单选题The Pakistan government is leaning on the Taliban government to hand over Osama to save this entire region from Ucatastrophe/U.

单选题The coming of automation is ______ to have important social consequences.

单选题Diamonds are usually cut to bring out their natural luster and to remove any flaws.

单选题Widespread wage reductions were imposed during the recession of 1906--1909 and price inflation thereafter impeded the recovery of real wage levels. A. convoluted B. belied C. encumbered D. stoked

单选题The leaders of the two countries feel it desirable to______funds from armaments to health and education.

单选题One of the prominent factors that has made CIs presence in South Korea particularly tougher because ______.

单选题Mr. White brought a countercharge against you because you had______ him for smuggling several pieces of antiques and cultural relics.

单选题Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck them.【C1】______that logic, 2006 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11 still【C2】______in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in U. S. history, on【C3】______TV. Anyone who didn't know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And they are made【C4】______worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our【C5】______to work together before everything goes to hell. Granted, some amount of delusion is probably part of the【C6】______condition. In A. D. 63, Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work【C7】______, in the same spot — until they were buried altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a【C8】______of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at【C9】______themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we【C10】______did about the dangers we face. But it turns【C11】______that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy is【C12】______the storm, the quake or the【C13】______itself. More often, it is ourselves. So what has happened in the year that【C14】______the disaster on the Gulf Coast? In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild the flood walls. They have got the walls to【C15】______they were before Katrina, more or less. That's not【C16】______, we can now say with confidence. But it may be all【C17】______can be expected from one year of hustle. Meanwhile, New Orleans officials have crafted a plan to use buses and trains to【C18】______the sick and the disabled. The city estimates that 15,000 people will need a【C19】______out. However, state officials have not yet determined where these people will be taken. The【C20】______with neighboring communities are ongoing and difficult.

单选题Scientists generally hold that language has been so long in use that the length of time writing is known to cover is ______in Comparison.

单选题A ______ examination for the post of department manager will be held next Tuesday. A. classifying B. comparing C. contrasting D. competitive

单选题It can be inferred that Flamel was believed ______.

单选题Being a tough guy, he has perfect control of his won ______.

单选题Susan made careful ______as to the kinds of cake and candy needed for her party.

单选题Scientists on Tuesday pushed the hands of the infamous "Doomsday Clock" forward one minute from last year, signaling their pessimism about the efforts of world leaders to handle global threats. A. increase B. increased C. increasedly D. increasing

单选题As ordinary people, scientists are by no means more honest or ______ than other people, but as scientists, they attach special value to honesty while they are in their working sphere.

单选题Forest fires frequently threaten human lives and cause great property damage to people______in southern California.

单选题Some days were better; she would ______ on the sofa and talk dreamily about their taking a trip to Norway together.

单选题There are not many teachers who are strong _____ of traditional methods in English teaching.