单选题Surveying the battleground at Gettysburg in 1863, Pres. Abraham Lincoln said: "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." Alas, he may have been right—not only has his short speech been pretty much forgotten, but also has the Civil War that inspired it. More than 100 years after the conflict, a Gallup poll of American college seniors found that 42% couldn't date the war to the correct half-century. In 2001, sampling 12-to 17-year-olds, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation discovered that nearly one in four students didn't even know the Civil War had been fought between the North and the South. Thirteen percent figured that it was the US against Great Britain, while five percent guessed it was East vs. West. In the same poll, over 5,000,000 US teenagers were clueless about the Fourth of July. Fourteen percent thought we had declared our independence from France; three percent, from Native Americans; and one percent, from Canada. So much for 1776! It's not just early history that students get failing grades on. Americans of all ages even draw a blank when it comes to the 20th century. Questioned in 1995, 60% of adults couldn't name the president who ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb (Harry S. Truman). Even worse, 20% didn't know where—or even if—such a bomb had ever been used. The shocking results of these surveys show Americans are suffering from a disease called "cultural amnesia," the social equivalent of Alzheimer's disease. Unlike Alzheimer's, though, it afflicts the young as well as the old. Debilitating and progressive, the malady is eating away at America's soul, for just as an individual needs memories to maintain a sense of personal identity, so does a nation need them in order to survive. Survival means having a sense of continuity. As Civil War historian Bruce Catton put it, "The American story is above all other things a continued story. It did not start with us and it will not end with us." To sense this continuity, we need to know our history, for the selfrealization of a nation is based on keeping faith with the unfulfilled dreams and sacrifices of the past. It is to this idea that Lincoln referred in the Gettysburg Address when he spoke of the "unfinished work" that must be done if "this nation…shall have a new birth of freedom." Yet, when a national civics test was administered in 1998, 35% of high school seniors failed. As educational researcher Diane Rayitch reported: "Only nine percent of the kids were able to give two reasons why it is important for citizens to be involved in a democratic society." Combined with their historical ignorance, the civic disengagement of America's young leaves their country's future in peril. More so than any other system of government, a democracy relies on the wisdom and judgment of its people. To quote another president, Thomas Jefferson, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

单选题The seating of musicians in an orchestra is arranged ______ to produce the desired blend of sounds from the various musical sections.

单选题I telephoned the station to make ______ the time of the train． A．sure B．real C．true D．right

单选题Awards provide a(n) ______ for young people to improve their skills. A. incentive B. initiative C. fugitive D. captive

单选题Blues comes from that sense of not being at the centre, "from nothingness, from want, from desire," as W. C. Handy put it. Bessie became the incarnation of that "absence, darkness, dentin" A. discarnating B. materialization C. personification D. representative

单选题A hiker walked for 3 days. She walked 18 miles on the first day, walking 3 miles per hour. On the second day she walked for one less hour, but she walked one mile per hour faster than on the first day. On the third day she walked the same number of hours as on the first day but at the same speed as on the second day. How many miles in total did she walk? A. 24 B. 44 C. 58 D. 60 E. 62

单选题I'd like to buy the mobile, but I haven't got any money on me at the moment. Could you ______for me for a day or two?

单选题A: I wonder when we'll see the effect this junk food has on our children. B: ______ A. There are too many ads on food, aren't there? B. It's getting worse everyday. C. We didn't use to see so many chubby teenagers around, did we? D. Chinese fast is not gaining any popularity among children.

单选题He carried out extensive research into the local real estate market before he decided to ______a mortgage.

单选题Female capuchin monkeys were chosen for the research most probably because they are ______.

单选题In order to learn a foreign language well, it is necessary to overcome the fear of making mistakes. If the primary goal of language use is communication, mistakes are secondary considerations that may be dealt with gradually as awareness of those mistakes increases. On the other hand, students should not ignore their mistakes. The language learner may observe how native speakers express themselves, and how native expressions differ from the way the learner might say them. For example, a Spanish speaker, who has been saying "I do it" to express willingness to do something in the immediate future, could by interacting with native speakers of English, observe that native speakers actually say "I'll do it" . The resulting discrepancy can serve as a basis for the student to modify his way of using the present tense in English. But a student who is unwilling to interact in the first place would lose this opportunity to learn by trial and error.

单选题We've bought some ______ chairs for the garden so that they are easy to store away

单选题"The moose (驼鹿) is odd and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head?" The 19th-century writer of those words, Henry David Thoreau, was hardly alone in his comment of the moose. Moose"s funny appearance makes us think that it is clumsy and slow-witted. Is that true? Researchers in North America have uncovered many facts about this unusual animal. No one denies that the moose is a giant. Adult moose can grow as high as 1.5 to 2 meters, and weigh as much as 816kg. Although it has long legs that make it seem foolish, it can run up to 55km per hour, and those legs can kick off an entire pack of wolves. Moose is vegetarian. It feeds on woody plants, leaves and water plants. It learns to swim within days of birth, and they have been observed swimming for miles and diving to a depth of nearly 6 meters to feed on water plants! A moose can move its eyes and detect motion almost directly behind it without turning its head. Its nose is also an effective tool. Researchers suggest that because the moose"s nostrils(鼻 孔) are far apart, they may give it the unusual ability to locate the objects on a 3D scale. The moose"s hearing adds another merit to its sensory package. Its ears can turn to all directions, and they can pickup sounds from other moose as far as 3 km away! Baby moose tend to be curious and carefree. Their mothers protect them by providing tender and loyal care. They will attack any who are too close to their young, including wolves, bears, and even humans. Finally, when the young is about a year old and its mother is newly pregnant, the mother aggressively drives it away so that it can begin caring for itself.

单选题W: This book is great. I can' t put it down.M:______A. What? I can' t imagine your being excited by a book.B. Sorry. Books cannot attract you so much.C. I doubt you are involved in something else.D. Perhaps this book is something mysterious.