The old painting was damaged in the flood and had to be painstakingly______.

Which of the following underlined parts indicates a subject-verb relation?

Which of the following sentences Is INCORRECT?

There is no doubt _____ that this woman was a totally devoted and caring mother.

After a long delay, she______replying to my e-mail. （2007年考试真题）

This band is set to ______ their new album this fall.

The house that we used to live in is in a very______state. （1993年考试真题）

The experiment requires more money than ______.

Under no ______ should we seek temporary economic development at the expense of the environment and resources.

It is absolutely essential that William_____his study in spite of some learning difficulties.

In the sentence "The manager interviewed Jim himself in the morning", the underlined word is used to modify

To his astonishment, he saw a rope ladder ______ out and three men climbing down it.[1995]

The mystery of the expansion of sea ice around Antarctica, at the same time as global warming is melting swaths of Arctic sea ice, has been solved using data from U. S. military satellites. Two decades of measurements show that changing wind patterns around Antarctica have caused a small increase in sea ice, the result of cold winds off the continent blowing ice away from the coastline. "Until now these changes in ice drift were only speculated upon using computer models, " said Paul Holland at the British Antarctic Survey. "Our study of direct satellite observations shows the complexity of climate change." "The Arctic is losing sea ice five times faster than the Antarctic is gaining it, so, on average, the Earth is losing sea ice very quickly. There is no inconsistency between our results and global warming." The extent of sea ice is of global importance because the bright ice reflects sunlight far more than the ocean, meaning temperature rises still further. This summer saw a record low in Arctic sea ice since satellite measurements began 30 years ago. Holland said the changing pattern of sea ice at both poles would aiso affect global ocean circulation, with unknown effects. He noted that while Antarctic sea ice was growing, the Antarctic ice cap—the glacier and snow pack on the continent—was losing mass, with the fresh water flowing into the ocean. The research on Antarctic sea ice, published in Nature Geoscience, revealed large regional variations. In places where warm winds blowing from the tropics towards Antarctica had become stronger, sea ice was being lost rapidly. "In some areas, such as the Bellingshausen Sea, the sea ice is being lost as fast as in the Arctic, " said Holland. But in other areas, sea ice was being added as sea water left behind ice being blown away from the coast froze. The net effect is that there has been an extra 17, 000 sq km of sea ice each year since 1978—about a tenth of a percent of the maximum sea ice cover. Antarctica is a continent surrounded by an ocean, whereas the Arctic is an ocean surrounded by a continent. For that reason, said Holland, sea ice was not able to expand by the same mechanism in the Arctic as at the southern pole, because if winds pushed the ice away from the pole it quickly hit land. Holland did the research with Ron Kwok at Nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in California, where maps of sea ice movements were created from more than 5m individual daily measurements collected over 19 years. The maps showed, for the first time, the long-term changes in sea ice drift around Antarctica. Kwok said; "The Antarctic sea ice cover interacts with the global climate system very differently than that of the Arctic, and these results highlight the sensitivity of the Antarctic ice coverage to changes in the strength of the winds around the continent. "

Which of the following words can NOT be used to complete "I______think so"?

Which of the following italicized parts explains PURPOSE?

Western Nebraska generally receives less snow than _______ Eastern Nebraska

Which of the following infinitives (不定式) functions as an adverbial?

Thermal expansion of solid is _____ detected by our naked eyes.

PASSAGE THREE

You seem to be dissatisfied with your present post. I don't think you judged your ability objectively when you applied for it, _____ you?