单选题In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is
imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims
that the risks of harm have in many cases been ______.
A. exaggerated
B. ignored
C. scrutinized
D. derided
单选题The dog has ______ its affection to its new master.
单选题Sometimes patients suffering from severe pain can be helped by "drugs" that aren"t really drugs at all ______ sugar pills that contain no active chemical elements.
单选题Social tensions among adult factions can be ______ by politics, but adolescents and children have no such ______ for resolving their conflict with the exclusive world of adults.
单选题"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it," wrote Oscar Wilde, a composer of brilliant______.
单选题You ______ hurt his feelings by saying that, even if" you thought it.
单选题Michelangelo was the greatest sculptor of the sixteenth century. We
admire the products of his genius but we less frequently pause to consider the
{{U}}magnitude{{/U}} of the tasks he undertook, the problems he encountered, and
even failures he may have suffered.
A. huge size of
B. large amount of
C. magnificence
D. hardships
单选题Many theories A
have been developed
concerning B
how
people learn about cultures from the myths and legends C
pass down
from one generation to D
another
.
单选题The compact dictionaries published in recent years are not as
{{U}}unwieldy{{/U}} as some of the older editions.
A. complete
B. tiresome
C. reliable
D. cumbersome
单选题Banks in Italy fared better during the financial crisis than many of their peers, ______Italian taxpayers the bailouts their counterparts in other countries had to shoulder.
单选题Mr. White works with a chemicals import & export company, but he
______ for this industrial fair, since he is on leave.
A. has worked
B. works
C. has been working
D. is working
单选题Virtually all financial______will be conducted by computer.
单选题Clearly a tug of war over key policies continues between the ______ and ideological camps.
单选题Since it is now______to build the complex central processing unit of a computer on a single silicon chip using photolithography and chemical etching, it seems plausible that other miniature structures might be fabricated in______ways.
单选题His accent is ______ to people in that small town.
单选题The very essence of civil liberty consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of laws, ______ he receives an injury.
单选题Covent Garden is London"s big wholesale market where you can buy many things. For example, fruit, vegetables and flowers.
单选题Our boss said that he knew it was done by Peter but he deliberately ______his faults because he wanted to give him a chance.
单选题It was impolite for you to leave without saying goodbye; you really______have done so.
单选题Almost as a______to the revival of Greek knowledge and values came the revival of interest in mathematics.