[单项选择]It takes a great deal of power of （　） a spaceship into space.
A. elevate
B. launch
C. flourish
D. take off

[单项选择]It takes a great deal of power of （　） a spaceship into space.
A. elevate
B. launch
C. flourish
D. take off

[单项选择]Jane (had) a great (deal of) trouble (to concentrate on) her study (because of) the noise in the next room.


A. had
B. deal of
C. to concentrate on
D. because of

[单项选择]The design of this architecture shows a great deal of ________We have never seen a building of such a type before.


A. conventionality
B. originality
C. formulation
D. fascination

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Managers spend a great deal of their time in meetings. According to Henry Mintzberg, in his book, The Nature of Managerial Work, managers in large organizations spend only 22 per cent of their time on meetings. So what are the managers doing in those meetings There have conventionally been two answers. The first is the academic version: Managers are coordinating and controlling, making decisions, solving problems and planning. This interpretation has been largely discredited because it ignores the social and political forces at work in meetings.
The second version claims that meetings provide little more than strategic sites for corporate gladiators to perform before the organizational emperors. This perspective is far more attractive, and has given rise to a large, and often humorous, body of literature on gamesmanship and posturing in meetings.
It is, of course, true that meeting rooms serve as shop windows for managerial talent, but this is far from the truth a
A. At their desks.
B. In meetings.
C. On visits to company production areas.
D. On business trips.

[单项选择]The design of this auditorium shows a great deal of. We have never seen such a building before.________
A. orientation
B. originality
C. illusion
D. invention

[单项选择]　　A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide--the division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic. 　　There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access--after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will be netted together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Int
A. getting worse because of the Internet
B. the rich countries are responsible for
C. the world must guard against
D. considered positive today

[单项选择]The indoor swimming pool seems to be a great deal more luxurious than_________.
A. is necessary
B. being necessary
C. to be necessary
D. it is necessary

[单项选择]Nancy had a great deal of trouble to concentrate on her work because of the noise in the next room.（　）
A. a great deal of
B. to concentrate on
C. because of
D. in

[单项选择]A great deal has been done to better the situation.（　）
A. change
B. improve
C. assess
D. harm

[单项选择]A great deal has been done to remedy the situation.（　）
A. maintain
B. improve
C. assess
D. protect