单选题A special feature of the weather in England is that

单选题Founded in 1949, the Fraunhofer Society is now Europe's largest organization for applied technology, and has 59 institutes employing 12,000 people. It continues to grow. Last year it swallowed up the Heinrich Hertz institute for Communication Technology in Berlin. Today, there are seven Fraunhofers in the US and Asia. The Fraunhofer Society has a history of about ______ year(s) till now.A. 60B. 50C. sevenD. one

单选题He made an immense amount of money in business. A. large B. small C. limited D. little

单选题The conference explored the possibility of closer trade links.

单选题If roundworms are removed from the soil and placed in a liquid, they thrash {{U}}helplessly{{/U}} around.

单选题When they built this office block, they gave no Uconsideration/U to people in wheelchairs.

单选题Their style of playing football is utterly different.

单选题All the people Ugathered/U at Mary' s house.

单选题The article sketched the major events of the decade.

单选题I got a note from Moira urging me to get in touch.A. instructingB. pushingC. notifyingD. inviting

单选题The writer mentions "a thief" in the second paragraph

单选题Weed killers must be chosen and applied with great care to avoid damage to adjacent trees and shrubs.

单选题How to Be a Successful Businessperson Have you ever wondered why some people are successful in business and others are not? Here"s a story about one successful businessperson. He started out washing dishes and today he owns 168 restaurants. Zubair Kazi was born in Bhatkal, a small town in southwest India. His dream was to be an airplane pilot, and when he was 16 years old, he learned to fly a small plane. At the age of 23 and with just a little money in his pocket, Mr. Kazi moved to the United States. He hoped to get a job in the airplane industry in California. Instead, he ended up working for a company that rented cars. While Mr. Kazi was working at the car rental (租赁的) company, he frequently ate at a nearby KFC restaurant. To save money on food, he decided to get a job with KFC. For two months, he worked as a cook"s assistant. His job was to clean the kitchen and help the cook. "I didn"t like it," Mr. Kazi says, "but I always did the best I could." One day, Mr. Kazi"s two co-workers failed to come to work. That day, Mr. Kazi did the work of all three people in the kitchen. This really impressed the owners of the restaurant. A few months later, the owners needed a manager for a new restaurant. They gave the job to Mr. Kazi. He worked hard as the manager and soon the restaurant was making a profit. A few years later, Mr. Kazi heard about a restaurant that was losing money. The restaurant was dirty inside and food was terrible. Mr. Kazi borrowed money from a bank and bought the restaurant. For the first six months, Mr. Kazi worked in the restaurant from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week. He and his wife cleaned up the restaurant, remodeled the front of the building, and improved the cooking. They also tried hard to please the customers. If someone had to wait more than ten minutes for their food, Mrs. Kazi gave them a free soda. Before long the restaurant was making a profit. A year later, Mr. Kazi sold his restaurant for a profit. With the money he earned, he bought three more restaurants that were losing money. Again, he cleaned them up, improved the food, and retrained the employees. Before long these restaurants were making a profit, too. Today Mr. Kazi owns 168 restaurants, but he isn"t planning to stop there. He"s looking for more poorly managed restaurants to buy. "I love it when I go to buy a restaurant and find it"s a mess, Mr. Kazi says. "The only way it can go is up."

单选题According to some biologists, the instinct to care for the young is perhaps the most interesting characteristic of animals. A. actually B. surprisingly C. seldom D. possibly

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单选题They strolled around the lake for an hour or so.

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单选题Can Buildings Be Designed to Resist Terrorist Attack In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, structural engineers are trying hard to solve a question that a month ago would have been completely unthinkable: Can building be designed to withstand catastrophic blasts inflicted by terrorists? Ten days after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers, structural engineers from the University at Buffalo and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) headquartered at UB traveled to ground zero as part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation. Visiting the site as part of an MCEER reconnaissance visit, they spent two days beginning the task of formulating ideas about how to design such structures and searching for clues on how to do so in buildings that were damaged, but still are standing. "Our objective in visiting ground zero was to go and look at the buildings surrounding the World Trade Center, those buildings that are still standing, but that sustained damage," said M. Bruneau, Ph.D. "Our immediate hope is that we can develop a better understanding as to why those buildings remain standing, while our long-term goal is to see whether earthquake engineering technologies can be married to existing technologies to achieve enhanced performance of buildings in the event of terrorist attacks," he added. Photographs taken by the investigators demonstrate in startling detail the monumental damage inflicted on the World Trade Center towers and buildings in the vicinity. One building a block away from the towers remains standing, but was badly damaged. "This building is many meters away from the World Trade Center and yet we see a column there that used to be part of that building", explained A. Whittaker, Ph. D. "The column became a missile that shot across the road, through the window and through the floor." The visit to the area also revealed some surprises, according to the engineers. For example, the floor framing systems in one of the adjacent buildings were quite rugged, allowing floors that were pierced by tons of falling debris to remain intact." Highly redundant ductile framing systems may provide a simple, but robust strategy for blast resistance," he added. Other strategies may include providing alternate paths for gravity loads in the event that a load-bearing column fails." We also need a better understanding of the mechanism of collapse, "said A. Whittaker. "We need to find out what causes a building to collapse and how you can predict it." A. Reinhorn, Ph.D. noted that "earthquake shaking has led to the collapse of many buildings in the past. It induces dynamic response and extremely high stresses and deformations in structural components. Solutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may be directly applicable to blast engineering and terrorist-resistant design. Part of our mission now at UB is to transfer these solutions and to develop new ones where none exist at present. "

单选题Only a small minority of the mentally ill are liable to harm themselves or others.