During the Second World War Hitler______many countries.A.intrudedB.invadedC.surrenderedD.c
During the Second World War Hitler______many countries.
A.intruded
B.invaded
C.surrendered
D.challenged
During the Second World War Hitler______many countries.
A.intruded
B.invaded
C.surrendered
D.challenged
A.that
B.why
C.which
D.as
During the past 200 years the world population has increased 6 times, the annual world output has increased 80 times, and the distance a person can travel has gone up 1,000 times. There has also been much recent progress in art, culture, learning, and science. Such changes have led to a high rate of production and growth of the economy.
Economists fear that within the next 100 to 150 years, the earth's resources will become very scarce. Their fears are partly justified, but we should not be afraid. Industrial civilization adapts to new knowledge. By advancing knowledge, we not only create new forms of resources, but we also find ways to economize their use. Advanced modern knowledge can feed the hungry people of the world and improve their standard of living.
The figures in the second paragraph are used for the following purposes EXCEPT______.
A.prediction.
B.contrast.
C.definition.
D.explanation.
After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer; more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising; living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Although the growth in Canada's population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960's was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.
What is the main idea of the passage?
A.Educational changes in Canadian society.
B.Canada during the Second World War.
C.Standards of living in Canada.
D.Population trends in postwar Canada.
Now, (4)_____ bombs exploding in Baghdad, a sudden increase in wartime (5)_____ for online news has become a central test of the (6)_____ of high-speed Internet connections. It is also a good (7)_____ both to attract users to online media (8)_____ and to persuade them to pay for the material they find there, (9)_____ the value of the Cable News Network persuaded millions to (10)_____ to cable during the last war in Iraq.
(11)_____ by a steady rise over the last 18 months in the number of people with high-speed Internet (12)_____, now at more than 70 million in the United States, the Web sites of many of the major news organizations have (13)_____ assembled a novel collage(拼贴) of (14)_____ video, audio reports, photography collections, animated weaponry (15)_____, interactive maps and other new digital reportage.
These Internet services are (16)_____ on the remarkable abundance of sounds and images (17)_____ from video cameras (18)_____ on Baghdad and journalists traveling with troops. And they have found a (19)_____ audience of American office workers (20)_____ their computers during the early combat.
A.notified
B.publicized
C.followed
D.pursued
In some European countries nurseries were established (5)_____ in munitions plants, under direct government sponsorship. (6)_____ the number of nurseries in the U.S. also rose (7)_____, this rise was accomplished without government aid of any kind. During the years following the First World War, (8)_____, Federal, State, and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of control (9)_____ the day-nurseries, chiefly by (10)_____ them and by inspecting and regulating the conditions within the nurseries.
The (11)_____ of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase in the number of day-nurseries in almost all countries, ms women were (12)_____ called upon to replace men in the factories.
On this (13)_____ the U.S. government immediately supported the nursery schools, (14)_____ $6,000,000 in July, 1942 for a nursery-school program for the children of working mothers.
Many States and local communities (15)_____ this Federal aid. By the end of the war, in August, 1945, more than 100,000 children were being cared (16)_____ in daycare centers receiving Federal (17)_____. Soon afterward, the Federal government (18)_____ cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later (19)_____ them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation. However, the expectation that most employed mothers would leave their (20)_____ at the end of the war was only partly fulfilled.
A.latter
B.late
C.other
D.first
Mosquitoes have an interesting life cycle. The female mosquito bites a person or animal in order to get some blood. She needs this blood before she can lay her eggs. Second, she flies to an area of water and deposits (存放),40 her eggs in the water. In a few days the eggs open, and the baby mosquitoes, called larvae, come out. In a short time, they will be mature and fly away.
It is interesting to note that only the female will bite for blood. She has a special mouth which can go into an animal's skin or a person's skin. On the other hand, the male mosquito can only drink plant juices with his mouth.
The author suggests that all mosquitoes like ______.
A.blood
B.wet areas
C.cold weather
D.dry climates
Almost every new innovation goes through three phases. When
initially introducing into the market, the process of adoption is slow. S1.______
The early models are expensive and hard to use, and perhaps even unsafe.
The economic impact is relatively great. S2.______
The second phase is the explosive one, where the innovation was S3.______
rapidly adopted by a large number of people. It gets cheaper and easier
to use and becomes something familiar. And then in the third stage, diffusion
of the innovation slows down again, as if it permeates out across the S4.______
economy. During the explosive phase, the whole new industries
spring up to produce the new product or innovation, but to service it. S5.______
For example, during the 1920s, there was a dramatic acceleration in auto
production, from 1.9 million in 1920 to 4.5 million in 1929. This boom was
accompanying by all sorts of other essential activities necessary for S6.______
auto-based nation: Roads had to be built for the cars to run on; refineries and S7.______
oil wells, to provide the gasoline; and garages, to repair it. Historically, the S8.______
same pattern is repeated again and again with innovations. The construction
of the electrical system requested an enormous early investment in generation S9.______
and distribution capacity. The introduction of the radio was followed by a buying
spree(无节制的狂热行为) by Americans what quickly brought radios into S10.______
almost half of all households by 1930, up from nearly none in 1924.
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One of the most interesting new uses for glass is in telephone communication. Scientists have developed glass fibers as thin as human hair, which are designed to can-y light signals. When the light reaches the other end, it is first changed into electrical signals, which are in turn converted into sound messages.
Called light wave communication, the new system was used successfully in an experiment in Chicago in 1997. During the experiment, two glass fibers were able to carry 672 conversations at the same time. The lightwave cable, containing 144 glass fibers, has the capacity to carry 50,000 conversations at the same time.
The lightwave communication system has two important advantages. First, the glass fiber cables are smaller and weigh less than copper. Second, they cost less.
Perhaps it can be said that telephone communication has entered the age of light.
One of the extraordinary qualities of glass is that it can carry ______.
A.sound signals
B.light signals
C.electrical signals
D.any signals
1.According to the passage, Nicholas Alkemade ____.
A、was a German officer during the Second World War
B、had often jumped from a height of about 18, 000 feet
C、was a British officer
D、calculated the height with a special instrument
2.Nicholas jumped out of his plane because ____.
A、he was a good parachutist
B、he would otherwise be burned to death
C、he wanted to become a hero
D、the Royal Air Force instructed him to do so
3.Nicholas's experience was ____.
A、only an experiment
B、just as he had expected it to be
C、something painful and quick
D、quite unimaginable
4.Which of the following in the passage was the name of Nicholas's plane? ____
A、Lancaster
B、Gunnery
C、Trampoline
D、Asphyxia
5.The passage tells us that Capt. Joseph Kittinger ____.
A、served as a pilot during the Second World War
B、did not believe that people would die if they jumped from a plane without parachutes
C、made a successful free-fall land from a balloon
D、often forgot to open his parachute when jumping from a plane
People thank their parents with two days:Mother’sDay,on the second Sunday in May,and Father’s Day,on the third Sunday in June.These days are to show love for parents.Theyraise their children and educate them to be good people.They give them love and care. The two days are celebrated(庆祝)in many different ways.On Mother’s Day,people wear carnations.Wearing a red onemeans having a living mother.while a white one showsthat the mother is dead.It’s also a day when peoplewhose parents are dead visit the cemetery.On these daysfamilies get together at homes as well as in restaurants.They often have outdoor barbecues(烧烤聚会)forFather’s Day.These are days of fun and good feelings.Another tradition(传统)is to give cards andgifts.Children make them in school.Many people make their own presents.Theseare more valued(宝贵的)than those bought in shops.It’s not the value of the gift that is important,but the love for the’parents.Card shops,florists,candy makers,phone companies and other shops do lots of business during theseholidays. Which is not a reason forchildren to show love for parents?()
A.Parents love and take care ofchildren.
B.Parents pass away before childrengrow up.
C.Parents give education tochildren.