[单项选择]Coca-Cola is to take new action most probably because ______.

[单项选择]When I first arrived here to take up my new job, I stayed in a hotel, but I soon started looking for a permanent ______, a place to ______ my own.
A. residence; call
B. accommodation; refer
C. household ; be
D. habitation ; say

[单项选择]How would anthropologists take the new findings
A. They would look at them dubiously.
B. They would eagerly apply them to the study of human evolution.
C. They would challenge them, though at first glance they tend to look at them favorably.
D. They would most probably think the new findings fit well into their theory.

[单项选择]The most interesting new cars may owe __________ the simple wisdom of hiring a few talented people and allowing them to work.
A. less local free-spiritedness than
B. less local free-spiritedness than to
C. to less local free-spiritedness than to
D. less to local free-spiritedness than to

[单项选择]The salesman __________ me to buy the new car because of a discount.
A. urged
B. forced
C. pled
D. provoked

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As everyone knows, words constantly take on new meanings. Since these do not necessarily, nor even usually, take the place of the old ones, we should picture this process as the analogy of a tree throwing out new branches which themselves throw out subordinate branches. The new branches sometimes overshadow and kill the old one but by no means always. We shall again and again find the earliest senses of a word flourishing for centuries despite a vast overgrowth of later senses which might be expected to kill them. When a word has several meanings historical circumstances often, make one of them dominant during a particular period. Thus "station" is now more likely to mean a railway station than anything else; "speculation" more likely to bear its financial sense than any other. Until this century "plane" had as its dominant meaning "a flat surface" or "a carpenter’s tool to make a surface smooth", but the meaning "an ae
A. their dominant meanings have not been determined
B. sometimes they mean something different from their dominant meanings
C. our natural impulse makes a mistake
D. the dominant sense of a word is not accurate in our minds

[单项选择]Where does this conversation most likely take place

[单项选择]Most of the new workers graduated from the vocational school ______ the skill in just one month.
A. attained
B. obtained
C. acquired
D. achieved

[单项选择]This passage is most probably take from an article entitled" ______ ".
A. Energy Conservation
B. House Building Crisis
C. Air Pollution Indoors
D. Traps in Building Construction

[单项选择]Most parents would like their children to take an active part in school events, ______ those events do not interfere with their study.
A. lest
B. though
C. unless
D. provided

[单项选择]In America, colleges usually take new students according to ______.

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Digital photography is still new enough that most of us have yet to form an opinion about it, much less (1) a point of view. But this hasn’t stopped many film and computer fans from agreeing (2) the early (3) wisdom about digital cameras—they’re neat (4) for your PC, but they’re not suit able for everyday picture-taking.
The fans are wrong: more than anything else, digital cameras are radically (5) what photography means and what it can be. The venerable medium of photography as we know (6) is beginning to seem out of (7) with the way we live. In our computer and camcorder culture, saving pictures (8) digital files and watching them on TV is no less (9) and in many ways more (10) than fumbling with rolls of film that must be sent off to be (11) .
Paper is also terribly (12) Pictures that are incorrectly framed, focused, or lighted are nonetheless (13) A. feasibilities
B. possibilities
C. lucks
D. chances