[单项选择]After a through research, the police __ most of the missing jewels.
A. retreated
B. refreshed
C. recovered
D. reminded

[单项选择]The thieves fled with the local police close on their ______.
A. backs
B. necks
C. toes
D. heels

[单项选择]I shall have a companion in the house after all these ______ years.


A. alone
B. lonely
C. single
D. simple

[单项选择]Which of the following might be discussed after this passage


A. The Germanic tribes which invaded Britain.
B. The civilization the Romans gave Britain.
C. The Romans who did not settle in Britain.
D. The survival of the British people in the first century B. C.

[单项选择]Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his Writing career

[单项选择]The police met difficulties at the beginning of the case that ______.

[单项选择]The police ascertained that there were no signs that the fire had been set______.


A. virtually
B. occasionally
C. incidentally
D. deliberately

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Text 1
Shortly after September 11th, President Bushes 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 Two, 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 describ
A. to warm of the doom of a terrorist attack.
B. to criticize Americans' unilaterialism.
C. to call on Americans to defend freedom.
D. to show the primacy of US economy.