单选题Uncle Vernon, quite unlike Harry Potter who looked nothing like the rest of the family, was large, very fat, and ______, with an enormous black mustache. A. neckless B. necklace C. reckless D. rackless

单选题It was one of those days when it looked at first something interesting could happen, but then later, when you didn"t expect anything, almost everything happened.

单选题Australia began to assume its modern configuration by the Eocene Epoch, some 50 million years ago, when Antarctica broke away and drifted southward.

单选题The British Constitution is ______ a large extent a product of the historical events described above.

单选题They tell the people in their community not to store apples in the refrigerator because fresh fruit like apples is ______ .

单选题"Holmes!" I whispered. "What on earth are you doing in this disgusting place?" A. humble B. unpleasant C. underprivileged D. noisy

单选题 Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand—he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him. What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters {{U}}translate{{/U}} their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist. Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and repose; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects. If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphasizing something m all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.

单选题So ______ was the mood of the meeting that an agreement was soon reached． A．resentful B．amiable C．suffocating D．gloomy

单选题The traditional American Thanksgiving day celebration 21 to 1621. 22 that year a special least was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The colonists who 23 there had left England because they felt 24 of religious freedom. They came to the 25 and faced difficulties in 26 the ocean. The ship which 27 them was called Mayflower. The North Atlantic was difficult to travel. There were bad storms. They were 28 in learning to live in the new earth by the Indians who 29 the region. The puritans, 30 they were called, had much to be thankful 31 . Their religious practices were 32 longer a source of criticism by the government. They learned to 33 their farming habits to the climate and soil. 34 they selected the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving 35 , they invited their 36 , the Indians, to join them in dinner and 37 of gratitude for the new life. They recalled the group of 102 men, women and children who left 38 . They remembered their 39 who did not see the shore of Massachusetts. They 40 the 65 days journey which had tested their strength.

单选题The salt dissolved in the water gradually, finally all that remained was an almost ______ residue on the bottom of the glass. A. lumpy B. imperceptible C. glassy D. opaque

单选题Some—such as liquid oxygen—are so cold that they embrittle many constructional materials and evaporate continuously if not refrigerated. A. weaken B. strengthen C. reduce D. cause ... to become brittle

单选题His major task is to integrate the work of Various bureaus under the ministry.

单选题"What does the middleman do but add to the price of goods in the shops?" Such remarks are aimed at the intermediate operations between manufacturers and final customers. This practice usually attracts a lot of attention from the public and the press and the operation most talked about is what is often called wholesaling. The wholesaler buys goods in large quantities from the manufacturers and sells them in smaller parcels to retailers, and for this service his selling price to the retailer is raised several percent higher. But his job is made more difficult by retail demand not necessarily running level with manufacturers' production. Because he adjusts or regulates the flow of goods by holding stock Until required, he frees the manufacturer, to some extent, from the effect on production of changing demand and having to bear the whole risk. The manufacturer can then keep up a steady production flow, and the retailer has no need to hold heavy stocks, who can call on the wholesaler for supplies any time. This wholesale function is like that of a valve in a water pipe. The middleman also bears part of the risk that would otherwise fall on the manufacturer and also the retailer. The wholesaler provides a purely commercial service, for which he is too well rewarded. But the point that is missed by many people is that the wholesaler is not just someone adding to the cost of goods. It is true one could eliminate the wholesaler but one would still be left with his function: that of making sure that goods find their way to the people who want them.

单选题To {{U}}weaken{{/U}} the damage for earthquakes, scientists are working on ways to enable accurate prediction.

单选题While researchers may not ______ the expansive claims of hard-core vitamin enthusiasts, evidence suggests that the nutrients play a much more complex role in assuring vitality and optimal health than was previously thought. A. authorize B. license C. counteract D. endorse

单选题In response to the needs of a changing world, the realm of education system has been diversified over the years.

单选题Now a single cell phone is able to store a large ______ of information about an individual life.

单选题Often the roots of the plants harbor ants, which help build up the soil by their wastes and dead bodies.

单选题The word "they" underlined in Paragraph 4 refers to ______.

单选题The bright flowers and warm winds ______ that spring had come. A. threatened B. announced C. stated D. pronounced