the 27% of Poles who backed one of two anti-EU parties, the League of Catholic Families and Selfdefence. These results have returned many more Eurosceptics and trouble-makers to the parliament: on some measures, over a quarter of the new MEPS will belong to the "awkward squad". That is not a bad thing, however, for it will make the 'parliament more representative of European public opinion. But it is the third target of European voters' ire that is perhaps the most immediately significant, the fact that, in many EU countries, old and new, they chose to vote heavily against their own governments. This anti-incumbent vote was strong almost everywhere, but it was most pronounced in Britain, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Sweden. The leaders of all the four biggest European Union countries, Tony Blair in Britain, Jacques Chirac in France, Gerhard Schroder in Germany and Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, were each given a bloody nose by their voters. The big question now is how Europe's leaders should respond to this. By a sublime (or terrible) coincidence, soon after the elections, and just as The Economist was going to press, they were gathering in Brussels for a crucial summit, at which they are due to agree a new constitutional treaty for the EU and to select a new president for the European Commissi6n. Going into the meeting, most EU heads of government seemed determined to press ahead with this agenda regardless of the European elections--even though the atmosphere after the results may make it harder for them to strike deals.

单选题Contrary to its rather negative reputation in the West, pigs in Chinese culture are a sign of kindness and generosity. Pigs care a great deal about friends and family and work hard to keep everyone in their life happy. Chinese people view the pig as a smart and prosperous animal. Western ideas tend to be a little more negative. When talking to a Westerner, however, you have to be a little careful when you talk about pigs. A pig in the West is seen as a dirty, lazy, and fat animal. If anyone ever called you a pig, you wouldn't be smiling. When a person doesn't like someone, sometimes he will call that person a pig. If you ever meet a Westerner who was born in the year of the pig, don't say, "Oh, you're a pig!" Most Westerners will be quite understanding. They will be sure that you made some kind of a mistake. However, don't take any chances. You might just offend someone who does not share your positive ideas about pigs.

单选题One day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to New York and the girl in the ticket office said, "I'm sorry, I can't sell you a ticket. Our computer is down." "If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket." "I can't write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so." I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do?' "We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not." "So when it goes down, you go down with it." "That's good, sir. ' "How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know. "I have no idea. There's no way we can find out without asking the computer." After the girl told me they had no backup (备用) computer, I said. "Let's forget the computer. What about your planes? They're still flying, aren't they?" "I wouldn't know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only 'IT'knows. 'It'can't tell me. By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

单选题What he said sounds ______.

单选题__________ you find yourself in a condition of being troubled or worried about some trifles, please cultivate a hobby.

单选题After swimming in the sea, they came out of water and lay on the ______ for a rest.A. bankB. coastC. seasideD. beach

单选题He always studies the______in the paper as he wants to find a good second- hand car.

单选题He had no sooner finished his speech______he withdrew.

单选题There once lived a poor tailor who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy 1 would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that 2 died; yet, in spite of his mother"s tears and prayers, Aladdin did not 3 his ways. One day, when he was playing in the streets as usual, a stranger 4 him if he was not the son of Mustapha the tailor. "I am, sir," replied Aladdin, "but he died a 5 while ago." On this the stranger, who was a 6 magician, fell on his neck and kissed him saying: "I am your uncle, and 7 you from your likeness to my brother. Go to your mother and tell her I am coming." Aladdin ran home and told his mother of his newly 8 uncle. "Indeed, child," she said, "your father had a 9 , but I always thought he was dead." However, she prepared supper, and told Aladdin to seek his 10 , who came laden with wine and fruit. He fell down and kissed the place where Mustapha used to sit, telling Aladdin"s mother not to be 11 at not having seen him before, as he had been out of the country for forty years. He then 12 to Aladdin, and asked him his trade, at which the boy hung his head, while his mother burst into tears. On learning that Aladdin was idle and had learned 13 trade, he offered to get a shop for him and stock it with merchandise. The next 14 he bought Aladdin a fine suit of clothes and took him all over the city, showing him the sights, and brought him home at nightfall 15 his mother, who was overjoyed to see her son dressed so fine.

单选题Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and winch is normally taught in schools and to non-native speakers leaning the language. It is also the variety which is normally (71) by educated people and used in news broadcasts and other (72) situations. The difference between standard and nonstandard, it should be noted, has (73) in principle to do with differences between formal and colloquial (74) ; standard English has colloquial as well as formal variants. (75) , the standard variety of English is based on the London (76) of English that developed after the Norman Conquest resulted in the removal of the Court from Winchester to London. This dialect became the one (77) by the educated, and it was developed and promoted (78) a model, or norm, for wider and wider segments of society. It was also the (79) that was carried overseas, but not one unaffected by such export. Today, (80) English is arranged to the extent that the grammar and vocabulary of English are (81) the same everywhere in the world where English is used; (82) among local standards is really quite minor, (83) the Singapore, South Africa, and Irish varieties have very (84) difference from one another so far as grammar and vocabulary are (85) . Indeed, Standard English is so powerful that it exerts a tremendous (86) on all local varieties, to the extent that many long-established dialects of England have (87) much of their vigor and there is considerable pressure on them to be (88) . This latter situation is not unique (89) English: it is also true in other countries where processes of standardization are (90) . But it sometimes creates problems for speakers who try to strike some kind of compromise between local norms and national, even supranational (跨国的) ones.

单选题Woman: I don't imagine you have any interest in attending that lecture on drawing, do you?Man: Oh, yes, I do. Now that you reminded me of it.Question: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?