We finished all of the food at a sitting. The underlined part means ______.

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The computer revolution may well change society as ______ as did the Industrial Revolution.

Nowadays most of people buy a house on hire purchase and paid monthly ______.

If there were no polysemy, Chinese _______ much easier to learn.

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The magazine is edgy , while still being down to earth. The underlined word means _______.

The three men tried many times to sneak across the border into the neighbouring country, ______ by the police each time.

Three years ago Elon College, a school of more than 4, 000 students with a rising academic reputation, decided it was no longer good marketing to be known as Fighting Christians and changed its mascot to the Phoenix, emblematic of its rebirth after a major fire in the 1920s. Some alumni resisted, but the change produced nothing like the soul-searching the school went through when, five months later, it joined a major movement in U. S. higher e-ducation by dropping the word "college" and renaming itself Elon University.'1' In the past 10 years, according to Higher Education Publications Inc. in Arlington, 161 other US colleges have done the same thing, for reasons that often have as much to do with image as academics. To make the situation more confusing, many of the new universities still advertise their collegelike atmosphere, while some institutions that call themselves colleges still tell potential applicants that they are just like universities. Guess which image is more appealing to 21st-century teenagers and their tuition-paying parents? George Dehne & Associates, a consulting firm, found that two-thirds of prospective students said they planned to enroll in a public or private university, not college. Dehne found that universities were more highly regarded than colleges by employers and graduate schools and more likely to be credited with having better students, a better social life, greater diversity of students, greater prestige and stronger science programs. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Menlo Park, Calif. , classifies institutions based on the number and range of their academic program. "But the use of college, university or anything else in the name has nothing to do with it, " said Alexander C. McCormick, senior scholar at the foundation. A few states regulate name changes of even private schools. In Oregon, a school that calls itself a university without authorization can be charged with "unlawful trade practices". But in most cases, colleges can rename themselves if they choose, and very few of the bigger ones have resisted the temptation. Among the 228 universities ranked by U. S. News & World Report in its "America's Best Colleges" guide, only three of them—Boston College(12, 375 students), the College of William and Mary(7, 500 students)and Dartmouth College(5, 000 students)—insist on keeping the more intimate title. The colleges that have made the switch call the renaming a reasoned response to the demands of students, faculty and modern preferences. Longwood College in Farmville, Va. , for instance, became a university in July because of the growth of its graduate programs and its effort to attain Division I athletic status among other factors. Leo Lambert, the President of Elon University, said his school's name change has worked out fine. He's not sure there's any connection, but applications have increased 30 percent since the switch, and campus visits are up 67 percent. Lambert says he's also seen signs of the power of the word " university". For instance, when he and his daughter Callie were visiting colleges last summer, they attended an information session at William and Mary. Although William and Mary officials said much about the virtues of intimacy, Lambert recalled, they also "took pains to make the point that they were really a university—law school, graduate programs, etc.—that chose to call itself a college."

What a pity! If only they ______ here now, we would be able to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

He was accepted as a(n)______ member of staff after three month's probation.

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Google has an ambitious vision for spectacles. On June 27th Sergey Brin, one of the company's co-founders, revealed the next stage of Project Glass, its effort to create wireless-connected glasses that allow their wearers to do a host of things, including receiving and responding to messages, and taking and sharing photos and videos. The goal is to get prototypes in the hands of software developers early next year and then to sell a more polished set of specs to consumers in late 2013 or early the following year. A product of Google's secretive X Lab, whose mission is to push the boundaries of computing, the glasses were on show at the company's developer conference in San Francisco along with several other gadgets, including a cheap tablet computer and a new wireless media player for the home. These gadgets attracted plenty of attention, but the longest queues at the event were at booths where folk were trying on Google's spectacles. That is hardly surprising because the glasses seem like something out of a science-fiction novel. A tiny transparent display towards the top of one lens allows wearers to see text and images by glancing upwards. And the spectacles can be controlled using either voice commands or a somewhat bulky touchpad integrated into one of the arms. Mr. Brin says the goal is to " get technology out of the way" so people can, say, take videos without having to pull out a camera or smartphone each time they do so. Google's glasses reflect a growing interest in wearable computing, which many experts think could be the next big thing in personal technology after smartphones and tablets. But some tech veterans give warning that designing novel devices people feel comfortable wearing is an especially tricky task. "In general, the first attempt at producing new computing paradigms rarely sticks, " notes Sumeet Jain of CMEA Capital, a venture-capital firm. If Google's glasses are to prove an exception to that rule, the firm will have to meet several challenges. One is to refine their design so that wearers don't look like nerds from a laboratory. Another is to relieve inevitable concerns around privacy that the glasses will raise. The firm will also need to reassure people their eyeballs won't be blitzed with advertising, which is Google's preferred way to mint money. Mr. Brin stresses the aim is to make a profit on the glasses themselves, whose mass-market price will be well below the $1, 500 developers are paying for a pair. That should make them worth a close look.

Nowadays, college students are getting crazy about getting certificates. Is a certificate the necessity to get a satisfactory job? The following are the supporters' and opponents' opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both sides and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the opinions from both sides and give your view on the issue.YESAs a college student, obtaining a certificate can make our four-year college life more colorful for we can learn a lot of knowledge and skills from the preparation for the certificate.Certificates are beneficial to us to get an advantage over other applicants in the job market. With more and more college graduates pouring into the labor market, job hunters face an increasing pressure to find a satisfactory job. Therefore, getting a lot of certificates will make us stand out in seeking a job.Getting a certificate can make us more confident for the hard work finally pays off.NOPursuing a certificate will cost us a lot of time, money and energy. To obtain a certificate, students must work very hard and pay quite a large amount of money. Everyone has only 24 hours a day. The more we spend on something trivial, the less we focus on enhancing our own abilities.Obtaining a mix of certificates shows the employer that the owner does not really know about his likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses. Blindly pursuing more certificates may turn out painful results in vain. If the employees can't adjust themselves to the complex working environment, those certificate will only be some useless paper.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking _____ ideas.

Tom's wife will always stand by his side, ______ what may.

When the sentence "Shall I buy you a drink?" is turned into indirect speech, which of the following is most appropriate?

I wish to go home with you, ______?