单选题"______ your meeting is! "he offered them his sincere congratulations. A. How a great success B. What a great success C. How great success D. What great success

单选题The environment affects the way people interact. To examine this conclusion, two researchers decorated three rooms. One room was refurnished to look ugly. The second room was intended to look average.

单选题The author's tone is ______.

单选题There are three bodies of writing that ______ on this question and we will consider each in turn.

单选题How much did this set of furniture cost?I forgot __

单选题I always keep candles in the house ______ there is power cut.

单选题______ could solve that problem. It's so easy.

单选题The floor of his study was occupied by a ______ mass of books and papers. A. callous B. hectic C. chaotic D. cute

单选题China has been following the foreign policy to develop relations with other countries on the ______of the five principles of peaceful co - existence.

单选题Though my aunt pursued a policy, ______, in those days, enlightened, she never allowed her domestic staff to work more than eight hours a day, ______ she was extremely difficult to please.

单选题 Thirst grows for living unplugged More people are taking breaks from the connected life amid the stillness and quiet of retreats like the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. A. About a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on 'Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.' Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most interested in, he began, was stillness and quiet. B. A few months later, I read an interview with the well-known cutting-edge designer Philippe Starck. What allowed him to remain so consistently ahead of the curve? 'I never read any magazines or watch TV, ' he said, perhaps with a little exaggeration. 'Nor do I go to cocktail parties, dinners or anything like that.' He lived outside conventional ideas, he implied, because 'I live alone mostly, in the middle of nowhere.' C. Around the same time, I noticed that those who part with $ 2 285 a night to stay in a cliff-top room at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, pay partly for the privilege of not having a TV in their rooms; the future of travel, I'm reliably told, lies in 'black-hole resorts, ' which charge high prices precisely because you can't get online in their rooms. D. Has it really come to this? The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Internet rescue camps in South Korea and China try to save kids addicted to the screen. Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to disable the very Internet connections that seemed so emancipating not long ago. Even Intel experimented in 2007 with conferring four uninterrupted hours of quiet time (no phone or e-mail) every Tuesday morning on 300engineers and managers. Workers were not allowed to use the phone or send e-mail, but simply had the chance to clear their heads and to hear themselves think. E. The average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen. Nicholas Carr notes in his book The Shallows. The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl managed to handle an average of 10 000 every 24 hours for a month. Since luxury is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow will long for nothing more than intervals of freedom from all the blinking machines, streaming videos and scrolling headlines that leave them feeling empty and too full all at once. F. The urgency of slowing down—to find the time and space to think—is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. 'Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, 'the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, 'and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.' He also famously remarked that all of man's problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone. G. When telegraphs and trains brought in the idea that convenience was more important than content, Henry David Thoreau reminded us that 'the man whose horse trots (奔跑) a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.' Marshall McLuhan, who came closer than most to seeing what was coming, warned, 'When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.' We have more and more ways to communicate, but less and less to say. Partly because we are so busy communicating. And we are rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines. H. So what to do? More and more people I know seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation (沉思), or tai chi (太极); these aren't New Age fads (时尚的事物) so much as ways to connect with what could be called the wisdom of old age. Two friends of mine observe an 'Internet sabbath (安息日)' every week, turning off their online connections from Friday night to Monday morning. Other friends take walks and 'forget' their cellphones at home. I. A series of tests in recent years has shown, Mr. Carr points out, that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects 'exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition. Their brains become both calmer and sharper.' More than that, empathy (同感，共鸣), as well as deep thought, depends (as neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have found) on neural processes that are 'inherently slow.' J. I turn to eccentric measures to try to keep my mind sober and ensure that I have time to do nothing at all (which is the only time when I can see what I should be doing the rest of the time). I have yet to use a cellphone and I have never Tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot. None of this is a matter of asceticism (苦行主义) ; it is just pure selfishness. Nothing makes me feel better than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, or music, it is actually something deeper than mere happiness: it is joy, which the monk (僧侣) David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.' K. it is vital, of course, to stay in touch with the world. But it is only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it. For more than 20years, therefore, I have been going several times a year—often for no longer than three days—to a Benedictine hermitage (修道院), 40 minutes down the road, as it happens, from the Post Ranch Inn. I don't attend services when I am there, and I have never meditated, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness, recalling that it is only by stepping briefly away from my wife and bosses and friends that I will have anything useful to bring to them. The last time I was in the hermitage, three months ago, I happened to meet with a youngish-looking man with a 3-year-old boy around his shoulders. L. 'You're Pico, aren't you?' the man said, and introduced himself as Larry; we had met, I gathered, 19years before, when he had been living in the hermitage as an assistant to one of the monks. 'What are you doing now?' I asked. We smiled. No words were necessary. 'I try to bring my kids here as often as I can, ' he went on. The child of tomorrow, I realized, may actually be ahead of us, in terms of sensing not what is new, but what is essential.

单选题Television makes us better( )than ever before.

单选题Whether right or wrong, he has some new ideas about how the lesson should be______.

单选题Behind his large smiles and large cigars, his eyes often seemed to ______ regret.

单选题The day was breaking and people began to go to work so the murderer was unable to ______ of the body. A. dispense B. dispose C. discard D. discharge

单选题She, on the other hand, when considering the situation, had a ______of danger and uttered a severe

单选题 I ______ with the Browns during my stay in New York City.

单选题__________surprisedmemostwas_________suchalittleboyofsevencouldplaytheviolinsowell.

单选题 When researcher Josh Santarpia stands at the foot of a bed, taking measurements with a device that can detect tiny, invisible particles of saliva (唾液) that come out of someone's mouth and move through the air, he can tell whether the sick person is speaking or not just by looking at the read-out on his instrument. 'So clearly, the particles which that person is putting out are being breathed in by someone that is five feet away from them, at the foot of their bed,' says Santarpia, who studies biological aerosols (气溶胶) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. 'Do they contain vires? I don't know for sure.' He and his colleagues are doing their best to find out. Already, using another device that looks like a fancy dust collector, they've sucked up air samples from 11 isolation rooms that housed 13 people who tested positive for COVID-19 infection, all of whom had a variety of mild symptoms. In those air samples, researchers found the genetic fingerprint of the virus. 'It was more than half of the samples that we took. It was fairly everywhere,' says Santarpia, 'but the concentrations were really pretty low.' Finding the genetic material doesn't necessarily mean that there's living virus that could potentially make someone sick, he cautions. Some primary evidence indicates that this might be the case, but the team wants to do more work 'and try and be as certain as we possibly can whether or not certain samples had infectious virus in them or not.' They want to know that with a high degree of confidence because the question of whether or not the coronavirus (冠状病毒) can be transported by the air is extremely controversial right now—and it's a question that has real implications for what people should do to avoid getting infected. 'I personally think that transmission by breathing in virus in the air is happening,' says Linsey Marr, an aerosol scientist at Virginia Tech. But she says so far, health experts have largely discounted the possibility of transmitting this coronavirus in this way.