[单项选择]Even today, (through) the (hustle and bustle) of Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg's main street, the (classical) beauty of the city (mesmerizes) the eye.
A. through
B. hustle and bustle
C. classical
D. mesmerizes

[单项选择]Even today, (through) the (hustle and bustle) of Nevsky Prospect, St Petersburg's main street, the (classical) beauty of the city (mesmerizes) the eye.
A. through
B. hustle and bustle
C. classical
D. mesmerizes

[单项选择]It has been cold this month, but today is a(n) ______ ; it's warm and sunny.
A. abolition
B. subtraction
C. elimination
D. exception

[单项选择]You'd better ______ the paper today, because you need do some correcting work.
A. not to hand in
B. not handing
C. to not hand in
D. not hand in

[单项选择]Even David, the best student in the class, could not solve this problem, ________ other students.
A. let alone
B. let out
C. let off
D. let down

[单项选择]Even in small companies,computers are a(n)______tool．
A. natural
B. essential
C. careful
D. impossible

[单项选择]Today in Japan, democratic values
A. are frequently misunderstood and exaggerated by the young.
B. have been systematically excluded from textbooks.
C. are consciously rejected by adults who cherish traditions.
D. have made it possible for the tradition to last long.

[单项选择]（）is the date today
A. When
B. What
C. Which
D. How

[单项选择]Seymour says that most tanneries today
A. have been running for over a hundred years.
B. are located in very old buildings.
C. are dependent on older workers.
D. still use traditional methods.

[单项选择]Unfortunately, even computers cannot completelyerrors.
A. reduce
B. diminish
C. eliminate
D. decrease

[单项选择]But even notoriously conservative newspaper publishers recognize that the Web is a radical and _______ publishing medium.
A. vigorous
B. aggressive
C. violent
D. powerful

[单项选择]Mitusa Motors today announced that its headquarters （） to the port city of Kumamoto in order to take advantage of cheaper transportation costs.
A. relocated
B. relocating
C. have relocated
D. will be relocated

[单项选择]

Americans today believe that acceptable social behavior follows effortlessly from personal virtue. The (1) between morals and manners has become blurred. (2) you need is a good heart, most people assume, and the (3) will take care of itself. You don’t have to write thank-you notes.
Many Americans believe that natural behavior is beautiful. The "natural" (4) to human relations presumes that to know any person well enough is to love him, that the (5) human problem is a communication problem. This (6) that people might be separated by basically, generally irreconcilable differences--philosophical, political, or religious--and assumes that all such differences are (7) misunderstandings.
Indeed, it has never been easier to insult people inadvertently. A gentleman opens a door for a lady because his mother taught him that ladies (8) such courtesies, but she (9) and spits in his eye because he
A. friendly
B. terrible
C. disgusting
D. hostile