[单项选择]Even after having their grandchildren live with them for ten years, the couple felt that ________children these days was the most difficult of all family matters.
A. rising
B. raising
C. caring
D. taking care

[单项选择]Even after having their grandchildren live with them for ten years, the couple felt that children these days was the most difficult of all family matters（）.
A. rising
B. raising
C. caring
D. taking care

[单项选择]The reason tourism benefits a country even more than traditional industries is that it ______
A. requires much less capital
B. has more of a cultural benefit
C. has more potential to lead to other industries
D. uses less resources which harm the environment

[单项选择]The worst thing is that sometimes husbands live the ______ that they can do anything even when they have been repeatedly proved wrong.
A. delusion
B. illusion
C. misconception
D. deception

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Text 2
Shortly after September 11th, President Bush’s father observed that just as Pearl Harbor awakened this country from the notion that we could somehow avoid the call of duty to defend freedom in Europe and Asia in World War Ⅱ, so, too, should this most recent surprise attack erase the concept in some quarters that America can somehow go it alone in the fight against terrorism or in anything else for that matter.
But America’s allies have begun to wonder whether that is the lesson that has been learned--or whether the Afghanistan campaign’s apparent success shows that unilateralism works just fine. The United States, that argument goes, is so dominant that it can largely afford to go it alone.
It is true that no nation since Rome has loomed so large above the others, but even Rome eventually collapsed. Only a decade ago, the conventional wisdom lamented an America in decline. Bestseller lists featured books that described Ameri
A. It underlies power.
B. It is to be pursued enthusiastically.
C. It is second to terrorism.
D. It is to be dealt with cautiously.

[单项选择]It can be inferred that after September 11th more informers appeared because of their ___________.

[单项选择]After September 11th, long delays of express air shipping often arise because of

[单项选择]The road is quiet. There ______ traffic even in the daytime.