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单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Live With a Goal by commenting on the saying 'The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.' You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

单选题Scientists have been struggling to find out the reason behind blushing （脸红）。Why would humans evolve（进化） a 21__________ that puts us at a social disadvantage by 22__________ us to reveal that we have c

单选题There are signs ______ restaurants are becoming more popular with families.

单选题If only I ______ how to operate a computer as you do.

单选题The owner wouldn't ______ to our making any structural change in the flat.

单选题Nowhere ______ so many people planting trees.

单选题Crying is hardly an activity encouraged by society. Tears, be they of sorrow, anger, or joy, typically make Americans feel uncomfortable and 26 . The shedder of tears is likely to apologize, even when a devastating (毁灭性的) tragedy was the provocation. The observer of tears is likely to do everything possible to put an end to the 27 outpouring. But judging from recent studies of crying behavior, links between illness and crying and the chemical composition of tears, both those responses to tears are often 28 and may even be counterproductive (使达不到预期目标的). Humans are the only animals 29 known to shed emotional tears. Since evolution has given 30 to few, if any, purposeless physiological responses, it is logical to assume that crying has one or more functions that 31 survival. Although some observers have suggested that crying is a way to elicit assistance from others (as a crying baby might from its mother), the shedding of tears is hardly necessary to get help. Vocal cries would have been quite enough, more likely than tears to gain 32 . So, it appears, there must be something special about tears themselves. Indeed, the new studies suggest that emotional tears may play a direct role in alleviating stress. University of Minnesota researchers who are studying the chemical composition of tears have recently 33 two important chemicals from emotional tears. Both chemicals are found only in tears that are shed in response to emotion. Tears shed because of exposure to cut onion would contain no such 34 . Researchers at several other institutions are investigating the usefulness of tears as a means of 35 human ills and monitoring drugs. A. attention B. overwhelming C. inappropriate D. embarrassed E. diagnosing F. indispensable G. rise H. isolated I. definitely J. enhance K. aspiration L. emotional M. repelled N. substance O. increasingly

单选题The team members were upset when they heard that the project ______ have to be abandoned.

单选题Considering the main point of the reading, chose the best title from one of the following:

单选题He wants to become ______ a doctor or a teacher.

单选题 When Picasso was particularly poor, he might have tried to obliterated the original composition by painting over it on canvases.

单选题The manager tried to wave aside these issues as ______ details that would be settled later. A. alternate B. trivial C. versatile D. preliminary

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单选题To be frank, I really prefer the former program to the( ).

单选题______ this coming Thursday, it will be too late to enroll of the course.

单选题We ( ) for her because she never came.

单选题William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym of O. Henry, was born in North Carolina. His only formal education was to attend his Aunt Lina"s school until the age of fifteen, where he developed his lifelong love of books. By 1881 he was a licensed pharmacist. However, within a year, on the recommendation of a medical colleague of his Father"s, Porter moved to La Salle County in Texas for two years herding sheep. During this time, Webster"s Unabridged Dictionary was his constant companion, and Porter gained knowledge of ranch life that he later incorporated into many of his short stories. He then moved to Austin for three years, and during this time the first recorded use of his pseudonym appeared, allegedly derived from his habit of calling "Oh, Henry" to a family cat. In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a draftsman, then as a bank teller for the First National Bank. In 1894 Porter founded his own humor weekly, the "Rolling Stone", a venture that failed within a year, and later wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post. In the meantime, the First National Bank was examined, and the subsequent indictment of 1886 stated that Porter had embezzled funds. Porter then fled to New Orleans, and later to Honduras, leaving his wife and child in Austin. He returned in 1897 because of his wife"s continued ill-health, however, she died six months later. Then, in 1898 Porter was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment in Ohio. At the age of thirty five, he entered prison as a defeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife, and finally his freedom. He emerged from prison three years later, reborn as O. Henry, the pseudonym he now used to hide his true identity. He wrote at least twelve stories in jail, and after re-gaining his freedom, went to New York City, where he published more than 300 stories and gained fame as America"s favorite short story writer. Porter married again in 1907, but after months of poor health, he died in New York City at the age of forty-eight in 1910. O. Henry"s stories have been translated all over the world.