单选题His understanding made a deep ______ on the young girl.

单选题 That summer an army of crickets started a war with my father. They picked a fight the minute they invaded our cellar. Dad didn't care for bugs much more than Mamma, and he could tolerate a few spiders and assorted creepy crawlers living in the basement Every farm house had them. A part of rustic living and something you needed to put up with ff you wanted the simple life. He told Mamma: now that were living out here, you can't be jerking your head and swallowing your gum over what's plain natural, Ellen. But she was a city girl through and through and had no ears when it came to defending vermin. She said a cricket was just a noisy cockroach, just a dumb horny bug that wouldn't shut up. She said in the city there were blocks of buildings overrun with cockroaches with no way for people to get rid of them. No sir, no way could she sleep with all that chirping going on; then to prove her point she wouldn't go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father's cigarettes and she paced between the couch and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the hardware store and hurried back. He squirted poison from a jug with a spray nozzle. He sprayed the basement and all around the foundation of the house. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it. But what he should have said was: this is the beginning, the beginning of our war, the beginning of our destruction. I often think back to that summer and try to imagine him delivering a speech with words like that, because for the next fourteen days Mamma kept find dead crickets in the clean laundry. She'd shake out a towel or a sheet and a dead black cricket would roll across the linoleum. Sometimes the cat would corner one, and swat it around like he was playing hockey, then carry it away in his mouth. Dad said swallowing a few dead crickets wouldn't hurt as long as the cat didn't eat too many. Each time Mamma complained he told her it was only natural that we'd be fending a couple of dead ones for a while. Soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma freaked because she thought they were the dead crickets come back to haunt, but Dad said these was definitely a new batch, probably coming up on the pipes. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed beneath the sink and behind the toilet and all along the baseboard until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the cellar again, and then he went outside and sprayed all around the foundation leaving a foot-wide moat of poison. For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. Dad told us to keep a sharp look out. He suggested that we'd all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn't like because he scratched and bit for no reason. I hoped the poison might kill him too so we could get a puppy. A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, he emptied the cellar of junk. Then he burned a lot of bundled newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests. He stood over that fire with a rake in one hand and a garden hose in the other. He wouldn't leave it even when Mamma sent me out to fetch him for supper. He wouldn't leave the fire, and she wouldn't put supper on the table. Both my brothers were crying. Finally she went out and got him herself. And while we ate, the wind lifted some embers onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mowers fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn't much anyone could do.

单选题Fingerprints from an unchangeable ____ despite changes in the individual’s appearance or age.

单选题—I wonder why Mary is so unfriendly to us. —She is ______ than unfriendly. I'm afraid. A. shyer B. much shyer C. shy more D. more shy

单选题______ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world experience.(西安交大2008研)

单选题A. partnerB. farmerC. warmD. harm

单选题For semi-professional artists, performing before the public is a good chance ____. A．to improve themselves in their career B．to help train amateur performers C．to make friends with superstars D．to get involved in profitable business

单选题Man: We've got three women researchers in our group: Mary, Betty and Helen. Do you know them? Woman: Sure. Mary is active and sociable. Betty is the most talkative woman I've ever met. But guess what? Helen's just the opposite. Question: What do we learn from the woman's remark about Helen?

单选题Variables such as individual and corporate behavior______nearly impossible for economists to forecast economic trends with precision.

单选题Why would any woman in her fight mind choose to walk on the balls of her feet with her heels propped up by spikes? The historical answer is that high heels reflect aristocratic tastes-specifically, the tastes of the seventeenth-century French court, which first popularized them in Europe. Not only did heels keep the wearer's feet relatively mud free, they also created a physical elevation to match the social elevation of the stylish, exaggerated the strutting gait of the noble classes, and they suggested, by their very precariousness, that their owners could afford not to worry about falling on their faces. Indeed, as Bernard Rudofsky points out, seventeenth-century wearers of high heels, men and women, frequently had to be transported in sedan chairs because they could not manage cobblestones on foot. Some "heels" in that era were actually full-soled platforms, and to walk on these things at all, one needed the constant elbow support of two Servants. The helplessness associated with the raised-heel style encouraged the notion that heeled persons were above having to care for themselves. In view of this, it is not surprising that even today it is women, almost exclusively, who wear heels. High heels are the cobbler's contribution to what I have called the pedestal ploy. They link physical incapacity with the notion of woman as a "higher being"--too high to get along on her own. Women have taken to high heels, of course, because they feel, correctly, that they increase their attractiveness to men. Part of that increased attractiveness has to do with male fantasies of female fragility. As fashion-iconoclast Elizabeth Hawes puts it, "The idea is that he, in his heavy shoes, should feel stronger and more capable than she on her fragile stilts. Never mind the realities." Another part of it may be biological. In his discussion of rump display among mammals, Dale Guthrie notes that the "lines of the buttocks, thigh, calf and ankle have a native sexual stimulation, but this can be increased with high-heeled shoes; the curves are exaggerated when the heel is lifted." Heels also exaggerate the lateral motion of buttocks the. ultimate function of high heels, therefore, may be to fuel the male belief that women are both impotent and seductive.

单选题{{B}}Passage 3{{/B}} The air is polluted. The earth is poisoned. Water is unsafe to drink and garbage is burying the civilization that produced it. Our environment is being polluted faster than nature man's efforts can prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry. More people and more industry will bring us more motor-cars, larger cities, and the growing use of man made materials. This is happening not only in the advanced societies but among the developing nations as they become industrialized. Now many scientists are worrying about the possibility of world pollution. Some experts declare that the balance of nature is being so upset that the very survival of human beings is in danger. {{U}}What can solve this problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by man—by his greed and his modern way of life. {{/U}}We make "increasing industrialization" our chief aim. For its sake we are willing to sacrifice everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is constant flow of people from the countryside into cities, eager for the benefits of modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, so has pollution become a serious problem. Isn't it time that we stopped to ask where we are going and why? It reminds us of the story about the airline pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker: "I've some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we're making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we*re lost and don't know where we are going." The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when applied to our modern society.

单选题 Lobbying groups often try to disguise a financial self-interest by clumsily dressing up their arguments in the guise of concern for the public. You see this tendency in the pharmaceutical industry{{U}} (21) {{/U}}in energy and lumber companies who like to tout their{{U}} (22) {{/U}}of the environment. But{{U}} (23) {{/U}}, two new books argue, are these tactics more{{U}} (24) {{/U}}a cause for concern than in agribusiness. Marion Nestle's "Food Safety: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bio-terrorism' looks at the way the American meat and biotechnology industries have{{U}} (25) {{/U}}successfully on Capitol Hill{{U}} (26) {{/U}}stricter federal regulation, which the author argues has undermined the safety of the food supply.(27) , Maxime Schwartz's "How the Cows Turned Mad"{{U}} (28) {{/U}}the origins of mad-cow disease over more than two centuries, and reveals the fallout from the British government's blind{{U}} (29) {{/U}}that the disease could not be{{U}} (30) {{/U}}to humans. In 1999, Ms Nestle writes in her earlier book, Rosemary Mueklow, the executive director of the National Meat Association, lobbied against President Clinton's{{U}} (31) {{/U}}to establish a more thorough testing regime for E. coli 0157: H7, a potentially{{U}} (32) {{/U}}pathogen. Ms Muck low’s organization—which represents meatpackers and processors who{{U}} (33) {{/U}}to discard or reprocess meat found to be infected under the new testing regime—argued on Capitol Hill that{{U}} (34) {{/U}}microbial testing in meat could actually lead to a greater public health risk{{U}} (35) {{/U}}confident consumers might relax their own safe-handling procedures at home.

单选题{{B}}Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} I doubt that any historically valid treatment of that presidential administration can emerge for at least another decade, if then. I confess that when I came out of the White House I signed up to do an "insider volume", but sober, professional second thoughts have led me to put that project on ice until at least 1980. The problem is that I simultaneously know too much, and not enough. I know what I thought was happening. But I cannot fully document what happened. And I have seen enough highly classified documents to know that most of what the observers thought was happening was at best half right, at worst dead wrong. This has steered me in a different direction as far as writing is concerned. I am now preparing what is frankly and unashamedly an ex parte memoir, "My Experiences in Washington." It is based on what I believed to be true, on the picture as I conceptualized it, of the presidential administration under which I worked.

单选题I don't doubt______ she will learn a lot during her stay in China.

单选题The whole passage carries a tone of ___________.

单选题The temperatures are somewhat lower than the average temperature in May this year. A. rather B, very C. a little D. less