单选题Giant horned dinosaurs like triceratops were probably among the favorite prey of the {{U}}ferocious{{/U}} Tyrannosaurus rex.
单选题His health deteriorated rapidly due to insufficient nutrition and ______ medical care.
单选题They are paid______the hour.
单选题The tribe has agreed to contribute 2 percent of net ______ to charitable activities in the county.
单选题Some people think more of animals than will of children. A. they have B. they had C. they are D. they do
单选题Professor Lee has______large collection of books, many of which are written in______ foreign languages. A./.../ B.the...the C.a.../ D.the.../
单选题The argument about the interpretation of the sentence______on the meaning of one word.
单选题No such weapons were used and none been found.
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We can make mistakes at any age. Some
mistakes we make are about money. But most mistakes are about people. One might
say, "Did Jerry care when I broke up with Helen?" "When I got that great job,
did Jim really feel good about it, as a friend?" Or "Did he envy my luck?" "And
Paul — why didn't I pick up that he was friendly just because I had a car?" When
we look back, doubts like these can make us feel bad. But when we look back,
it's too late. Why are we wrong about our friends or our
enemies? Sometimes what people say hides their real meaning. And if we don't
really listen, we miss the feeling behind the words. Suppose someone says to
you, "You're a lucky dog." Is he really on your side? If he says, "You're a
lucky guy" or "You're a lucky gal," that's being friendly. But if he says, "You
are a lucky dog." There's a bit of envy in those words. Maybe he doesn't see it
himself. But bringing in the dog he put you down a little. What he may be saying
is that he doesn't think you deserve your luck. "Just think of
all the things you have to be thanking for" is another noise that says one thing
and means another. It could mean that the speaker is trying to get you to see
your problem as part of your life as a whole. But is he? Wrapped up in this
phrase is the thought that your problem isn't important. It's telling you to
think of all the starving people in the world when you have not got a date for
Saturday night. How can you tell the real meaning behind
someone's words? One way is to take a good look at the person talking. Do his
words fit the way he looks? Does what he says square with his tone of voice, his
posture, the look in his eyes? Stop and think. The minute you spend thinking
about the real meaning of what people say to you may save another
mistake. Therefore, when you hear someone saying, please try to
know what he really means. Don't just listen to what he says with your ears but
feel the words he uses with your head. In this way, you may make less
mistakes.
单选题All living creatures pass on inherited traits from one generation to other. A. the other B. another C. others D. other one
单选题His emotional problems ______ from his experiences as a child, I think.
单选题Why don't you ______ insurance on your possessions?
单选题We hope that the measures to control prices, ______ taken by the government, will succeed. A. when B. since C. after D. as
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{{B}}My Views on Gambling{{/B}} Most of life is
a gamble. Very many of the things we do involve taking some risk in order to
achieve a satisfactory result. We undertake a new job with no idea of the more
indirect consequences of our action. Marriage is certainly a gamble and so is
the bringing into existence of children, who could prove sad liabilities. A
journey, a business transaction, even a chance remark may result immediately or
ultimately in tragedy. Perpetually we gamble-against life, destiny, chance, the
unknown, call the invisible opponent what we will. Human survival and progress
indicate that usually we win. So the gambling instinct must be
an elemental one. Taking risks to achieve something is a characteristic of all
forms of life, including humanity. As soon as man acquired property, the
challenge he habitually issued to destiny found an additional expression in a
human contest. Early may well have staked his flint axe, his bearskin, his wife,
in the hope of adding to his possessions. The acquirement of desirable but
nonessential commodities must have increased his scope enormously, while the
risk of complete disaster lessened. So long as man was gambling
against destiny, the odds were usually in his favor, especially when he used
commonsense. But as the methods of gambling multiplied, the chances of success
decreased. A wager against one person offered on average even chances and no
third party profited by the transaction. But as soon as commercialized city life
developed, mass gambling become common. Thousands of people now compete for
large prizes, but with only minute chances of success, while the organizers of
gambling concerns enjoy big profits with, in some cases, no risk at all. Few
clients of the betting shops, football pools, state lotteries, bingo sessions,
even charity raffles, realize fully the flimsiness of their chances and the fact
that without fantastic luck they are certain to lose rather than gain.
Little irreparable harm results for the normal individual. That big
business profits from the satisfaction of a human instinct is a common enough
phenomenon. The average wage-earner, who leads a colorless existence, devotes a
small percentage of his earnings to keeping alive with extraordinary constancy
the dream of achieving some magic change in his life. Gambling is in most cases
a non-toxic drug against boredom and apathy and may well preserve good temper,
patience and optimism in dreary circumstances. A sudden windfall may unbalance a
weaker, less intelligent person and even ruin his life. And the line of
something for nothing as an ideal evokes criticism from the more rigidly upright
representatives of the community. But few of us have the right to condemn as few
of us can say we never gamble-even it is only investing a few pence a week in
the firm's football sweep or the church bazaar "lucky dip."
Trouble develops, however, when any human instinct or appetite becomes
overdeveloped. Moderate drinking produces few harmful effects but drunkenness
and alcoholism can have terrible consequences. With an unlucky combination of
temperament and circumstances, gambling can only become an obsession, almost a
form of insanity, resulting in the loss not only of a man's property but of his
self-respect and his conscience. Far worse are the sufferings of his dependants,
deprived of material comfort and condemned to watching his deterioration and
hopelessness. They share none of his feverish excitement or the exhilaration of
his rare success. The fact that he does not wish to be cured makes psychological
treatment of the gambling addict almost impossible. He will use any means,
including stealing, to enable him to carry on. It might be possible to pay what
salary he can earn to his wife for the family maintenance but this is clearly no
solution. Nothing-education, home environment, other interest, wise
discouragement-is likely to restrain the obsessed gambler and even when it is he
alone who suffers the consequences, his disease is a cruel one, resulting in a
wasted, unhappy life. Even in the case of the more physically
harmful of human indulgences, repressive legislation often merely increases the
damage by causing more vicious activities designed to perpetuate the indulgence
in secret. On the whole, though negative, gambling is no vice within reasonable
limits. It would still exist in an ideal society. The most we can hope for is
control over exaggerated profits resulting from its business exploitation, far
more attention and research devoted to the unhappy gambling addict and the type
of education which will encourage an interest in so many other constructive
activities that gambling itself will lose its fascination as an opiate to a
dreary existence. It could be regarded as an occasional mildly exciting game,
never to be taken very seriously.
单选题As early as in 1647 Ohio made a decision that flee, tax-supported schools must be established in every town to have 50 households or more. A.has B.having C.having had D.had
单选题John insisted that he______everything he could to make sure of Mary's happiness.
单选题Which of the following is NOT a symptom of schizophrenia?
单选题The Japanese have decided to impose incredibly high tariff on agricultural imports from China. What do you think will ______?
单选题The invitation to the conference indicated that everyone should be dressed formerly.
单选题The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her ______ attitude toward ______ customers. A. straightforward B. partial C. favourable D. hostile
