[单项选择]Starfish (cling to) stones by the suction of their innumerable tube feet.
A. attract
B. destroy
C. swim over to
D. hold fast to

[单项选择]Starfish (cling to) stones by the suction of their innumerable tube feet.
A. attract
B. destroy
C. swim over to
D. hold fast to

[填空题]How are the stones healed The stones are heated by ______.

[单项选择]Studded starfish are well protected from most ______ and parasites by ______ surface whose studs are actually modified spines.
A. dangers...a vulnerable
B. predators...an armored
C. threats...a fragile
D. challenges...an obtuse
E. exigencies...a brittle

[单项选择]

When the subject is money, women often cling to two persistent stereotypes, one a pleasant dream, the other a nightmare.
In the (1) , they hate fantasies that a white (2) will provide happily-ever-after financial security. (3) the nightmare, by contrast, they fear that an impoverished retirement could (4) them into bag ladies on the street.
Now (5) advisers and managers are (6) forces to change those images. In a proliferation of books, seminars, conferences, web (7) , and investment clubs, they are (8) out to women, helping them to become financially savvy and economically (9) Prince Charming, they warn, may not come.
"If and when he does show (10) , he may have less than you do," quips Brooke Stephens, a financial adviser.

（1）处填（）
A. subject
B. dream
C. pleasure
D. nightmare

[简答题]In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks They text their friends all day long. At night, they do research for their term papers on laptops and commune with their parents on Skype. But as they walk the paths of Hamilton College, a poster-perfect liberal arts school in this upstate village, students are still hauling around bulky, old-fashioned textbooks-and loving it. "The screen won’t go blank," said Faton Begolli, a junior from Boston. "There can’t be a virus. It wouldn’t be the same without books. They’ve defined ’academia’ (学术) for a thousand years." Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students growing up with technology appears to be holding fast to traditional textbooks. That loyalty comes at a price. Textbooks are expensive-a year’s worth can cost $700 to $900-and students’ frustrations with the expense, as well as the emergence of new technology, have produced a perpl