单选题A: Would you mind sending champagne and strawberries to my room at 1 a.m. please? B: ______.
单选题Initial reports were that multiple waves of warplanes bombed central Baghdad, {{U}}hitting{{/U}} oil refineries and the airport.
单选题In the law court, the suspect couldn't ______his time that night.
单选题Chaucer, (whose) Canterbury Tales is one of the (most extraordinary) works in English, practically created, (or) at least (made it acceptable), a new language.A. whoseB. most extraordinaryC. orD. made it acceptable
单选题She seemed to have detected some anger in his voice.
单选题Man. How did you like the new exhibit at the art gallery? Woman: I still haven't been able to take any time off from studying. Question: What does the woman mean?
单选题The peahen is a bit smaller than the peacock and does not have a long, colorful tail.
单选题None of the witnesses would appear in court to
testify
for him.
单选题In the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a woman and her husband spend most of their time quarreling.
单选题A: ______B: Well, it's 250 dollars a month, including heating.
单选题Man: What shall we take for the trip?Woman: We'd better take the bare necessities. Question: What does the woman suggest?
单选题A: I ought to eat before I head to the meeting. B: ______.
单选题Childhood can be a time of great insecurity and loneliness, during which the need to be accepted by peers______great significance.
单选题A: Excuse me, but can you tell us where the conference room is? B:______ The conference room is located on the third floor of the hotel.
单选题A: We should write letters to our friends who live outside the country. B: ______.
单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}}
When I was still an architecture
student, a teacher told me, "We learn more from buildings that fall down than
from buildings that stand up.' What he meant was that construction is as much
the result of experience as of theory. Although structural design follows
established formulas, the actual performance of a building is complicated by the
passage of time, the behavior of users, the natural elements—and unnatural
events. All are difficult to simulate. Buildings, unlike cars, can't be
crash-tested. The first important lesson of the World Trade
Center collapse is that tall buildings can withstand the impact of a large
jetliner. The twin towers were supported by 59 perimeter columns on each side.
Although about 30 of these columns, extending from four to six floors, were
destroyed in each building by the impact, initially both towers remained
standing. Even so. the death toll (代价)was appalling—2245 people lost their
lives. I was once asked, how tall buildings should be designed
given what we'd learned from the World Trade Center collapse. My answer was,
"Lower. " The question of when a tall building becomes unsafe is easy to answer.
Common aerial fire-fighting ladders in use today are 100 feet high and can reach
to about the 10th floor, so fires in buildings up to 10 stories high can be
fought from the exterior (外部). Fighting fires and evacuating occupants above
that height depend on fire stairs. The taller the building, the longer it will
take for firefighters to climb to the scene of the fire. So the simple answer to
the safety question is "Lower than 10 stories." Then why don't
cities impose lower height limits? A 60-story office building does not have six
times as much rentable space as a 10-story building. However, all things being
equal, such a building will produce four times more revenue and four times more
in property taxes. So cutting building heights would mean cutting city
budgets. The most important lesson of the World Trade Center
collapse is not that we should stop building tall buildings but that we have
misjudged their cost. We did the same thing when we underestimated the cost of
hurtling along a highway in a steel box at 70 miles per hour. It took many years
before seat belts, air bags, radial tires, and antilock brakes became
commonplace. At first, cars simply were too slow to warrant concern. Later,
manufacturers resisted these expensive devices, arguing that consumers would not
pay for safety. Now we do—willingly.
单选题Though they disagreed on details, they were in ______ agreement over the plan.
单选题A: Would you mind passing me the salt?B: ______
单选题The government has, for the most part, done a poor job of {{U}}spurring{{/U}} business to come up with breakthroughs.
单选题We had an unusually heavy rainfall due to the typhoon, and for a while, traffic became {{U}}paralyzed{{/U}}.
