[单项选择]Of all the stories here, I like this one______. It's not interesting at all.
A. most
B. worst
C. best
D. least

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Like all other mothers who have small children, I, too, have to steal time--from my own children at home and from the children who know me as their teacher--just to put a few words down on paper. Many times I’ve wanted to write for myself, for other women, for my parents, for my husband, and especially for my children. I would have liked to leave a legacy (遗产) of words explaining what it has meant to have twins (双胞胎). One reason there is not a great deal written about being a mother of a new baby is that there is seldom a moment to think of anything else but the baby’s needs.
With twins, I did not have a spare hand to write with.
Before my twins were born, my days were long and I had nothing to write about. After the twins’ birth I did have something to write about, but I found myself facing not a pen and paper but milk bottles.
Some nights, friends would visit. They would leave at 11 p.m. , heading for bed, and for us the night was only
A. Her role as a wife
B. Her work as a writer
C. Her role as a teacher
D. Her experience as a mother

[单项选择]______ all of us who are here tonight, I would like to thank Mr. Johnson for his informative talk.
A. On behalf of
B. On account of
C. In honor of
D. In terms of

[单项选择]Bill: Here, Cindy! I'd like you to meet my best partner, Daniel. (To Daniel) This is Cindy, my girlfriend. Cindy: Hi, Daniel. ______. Daniel: Mostly good things I hope.

[单项选择]______ of everyone here, I'd like to thank our special guest for his entertaining speech.
A. In honor of
B. On behalf of
C. With respect to
D. On account of

[单项选择]I would like to fly all day in the sky if I ______ a bird.

[单项选择]The new building here are all reinforced with steel, ______ safety in case of an earthquake.
A. for the sake of
B. for good
C. for instance
D. for the better

[单项选择]The new buildings here are all reinforced with steel, ______ safety in case of an earthquake.
A. for the sake of
B. for good
C. for instance
D. for the better

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Medical consumerism -- like all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly -- is designed to be unsatisfying. The prolongation of life and the search for perfect health (beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But, as any geriatric ward shows, that is not the same as to confer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy. Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean. 　
What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of bestowing meager increments of unenjoyed life! It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources -- not least medical ones, like illegal steroids -- are now invested to shave records by milliseconds. And, it goes wit
A. medicine and life.
B. resources and energies.
C. predicaments and solutions.
D. athletics and longevism.

[单项选择]These stories reinforced the idea that all individuals, no matter how poor, were capable of becoming wealthy______ they were hardworking and honest.
A. if only
B. as far as
C. even if
D. so long as

[单项选择]I didn't say anything like that at all. You are purposely ______ my ideas to prove your point.
A. revising
B. contradicting
C. distorting
D. distracting