单选题The tallest building in Americas capital city is the Washington Monument纪念碑． It is 21 for George Washington , the first president of the United States． He 22 the American colonies殖民地 in the War o

单选题Salt, shells or metals are still used as money in out-of-the-way parts of the world today. Salt may seem rather a strange 28 to use as money, but in countries where the food of the people is mainly vegetable, it is often a(n) 29 necessity. Cakes of salt, stamped to show their value, were used as money in some countries until recent 30 , and cakes of salt still buy goods in Borneo and parts of Africa. Sea shells had been used as money at some time 31 another over the greater part of the Old World. These were 32 mainly from the beaches of the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, and were traded to India and China. In Africa, shells were traded right across the continent from East to West. Metal, valued by weight, 33 coins in many parts of the world. Iron, in lumps, bars or rings, is still used in many countries instead of paper money. It can either be exchanged for goods, or made into tools, weapons, or ornaments. The early money of China, apart from shells, was of bronze, often in flat, round pieces with a hole in the middle, called 'cash'. The 34 of these are between three thousand and four thousand years old—older than the earliest coins of the eastern Mediterranean. Nowadays, coins and notes have replaced nearly all the more picturesque 35 of money, and although in one or two of the more remote countries people still keep it for future use on ceremonial 36 such as weddings and funerals, examples of 37 money will soon be found only in museums. A. preceded B. object C. produced D. or E. collected F. original G. substance H. forms I. times J. assembly K. advantageous L. primitive M. occasions N. absolute O. earliest

单选题We lodge a claim ______ you ______ the short-weight. A．with, with B．for, for C．with, for D．for, with

单选题Four members walked out of the session, with the result that the committee did not have a ______and would not take any decisions. A. babe B. backbone C. quorum D. apartheid

单选题 Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work? The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom. Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people's work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived. Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and the family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes. It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded—a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the utopian goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

单选题There is nothing more possible than a new hip or knee that can put the spring back in your step. Patients receiving joint implants （移植） often are able to resume many of the physical activities they lo

单选题What explanation is given for many criminals being kept on death row?

单选题Parental controls and discipline ______.

单选题Ted: Thanks for your watermelon. It is very nice. ______ James: At the farmer's market round the corner. A. How much are they all together? B. Have you got anything nicer? C. Where did you get it, by the way? D. Where else can you see such nice watermelons?

单选题Teaching students of threshold level is hard work but the effort is very ________.

单选题It's too expensive for me. I can't ______ it. A. spend B. cost C. pay D. afford

单选题Speaker A: East Bouren 54655.Speaker B: Hello. John here. Can I speak to Mary, please?A:______B: OK.

单选题In a market economy, it is impractical to ______ big banks to reduce the qualification to provide financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises.

单选题Environmentalists______that it will not be easy to persuade car drivers to use their vehicles less often.

单选题What dreadful idea occurred to the writer? ( )

单选题Of the two new teachers, one is experienced and ______. A. another is inexperienced B. the other is not C. the other are not D. other lacks experience

单选题There is no______in insisting on the impossible.

单选题Don't come today. I would rather you ______ tomorrow. A. come B. came C. to come D. coming