[单项选择]Starfish (cling to) stones by the suction of their innumerable tube feet.
A. attract
B. destroy
C. swim over to
D. hold fast to

[单项选择]Starfish (cling to) stones by the suction of their innumerable tube feet.
A. attract
B. destroy
C. swim over to
D. hold fast to

[填空题]How are the stones healed The stones are heated by ______.

[单项选择]In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks They text their friends all day long. At night, they do research for their term papers on laptops and commune with their parents on Skype. But as they walk the paths of Hamilton College, a poster-perfect liberal arts school in this upstate village, students are still hauling around bulky, old-fashioned textbooks-and loving it. "The screen won’t go blank," said Faton Begolli, a junior from Boston. "There can’t be a virus. It wouldn’t be the same without books. They’ve defined ’academia’ (学术) for a thousand years." Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students growing up with technology appears to be holding fast to traditional textbooks. That loyalty comes at a price. Textbooks are expensive-a year’s worth can cost $700 to $900-and students’ frustrations with the expense, as well as the emergence of new technology, have produced a perpl
A. They are indispensable to writing term papers.
B. They play an irreplaceable role in their study.
C. They are inferior to e-books in many ways.
D. They will be replaced by e-books some day.

[填空题]Where are the heated stones finally placed They are placed ______.

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The way people cling to the belief that a full-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true: more times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he’s honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has s
A. are lucky since they can have a whole night’s sleep
B. find fun in tucking them into bed at night
C. find more time to play and joke with them
D. derive happiness from raising their children