单选题The first and essential step in the study of any language is observing and ______ pre cisely what happens when native speakers speak it.

单选题Being unemployed in the wake of the worst recession since the" 1930s is enough to tax anyone's faith. So a growing number of churches, particularly the large evangelical kind, are ministering to the jobless through programmes offering spiritual as well as professional help. "Being out of work can be a time of faith renewal," says Jay Litton, leader of the Job Networking Ministry at Roswell United Methodist Church in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, which attracts more than 400 unemployed people of all faiths to its weekly two-hour gatherings. "We believe God should be a part of the job search. " Like other faith-based programmes for the unemployed that have sprung up across the country, the one in Roswell has all the passion of an evangelical service. Meetings start with time for networking (or "fellowship") followed by prayer, a meal and a sermon. The names of people in the group who have recently found jobs, or "landed", are flashed on video screens overhead. Participants then disperse to attend workshops run by volunteers on such topics as writing a résumé and making an "elevator pitch" (explaining why you should be hired in the time it takes to ride a few floors in a lift). Petrol and food gift-cards are given out to those who have been unemployed the longest. Mark Godshall is a pastor at Bayside Covenant Church in Granite Bay, a suburb of Sacramento in California. Last year his church, which has a congregation of 11,000, started four-day workshops and weekly programmes for the growing number of jobless in its flock, as well as others from the surrounding area where unemployment exceeds 12%. "It's in these moments when you don't have work when you can grow and make the changes that need to he made in your life," Mr Godshall insists gamely. Although gaining new members would he an obvious benefit for the churches, those involved say it is not the primary goal. "We're here to provide spiritual support and encouragement at a time when people can experience feelings of" hopelessness and worthlessness," says Cindy Hall, a minister at the 1,000-member First Baptist Church in Sanford, North Carolina, which started a support group for its jobless congregants last July. Employers often post job openings with her first rather than in the local newspaper, she says. "I guess they know the kind of people our programme attracts tend to be principled and hard workers," she says. When the temptation is to stay in bed and watch the soaps, "these are people who regularly come to meetings and listen to devotionals. " Amen to that.

单选题One afternoon I went to______Miss White again.

单选题The Sino-American relationship is of great importance because______.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} The idea of humanoid robots is not new. They have been part of the imaginative landscape ever since Karl Capek, a Czech writer, first dreamed them up for his 1921 play "Rossum's Universal Robots." (The word "robot" comes from the Czech word for drudgery, robota.) Since then, Hollywood has produced countless variations on the theme, from the sultry False Maria in Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece "Metropolis" to the withering C-3PO in "Star Wars" and the ruthless assassin of "Terminator." Humanoid robots have walked into our collective subconscious, coloring our views of the future. But now Japan's industrial giants are spending billions of yen to make such robots a reality. Their new humanoids represent impressive feats of engineering: when Honda introduced Asimo, a four-foot robot that had been in development for some 15 years, it walked so fluidly that its white, articulated exterior seemed to conceal a human. Honda continues to make the machine faster, friendlier and more agile. Last October, when Asimo was inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in Pittsburgh, it walked onto the stage and accepted its own plaque. At two and a half feet tall, Sony's QRIO is smaller and more toy-like than Asimo. It walks, understands a small number of voice commands, and can navigate on its own. If it falls over, it gets up and resumes where it leaves off. It can even connect wirelessly to the internet and broadcast what its camera eyes can see. In 2003, Sony demonstrated an upgraded QRIO that could run. Honda responded last December with a version of Asimo that runs at twice the speed. In 2004, Toyota joined the fray with its own family of robots, called Partner, one of which is a four-foot humanoid that plays the trumpet. Its fingers work the instrument's valves, and it has mechanical lungs and artificial lips. Toyota hopes to offer a commercial version of the robot by 2010. This month, 50 Partner robots will act as guides at Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. Despite their sudden proliferation, however, humanoids are still a mechanical minority. Most of the world's robots are faceless, footless and mute. They are bolted to the floors of factories, stamping out car parts or welding pieces of metal, making more machines. According to the United Nations, business orders for industrial robots jumped 18% in the first half of 2004. They may soon be outnumbered by domestic robots, such as self-navigating vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers and window washers, which are selling fast. But neither industrial nor domestic robots are humanoid.

单选题Yeats was beginning to use a vocabulary freshly minted from the treasury of Gaelic literature, and many of the shorter poems in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) deal with a mythology Ireland had well nigh forgotten and England never known. For Arthur and his Round Table Yeats substituted the very different Conchubar and his Red Branch Warriors, and Finn and his Fenians. The Red Branch cycle of legends included Fergus, whom Ness had tricked out of his kingdom so that her son Conchubar could rule over Ulster in his stead, and in Fergus and the Druid Yeats makes him avid for dreaming wisdom. Fergus was the unwitting agent of the doom of the Sons of Usna, Naoise the lover of Deirdre and his brothers Ardan and Ainle, who had accompanied the lovers to Scotland when they fled from Conchubar's wrath, for Deirdre was Conchubar's intended bride. Fergus had persuaded them to return against the wishes of Deirdre and had been tricked out of acting as their safe conduct. He joined with Maeve, Queen of Connaught, after this, in her raid on Ulster, in which Cuehulain achieved his great fame as Ulster's champion. Cuehulain is the Achilles of the Irish Saga, and he appears throughout Yeats's plays and poems, as warrior, as husband of Emer, as lover of Eithne Inguba, and of Aoife, as the unknowing killer of his own son and finally as victim of the sea.

单选题 Passage 3 I don't believe that men have deliberately turned us into slaves, as one of your correspondents writes. {{U}}(1) {{/U}} I do know that many women are exploited at work. There must be equal pay {{U}}(2) {{/U}} equal work, and where this is not the case, the abuse must be resisted at all costs. I don't believe that men {{U}}(3) {{/U}} us their mental inferiors. But I do know that there's still a great {{U}}(4) {{/U}} of prejudice against women. Certain jobs are still considered to be for men {{U}}(5) {{/U}}, for example top jobs in industry, in the government and the law. This sort of {{U}}(6) {{/U}} must be resisted at all costs. We are born with brains just as good as men's, and {{U}}(7) {{/U}} we are not expected to use them. It all begins in the home and at school, {{U}}(8) {{/U}} girls are expected to play a smaller {{U}}(9) {{/U}} than boys, and to be less {{U}}(10) {{/U}} I was lucky. I was brought up with the idea of {{U}}(11) {{/U}} something to society--not just to sit at home waiting for {{U}}(12) {{/U}}. As a result, I {{U}}(13) {{/U}} some people would call me a successful 'career girl', but let me {{U}}(14) {{/U}} you, I enjoy it, and my family doesn't {{U}}(15) {{/U}}

单选题A：Would you like to order now? B：______

单选题This policy gave ______ to private property and led to differences between the rich and the poor. A. fife B. birth C. way D. death

单选题Some years ago industries had more freedom than they have now, and they did not need to be as careful as they must today. They did not need to worry a lot about the safety of the new products that they developed. They did not have to pay much attention to the health and safety of the people who worked for them. Often new products were dangerous for the people who used them; often conditions in the work place had very bad effects on the health of the workers. Of course sometimes there were real disasters which attracted the attention of governments and which showed need for changes. Also scientists who were doing research into the health of workers sometimes produced information which governments could not ignore. At such times, there were inquiries into the causes of the disaster or the problems. New safety rules were often introduced as a result of these inquiries; however, the new rule; came too late to protect the people who died or who became seriously iii. Today many governments have special departments which protect customers and workers. In the U. S., for example, there is a department which tests new airplanes and gives warnings about possible problems. It also makes the rules that aircraft producers must follow. Another department controls the foods and drugs that companies sell. A third department looks at the places where people work, and then reports any companies that are breaking laws which protect the health and safety of workers. Of course, new government departments and new laws cannot prevent every accident or illness, but they are having some good results. Our work places are safer and cleaner than before. The planes and Cars which we use for travel are better. Producers are thinking more about the safety and health of the people who buy and use their products.

单选题We human beings usually express our thoughts ______ words.

单选题The prizes will be ______ at the end of the school year. A. distributed B. attributed C. granted D. contributed

单选题What does "to zero out" mean?

单选题The soldiers were______ from leaving the camp after dark.

单选题A: Why don"t we go to see a baseball game? B: ______

单选题He's working hard for fear that he ______.A. should fall behindB. fell behindC. may fall behindD. would fallen behind

单选题Ask most people how they define the American Dream and chances are they"ll say, "Success. " The dream of individual opportunity has been home in American since Europeans discovered a "new world" in the Western Hemisphere. Early immigrants like Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur praised highly the freedom and opportunity to be found in this new land. His glowing descriptions of a classless society where anyone could attain success through honesty and hard work fired the imaginations of many European readers: in Letters from an American Farmer (1782) he wrote, "We are all excited at the spirit of an industry which is unfettered (无拘无束的) and unrestrained, because each person works for himself... We have no princes, for whom we toil (干苦力活), starve, and bleed; we are the most perfect society now existing in the world. " The promise of a land where "the rewards of a man"s industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labor" drew poor immigrants from Europe and fueled national expansion into the western territories. Our national mythology (神话) is full of illustration of the American success story. There"s Benjamin Franklin, the very model of the self-educated, self-made man, who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist, philosopher, and statesman. In the nineteenth century, Horatio Alger, a writer of fiction for young boys, became American"s best-selling author with rags-to-riches tales. The notion of success haunts us: we spend million every year reading about the rich and famous, learning how to "make a fortune in real estate with no money down", and "dressing for success". The myth of success has even invaded our personal relationships: today it"s as important to be "successful" in marriage or parenthoods as it is to come out on top in business. But dreams easily turn into nightmares. Every American who hopes to "make it" also knows the fear of failure, because the myth of success inevitably implies comparison between the haves and the have-nots, the stars and the anonymous crowd. Under pressure of the myth, we become indulged in status symbols: we try to live in the "right" neighborhoods, wear the "right" clothes, and eat the "right" foods. These symbols of distinction assure us and others that we believe strongly in the fundamental equality of all, yet strive as hard as we can to separate ourselves from our fellow citizens. (403 words)