over the years this country seemed to waver unpredictably between love and hatred for the united states, sometimes begging for its attention, sometimes lashing out at it.
on monday night the prime minister faces the biggest challenge at the parliament just as security forces batten down the city center ahead of what they fear will be violent protests on tuesday.
richelieu apartments were ashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished.
debris flew as the living-room fireplace and its chimney collapsed.
with two walls in their bedroom sanctuary beginning to disintegrate…
several vacationers at the luxurious richelieu apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.
the wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away.
household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car.
telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.
the antagonist in the story is ______________.
the author inserts paragraph 19 and 20 in the story for the purpose of ______________.
currently, there are ________ lists of male and female names in alphabetical order used alternatively for hurricanes.
the ________, or the turning point of a narration, occurs when the conflicts reach the summit, and the most exciting action or highest tension occurs.
“face to face with hurricane camille” describes a series of actions of the koshaks and their friends against the forces of a devastating hurricane in a ________ way.
the distinctive scent of wool and the ______ bleating of sheep filled the air, along with the ell of foreign sweat and unwashed clothes.
i am not a man given to sentiment, as you are doubtless aware, but i must ______ that i was moved by your telephone call yesterday.
the inidual responsible for this ______ crime will be found, charged, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
the only way to turn things around is to ______ the building and put up a bigger, more valuable one in its place.
... as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in hiroshima station. (para. 1)
every day that i escape death, each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, i make a new little paper bird, and add it to the others. (para. 38)
seldom has a city gained such world renown, and i am proud and happy to welcome you to hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its -- oysters. (para. 17)
... the tall buildings of the martyred city flashed by... (para. 3)
because, thanks to it, i have the opportunity to improve my character. (para. 38)
world war ii was a global military conflict that took place between ______.
writing features can be more demanding than writing straight news stories because of the following factors except ______.
what is the general tone of the text “hiroshima--the ‘liveliest’ city in japan”?
what is the symbol of the kimono and the miniskirt in the text?
the following are reasons why the atomic victims in hiroshima want to commit in paragraph 34 except______.
1. 他喜欢这些聚会，喜欢与年轻人交往并就各种问题交换意见。（to rub shoulders with） 2. 他陷入沉思之中，没有理会同伴们在谈些什么。（to be oblivious of）
the music reverted to old, familiar favorites. no drums, no guitars, just a piano and a ______ trumpet loping and leaning, ducking and bobbing.
the excited voices of children, however, didn’t need any ______. they came intermittently into town from the river, where they swam and played games, chasing after one another, their school uniforms strewn on the grasses at the riverbank.
if you see comments that you find ______, please use the “flag as inappropriate” feature by hovering over the right side of the post, and pulling down on the arrow that appears.
or do they fear that the people in ______ of designing them are making the wrong choices about how to design them in the first place?
“faculty meeting today... what time?” “the usual time,” she replied. “two?” he asked, wrinkling his nose in ______. “but it’s almost one already.”
as a result the nerves of both the duke and duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded. (para. 1)
you drove there in your fancy jaguar and you took a lady friend. (para. 24)
the obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle. (para. 7)
her voice was a whiplash. eyes bored into him. swallowing, sullenly, he complied. (para. 99)
the duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind. (para. 75)
how did arthur hailey prepare for his novel hotel?
what crime did the duke commit? was it a serious crime?
what kind of writing blackmail is?
the following are the ways of portraying a character in the story except______.
5. the following are the symbol of the croydons’ luxurious and extravagant life in the text, except ______.
why was there a clash between the fundamentalists and the modernists? because ________________.
why did the american civil liberties union announce that it would take john scopes’ case to the u.s. supreme court? because ______.
the following are the descriptions of john scopes except ______.
the writer used different rhetorical devices to illustrate the case that he was involved in except ______.
the following are the descriptions of the court in the text except ______.
the sky was a ______ yellow, with thick clouds that rolled and boiled as if some giant hand was stirring the sky.
i’m bending to give him a ______ pat when i see what he left on the turkish runner in the hallway.
she says starvation was ______ while she was growing up, and that the family was occasionally given a bag of potatoes by the government.
in the film, angelica’s daughter is eventually able to ______ the loss of her mother through the comfort of the distinct memories (real and imagined) that fill her life with her mom’s influence.
two attack helicopters from a nearby base helped ______ the attack; more than ten guards killed.
bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted in his prosecution by his son, also a lawyer, and tennessee’s brilliant young attorney general, tom stewart. (para. 11)
the trial that rocked the world. (title)
“don’t worry, son, we’ll show them a few tricks,” darrow had whispered, throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as ... (para. 2)
the christian believes that man came from above. the evolutionist believes that he must come from the below. (para. 20)
... when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to.... (para. 14)
the rhetorical device used in "when it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring" in para. 4 is ______.
the word "libido" in the title is from the field of psychoysis.
the sentence "i award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer" in para. 5 is sarca.
what images of ugliness have been created in this essay?
... and here was a scene so (1) hideous, so (2) bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man (3) macabre and depressing joke.
h. l. mencken’s prose is as ______ and his rhetoric as ______.
“the libido for the ugly” is a kind of juvenalian satire, because______.
there are many words and expressions associated with exaggeration except ______.
mental imagery can be metaphorically expressed as ______.
it can start when travelers wipe out while driving in snow and ice; or when hikers in national forests get confused, lost and become ______ as darkness takes over.
there is a hint of a conspiracy at one point, but it's veiled and ______, and it vanishes almost at once.
there was nothing more spectacular than watching the sunrise in the ______ world, the tangible one, from the vantage of the immortal world.
i am the least anti-semitic person that you have ever seen in your entire life. i hate the charge. i find it ______.
it is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly ______ to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of hell to the making of them.
it is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. (para. 6)
the country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. (para. 3)
... safe in a pullman , i have whirled through the gloomy, godforsaken villages of iowa and kansas, and the malarious tidewater hamlets ofgeorgia. (para. 5)
... a crazy little church just west of jeannette, set like a dormer-window on the side of a bare leprous hill ... (para. 75)
the following are the descriptions about al gore except______.
why did al gore use a variety of writing modes in ships in the desert? because he wanted to ______.
which of the following is not the disturbing images of global warming according to the text?
why does the writer use personification as a kind of technique in his explanation of “ships in the desert”? because he wants to ______.
there are many terms concerning the field of environmental protection in the text except ______.
when we punish criminal offenders differently based on the results of their actions, we seem to violate this deeply held moral ______ that “ought implies can”.
law firms must find ways to recruit and ______ talent and to train and deploy that talent in ways that provide value to their increasingly sophisticated corporate clients.
he may not deliberately exploit interpersonal relations but simply remain willfully ______ to normal expectations.
we were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of central asia, but as i looked out over the bow, the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. (para. 1)
now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been erted in an ill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton in the desert. (para. 1)
... which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard (para. 6)
but one doesn’t have to travel around the world to witness humankind’s assault on the earth. (para. 7)
...but in the air above every country, above antarctica, above the north pole and the pacific ocean – all the way from the surface of the earth to the top of the sky. (para. 13)
winston s. churchill was awarded the nobel prize in _______________ in 1953.
hitler invaded __________ as a military power on june 22, 1940.
the cause of any russian fighting for his hearth and _____________ is the cause of free men and free peoples in every quarter of the globe.
nazi regime excels all forms of human wickedness in the ____________ of its cruelty and ferocious aggression.
the nazi régime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.
i suppose that they will be rounded _______ in hordes.
churchill will unsay no word that he has spoken about it.
hitler was counting _______ enlisting capitalist and right wing sympathies in the uk and the usa.
the great dominions will in _______ course concur.
life is the lust of a lamp for the light.
you want your pound of flesh, don’t you?
reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
o dear! o dear! what shall i do? i have lost my beau and lipstick too.
eat our corn, you’ll ile from ear to ear.
in new york city the steamship “quaker city” prepared to sail on a pleasure cruise to europe and the holy land.
the geographic core, in twain’s early years, was the great valley of …
his popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print, and translations are still read around the world.
for eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.
twain found the ultimate expression of escape from the pace he lived by and often deplored, from life’s regularities and the energy-sapping clamor for success.
mark twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles, but he had to leave the city for a while because of some scathing columns he wrote.
from them all mark twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.
he tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.
...but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.
he commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s final release from earthly struggles.
the american local color writers include the following except _______.
a feature article differs from a biography by focusing on ______.
the author considers mark twain as the mirror of america because of mark t wain’s erse identities except a _______.
what is the tone of the text?
what is the rhetoric device used in the sentence “steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well”?
it excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency of its cruelty and ferocious aggression.
i was just about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last words sank in, jolting me out of my sad reverie.
her eyes were riveted on his face, her handsome, high-cheekboned features set in their most imperious mold.
place oil in a heavy-bottomed pan, add onions, and cook them over a medium flame, stirring often, until they turn ______.
past experience has shown that undergraduates will only apply themselves to subjects which they perceive as relevant to their future careers.
i have seen george wringing his hands after such a rebuff, and i am sure the annoyance and terror he lived in must have greatly hastened his early and unhappy death.
this week, the air force issued a 25-page report trying to debunk the story that an alien spaceship crash landed in roswell, new mexico.
the more we reuse and recycle, the fewer resources we deplete, including fuel to transport the goods.
the bbc has unrivalled resources to deploy: the expertise of our correspondents around the world, and the experience and quality of the world service.
the case had erupted ______ my head not long after i arrived in dayton as science master and football coach at the secondary school.
his poor health ______ him to resign from his job.
the city is ______ of three sections, which are separated by rivers.
the economy in this city was ______ by the new investment from abroad.
there used to be an old city here, which was ______under the river about 2,000 years ago.
the human-rights campaigner managed to achieve some international renown after decades of hard work.
two high points of color appeared in the _____ duchess of croydon's cheeks.
to everyone's relief, the jury soon returned with a guilty ____.
problems like acid rain and large oil spills are basically “___” environmental threats.
he was ______ in his decision to give up oking.
the leader's speech in defense of the policy didn't carry much ________.
why do we spend so much time on _____ decisions, like whether the cola should be diet or not?
at last she ____ to the request of the publishers to write another book.
some prices are preposterously high.
_____ political views by different parties are capable of causing grave situations in this country.
when you were playing for the highest stakes, you made the highest bid.
from them all mark twain gained a keen perception of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.
the nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.
i feel sure it is a decision in which the great dominions will in due course concur.
his first novel has been taken as the manifesto of his generation in defiance of some of the current establishments.
a man celebrated his 100th birthday with 25,000 pounds in winnings on tuesday after he beat the bookmakers with a ____ that he would live for a century.
if you ask energy firms what their biggest obstacle will be in 2019, most ____ their reduced access to capital.
it did not make me feel melancholy — that this sky had been there before i was born and would still be there when i was dead.
the government has ____ them permission to leave the country.
critical moments like these are to the sports fan what the beautiful lines of a poem are to an avid reader.
the fundamental tenet of ______ is spiritual freedom.
share prices plummet on the news of the devaluation.
mary is very set in her ways, while her brother has a more ____ attitude to life.
he ____ the paragraph into one line.
never has a scholarly work of this ____ been attacked with such unbridled fury and contempt.
the spirit of carnival was soon dissipated once the eager young men had a good taste of the reality.
the large crowd of troops were advancing_____ because the area had been mined by the enemy.
a large number of people listened with open-mouthed astonishment while the breaking news sank in.
this renowned professor said that everyone should turn their backs_____ a craving for fame and prestige.
a world will lament them a day and forget them forever.
he went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in nevada.
his career was cut short when he succumbed to cancer.
the saxon peasants tilled the land and reared the animals.
her own tension was not lessened by the knowledge that both might return at any moment.
he commented with a crushing sense of despair on man's final release from earthly struggles.
but since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar…
the crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breath of his oratory as he should have.
there was not a single decent house within eye range from the pitturgh to the greenurg yards. there was not one that was not misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby.
… is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.
we were partners, not soul mates, two separate people who happened to be sharing a menu and a life.
peggotty rubs everything that can be rubbed, until it shines, like her own honest forehead, with perpetual friction.
the children went from to like buckets in a fire brigade.
this way i look at them and congratulate myself on the good fortune that my illness has brought me.
the country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.
bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.
he tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.
from them all mark twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.
...who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.
the russian danger is our danger, and the danger of the united states…
it excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency of its cruelty and ferocious aggression.
we were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of central asia, but as i looked out over the bow, the prospects of a good catch looked bleak.
the storm of abuse in the popular press that greeted the appearance of the third international is a curious phenomenon.
the girl had a painful pleasure when she saw her boyfriend.
a sharp rattle was heard on the window, which made the children jump.
we must all hang together, or we shall hang separately.
one has to be cruel to be kind.
from out of the forest rushed a tiger.
not without effort he made this discovery.
the country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.
united there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. divided, there is little we can do.
several vacationers at the luxurious richelieu apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.
here was boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth.
some people go to priests; others to poetry; i to my friends.
great green-and-yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the gall grass...
war is peace. freedom is slavery. ignorance is strength.
i am proud to welcome you to hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its─oyster.
he closed his busy life at the age of sixty.
knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud.
but the essence of that ugliness is the thing which will always make it beautiful.
“don't worry, son, we'll show them a few tricks,” darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.
the duchess of croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.
but in westmoreland they prefer that uremic yellow, and so they have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye.
he went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in nevada’s washoe region.
the crowd punctuated his defiant replies with fervent “amens”.
we were partners, not soul mates, two separate people who happened to be sharing a menu and a life.
i wish that both your wishes were true, and that you might both die of heart-disease the moment after you had made your wills in my favor.
lumber, corn, tobacco, wheat, and furs moved downstream to the delta country.
the high-speed railway alignment is
the functions of superelevation for outer line include:
the control factors which limit the curve radius of high-speed railway are
the main factors which affect the pressure wave when two high-speed trains meet:
which option is not a rail function?
which of the following track structures is to embed sleepers in the cast-in-place track bed slab
what are the advantages of ballasted track compared with ballastless track
the basic process of track buckling does not include
the main factors affecting the stability of cwr are
turnout number in china refers to
which of the following is not a feature of a high-speed turnout
please describe the features of high-speed railway system.