[单项选择]Some people say that if the holder of chopsticks pushes them______ his stomach to even them up instead of tapping them on the table, the chances are he is a coolie.


A. on
B. against
C. at
D. to

[单项选择]Some people say that students' progress in school is ______ by environment.
A. effected
B. affected
C. offered
D. afforded

[单项选择]Why do some people say that they never dream

[单项选择]Some people say the world is smaller than before because ______.


A. TV makes the earth smaller and smaller
B. all people like to watch TV
C. watching TV is one of the most important activities of the day
D. TV brings the outside world closer to people

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Some people say that seals are the fairies of the sea and should not be killed. The seals are the cleverest creatures that have ever been found in the sea.
"In the Kingdom of the Seals" is an English fairy story by Donald A. Mackenzie. It tells of a seal hunter who wounds a seal. The seal swims away with the hunter’ s knife still in its back. That evening a stranger on a black horse calls at the home of the seal hunter and takes him to the edge of a cliff. Suddenly the seal hunter finds himself falling. He falls to the bottom of the sea.
The stranger Changes into a seal and leads him towards a huge underwater palace. Inside the palace he sees an old grey seal lying on a bed in terrible pain. Beside the bed is a knife which the hunter recognizes as his own. He is ashamed of his cruelty and begs forgiveness of the old seal. Because this is a fairy story, the wound is healed when the seal hunter lays his hand on it and wishes. The old seal reg
A. C．Donald Mackenzie knows a lot of the seals