单选题This is ______ interesting story I have ever heard.A. by far moreB. by far the mostC. the most by farD. the more by far

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one's side, or that in Italy and some Latin American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell. Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm's length away from others. Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable. Our linguistic (语言上的) and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world. Even here in the United States, we make few concessions (让步) to the needs of foreign visitors. There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildings or monuments; we do not have multilingual (多语言的) guided tours. Very few restaurant menus have translations, and multilingual waiters, bank clerks and policemen are rare. Our transportation systems have maps in English only and often we ourselves have difficulty understanding them. When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is spoken. Then attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those natives—usually the richer— who speak English. Our business dealings, as well as the nation's diplomacy, are conducted through interpreters. For many years, American dollars no longer buy all good things, and we are slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing. A 1979 Harris poll reported that 55 percent of Americans want this country to play a more significant role in world affairs; we want to have a hand in the important decisions of the 21st century, even though it may not always be the upper hand.

单选题Neuroscientists now understand at least some of the physiology behind a wide range of unconscious states, from deep sleep to coma, from partially conscious conditions to a persistent vegetative state, the condition diagnosed in Ms. Schiavo. New research, by laboratories in New York and Europe, has allowed for much clearer distinctions to be made between the uncounted number of people who at some time become comatose, the 10,000 to 15,000 Americans who subsist in vegetative states and the estimated 100,000 or more who exist in states of partial consciousness. This emerging picture should make it easier for doctors to judge which brain-damaged patients have some hope of recovering awareness, experts say, and already it is providing clues to the specific brain processes that sustain conscious awareness. "Understanding what these processes are will give us a better sense of how to help the whole range of people living with brain injuries," said Dr. Nicholas Schiff, an assistant professor of neurology and neuroscience at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. "That is where this field is ultimately headed: toward a better understanding of what consciousness is." The most familiar unconscious state is sleep, which in its deepest phases is characterized by little electrical activity in the brain and almost complete unresponsiveness. Coma, the most widely known state of impaired unconsciousness, is in fact a continuum. Doctors rate the extent to which a comatose person shows pain responses and reactions to verbal sounds on a scale from 3, for no response, to 13, for consistent responses. As in sleep, people in comas may move or make sounds and typically have no memory of either. But they almost always emerge from this state in two to three weeks, doctors say, when the eyes open spontaneously. What follows is critical for the person"s recovery. Those who are lucky, or who have less severe injuries, gradually awaken. "The first thing I remember was telling my ex-boyfriend, who was at the foot of the bed, to shut up," said Trisha Meili, who fell into a coma after being beaten and raped in 1990, and wrote about the experience in the book, I Am the Central Park Jogger . In the days after this memory, Ms. Meili said, she slipped in and out of conscious awareness, "as if my body was taking care of the most important things first, and leaving my moment to moment awareness for last." In fact, researchers say, this is precisely what happens. The primitive brain stem, which controls sleep-wake cycles as well as reflexes, asserts itself first, as the eyes open. Ideally, areas of the cerebral cortex, the seat of conscious thought, soon follow, like lights flicking on in the upper rooms of a darkened house. But in some cases—Ms. Schiavo"s was one of them—the cortical areas fail to engage, and the patient"s prognosis becomes dire. Neurologists were all but unanimous in diagnosing the condition of Ms. Schiavo, whose heart stopped temporarily in 1990, depriving her brain of oxygen. Brain cells and neural connections wither and die without oxygen, like marine life in a drained lake, leaving virtually nothing unharmed. People with these kinds of injuries—Nancy Cruzan, whose case reached the Supreme Court in 1990 is an example—almost always remain unresponsive if they have not regained awareness in the first months after the injury. In medical terms, they become persistently vegetative, a diagnosis first described in 1972 by Dr. Fred Plum of Cornell University and Dr. Bryan Jennett, a neurosurgeon at Glasgow University in Scotland. In a sense, the description of the diagnosis began the modem study of disorders of consciousness. "Before 1972 people talked about permanent comas, or irrecoverable comas, but we defined a different state altogether, with the eyes open, some reflex activity, but no sign of meaningful psychological responsiveness," Dr. Jennett, now a professor emeritus, said in an interview. In an exhaustive review of the medical histories of more than 700 persistently vegetative patients, a team of doctors in 1994 reported that about 15 percent of those who suffered brain damage from oxygen deprivation, like Ms. Schiavo, recovered some awareness within three months. After that, however, very few recovered and none did so after two years. About 52 percent of people with traumatic wounds to the head, often from car accidents, recovered some awareness in the first year after the injury, the study found; very few recovered after that. "It"s the difference between taking a blow to the brain, which affects a local area—and taking this global, whole-brain hit," said Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the medical ethics division of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. Yet these statistics cannot explain the stories of remarkable recovery that surfaced during the debate over Ms. Schiavo"s fate. There was Terry Wallis, a mechanic in Arkansas who regained awareness in 2003, more than 18 years after he fell into unconsciousness from a car accident; Sarah Scantlin, a Kansas woman who, also a victim of a car accident, emerged from a similar state after 19 years; and several others, whose collective human spirit seemed to defy the experts, and trump science. Researchers say these cases can be accounted for by recent studies that indicate the existence of yet another state of subdued responsiveness, one that represents a clear break from the vegetative.

单选题I am sure Tom has been here and has done ______.

单选题By the end of the first half next year, 15 travel agencies in mainland will be able to send tourism groups to Taiwan. Although the schedule is yet to be set, the registration in Guangzhou is already heating on. Authority says in the beginning of Taiwan's tourism opening, the market supply will hardly meet the demand. A lot of mainland citizens are expressing their fervent hope for an early visit to the beautiful island. Two travel agencies in Guangzhou will be authorized to send tourists to Taiwan, and the procedure will be very much alike to tourism to Hong Kong and Macau. Further details concerning airliners and entry ports are still under discussion. The price for 6—7 days travel are estimated to be around 8,000 Yuan, 9—10 days travel around the island will cost up to 10,000 Yuan. Some business travel can be as cheap as 4,000.Questions:

单选题After September 11, long delays of express air shipping often arise because of

单选题This disease is second only ______ heart attack as a cause of death all over the world. A. to B. of C. with D. from

单选题Old cars are cheaper to buy, but they tend to use more petrol. ______, there is a greater risk of accident. A. Also B. However C. Therefore D. Hence

单选题The writers of Young Soldiers probably expect that ______.

单选题Her story shows how gentle {{U}}stubbornness{{/U}} and an indifference to honors and fame can lead to great achievements.

单选题Don't let on to Doris that we are going to the movies tonight. A. reveal B. reconcile C. accept D. protrude

单选题Much of the news provided by this newspaper is______, not foreign.

单选题 The period immediately following the Civil War was a time of great hope for Blacks in America. It was also a time of momentous{{U}} (21) {{/U}}change, as the nation sought to{{U}} (22) {{/U}}those liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights to all Americans, Black and White. The Thirteenth Amendment{{U}} (23) {{/U}}slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws, and the Fifteenth Amendment declared that no one could be{{U}} (24) {{/U}}the right to vote "{{U}} (25) {{/U}}race, color, or precious condition of servitude." In subsequent decades,{{U}} (26) {{/U}}, it became all too apparent, at least to Blacks and a (n){{U}} (27) {{/U}}small number of concerned Whites, that the promise contained in these amendments were not being{{U}} (28) {{/U}}By century's end, racial segregation was still an inescapable fact of American life, in the North{{U}} (29) {{/U}}the South. There was an important stage that showed the struggle to close the gap between constitutional promise and social reality. In turning to civil disobedience (非暴力反抗), leaders{{U}} (30) {{/U}}MartinLuther King, Jr. made{{U}} (31) {{/U}}possible for all victims of racial injustice to take action in a way that was direct and forceful,{{U}} (32) {{/U}}also peaceable. And through the power of their mortal example, they soon won widespread support for their cause.{{U}} (33) {{/U}}these developments, Congress took steps to{{U}} (34) {{/U}}the full meaning of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. The enactment of these measures{{U}} (35) {{/U}}marked the end of the civil rights movement. There was still much to be done.

单选题The police accused him of setting fire to the building but he denied______in the area on the night of the fire.

单选题 阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中，选出最佳的一项。{{B}}A{{/B}} The traffic lights were red when the motorist moved to them. To the surprise of this passenger the car did not slow down. Suddenly the passenger was thrown forward in the car as the driver stopped it at the last minute. The car stopped in time. "Sorry," said the driver, "I didn't notice the light. I thought it was green until 1 saw that it was the top light which was shining. I am color blind, I can't see red colors as you can." This strange story is quite true. In fact about ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way, women are luckier-only about one in two hundred is affected like this. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman! Color blindness can be dangerous. For example, when fighting in the woods at night soldiers use lights to signal to each other. A green light may mean "advance" and a red light may mean" Danger! keep back!" You can see what will happen if somebody thinks that red is green ! Birds and animals which hunt at night can not see colors. As far as we know, bats can not see colors at all--only light and dark shapes. The eyes of some insects are very strange. They have thousands of little "eyes" all joined together. Insects can see ultra-violet rays (紫外线) which are invisible to us, and some of them can even see X-rays. Indeed, scientists know that there are other colors around us which insects can see but we can not. One scientist experimented with some ants which normally keep their eggs in the dark. When he put their eggs in the sunlight, the ants quickly dragged them into a dark place. The eggs were then put in different colored rays of light, when the scientist shone an ultra-violet ray on the eggs, then ants quickly dragged them into the red light, thinking that it was dark- ness. Some insects have favourite colors. Mosquitoes like blue but do not like yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings have favourite colors. Blue is often popular because it is the color of the cool sky and sea. Green is a peaceful color which makes us think of wide fields and forests. Yellow is the cheerful color of the sun. On the other hand, red is the Colorof blo, d and fire. It makes some people think of accident, danger and blood. Black is the col- or of night. In the dark we cannot see what is around us, so we are sometimes afraid of the unknown and so not like black as a color. Perhaps that is why it is often the color of sadness. Yet we are lucky. We can see many beautiful colors by day, and we can see shapes but not color at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.

单选题BBC's Casualty programme on Saturday evening gave viewers a vote as to which of two patients should benefit from a donation. But it failed to tell us that we would not need to make so many life-and-death decisions if we got to grip with the chronic organ shortage. Being pussyfooting around in its approach to dead bodies, the Government is giving a kicking to some of the most vulnerable in our society. One depressing consequence of this is that a significant number of those on the waiting list take off to foreign countries to purchase an organ from a living third-world donor, something that is forbidden in the United Kingdom. The poor have no option but to wait in vain. The Human Tissue Authority's position on the retention of body parts for medical research after a post-mortem examination is equally flawed. The new consent forms could have been drafted by some evil person seeking to stop the precious flow of human tissue into the pathological laboratory. The forms are so lengthy that doctors rarely have time to complete them and, even if they try, the wording is so graphic that relatives tend to leg it before signing. In consequence, the number of post mortems has fallen quickly. The wider worry is that the moral shortsightedness evident in the Human Tissue Act seems to infect every facet of the contemporary debate on medical ethics. Take the timid approach to embryonic stem cell research. The United States, for example, refuses government funding to scientists who wish to carry out potentially ground-breaking research on the surplus embryos created by IVF treatment. Senators profess to be worried that embryonic research fails to respect the dignity of "potential persons". Rarely can such a vacuous concept have found its way into a debate claming to provide enlightenment. When is this "potential" supposed to kick in? In case you were wondering, these supposedly precious embryos are at the same stage of development as those that are routinely terminated by the Pill without anyone crying. Thankfully, the British Government has refused the position of the United States and operates one of the most liberal regimes in Europe, in which licences have been awarded to researchers to create embryos for medical research. It is possible that, in years to come, scientists will be able to grow organs in the lab and find cures for a range of debilitating diseases. The fundamental problem with our approach to ethics is our inability to separate emotion from policy. The only factor that should enter our moral and legal deliberations is that of welfare, a concept that is meaningless when applied to entities that lack self-consciousness. Never forget that the research that we are so reluctant to conduct upon embryos and dead bodies is routinely carried out on living, pain-sensitive animals.

单选题 {{B}}Questions 21—23 are based on the passage about vanity stamps. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 21—23.{{/B}}

单选题When McGee announced his departure, his manner can best be described as being ______

单选题Man: Which way is Aisle (通道) 6A? Woman：______ Man: Great. Thank you. A. In three minutes. B. One moment, please. C. Two rows that way. D. Four blocks away.