单选题It was the first time that Mary was late. She ______ up in the traffic.

单选题A: The wind will probably get up later.B: ______. A. still, another month should see us through the worst of the weather. B. It seems to be clearing up. C. As long as it doesn't rain. D. Fairly mild for the time of year.

单选题It's 8:30, time for John to start work. So he turns on his radio. Then he eats breakfast. As he eats, he reads his e-mail and reviews his to-do list. Then he sits on the sofa and thinks about an article he needs to write... Wait a minute! Radio? Breakfast? Sofa? What kind of workplace is this? Well, actually it is John's house, and he is a telecommuter—he works at home, communicating with the workplace through the Internet. Like John, millions of people—and their employer—are finding that telecommuting is a great way to work. Telecommuters can follow their own schedules. They work in the comfort of their homes, where they can also look after young children or elderly parents. They save time and money by not traveling to work. Their employers save, too, because they need less office space and furniture. Studies show that telecommuters change jobs less often. This saves employers even more money. Telecommuting helps society, too, by reducing pollution and traffic problems. Jobs that are suited to telecommuting include writing, design work, computer programming and accounting(会计). If a job involves working with information, a telecommuter can probably do it.

单选题She felt offended at my remarks, but it wasn't my______to hurt her.(2002年武汉大学考博试题)

单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} Some oil companies plan to get rid of some of the pollution they produce by pumping it into rocks deep inside the Earth, where they say it will stay for thousands of years. Other people, though, aren' t so sure this is advisable; environmental groups say that putting this pollution back into the Earth is a had idea. When oil burns, It doesn' t just produce heat: it also produces carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a natural part of the air, but because people bum so much oil, there' s too much carbon dioxide in the air. This extra carbon dioxide is pollution; some scientific studies show that carbon dioxide is one of the" greenhouse gases" that is causing the Earth's temperature to rise. Environmentalists say that the oil companies' plans may not work. The oil companies say they are making sure that the gas will never escape, but environmentalists wonder how the oil companies can be so sure that the gas won' t seep into the air. They also point out that there' s no way to check to make sure the gas isn't leaking. In addition, the environmentalists point out that the pumping costs money—for research and for equipment--that the oil companies should be spending on preventing pollution, rather than on just moving it someplace else. Another problem ,say some people who are concerned about the Earth, is that if the oil companies find a cheap way to get rid of their pollution, they won' t look for new kinds of energy. These environmentalists say that energy companies should be researching ways to use hydrogen, wind power, and solar power instead of finding better ways to use oil. They argue that continuing to use oil means that we will still need to buy oil from other countries instead of producing our own cheap, clean energy. Environmentalists also say that burying pollution just pushes the problem into the future, rather than really solving it. They say that if the oil companies pump carbon dioxide into the rocks inside the Earth, it will be there for thousands of years, and that no one knows if this plan—even if it works--might turn into a pollution problem for all of us in the future. The oil companies insist that their plan is safe, and that putting the gas inside the Earth is a reasonable way to deal with it, They point out that there is a lot of room in the Earth for this extra gas, and that putting carbon dioxide inside the Earth means that the gas won' t be in the air, and if it' s not in the air, it won' t make the Earth warmer.

单选题Human cloning technology could be used to reverse heart attacks. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged, and other problems may be solved if human cloning and its technology are not forbidden. With cloning, infertile couples could have children. Current treatments for infertility, in terms of percentages, are not very successfully. Couples go through physically and emotionally painful procedures for a small chance of having children. Many couples run out of time and money without successfully having children. Human cloning could make it possible for many more infertile couples to have children than ever before. We should be able to clone the bone marrow for children and adults suffering from leukemia．This is expected to be one of the first benefits to come from cloning technology. We may learn how to switch cells on and off through cloning and thus be able to cure cancer. Cloning technology can be used to test for and perhaps cure gene-related diseases. The above is just a few examples of what human cloning technology can do for mankind．This new technology promises unprecedented advancement in medicine if people will release their fears and let the benefits begin.

单选题What is intelligence(智力) anyway? When l was in the army I (21) an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against (22) of 100, scored 160. I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not (23) have scored more than 80. (24) , when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him—and he always (25) it. Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man designed questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I'd prove myself a (26) . In a world where I have to work with my hands, I'd do poorly. Consider my auto-repair man (27) . He had a habit of telling jokes. One time he said, "Doc, a deaf-and-dumb(聋哑) man (28) some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made (29) movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He (30) his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the (31) man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors(剪刀). (32) do you suppose he asked for them?" I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said, "Why, you fool, he used his voice and asked for them. I've been (33) that on all my customers today, but I knew (34) I'd catch you. " "Why is that?" I asked. "Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn't be very (35) . " And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.

单选题 Talk to any parent of a student who took an adventurous gap year (a year between school and university when some students earn money, travel, etc. ) and a misty look will come into their eyes. There are some disasters and even the most motivated, organized gap student does require family back-up, financial, emotional and physical. The parental mistiness is not just about the brilliant experience that has matured their offspring; it is vicarious living. We all wish pre-university gap years had been the fashion in our day. We can see how much tougher our kids become; how much more prepared to benefit from university or to decide positively that they are going to do something other than a degree. Gap years are fashionable, as is reflected in the huge growth in the number of charities and private companies offering them. Pictures of Prince William toiling in Chile have helped, but the trend has been gathering steam for a decade. The range of gap packages starts with backpacking, includes working with charities, building hospitals and schools and, very commonly, working as a language assistant, teaching English. With this trend, however, comes a danger. Once parents feel that a well structured year is essential to their would-be undergraduates' progress to a better university, a good degree, an impressive CV and well paid employment, as the gap companies blurbs suggest it might be, then parents will start organizing and paying for the gaps. Where there are disasters, according to Richard Oliver, director of the gap companies umbrella organization, the Year Out Group, it is usually because of poor planning. That can be the fault of the company or of the student, he says, but the best insurance is thoughtful preparation. "When people get it wrong, it is usually medical or, especially among girls, it is that they have not been away from home before or because expectation does not match reality. " The point of a gap year is that it should be the time when the school leaver gets to do the thing that he or she fancies. Kids don't mature if mum and dad decide how they are going to mature. If the 18-year-old's way of maturing is to slob out on Hampstead Heath soaking up sunshine or spending a year working with fishermen in Cornwall, then that's what will be productive for that person. The consensus, however, is that some structure is an advantage and that the prime mover needs to be the student. The 18-year-old who was dispatched by his parents at two weeks' notice to Canada to learn to be a snowboarding instructor at a cost of ￡5,800, probably came back with little more than a hangover. The 18-year-old on the same package who worked for his fare and spent the rest of his year instructing in resorts from New Zealand to Switzerland, and came back to apply for university, is the positive counterbalance.

单选题This passage discusses an ancient ______. A. king B. kyth C. kairy tale D. kod

单选题The ______ of jet travel has made the world seem smaller.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} In 1998 consumers could purchase virtually anything over the Internet. Books, compact discs, and even stocks were available from World Wide Web sites that seemed to spring up almost daily. A few years earlier, some people had predicted that consumers accustomed to shopping in stores would be reluctant to buy things that they could not see or touch in person. For a growing number of time-starved consumers, however, shopping from their home computer was proving to be a convenient alternative to driving to the store. A research estimated that in 1998 U.S. consumers would purchase ＄ 7.3 billion of goods over the Internet, double the 1997 total. Finding a bargain was getting easier, owing to the rise of online auctions and Web sites that did comparison shopping on the Internet for the best deal. For all the consumer interest, retailing in cyberspace was still a largely unprofitable business, however. Internet pioneer Amazon. com, which began selling books in 1995 and later branched into recorded music and videos, posted revenue of $153.7 million in the third quarter, up from ＄ 37.9 million in the same period of 1997．Overall, however, the company's loss widened to ＄ 45.2 million from $ 9.6 million, and analysts did not expect the company to turn a profit until 2003．Despite the great loss, Amazon com had a stock market value of many billions, reflecting investors' optimism about the future of the industry. Internet retailing appealed to investors because it provided an efficient means for reaching millions of consumers without having the cost of operating conventional stores with their armies of salespeople. Selling online carried its own risks, however. With so many companies competing for consumers' attention, price competition was intense and profit margins thin or nonexistent. One video retailer sold the hit movie Titanic for ＄ 9.99, undercutting (削价) the ＄19.99 suggested retail price and losing about ＄ 6 on each copy sold．With Internet retailing still in its initial stage, companies seemed willing to absorb such losses in an attempt to establish a dominant market position.

单选题David was lying in bed, ______, listening to an English pop song.A. awokeB. awakeC. wakingD. wake

单选题All the students went to the magic show yesterday. It was really ______. A. amusingly B. amuse C. amusing D. amused

单选题The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of a fully-loaded truck,______to the truck.(中南大学2007年试题)

单选题Nearly eleven thousand people have been arrested for {{U}}defying{{/U}} the ban on street trading.

单选题Frankly speaking, I always regard you as my best friend, ______ I place entire trust.

单选题In AS'case, according to Lorch,are involved________.

单选题Man: Jenny, why do you often watch talk shows?Woman: They make me laugh and sometimes crack me up, and I have learned a lot from their talks.Question: Why does the woman like watching talk shows?

单选题According to psychoanalysis, a persons' attention is attracted______by the intensity of different signals ______ by their context, significance, and information content. A. not less than, as B. as, just as C. so much, as D. not so much, as

单选题______ he has created striking stage settings for the Martha Graham dance company, artist Isamu Noguchi is more famous for his sculpture.