[简答题]What makes mountaineering attractive, according to the passage

[简答题]What makes mountaineering attractive, according to the passage

[单项选择]What can you learn according to what you hear [A] The man doesn’t like country music, but he has to learn. [B] The man didn’t know the bad news. [C] The man didn’t like John Denver.

[单项选择]According to the news, what makes this credit card different from conventional ones is ______.
A. that it can hear the owner’s voice.
B. that it can remember a password.
C. that it can identify the owner’s voice.
D. that it can remember the owner’s PIN.

[单项选择]Which one might be true according to what you hear
A. The plane belonged to a US businessman.
B. The plane belonged to the Mexican government.
C. It was a plane of the US police.
D. The owner of the plane was a drug smuggler.

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According to the speaker, what makes family portraits valuable to historians
A. They are few in number.
B. They depict important historical events.
C. They provide a lot of information about ordinary people.
D. They conceal information about the social role of artists.

[单项选择]According to what Chambers said, which of the following is correct
A. In the birthday breakfast, the employees can only praise the president and express how satisfied they are with the company.
B. The directors or VPs will also be present at the birthday breakfast.
C. The birthday breakfast can make the president exactly know what is occurring in his company.

[单项选择]According to the speaker, what makes New Jersey a good place to bicycle
A. Its large number of bicycle clubs.
B. Its geographic variety.
C. Its network of superhighways.
D. Its mild climate.

[单项选择]According to Dr. Harley, what makes language learning more difficult after a certain age
A. Differences between two languages.
B. Declining capacity to learn syntax.
C. Lack of time available.
D. Absence of motivation.

[单项选择]What makes the Routemaster famous
A. It is full of renaissance favor.
B. It is a star in a famous movie.
C. It is one of the tourist hot spots.
D. It is a symbol of London.

[单项选择]If the average woman makes 77% of what a man makes for equal work, maybe she should only pay 77% for the purchases she makes as well.
That’s the idea behind a six-week campaign pioneered by Lean In DC, the local chapter (分会) of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In movement. The group convinced about a dozen local businesses to offer 23% discounts to customers on Tuesday, which is Equal Pay Day, as a way of raising awareness of the gender pay gap and highlighting the differences that can exist between men’s and women’s paychecks.
Equal Pay Day marks the symbolic point in the year when women’s earnings catch up with their male peers’—that is, a woman would have to work from January 1, 2013 until April 8, 2014 to make what a man made in 2013 alone.
"Hearing those same old numbers every year is bound to cause some fatigue," says Madeline Meth, 24, the Lean In group’s founder and president, whose day job is in media relations at the Center for American Progress. "That was the idea behin
A. Its members are all young women in the workplace.
B. It initiated the discount sales on Equal Pay Day.
C. It started Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In movement.
D. It holds various regular activities both for men and women.

[单项选择]What does Mike find most attractive in baseball
A. It is a spectator sport.
B. It is fun to win.
C. It is what he exactly likes.
D. It is a professional sport.

[单项选择]What does Daniel find most attractive about his profession
A. visibility
B. high salary
C. high pressure
D. feeling of accomplishment

[填空题]According to researchers, what factor or factors affect cognitive aging

[单项选择]According to phrenology, what determines a person’s character
A. Body size and shape.
B. Influence from the parents.
C. Physical characteristics of the head.
D. Conditioning from the environment.

[填空题]Remarkable People What makes a person remarkable The word "remarkable" means " (21) " or "worthy of notice. " A remarkable person, then, is someone who is unusual, who is worthy of our noticing. Of course being "unusual" or "worthy of notice" does (22) mean being famous or (23) . Many famous people are not remarkable, and many people who are truly remarkable are not famous. These people are remarkable because all of them, (24) and then worked hard to achieve them. Perhaps that is the (25) of remarkable (26) people with the courage, strength and perseverance to work—and keep on working—toward something that they (27) . As booker T. Washington once said, "Success is to be measured not so much by the (28) that one has reached in life as by the (29) which he has overcome while trying to succeed. We can learn a great deal from people we consider to be remarkable. We can (30) by their work and their way of being because they enable us to see what i