boast of, humorous
brag about, infuriating
deny, amusing
declaim, apathetic
defend, unproductive
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Under her leadership, the group’s ______ grew from less than one million dollars to more than ten million.
A data
Bbudget
Citem
Dpiece
第2题:
A vessel is "engaged in fishing" when ______.
A.her gear extends more than 100 meters from the vessel
B.she is using any type of gear,other than lines
C.she is using fishing apparatus which restricts her maneuverability
D.she has any fishing gear on board
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Lucky is the man who has no "skeleton in his closet". When
a man has done something in his life that he is ashamed of, that he wants to
hide, he is said to have a "skeleton in his closet". Some people may have more
than one skeleton.
As we have noted many times, it is
hard to find out how these expressions begin. Sometimes, we get some hard facts.
But more often we have to depend on guesswork. And that is true of this phrase,
which came from England.
Before 1932, English law did not
permit a doctor to cut open a dead human body for scientific examination, unless
it was the corpse (尸体) of an executed (处决) criminal.
But when
it became legal, more and more doctors demanded skeletons for a more scientific
study of medicine. It was helping in the advance of modern medicine. The demand
had become so strong that men began to rob tombs and sell skeletons to doctors
at high prices.
We are told that a doctor would usually buy
just one skeleton for scientific study. It became very important in his work.
But he had to keep it hidden because most people objected to keeping such a
thing. As a rule, the doctor would keep his skeleton in some dark corner where
it could not be seen, or hide it in a closet.
After a time,
people began to suspect (怀疑) every doctor of hiding a skeleton in the closet.
From this suspicion, the phrase "a skeleton in the closet" took on a broader,
more general meaning to describe anything that a man wanted to keep others from
discovering. It could be proof of a criminal act, or something much less
serious. Well, that is one theory.
One writer, however,
believes that the phrase might have come from something that really happened. It
is his guess that a hidden closet in some old English country home may have
turned up a real skeleton, clear proof of some old family shame or crime. Well,
one man’s guess is as good as another. But this sounds like a story by the great
French novelist, Balzac.
Baizac tells us of a man who suspected
his wife of having a lover. The husband comes home by surprise. But she hears
him and quickly hides her lover in the closet of her bedroom. He enters her room
and asks her if she is hiding her lover. He says he will not open the door to
the closet if she promises him there is no one there; He will believe her. She
answers firmly that she is not hiding anyone in the closet.
The
husband then begins to build a solid brick wall against the closet. His wife
watches, knowing that her lover will never come out alive. But she will not
change her story and admit her guilt.From the text we know that there are () theories about how the
phrase "skeleton in the closet" came into being.
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Wherever
Everywhere
In as much as
In such schools that
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Wherever
Everywhere
In as much as
In such schools that
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mercurial
gallant
ardent
frugal
第12题:
signal her reservations about the accuracy of psychohistorians’ claims for their work
draw attention to a contradiction in the psychohistorians’ method
emphasize the major difference between the traditional historians’ method and that of psychohistorians
disassociate her opinion of the psychohistorians’ claims from her opinion of their method
第13题:
Passage Five
In America, every student in his or her second year of high school is required to take a class in driver's education.
The course is divided up into two parts: class time for learning laws and regulations and driving time to practice driving. Each student is required to drive a total of six hours. The students are divided up into groups of four. The students and the instructor go out driving for two hour blocks of time. Thus, each student gets half an hour driving time per outing. Drivers Ed cars are unlike other cars in which they have two sets of brakes, one on the driver's side and one on the other side where the instructor sits. Thus, if the student driver should run into difficulties the instructor can take over.
After a student has passed the driver's education course and reached the appropriate age to drive (this age differs in every state but in most cases the person must be 16 years old), he must take his driver's test. The person must pass all three tests in order to be given a driver's license. If the person does well in his or her driver's education class, he or she will pass the test with flying colors and get a driver's license.
51. In America, the driver's course mentioned above______.
A. is considered as part of the advanced education
B. is given to anyone wanting to get a driver's license
C. is carried on after students graduate from high school
D. is offered to all the students of Grade 2 in high school
51.答案为D 根据第一段every student in his or her second year of high school is required to take a class in driver's education可知高中二年级的学生必须修驾驶课。
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boast of, humorous
brag about, infuriating
deny, amusing
declaim, apathetic
defend, unproductive
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To practice her presentation in front of him.
To find out who her audience will be next time.
To try not to think about her audience.
To learn from children.
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carrying stowaways
sailing shorthanded
being negligent
All of the above
第23题:
Helena’s concern was more about the possibility of losing her business
it was the possibility of losing her business that gave Helena more concern
Helena was more concerned towards her business and the possibility of losing it
the possibility of losing her business gave Helena more concern
Helena was more concerned about the possibility of losing her business
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one
two
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four