[单项选择]An enthusiast of sprightly music, Mendler surprised us all by proclaiming the final piece on the concert program, a lugubrious ------- as his favorite.
A. (A) aria
B. (B) dirge
C. (C) sonata
D. (D) jig
E. (E) overture

[单项选择]An enthusiast of sprightly music, Mendler surprised us all by proclaiming the final piece on the concert program, a lugubrious______as his favorite.
A. (A) aria
B. (B) dirge
C. (C) sonata
D. (D) jig
E. (E) overture

[单项选择]The short stories often with surprise endings such as "The Gift of Magi" and "The Last Leaf" are written by ______.
A. O. Henry
B. Theodore Dreiser
C. William Faulkner
D. Jack London

[单项选择]What was considered as a big surprise according to the report


A. The cease-fire between the Israeli government and the Palestine Authority has held for almost two weeks.
B. Israeli0fficials opposed to the idea of any significant foreign presence examining the violence~
C. Secretary Powell had met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Ararat.
D. The United States agrees there is a need for international observers.

[单项选择]To their great surprise, they found the floodwater had damaged the building's foundation.
A. underlain
B. underlined
C. undertaken
D. undermined

[单项选择]It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behavior. The character of the codes, on the other hand ,can often be ______.
A. predictable
B. unexpected
C. explicit
D. confusing

[单项选择]To the prisoners' surprise, the policemen used talk（）punishment to educate them.
A. instead
B. rather than
C. without
D. or rather

[单项选择]（） any surprise submissions this afternoon, the court case should be wrapped up today after 2 years of bitter wrangling.
A. Declining
B. Barring
C. Allowing
D. Regretting

[单项选择]The recent surprise resignation of the company's CEO is not expected to affect the share price （）.
A. adversely
B. appropriately
C. unanimously
D. dissentingly

[单项选择]Much to my surprise, they went away without telling us their ______ address.
A. forever
B. everlasting
C. permanent
D. eternal

[单项选择]To the commander's great surprise, the helicopter a light plane and both pilots were killed.
A. coincided with
B. stumbled on
C. tumbled to
D. collided to

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A new came as a surprise that an elderly woman died yesterday after (21) knocked down by a motorist who had made no (22) to brake (刹车) . A police officer asked the driver, a man of 69, to read the number-plate of a car parked (23) the opposite side of the road. The man said this was (24) , because it was foggy. In fact, it was a sunny day. After several attempts, even from a distance of two meters, the man (25) failed to read the number-plate (26) He said he had never needed (27) , though he had been (28) in a similar accident (29) .
The question of fitness to (30) comes (31) every time some medical condition relates to an accident like this. Last week two motorists died (32) blackouts (瞬间昏厥) at the wheel, With these (33) in mind, it is not surprising that accident prevention organizations are trying to (34) the government to introduce stricter controls over (35) so th
A. at
B. in
C. on
D. with