单选题The doctor wanted the garage ______.

单选题Formal learning is separated from daily life and may actually promote ways of learning and thinking which often run ______ to those obtained from practical daily life. A. parallel B. contradictory C. opposite D. counter

单选题pejoratively

单选题What is one suggestion to help save the condors?

单选题{{B}}Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by four questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C and D. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.{{/B}}{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} It was a very happy family. They were fairly well-off. The father, Leopold, was a master of music in Austria. His mother was warm-hearted. There were two children, Marianne, a schoolgirl, and little Wolfgang, a child not quite four years old. Marianne was learning to play the piano, and day after day Leopold stood behind her as she practiced. How patient their father was, and how cleverly he showed Marianne how to play some particularly difficult pieces! She was making progress, very good progress, and that was excellent. And there, almost lost in the big chair, sat Wolfgang, who never had to be told to keep quiet when looking over Marianne's shoulder. At that moment Wolfgang climbed on his father's knees and begged to be allowed to play the pretty piece Marianne had now mastered. What a joke that was! Picking up his baby son, Leopold laughed and said, "Look at your hands. You must wait, little man!" There was no end to the fun during tea, and Marianne had to tell her mother about Wolfgang wanting to play a difficult piece. When the meal was finished, Marianne helped to clear away the dishes. Suddenly Leopold got up. "Listen!" said he in a surprised voice. "Listen! Marianne is playing the piece better than ever!" But Marianne was washing dishes in the kitchen. His wife following, Leopold walked quietly upstairs, the lamp in one hand, his music book in the other. He pushed open the door, and there was little Wolfgang playing in the darkness. "I love it" whispered the child. It was the beginning of Mozart's life of music.

单选题Jazz is a kind of music that has often been called the only art form to originate in the United States. The history of 31 began in the late 1800s. The music grew from a 32 of influences, including black American music, African rhythms, American band traditions and instruments, and European harmonies and forms. Much of the best jazz is still written and 33 in the United States. But musicians from many other countries are 34 major contributions to jazz. Jazz was actually 35 appreciated as an important art form in Europe 36 it gained such recognition in the United States. The earliest jazz was performed by black Americans who had little or no training in Western music. These musicians drew on a strong musical culture from 37 life. As jazz grew 38 popularity, its sound was influenced by 39 with formal training and classical backgrounds. During its history, jazz has absorbed influences from the folk and classical music of Africa, and other parts of the world. The development of instruments with new and 40 characteristics has also influenced the Sound of jazz.

单选题In order to finish the work in time, they always worked far ______ the night.A. inB. ontoC. atD. into

单选题The New Generation Since his first appearance 13 years ago, Harry Potter Has loomed over a generation. In 1997, he was 11 years old—and so were legions of his devotees. The boy wizard, whose final adventures hit the screen next week in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, is still a teenager, but is there a sense in which his fans, now 24, are also finding it hard to grow up? With many young adults still living at home or remaining in education, sociologists have argued that the age of maturity is changing fast; that the current crop of twentysomethings is stuck. Any attempt to define a generation will fail. But how much do we know about the people who made Harry Potter a superstar? Are they the iiber-confident, sex-savvy go-getters of advertising fantasy, or a cuckoo generation destined to remain in the family nest, devoid of career prospects or financial stability, sold out by the grownups who frittered away their future? We can surely take it for granted that this group of people are more technologically literate and enthusiastic than any that has preceded them; recent data from the Office for National Statistics suggests that only 1 per cent of 16-to 24-year-olds has never accessed the Internet. But it"s also common sense to assume that, while young people might revel in how easy it is to communicate with one another, they are likely to feel less confident in the current economic climate about their ability to access and afford education, to enter the job market, to get a foothold on the property ladder and to rely on the State to provide a safety net in times of trouble. In short, young people are both more connected and more alone than ever. On one side they are awash in a sea of celebrity culture, in which young people such as Wayne Rooney can be materially rewarded beyond anybody"s wildest dreams for the possession of a single skill, and the less gifted are briefly lauded on a television talent show before a long descent into obscurity. On the other, economic, environmental and geopolitical convulsions creajte a sense of collective catastrophe that seems to deflate the very idea of individual aspiration. So how does that make them feel? Mel Smith, who works for the Youth Support Service as part of the Transition to Adulthood(T2 A)Alliance, which was established to provide support for young adults in the criminal justice system, explains how some of the people she works with find that their age makes them even more vulnerable. " It"s a very difficult time, the very early twenties, because of the way that a lot of the support is set up, " she says. " As they reach age milestones, they move from youth to adult services; they may find themselves moved to a different service just because they"ve had a birthday. " When Thomas Viney, a 27-year-old graduate living in London, read a lengthy article in The New York Times arguing that the delayed adulthood experienced by many twentysomethings constituted a new developmental life stage, he felt the need to respond. He wrote that by the time his parents were his age, they had established a household, had children, got proper jobs, started savings schemes and pension plans and, more generally, had learnt to look after themselves. By contrast, he had amassed little of any tangible value and his life, punctuated by amusing but random interactions with his mates, seemed more defined by aimlessness than purpose. When a girlfriend said she thought she was pregnant(she wasn"t), the cold wave of responsibility was enough to sweep him completely off his feet. Viney believes that his experience is not simply a typical twentysomething scenario but indicative of a far more damaging malaise. "A lot of people in my generation, " he tells me, "were brought up to think that they were very special and that they had something to contribute to the world—not through hard work, but through the arts. I think we"re lost; that we no longer think it"s OK to knuckle down and apply ourselves, because that isn"t the life that we were promised. " His upbringing was middle class, rather than wealthy, but he feels that it took place against the backdrop of what he calls a time of "biblical" plenty and abundance. He also says that his generation has been "encouraged to enjoy ourselves" , that there"s something wrong with you if you don"t and that there will be few consequences to a life of hedonism. As a result, he and his friends, with a couple of exceptions, have barely a serious job or stable domestic environment among them. Viney himself, though, is taking a few tentative steps towards serious adulthood, working in publishing and writing in his spare time. What he has learnt, he says, is that for all that his parents had to sacrifice, they gained far more than they lost. Facebook, as everyone but a Martian knows, was founded by a bunch of precocious youths. Apart from all the online games, groups, jokes and pokes, probably the most recognisable feature of Facebook is the "status update". But what might the status update of this disparate bunch be? How would they encapsulate all the exuberance, anxiety, yearning and joyfulness that being twentysomething brings? Perhaps something like: "Status pending. Update to follow. Don"t wait up. "

单选题Movie directors use music to ______ the action on the screen. A. contaminate B. compliment C. contemplate D. complement

单选题Such a proposal must have been put forward by people with limited ______. A. overview B. overlook C. outline D. outlook

单选题If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of year. A noted scientist, Ells- worth Huntington (1876-1947) concluded from other men's work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and: temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities. He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than summer heat is. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that mental, abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer. Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in the spring man's mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature. Fall is the next best season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking!

单选题It was the biggest scientific grudge match since the space race. The Genome Wars had everything: two groups with appealing leaders ready to fight in a scientific dead heat, pushing the limits of technology and rhetoric as they battled to become the first to read every last one of the 3 billion DNA "letters" in the human body. The scientific importance of the work is unquestionable. The completed DNA sequence is expected to give scientists unprecedented insights into the workings of the human body, revolutionizing medicine and biology. But the race itself, between the government's Human Genome Project and Rockville, Md., biotechnology company Celera Genomics, was at least partly symbolic, the public/private conflict played out in a genetic lab. Now the race is over. After years of public attacks and several failed attempts at reconciliation, the two sides are taking a step toward a period of calm. HOP head Francis Collins (and .Ari Patrinos of the Department of Energy, an important ally on the government side) and Craig Venter, the founder of Celera, agreed to hold a joint press conference in Washington this Monday to declare that the race was over (sort of), that both sides had won (kind of) and that the hostilities were resolved (for the time being). No one is exactly sure how things will be different now. Neither side will be turning off its sequencing machines any time soon--the "finish lines" each has crossed are largely arbitrary points, "first drafts" rather than the definitive version. And while the joint announcement brings the former Genome Warriors closer together than they've been in years, insiders say I that future agreements are more likely to take the form of coordination, rather than outright collaboration. The conflict blew up this February when Britain's Welcome Trust, an HGP participant, released a confidential letter to Celera outlining the HGP's complaints. Venter called the move "a lowlife thing to do," but by spring, there were the first signs of a thaw. "The attacks and nastiness are bad for science and our investors," Venter told Newsweek in March, "and fighting back is probably not helpful." At a cancer meeting earlier this month, Venter and Collins praised each other's approaches, and expressed hope that all of the scientists involved in sequencing the human genome would be able to share the credit By late last week, that hope was becoming a reality as details for Monday's joint announcement were hammered out. Scientists in both camps welcomed an end to the hostilities. "If this ends the horse race, science wins." With their difference behind them, or at least set aside, the scientists should now be able to get down to the interesting stuff, figuring how to make use of all that data.

单选题{{B}}16-20{{/B}} After a 300 million yuan renovation project, Lidai Diwang Miao, or the Imperial Temple of Emperors of Successive Dynasties, was reopened to the public last weekend. Originally constructed about 470 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the temple was used by emperors of both the Ming and Qing to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. It underwent two periods of renovation in the Qing Dynasty, during the reigns of emperors Yongzheng and Qianlong. From 1929 until early 2000, it was part of Beijing No.159 Middle School. The temple's Jingdechongsheng Hall contains stone tablets memorializing 188 Chinese emperors. The Jinzhuan bricks used to pave the floor, the same as those used in the Forbidden City, are finely textured and golden-yellow in color. According to Xi Wei, an official from the Xicheng District government present at the reopening of the temple, Jinzhuan bricks were made in Yuyao, Suzhou, specially for imperial use. The renovation was done strictly according to that carried out at the orders of Emperor Qianlong, and only those sections of the temple too damaged to repair have been replaced.

单选题Trees that ______ the view of the oncoming traffic should be cut down.(2003年上海交通大学考博试题)

单选题The computer has changed the way we work, team, communicate, and play; Virtually ewery kind of organization throughout the world conducts business with computers. Students, teachers, and research scientists use the computer as a learning tool. Millions of individuals and organizations communicate with one another over a network of computers called the Internet. Computer games entertain people of all ages. Almost all computers are electronic digital computers. They are electronic in their use of electric current(电流) to carry information. They are digital in. that they process information as units of electric charge representing numbers. The word digital means having to do with numbers. To enable a computer to process information that is not numerical — such as words, pictures, or sounds — the computer or some other &vice must first digitize: that information. A device digitizes information by translating it into charges that represent numbers. After the computer processes the digitized information by working with the charges, the computer or a device: connected to the computer translates its results hack into their original form. Thus, an artist might use a machine called a scanner to digitize a photograph. The artist would next process the resulting electric charges in a computer to Change the photograph perhaps to add a border. The artist would then use a printer connected to the computer to produce a, copy of the altered photo. Digital computers are one of two general kinds of computers. The other kind is calculating devices called analog computers. An analog computer represents amounts with physical quantities, such as distances along a scale, rather than with numbers.

单选题The English sentence If only I could fly! is in imperative mood.

单选题She is unconscious now, but may ______ at intervals. A. wake up B. come over C. come to D. be awakened

单选题In the past few decades, remarkable findings have been made in ethology, the study of animal social behavior. Earlier scientists had (21) that nonhuman social life was almost totally instinctive or fixed by genetics. Much more careful observation has shown that (22) variation occurs among the social ties of most species, showing that [earning is a part of social life. That is, the (23) are not solely fixed by the genes. (24) , the learning that occurs is often at an early age in a process that is called imprinting. Imprinting is clearly (25) instinctive, but it is not quite like the learning of humans, it is something in between the two. An illustration best (26) the nature of imprinting. Once, biologists thought that ducklings followed the mother duck because of instincts. Now we know that. shortly (27) they hatch, ducklings fix (28) any object about the size of a duck and will henceforth follow it. So ducklings may follow a basketball or a briefcase if these are (29) for the mother duck at the time when imprinting occurs. Thus, social ties can be considerably (30) , even ones that have a considerable base (31) by genetics. Even among the social insects something like imprinting (32) influence social behavior. For example, biologists once thought bees communicated with others purely (33) instinct. But, in examining a "dance" that bees do to indicate the distance and direction of a pollen source, observers found that bees raised in isolation could not communicate effectively. At a higher level, the genetic base seems to be much more for an all-purpose learning rather than the more specific responses of imprinting. Chimpanzees, for instance, generally (34) very good mother but Jane Goodall reports that some chimps carry the infant. upside down or (35) fail to nurture the young.

单选题{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} The most noticeable trend among today's media companies is vertical integration—an attempt to control several related aspects of the media business at once, each part helping the other. Besides publishing magazines and books, Time Warner, for example, owns Home Box Office (HBO), Warner movie studios, various cable TV systems throughout the United States and CNN as well. The Japanese company Matsushita owns MCA Records and Universal Studios, and manufactures broadcast production equipment. To describe the financial status of today's media is also to talk about acquisitions. The media are buying and selling each other in unprecedented numbers, and forming media groups to position themselves in the marketplace to maintain and increase their profits. In 1986, the first time a broadcast network had been sold, two networks were sold that year—ABC and NBC. Media acquisitions have skyrocketed since 1980 for two reasons. The first is that most big corporations today are publicly traded companies, which means that their stock is traded on one of the nation's stock exchanges. This makes acquisitions relatively easy. A media company that wants to buy a publicly owned company can buy that company's stock when the stock becomes available. The open availability of stock in these companies means that anybody with enough money can invest in the American media industries, which is exactly how Rupert Murdoch joined the media business. The second reason for the increase in media alliances is that beginning in 1980, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gradually deregulated the broadcast media. Before 1980, for example, the FCC allowed one company to own only five TV stations, five AM radio stations, and five FM radio stations; companies also were required to hold onto a station for three years before the station could be sold. The post-1980 FCC eliminated the three-year rule and raised the number of broadcast holdings allowed for one owner. This trend of media acquisitions is continuing throughout the 1990s, as changing technology expands the market for media products. The issue of media ownership is important. If only a few corporations direct the media industries in this country, the outlets for differing political viewpoints and innovative ideas could be limited.