No one can ________ how the election will turn out，as there are many unknown fac
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No one can ________ how the election will turn out，as there are many unknown facts.| A．protect | B．prepare | C．prevent | D．predict |
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答案
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解析
试题分析：A. protect 保护，B. prepare准备，C. prevent防止，D. predict预测，句意：没有人能预测选举最终会怎样，因为有很多不为人知的事实。根据句意选D。 |
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It took us several hours to make the old man ________ of the safety of travelling by air.| A．believed | B．convinced | C．informed | D．persuaded |
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He had a strange hairstyle and he instantly became the ________ of attention the moment he stepped into the classroom.| A．aim | B．focus | C．direction | D．point |
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With the word “ PM2.5” ________ appearing in media reports, people pay greater attention to it and seek health tips for smoggy days.| A．constantly | B．consequently | C．permanently | D．immediately |
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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
Warren Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. 小题1: One was a successful international conference (会议).
After World War One, Britain, Japan and the United States expanded their navies (海军). They built bigger and bigger ships. Many members of the United States Congress worried about the cost. 小题2: They asked President Harding to organize a conference to discuss these issues.
小题3: President Harding invited representatives from the major naval powers of the time Britain, Japan, France and Italy. He also invited representatives from countries with interests in Asia and Europe China, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands. He did not invite the new Soviet leaders in Russia.
Mr Harding’s Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes, spoke. 小题4: He proposed that the world’s strongest nations should stop building warships for ten years. He also proposed that Britain, Japan, and the United States should destroy some ships to make their navies smaller immediately.
小题5: It involved the misuse of underground oil owned by the federal government. Warren Harding was an honest man. But he did not have a strong mind of his own. He was easily influenced. And he often accepted bad advice. He explained the problem with these words, “I listen to one side, and they seem right. Then I listen to the other side, and they seem just as right. I know that somewhere there is a man who knows the truth. But I do not know where to find him.”| A．He is remembered mostly for two events. | | B．The conference was not a complete success. | | C．They also worried about increased political tension (紧张) in Asia. | | D．The conference was held in Washington in November, 1921. |
E. President Harding appointed several men of great ability to his cabinet (内阁).
F. He offered the conference a detailed plan to reduce the size of the world’s major navies.
G. The second thing for which President Harding is remembered is the Teapot Dome scandal (丑闻). |
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Some students who had graduated visited their university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. To offer his guests coffee, the professor 小题1: (go) to the kitchen and returned with a pot of coffee and 小题2: variety of cups—porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking, some expensive—telling them to help 小题3: to the coffee.
小题4: was when all the students had a cup of coffee in hand that he said, “All the nice-looking expensive cups have been taken up, 小题5: (leave) behind the plain and cheap ones. Actually, the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. 小题6: all of you really want is coffee, not the cup.You consciously went for the best cups, 小题7: then you began eyeing others’ cups.”
“Now consider this Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups, 小题8: are just tools to hold and contain life. The type of cup we have does not change the quality of life . If we concentrate only 小题9: the cups, we fail to enjoy the coffee. I 小题10: (true) hope that you will never let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead.” |
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