[简答题]It may sound quite ridiculous but rather true that _______________ (每个人在一定程度上都是迷信的).

[简答题]It may sound quite ridiculous but rather true that _______________ (每个人在一定程度上都是迷信的).

[填空题]

All those left undone may sound greatly in theory, but even the truest believer has great difficulty when it comes to specifics.
A. left undone
B. greatly
C. truest believer
D. when

[单项选择]Fish farming in the desert may at first sound like an anomaly, but in Israel over the last decade a scientific hunch has turned into a bustling business.
Scientists here say they realized they were no to something when they found that brackish water drilled from underground desert aquifers (含土水层) hundreds of feet deep could be used to raise warm-water fish. The geothermal water, less than one-tenth as saline as sea water, free of pollutants and a toasty 98 degrees on average, proved an ideal match.
"It was not simple to convince people that growing fish in the desert makes sense," said Samuel Appelbaum, a professor and fish biologist at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at the Sede Boqer campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
"It is important to stop with the reputation that arid land is nonfertile, useless land," said Professor Appelbaum, who pioneered the concept of desert aquaculture in Israel in the late 1980s. "We should consider arid land wh
A. fresh water can be drilled from underground desert aquifers
B. the water drilled from the underground desert aquifers is only one-tenth as salty as sea water
C. the water drilled from the underground desert aquifers contains more nutritious elements than fresh water
D. the water drilled from the underground desert aquifers is not as hot as the sea water

[填空题]All those left undone may sound great in theory, but even the truest believer has great difficulty ______________ (当谈到具体问题时).

[填空题]While it is true that you may be among friends in a village, it is also true that you (cut off)（）from the exciting and important events that take place in cities.

[单项选择]Deep-fried beer may sound scrumptious, but is it patentable Mark Zable, an inventive Texan, thinks it is. To protect his novel production process, which involves encasing the alcohol in batter and dunking it in a fryer, he recently applied for a patent. He wants to profit if others exploit his beery brainwave. Without patents to protect their creations, inventors would have little incentive to invent. But some Americans fret that patent protection has grown too strong. The system breeds so many lawsuits, they worry, that it throttles the innovation it is supposed to promote.
Consider a suit filed on August 27th by Interval Licensing, a firm owned by Paul Allen, a cofounder of Microsoft. It targets everyone who is anyone in Silicon Valley, including Google, Apple, eBay, Yahoo! and Facebook. (But not Microsoft. ) It involves four patents covering inventions that improve an internet user’s online experience, such as suggestions for further reading related to a news article and pop-up
A. The system of patent protection promotes innovation.
B. Mr. Allen’s Silicon Valley research lab still exists.
C. The author believes Interval Licensing’s suit have some trollish features.
D. RPX has come up with an efficient way to reduce patent risk.