[单项选择]He has to ______ his mean salary by living economically.
A. onset
B. outset
C. offset
D. outlet

[单项选择]He has to _______ his mean salary by living economically.


A. onset
B. outset
C. offset
D. outlet

[单项选择]After entering the living room, he removed his scarf and gloves.
A. moved
B. hung
C. took off
D. put off

[单项选择]One' s living background often has effects on his or her way of life.
A. consists
B. focuses
C. influences
D. confines

[单项选择]What does the author mean when he says "his car becomes the extension of his personality" (Lines 1—2, Para. 2)


A. Driving can show his real self.
B. Driving can show the best part of his personality.
C. Driving can bring out his characters.
D. His car only displays the dark side of his temper.

[单项选择]One's living background often has effects on his or her way of life.
A. consists
B. focuses
C. influences
D. confines

[单项选择]—Don't look down upon Bob. He has his own advantages.
—Oh, yes. ______ others are weak, he is strong.
A. If
B. When
C. Where
D. Though

[单项选择]Has he changed his mind again I wish he'd at least be ______.


A. constant
B. insistent
C. persistent
D. consistent

[单项选择]Has he changed his mind again I wish he'd at least be ______.
A. constant
B. insistent
C. persistent
D. consistent

[单项选择]Frank has told his friends that he always escapes ______ as he has got a very fast car.


A. being fined
B. to be fined
C. having been fined
D. to fine

[单项选择]He is a brilliant professor but has his ______ as an administrator.
A. boundaries
B. restraints
C. confinements
D. limitations

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Man finds living together with his own species(物种) difficult enough and living together with other species almost impossible. Our usual solution is to kill off anything that get in our way. Even on those rare occasions when we do enter into a relationship with another species, it is heavily biased(带有倾向)in our favor. The other species benefits only when it suits our own interests. Our attempts to communicate with another species are concerned mainly with giving orders in our own language and having them obeyed. Probably our best attempt has been the whistle language that is used in the shepherd-sheepdog relationship. This is a system that is natural to neither species, but one that both can understand. Its only fault lies in fact that the bias is still there-- the dog cannot whistle for the man.
But now comes news of a piece of research that promises, for the first time, to open up two-way communication between man and another species.
At the University of
A. tries to communicate with them
B. tries to teach them a language
C. sets up a relationship with them
D. wipes them out