[单项选择]Like other religious groups, the Christian church's strong emphasis on holiness is essential to salvation.
A. deemed
B. doomed
C. destined
D. depicted

[单项选择]Like other religious groups, the Christian church's strong emphasis on holiness is essential to salvation.
A. deemed
B. doomed
C. destined
D. depicted

[单项选择]In the U. S. A. many communities and church groups ______ social centers for old people.
A. sponsor
B. bestow
C. confer
D. contribute

[单项选择]Compared with other age groups, why should older investors be more cautious about their in vestment

[单项选择]Compared with other age groups, why should older 'investors be more cautious about their in- vestment

[单项选择]Other medical technology groups are working on ______ telemedicine to rural care,
A. applying
B. supplying
C. replying
D. implying

[单项选择]Banks compete for customers just like other places of business, so you can shop around for the best bargains.
A. 银行业也像其他行业一样为争取顾客而竞争，所以选择银行时要货比三家。
B. 银行业也像其他地方一样为顾客竞争，所以要到最合适的廉价商店购物。
C. 银行业也像其他地方一样为顾客竞争，所以存钱时最好讨价还价。
D. 银行业也像其他行业一样为争取顾客而竞争，所以要选择最好的。

[单项选择]Scientists, like other people, are always pleased to have their own ideas ______.
A. validating
B. to be validated
C. validated
D. being validated

[单项选择]Einstein, like other great physicists before him, worked out new theories that challenge our （） concept of the universe.
A. existed
B. established
C. organized
D. adjusted

[单项选择]Dyson vacuum cleaners are not like other cleaners.

[单项选择]

English, like all other language, is constantly changing. When a language stops to change, we call it a dead language. Classical Latin is a dead language because it has not changed for nearly 2,000 years.
The change that is going on in a living language can be easily seen in the vocabulary. Old words die out and new words are added. Much of the vocabulary of Old English has been lost, and the development of new words to meet new conditions is one of the most familiar phenomena of our language. Change of the meaning can be seen from any page of Shakespeare. Nice in Shakespeare’s day meant foolish; rheumatism (风湿病) meant a cold in the head. Another change is pronunciation. Change in the vowel sounds has characterized English throughout its history. Old English start has become our stone; cu has become cow. Most of these changes are regular. Changes likewise occur in the grammatical forms of a language. These may be the result of gradual phonetic modification (
A. nobody speaks it
B. it's too difficult to learn
C. it stops changing
D. people who speak that language die out