Although they had suffered heavy losses, the commanders refused to ____ defeat.
A.grant
B.concede
C.consent
D.acquire
A.grant
B.concede
C.consent
D.acquire
______ by the police, the kidnappers had no choice but to surrender.
A.Surrounded
B.To be surrounded
C.Surrounding
D.Having surrounded
She had clearly no______of doing any work, although she was very well paid.
A.interest
B.meaning
C.intention
D.willingness
Although he said he had witnessed the incident. I still doubt the______of it.
A.reality
B.truth
C.credibility
D.feasibility
A. in
B. by
C. with
D. for
In computer programming, this model is ____ to any of the others we have ever had
A.more superior
B.the more superior
C.the most superior
D.superior
() from the European continent, England had been in close contact with the outside world.
A.Because cutting off
B.While to be cut off
C.Although cut itself off
D.Even if cut off
I could not decide why she chose my【44】, although I realized that nobody【45】paid her very much attention. Her situation was very difficult【46】she was straight out of drama school and only nineteen, being required to play a leading part in a company of fairly【47】and experienced actors. They【48】her much even if she had been good, and as, from all accounts (按照各种说法), she was not good they【49】every opportunity to speak evil against her. I think she thought I was the only person【50】who was both unconnected with the theatre and tolerably smart. And【51】, although I was irritated by her I did not【52】her. There was something attractive in her overflowing enthusiasm and she had【53】physical charm that with me she could【54】anything. She was nice to have around,【55】flowers or a bowl of fruit.
(66)
A.insulted
B.teased
C.irritated
D.flattered
Although the forests could initially supply sufficient timber, the process of lumbering was extremely difficult, particularly because of the lack of roads. Later, when the timber on the peninsula had been depleted, wood had to be brought from some distance. Building stone was also in short sup ply. However, as clay was plentiful, it was inevitably that the colonists would turn to brickmaking.
In addition to practical reasons for using brick as the principal construction material, there was also an ideological reason. Brick represented durability and permanence. The Virginia company of London instructed the colonists to build hospitals and new residences out of brick. In 1662, the town Act of the Virginia Assembly provided for the construction of thirty-two brick buildings and prohibited the use of wood as a construction material. Had this law ever been successfully enforced, James town would have been a model city. Instead, the residents failed to comply fully with the law; and by 1699 Jamestown had collapsed into a pile of rubble with only three or four houses where people could stay.
What is the subject of this passage?
A.The reasons for brickmaking in Jamestown.
B.The cause of the failure of Jamestown.
C.The laws of the Virginia colonists.
D.The problems of the early American colonies.
I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was an eccentric(怪僻的) farmer. I had never met him before although I had heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understood anything. Even then all I could make out was that someone called Milly had had a very bad accident. I hadn't the slightest idea who she was but I obviously had to go.
It had been snowing heavily that day and I didn't know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for me. "She meant more to me than anyone... even my own wife!" he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, a possible scandal(丑闻). I was even more shocked when he told me he had put her in the barn(厩)"I wouldn't leave here out in the cold!" he said.
Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground. "She was such a good cow! I wouldn't let anyone but a doctor touch her!" he said, and burst into tears again.
The underlined phrase make out in the first paragraph means ______.
A.expect
B.see clearly
C.hear clearly
D.understand