单选题{{B}}D{{/B}} The Erie Canal was the first important national waterway built in the US. It crossed New York from Buffalo on Lake Erie Troy to Albany on the Hudson River. It joined the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. The canal served as a route over which industrial goods could flow into the west, and materials could pour into the east. The Erie Canal helped New York develop into the nation's largest city. The building of the canal was paid for entirely by the state of New York. It cost $7,143,789, but it soon gained its price many times over. Between 1825, when the canal was opened, and 1882, when toll charges(过运河费) were stopped, the state collected $121,461,891. For a hundred years before the Erie was built, people had been talking about a canal which could join the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. The man who planned the Erie Canal and carried the plan through was De Witt Clinton. Those who were against the canal laughingly called it "Clinton's Ditch(沟)". Clinton talked and wrote about the canal and drew up plans for it. He and Governor Morris went to Washington in 1812 to ask for help for the canal, but they were unsuccessful. Clinton became governor of New York in 1817, and shortly afterwards, on July 4, 1817, broke ground for the canal in Rome, N.Y. The first part of the canal was completed in 1820. As the canal grew, towns along its course developed fast. The length of the canal is 363 miles.

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单选题The shop assistants said that they could never be ______ polite to their customers. A. so B. enough C. very D. too

单选题Which of the following is the best title of the article?

单选题What's the meaning of" a native of Taiwan" ?

单选题From the 440 radio channels available on Osaka Yusen Broadcasting, Japan's largest cable- radio network, subscribers (订户) can tune into a channel featuring (以……为特色) 24 hours of croaking frogs, or one that consists of the sound of trains polling in and out of stations. As well as the sounds of birds or percolating (过滤) coffee, Osaka Yusen offers nearly 100 channels of announcer-free jazz, rock, classical music, Second World War military marches, and folk music from all over the world. Easton and Abba each have entire channels to themselves, al- though the repeating rate must be almost as high as that of an in-flight music channel. For those in search of more intellectual (智力的) background sounds for their dinner par- ties, there is always the lesson channel or a range of talks on spiritual development. But anyone tired of all the above should adjust their sets to "drowsing (瞌睡) channels" and tune into the sheep-counting station, for example, which features a mature male voice slowly counting from one to a thousand. For busy people wishing to calm down after an awful day at work, there is a channel of slow music, and another carrying only the sound of a mother's heartbeat. According to the company, "Babies listen to this noise before they are born. It's a natural relaxant./

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单选题Nancy sometimes wishes that she ______ in a small town.

单选题What is Animal Hospital?

单选题Since our house was built 6 years ago its ______ are in need of repairing.

单选题Attention to detail is something everyone can and should pay—especially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that came across his desk every day. "It's amazing how many candidates(求职者) eliminate themselves," he says. "Resumes (简历) arrive with stains. Some candidates don't bother (麻烦) to spell the company's name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate," Crossley concludes. "If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job?" Can we pay too much attention to detail? Absolutely not. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. "To keep from losing the forest for the trees", says Charles Garfield, associate (副) professor at the University of California, San Francisco, "We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture. If they don't, we should drop them and move to something else." Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo Ⅱ moon launch was slightly off-course 90% of the time," says Garfield, "But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary." Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake. Too often we believe what accounts for others success is some special secret or a lucky break (机遇). But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.

单选题In order to keep fit, you can get off the bus one or two stops ______ and walk the rest of the way. A. early B. earlier C. more early D. the earliest

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单选题You should keep the milk in the ice box,______ it will go bad.

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