单选题I'll have to______this dress a bit before the wedding next week.

单选题This kind of coffee is different ______.

单选题 National Parks have more and more visitors each year. In the last ten years the number of campers using the camp sites has more than doubled. Camping as a family vacation has suddenly become extremely popular in America. It is a cheap way to travel; its simple pleasures are a pleasant change from hectic urban life; and it can be enjoyed by children of all ages. In car trunks or in racks on top of cars, families load a tent, sleeping bags, inflatable mattresses, cooking pans and eating utensils, and an ice chest for storing food. When they arrive at a camping ground they find a cleared space in which to pitch their tent, a fireplace for cooking, and usually a picnic table and benches--water and firewood nearby. By evening they are settled under the stars, the campsite around them dotted with lights from cooking fires and lanterns hung from trees. Vacations are not all in resorts or in the wilderness. Swarms of vacationing Americans visit New York and Washington each year. They visit New York because there is no place in the world like this tremendous, exciting city, the busiest port in the world, with its great steel and glass skyscrapers, its theaters and shops, its beauty of skyline and shoreline, and its thrilling five-cent ferry ride past the Statue of Liberty. They visit Washington because it is the nation's capital, where they can see their government at work, tour the public rooms of their President's home, the White House, and walk along the wide avenues to the art galleries and museums. Here they can see exhibits of the native peoples of their land--the Indians and the Eskimos. They can look at Lindbergh's small, fragile plane in which he crossed the Atlantic Ocean. They can ride the elevator to the top of the Washington Monument, visit Washington's Mount Vernon home, and feel the shiver of national pride as they stand at the foot of the great Lincoln Monument and read the stirring words of his Gettysburg Address. For Americans vacation time ends on Labor Day--the first Monday in September. Labor Day is the day when summer cottages are closed, when families head back to their homes. The highways are jammed with cars. The cars are jammed with families and belongings and treasures of the summer. By the time the drivers are back home they sometimes feel that what they need is a vacation.

单选题The opportunity to explore and play and the encouragement to do so can ______ the performance of many children.

单选题The Smiths______ the Summer Palace three times.

单选题Have you ever wondered how acceptable it is to hug or touch someone? While it may sound safe to avoid all physical contact so as not to offend anyone, the lack of touching might imply cold attitudes or indifference in interpersonal relationships. So, what should we do? The simple answer is to thoroughly learn unique cultural norms for physical contact. In nonverbal communication terminology (术语), physical contact and the study of touching are generally referred to as haptics. Haptics in communication often suggest the level of intimacy. They are usually classified into two groups: high-contact and low-contact. Asia and quite surprisingly the United States, Canada and Britain belong to low-contact cultures. People from the rest of the world, such as Latin America, are considered to be in high-contact cultures, where they tend to expect touching in social interactions and feel more comfortable with physical closeness. Despite the classification, there are more complex factors such as relational closeness, gender, age, and context that can affect how someone views physical contact. One common French custom of greetings is cheek-kissing, but it is mostly restricted to friends, close acquaintances and family members. While cheek-kissing for Latin Americans is also a universal greeting form, it does not require such a high degree of relational closeness. However, gender matters more for them because cheek-kissing often only happens between women or a man and a woman but not two men. In contrast, in certain Arabian, African, and Asian countries, men can publicly hold hands or show physical affection as signs of brotherhood or friendship while these behaviors may suggest a romantic relationship in other parts of the world. Although men’s touching is more normal in these cultures, physical contact between persons of opposite sexes who are not family members is negatively perceived in Arabian countries. These factors could definitely affect the degree to which someone is comfortable with tactile (触觉的 ) communication and physical intimacy. Therefore, if you are someone who loves to show physical affection, you should not be afraid to show it or drastically change your behaviors—just ask for consent beforehand!

单选题America's most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to 28 plans for a paywall around its digital offering, 29 the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news. Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times 30 to introduce a 'metered' model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have 31 a set number of its online articles per month. The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper 32 the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm (鸿沟) in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not charge internet readers, and certain papers, such as London's Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions free. The New York Times' publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, 33 that the move is a gamble: 'This is a bet, to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going.' Boasting a print 34 of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third best-selling American newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can 35 national scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and 36 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world. But like many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a serious financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but 37 a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million loan from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet. A. suffered B. targeted C. circulation D. set out E. acknowledged F. abandoning G. multiplied H. intend to I. maintains J. claim K. evaluation L. set in M. on N. exceeded O. abusing

单选题If we do not adopt any measures to protect tigers, they will be ______ in the country in near future.

单选题According to the ______ of the contract, employees must give six months' notice if they intend to leave.

单选题The teacher ______ waiting for finally came into the classroom.

单选题The UN official said aid programs will be __________ until there is adequate protection for relief personnel.

单选题 The scheme fell ______ owning to lack of funds.

单选题He has the ______ distinction of being the only one in the class to fail the examination.

单选题"He was on his way" refers to the fact that ______.

单选题The growing trade gap between the United States and its trading partners would continue to widen, due to the continued repercussions of the economic crisis that swept through East Asia during 1997.

单选题Man: Does the rent include telephone bills? Landlady: ______

单选题______mother is a teacher and writer.

单选题Speaker A: Ten dollars for this brand? Speaker B:______I got it in a second hand store.

单选题You should keep it in the icebox, ______ it will go bad.