[单项选择]Despite its efforts, the newspaper industry still cannot satisfy the readers owing to its______.
A. failure to realize its real problem
B. tendency to hire annoying reporters
C. likeliness to do inaccurate reporting
D. prejudice in matters of race and gender

[单项选择]Despite its efforts, the newspaper industry still cannot satisfy the readers owing to its ______.
A. failure to realize its real problem
B. tendency to hire annoying reporters
C. likeliness to do inaccurate reporting
D. prejudice in matters of race and gender

[单项选择]Despite efforts to eradicate it, corruption persists, though it doesn't ______
A. speed
B. hasten
C. accelerate
D. boost

[单项选择]According to the author, the newspaper industry in U. S. is ______.
A. a troubled business
B. a declining industry
C. losing increasing number of readers
D. All of the above.

[单项选择]The newspaper industry in US is______,according to the author.
A. a troubled business
B. a declining industry
C. losing increasing number of readers
D. all of the above

[单项选择]Despite a decline in its housing markets, the country's economic growth has held steady at 3.4% for the ______ three years.
A. past
B. usual
C. upcoming
D. late

[单项选择]The Worid Bank`s efforts to direct its hard loans to pricate enterprise have certed a recorddecades of（ ）lending．
A. botched
B. midled
C. distortded
D. capital

[单项选择]The World Bank's efforts to direct its hard loans to private enterprise have created a record of decades of ______ lending.
A. botched
B. misled
C. distorted
D. capital

[单项选择]Despite the earnest efforts of __________ private groups as well as government agencies, many of the problems have not yet been solved.
A. varied
B. various
C. variable
D. variant

[单项选择]

While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states -- at least in getting people off welfare. It’s estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994.
In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens County have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $ 6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent -- twice the national average.
For advocates (代言人) for the poor, that’s an indication much more needs to be done.
"More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better," says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.
A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 199S and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed households were earning money on t
A. believes the reform has reduced the government's burden
B. insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poor
C. is overenthusiastic about the success of welfare reform
D. considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful

[单项选择](Despite) much research, there are still certain elements (in) the life cycle of the insect that (is) not fully (Understood) .
A. Despite
B. in
C. is
D. Understood

[单项选择]We were astonished______the temple still in its original condition.
A. finding
B. to find
C. find
D. to be found

[单项选择]The ______ of marriage is still popular despite the high divorce rate.
A. institution
B. debate
C. institute
D. university

[单项选择]The ______of marriage is still popular despite the high divorce rate.
A. institution
B. debate
C. institute
D. university

[单项选择]Despite______, shiftwork couples still hoped to maintain a stable life.


A. traditional beliefs about marriage
B. lack of control over time
C. a very clear division of roles
D. the demands of work