_____at in his way, the situation does not seem so desperate.(2007)

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You can ______ your muscles more powerfully by linking up your breathing to the exercise.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith are quite satisfied with ______ that can withstand kicks and blows.

Scientists hope the successful work done in collaboration with other researchers may be _____ elsewhere.

Now many parents are sending their sons and daughters to single-sex schools believing that the educational environment fostered by a single gender is more conducive to learning than a co-educational school. Is it really the case? The following are the supporters' and opponents' opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both sides and write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the opinions from both sides and give your view on the issue. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.YES Boys and girls distract each other from their education, especially in adolescence as their sexual and emotional sides develop. Too much time can be spent attempting to impress or even sexually harassing each other. Academic competition between the sexes is unhealthy and only adds to unhappiness and anxiety among weaker students. As Tricia Kelleher, a school principal, argues, "rather than girls defining themselves by their interests, they define themselves by what the boys think of them or what other girls think boys think of them". Furthermore, John Silber, President of Boston University, declared that his university would prioritize male applications in order to even up the student composition and ensure the male population did not become "ungentlemanly" towards women due to their numerical inferiority. A single-sex environment is therefore a space where children can learn without feeling pressurized by the other sex.NO In fact boys and girls are a good influence on each other, engendering good behavior and maturity—particularly as teenage girls usually exhibit greater responsibility than boys of the same age. Academic competition between the sexes is a spur to better performance at school. Any negative effects of co-educational schools have been explained away by studies as the result of other factors, such as "classroom size, economic discrepancies and cultural differences". Furthermore, the separation of boys and girls only serves to embrace sexual objectification, for they exist for each other only as dates rather than the classmates they would be in a co-educational environment. Allowing them into the same educational environment, in part to permit them to distract each other, is a welcome social development as well as a beneficial learning curve.

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Which of the following underlined parts indicates a subject-verb relation?

Not only ______ the gift, he also severely criticized the sender.

Mrs. Robson invited us to dinner after_____.

Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer's new book is flying off the shelves—and nobody knows exactly why. Sitting atop the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for two months now, the conservative Washington Post columnist's Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics, a collection of his writings, is not the kind of fiery, rash conservative commentary that generally climbs to the top of the bestsellers' lists. And yet, the collection has sold enough to make publicists and pundits(时事评论员，)alike scratch their heads. It is, as conservative publisher Adam Bellow told Newsweek, "a phenomenon". Published October 22 by Crown Forum, a Random House imprint that specializes in conservative authors, it first hit the Times bestseller list in November. Within two weeks, it had surpassed the latest works of conservatives Glenn Beck and Fox News's Bill O'Reilly and Brian Kilmeade to climb to No. 1. And there it remains. It ranks No. 8 on Amazon's list of best-selling books of 2013. According Nielsen, the book has sold 601, 000 hardcover copies in the United States alone. Crown says Things That Matter is in its 18th printing, with 970, 000 copies in print. "Was I surprised? I was surprised, " said Bellow, who runs HarperCollins's conservative imprint Broadside Books. "The collective wisdom in publishing is that anthology(选集)collections don't sell. " The Krauthammer compendium(概略)appears to be surfing a particularly vicious wave. The conservative publishing industry has flourished in recent years and books by conservative authors routinely make the bestsellers' lists. But few books sell as many as Krauthammer's, particularly anthologies of previously published work. "Anything at that level is largely serendipitous, " Bellow said. Success, it seems, begets even more success. "Once a book becomes number one on the best seller list, it functions as a form of advertising, " Bellow explained. " More copies are stocked at Barnes & Noble. When consumers walk into the store, they see big piles of them and, like in some experiment created by B. F. Skinner(the American psychologist who argued that free will is an illusion), they reach out and buy it." But when you get to the heady level Krauthammer has reached, it begins to look as if it is far more than just the marketing machine at work. And there are almost as many theories about Krauthammer's success as books sold. How you feel about the book's popularity largely depends on how you view the author. To many, Krauthammer is a thinking conservative, in contrast to the bluster of the modern-day Tea Party and quick-fire figures like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. To those who are trying to make sense of the rise of the conservative movement, Krauthammer's success is a triumph for temperate, smart conservatism. Americans thirsty for a subtle, intellectual debate are buying his book in droves.

The website is _______ closed for maintenance.

Which of the following italicized phrases is INCORRECT?

PASSAGE ONEWhat is the author's occupation according to the passage?

It is due to the invention of the computer that man has been able to work so many wonders in the past few years. A case _____ is the successful launching of space shuttle.

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I hope to ______ my umbrella which I left in the taxi.

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The young woman was playing hard to get but actually she wanted to go on a date with the young man. The underlined part means ______.