[简答题]It was pitch black and we couldn’t even see the moon.

[单项选择]Why do people shrinks Did you ever see the movie Honey, I shrunk the kids It’’s about a wacky dad (who’’s also a scientist) who accidentally shrinks his kids with his homemade miniaturizing invention. Oops! (46)______ For older people, shrinking isn’t that dramatic or sudden at all. It takes place over years and may add up to only one inch or so off of their adult height ( maybe a little more, maybe less ) , and this kind of shrinking cant be magically reversed, although there are things that can be done to stop it or slow it down. (47)______ There are a few reasons. As people get older, they generally lose some muscle and fat from their bodies as part of the natural aging process. Gravity (the force that keeps your feet on the ground) take hold, and the bones in the spine, called vertebrae, may break down or degenerate, and start t collapse into one another. (48)______ But perhaps the most common reason why some older people shrink is because of osteoporosis. Osteo

[单项选择]We all do more speaking ______, even when we have a break after class.
A. now and then
B. by and by
C. step by step
D. more or less

[单项选择]Even though we had been to her house several times before, we still did not remember ______.
A. what street was it on
B. what was it the street
C. what street it was on
D. what street it was

[填空题]Even if we could make it impossible for people to commit crimes, should we Or would doing so improperly deprive people of their freedom
This may sound like a fanciful concern, but it is an increasingly real one. The new federal transportation bill, for example, authorized funding for a program that seeks to prevent the crime of drunken driving not by raising public consciousness or issuing stiffer punishments — but by making the crime practically impossible to commit. (41)______
The Dadss program is part of a trend toward what I call the "perfect prevention" of crime: depriving people of the choice to commit an offense in the first place. The federal government’s Intelligent Transportation Systems program, which is creating technology to share data among vehicles and road infrastructure like traffic lights, could make it impossible for a driver to speed or run a red light. (42)______
Such technologies force us to reconcile two important interests. On one hand is society’