[单项选择]The trucks _______ heavy goods from factories to the ports.
A. pull
B. haul
C. drag
D. push

[单项选择]The trucks _______ heavy goods from factories to the ports.
A. pull
B. haul
C. drag
D. push

[单项选择]The robber tried to ______ the stolen goods from the house he had broken into, but was caught by the guards.
A. make away with
B. make off for
C. get out
D. get through

[单项选择]Damages to the goods are caused by heavy weather ( ) transit.
A. on
B. at
C. of
D. in

[单项选择]By the time we hurried through the heavy traffic to the airport, the plane ______.


A. was taking off
B. would take off
C. had taken off
D. took off

[单项选择]So heavy （）that we were prevented from going out.
A. the rain was
B. is the rain
C. was the rain
D. would the rain be

[单项选择]So heavy ______ that we were prevented from going out.


A. the rain was
B. is the rain
C. was the rain
D. would the rain be

[单项选择]The transportation of goods and people from place to place continues to gain in efficiency through technology.
A. vehicles
B. boxes
C. commodities
D. machines

[单项选择]According to the author, Frankenstein parts from the traditional figure of the overreacher in


A. his exaggerated will
B. his atypical purpose
C. the excesses of his method
D. the inevitability of his failure
E. (E) his defiance of the deity

[单项选择]If certain industries didn't receive a______from the state, they'd stand little chance of surviving.


A. donation
B. subsidy
C. mortgage
D. credit

[单项选择]What information about computers can we get from the passage


A. They are simple and they operate mechanically.
B. They can solve all kinds of difficult problems.
C. Computers are so advanced that they will control human being someday in the future.
D. They are not as complicated as human brain.

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Public distrust of scientists stems in part from the blurring of boundaries between science and technology, between discovery and manufacture. Most governments, perhaps all governments, justify public expenditure on scientific research in terms of the economic benefits the scientific enterprise has brought in the past and will bring in the future. Politicians remind their voters of the splendid machines ’ our scientists’ have invented, the new drugs to relieve old ailments (病痛), and the new surgical equipment and techniques by which previously intractable (难治疗的) conditions may now be treated and lives saved. At the same time, the politicians demand of scientists that they tailor their research to ’economics needs’, that they award a higher priority to research proposals that are ’near the market’ and can be translated into the greatest return on investment in the shortest time. Dependent, as they are, on politicians for much of their funding, s
A. They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.
B. They are accustomed to keeping their opinions to themselves.
C. They know it takes patience to win support from the public.
D. They think compliance with government policy is in the interests of the public.