单选题In a car engine, more ______.means better acceleration. A. renown B. coronation C. gravy D. torque

单选题As a famous leader of human rights movement, Martin Luther King {{U}}detested{{/U}} injustice.

单选题The American businessman had difficulty at times working with his local counterparts in Guangdong Province, for he could speak______Cantonese than Mandarin.

单选题The old always assume that they know best for the simple reason ______ they have been around a bit longer.

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} Every newborn baby is dealt a hand of cards which helps to determine how long he or she will be allowed to play the game of life. Good cards will help those who have them to have a long and healthy existence, while bad cards will bring to those who have them terrible diseases like high blood pressure and heart disease. Occasionally, cards are dealt out that doom their holders to an early death. In the past, people never knew exactly which cards they had been dealt. They could guess at the future only by looking at the kind of health problems experienced by their parents or grandparents. Genetic testing, which makes it possible to find dangerous genes, has changed all this. But, until recently, if you were tested positive for a bad gene you were not obliged to reveal this to anyone else except in a few extreme circumstances. This month, however, Britain became the first country in the world to allow life insurers to ask for test results. So far, approval has been given only for a test for a fatal brain disorder known as Huntington’s disease. But ten other tests (for seven diseases) are already in use and are awaiting similar approval. The independent body that gives approval, the Department of Health’s genetics and insurance committee, does not have to decide whether the use of genetic information in insurance is ethical. It must judge only whether the tests are reliable to insurers. In the case of Huntington’s disease the answer is clear-cut. People unlucky enough to have this gene will die early, and cost life insurers dearly. This is only the start. Clear-cut genetic answers, where a gene is simply and directly related to a person’s risk of death, are uncommon. More usually, a group of genes is associated with the risk of developing a common disease, dependent on the presence of other genetic or environmental factors. But, as tests improve, it will become possible to predict whether or not a particular individual is at risk. In the next few years researchers will discover more and more about the functions of individual genes and what health risks — or benefits — are associated with them.

单选题People in that area experienced a serious storm. It was so ______ that many buildings collapsed.

单选题The old couple wanted to see their daughter ______ the young manager. A. marry B. marrying C. to marry D. married

单选题Nowadays, the prescribed roles of the man as "breadwinner" and the woman as housewife are changing.

单选题The idea is as audacious as it altruistic: provide a personal laptop computer to every schoolchild—particularly in the poorest parts of the world. The first step to making that happen is whittling the price down to $100. And that is the goal of a group of American techno-gurus led by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the fabled MIT Media Lab. When he unveiled the idea at the World Economic Forum in January it seemed wildly ambitious. But surprisingly, it is starting to become a reality. Mr. Negroponte plans to display the first prototype in November at a UN summit. Four countries—Brazil, Egypt, Thailand and South Africa—have said they will buy over 1 m units each. Production is due to start in late 2006. How is the group, called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), able to create a laptop so inexpensively? It is mainly a matter of cleverly combining existing technologies in new ways. The laptop will have a basic processor made by AMD, flash memory instead of a hard disk, will be powered by batteries or a hand- crank, and will run open-source software. The $100 laptop also puts all the components behind the screen, not under the keyboard, so there is no need for an expensive hinge. So far, OLPC has got the price down to around $130. But good news for the world's poor, may not be such great news for the world's computer manufacturers. The new machine is not simply of interest in the developing world. On September 22nd, Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, said the state should purchase one for every secondary-school student, when they become available. Sales to schools are just one way in which the $100 laptop could change the computer industry more broadly. By depressing prices and fuelling the trend for "good-enough computing", where customers upgrade less often, it could eventually put pressure on the world's biggest PC-makers.

单选题 Money is a key element in economic and business activities and has been the theme of many witty remarks. Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Money makes money, and the money{{U}} (61) {{/U}}makes, makes more money." To most of us, money is {{U}}(62) {{/U}}but the currency of a country. But to some people, money is either the best friend or the worst demon. To{{U}} (63) {{/U}},however, money is a subject for study and for something to be money, it must at{{U}} (64) {{/U}}have the following characteristics: portability, divisibility, stability, durability and acceptability. {{U}} (65) {{/U}}, nowadays, money has got a lot of{{U}} (66) {{/U}}: credit cards, debit cards, access cards, IC cards, etc, but they are usually{{U}} (67) {{/U}}plastic money or electronic money, because they are used like money.{{U}} (68) {{/U}}a credit card, for example, you can buy books and ties, pay your restaurant bills and taxi fares. You can{{U}} (69) {{/U}}make a small overdraft if you cannot make your{{U}} (70) {{/U}}meet this month. "Don't{{U}} (71) {{/U}}home without it," American Express, one of the leading credit card issuers once{{U}} (72) {{/U}}us. For many,{{U}} (73) {{/U}}a reminder is no{{U}} (74) {{/U}}necessary, because the plastic money is so safe and so convenient that many people{{U}} (75) {{/U}}leave home without cash but never without a credit card.

单选题He is a very honest official and never ______ any gifts from the people who sought his help. A. accepted B. received C. carried D. excepted

单选题The population rose fast in the places which had the most ______ soils such as on the flood plains of great rivers.

单选题The scientific and medical prizes have proved to be the least ______ , while those for literature and peace by their very nature have been the most exposed to critical differences.

单选题On that trip, the loneliness was a little harder to handle, so I brought along our puppy to keep me ______. A. company B. partner C. attendant D. fellowship

单选题______ his fluent English, he must______ in America for a long time.

单选题Which statement about Epeat is wrong? A．Its full name is Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool. B．It is an environmental certification evaluating computers. C．It includes 51 environmental criteria in total. D．To qualify for Epeat registration, a product must meet all 51 criteria.

单选题{{B}}Section A{{/B}}{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Each of the passages is followed by some questions. For each question four answers are given. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Put your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. {{B}}Passage One What Makes a "Millennial Mind"?{{/B}} (1) Since 1000 AD, around 30 billion people have been born on our planet. The vast majority have come and gone unknown to all but their friends and family. A few have left some trace on history: a discovery made, perhaps, or a record broken. Of those, fewer still are remembered long after their death. Yet of all the people who have lived their lives during the last 1000 years, just 38 have achieved the status of "Millennial Minds" that's barely one in a billion. Those whose lives Focus has chronicled have thus become members of possibly the most exclusive list of all time. And choosing who should be included was not easy. (2) From the beginning, the single most important criterion was that the "Millennial Minds" are those who did more than merely achieve greatness in their own time, or in one field. Thus mere winners of Nobel Prizes had no automatic right to inclusion, nor artists who gained fame in their own era, but whose reputation has faded with changing fashion. The achievements of the genuine "Millennial Mind" affect our lives even. now, often in ways so fundamental that it is hard to imagine what the world was like before. (3) Not even transcendent genius was enough to guarantee a place in the Focus list. To rate as a "Millennial Mind", the life and achievements also had to cast light on the complex nature of creativity: its origins, nature and its personal cost.

单选题As you are students of English, it"s very possible that you"ll be interested in England. That"s where the language was first spoken. But England is often called by other names. This often confuses people and I wonder if you know what these names mean. So, now I would like to tell you about this matter of names. I believe that you have heard people use the names—England, Britain or Great Britain. Let"s see what each of these names means. If you look at a map of Europe, you"ll see a group of islands—one larger island off the northwest coast, one smaller and many tiny ones. These make up what is called the British Isles. The largest island of the British Isles is Britain. It is also called Great Britain. The smaller island is Ireland. Britain is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England. But sometimes the word "England" is used instead of "Britain". Why so? In ancient times, what is Britain now used to be three different countries. People in these different countries spoke different languages. Over many years the three countries became one. England is the largest and richest of the three and it has the most people. So the English people take it for granted that their own name stands for the whole island. There"s another thing that confuses people: sometimes you may hear people say "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" That is the official name of the country. Northern Ireland is only one sixth of the island or Ireland. The rest of the island is an independent state, called the Republic of Ireland. So we have the names of "England", "Britain", "Great Britain", and "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Now do you know what each of them means?