单选题The president {{U}}likes joking,{{/U}} but about very serious political matters he becomes serious enough. A. is facetious B. is factitious C. is fantabulous D. is flexuous

单选题Leaving for work in plenty of time to catch the train will ______ worry about being late. A. rule off B. prevent C. avoid D. obviate

单选题I could easily perceive that his heart burnt to relieve his starving kids, but he seemed ashamed to ______ his inability to me. A. discover B. recover C. demonstrate D. impress

单选题It was now clear that no such weapons were manufactured and none been found .

单选题The scientific development has been breathtaking in the past century, but the understanding of this progress has not ______ changed.

单选题The jury gave a______of "not guilty". A. sentence B. judgement C. charge D. verdict

单选题New York City surpassed the other Atlantic seaports in partly because it developed the best transportation links with the interior of the country.

单选题Our programs come second to thefts. A. come second after B. are second only to C. are first except for D. are first place from

单选题We have sent an order slip to all that we have reason to believe are interested in our books.

单选题Sadly, while the academic industry thrives, the practice of translation continues to______.

单选题This reflects the priority being attached to economic over political activity, partly caused by a growing {{U}}reluctance{{/U}} to enter a calling blighted by relentless publicity that all too often ends in destroying careers and reputations.

单选题In one sense, we can trace all the problems of the American city back (91) a single starting point: we Americans don't like our cities very much. That is, on the (92) of it, absurd. After all, more than three-fourths of us now live in cities, and more are (93) to them every year. We are told that the problems of our cities are (94) more attention in Washington, and scholarship has discovered a whole new (95) in urban studies. (96) , it is historically true: in the American psychology, the city has been a basically suspect institution, (97) with the corruption of Europe, totally lacking that sense of spaciousness and innocence of the (98) and the rural landscape. I don't pretend to be a scholar on the history of the city in American life. But my thirteen years in public (99) , first as an officer of the U. S. Department of Justice, then as Congressman, and now as Mayor of the biggest city in America have taught me (100) too well the fact that a strong antiurban attitude (101) consistently through the mainstream of American thinking. Much of the (102) behind the settlement of America was in reaction (103) the conditions in European industrial centers and much of the theory (104) the basis of freedom in America was linked directly to the availability of land and the perfectibility of man outside the corrupt influences of the city. What has this to do with the predicament of the modern city? I think it has (105) to do with it. For the fact is that the United States (106) the federal government, which has historically established our national priorities, has simply never thought that the American city was "worthy" of (107) —at least not to the (108) of expending any basic resources on it. Antipathy to the city predates the American experience. When industrialization (109) the European working man into the major cities of the continent, books and pamphlets appeared (110) the city as a source of crime, corruption, filth, disease, vice, licentiousness, subversion, and high prices.

单选题Sometimes, it is difficult for John to get his Brithsh jokes ______ to American audiences.

单选题Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same. The campaign, part of an effort to promote No Child Left Behind (NCLB), required commentator Armstrong Williams "to regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broadcasts," and to interview Education Secretary Rod Paige for TV and radio spots that were aired during the show in 2004. Williams said Thursday he understands that critics could find the arrangement unethical,but "I wanted to do it because it's something I believe in." The top Democrat on the House Education Committee, Rep. George Miller of California, called the contract "a very questionable use of taxpayers' money" that is "probably illegal". The contract, detailed in documents obtained by USA TODAY through a Freedom of Information Act request, also shows that the Education Department, through the Ketchum public relations firm, arranged with Williams to use contacts with America's Black Forum, a group of black broadcast journalists, "to encourage the producers to periodically address" NCLB. He persuaded radio and TV personality Steve Harvey to invite Paige onto his show twice. Harvey's manager, Rushion McDonald, confirmed the appearances.

单选题{{U}}He had studied hard{{/U}}, he would have been able to pass the exam.

单选题Using extremely different decorating schemes in adjoining rooms may result in ______ and lack of unity in style. A. conflict B. confrontation C. disturbance D. disharmony

单选题We should {{U}}let more young parents and their children can enjoy scientific early education{{/U}}.

单选题The woman proceeded gently to tickle that withered chin of seventy, much as it had been that of a four- or five-year old child. A. much as if it was that B. much as though it were that C. much as though it has been that D. much as though it had been that

单选题A professor of economic and history at Atlanta University, W. E. B. Du Bois, promoted full racial equality.

单选题{{U}}Having impelled{{/U}} by a laudable ambition to study the art and mystery of his father's honest calling, young Jerry, keeping as close to house fronts, wails, and doorways, as his eyes were close to one another, held his honoured parent in view. A. Impelled B. When being impelled C. To be impelled D. Having been impelled