That was not a good start to what, hopefully, will be a successful business meeting.

It（）as a shock to realize that I was not alone in the room.

We regret to report that a consignment of silk piece goods（）Order No.567 has not been delivered．

It was such a solemn occasion that not even a child（）a sound.

The Shipowner is not（）by the fact that a remote cause of the loss was an excepted peril.

Not until the meeting was over（）that he had made a mistake in his speech.

（）Charterer and Shipowner agreed on instructions which were ambiguous and were misinterpreted in good faith by the master，it was held that the Charterer could not hold the Shipowner liable．

The freight will not be payable（）the goods are delivered in such a condition that they are substantially and in a mercantile sense the same goods as those shipped.

纠错Being that he was a good swimmer, John jumped into the water and rescued thedrowning child.

纠错 Being that he was a good swimmer, John jumped into the water and rescued the drowning child.

That was quite a risky move not taking the tires.（ ）

After a _____________physical exam, my doctor said I was in good condition except that my blood pressure was a little high.

“unclean on board” is indicated on the B/L means that the goods is not clean.（)A．正确B．错

18 Andersen was not a good ballet dancer.

It is well known that a child does not reach emotional security______ a good many years after physical maturity.

_____ is that he was blessed with a very good memory.

For a while, that story book was indeed very popular, but it was not long before the demand ______.

You are a network administrator for The network contains a Windows Server 2003 computer named Testking4, which functions as a file server.Testking4 contains several applications. One application is named App1. Another application is named App2. Users report that App2 is performing poorly. You examine Testking4 and discover that App1 was started by using the start app1 /realtime command.You need to ensure that no other application was started by using the /realtime switch.What should you do？（）

Which of the following is a cleft sentence强调句? A、It is a difficult book to read. B、It was not until he went back that the other people left. C、It is surprising that the 9-year-old boy goes to college. D、It is no good arguing with him.

This time I was so （） that not a single error in the essay slipped past me.

Anna Douglas was 72 years old when she started writing her newspaper column. She had been the director of a school and a camp before she retired, but she needed to keep busy. She was even willing to work without pay. That was the reason she found a volunteer job with an agency. The agency that she chose to work for was a business that helped other businesses find jobs for old people. Every day she talked with other retired people like herself. By talking, she recognized two things. Old people had abilities that were not being used. Old people also had problems——mostly problems with communication.

She__________ you a good present for your birthday, but unfortunately she was short of money at that time

Jobs genius for creating products and his marketing talent have long been hailed. All of that comes through in Becoming Steve Jobs, Schlender s and Tetzeli s new book. They contend that Jobs was a far more complex and interesting man than the half-genius / half-jerk stereotype, and a good part of their book is an attempt to craft a more rounded portrait. What makes their book important is that they also contend—persuasively, I believe—that, the stereotype notwithstanding, he was not the same man in his prime that he had been at the beginning of his career. The inexperienced, impulsive, arrogant youth who co-founded Apple was very different from the mature and thoughtful man who returned to his struggling creation and turned it into a company that made breathtaking products while becoming the dominant technology company of our time. Had he not changed, they write, he would not have succeeded.

The poverty of his family did not prevent him from getting a good education and a good start in the classics at the local academy. Henry David Thoreau attended（）

Fed was a consultant（咨询师）and Guido a wine maker. They started their gelato （意式冰激凌） business with no food industry experience. "We wanted to make the best gelato in the world and we didn't know how to make any gelato!" Fed recalls. That did not stop them though and the business has become more and more successful.