单选题The word "dupe" in the last sentence of the second paragraph is the closest in meaning to

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单选题How does the woman feel at the end of the conversation?

单选题Why did the man receive a ticket?

单选题Oceanography has always been regarded as the science of our oceans mixing geology, biology, chemistry, and physics to unveil the secrets of our seas. Scientists once defined oceanography as "the application of all sciences to the study of the sea". Before the nineteenth century, very few scientists showed an interest in the sea. Newton, a well-known scientist, explored some aspects of it theoretically in his works at one time, but later he was unwilling to have a further study on it. The sea was remote for the majority of the people, and except early travelers who traveled among continents or others who earned a living by undersea living creatures, it was not necessary to raise questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface. Just when Europe and America proposed to lay a telegraph cable between them, the question "what is at the bottom of the seas?" had to be answered for the first time with some commercial links. The engineers had to observe and measure the depth profile of the route to estimate the length of the cable to be produced. Thanks to Maury, the US Navy, the Atlantic Telegraph Company acquired information on this matter in 1853. In the 1840s, Maury had been assigned to encourage voyages during which soundings (测声) could be used to investigate the depths of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well. Later, some of his findings drew much attention and gained popularity in his book The Physical Geography of the Sea. The cable was laid, but the connection was not made permanent and reliable until 1866. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs, it was found to be covered with living growths. The fact once refuted scientific argument at that time that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea. Oceanography was gradually developed in next few years. In 1872 Thomson led a scientific expedition(考查) lasting for four years and brought back thousands of samples from the sea. Scientists were devoted to the classification and analysis of these samples for years and produced a five-volume report with the last volume published in 1895.

单选题Why does the author mention stuffed drag smugglers?

单选题Wheredoestheconversationtakeplace?

单选题According do the author, the bottom line for having too much money is ______.

单选题According to the passage, which of the following is the great contribution of Hemingway?

单选题Drunken driving—sometimes called America's socially accepted form of murder—has become a national epidemic. Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250 000 over the past decade. A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol content or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American macho image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken slaughter has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant. Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers, more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21. Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programmes to help young people to develop "responsible attitudes" about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink. Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked decline in fatalities. Some states are also penalising bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was "obviously intoxicated" and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy. As the fatalities continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national prohibition of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the "noble experiment". They forget that legal prohibition didn't stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.

单选题WhydidJohnapologizetoMs.Jones?

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单选题Generations of Americans have been brought (26) to believe that a good breakfast is important for health. Eating breakfast at the (27) of the day, we have all been (28) ,is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car (29) starting a trip. But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by (30) pleasures. So (31) all the efforts, they still take no (32) . Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figures are (33) , the number of people who didn't have breakfast increased (34) 33 percent—from 8.8 million to 11.7 million (35) the Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America. For those who feel pain of (36) about not having breakfast, (37) , there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years (38) that, for adults especially, there may be nothing (39) with omitting breakfast. "Going (40) breakfast does not affect (41) "Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, (42) does giving people breakfast improve performance. (43) evidence relating breakfast to better health or (44) performances is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not (45) "The literature," says one researcher, Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, "is poor./

单选题What kind of the room does the woman like to have?