单选题______we have finished all the final exams, we'll have a good time enjoying ourselves.

单选题According to the passage which of the following occurred prior to 1890.9

单选题While (attempted) (to reach) his home before the storm, John (had an accident) (on) his bicycle.

单选题This is ______ for ten of us to sit at. Please get us a larger one.

单选题What have the Handlins argued about the relationship between racial prejudice and the institution of legal slavery in the English colonies of North America?

单选题"The one in the brown suit gaped at her. Blue suit grinned, might even have winked. The big nose in grey suit still stared—and he had small angry eyes and did not even smile." That is an example of ______.

单选题It is obvious ______ on more important things.

单选题______ a microscope we can see different kinds of things that are unable to be seen by our naked eyes.

单选题George Bernard Shaw once wrote: "There is no love sincerer than the love of food. "That love has limits, however. In thin years, diners value their wallets over their palates. Visits to posh restaurants in America declined by 15 % between May 2008 and May this year, according to the NPD Group, a research firm. Fast-food restaurants, on the other hand, saw traffic decline only 2%. To lure eaters back, many fine restaurants have done what luxury brands hate to do: have a cut-price sale. Some offer discounts to those who dine at unpopular times, such as early in the evening or on Sunday. Restaurant Week, a twice-yearly tradition in New York City where restaurants offer discounted prix-fixed menus at lunch and dinner, was extended by six weeks this summer. This may help. The 21 Club, a fancy joint in Manhattan, usually sees its business increase by around 25%～40% during Restaurant Week, says Bryan McGuire, its general manager. Many restaurants have also turned to the Internet. Gilt and Rue La La, two popular online shopping sites that offer heavy discounts on designer clothing, have started to peddle meals at fancy restaurants too. Gilt, for example, recently sold a four-course meal at the Tribeca Grill, a restaurant owned by Robert De Niro, an actor, for $160 (36% off). Shopping sites like these attract image-conscious restaurants, because only the site's members can see that the restaurant has started to offer leaner prices. Another website, Groupon, has gained popularity among restaurants as a way to bring in new customers. The company offers a daily discount in each of the 140 American and European cities where it operates. Some 40% of its promotions are for restaurants. The deals can be generous: some offer $50-worth of food and wine for $25. The deal only goes into effect, however, if enough people buy it. So people prod their Facebook friends to join the feeding frenzy. This type of "collective buying" has caught on. Since the firm started in 2008, it has brokered the sale of more than 8.8m "groupons" and saved customers around $375m. La Condesa, a restaurant in Austin, has sold 3,000 groupons. " It brings a lot of people into the restaurant who would never have come in," says Jesse Herman, an executive. Tasty offerings abound online. OpenTable, a website, allows people to book a table without having to plead with a snooty hostess. It also makes it easier for restaurants to track customers. SeamlessWeb allows people in America and Britain to search online for nearby eateries and order their food delivered. Even swanky restaurants have started to take part, betting that some people might want to eat haute cuisine without dressing for the occasion. But SeamlessWeb takes a cut of restaurants' sales for bringing them business, so restaurants have to decide whether' it's better to stay hungry for customers or share part of their meal with someone else.

单选题It"s no surprise that Jennifer Senior"s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I love My Children, I Hate My Life," is arousing much chatter—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that "the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight." The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive—and newly single—mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity morn, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands. In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn"t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn"t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives. Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake. It"s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it"s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren"t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting "the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

单选题Nobody will ever know the agony I go ______ waiting for him to come home.

单选题They overcame all the difficulties and fulfilled the plan ten days ahead of schedule, ______ was something we had not expected. A．which B．that C．this D．it

单选题For those who believe additional training would be beneficial, a booster program is available.

单选题Of the two toys, the child chose ______. A. the less expensive one B. one most expensive C. a least expensive D. the most expensive of them

单选题There is extraordinary exposure in the United States to the risks of injury and death from motor vehicle accidents. More than 80 percent of all households own passenger cars or light trucks and each of these is driven an average of more than 11,000 miles each year. Almost one-half of fatally injured drivers have a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.1 percent or higher. For the average adult, over five ounces of 80 proof spirits would have to be consumed over a short period of time attain these levels. One third of drivers who have been drinking, but fewer than 4 percent of all drivers, demonstrate levels. Although less than 1 percent of drivers with BACs of 0.1 percent or more are involved in fatal crashes, the probability of their involvement is 27 times higher than for those without alcohol in their blood. There are a number of different approaches to reducing injuries in which intoxication plays a role. Based on the observation that excessive consumption correlates with the total alcohol consumption of a country's population, it has been suggested that higher taxes on alcohol would reduce both. While the heavier drinkers would be taxed the most, anyone who drinks at all would be penalized by this approach. To make drinking and driving a criminal offense is an approach directed only at intoxicated drivers. In some states, the law empowers police to request breath tests of drivers cited for any traffic offense and elevated BAC can be the basis for arrest. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates, however, that even with increased arrests, there are about 700 violations for every arrest. At this level there is little evidence that laws serve as deterrents to drinking while intoxicated. In Britain, motor vehicle fatalities fell 25 percent immediately following implementation of the Road Safety Act in 1967. As the British increasingly recognized that they could drink and not be stopped, the effectiveness declined, although in the ensuing three years the fatality rate seldom reached that observed in the seven years prior to the Act. Whether penalties for driving with a high BAC or excessive taxation on consumption of alcoholic beverages will deter the excessive drinkers responsible for most fatalities is unclear. In part, the answer depends on the extent to which those with high BACs involved in crashes are capable of controlling their intake in response to economic or penal threat. Therapeutic programs which range from individual and group counseling and psychotherapy to chemotherapy constitute another approach, but they have not diminished the proportion of accidents in which alcohol was a factor. In the few controlled trials that have been reported there is little evidence that rehabilitation programs for those repeatedly arrested for drunken behavior have reduced either the recidivism or crash rates. Thus far, there is no firm evidence that Alcohol Safety Action Project supported programs, in which rehabilitation measures are requested by the court, have decreased recidivism or crash involvement for clients exposed to them, although knowledge and attitudes have improved. One thing is clear, however: unless we deal with automobile and highway safety and reduce accidents in which alcoholic intoxication plays a role, many will continue to die.

单选题The secret agent concealed her real mission, therefore many local people were ______ into thinking that she was a good person.

单选题 Once upon a time, innovation at Procter & Gamble flowed one way: from the United States outward. While the large Cincinnati-based corporation was no stranger to foreign markets, it usually sold them products that were already familiar to most Americans. Many Japanese families, for instance, swaddle their babies in Pampers diapers, and lots of Venezuelans brush their teeth with Crest. And of course (company executive assumed) American at home wanted these same familiar, red-white and blue brands. We might buy foreign-made cars, or chocolates, or cameras but household cleaners and detergents? Recently, however, P&G broke with this long-standing tradition. Ariel, a P&G laundry detergent, was born overseas, and is a familiar sight on store shelves in Europe and Latin America. Now bilingual packages of Ariel Ultra, a super-concentrated cleaner, are appearing on supermarket shelves in Los Angeles. Ariel's appearance in the United States reflects demographic changes making Hispanics the nation's fastest-growing ethnic group. Ariel is a hit with this population. In fact, many Mexican immigrants living in Southern California have been "importing" Ariel from Tijuana, Mexico. "Hispanics knew this product and wanted it," says P&G spokeswoman Marie Salvado. "We realized that we couldn't convince them to buy (our) other laundry detergents." P&G hopes that non-Hispanic consumers will give Ariel a try too. Ariel's already strong presence in Europe may provide a springboard for the company to expand into other markets as well. Recently P&G bought Rakona, Czechoslovakia's top detergent maker. Ariel, currently a top seller in Germany, is likely to be one of the first new brands to appear in Czech supermarkets. And Ariel is not the only foreign idea that the company hopes to transplant back to its home territory. Chinch, an all-purpose spray cleaner similar to popular European products, is currently being test-marketed in California and Arizona. Traditionally Americans have used separate cleaners for different types of surfaces, but market research shows that American preferences are becoming more like those in other countries. Insiders note that this new reverse flow of innovation reflects more sweeping changes at Procter & Gamble. The firm has hired many new Japanese, German, and Mexican managers who view P&G's business not as a one-way flow of American ideas, but a two-way exchange with other markets. Says Bonita Austin of the investment firm Wertheim-Schroeder, "When you met with P&G's top managers years ago, you wouldn't have seen a single foreign face." Today "they could even be in the majority." As Procter & Gamble has found, the United States is no longer an isolated market. Americans are more open than ever before to buying foreign-made products and to selling U. S.-made products overseas.

单选题Mr. Jones was traveling in a car. Soon after setting out from a village to drive to London, he heard a strange noise from the back of the car. Naturally, he 1 to have a look. He examined the wheels closely but found nothing wrong. 2 , he got back into the car and continued his way. The noise began almost immediately and was louder than 3 . Quickly turning his head, the man saw what appeared to be a great black loud following the car. 4 He stopped at a village later on, he was told that a queen bee must be 5 in his car as there were thousands of bees nearby. 6 Learning his, the man realized that the only way to get rid of the bees would be to drive away as 7 as possible. After an hour"s hard driving, he arrived in London where he parked his car outside a hotel and went in to have a drink. It was not long 8 a waiter who had seen him 9 hurried in to inform him that his car was covered with bees. The poor driver telephoned the police and explained what had happened. The 10 decided that the best way to 11 the situation would be to call in a bee-keeper. In a short time, the bee-keeper arrived. He found the 12 passenger hidden near the wheel at the back of the car. Very thankful to the driver for his 13 gift, the bee-keeper took the queen and her thousands of 14 home in a large box. Then, the driver drove away in peace, 15 free from the "black cloud", which had hung over his car.