[单项选择]Anxiety about financial matter {{U}}lessened{{/U}} somewhat when, in 1910, the United States accepted responsibility for Liberia's survival.
A. descended
B. faded
C. diminished
D. highlighted

[单项选择]Anxiety about financial matter {{U}}lessened{{/U}} somewhat when, in 1910, the United States accepted responsibility for Liberia's survival.
A. descended
B. faded
C. diminished
D. highlighted

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Text 3 Much of the American anxiety about old age is a flight from the reality of death. One of the striking qualities of the American character is the unwillingness to face either the fact or meaning of death. In the more somber tradition of American literature -- from Hawthorne and Melville and Poe to Faulkner and Hemingway -- one finds a tragic depth that disguises the surface thinness of the ordinary American death attitudes. By an effort of the imagination, the great writers faced problems that the culture in action is reluctant to face -- the fact of death, its mystery, and its place in the back-and-forth shuttling of the eternal recurrence. The unblinking confrontation of death in Greek time, the elaborate theological patterns woven around it in the Middle Ages, the ritual celebration of it in the rich, peasant cultures of Latin and Slavic Europe and in primitive cultures; these are difficult to find in American life. Whether through fear of the emotional depths, or
A. In American life, people hardly mention the death.
B. In the Middle Ages, death was surrounded by respect.
C. In primitive cultures, death was faced with awe.
D. In Greek times, people .were afraid of facing death.

[单项选择]Fiona's anxiety about her husband made her a too ______ visitor at the lawyer's office.
A. haunted
B. obsessed
C. lingering
D. frequent

[单项选择]You will find the matter（）about all over the company.
A. being talked
B. talked
C. talking
D. to talk

[单项选择]Although I spoke to her about the matter several times, she took little ______ of what I said.
A. remark
B. warning
C. notice
D. attention

[单项选择]He gave no opinion about the matter because he didn't want to risk ______ in it.
A. to involve
B. being involved
C. to be involved
D. involving

[单项选择]Our next door neighbour said he'd complain about us to the police if we made any more noise．
A. 我们邻居说，如果我们再吵的话，他要向警方投诉。
B. 我们邻居说，如果我们再大声讲话，他就向警方投诉。
C. 我们的邻居向警方投诉，说我们吵得很厉害。
D. 我们邻居据说，如果我们再大声讲话，警方就要投诉我们。

[单项选择]______ he knew nothing about the matter.
A. He appears as if
B. It seems that
C. It appears as if
D. It seems as if

[单项选择]Sheila was going to say something about the matter; but ______ she gave it up.
A. on the second thoughts
B. on the second thought
C. on second thoughts
D. on second thought

[单项选择]What was the matter with y6u this morning You looked （） you hadn't slept for the last twenty-four hours.
A. so as
B. that
C. as if
D. like that