The old boots had bothered (烦扰) him so much that Johnny decided to throw them away. He went to the rubbish pit (坑)outside the town and (13) the boots into the pit.
"Now I’ve (14) got rid of them--and my (15) , too! "he said to himself, quite (16) . Then he returned home, lay down on his bed, and fell asleep.
(17) he had a dog, for which Johnny cared little. It often made a journey as far as the rubbish pit, and (18) the pit to find something unusual. When it discovered to whom the heavy pair of boots had (19) , it (20 picked up one in his mouth and (21) straight for home. The dog placed the boot, at its (22) bedside, then hurried out to get back (23) in the same way.
No sooner had Johnny woke up and (24) the boots than (25) filled his heart. (26) can walk by themselves and something must be done to end the matter, he thought.
Then he
A. immediately
B. suddenly
C. certainly
D. usually
A total of 4.6 million digital televisions have been sold, and the sales of HDTV sets have quadrupled since last year. Consumers have bought HDTVs to play their DVDs and to have clearer pictures and wide screens. Only a small percentage of the people who have purchased HDTVs, however, have actually hooked their TVs up to receive high-definition television digital signals. Perhaps television viewers are having trouble keeping up with the changes in technology. Even the manufacturers of HDTVs, like Mitsubishi, Thomson Multimedia, Sony, and Samsung seem to have a tough time learning how to make their sets work with the various digital TV formats because little standardization has been required or implemented in the industry.
Some of the HDTVs weigh over 200 lbs., and a variety of retailers offer a delivery service to the buyer’s home to help install the heavy sets. This is known as a white-glove service and usually comes with an extra fee. After HDTV purchasers
A. they did not tune in to the right channel
B. they did not install the system
C. the market retailers created the confusion on purpose
D. the manufacturers did not have a uniform standard for their sets
The success of Augustus owed much to the character of Roman theorizing about the state. The Romans did not produce ambitious blueprints (1) the construction of ideal states, such as (2) to the Greeks. With very few exceptions, Roman theorists ignored, or rejected (3) valueless, intellectual exercises like Plato’s Republic, in (4) the relationship of the individual to the state was (5) out painstakingly without reference to (6) states or individuals. The closest the Roman came to the Greek model was Cicero’s De Re Publiea, and even here Cicero had Rome clearly in (7) . Roman thought about the state was concrete, even when it (8) religious and moral concepts. The first ruler of Rome, Romulus, was (9) to have received authority from the gods, specifically from Jupiter, the "guarantor" of Rome. All constitutional (10) was a method of conferring and administering the (11) . Very clearly
A. dimension
B. complexity
C. exercise
D. function
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