[填空题]Although it is difficult to find full beard accommodation, the accommodation in a private home, with use of facilities and some meals provided, can be found more easily near ______.

[填空题]Although it is difficult to find full beard accommodation, the accommodation in a private home, with use of facilities and some meals provided, can be found more easily near ______.

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Although hard statistics are difficult to come by, there is substantial anecdotal evidence that use of performance-enhancing drugs, or doping, is rampant in professional sports. Of perhaps greater significance to society are the estimated 1.5 million amateur athletes who use steroids, either to improve their appearance or to emulate the performance of their favorite professional athletes. This chemical epidemic is a pernicious threat to both the nation’s health and our collective sense of "fair play".
Nonprescription anabolic steroids(合成代谢类固醇) have been illegal in the United States since 1991, and most professional sports leagues have banned them since 1980s. These bans are party a matter of fairness—a talented athlete trained to the peak of her ability simply cannot compete with an equivalent athlete using steroids—but also based on issues of health. Anabolic androgenic steroids have been linked to liver damage, kidney tumors, high blood press
A. They will get caught and dismissed from the race immediately
B. They will have a better chance of winning the race.
C. They will have their names put on a blacklist.
D. They are more likely to become professional athletes.

[单项选择]Although negotiation is a difficult art, there are certain things that can be done to help the inexperienced negotiator upgrade his or her skills. .
It is an (147) fact that many people go into negotiations without having done their homework properly. They usually do not take the time to investigate the actual market situation or needs of the other side. This is a critical mistake that often leads to an unsatisfactory outcome.
One likely result is that the negotiations may break down and no concrete result can be achieved. And in many cases, (148) an agreement can be reached, it may not be practical or durable as both parties retain ongoing doubts and mistrust about the other. In such a situation, the business relationship may not last very long.
The best way to avoid such misunderstandings is to make preparation sheets listing a group of vital questions before sitting down with his or her counterparts. Many negotiators have found that these sheets are

[填空题]Although the research is very difficult, his tutor______(说服他坚持下去)successfully.

[单项选择]Although it was very difficult for him to finish the task, he was（）to ask for help.
A. impatient
B. reliable
C. reluctant
D. impossible

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A．fear
B．earn
C．pear
D．beard

[单项选择]He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage she died.
The knuckles of the doctor’s hands were extraordinarily large. When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods.He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife’s death sat all day in his empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the window. Once on a hot day in August he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot all about it.
Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but
A. eagerness to shut himself away from society
B. suppressed desire to communicate with people
C. optimism about life
D. cynical attitude towards life

[单项选择]Speaker A: I beard Joe say something terrible to you yesterday.
Speaker B:（）
A. But, you know, I wish you could pardon me.
B. But, you know, every coin has two sides.
C. Yes, I have never been angrier in my life.
D. But I don’ t mind that Joe says something terrible to yon.

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M: I’ve beard you are going to New York tomorrow. I’d like to see you off to the airport.
W: Oh. Thank you. That’s very kind of you.
M: What time are you leaving for the airport
W: 8:30 a.m. But I’ve got to arrive at the airport at 9:30 a. m.
M: What airline and what flight
W: Pan American Airlines. Flight 169.
M: I’ll come to the hotel and pick you up at 8:30 a.m.
W: All right. See you tomorrow.

What does the man offer to do（　）.
A. To see the woman at the airport
B. To visit the woman at her hotel at 8:30 a.m.
C. To pick up the woman and drive her to the airport.

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A．early
B．learn
C．earthquake
D．beard