单选题It is said that the government is not able to ______ money in a short period to fully satisfy the needs in the protection of these children. A. amass B. amend C. allay D. amortise

单选题The public school system suddenly found itself ______. While the number of schoolchildren rose because of wartime and postwar conditions, these same conditions made the schools even less prepared to cope with the flood.

单选题Many sat at the table, looked at the plate and ______ her lips. A. smacked B. opened C. parted D. separated

单选题When it comes to Chinese, Jane already knew some of the characters, but John had to start from ______.

单选题The principal duty of the United Nations is to safeguard the pace of the world. A. primary B. prime C. privileged D. precedent

单选题This book is about how these basic beliefs and values affect important sides of American life.

单选题If they spend some time on Chinese history, they will be more able to predict China"s future.

单选题The word "strength" underlined in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

单选题After you've started to master the techniques, the real struggle is just beginning. It's ______ that makes you great.

单选题I want to talk to the person breaking that cup.

单选题When insects feed on {{U}}decaying{{/U}} plant material in a compost pile, they help turn it into useful garden soil.

单选题The paradoxical aspect of the myths about Demeter, when we consider the predominant image of her as a tranquil and serene goddess, is her agitated search for her daughter.

单选题Her dusky arched eyebows {{U}}were knitting and not be frowning,{{/U}} her speaking eyes held both merriment and sorrow, her very frailty had charm. A. are knitting and yet not to be frowning B. were knitted and not yet frowned C. are to be knitted and not yet to be frowned D. were knitted and yet not frowning

单选题Each year, in a never-ending cycle of death and {{U}}rebirth{{/U}}, the rains sweep across southem Asia.

单选题The sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was ______ by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.

单选题Most of that professor's writings are either for the bird or a hodgepodge of thoughts and ideas coppied from other authors. A. pastiche B. paternalism C. paucity D. pathology

单选题Sofia Coppola"s "Lost in Translation" is a funny, bittersweet movie that uses cultural dislocation as a metaphor for people who have gotten lost in their own lives. The movie contains priceless slapstick from Bill Murray, finely tuned performances by Murray and the beautiful Scarlett Johansson and a visual and aural design that cultivates a romantic though melancholy mood. In only her second feature, Coppola has made a poised, intelligent film that nicely balances laughs with a poignancy rarely seen in American movies. If Focus Features markets "Lost in Translation" carefully, this most original comedy could win audiences well beyond art houses. Bob Harris (Murray) is a grumpy movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial. He is not only plagued by jet lag and gloom over a deteriorating marriage of many years, he is also in the midst of a midlife crisis that dampens his spirits but not his wit. Charlotte(Johansson), the neglected wife of a photographer, experiences a similar air-conditioned nightmare. Married two years, she already feels lost in the relationship, unable to participate in her husband"s career or pinpoint what she wants out of life. When she ventures into the city, she is confronted by a distorted version of Western modernity. These two people discover each other late at night at the bar. Neither one can sleep. A friendship evolves in their mutual isolation. Coppola sees in Tokyo"s crowded, neon-lit urban landscape a society estranged from its own culture. The night is filled with pleasure-seekers obsessed by games, toys and American pop culture. Only when Charlotte takes a train to Kyoto is she able to experience the old Japan of ancient temples and gardens, tea houses and kimono-clad figures. This role fits Murray like his own skin. A middle-aged burnout who sees no challenges on his horizon gradually changes into a man revitalized by another alienated soul. His comic touch enriches the character with a self-deprecating wit and. in a few sequences, a rubbery physicality that earns sustained laughs. Johansson makes Charlotte"s loneliness and disillusionment palpable as the woman is cut off from life in ways she never imagined. Using high-speed film stock, cinematographer Lance Acord gives the glaring neon and numbingly sleek interiors a kind of romantic sheen. The score produced by Brian Reitzell created out of Japanese musical themes and "Tokyo dream-pop" adds to the sense of an Eastern city that has succumbed in large measure to Western culture.

单选题An overwhelming richness of vegetation may have caused the level of oxygen, to rise above today"s ______ , with a corresponding depletion of carbon dioxide.

单选题Any troop of wild animals should be approached warily. A. fearlessly B. confidently C. silently D. prudently

单选题If we can ______ any kind of killing in the name of religion, the door is opened for all kinds of other justifications.