单选题Will you please______ it again? I don't quite catch it.

单选题Contrary to the impression that grandmothers are delighted to help their grown daughters and care for their grandchildren, a study of multigenerational families indicates that many older women resent the frequent impositions of the younger generations on their home and energy. "Young women with children are under a lot of pressure these days, and they expect their mothers to help them pick up the pieces," noted Dr. Bertram J. Cohler, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago. "This is often the strongest source of resentment on the part of Grandmother, who has finished with child caring and now has her own life to live. Grandmothers like to see their children and grandchildren, but on their own time." In all the four New England families studied, the older women resented the numerous phone calls and visits from their grown daughter, who often turned to their mothers for advice, physical resources, affection, and companionship as well as baby sitting services. "American society keeps piling on the burdens for older people, particularly those in their 50s and 60s," Dr. Cohler said in an interview here. "They're still working and they're taking care of their grown children and maybe also their aged parents. Sometimes life gets to be too much. That's one reason many older folks move far away, to Florida or Arizona. They need more space and time to attend to their own affair and friends. Young people don't understand this, and that's part of what create tension between generations." He has found that, contrary to what the younger generations may have thought, older people have an enormous amount to do. "More than half of working-class grandmothers still work, and if they' re retired they have activities in the community that keep them occupied," he said. "Each generation has got to appreciate the unique needs of the other," Dr. Cohler went on. "The younger generation has to realize that grandparents have busy, active lives and that they need privacy and more space for themselves. And the older generation has to realize that continuing to be part of the family is important to the younger generation and that they need help and support." He noted that problems with interdependence between generations were likely to be more intense in working-class families than in middle and upper-class families. He explained that the working class tended to be geographically less mobile and to have fewer outside resources and that daughters were more likely to be reared with a strong family orientation and less emphasis on establishing an independent life.

单选题The world"s greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games, upholds the amateur ideal that ______ matters is not winning but participating.

单选题You ______ this book. You can borrow it from the library.

单选题I was deeply impressed by the hostess' ______ and enjoyed the dinner party very much. [A] hostility [B] indignation [C] hospitality [D] humanity

单选题A new school was ______ in the village last year.

单选题During the rainy season the Mississippi River may carry away hundreds of acres of valuable top soil from one area and arbitrarily deposit it in another.

单选题Customer: Excuse me, sir.Clerk: ______.Customer: I'd like to cash a check. Would you please tell me which window should I go to?Clerk: You can cash checks over there at window 6.

单选题 --The story is too hard to understand. --Yes， _________it´s short and there aren´t many new words in it.

单选题How strange it is that the habit he developed in his childhood still______ him.

单选题Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteanessay.YoushouldstartyouressaywithabriefdescriptionofthepictureandthenexpressyourviewsontheChineseculture.Youshouldwriteatleast120wordsbutnomorethan180words.WriteyouressayonAnswerSheet1.外国人过春节

单选题The young man still denies ______ the fire behind the store.

单选题Ask an American schoolchild what he or she is learning in school these days and you might even get a reply, provided you ask it in Spanish. But don't bother, here's the answer: Americans nowadays are not learning any of the things that we learned in our day, like reading and writing. Apparently these are considered fusty old subjects, invented by white males to oppress women and minorities. What are they learning? In a Vermont college town I found the answer sitting in a toy store book rack, next to typical kids' books like "Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy is 'Dysfunctional'". It's a teacher's guide called "Happy To Be Me", subtitled "Building Soft-Esteem". Serf-esteem as it turns out, is a big subject in American classrooms. Many American schools see building it as important as teaching reading and writing. They call it "whole language" teaching, borrowing terminology from the granola people to compete in the education marketplace. No one ever spent a moment building my self-esteem when I was in school. In fact, from the day I first stepped inside a classroom my self-esteem was one big demolition site. All that mattered was "the subject", be it geography, history, or mathematics. I was praised when I remembered that "near", "fit", "friendly", "pleasing", "like" and their opposites took the dative case in Latin. I was reviled when I forgot what a cosine was good for. Generally, I lived my school years beneath a torrent of castigation so consistent I eventually ceased to hear it, as people who live near the sea eventually stop hearing the waves. Schools have changed. Reviling is out, for one thing. More important, subjects have changed. Whereas I learned English, modem kids learn something called "language skills". Whereas I learned writing, modem kids learn something called "communication". Communication, the book tells us, is seven per cent words, twenty three per cent facial expression, twenty per cent tone of voice, and fifty per cent body language. So this column, with its carefully chosen words, would earn at most a grade of seven per cent. That is, if the school even gave out something as oppressive and demanding as grades. The result is that, in place of English classes, American children are getting a course in "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Consider the new attitude toward journal writing: I remember one high school English class when we were required to keep a journal. The idea was to emulate those great writers who confided in dimes, searching their soul and honing their critical thinking on paper. "Happy To Be Me" states that journals are a great way for students to get in touch with their feelings. Tell students they can write one sentence or a whole page. Reassure them that no one, not even you, will read what they write. After the unit, hopefully all students will be feeling good about themselves and will want to share some of their entries with the class. There was a time when no self-respecting book for English teachers would use "great" or "hopefully" that way. Moreover, back then the purpose of English courses (an antique term for "Unit") was not to help students "feel good about themselves". Which is good, because all that reviling didn't make me feel particularly good about anything.

单选题The old lady was ______ to the young man who helped her find her lost grandson.

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter of congratulation. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words following the outline given below. 假设你是刘敏，你的朋友伊丽莎白因工作能力和学习能力突出获得了去华盛顿大学进修MBA的机会，请写一封信祝贺她。 1．祝贺朋友获得海外进修的机会 2．分析获此机会给朋友带来的影响 3．表达良好的祝愿

单选题 长江 长江(the Yangtze River)是世界第三长河，中国第一长河，全长6380公里。它发源于青海省，一路无数河流汇入，向东注入东海(the East China Sea)。作为中国古文化的发祥地，长江在历史、文化和经济上都对中国的发展有着极其重要的作用。长江是中国重要的运输线，被称为“黄金水道”(the Golden Waterway)，它将内陆和沿海的港口以及其他主要城市连接在一起。长江沿岸的自然风景非常秀丽，有众多的旅游景观。辽阔的长江流域(the Yangtze Basin)，拥有丰富的自然资源，自古以来就是中国最重要的农业生产基地。

单选题Telecommuting—substituting the computer for the trip to the job—has been ______ a solution to all kinds of problems related to office work.

单选题 Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?