单选题She turned up at the party last night, pretty dressed.
单选题He was so disappointed that he angrily chose______music he could find in the hope that it might at least seem funny. A.worse B.the worse C.worst D.the worst
单选题In 1937 Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a disceming stateswoman in her own right, became the first wife of a United States President to hold a press conference. A. perceptive B. controversial C. generous D. respected
单选题So strange were the circumstances of my story that I can
scarcely
believe myself to have been a party to them.
单选题His failure ______ great disappointments to his parents.
单选题When it started to snow, we turned round and ______ the hotel.
单选题A previously unknown disease, SARS has entered our daily vocabulary. Now we live in its
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. While SARS
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center stage, an ancient and more infection disease is
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its ugly head. That disease is panic or irrational fear.
We need to have a healthy fear for SARS and to take prudent
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in preventing its spread. But panic fear creates
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it fears. The panic which is generated by SARS will
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our immune system which
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us more susceptible
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this dreaded disease.
While SARS is known to
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transmitted through close personal contact, fear is transmitted through all forms of media, including email. Only an
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SARS patient can transmit SARS to others. But fear can be transmitted by anyone, sometimes even with the best of intentions. As we know, fear about it does hurt us. So, how do we
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with fear?
Admit our fear and keep moving
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by living our lives as normally as possible while taking necessary precautions. For example, it is
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to stop shaking the hand of a healthy friend. At the same time, it is always a good practice to wash our hands before a meal—this
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be done whether or not SARS
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. Accept fear as a price of progress. SARS will hit us or it won"t. Our fear will not positively change the outcome.
Focus on the things you can control not
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the things you cannot. Feed your faith, not your fear. Faith is a rational trust
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what"s trustworthy. We have a choice each day to exercise faith
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to allow fear to rule our lives. We can feed our fear or we can starve it.
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fear and faith will be with us every minute of every day. The emotion that we continually act upon,
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is the one we feed, will dominate our lives. Fear will ruin us, but faith will lift us above the crisis we are facing.
单选题Although his people did not ______ his efforts, he kept trying.
单选题Despite of
their opposition, he went his own way and started his preparations.
单选题Playing a major role in the economic life of the United States, ______. A. women currently make up 46 percent of the work force B. currently women make up 46 percent of the work force C. the work force is currently made up of 46 percent women D. 46 percent of the work force is currently made up of women
单选题They requested that we______them a sample of the product.
单选题Having the highest marks in her class, a scholarship was offered her by the Department.
单选题ULack/U government support, they had to approach sponsors, organizers, and musicians on their own -- at first, she claims, in her country.
单选题Together ______ of Alaska fur seals swim down the Pacific Coast of North America.
单选题If you left your book on the table overnight, you would find the following morning that it was still exactly when you had left it, provided nobody had moved it. If a ball is made to roll on a very smooth surface, it will roll a long distance unless something stops it or changes its direction. This tendency of an object to remain at rest unless something moves it and to continue moving unless something stops it is known as the Law of Inertia.
The following examples show the truth of this law.
(a)Put a table-cloth on a table and arrange a pile of books on it. Hold one edge of the tablecloth and pull it quickly. The table-cloth will come off, leaving the pile of hooks undisturbed.
(b)Place a small piece of cardboard on an open jar and place a coin on it directly over its mouth. Use one finger to flick the piece of cardboard away. You will notice that the coin drops into the jar.
(c)Sitting in a car which starts suddenly, you feel you are jerked backwards. In fact, you arc not jerked backwards. Your lower half, which is in contact with the cushion, is forced to move forward with the car, and the upper part of your body, which remained at rest, is left behind.
单选题It is true that London is often sunless,
damp
and raw, though the occasional sunny days seem all the more attractive by contrast.
单选题______to some parts of South America is still difficult, because parts of the continent are still covered with thick forests.
单选题I bought a new sweater in a newly-open clothes-market. But what a pity it was that the sweater ______when I washed it. A. shrank B. contracted C. shortened D. condensed
单选题Although the speaker was a well-known personality, his speech was poorly. ______.
单选题The use of the new technology will have a {{U}}profound{{/U}} effect on schools.
