单选题(None of) us had (the final say) in this matter, and (therefore) it was recommended that we (waited for) the authorities.

单选题______ you don"t know the rule won"t be a sufficient excuse for your failure.

单选题—I'd like to take a chance and run a business. —Do you know about the local market? ______.

单选题—Welcome to our shop. Anything I can do for you? —______.

单选题Alone in a strange country, Malian was so devoted to her study that she felt _____ lonely.

单选题Her skirt had been so ________ in packing that she had to iron it before going out.

单选题Lee is coming on very well now and it's a _______ of deciding how to fit him into the team.

单选题Coffee is a powerful drink. On a personal level, it helps keep us awake and active. On a much general level, it has helped shape our history and continues to shape our culture. Coffee plants grow wild in parts of Africa and were probably used by travelling tribes (部落) for thousands of year, but it wasn"t until the 1400s that people figured out they could roast its seeds. "Then it really took off," said historian Mark Pendergrast--author of Uncommon Grounds: the History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. By the 1500s, the drink had spread to coffeehouses across the Arab world, within another 150 years, it took Europe by storm. "It actually had a major impact on the rise of business," Pendergrast says. Coffeehouses became a spot not just to enjoy a cup but to exchange ideas. The insurance industry was founded hundreds of years ago in one of London"s 2,000 coffeehouses. Literature, newspapers and even the works of great composers like Bach and Beethoven were also inspired in coffeehouses. It is often said that after the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists (殖民者) attacked British tea ships and threw large boxes of tea into the harbor, Americans everywhere switched over to drinking coffee. "There"s a lot of truth to the story, I found," Pendergrast says. He mentions a letter John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, in which the Founding Father declares his love of tea but says he will have to learn to accept coffee instead, because drinking tea had become unpatriotic (不爱国的). For all the upsides coffee has brought the modern world, it also brought its fair share of downsides, too. Europeans carried coffee with them as they colonized various parts of the world, and this frequently meant they made people into slaves in order to grow it.

单选题Lying in hospital, the patient ______ the outside world by watching news programs on TV every day.

单选题If a better material______, the strength of the part would have been in- creased.

单选题He decide to go for a sailing holiday ______ the fact that he was usually seasick (晕船). A. because of B. in spite of C. in case of D. as a result of

单选题Air, or ______ is called atmosphere, surrounds the whole earth.A. it B. thatC. which D. what

单选题The United States is composed of fifty states, two of ______ are separated from the others by land or water. A. them B. that C. which D. those

单选题Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child—or even an animal, such as a pigeon—can learn to recognize faces, we all take this ability for granted. We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone's personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels that make that individual different from others. Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone's personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked to describe what is "a nice face" looked like, you probably would have a difficult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a "nice person", you might begin to think about someone who was kind, considerate, friendly, warm, and so forth. There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels, acts. Gordon Allport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in people's behavior. And many of us use this information as a basis for describing, or typing, his personality. Bookworms, conservatives, military types—people are described with such terms. People have always tried to "type" each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audience whether they played the villain's (坏人) or the hero's role. In fact the words "person" and "personality" come from the Latin persona, meaning "mask". Today, most television and movie actors do not wear masks. But we can easily tell the good.guy from the bad guy because the two types differ in appearances as well as in actions.

单选题If you don"t go, I shall not ______.

单选题The __________ American has not even thought about next year's election.

单选题Speaker A: Beach Motel. May I help you? Speaker B: ______

单选题Van Gogh was ______ painter at that time.

单选题You ought ______ the matter to the manager the day before yesterday. A. to report B. to have reported C. to reporting D. have reported