单选题A balance of international payment refers to the net result of the business which a nation carries on with other nations in a given period.

单选题She believes that she is not a good mother because she does not fit the {{U}}stereotype{{/U}} of a woman who spends all her time with her children.

单选题A: ______. B: I'd suggest this lipstick or face powder, sir. It's an excellent brand.

单选题(So great) (was) the influence of Thomas Paine (on) his own time that John Adams suggested that the era (was called) "The Age of Paine".A. So greatB. wasC. onD. was called

单选题Lighting levels are carefully controlled to fall within an acceptable level for {{U}}optimal{{/U}} reading convenience.

单选题The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of unprecedented severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health. As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves? Our pediatrician's (儿科医师的) medical recommendation was simple: abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband's work. We are fascinated by Mexico--its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from breathing. But for millions, there is no choice. Their lives, their jobs, their futures depend on being here. Thousands of Mexicans arrive each day in this city, desperate for economic opportunities. Thousands more are born here each day. Entire families work in the streets and practically live there. It is a familiar sight: as parents hawk goods at stoplights, their children play in the grassy highway dividers, breathing exhaust fumes. I feel guilty complaining about my personal situation; we won't be here long enough for our children to form the impression that skies are colored only gray. And yet the government cannot do what it must to end this problem. For any country, especially a developing Third World economy like Mexico's, the idea of barring from the capital city enough cars, closing enough factories and spending the necessary billions on public transportation is simply not an option. So when things get bad, as in the current emergency, Mexico takes half measures--prohibiting some more cars from circulating, stopping some factories from producing--that even its own officials concede aren't adequate. The word "emergency" implies the unusual. But when daffy life itself is an emergency, the concept loses its meaning. It is human nature to try to adapt to that which we cannot change, or to mislead ourselves into believing we can adapt.

单选题This passage is primarily concerned with discussing______.

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.