单选题The Watergate incident is mentioned to show ______.

单选题 Can you imagine how different your life would be if you did not know how to read and write? Many of the things you{{U}} (41) {{/U}}for granted during an ordinary day{{U}} (42) {{/U}}no longer be possible if you could not read. You would miss the basic{{U}} (43) {{/U}}you depend on for simple activities --{{U}} (44) {{/U}}from following instructions on a medicine bottle to{{U}} (45) {{/U}}traffic signs. If you could not read{{U}} (46) {{/U}}, newspapers, and magazines, you would be out of{{U}} (47) {{/U}}with the world around you. Your understanding of that world would be limited even further{{U}} (48) {{/U}}the insight(见识) provided by stories, poems, and novels. If you{{U}} (49) {{/U}}not write, you would be unable to record information and ideas for other people.{{U}} (50) {{/U}}, you would lose the personal pleasure of keeping a{{U}} (51) {{/U}}to explore your private thoughts, creating an{{U}} (52) {{/U}}world in a story, or capturing your feelings{{U}} (53) {{/U}}the words of a poem or song. Try to imagine how different life would be if{{U}} (54) {{/U}}could read and write. The shape of our entire{{U}} (55) {{/U}}would change. Obviously the printing and{{U}} (56) {{/U}}industry would not exist. The absence of reading and writing would{{U}} (57) {{/U}}a surprising number of other organizations,{{U}} (58) {{/U}}the automotive industry, the business machines and computer industries, and electronic communication companies. The reason,{{U}} (59) {{/U}}, is that the printing and publishing industry is a very important part of every one of these organizations. Modem life depends on communication,{{U}} (60) {{/U}}written communication.

单选题It was absurd that women ______ be paid less than men for doing the same work.

单选题When a country is under-populated, newcomers are not competitors, but assistants. If more come they may produce not only new quotas, but a 1 as well. In such a state of things land is 2 and cheap. The possession of it 3 no power or privilege. No one will work for another for wages 4 he can take up new land and be his own master. Hence it will pay no one to own more land than he can 5 by his own labor, or with such aid as his own family 6 . Hence, again, land 7 little or no rent; there will be no landlords living on rent and no laborers living on 8 , but only a middle class of yeoman farmers (自耕农). All are 9 on an equality, and democracy becomes the political form, because this is the only state of society in which equality, on which democracy is 10 , is realized as a fact. The same effects are powerfully 11 by other facts. In a new and under-populated country the industries which are most profitable are the extractive industries. The 12 of these, with the exception of some kinds of mining, is that they call 13 only a low organization of labor and small amount of capital. Hence they allow the workman to become 14 his own master, and they educate him to freedom, independence, and self 15 . At the same time, the social groups being only 16 marked off from each other, it is easy to 17 from one class of occupations, and consequently from one social grade, to another. Finally, under the same circumstances, education, skill, and superior training have but inferior value compared with what they have in 18 populated countries. The 19 lie in an under-populated country, with the 20 , unskilled, manual occupations, and not with the highest developments of science, literature, and art.

单选题I strongly believe that understanding is more important than love, especially when it comes to parenting and intimate relationships. As a psychologist for more than twenty years I can tell you that I have never had an adult looking back at her childhood and complaining that her parents were too understanding. And similarly, I have met many divorced people who still love each other but yet they never really understood each other. The painful reality is love is just not enough. I"ll admit that there are people who I love and who I still need to better understand. I hope I"ll continue my work to understand them. The willingness to understand is very important. It is not always easy, but healthy love is strengthened by the willingness to understand. Love without understanding will wilt like flowers without water. Our egos are what seem to get in the way of understanding those who we love and care about. Often it is our need to be right that makes what others think and feel so wrong for us. I have certainly been quite guilty of this in some of my relationships. As I have written repeatedly in my books, empathy, is truly the emotional glue that holds all close relationships together. Empathy allows us to slow down and try to walk in the shoes of those we love. The deeper our empathy, the deeper—and healthier—our love. Not all relationships are meant to be. Yet all relationships that are meant to flourish in a healthy way, must stress understanding just as much, if not more, than love.

单选题“Doyouthinkhewillmakeagoodpresident?”“Heisjust______Bill.”

单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}}{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Reading the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. {{B}}Text 1{{/B}} The title of the biography The American Civil War Fighting for the Lady could hardly be more provocative. Thomas Keneally, an Australian writer, is unapologetic. In labeling a hero of the American civil war a notorious scoundrel be switches the spotlight from the brave actions of Dan Sickles at the battle of Gettysburg to his earlier premeditated murder, of the lover of his young and pretty Italian-American wife, Teresa. It is not the murder itself that disgusts Mr Keneally but Sickles's treatment of his wife afterwards, and how his behavior mirrored the hypocritical misogyny of 19th-century America. The murder victim, Philip Barton Key, Teresa Sickles's lover, came from a famous old southern family. He was the nephew of the then chief justice of the American Supreme Court and the son of the writer of the country's national anthem. Sickles, a Tammany Hall politician in New York turned Democratic congressman in Washington, shot Key dead in 1859 at a corner of Lafayette Square, within shouting distance of the White House. But the murder trial was melodramatic, even by the standards of the day. With the help of eight lawyers, Sickles was found not guilty after using the novel plea of "temporary insanity". The country at large was just as forgiving, viewing Key's murder as a gallant crime of passion. Within three years, Sickles was a general on the Unionist side in the American civil War and, as a new friend of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, a frequent sleepover guest at the White House. Mrs Sickles was less fortunate. She was shunned by friends she had made as the wife of a rising politician. Her husband, a serial adulterer whose many mistresses included Queen Isabella Ⅱ of Spain and the madam of an industrialized New York whorehouse, refused to be seen in her company. Laura, the Sickles's daughter, was an innocent victim of her father's vindictiveness and eventually died of drink in the Bowery district of New York. Sickles's bold actions at Gettysburg are, in their own way, just as controversial. Argument continues to rage among scholars, as to whether he helped the Union to victory or nearly caused its defeat when he moved his forces out of line to occupy what he thought was better ground. James Longstreet, the Confederate general who led the attack against the new position, was in no doubt about the brilliance of the move. Mr Keneally is better known as a novelist. Here he shows himself just as adept at biography, and achieves both his main aims. He restores the reputation of Teresa Sickles, "this beautiful, pleasant and intelligent girl", and breathes full and controversial life into a famous military engagement.

单选题Our country has ______ diplomatic relation with many countries in the world.

单选题The party, ______ sets up a breach of the Contract, shall be under a duty to take all necessary measures to mitigate the loss ______ has occurred. A．which, who B．who, which C．who, who D．which, which

单选题He was ______ only by his wish to help me, and expected nothing in return.

单选题His father has been working hard for many years to support him at university so he did not want to ______.

单选题What do you think this article is about? A. Learning a second language. B. Immigrants who become sick in the U. S.. C. Schools attended by immigrants to the U. S.. D. Language and its effect on the identity of immigrants.

单选题The widest benefits of the electronic revolution will accrue______the young.

单选题Single mums are better at raising their kids than two parents—at least in the bird world. Mother zebra finches have to work harder and raise fewer chicks on their own, but they also produce more attractive sons who are more likely to get a mate. The finding shows that family conflict is as important an evolutionary driving force as ecological factors such as hunting and food supply. With two parents around, there's always a conflict of interests, which can have a detrimental effect on the quality of the offspring. In evolutionary terms, the best strategy for any parent in the animal world is to find someone else to care for their offspring, so they can concentrate on breeding again. So it's normal for parents to try to pass the buck to each other. But Ian Hartley from the University of Lancaster and his team wondered how families solve this conflict, and how the conflict itself affects the offspring. To find out, they measured how much effort zebra finch parents put into raising their babies. They compared single females with pairs, by monitoring the amount of food each parent collected, and removing or adding chicks so that each pair of birds was raising four chicks, and each single mum had two—supposedly the same amount of work. But single mums, they found, put in about 25 per cent more effort than females rearing with their mate. To avoid being exploited, mothers with a partner hold back from working too hard if the rather is being lazy, and it's the chicks that pay the price. "The offspring suffer some of the cost of this conflict," says Hartley. The cost does not show in any obvious decrease in size or weight, but in how attractive they arc to the opposite sex. When the chicks were mature, the researchers tested the "fitness" of the male offspring by offering females their choice of partner. Those males reared by single mums were chosen more often than those from two-parent families. Sexual conflict has long been thought to affect the quality of care given to offspring, says zoologist Rebecca Kilner at Cambridge University, who works on conflict of parents in birds. "But the experimental evidence is not great. The breakthrough here is showing it empirically." More surprising, says Kilner, is Hartley's statement that conflict may be a strong influence on the evolution of behaviour, clutch size and even appearance. "People have not really made that link," says Hartley. A female's reproductive strategy is usually thought to be affected by hunting and food supply. Kilner says conflict of parents should now be taken into account as well.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. Most plants can make their own food from sunlight,{{U}} (1) {{/U}}some have discovered that stealing is an easier way to live, Thousands of plant species get by{{U}} (2) {{/U}}photosynthesizing, and over 400 of these species seem to live by pilfering sugars from an underground{{U}} (3) {{/U}}of fungi(真菌). But in{{U}} (4) {{/U}}a handful of these plants has this modus operandi been traced to a relatively obscure fungus. To find out how{{U}} (5) {{/U}}are{{U}} (6) {{/U}}, mycologist Martin Bidartondo of the University of California at Berkeley and his team looked in their roots. What they found were{{U}} (7) {{/U}}of a common type of fungus, so{{U}} (8) {{/U}}that it is found in nearly 70 percent of all plants. The presence of this common fungus in these plants not only{{U}} (9) {{/U}}at how they survive, says Bidartondo, but also suggests that many ordinary plants might prosper from a little looting, too. Plants have{{U}} (10) {{/U}}relations to get what they need to survive. Normal,{{U}} (11) {{/U}}plants can make their own carbohydrates through photosynthesis, but they still need minerals. Most plants have{{U}} (12) {{/U}}a symbiotic relationship with a{{U}} (13) {{/U}}network of what are called mycorrhizal fungi, which lies beneath the forest{{U}} (14) {{/U}}. The fungi help green plants absorb minerals through their roots, and{{U}} (15) {{/U}}, the plants normally{{U}} (16) {{/U}}the fungi with sugars, or carbon. With a number of plants sharing the same fungal web, it was perhaps{{U}} (17) {{/U}}that a few cheaters—dubbed epiparasites—would evolve to beat the system.{{U}} (18) {{/U}}, these plants reversed the flow of carbon,{{U}} (19) {{/U}}it into their roots from the fungi{{U}} (20) {{/U}}releasing it as "payment."

单选题With the development of sophisticate instruments, earthquake will become predictable.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} A hundred years ago, the game we now call football did not exist. American football started during a game between two colleges. The teams had got together to play what they called "football", but each team played by different roles. One team played what we now call soccer. The other played what we now call rugby (橄榄球) . Both games had been invented a thousand years before. In the first kind of football game ever played, all the men from one village tried to kick a ball into another village. The men of the second village tried to kick the ball into the first. Hundreds of people joined in, running everywhere, running crops and knocking down fences. In time, people agreed on some rules to keep order, but many rules were left open to change. Different rules developed in different places. When the two colleges met to play football, each followed its own rules. They mixed the games together and invented a new game. A hundred years later we call that game American football. In what ways do you suppose the game we know now will have changed in another hundred years?