单选题They were late for class for there was a ______ in the traffic.

单选题Thanksgiving Day is an annual holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November, and it is most closely connected with the earliest history of the country. In 1620, the settlers, or pilgrims, sailed to America on the Mayflower seeking a place where they could have freedom of worship. After a tempestuous two-month voyage they landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts on an icy November morning. During their first winter over half of the settlers died of starvation, cold or epidemics. The following spring, the pilgrims were befriended by some native American Indians who taught them which of the wild vegetation was safe to eat. The Indians also showed them how to plant corn and other vegetables. All summer long the colony people waited for the harvests with great anxiety, knowing that their lives and the future existence of the colony depend on the coming harvest. Finally the fields produced a yield rich beyond expectations. And therefore it was decided that a day of thanksgiving be fixed, to thank the Lord as well as the Native Americans. The first national Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed by President George Washington and was celebrated on the 26th day of November in 1789. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln revived the custom and made Thanksgiving an annual (moveable) holiday to be celebrated on the fourth/last Thursday of November. For three years (1939-1941), under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the day was celebrated on the third Thursday in November. In 1941, Congress returned Thanksgiving to its original day, and the celebration of it has been observed on that date until today. The pattern of the thanksgiving celebration has never changed through the years. The big family dinner is planned months ahead. On the dinner table, people will find apples, oranges, chestnuts, walnuts and grapes. There will be plums, pudding, mince pie, cranberry juice, squash and other varieties of food. The best and most attractive among them are roast turkey and pumpkin pie. Everyone agrees the dinner must be built around roast turkey stuffed with a bread dressing to absorb the tasty juices as it roasts. But as cooking varies with families and with the regions where one lives, it is not easy to get a consensus on the precise kind of stuffing for the royal bird. Thanksgiving today is in every sense a national holiday on which Americans of all faiths and backgrounds join in to express their thanks for the year's bounty and reverently ask for continued blessings.

单选题The product appeared to be {{U}}adequate{{/U}} in every respect.

单选题A: Would you mind sending champagne and strawberries to my room at 1 a.m. please? B: ______.

单选题Initial reports were that multiple waves of warplanes bombed central Baghdad, {{U}}hitting{{/U}} oil refineries and the airport.

单选题In the law court, the suspect couldn't ______his time that night.

单选题Chaucer, (whose) Canterbury Tales is one of the (most extraordinary) works in English, practically created, (or) at least (made it acceptable), a new language.A. whoseB. most extraordinaryC. orD. made it acceptable

单选题She seemed to have detected some anger in his voice.

单选题Man. How did you like the new exhibit at the art gallery? Woman: I still haven't been able to take any time off from studying. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题The peahen is a bit smaller than the peacock and does not have a long, colorful tail.

单选题None of the witnesses would appear in court to testify for him.

单选题In the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? a woman and her husband spend most of their time quarreling.

单选题A: ______B: Well, it's 250 dollars a month, including heating.

单选题Man: What shall we take for the trip?Woman: We'd better take the bare necessities. Question: What does the woman suggest?

单选题A: I ought to eat before I head to the meeting. B: ______.

单选题Childhood can be a time of great insecurity and loneliness, during which the need to be accepted by peers______great significance.

单选题A: Excuse me, but can you tell us where the conference room is? B：______ The conference room is located on the third floor of the hotel.

单选题A: We should write letters to our friends who live outside the country. B: ______.

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} When I was still an architecture student, a teacher told me, "We learn more from buildings that fall down than from buildings that stand up.' What he meant was that construction is as much the result of experience as of theory. Although structural design follows established formulas, the actual performance of a building is complicated by the passage of time, the behavior of users, the natural elements—and unnatural events. All are difficult to simulate. Buildings, unlike cars, can't be crash-tested. The first important lesson of the World Trade Center collapse is that tall buildings can withstand the impact of a large jetliner. The twin towers were supported by 59 perimeter columns on each side. Although about 30 of these columns, extending from four to six floors, were destroyed in each building by the impact, initially both towers remained standing. Even so. the death toll (代价)was appalling—2245 people lost their lives. I was once asked, how tall buildings should be designed given what we'd learned from the World Trade Center collapse. My answer was, "Lower. " The question of when a tall building becomes unsafe is easy to answer. Common aerial fire-fighting ladders in use today are 100 feet high and can reach to about the 10th floor, so fires in buildings up to 10 stories high can be fought from the exterior (外部). Fighting fires and evacuating occupants above that height depend on fire stairs. The taller the building, the longer it will take for firefighters to climb to the scene of the fire. So the simple answer to the safety question is "Lower than 10 stories." Then why don't cities impose lower height limits? A 60-story office building does not have six times as much rentable space as a 10-story building. However, all things being equal, such a building will produce four times more revenue and four times more in property taxes. So cutting building heights would mean cutting city budgets. The most important lesson of the World Trade Center collapse is not that we should stop building tall buildings but that we have misjudged their cost. We did the same thing when we underestimated the cost of hurtling along a highway in a steel box at 70 miles per hour. It took many years before seat belts, air bags, radial tires, and antilock brakes became commonplace. At first, cars simply were too slow to warrant concern. Later, manufacturers resisted these expensive devices, arguing that consumers would not pay for safety. Now we do—willingly.

单选题Though they disagreed on details, they were in ______ agreement over the plan.