... is a little squit of a thing. I wish he wasn't. But who else is there? Think of all the other chances I've had! Not one ofthem has as much brains in his whole body as Bentley has in his little finger. Besides, they've no distinction. It's as much as I can do...
...ged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as as
possible.""Are
you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that
you are gratifying mine?""Both,"
replied Elizabeth archly; "for I have always seen a great similarity in
the turn of our minds. -- We are each o...
...that had set him off."Does he have a gun or weapon?""We're in the country. Thereare deer heads on the wall."The deer heads are a giveaway. Thereare probably lots of guns."Has he threatened to hurt anyone else?""He says he might take one ofthe funeral guys with him, but I
don't think he's serious....
..., Sir Henry -- indeed I didn't.""The man is a public danger. Thereare lonely houses scattered over the moor, and he is a fellow who would stick at nothing. You only want to get a glimpse of his face to see that. Look at Mr. Stapleton's house, for example, with no one but himself t...
.... If in the darkness, wife was separated from husband or parent from child there was no hope oftheir meeting again. Each hurried blindly and fearfully on. So came the earthquake… and so ended life in Pompeii.这个句子是高中英语教材上的，后面的两个so放在句首用了全部倒装...
I
do not know what there was in the way he told me this that extraordinarily
suggested the violence of his desire. It was disconcerting and rather horrible.
His life was strangely divorced from material things, and it was as though his
body at times wreaked a fearful revenge on his spirit. The satyr...
Is it a practice that allows children to reach their fullest potential, away from the distractions of other children and freed from the shackles of an education system that sometimes seems to seek the lowest common denominator? Or does it harm children socially, unnaturally with drawing them from th...
...ntly,
I conceptualized a new approach to timekeeping that’s connected to circumstances
on our planet, conditions that might change as a result of global warming. We’re
now building a clock at the Anchorage Museum that reflects the total flow of several
major Alaskan rivers, which are sensitive t...
【问】有这样一道单项选择题：What kind of books _____ there in your
schoolbag? A. have B. has
C. are D. is参考答案是 D。但是，有的老师说应该选择
C，因为题中的 books 是复数形式。到底哪一个是正确答案呢？另外，为什么不能选择A
或...
...如：在“Current English Usage1981修订版”一书的第263页：[a] There
were more people present than were expected, if the sentence is short for . . .
than there were people expected.[b] There
were more people present than was expected, if it stands for than it was
expected there would be.W...
...nostic Test有一道（用提示词）改写练习题如下：Jan and Lucy are equally good at tennis. （no）= Jan is________
than Lucy at tennis.答案为：no better/no worse。
显然，无论选用两个答案中的哪一个，都仅仅表示两人网球水平相当（equally
good...
___________ she went home. A) There was no cause for the cry B) Without having cause for the cry C) Being no cause for the cry D) There being no cause for the cry 有人说选B有人说选D，请问有老师能详细地分析下吗？并且能够阐述理由，谢谢！
THERE
is an old kitchen somewhere in the past, and an old-fashioned fire-place (1) therein, with its smooth old jambs of
stone, smooth with many knives that have been sharpened there; smooth with many
little fingers that have clung there. Thereare andirons with rings in the top, (2) wherein many te...
...i, and reading local Persian newspapers all the while trying to finish off their plates piled with food. The variety of food at the restaurant is limited, but the amount of each dish is fairly large. Most ofthe meals can serve two people and are under $10, so not only is it affordable but prac...
...arbor deadline. This is the date by which states are meant to have counted their votes, settle disputes and determine the winner ofthe Electoral College votes.This date is extremely important because when Congress needs to tally the electoral votes in January, it must accept the electors certified ...