In a tightly contested match on January 18, 2026, Atletico Madrid faced Deportivo Alavés, heading into halftime without any goals on the scoreboard. Despite multiple opportunities, the teams could not ...

6.【解析】[A] 语义衔接题。本题目选择介词，体现与the starting line(起跑线)的逻辑关系。选项B. behind和C. over可以首先排除，因为这里没有涉及空间位置关系；若选D. along则是“沿着起跑线徘徊”之意，这与后面的process意思不符；选项A. off 有“离开”之意，slow ...

“Right out of the gate” means “right from the start”, “from the very beginning”. This is a term that originates from horse racing, or dog races for that matter. Instead of using a starting line ...

Obama stumbles out of the gate. What gate, you ask? Not Watergate or another gate of that nature, for sure. In other words, nothing scandalous here. Obama just struggled a bit, suffering some setback.