单选题Although she ______law for only a little over eight years, Florence Allen became in 1992 the first woman to sit on a state supreme court.

单选题Archaeology, like many academic words, comes from Greek and means, more or less, "the study of old things." So, it is really a part of the study of history. However, most historians use paper evidence, such as letters, paintings and photographs, but archaeologists (考古学家) learn from the objects left behind by the humans of long ago. Normally, these are the hard materials that don"t break down or disappear very quickly--things like human bones and objects made from stone and metal. It is very unusual to find anything more than the hard evidence of history--normally, the bacteria (细菌) in the air eat away at soft materials, like bodies, clothes and things made of wood. Occasionally, things are different. In 1984, two men made an amazing discovery while working in a bog called Lindow Moss, in the north of England. A bog is a very wet area of earth, with a lot of plants growing in it. It can be like a very big and very thick vegetable soup--walk in the wrong place and you can sink and disappear forever. The men were working when one of them saw something sticking out-- a human foot! Naturally, the men called the police, who then found the rest of the body. Was it a case of murder? Possibly--but it was a death nearly two thousand years old. The two men had found a body from the time of the Roman invasion of Britain. Despite being so old, this body had skin, muscles, hair and internal organs--the scientists who examined him were able to look inside the man"s stomach and find the food that he had eaten for his last meal! Why was this man so well preserved? It was because he was in a very watery environment, safe from the bacteria that need oxygen to live. Also, the water in the bog was very acidic. The acid preserved the man"s skin in the way that animal skin is preserved for leather coats and shoes. How did he die? Understandably, archaeologists and other scientists wanted to know more about the person that they called, "Lindow Man". His hands and fingernails suggested that he hadn"t done heavy manual work in his life--he could have been a rich man. They found that he hadn"t died by accident. The archaeologists believe that he was sacrificed to three different gods.

单选题It is not always possible to foresee the obstacles ______ your way towards an ambitious goal. A. blocked B. blocking C. to block D. to blocking

单选题______ a form must be filled in.

单选题______ that my head had cleared, my brain was also beginning to work much better.

单选题Until 1847 the federal postal system had operated without stamps. To claim a letter, the recipient, rather than the sender, paid its postage. Stamps promised to flip this tradition on its head by shifting responsibility for paying postage from the recipient to the letter writer. Early reluctance to use stamps actually relied on something more mysterious but no less important. A stamped or prepaid letter was sometimes seen as a way to insult the recipient because prepaying a letter suggested that he was too poor to pay for it himself. Given the cost involved, this was not as odd as it now seems. Says Michael Laurence, editor of Linn"s Stamp News, "Paying for a letter was like receiving a collect call from China." In 1845 a congressman calculated that a letter sent from the East or South to the Northwest cost the value of a bushel of wheat—or a days"s labor. Meg Austrian, the historian of the U.S. Postal Service, says that in the 1830s one angered individual harassed an enemy by sending him letters stuffed with blank pages. Excessive costs probably kept some Americans from communicating through the mails. Many people who did receive mail simply refused to pay, rejecting the letter outright, which meant big headaches for the Post Office in mountains of dead letters. These had to be returned to the sender at government expense; the Post Office wound up paying for two deliveries with nothing in return. Some historians credit one Rowland Hill, a British reformer and educator, with the idea of sticking a stamp on a letter before sending it. It seems to have struck him one day as he watched a housemaid receive a letter. She carefully scanned the envelope, tried to understand a coded message from her lover, then refused to accept the mail. Postage was too expensive, Hill realized, and paid for by the wrong person. Prepaid stamps were the answer to both problems.

单选题Childish ______ she may be, she is kind and friendly.

单选题He was a qualified doctor who rarely practiced but instead devoted his life to writing. He once said: "Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my lover." Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a great playwright and one of the masters of the modem short story. (77) When Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School in 1879, he started to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support his family. After he graduated, he wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper. As a writer he was extremely fast, often producing a short story in an hour or less. Chekhov's medical and science experience can be seen through the indifference(冷漠) many of his characters show to tragic events. In 1892, he became a full time writer and published some of his most memorable stories. Chekhov often wrote about the sufferings of life in small town Russia. Tragic events control his characters who are filled with feelings of hopelessness and despair. It is Often said that nothing happens in Chekhov's stories and plays. He made up for this with his exciting technique for developing drama within his characters. (78) Chekhov's work combined the calm attitude of a scientist and doctor with the sensitivity(敏感) of an artist. Some of Chekhov's works were translated into Chinese as early as the 1940s. One of his famous stories, The Man in a Shell (《装在套子里的人》), about a school teacher's extraordinarily orderly life, was selected as a text for Chinese senior students.

单选题The disease spread very quickly, but thanks to the help of the soldiers, all the people ______ were sent to big hospitals.A. infectB. infectingC. infectedD. being infected

单选题(Only then) he (became) aware of (the fact) that there were more difficulties ahead (than) he had expected.A. Only thenB. becameC. the factD. than

单选题Betty moved from the dormitory ______ the noise.

单选题She was glad that the wicked man had decided ______ . A. not killing her B. his not killing her C. not to kill her D. to not kill her

单选题When my girlfriend told me I had tomato sauce all over my lips, I ______ reached for a napkin.

单选题Josie Maran is (very) popular (among) young people, who regard her (as) (more superior to) other stars.

单选题It is required that such insulator (绝热体) ______ a heat resistant material. A. must be made of B. should be made of C. will be made of D. would be made of

单选题Little Tom wanted to______his toy car for an apple.

单选题Modern mass—production methods lower the cost of making goods, and thus give us better values. At the same time ,American ingenuity(独创性) and science are constantly at work improving the quality of products. In this way, better quality products at good values are continually being brought to the people of all income groups. As an example of how this worked, when facial tissues (面巾纸) were first put on the market in 1924, they were made in limited quantities and sold at 65 cents per box of 200. People like these facial tissues immediately and began asking for them when they went into different stores. Because there was such a demand for the product, manufacturers began making tissues in larger and larger quantities. Because the manufacturers were making tissues in greater quantities, their production costs were lowered, so that the price of tissues went down. In the meanwhile, the quality of facial tissues was constantly improving, because more manufacturers went into the business of making tissues, and each manufacturer strove to make his product better than his competitors’. Today, instead of costing 65 cents, a box of 200 tissues costs around one—third of that price, and they are both softer and stronger. When people are. free to compete—when they are free to make more things and make them better—everyone benefits.

单选题"To put off something" means "to ______".