单选题The bank refused to ______ him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.

单选题Not everyone has the courage to admit his or her own ______.

单选题Oxfam Trailwalker has been one of Hong Kong"s biggest fund-raising events since 1981. It is organized to raise money for helping poor people in Hong Kong and other parts of Asia and Africa. Trailwalker is held in November every year. People over eighteen can group themselves into a team of four people and join this walk. Oxfam Trailwalker is a hard hike because you have to finish walking 100 kilometers in 48 hours. The Trailwalkers have to walk through eight parks and over twenty hills and mountains. It is an excellent chance for people to learn team spirit. All the team members must plan everything together before the event. They need help each other to finish the hike because only the team"s finishing time will be recorded. You can not carry everything with you during the walk, so it is useful to have support teams to bring you food, drinks, warm clothes to make your walk easier. Each team must raise at least HK6,000. The money is used to support poor people and development projects. Why not try your best to help people in need? This will be an experience you will never forget.

单选题—Did you hear the phone ring last night? —I didn"t hear anything. I was ______ that I didn"t wake up.

单选题The second-hand car he bought was almost new; ______ it was in excellent condition. A. besides B. although C. but D. however

单选题Dark blue is the best colour ______ me. A. that fits B. that suits C. which fits D. which suits

单选题It is ______ to parents to teach their children manners.

单选题The small village by the foot of the mountain is peaceful and remote with _________ people living around.

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单选题There"s the living room still to be ______, so that"s my next project.

单选题By the time you get to New York, the parcel ______ there.

单选题Nearly all "speed reading" courses have a "pacing" element—some timing device which lets the student know how many words a minute he is reading. You can do this simply by looking at your watch every 5 or 10 minutes and noting down the page number you have reached. Check the average number of words per page for the particular book you are reading. How do you know when 5 minutes has passed on your watch if you are busy reading the book? Well, this is difficult at first. A friend can help by timing you over a set period, or you can read within hearing distance of a public clock which strikes the quarter hours. Pace yourself every three or four days, always with the same kind of easy, general interest books. You should soon notice your accustomed w. p.m. rate creeping up. Obviously there is little point in increasing your w. p. m. rate if you do not understand what you are reading. When you are consciously trying to increase your reading speed, stop after every chapter (if you are reading a novel) or every section or group of ten or twelve pages (if it is a text-book) and ask yourself a few questions about what you have been reading. If you find you have lost the thread of the story, or you cannot remember clearly the details of what was said, reread the section or chapter. You can also try "lightning speed" exercise from time to time. Take four or five pages of the general interest book you happen to be reading and read them as fast as you possibly can. Do not bother about whether you understand or not. Now go back and read them at what you feel to be your "normal" w. p. m. rate, the rate at which you can comfortably understand. After a "lightning speed" reading through (probably 600 w. p. m.), you will usually find that your "normal" speed has increased perhaps by as much as 50-100 w. p. m. This is the technique sportsmen use when they usually run further in training than they will have to on the day of the big race.

单选题For professional athletes, ______ to the Olympics means that they have a chance to enter the history books.

单选题Allison said that she wouldn't mind ______ alone at home when we went to see a play. A. left B. to be left C. being left D. leaving

单选题It may be necessary to stop ______ in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lesson.

单选题It ______ snowing all afternoon. A. kept on B. kept after C. kept out D. kept over

单选题What might the house of the future be like.9 Grace can tell. More formally known as the Microsoft Home, her high-tech devices, along with 1 in design and construction, will change the 2 we think about our homes. You enter the house, and Grate"s 3 , coming from hidden speakers, passes on your messages. In the kitchen, you set a bag of flour on the intelligently 4 stone counter. Grace sees what you"re 5 , and projects a list of flour-based food on the counter. 6 you choose one, Grace repeats instructions for cooking. She 7 knows what"s in the cupboard. The day when your house will be like a family member is not that far off. This 8 of seamless computing, in which technology is everywhere yet nowhere ( 9 when we want it) , is emphasized in most future-home thinking. Microsoft, 10 , isn"t the only one exploring 11 technology can make our homes more 12 and comfortable. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, scientists are 13 systems that will allow older people to continue living 14 . So Grandma"s home can be intelligently wired to 15 her patterns of wake, sleep and movement; family members would be 16 of any changes via computer. Does spying on Grandma"s sound 17 ? Director Beth Mynatt says "A good bit of our 18 has been working on how to convey information without 19 privacy. We also don"t want to create 20 anxiety. Maybe she just took a quiet day to read, and the system would have to recognize that."

单选题Everybody says that you are worthy of the award. This shows that your outstanding scholarly attainments and whole-hearted devotion to science have been given public recognition. I am sure that what you have won is just the first of the many honors that you are to obtain in the years to come.

单选题My cousin will come back from France in a year or ______.

单选题______ in the regulations that you should not tell other people the password of your email account.