单选题The Lagoon Show 礁糊秀 The most romantic time to arrive in Venice is at dusk on a winter's day. Your water-taxi ride across the lagoon from the airport will catch the last velvety-grey streaks of daylight. You'll arrive on the Grand Canal just as the upper windows of its palaces start to bloom with rose-coloured lamps or sparkle with chandeliers. In no other city does evening begin with such promise. Strange, then, that Venice should be so emphatically not a night-time place. However mobbed it may have been in daylight, darkness falls with the abruptness of a hauled-down shutter. The crowds of Asian tourists and schoolkits milling around seem to vaporize. In a hundred closed cafes, the espresso machines give an expiring hiss, as if at last slipping off their shoes and wiggling their toes. That is what makes Venice by night so magical, when the loudest sounds are those of footsteps and lapping water, and the modern world recedes so that in any Square or over any bridge, you wouldn't be surprised to meet a hurrying figure in a cloak and buckled shoes; Casanova on his way to some assignation, perhaps. St. Mark's becomes an enchanted place, with pools of the day's flood still underfoot and mist wreathing the cathedral. But "nightlife" seems nonexistent outside the weeks of carnival each February. In a city so stuffed with historical treasures, the lack of a living, modern culture is achingly apparent, especially after dark. Venice's only theatre of note, the Fenice, has only just reopened after almost a decade, following a fire. Clubs, discos, even cinemas are almost as hard to find as car parks. Nor is there the eating-out culture that governs the rest of Italy. Venice is not usually regarded as a gourmet paradise. Even J G Links, author of the definitive, eccentric guidebook Venice for Pleasure, suggests it has few restaurants worth visiting outside the Cipriani hotel. As a rule, it's best to avoid canalside establishments with their menus turisticos; look for places down alleys. Remember, this is rice, not pasta country, offering some of the best risotto you're ever likely to eat. When I first came here, aged 15, on a school trip, we were quartered in a girl's convent school. Ever since, I've stayed at the Gritti Palace, on the Grand Canal, overlooking the Salute. Apart from its mixture of elegance and old-fashioned comfort, I have two reasons for loving this hotel. Alighting at its private landing stage completes the thrill of arriving in Venice by night. And it was here, 13 years ago, that Sue and I decided to get married and have our daughter. Gondolas operate until well after dark. It can be doubly romantic, with the Grand Canal in pitch-darkness and silent but for the churn of water buses and scraps of operatic arias that some gondoliers still perform. Latterly, Venice has been making more efforts to get a nightlife. There is a disco named Casanova near the railway station and a music bar, Piccolo Mondo, near the Accademia bridge. The city's student population has created funkier areas around Campo Santa Margarita and in Cannaregio, the immigrant quarter to the north. There is also street music after all the smart shops have closed and the only merchandise on offer is fake designer handbags, set out on the trestles used as walkways at times of flooD．Around one corner, you may come upon a countertenor in an anourak, singing Handel; around another, two men will be playing selections from Andrew Lloyd Webber on a vibraphone of water-filled glasses. You think that sounds totally naff? I can tell you it sounded totally wonderful. Such is the alchemy of Venice by night.

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单选题When the subject is money, women often cling to two persistent stereotypes, one a pleasant dream, the other a nightmare. In the 81 , they hater fantasies that a white 82 will provide happily-ever-after financial security. 83 the nightmare, by contrast, they fear that an impoverished retirement could 84 them into bag ladies on the street. Now 85 advisers and managers are 86 forces to change those images. In a proliferation of books, seminars, conferences, Web 87 , and investment clubs, they are 88 out to women, helping them to become financially savvy and economically 89 . Prince Charming, they warn, may not come. "If and when he does show 90 , he may have 91 than you do" quips Brooke Stephens, a financial adviser. In part, this burgeoning interest 92 changing demographics. As the number of 93 women grows, so does their need 94 economic independence. By some estimates, one-fourth of 95 working women now between the ages of 18 and 26 96 never marry. Divorce and 97 longevity also require self-sufficiency. Ninety percent of women currently 98 supp orted by someone else—parents, a husband, the government—will at some point be 99 , notes Cail Shapiro, executive director of Womankind, a 100 center in Wayland, Mass.

单选题Since the early nineties, the trend in most businesses has been toward on-demand, always-available products and services that suit the customer's ______ rather than the company's.

单选题Coming at the Town Hail, the Queen was welcomed by the Mayor.

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单选题According to the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, wisdom comes from the ______ of maturity.

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单选题As used throughout the passage, the term "common" is closest in meaning to which of the following?

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单选题Bob believes that the invasion of the marketplace into the university is undermining fundamental academic values, and that we must act now to halt this decline.

单选题Since writing home to theft parents for money, they had lived ______ hope.

单选题The government has hardly taken measures to crack down on these crimes when new ones occurred.

单选题We might say that the earliest tools were a means of extending the human being own bodily powers.

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单选题I knew nothing of the motives behind his recent move, and I don"t know either the person to put him up to the action.

单选题Professor White, my respected tutor, frequently reminds me to______myself of every chance to improve my English.

单选题I was discharged in 1947 and, motivated by intellectual curiosity, decided upon a career in medical research at a time when such a choice was not ______.