[单项选择]It will be safer to walk the streets because people will not need to carry large amounts of cash; virtually all financial ______ will be conducted by computer.
A. transactions
B. transmissions
C. transitions
D. transformations

[单项选择]It will be safer to walk the streets because people will not need to carry large amounts of cash; virtually all financial ______ will be conducted by computer.
A. transactions
B. transmissions
C. transitions
D. transformations

[单项选择]It takes a while, as you walk around the streets of Nantes, a city of half a million people on the banks of the Loire River, to realize just what it is that is odd. Then you get it: there are empty parking slots, which is highly unusual in big French towns.
Two decades of effort to make life more livable by dissuading people from driving into town has made Nantes a beacon for other European cities seeking to shake dependence on the automobile.
The effects were clear recently during Mobility Week, a campaign sponsored by the European Union that prompted more than 1,000 towns across the Continent to test ways of making their streets, if not car- free, at least manageable. "That is an awfully difficult problem," acknowledges Joel Crawford, an author and leader of the "car free" movement picking up adherents all over Europe. "You can’t take cars oat of cities until there is some sort of alternative in place. But there are a lot of forces pointing in the direction of a major reduc

[单项选择]In deciding to undertake dangerous pursuits, people (usually strive) for their maximum personal ability rating, (when) they (are challenged) but can be victorious, rather than merely (surmounting the mediocre).
A. usually strive
B. when
C. are challenged
D. surmounting the mediocre

[单项选择]
Happily married people have lower blood pressure (51) unhappily married people or singles, a Brigham Young University study says.
On the other hand, even having a supportive social network did not translate into a blood pressure benefit for singles or unhappily (52) people, according to the study.
"There seem to be some unique health benefits from marriage. It’s not just being married (53) benefits health—what’s really the most protective of health is having a happy (54) ," study author Julianne Holt Lunstad, a psychologist who specializes in relationships and health, said in a prepared statement.
The study included 204 married and 99 (55) adults who wore portable blood-pressure monitors for 24 hours. The (56) recorded blood pressure at random intervals and provided a total of about 72 readings.
"We wanted to capture participants’ blood pr
A. married
B. engaged
C. linked
D. loved