[填空题]The president devoted his energies to update the curricula, making the education offered at Washington College as meaningful and usual as possible.

• A. energies
• B. update
• C. making
• D. as possible

[填空题]The president devoted his energies to update the curricula, making the education offered at Washington College as meaningful and usual as possible. A. energies B. update C. making D. as possible

[填空题]The president devoted his (energies) to (update) the curricula, (making) the education offered at Washington College as meaningful and usual (as possible). A. energies B. update C. making D. as possible

[单项选择]Warm and diplomatic in manner, devoted to his wife and sons, Smith fits the stereotype of the______critic in only one particular: he detests bad artists as much as bad art.
A. philanthropic
B. bilious
C. unbiased
D. pacifistic
E. irrelevant

[单项选择]Chatwin has devoted his life to a kind of Grail quest, hoping to prove—by study and direct experience with primitive people—that human nature is gentle and defensive rather than ______ , and that man is ______, not a predator.
A. belligerent...an apostate
B. martial...a crusader
C. aggressive...a pilgrim
D. truculent...a gladiator
E. pugnacious...a pawn

[单项选择]He devoted his whole life to（） care of the disabled children.
A. takes
B. taking
C. took
D. take

[单项选择]He devoted his whole life to___ care of the disabled children.
A. takes
B. taking
C. took
D. take

[填空题]He devoted his whole life to (serve)______the people.

[单项选择]His ideas are invariably condemned as （　） by his colleagues.
A. imaginative
B. ingenious
C. impractical
D. theoretical

[填空题]His English is (good)（）than anyone else’s in his class.

[单项选择]When I finished the story, Lenin jumped from his chair and started to pace the floor, （）, deep in thought.
A. with his head bending
B. his head bending
C. his head bent
D. bending his head

[单项选择]He asked the question not so much because of his curiousity as because of his desire for knowledge.
A. 他问这个问题不是出于求知欲而是出于好奇心。
B. 他提出这个问题与其说是出于好奇心不如说是出于求知欲
C. 他问这个问题不是出于好奇心而是出于对知识的渴望，
D. 因为对知识的渴望与好奇，他问了这个问题。

[单项选择]

My father was a very intelligent man. He got his college degree in mathematics and physics, meaning he had a very cognitive reasoning sense. He was logical. He belonged to Mensa, the organization comprised of the people with the highest IQs in the world, I can remember as a child some of the questions that dad would pose to my brothers and me that came from assorted Mensa tests. I entered college in 1971, at the University of Kentucky. I attended in part due to a music scholarship, but pissed it away by not applying myself. I was sure that dad was the most upset father. I didn’t finish school. I was too young to realize what a college degree could bring me. I transferred to a college close to home for my second year, but it was no use. As the years went by, Dad didn’t hesitate to remind me that I was never too old to go back to college. I never listened to him. I was married, had a young child, and was busy living my own life. Finally, in the spring of 1986, when I ha
A. I became a member the organization.
B. I told my children of the importance of going to college.
C. I was punished for my poor transcripts.
D. I was the most upset reminder in my family.