单选题In the morning Bernard was pale and his hand trembled too much even to lift his coffee cup, ______ butter his toast.

单选题He never hesitates to make such criticisms ______ are considered helpful to others.

单选题Without rules, people would live in a state of______.

单选题Fear of pirate ______ led the French to fortify their coastline.

单选题Although Lucy was slimming, she found cakes quite ______.

单选题After the concert, the clean-up crew found the ground ______ with papers, bottles and cans.

单选题Although it was his first experience as chairman, he ______ over the meeting with great skill.

单选题It is ironic that the ______ insights of the great thinkers are voiced so often that they have become mere

单选题The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight and did nothing to help the drowning child.

单选题From what he said at the court, we can ______ that Steve had stolen the car. A. infect B. impress C. infer D. suggest

单选题Her voice is child-like, with a West Country______.

单选题Despite his ______ as a trouble-maker, he was promoted to department manger. A) repetition B) repression C) reputation D) representation

单选题Cultural ______ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one generation to another. [A] translation [B] transition [C] transmission [D] transaction

单选题A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features (特写) as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out, glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality (时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient (短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day's paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.

单选题He was very intelligent, but he ______ the requirement for a manager.

单选题Most of his great novels and plays were not published or known to the public ______his tragic death in 1786.