单项选择题 Now the ______ port city near the mouth of the mighty Yangtze River is hoping to leave its record of turmoil behind and renew its status as the epicenter of Chinese modernization.

单项选择题 After lunch I felt ______ enough to ask my boss for a rise in my weekly wages.

单项选择题 "Our life is ______ away by detail. Simplify, simplify. " That dictum of Henry David Thoreau's, echoing from the days of steamboats and ox-drawn plows, had long haunted me.