单选题My vacation ______ when school started. A. finished B. closed C. done D. ended

单选题The boy"s ______ to music is quite different from anyone else.

单选题Not until she arrived at the meeting room ______ she had forgotten to bring the document.

单选题With a large amount of work ______ the chief manager couldn"t spare time for a holiday.

单选题If we are treated with respect by others, we soon come to have more respect for ourselves.

单选题This radio is not working. I"ll have it ______.

单选题Showing some sense of humor can be a(n) ______ way to deal with some stressful situation.

单选题Mr. White has three children, all ______ have become professors.

单选题It is suggested that children ______ to bed early.

单选题No sooner ______ we ______ this conclusion than they agreed to it. A. would...reachB. did...reach C. were...reachingD. had...reached

单选题Does ______ matter if he can"t return the book on time?

单选题There is so much work ______ today. Would you help me?

单选题A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than is possible to learn in general history classes. Most typical history courses concentrate on politics, economics and war. But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also religious beliefs, emotions and psychology. In addition, information about the daily activities of our ancestors can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than can be found in most history books. In history books, objective information about the political life of a country is presented; that is, facts about politics are given, but opinions are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is subjective(主观的): it reflects emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya was perhaps the first truly "political" artist. In his well-known painting The Third of May, 1808, he criticized the Spanish government for its abuse(滥用) of power over people. In the same way, art can reflect a culture"s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art had been almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that described people and stories from the Bible. Although most people couldn"t read, they could still understand the Bible stories in the pictures on church walls. By contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its absence of human and animal images. This reflects the Islamic belief that statues (雕像) are not holy.

单选题As a ______ of fact, I prefer talking to a friend to being alone.

单选题My brother gave me three reference books, but ______ of them was of any use for my report.

单选题He promised to ______ our criticism with an open mind. A. obtain B. accept C. bear D. admit

单选题John"s success has nothing to do with good luck. It is years of hard work ______ has made him what he is today.

单选题In the centuries ______, Egypt became one of the most advanced civilizations on earth.

单选题I won"t allow you to go out ______ you finish your homework.

单选题All that we really need to plot out the future of our universe are a few good measurements. This does not mean that we can sit down today and outline the future course of the universe with anything like certainty. There are still too many things we do not know about the way the universe is put together. But we do know exactly what information we need to fill in our knowledge and we have a pretty good idea of how to go about getting it. Perhaps the best way to think of our present situation is to imagine a train coming into a switchyard(调车场). All of the switches are set before the train arrives so that its path is completely determined. Some switches we can see, others we cannot. There is no ambiguity if we can see the setting of a switch. We can say with confidence that some possible futures will not materialize and others will. At the unseen switches, however, there is no such certainty. We know the train will take one of the tracks leading out, but we have no idea which one. The unseen switches are the true decision points in the future and what happens when we arrive at them determines the entire subsequent course of events. When we think about the future of the universe, we can see our "track" many billions of years into the future, but after that there are decision points to be dealt with and possible fates to consider. The goal of science is to reduce the ambiguity at the decision points and find the true road that will be followed.