单选题The ______ regarding vitamin C is unlikely to be resolved in the near future. A. deviation B. controversy C. distinction D. comparison

单选题The party began at eight. So they ______ dine at seven.

单选题The original report in Newsweek reported ______

单选题He kept his head at that critical moment; otherwise the accident ______. A. would happen B. happened C. would have been happened D. would have happened

单选题Prior to the formation of a tornado, ______.

单选题{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family. Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended only when she slept. The father and his sister, Chris's Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced arguments over nothing. The continuous exchanges further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an unendurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago have lifted them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University? Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement. A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but a home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. She threw herself into the venture with a noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long-stored mattresses, pillows and bed linen aired and sweetened in the sun. Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took the copy for a modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, a home atmosphere in an historic mansion, the company of well-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank clerk and the other a maiden lady employed in a bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show them to their room, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half a cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room's gloomy vastness. When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining-hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pots, no towels on their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baidons were not inn-keepers, and then treated them to an account of the family's past glories.

单选题 {{I}}Questions 28 and 29 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.{{/I}}

单选题—______ all three people in the car injured in the accident? — No, ______ only the two passengers who got hurt.

单选题Jack wishes that he ______ business instead of history when he was in university. A. studied B. study C. had been studying D. had studied

单选题Bit by bit, a child makes the necessary changes to make his language ______.

单选题For whom did Jane Adams start the country vocation programs?

单选题He left orders that nothing ______ touched until the police arrived here.

单选题I grew up deprived of hugs. Neither of my parents was the cuddly type. Greetings involving kissing caused me to wince, and hugging generally just made me feel awkward. Then one hug changed all that. One month before my 40th birthday my dad had heart surgery. As he came round, days later, he grabbed me and hugged me so hard I had to push with all my might to keep my head from pressing down on his newly stitched torso. It was a hug to make up for all those we had never had. Days later as he slowly started to gain strength he told me for the first time ever that he loved me, and through my tears I told him I loved him, too. I began planning how to bake him better—with carrot cakes, victoria sponges, jelly and ice cream. My maternal streak kicked in and I fantasied about wheeling him through the park and feeding him home-made goodies. Then he died. I felt cheated. All my life I had wondered whether my dad cared for me and loved me—I doubted it. Just as I got proof that he did, he passed away. My parents split up when I was two years old and, while I had monthly contact with my dad, my bitter stepmother and my father"s old-fashioned stiff upper lip meant we never became close. In fact, I used to dread the visits to see him and count the hours until I could go home again. When I was very little the weekends at my father"s house felt cold and unfriendly. During my teens the trips to a hostile house became a dread on the horizon for weeks beforehand. Each stay culminated in an uncomfortable peck on the cheek from dad as he said goodbye—a moment I cringed about for hours in advance. Losing a father whom you have no recollection of ever living with is difficult. Grieving is tricky; I didn"t have any obvious close father-daughter memories to cling to and think and cry over. Most of my memories were of stilted meetings and uncomfortable times together. But I desperately missed him being alive. As time moved on my grief and anger at his untimely death began to recede. I realized that his affirmation of me from his deathbed had filled a gaping hole of insecurity I had constantly carried around. To a child a hug says too many things. It tells you that the person hugging you loves you, cares for you. A hug also confirms that you are a lovable being. Months after dad"s death I realized with a jolt that his lack of hugs said more about him than me. My father was not a demonstrative man and I was, therefore, perhaps, a lovable being.

单选题One way to conserve water is to ______ dishes, instead of rinsing them, before loading the dishwasher. A. polish B. scrub C. scrape D. scribe

单选题Where was the destination of Titanic?

单选题This image of the fairy as ______ creature dressed in white goes back to about the seventeenth century.

单选题The main problem of the round-the-clock working system lies in ______.

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