When I was an editor, I always preferred to apologise promptly, what the merits of the case, rather than face the expense and, importantly, the time consuming complexities and debilitating worry of litigation, libel being one of the least satisfactory branches of the law.

单项选择题In each person’s life there are three stages. When one was young, people said, He will do something. As he grew older and did nothing, they said, He could do something if he found himself. When he was white-haired, people said of him, He might do something if he could try anything.

单项选择题The streets of the Dual Springs neighborhood, a migrant-worker hub in northern Beijing, are ______ . That’s no surprise; more than 13,000 people have been quarantined in China’s capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).