I was reading Shirley Hazzard’s novel The Transit of Venus. Though I (51) her other books, I had always resisted this one. It (52) me as too pure somehow, too heroic, larger or finer than life and therefore unreal. But now I read it with an almost (53) pleasure. There were sentences that (54) of gratification to my eyes and (55) the hairs on the nape of my neck. I was in a Boston hospital, propped tip in bed with a feeding tube in my arm after (56) surgery for cancer. It was

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A.stroke 

B.strike 

C.struck 

D.striking

可逆反应 2A (气) + 3B (气)  2C (气) + D(气)，在四种不同条件下反应速率最快的是

A．V_A = 0.5mol/(L·min)

B．V_B = 0.6mol/(L·min)

C．V_C = 0.35mol/(L·min)

D．V_D = 0.4mol/(L·min)