Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning Yes Then Hiroyuki of Japan has a special bed for you. Hiroyuki’s bed will get you up in the morning! The bed is connected to an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next a tape recorder in the bed plays soft music or other pleasant sounds. The tape recorder in Hiroyuki’s then says in a sweet voice, "Wake up, darling, please. " A few minutes later, a second recording plays. The second recording can be loud music or unpleasant sounds. Hiroyuki hears a recording of his boss. His boss shouts, "Wake up immediately, or you’ll be late!" If you don’t get up after the second recording, you’ll be sorry. A mechanical "foot" is in the bed. The mechanical foot kicks you in the head. Then the bed waits a few more minutes. What! You’re still in bed! Slowly, the tip of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. Finally, the bed is vertical (垂直的). You slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are awake and out of bed. The bed can wake you up in ______ ways.
A. three
B. four
C. five
D. six
甲公司与乙公司签订一份买卖合同。合同约定:乙公司供给甲公司生产的M型号的照相机2000台,每台单位500元;甲公司交付定金25万元;如果一方违约,则应支付总价款的10%作为违约金。合同签订后,甲公司立即将25万元定金交付乙公司,并很快与丙公司就同一批照相机签订了一份买卖合同,每台照相机单价600元。后乙公司没有按期履行合同。由此导致甲公司无法履行与丙公司之间的合同,为此甲公司赔偿了丙公司的实际损失23万元。 如果乙公司不能履行合同的原因是相邻的丁公司失火(因消防设施不完善所致),使乙公司的库房起火,2000台照相机灭失。对此,正确的说法是( )。
A. 乙公司应当向甲公司承担违约责任
B. 丁公司应当向甲公司承担违约责任
C. 乙公司应当向丙公司承担违约责任
D. 乙公司只有返还定金的义务
Thousands of teachers at the elementary, secondary, and college levels can testify that their students’ writing exhibits a tendency toward a superficiality that wasn’t seen, say 10 or 15 years ago. It shows up not only in their lack of analytical skills, but in poor command of grammar and rhetoric. I’ ye been asked by a graduate student what a semicolon is. The mechanics of the English language have been tortured to pieces by’ TV. Visual, moving images—which are the venue of television—can’t be held in the net of careful language. They want to break out. They really have nothing to do with language, grammar, and rhetoric, and they have become fractured. Recent surveys by dozens of organizations also suggest that up to 40% of the American public is functionally illiterate. That is, our citizens’ reading and writing abilities, if they have any, are impaired so seriously as to render them, in that handy jargon of our times, dysfunctional. The reading is taught - TV teaches people not to read. It renders them incapable of engaging in an activity that now is perceived as strenuous, because it is not a passive hypnotized state. Passive as it is, television has invaded our culture so completely that the medium’s effects are evident in every quarter, even the literary world. It shows up in supermarket paperbacks, from Stephen King (who has a certain clever skill) to pulp fiction. These really are forms of verbal TV-literature that is so superficial that those who read it can revel in the same sensations they experience when watching television. Even more importantly, the growing influence of television, Kernan says, has changed people’s habits and values and affected their assumptions about the world. The sort of reflective, critical, and value laden thinking encouraged by books has been rendered obsolete. In this context, we would do well to recall the Cyclops— the race of giants that, according to Greek myth, predated man. Quite literally, TV affects the way people think. In Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Jerry Mander quotes from the Emery Report, prepared by the Center for Continuing Education at the Australian National University, Canberra, that, when we watch television, "our usual processes of thinking and discern ment are semi-functional at best." The study also argues that, "while television appears to have the potential to provide useful information to viewers—and is celebrated for its educational function—the technology of television and the inherent nature of the viewing experience actually inhibit learning as we usually think of it.\ The underlined words "an activity" in the context refer to______.
A. reading
B. grammar-learning
C. watching TV
D. writing
Sports and SexesIn sports the sexes are separate. (36) and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That (37) is (38) people say. Women are (39) "the weaker sex", or if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught (40) schools and universities. There are women (41) are famous prime ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. (42) European woman can expect (43) until the age of 74; a man only until he is 68. Are women’s bodies really weaker The fastest men can run a mile in (44) 4 minutes. The best women need 5 minutes. Women’s times are always slower than (45) , but some facts are a surprise. Some of the (46) women swimmers today are girls. One of them swam 400 metres (47) 4 minutes and 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first "Tartan" in films was (48) Olympic swimmer, Jonny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes and 59.1 seconds, (49) is 37.9 seconds (50) than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are (51) men (52) . Conditions are very different now, and sport is much (53) serious. It is (54) serious that some women are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check (55) the women are really women or not. It seems like that sport has many problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes. 50().
A. slow
B. fast
C. slower
D. faster