[单项选择]The judge’s decision ______ Montez’s hopes of receiving a reduced prison sentence.
A. abashed
B. dashed
C. gashed
D. crashed

[填空题]judge

[单项选择]The central government hopes to curtail military spending in the next year.
A. forbid
B. invert
C. prolong
D. shorten

[单项选择]A judge flunks Cleveland’s use of vouchers for parochial schools. But will that stall the movement
Walter Milancuk’s public-school horror story began early, when his sun Derrick spent kindergarten in an overcrowded roomful of students who regularly fought in class and cursed the teacher. Milancuk wanted to transfer Derrick, but his salary as a forklift driver couldn’t cover private-school tuition. Yet Milancuk found a way out, thanks to Cleveland’s pioneering school-voucher program, which granted him close to $1,500 in state funds to help enroll Derrick at St. Stanislaus, a nearby Catholic school. Now Derrick wears a crisp uniform. His reading has improved. And the weekly Mass and Bible study have moved Derrick to say his daily prayers without prompting. Says his dad, "The school is really building his faith."
That may prove to he more of a curse than a blessing. Last week a federal judge struck down Cleveland’s voucher program, ruling that it violates the constitutional
A. The role voucher program plays in helping children get better education.
B. The change a parochial school can bring to a child.
C. The poor education quality of public schools.
D. The importance of enrolling kids of poor performance in private schools.

[单项选择]The judge’s ______ words were directed to the company’s head of financial accounting, who freely utilized investors’ funds for his own benefit.
A. harsher
B. harshly
C. harshest
D. more harshly

[单项选择] Global Warming and Technological changes Recent studies have identified four major global environmental risks: acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation and the greenhouse effect. On the whole, thanks to technological changes, people now tend to move toward warmer regions in North America and Europe. Climate warming will probably be a boon to Alaska, which is America’’s least productive state in Gross National Product(GNP)per square mile. Studies of the impact of global warming on the United States and other developed regions find that the most vulnerable areas are those dependent on unmanaged ecosystems—on naturally occurring rainfall, run-off and temperatures, and the extremes of these variables. Agriculture, forestry and coastal activities fall into this category. Most economic activity in industrialized countries, however, depends very little on the climate. Intensive-care units of hospitals, communications, heavy manufacturing and microelectronics
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned