[单项选择]His extravagance reduced him ______ for his living.


A. to beg
B. from begging
C. to begging
D. into begging

[单项选择]His extravagance reduced him ______ for his living.
A. to beg
B. from begging
C. to begging
D. into begging

[单项选择]His grandmother brought him up, because his parents ______ when he was only one year old.


A. passed away
B. passed off
C. passed out
D. passed over

[单项选择]His parents called him Thomas, （　） his grandfather, Thomas Jenkins.
A. as
B. like
C. after
D. by

[单项选择]His friend asks him to buy a new hat, because his hat is old.

[单项选择]All his classmates congratulated him ______ his championship in the math contest.
A. in
B. for
C. on
D. with

[单项选择]His supervisor asked him to ______ his departure for home, because his paper was not so well-done.

[单项选择]His wealth enabled him to ______ his passionate interest in art.


A. devote
B. engage
C. pursue
D. register

[单项选择]His wealth enabled him to______ his passionate interest in art.


A. devote
B. engage
C. pursue
D. register

[单项选择]How did John Adams make his living


A. He trained soldiers.
B. He was a smith.
C. He was a silversmith.
D. He was a politician.

[单项选择]That invention of his entitles him ______ a place among the great invent ors.


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

[单项选择]

Man finds living together with his own species(物种) difficult enough and living together with other species almost impossible. Our usual solution is to kill off anything that get in our way. Even on those rare occasions when we do enter into a relationship with another species, it is heavily biased(带有倾向)in our favor. The other species benefits only when it suits our own interests. Our attempts to communicate with another species are concerned mainly with giving orders in our own language and having them obeyed. Probably our best attempt has been the whistle language that is used in the shepherd-sheepdog relationship. This is a system that is natural to neither species, but one that both can understand. Its only fault lies in fact that the bias is still there-- the dog cannot whistle for the man.
But now comes news of a piece of research that promises, for the first time, to open up two-way communication between man and another species.
At the University of
A. it can only be used to give orders
B. it is not natural for both shepherd and sheepdog
C. it is a one-way communication approach
D. it can only be used between man and dog