单选题Many students who pareicipated in the 2010 civil service exams(公务员考试)in China saw them as the"most diffcult", due to their emphasis on general knowledge. This year, the Chinese central government offices have opened 15,000 posts but it's not large enough to find a home for the one million people applying. According to a 2009 Washington post report,US students are also giving government jobs a hard look. "The Partnership for Public Service"poll(民意调查)found that about 90% of US students are interested in federal(联邦政府的)jobs. Nearly 84% gave the security offered by federal jobs as a reason. The same goes for students in the UK. A 2008 Daily Mail report found that applications from college graduates for government civil service jobs have surged 33% over 2007. Besides providing financial security, civil service jobs ususlly offer other benefits, especially in Asia. In India, for example, the average annual income is about $8, 116-more than 10 times higher. Plus, civil servants get a one-month paid holiday every year, 20 days of medical leave and 20-day half-paid vacation.

单选题______your timely advice, I would never have known how to go about the work.

单选题He was a generous friend but as a businessman he______a hard bargain.

单选题In 1807 Noah Webster began his greatest work, An American Dictionary of the English Language.In preparing the work, he devoted ten years to the study of English and its relationship to other languages, and seven more years to the writing itself. Published in two volumes in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language has become the recognized authority (权威) for usage in the United States. Webster's purpose in writing it was to show that the American language was developing distinct meanings, pronunciations, and spellings from those of British English. He is responsible for advancing simplified spelling forms: "develop" instead of the British form "develope"; "theater" and "center" instead of "theatre" and "centre"; "color" and "honor" instead of "colour" and "honour".

单选题Doctor: ______ Patient: I think I've caught a bad cold and got a terrible sour throat. A. Do you have anything to declare, Sir? B. Good morning. May I help you? C. How have you been getting along with your job recently? D. What seems to be the problem?

单选题I meant ______, but when I was leaving I couldn't find her anywhere.A. to doB. toC. doingD. doing to

单选题If I hadn't stood under the ladder to catch you when you fell, you______now.

单选题The writer reveals the "foolishness" of the custom in the paragraph by ______.

单选题With the boss out sick, the bookkeeper is______in charge.

单选题World Trade Organization Director-general Renato Ruggiero predicted that the WTO would boost global incomes by $ 1 trillion in the next ten years. The pact paves the way for more foreign investment and competition in telecom markets. Many governments are making telecom deregulation a priority and making it easier for outsiders to enter the telecommunication business. The pace varies widely. The U. S. and Britain are well ahead of the pack, while Thailand won't be fully open until 2006. Only 20% of the $ 601 billion world market is currently open to competition. That should jump to about 75% in a couple of years—largely due to the Telecom Act in the U. S. last year that deregulated local markets, the opening up of the European Union's markets from Jan. 1, 1998 and the deregulation in Japan. The WTO deal now provides a forum for the inevitable disputes along the way. It is also symbolic: the first major trade agreement of the post-industrial age. Instead of being obsessed with textile quotas, the WTO pact is proof that governments are realizing that in an information age, telecom is the oil and steel of economies in the future. Businesses around the world are already spending more in total on telecom services than they do on oil. Consumers, meanwhile, can look forward to a future of lower prices—by some estimates, international calling rates should drop 80% over several years—and better service. Thanks in part to the vastly increased call volume carded by the fiber-optic cables that span the globe today, calling half a world away already costs little more than telephoning next door. The monopolies can no longer set high prices for international calls in many countries. In the U. S. , the world's most fiercely competitive long distance market, frequent callers since last year have been paying about 12 cents a minute to call Britain, a price not much more than domestic rates. The new competitive environment on the horizon means more opportunities for companies from the U. S. and U. K. in particular because they have plenty of practice at the rough-and-tumble of free markets. The U. S. lobbied hard for the WTO deal, confident that its firms would be big beneficiaries of more open markets. Britain has been deregulated since 1984 but will see even more competition than before: in December, the government issued 45 new international licenses to join British Telecom so that it will become a strong competitor in the international market. However, the once-cosseted industry will get rougher worldwide. Returns on capital will come down. Risks will go up. That is how free markets work. It will look like any other business.

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单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs that are now done by human beings. They point out that at a circus, for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing quite skillful things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may notice that the trainer always gives the animal a piece of candy or a piece of fruit as a reward. The scientists say that many different animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs if they know they will get a reward for doing them. Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house, and soldiers in both old and modem times have used geese to give warning by making a lot of noise when a stranger or an enemy comes near. But it may be possible to train animals to work in factories. In Russia, for example, pigeons which are birds with good eyesight, are being used to watch out for faults in small steel balls that are being made in one factory. When the pigeon sees a ball which looks different from others, it touches a steel plate with its beak. This turns on a light to warn people in the factory. At the same time a few seeds are given as a reward. It takes three to five weeks to train a pigeon to do this and one pigeon can inspect 3 000 to 4 000 balls an hour. Apes have been used in America in helping to make cars, and scientists believe that these large monkeys may be one day gather crops and even drive trains.

单选题Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. 1 , the British Isles contain a variety of people, and only the people of England call themselves,English. The others 2 to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, 3 the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed at being 4 as "English". Even in England there are many differences in 5 character and speech. The chief 6 is between southern England and northern England. South of a line going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually 7 by toreign students, 8 there are local variations. Further north, regional 9 is usually "broader" than that of southern Britain. Northerners are 10 to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more 11 . They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them 12 . Northerners generally have hearty 13 : the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous 14 at meal times. In accent and character the people of the Midlands 15 a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman. In Scotland the sound 16 by the letter " R" is generally a strong sound, and " R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be 17 in southern English, The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, 18 inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently 19 as being more " fiery" than the English. They are of a race that is quite 20 from the English.

单选题______ all cherry trees are very attractive when in bloom, some species with inferior fruit are cultivated especially for their flowers.

单选题The buffalo which the lion fells provokes his aggression as little as theappetizing turkey which I have just seen hanging in the larder provokes ______. A. me B. them C. it D. mine

单选题Statistics ______ his most difficult subject and they are all worried that he won"t pass the test.

单选题The camps are not usually tent-tupe camps. They are mostly long-established ______ structures, often with strange Indian names.

单选题Woman. Oh, dear! I'm afraid I fail again in the national test. It's the third time I took it. Man: Don't be too upset. I have the same fate. Let's try a fourth time. Question: What does the man mean?