Nothing taking place there is interesting, ______?A.are theyB.is itC.didn't theyD.isn't it
Nothing taking place there is interesting, ______?
A.are they
B.is it
C.didn't they
D.isn't it
Nothing taking place there is interesting, ______?
A.are they
B.is it
C.didn't they
D.isn't it
A.had taken place
B.was taken place
C.took place
D.was taking place
According to the passage, television______.
A.has taken the place of radio
B.is no longer popular in the home
C.can be regarded as a kind of radio
D.has nothing in common with radio
A decade of intense civil rights activity was launched in 1954 when the United States Supreme Court declared segregated schools to be unconstitutional. In 1955, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , effectively organized the Blacks of Atlanta, Georgia, in a bus boycott. The boycott lasted two years, and when it was over, Blacks no longer were degraded by being forced to sit or stand in the rear of buses.
In 1960, a group of Black college students decided that they, sis well as white persons, had the right to eat at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. This sit-in sparked an aggressive national movement and, in the next few years, thousands of young men and women -- Black and white, North and South -- overturned local laws and customs that had maintained segregation. Sit-ins, prayins, freedom rides, freedom marches and demonstrations to open all schools to Black children took place across the nation.
Several important actions took place to change the status of black people ______.
A.after World War Ⅱ
B.in 1954
C.before 1945
D.in 1960
Many other lawyers represent only clients who can pay high fees. (76) All lawyers have had expensive and highly specialized training , and they work long, difficult hours for the money they earn. But what happens to people who need legal help and cannot afford to pay these lawyers' fees?
Public interest lawyers fill this need. Lisa, like other public interest lawyers, earns a salary much below what some lawyers can earn. Because she is willing to take less money, her clients need the help, even if they can pay nothing at all.
Some clients need legal help because stores have cheated them with faulty merchandise. Others are in unsafe apartments, or are threatened with eviction (驱逐,赶出) and have no place to go to. Their cases are called "civil" cases. Still others are accused of criminal acts, and seeking those public interest lawyers who handle "criminal" cases. (77) These are just a few of the many situations in which men and women who are public interest lawyers serve to extend justice throughout our society.
A person who needs and uses legal help is called a______.
A.lawyer
B.client
C.tenant
D.case worker
(36)
A.under the thumb
B.below the hands
C.subject to the palm
D.in the fingers
Public interest lawyers fill this need. Patricia, like other public interest lawyers, earns a salary much below what some lawyers can earn. Because she is willing to take less money, her clients have the help they need, even if they can pay nothing at all.
Some clients need legal help because stores have cheated them with faulty merchandise. Others are in unsafe apartments, or are threatened with eviction (being driven) and have no place to go. Their cases are all called " civil" cases. Still others are accused of criminal acts, and seek those public interest lawyers who handle "criminal" cases. These are just a few of the many situations in which the men and women who are public interest lawyers serve to extend justice throughout society.
"A lawyer friend of mine has devoted herself to the service of humanity" means______.
A.she has tried to earn her living by providing service for human beings
B.she has tried to provide service to people in need out of humane consideration
C.she has tried to work for the cause of law at any cost
D.she has devoted herself to the public relationship in spite of loss of income
The reason why some people are unlikely to succeed in life is that they__________ .
A.have ruined their talents
B.have taken on an unsuitable job
C.think of nothing but their salary
D.are not aware of their own potential
Mark went to the neighborhood meeting after work. The area's city councilwoman (女议员) was leading a discussion about how the quality of life was decreasing. The neighborhood faced many problems. People were supposed to suggest solutions to the councilwoman. It was too much for Mark. "The problems are too big," he thought. He turned to the man next to him and said, "I think this is a waste of my time. Nothing I could do would make a difference here."
On his way back, Mark saw a woman carrying a grocery hag and baby. She was trying to unlock her car, but she didn't have a free hand. As Mark got closer, her other child, a little boy, suddenly darted into the street. The woman tried to reach for him, but as she moved, her bag shifted and groceries started to fall out. Mark ran to take the boy's arm and led him back to his mother. Then he picked up the groceries while the woman smiled in relief. "Thanks!" she said. "You've got great timing (适时) !"
"Just being neighborly (友好的) ," Mark said. As he rode home, he glanced at the walls of the bus passed by. On one of them was "Small acts of kindness add up." Mark smiled and thought, "Maybe that's a good place to start."
In the first paragraph, Mark thought that______.
A.nobody was so able as to solve these problems
B.many people were too selfish to think about others
C.he was not in the position to solve such problems
D.he already had more than enough work to do
The new concepts grew out of the bioengineering of bacteria for the production of such things as human hormones and vaccines for viral diseases. Plant cells, however, are far more complex than bacteria, and it will probably take many years for today's encouraging laboratory results to have a major impact on the farm. In fact the payoff may not come until the next century.
But although bio-technologists are still in the earliest phases of this new field of science, they are already actively exploring ways to redesign plants so they will use sunlight mere efficiently, resist viruses and other pests, grow in hot or dry areas, in saline soils or in the presence of pesticides, and perhaps even make their own fertilizer out of nitrogen in the air. In addition, scientists have had early success in making wholly new plants that are unavailable by conventional plant breeding-a potato-tomato combination, for example.
The new technology holds the promise of virtually limitless horizons in food production. Only imagination sets the limits: frost-resistant wheat, tropical potatoes, saltwater rice, a plant producing a combination of a pea and a carrot-all may be with us one day.
Vaccines for viral diseases are often produced from ______.
A.plant cells
B.human hormones
C.crop plants
D.bacteria
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It is Dredicted that there will be four scientific breakthroughs in the 21 st centruy. We wiuknow where we came from.Since the l920s,scientists have known the universe is expanding,which means it must have started at a definite time in the past.They even have de-veloped theories that give a detailed picture of the universe from the time it was a fraction of a second old to the present.Over the next couple of decades,these theories will be improved by data from powerful new telescopes. We will find out the genetic code and conquer cancer.In l9th century operas,when the heroine coughs in the first act,the audience knows"she will die of tuberculosis in the third act.
But thanks to 20th century science,the once deadly disease now means nothing more serious than taking some pills.As scientists learn more about the genetic code and the way cells work,many serious desease——cancer.will become less threatening. We will live longer,probably up to 1 20 years.If the normal aging process is basically a fierce.invisible contest in our ceus——a contest between damage to our DNA and our ceils’abili-ty to repair that damage,gre{at progress around.But before we push scientists to do more,we should consider:do we really want to live in a world where no one grows old?We will haye a hrain road map.This is the real final frontier of the 21 st century.The brain is the most complex system we know.It contains about l00 billion nerve cells,each con-nected to as many as l000 0thers.Early in the 21 st century,progress in science will make it Dossible to produce detailed images of the nerve cells in operation.We will be able to say with certainty which ones are working when you read or think about a word.
Jadging from the second paragraph,the writer thinks of present theories about the uinverse as __________.
A.perfect
B.imperfect
C.groundless
D.complicated