单选题 Few men who find themselves cast as heroes early in life continue to command universal esteem till the end. Sir Edmund Hillary was one. To be the first to reach the top of the world's highest mountain ensured international celebrity and a place in history, but the modesty of a slightly awkward New Zealand beekeeper never departed him. Nor was mountaineering, or indeed beekeeping, his only accomplishment. Two views are often expressed about his life. One is that conquering Everest was everything. No one would play down the role of Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who reached the peak with him, possibly even before him; their partnership was like that of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. But it was Sir Edmund who first struggled his way up a crack in the 12-metre (40-foot) rockface that had to be overcome after the south summit if the real one was to be achieved, and below which only oblivion awaited. News of the British-led expedition's triumph on May 29th 1953 reached the world through a report in the London Times four days later. The Times, a sponsor of the expedition, had used an elaborate code to trick any rivals monitoring the radio waves. Its scoop was indeed a coup: June 2nd was the day of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, at which her majesty was crowned. Sir Edmund was a man of action. After Everest came more expeditious in Nepal, a race to the South Pole and further adventures in the Antarctic, the Himalayas and India. But for some onlookers neither these nor even the Everest expedition was especially remarkable: fitness and physical courage are all very well, they argued, but the world's highest peak was simply waiting to be scaled, and a steady traffic nowadays makes its way to the top unnoticed, except for the litter it leaves. Both the indifferent and the awe-struck, however, agree that Sir Edmund's other life was wholly admirable, and he himself said he was prouder of it than of anything else. This was his tireless work for the Sherpas, of whom he had become so fond. Through his efforts, and those of Tenzing, hospitals, clinics, bridges, runways and nearly 30 schools have been built in the Solo Khumbu region of Nepal just south of Everest. If New Zealand claimed Sir Edmund's loyalist, Nepal, and especially its Sherpas, could surely claim his heart.

单选题 Marital Status in the UK in 1991 and 2011 Marital Status Percentage in 1991 Percentage in 2011 Male Female Male Female Single 24 19 34 26 Married 71 65 54 52 Widowed 4 15 4 13 Divorced 1 1 8 9

单选题Many animals are on the______of disappearing from the face of the earth and zoos can provide them with a safe place to live and breed.(2013年10月中国科学院考博试题)

单选题In the meantime, we should be obliged if you could supply us with full details ______ the scope of coverage ______ by the Peoples Insurance Company of China for our reference. A．regarding, handled B．regarding, handling C．regarded, handled D．regarded, handling

单选题Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a factor contributing to one's health?

单选题To begin with, the gypsy girl was ______ at the sight of a snake and now she plays with snakes in a circus.A. frightened to dieB. frightened to deadC. frightened at deathD. frightened to death

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} In 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza-like cases. Influenza is sometimes called “flu” or a “bad cold”. He took samples from the throats of patients in his hospital and was able to find the virus of this influenza. There are three main types of the influenza virus. The most important of these are types A and B, each of them having several sub-groups. With the instruments at the hospital the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus group A, but he did not know the sub-group. He reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. W. H.O. published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong Kong, where about 15%—20% of the population had become ill. As soon as the London doctors received the package of throat samples, they began the standard tests. They found that by reproducing itself at very high speed, the virus had multiplied more than a million times within two days. Continuing their careful tests, the doctors checked the effect of drugs used against all the known sub-groups of virus type A. None of them gave any protection. This then, was something new: a new influenza virus against which the people of the world had no ready help whatsoever. Having isolated the virus they were working with, the two doctors now dropped it into the noses of some specially selected animals, which contact influenza in the same way as human beings do. In a short time the usual signs of the disease appeared. These experiments revealed that the new virus spread easily, but that it was not a killer. Scientists, like the general public, called it simply “Asian” flu. The first discovery of the virus, however, was made in China before the disease had appeared in other countries. Various reports showed that the influenza outbreak started in China, probably in February of 1957. By the middle of March it had spread all over China. The virus was found by Chinese doctors early in March. But China was not a member of the World Health Organization and therefore did not report outbreaks of disease to it. Not until two months later, when travelers carried the virus into Hong Kong, from where it spread to Singapore, did the news of the outbreak reach the rest of the world. By this time it was started on its way around the world. Thereafter, WHO’s Weekly Reports described the steady spread of this virus outbreak, which within four months swept through every continent.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} The table before which we sit may be, as the scientist maintains, composed of dancing atoms, but it does not reveal itself to us as anything of the kind, and it is not with dancing atoms but a solid and motionless object that we live. So remote is this "real" table—and most of the other "realities" with which science deals—that it cannot be discussed in terms which have any human value, and though it may receive out purely intellectual credence it cannot be woven into the pattern of life as it is led, in contradistinction to life as we attempt to think about it. Vibrations in the either are so totally unlike, let us say, the color purple that the gulf between them cannot be bridged, and they are, to all intents and purposes, not one but two separate things of which the second and less "real" must be the most significant for us. And just as the sensation which has led us to attribute an objective reality to a non-existent thing which we call "purple" is more important for human life than the conception of vibrations of a certain frequency, so too the belief in God, however ill founded, has been more important in the life of man than the germ theory of decay, however true the latter may be. We may, if we like, speak of consequence, as certain mystics love to do, of the different levels or orders of truth. We may adopt what is essentially a Platonist trick of thought and insist upon postulating the existence of external realities which correspond to the needs and modes of human feeling and which, so we may insist, have their being is some part of the universe unreachable by science. But to do so is to make an unwarrantable assumption and to be guilty of the metaphysical fallacy of failing to distinguish between a truth of feeling and that other sort of truth which is described as a "truth of correspondence," and it is better perhaps, at least for those of us who have grown up in an age of scientific thought, to steer clear of such confusions and to rest content with the admission that, though the universe with which science deals is the real universe, yet we do not and cannot have any but fleeting and imperfect contacts with it; that the most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

单选题Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. Christmas is the anniversary of the birth of Christ, generally celebrated on December 25. It is one of the chief festivals of the Christian calendar and is {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}a social and family holiday. Christmas customs vary from {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}and among groups of different national {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}. In most areas, however, homes and public places are {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}with evergreens, Christmas trees, {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}lights, and glittering ornaments. It is the busiest time of the year for merchants, and shops are filled {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}lavish displays and merchandise of all sorts. People send Christmas cards and buy gifts for their families and friends. Children look forward to {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}Santa Claus. They {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}their stockings on Christmas {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}and on Christmas morning they discover the gifts that have been left for them during the night. In the afternoon, families gather to {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}presents and to share the traditional Christmas dinner.

单选题A: Oh...um...do you mind if I smoke? B: ______ A: Oh, I didn't notice. B: Mum. There's a sign on the door.

单选题It was the training______made him such a good engineer.

单选题(2002) It was not such a good meal______she had expected.

单选题Some ______ good luck brought us nothing but trouble. A) seemingly B) satisfactorily C) uniformly D) universally

单选题I am very familiar______this city as I have been living here for more than 10 years.

单选题These plastic flowers look so ______ that many people think they arc real.A. beautifulB. naturalC. artificialD. similar

单选题Anaphor is used in a broad sense to include only reflexives like myself and reciprocals like each other.

单选题In the "New Horizon College English" course, students must take performance tests at monthly ______.

单选题Recently, the American Heart Association surveyed 1,000 people nationwide about their thoughts on sodium and heart health. 61% said that they believed sea salt Was a low-sodium alternative to table salt. They can be forgiven for thinking so. Sea salt is marketed as a healthy food, added to soups, potato chips and a wide variety of packaged snacks labeled "low sodium", "all natural" and "healthy". But in reality, sea salt and table salt are not terribly different, at least chemically. The real differences are in how the two are used in cooking. Table salt comes from underground salt deposits. Companies that sell it typically add something to keep it from clumping (结块). During processing, table salt is stripped of many of its natural minerals. Sea salt, on the other hand, is made from evaporated seawater, with little processing, it retains most of its minerals, which some cooks say give it a better flavor. But both contain the same amount of sodium chloride (氯化氢) by weight, which means they contribute equally to total sodium consumption and have the same effect on blood pressure. Officials recommend that adults consume no more than 2, 300 milligrams of sodium a day, equivalent to a teaspoon of salt. You should eat less if you are black, hypertensive (患高血压 的) or older than 40. Yet most Americans consume more than double the amount they need, mostly from processed foods, so it is best to limit salt—of any kind.

单选题The "show business" attracts many young people. (21) , only very few can hope to become (22) Talent (才能) is not (23) . Without a good manager, a performer can never hope to succeed. Fashion (时尚)is also important in this business. The best tailor in the world will never be successful if he makes old-fashioned clothes. In exactly the same way, a performer must (24) his "act" in order to (25) the taste of the moment. This is true for actors and dancers, but perhaps most of all for (26) . "Pop" stands for "popular", and a pop singer has to (27) hard to become popular. He must either give the public what they want, or he must find a new way of singing that will attract their attention. Even when he has succeeded, and his records are sold everywhere, he cannot (28) . He must work harder than ever to (29) popular, (30) there are always younger singers trying to become famous. The life of a successful pop singer is (31) . He can only relax when he is (32) , because everything he does is watched and reported in the special newspaper written for the "fans". The fans are the most important people in the world for the singer. They buy his records, they go to his concerts, and they make him rich and famous. But they can be very troublesome, too. They sometimes (33) handkerchiefs, they tear off buttons, and they even cut off pieces of the unfortunate singer's hair. Many singers have been forced to (34) . A pop singer has to spend a lot of money on (35) , because he must always look smart. He must have a nice car. And above all, he must always keep smiling for the benefit of his public.

单选题The police are _____ for the thief in the region now.