单选题Dear Tom,You asked me why I like living in New Mexico.I like it（21）it is so beautiful.We havemountains,mesas平顶山,rivers,and forests.Mesa is the Spanish（22）for a broad,flat-toppedmountain.For 12 years,I

单选题"We can ' t go out in this weather, " said Bob, ____ out of the window.

单选题Equipped with modern science and technology people of today feel many assertions which were once taken as ______ truth absurd. A. religious B. profound C. sacred D. prominent

单选题 You should extend your hand when you hold it out to shake hands with someone. The underlined part means ______.

单选题 What's the one word of advice a well-meaning professional would give to a recent college graduate? China? India? Brazil'? How about trade? When the Commerce Department reported last week that the trade deficit in June approached $50 billion, it set off a new round of economic doomsaying. Imports, which soared to $200. 3 billion in the month, are subtracted in the calculation of gross domestic product. The larger the trade deficit, the smaller the GDP. Should such imbalances continue, pessimists say, they could contribute to slower growth. But there's another way of looking at the trade data. Over the past two years, the figures on imports and exports seem not to signal a double-dip recession—a renewed decline in the broad level of economic activity in the United States—but an economic expansion. The rising volume of trade—more goods and services shuttling in and out of the United States—is good news for many sectors. Companies engaged in shipping, tracking, rail freight, delivery, and logistics (物流) have all been reporting better than expected results. The rising numbers signify growing vitality in foreign markets—when we import more stuff, it puts more cash in the hands of people around the world, and U. S. exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market. The rising tide of trade is also good news for people who work in trade-sensitive businesses, especially those that produce commodities for which global demand sets the price—agricultural goods, mining, metals, oil. And while exports always seem to lag, U. S. companies are becoming more involved in the global economy with each passing month. General Motors sells as many cars in China as in America each month. While that may not do much for imports, it does help GM's balance sheet—and hence makes the jobs of U. S. -based executives more stable. One great challenge for the U. S. economy is slack domestic consumer demand. Americans are paying down debt, saving more, and spending more carefully. That's to be expected, given what we've been through. But there's a bigger challenge. Can U. S. -based businesses, large and small, figure out how to get a piece of growing global demand? Unless you want to pick up and move to India, or Brazil, or China, the best way to do that is through trade. It may seem obvious, but it's no longer enough simply to do business with our friends and neighbors here at home. Companies and individuals who don't have a strategy to export more, or to get more involved in foreign markets, or to play a role in global trade, are shutting themselves out of the lion's share of economic opportunity in our world.

单选题Nothing is less sensible than the advice of the Duke of Cambridge who is to be reported to have said: "Any change, at any time, for any reason is to be deplored ."

单选题"Me, afraid of him?" he said with a(n) ______ smile, "Not me!" A. contemptible B. amusing C. contagious D. contemptuous

单选题The fierce looking horse is in fact very Utame/U and you can set your mind at ease when you ride it.

单选题James: How is your sun burn today?Jane: It's much better. The cream you gave me is of great help.James: ______

单选题Another month, another dismal set of job figures. America pulled out of its last economic recession way back in November 2001, yet the country's "jobs recession" finished only last autumn, when 2.7 million jobs had been lost since the start of the slowdown. Now, though economic growth has bounced back, new jobs refuse to do the same in this, the third year of recovery. In February, a mere 21,000 jobs were created, according to the official payroll survey, at a time when George Bush's economists forecast 2.6 million new jobs for 2004 mounting alarm at the White House, and increased calls for protection against what a growing number of Americans see as the root of most ills: the "outsourcing" of jobs to places like China and India. Last week the Senate approved a bill that forbids the outsourcing of government contracts--a curious case of a government guaranteeing not to deliver value-for-money to taxpayers. American anxiety over the economy appears to have tipped over into paranoia and self-delusion. Too strong? Not really. As The Economist has recently argued--though in the face of many angry readers--the jobs lost are mainly a cyclical affair, not a structural one. They must also be set against the 24 million new jobs created during the 1990s. Certainly, the slow pace of job-creation today is without precedent, but so were the conditions that conspired to slow a booming economy at the beginning of the decade. A stock market bubble burst, and rampant business investment slumped. Then, when the economy was down, terrorist attacks were followed by a spate of scandals that undermined public trust in the way companies were run. These acted as powerful headwinds and, in the face of them, the last recession was remarkably mild. By the same token, the recovery is mild, too. Still, in the next year or so, today's high productivity growth will start to translate into more jobs. Whether that is in time for Mr. Bush is another matter. As for outsourcing, it is implausible now, as Lawrence Katz at Harvard University argues, to think that outsourcing has profoundly changed the structure of the American economy over just the past three or four years. After all, outsourcing was in full swing--both in manufacturing and in services--throughout the job-creating 1990s. Government statisticians reckon that outsourced jobs are responsible for well under 1% of those signed up as unemployed. And the jobs lost to outsourcing pale in comparison with the number of jobs lost and created each month at home.

单选题Man: What should we do tonight? Woman: There's supposed to be a huge sale at the mall. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题Lisa:Well, honey, how did you like the opera?Henry:__ 请作答此空__ ?Lisa: Of course.Henry:To tell the truth, I was bored to death. What a ridiculous art form! __57__Lisa:Hum! __58 __? It was beautiful. And

单选题What do we learn from the first paragraph?______

单选题Which of the following is the smallest unit of speech that can be used to differ one word from another?

单选题From the context, it can be deduced that Antwerp ______.

单选题When Mary paid the bill, she was given a ______ for her money.

单选题No one really knows who composed this piece of music, but it has been ______ to Bach.

单选题As you approach the copper-smith market, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to ____ on your ear. A. beat B. impinge C. thunder D. hammer