单选题Quotation and author are correctly paired in all the following except____.

单选题By saying these figures are conservative (Line 1, Paragraph 3), Dr Worm means that ______.

单选题It is quite difficult to ______ money because the rate of inflation is so high.

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单选题So far as is known, the original manuscripts of Shakespeare's plays are no longer in ______ .

单选题{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} Premarital cohabitation is becoming a way of life for more and more people in American society. While some argue that the phenomenon may be a good things, sociologists Alan Booth and David R.Johnson of the University of Nebraska reject the idea, based on a nationwide study of 1 872 married persons, 16% of whom reported cohabiting before marriage. Instead, they say, it leads to lower levels of marital interaction and higher levels of marital disagreement and instability. One factor the researchers found that helps to explain the relation between cohabitation and lower marital quality is that some of those who live together already are poor marriage risks. Booth and Johnson report that those who cohabit are more likely to have drug, alcohol, and personality problems; and inability to handle money; and a history of unemployment and being in trouble with the law. In a further analysis, they found that cohabitation itself created difficulties for the subsequent marriage. Living together caused problems with parents and in-laws, a number of couples reported. Other respondents explained that unwanted children were another problem-causing factor that carried forward into their marriages. "The combination of being poor marriage material and the problems created by cohabitation itself account for the negative relation between living together before marriage and lower marital quality. Of the two, being poor marriage material and the risk factors that contribute to such a state are more significant. People whose cohabitation is trouble-free and who are good marriage material -- don't use drugs or have personality problems, are able to hold a job, and so on -- have marriages that are of the same quality as those who do not cohabit."

单选题The government recently presented an ambitious plan to tackle the violence and ______that follow when too many people drink too much too quickly in too small an area. A. alienation B. delimitation C. bareness D. mayhem

单选题How do you know that the oil pressure is a bit low?

单选题More than 40 million Americans between the ages of 5 and 18 attend schools throughout the United States. About 2 million school-age children are taught at home. While home schooling offers an alternative to the school environment, it has become a controversial issue. Many public school advocates take a harsh attitude toward home schoolers, perceiving their actions as the ultimate slap in the face of public education and a damaging move for the children. Yet, as public school officials realize they stand little to gain by remaining hostile to the home-school population, the hard lines seem to be softening a bit. Some public schools have moved closer to tolerance, and, even in some cases, are seeking cooperation with home schoolers. "We are becoming relatively tolerant of home schoolers. Let"s give the kids access to public school so they"ll see it"s not as terrible as they"ve been told, and they"ll want to come back," says John Marshall, an education official. Perhaps, but don"t count on it, say home-school advocates. Some home schoolers oppose that public school system because they have strong convictions that their approach to education—whether fueled by religious belief or the individual child"s interests and natural pace—is best. Other home schoolers contend "not so much that the schools teach heresy, but that schools teach whatever they teach inappropriately." "These parents are highly independent and strive to "take responsibility" for their own lives within a society that they define as bureaucratic and inefficient," says Van Gallon. But Howard Carol, spokesman for America"s largest teachers union, argues that home schooling parents are trying to hide their children from the real world, says Van Gallon. "Maybe we are going to run into people with problems, people that have a drug problem, people that have an alcohol problem, and teenage pregnancy. We have many many problems that happen in our society and many of the children are victims. But shielding the children from the real mix of what happens every day is denying them something that they are going to need later in life." Mr. Carol also questioned the competence of parents as teachers though he admitted that some home schoolers do better academically. "We want to make sure that a student is not denied the full range of curriculum experiences and appropriate materials, especially now with the new technology that is being introduced and the costs involved there." "The success of home schooling has been documented in standardized test scores administered by public school officials," says Frank Bernet, the executive director of the National Association of College Admission Councilors. "I know why they are doing it, but I wonder why they can"t work with school officials and teachers to make the school what they want it to be." The response from home schoolers: "We have tried that. Now it"s time to strike out on our own."

单选题Demand for the most common cosmetic surgery procedures, like breast enlargements and nose jobs, has increased by more than 400 per cent over the last decade. According to Dr. Dai Davies, of the Plastic Surgery Partnership in Hammersmith, the majority of cosmetic surgery patients are not chasing physical perfection. Rather, they are driven to fantastic lengths to improve their appearance by a desire to look normal. " What we all crave is to look normal, and normal is what is prescribed by the advertising media and other external pressures. They give us a perception of what is physically acceptable and we feel we must look like that. " In America, the debate is no longer about whether surgery is normal; rather, it centres on what age people should be before going under the knife. New York surgeon Dr. Gerard Imber recommends " maintenance " work for people in their thirties. " The idea of waiting until one needs a heroic transformation is silly, " he says. " By then, you've wasted 20 great years of your life and allowed things to get out of hand. " Dr. Imber draws the line at operating on people who are under 18, however. " It seems that someone we don't consider old enough to order a drink shouldn't be considering plastic surgery. " In the UK cosmetic surgery has long been seen as the exclusive domain of the very rich and famous. But the proportionate cost of treatment has fallen substantially, bringing all but the most advanced laser technology within the reach of most people. Dr. Davies, who claims to " cater for the average person " , agrees. He says: " I treat a few of the rich and famous and an awful lot of secretaries. Of course, ￡3,000 for an operation is a lot of money. But it is also all investment for life which costs about half the price of a good family holiday. " Dr. Davies suspects that the increasing sophistication of the fat injecting and removal techniques that allow patients to be treated with a local anaesthetic in an afternoon has also helped promote the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Yet, as one woman who recently paid ￡2,500 for liposuction to remove cellulite from her thighs admitted, the slope to becoming a cosmetic surgery veteran is a deceptively gentle one. " I had my legs done because they'd been bugging me for years. But going into the clinic was so low key and effective it whetted my appetite. Now I don't think there's any operation that I would rule out having if I could afford it. /

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} From the beginning, migration has been 6ne of the most conspicuous features of human history. Humanity did not appear simultaneously all over the earth but, according to the current scientific consensus, first evolved in Africa, and from there spread far and wide. Even after mankind had populated most of the planet, migration continued to play a decisive role in history down the centuries, as people contended for territory and the resources that go with it. In many of history's biggest movements of people, the migrants were not volunteers. In the 17th and 18th centuries, 15 million people were taken as slaves from Africa and shipped to Brazil, the Caribbean and North America. In the 19th century, between 10 and 40 million indentured workers (契约工人，苦力) were sent in vast numbers around the world, mainly from China and India. The 20th century's wars in Europe and Asia displaced millions more. But perhaps the most intense episode of migration-under-duress (强迫) in modern times occurred after the partition of India in 1947, when 7 million Muslims fled India for the new state of Pakistan and 7 million Hindus fled in the opposite direction. As individuals, not merely as members of races or religions in flight, people have always traveled in search of a better life. Between the middle of the 19th century and the start of the second world war, 60 million people left Europe and move overseas to the United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Much of this movement was guided by economic calculation. Most modern migration is of this kind, though nowadays the pull is high wages rather than cheap land. For the 19th century or so, the pattern of migration has shifted a good deal, with changes in government policy playing a key role. Until t914 governments imposed almost no controls. This allowed the enormous 19th-century movement of migrants from Europe to North America. Between 1914 and 1945; partly reflecting security concerns, migration was curtailed. Many countries excluded immigrants. America's Congress passed laws aiming to preserve the country's racial and religious makeup. After 1945 came another great change. Many European countries faced labor shortages. Governments actively recruited immigrants for jobs in their expanding industries. Migration surged again, now not mainly from Europe to North America but from the developing countries to the rich ones. The next big change came in the 1970s. The rich countries were no longer growing quickly and struggling with labor shortages. Recession came to Europe and America, and immigration rules were tightened again. This more restrictive regime continues to apply.

单选题According to the passage, the Japanese investors ________.

单选题Five hundred dollars ______ expensive. Have you nothing cheaper? A．are B．to be C．is D．has been

单选题We ______ admire his courage and self-confidence.

单选题They are having a picnic ______ the sun. [A] under [B] at [C] in

单选题Obviously she was ______ by the shop owner when she was shopping in that store. A. supposed B. supplemented C. swept D. cheated

单选题You might not like the way Sam behaves, but please be kind to him. ______, he is your grandfather.

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} Science Fiction can provide students interested in the future with a basic introduction to the concept of thinking about possible futures in a serious way, a sense of the emotional forces in their own culture that are affecting the shape the future may take, and a multitude of predictions regarding the results of present trends. Although SF seems to take as its future social settings nothing more ambiguous than the current status quo or its totally evil variant, SF is actually a more important vehicle for speculative visions about macroscopic social change. At this level, it is hard to deal with any precision as to when general value changes or evolving social institutions might appear, but it is most important to think about the kinds of societies that could result from the rise of new forms of interaction, even if one cannot predict exactly when they might occur. In performing this "what if ..." function, SF can act as a social laboratory as authors ruminate upon the forms social relationships could take if key variables in their own societies were different, and upon what new belief systems or mythologies could arise in the future to provide the basic rationalizations for human activities. If it is true that most people find it difficult to conceive of the ways in which their society, or human nature itself, could undergo fundamental changes, then SF of this type may provoke one's imagination--to consider the diversity of paths potentially open to society. Moreover, if SF is the laboratory of the imagination, its experiments are often of the kind that may significantly alter the subject matter even as they are being carried out. That is, SF has always had a certain cybernetic effect on society, as its visions emotionally engage the future--consciousness of the mass public regarding especially desirable and undesirable possibilities. The shape a society takes in the present is in part influenced by its image of the future; in this way particularly powerful SF images may become self-fulfilling or self-avoiding prophecies for society. For that matter, some individuals in recent years have even shaped their own life styles after appealing models provided by SF stories. The reincarnation and diffusion of SF futuristic images of alternative societies through the media of movies and television may have speeded up and augmented SF's social feedback effects. Thus SF is not only change speculator but change agent, send an echo from the future that is becoming into the present that is sculpting it. This fact alone makes imperative in any education system the study of the kinds of works discussed in this section.