单选题______no air or water, there would be no life in the world.

单选题Jack speaks to me ______ he were my teacher.

单选题______ after his death that he was recognized as a great composer.

单选题Despite all the heated ______ they had, they remained the best of friends throughout their lives.

单选题The ______ of the occasion was spoiled when she fell down the steps.

单选题 SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are four passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each mutiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE (1) No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers? Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well? At Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the latest manifestation of the soul-searching that has involved the company ever since the company was born in 1990. It's a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line. (2) At the core of this debate is chairman Gerald Levin, 56, who took over for the late Steve Ross in I992. On the financial front, Levin is under pressure to raise the stock price and reduce the company's mountainous debt, which will increase to $17. g billion after two new cable deals close. He has promised to sell off some of the property and restructure the company, but investors are waiting impatiently. (3) The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him. Levin has consistently defended the company's rap music on the grounds of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice-T's violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be. We won't retreat in the face of any threats. (4) Levin would not comment on the debate last week, but there were signs that the chairman was backing off his hardline stand, at least to some extent. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders' meeting. Levin asserted that music is not the cause of society's ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students. But he talked as well about the balanced struggle between creative freedom and social responsibility, and he announced that the company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling of potentially objectionable music. The 15-member Time Warner board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy. But insiders say several of them have shown their concerns in this matter. Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedom under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited, says Luce. I think it is perhaps the case that some people associated with the company have only recently come to realize. PASSAGE TWO (1) In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format. But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows. (2) Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of 'trash talk'. The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society's moral catastrophes, yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments (困境) of other people's lives. (3) Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual's quality of life. Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors. (4) Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends every show with a 'final word'. He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable. (5) Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show's main target audiences are middle-class Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life's tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society. These are 18-to 21-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love, relationship, sex, money and peers. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show's exploitation. (6) While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans. Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world. PASSAGE THREE (1) An expert suggested that certain criminals should be sent to prison in their own home. When the scheme was first put forward publicly, many people opposed it or hand serious reservations about it. One very experienced social worker opposed the scheme in a television interview. When asked to explain the basis for his opposition, he thought for a moment and finally confessed, 'Well, I guess, because it's new. That's my only reason.' (2) Advocates of the scheme pointed out that courts frequently sentenced first offenders to community service of some kind rather than send them to prison. The stigma of having a criminal record was an adequate deterrent, and nothing positive was achieved by sending some types of convicted people to prison. (3) Some critics rushed to take extreme cases. 'If a murderer is allowed free in the community like this, what is to prevent him from killing somebody else?' This argument ignored the fact that nobody proposed to allow convicted murderers to use the bracelet system. One criticism put forward was that an offender could take off his bracelet and leave it at home or give it to a friend to wear while he himself went off to commit another crime. The reply to this was that the bracelet would be made so that the computer would immediately detect any attempts to take it off or tamper with it. (4) A more serious objection to the scheme was that the harsh life of prison was intended to be part of the deterrent to crime. A prisoner who was allowed to live at home would suffer no particular discomfort and thus not be deterred from repeating his crime. (5) No immediate action was taken on the proposal. It was far too revolutionary and needed to be examined very carefully. However, the idea was not rejected. Several governments appointed experts to investigate the scheme and made recommendations for or against it. PASSAGE FOUR (1) The process of perceiving others is rarely translated (to ourselves or others) into cold, objective terms. 'She was 5 feet 8 inches tall, had fair hair, and wore a colored skirt.' More often, we try to get inside the other person to pinpoint his or her attitudes, emotions, motivations, abilities, ideas, and characters. Furthermore, we sometimes behave as if we can accomplish this difficult job very quickly—perhaps with a two-second glance. (2) We try to obtain information about others in many ways. Berger suggests several methods for reducing uncertainties about others; who are known to you so you can compare the observed person's behavior with the known others' behavior, observing a person in a situation where social behavior is relatively unrestrained or where a wide variety of behavioral responses are called for, deliberately structuring the physical or social environment so as to observe the person's responses to specific stimuli, asking people who have had or have frequent contact with the person about him or her, and using various strategies in face-to-face interaction to uncover information about another person—question, self-disclosures, and so on. (3) Getting to know someone is a never-ending task, largely because people are constantly changing and the methods we use to obtain information are often imprecise. You may have known someone for ten years and still know very little about him. ff we accept the idea that we won't ever fully know another person, it enables us to deal more easily with those things that get in the way of accurate knowledge such as secrets and deceptions. It will also keep us from being too surprised or shocked by seemingly inconsistent behavior. Ironically, those things that keep us from knowing another person too well (e.g. secrets and deceptions) may be just as important to the development of a satisfying relationship as those things that enable us to obtain accurate knowledge about a person (e. g. disclosures and truthful statement).

单选题China has greatly _____ its influence in world affairs.

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

单选题A: If you like, I can help you paint the room tomorrow. B: ______

单选题Which of the following statements is true?

单选题According to the passage, customers are attracted to a product because it appears to ______.

单选题In large part as a consequence of the feminist movement, historians have focused a great deal of attention in recent years on determining more accurately the status of women in various periods. Although much has been accomplished for the modern period, premodern cultures have proved more difficult: sources are restricted in number, fragmentary, difficult to interpret, and often contradictory. Thus it is not particularly surprising that some earlier scholarship concerning such cultures has so far gone unchallenged. An example is Johanna Bachofen's 1861 treatise on Amazons, women-ruled societies of questionable existence contemporary with ancient Greece., Starting from the premise that mythology and legend preserve at least a nucleus of historical fact, Bachofen argued that women were dominant in many ancient societies. His work was based on a comprehensive survey of references in the ancient sources to Amazonian and other societies with matrilineal customs-societies in which descent and property rights are traced through the female line. Some support for his theory can be found in evidence such as that drawn from Herodotus, the Greek "historian" of the fifth century B.C., who speaks of an Amazonian society, the Sauromatae, where the women hunted and fought in wars. A woman in this society was not allowed to marry until she had killed a person in battle. Nonetheless, this assumption that the first recorders of ancient myths have preserved facts is problematic. If one begins by examining why ancients refer to Amazons, it becomes clear that ancient Greek descriptions of such societies were meant not so much to represent observed historical fact--real Amazonian societies--but rather to offer "moral lessons" on the supposed outcome of women’ rule in their own society. The Amazons were often characterized, for example, as the equivalents of giants and centaurs, enemies to be slain by Greek heroes. Their customs were presented not as those of a respectable society, but as the very antitheses of ordinary Greek practices. Thus, I would argue, the purpose of accounts of the Amazons for their male Greek recorders was didactic to teach both male and female Greeks that all-female groups, formed by withdrawal from traditional society, are destructive and dangerous. Myths about the Amazons were used as arguments for the male-dominated status quoin, in which groups composed exclusively of other sex were not permitted to segregate themselves permanently from society. Bachofen was thus misled in this reliance on myths for information about the status of women. The sources that will probably tell contemporary historians most about women in the ancient world are such social documents as gravestones, wills, and marriage contracts. Studies of such documents have already begun to show how mistaken we are when we try to derive our picture of the ancient world exclusively from literary sources, especially myths.

单选题When are you allowed to take a make-up test?

单选题Rapid reading means reading something fast just to ______ the general idea.

单选题We shall send you commercial invoice, bills of lading and insurance certificates so that you can ______ the goods on a D/P basis. A. consume B. complain C. concern D. claim

单选题 Large lecture classes are frequently regarded as a necessary evil. Such classes {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}be offered in many colleges and universities to meet high student {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}with limited faculty resource,{{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}teaching a large lecture class can be a {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}task. Lecture halls are {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}large, barren, and forbidding. It is difficult to get to know students. Students may seem bored in the {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}environment and may {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}} read newspapers or even leave class in the middle of a lecture. Written work by the students seems out of the {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Although the challenges of teaching a large lecture class are {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}, they are not insurmountable. The solution is to develop {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}methods of classroom instruction that can reduce, if not {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}, many of the difficulties {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}in the mass class. In fact, we have {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}at Kent State University teaching techniques which help make a large lecture class more like a small {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}. An {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}but important benefit of teaching the course {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}this manner has involved the activities of the teaching assistants who help us mark students' written work. The faculty instructor originally decided to ask the teaching assistants for help {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}this was the only practical way to {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}that all the papers could be evaluated. Now those {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}report enjoying their new status as "junior professors", gaining a very different {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}on college education by being on the other side of the desk, learning a great deal about the subject matter, and improving their own writing as a direct result of grading other students' papers.

单选题A considerable amount of time and money has been invested in ______ this system. A) defining B) implying C) reducing D) perfecting

单选题We ______ you for the special offer you send us. A．thank B．appreciate C．be grateful D．be indebted

单选题The car crashed into the train, and the driver was killed ______ the spot. A. on B. at C. to D. by

单选题A diet of ______ food is served to every hospital patient.