单选题The attack on Fort Sumter near Charleston ______ a sharp response from the North, which led to the American Civil War.

单选题Living in poverty, John sold for 500 dollars the ______ of his mother's first work which made her famous.

单选题Imagine my vexation when they said they would come to dinner and then didn't show. A. enlightenment B. astonishment C. annoyance D. contrariness

单选题The doctor said that the patient had______at once. A．to operate B．to be operated C．to operate on D．to be operated on

单选题The Chairman seldom talked much at these meetings, but his gestures and noises spoke ______. A. forums B. values C. volumes D. horrors

单选题It is futile to argue with him once he has made up his mind. A. unpleasant B. encouraging C. helpful D. useless

单选题Recent evidence has tended to be contraryy to established theories on this subject.

单选题My wife didn't ______ with what you suggested to us.

单选题John and I have just been telling stories two of us .

单选题Whatever happened, our people will always stand______you. A．by B．for C．in D．over

单选题The border was actually two towns, though no one was big enough to amount to anything.

单选题The old lady was suffering from the empty nest syndrome for so long that she felt like to find someone she could talk to her .

单选题We no longer keep up the close friend ship of a few years ago though we still visit each other on occasion.

单选题While walking along the icy river banks, we could see cracks in the ice ______ in all directions.

单选题According to the latest report, consumer confidence ______ a breathtaking 15 points last month, to its lowest level in 9 years.

单选题No such weapons were used and none been found. A. none have been B. none has C. no other has been D. no others been

单选题The more the century progresses, less the interested we have become in family life.

单选题When you are at your______end，you should not lose your head.

单选题There were also other forms, of entertainment. The opera and the operetta remained popular, and music and theater ______ a renaissance. A. underwent B. experimented C. discovered D. resisted

单选题Few creatures on earth are as cute as the black lion tamarin, and few have as dramatic a story line. Pug-nosed and diminutive, with a comic fringe of hair, these monkeys dwell in trees in small tracts of forest in southeastern Brazil. Or they did until 1905, when they were declared extinct. No one saw a black lion tamarin again in the wild until 1970. Later, in the 1990s, some Brazilian researchers turned up a small set of isolated, inbred populations scattered over a wide region. Since that time, they have been engineering tamarin migration, doing everything they can to save the world's most distinctive primates. Although they are no larger than house cats, tamarins have brains big for their size and a family life organized like our own. They live in groups anchored by an adult male andadult female, along with their offspring. When a mother bears young, she usually produces twins, and although members of the group share in their upbringing, it is most often the father who carries them around in the trees, where the families feed on fruits, insects and bird's eggs. Unhappily for the lion tamarins, their tree-bound niche began to disappear after the Portuguese landed in Brazil and began clearing forest to make room for Rio de Janeiro, the settlements and farms. As is the case for so many threatened species, the breakup of their habitat sounded the death knell for tamarins, depriving them of the continuity of forest they require to remain abundant and safe from potential threats in any single vicinity. The animals avoid predators by hardly ever coming down from the trees, so even a narrow logging road through a forest can begin the breakup by preventing them from moving from one patch of forest to another. A simple solution was to build bridges across roads, allowing the monkeys to move from one forest to another. With some lumber and the researchers' work, habitats that had been separated became continuous again, improving opportunities for migrating and mating. The next step was to broaden the distribution of the population. The researchers captured two families of black lion tamarins and moved them to a new forest. After a year, the moves were declared a success: Not only had 80 percent of the tamarins survived, but they had also produced new offspring. So far, so good. The researchers had learned the animals could adjust to the new habitats, even if the insects there tasted a little different or the trees were a slightly different size. The techniques for saving species in the wild vary. Species with less stringent habitat requirements, like wild turkeys, have been rescued by moving them into new settings as well as outlawing their killing. More challenging to preserve are species that require a lot of land, like elephants, and species that have highly specific requirements for habitat and prey -- like black-footed ferrets. Ultimately, as in all challenges, knowledge is power to save wild species from extinction.