单选题______there was an epidemic approaching, Mr. Smith ______the invitation to visit that area.

单选题Greater efforts to increase agricultural production must be made if food shortage______.

单选题______ begun to understand that the air and the oceans act as a single fluid when they exchange heat and gases.

单选题After the new technique was introduced, the factory produced ______tractors this year as the year before.

单选题Financial regulation is necessary. It is similar to fire safety rules. In building codes, fire safety rules are mandated by law. There must be ceiling sprinklers, fire extinguishers and fire escapes.

单选题Theartist's use of swirls of ______ colors conveys a sense of excitement.

单选题Slander has destroyed many a great man"s career and reputation.

单选题They climbed to the top of the hill ______ they could get a bird's-eye view of the city.

单选题The British newspaper industry continued to consolidate , with larger chains buying smaller ones rather than individual newspapers.

单选题The advocates of anarchy are ignoring the______such a form of government will bring with it.

单选题Passage 5 The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, pure, unprejudiced, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is the most important assignment confronting American journalism—to make clear to the reader the problems of the day, to make international news understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing (with the possible exception of society news) as "local" news, because any event in the international area has local reaction in the financial market, political circles, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life. There is in journalism a widespread view that when you consider giving an interpretation, you are entering dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense. The opponents of interpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall confine himself to the "facts". This insistence raises two questions. What are the facts? And: Are the bare facts enough? As for the first question, consider how a so-called "factual" story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out these fifty, his space being necessarily restricted, he selects the ten which he considers most important. This is judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall constitute the beginning of the article. (This is an important decision because many readers do not proceed beyond the first paragraph.) This is Judgment Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has a large influence, or on page twenty-four, where it has little. Judgment Number Three. Thus in the presentation of a so-called "factual" or "objective" story, at least three judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation, in which, reporter and editor, calling upon their research resources, their general background, and their "news neutralism", arrive at a conclusion as to line significance of the news. The two areas of judgment, presentation of the news and its interpretation, are both objective rather than subjective processes—as objective, that is, as any human being can be. (Note in passing: even though complete objectivity can never be achieved, nevertheless the ideal must always be the light in the murky news channels.) If an editor is intent on giving a prejudiced view of the news, he can do it in other ways and more effectively than by interpretation. He can do it by the selection of those facts that support his particular viewpoint. Or he can do it by line play he gives a story-promoting it to page one or putting it on page thirty.

单选题The terrorists might have planted a bomb on a plane in Athens, set to ______ when it arrived in New York.

单选题The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition , enduring the most ______hardships without being forced to do so, and remainingsteadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

单选题The drinking water is contaminated with impurities.

单选题I______in the shade like all the other tourists, then I______burned.

单选题Like most people, I've long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I'm treated as a person. Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they'd never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, and then beckoned me back with his finger a minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I'd been. I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I'd be sitting at their table, waiting to be served. Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from most everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked — cordially. I soon found out differently. I sat several feet away from an advertising sales representative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident. Perhaps it was because money was involved, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me. My job title made people treat me with courtesy. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry. It's no secret that there's a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry, by definition, exists to cater to others' needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn't get the difference between server and servant. I'm now applying to graduate school, which means someday I'll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. I think I'll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose only job is to serve them.

单选题There was an______of good-friendship in the word which fairly warmed the cockles of her heart.

单选题She surprised us all when she resigned so suddenly, ______she had worked here for more than twenty years.

单选题He attempts to______the truth by appealing to dishonest, ignorant and irresponsible bigotry.

单选题There is no reason to insult and ______ the man simply because you do not agree with him.