单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on Answer Sheet 1. In October 2002, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank{{U}} (1) {{/U}}a new electronic market (www. gs. com/econderivs) for economic indices that{{U}} (2) {{/U}}substantial economic risks, such as nonfarm payroll (a measure of job availability) and retail sales. This new market was made possible by a{{U}} (3) {{/U}}trading technology, developed by Longitude, a New York company providing software for financial markets,{{U}} (4) {{/U}}the Parimutuel Digital Call Auction. This is "digital"{{U}} (5) {{/U}}of a digital option: ie, it pays out only if an underlying index lies in a narrow, discrete range. In effect, Longitude has created a horse race, where each "horse" wins if and{{U}} (6) {{/U}}the specified index falls in a specified range. By creating horses for every possible{{U}} (7) {{/U}}of the index, and allowing people to bet{{U}} (8) {{/U}}any number of runners, the company has produced a liquid integrated electronic market for a wide array of options on economic indices. Ten years ago it was{{U}} (9) {{/U}}impossible to make use of electronic information about home values. Now, mortgage lenders have online automated valuation models that allow them to estimate values and to{{U}} (10) {{/U}}the risk in their portfolios. This has led to a proliferation of types of home loan, some of{{U}} (11) {{/U}}have improved risk-management characteristics. We are also beginning to see new kinds of{{U}} (12) {{/U}}for homes, which will make it possible to protect the value of{{U}} (13) {{/U}}, for most people, is the single most important{{U}} (14) {{/U}}of their wealth. The Yale University-Neighbourhood Reinvestment Corporation programme,{{U}} (15) {{/U}}last year in the city of Syracuse, in New York State, may be a model for home-equity insurance policies that{{U}} (16) {{/U}}sophisticated economic indices of house prices to define the{{U}} (17) {{/U}}of the policy. Electronic futures markets that are based on econometric indices of house prices by city, already begun by City Index and IG Index in Britain and now{{U}} (18) {{/U}}developed in the United States, will enable home-equity insurers to hedge the risks that they acquire by writing these policies. These examples are not impressive successes yet. But they{{U}} (19) {{/U}}as early precursors of a technology that should one day help us to deal with the massive risks of inequality that{{U}} (20) {{/U}}will beset us in coming years.

单选题He was escorted by a group of soldiers under the command of Sarsfield.

单选题—It’s very kind of you to help me with my English. 　　—________.

单选题Most Americans don't like to get advice from members of their family. When they need advice, they don't usually (41) people they know. (42) , many Americans write letters to newspapers and magazines which give advice (43) many different subjects, including family problem, sex, the use (44) the language, health, cooking, childcare, clothes, and how to buy a house or a car. (45) newspapers regularly print letters (46) readers with problems. Along (47) the letters there are answers written (48) people who are supposed to know how to (49) such problems. Some of these writers are doctors; (50) are lawyers or educators. But two of the most famous writers of advice (51) women without special training (52) this kind of work. One of them answers letters (53) to "Dear Abby". The other is addressed (54) "Dear Ann Landers". Experience is their preparation for (55) advice. There is one writer who has not lived long (56) to have much experience. She is a girl named Angel Cavaliere, who started writing (57) for newspaper readers (58) the age of ten. Her advice to young readers now (59) regularly in the Philadelphia Bulletin in a column (60) DEAR ANGEL.

单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} The European Union's Barcelona summit, which ended on March 16th, was played out against the usual backdrop of noisy "anti-globalizati0n' demonstrations and massive security. If nothing else, the demonstrations illustrated that economic liberalization in Europe--the meeting's main topic--presents genuine political difficulties. Influential sections of public opinion continue to oppose anything that they imagine threatens "social Europe", the ideal of a cradle-to-grave welfare state. In this climate of public opinion, it is not surprising that the outcome in Barcelona was modest. The totemic issue was opening up Europe's energy markets. The French government has fought hard to preserve a protected market at home for its state-owned national champion, Electricite de France (EDF). At Barcelona it. made a well-flagged tactical retreat. The summiteers concluded that from 2004 industrial users across Europe would be able to choose from competing energy suppliers, which should account for "at least" 60% of the market. Since Europe's energy market is worth 350 billion (＄ 309 billion) a year and affects just about every business, this is a breakthrough. But even the energy deal has disappointing aspects. Confining competition to business users makes it harder to show that economic liberalization is the friend rather than the foe of the ordinary person. It also allows EDF to keep its monopoly in the most profitable chunk of the French market. In other areas, especially to do with Europe's tough labor markets, the EU is actually going backwards. The summiteers declared that "disincentives against taking up jobs" should be removed; 20m jobs should be created within the EU by 2010. But only three days after a Barcelona jamboree, the European Commission endorsed a new law that would give all temporary-agency workers the same rights as full-timers within six weeks of getting their feet under the desk. Six out of 20 commissioners did, unusually, vote against the measure--a blatant piece of re-regulation--but the social affairs commissioner, Anna Diamantopoulou, was unrepentant, indeed triumphant. A dissatisfied liberaliser in the commission called the directive "an absolute disaster". The summit's other achievements are still more fragile. Europe's leaders promised to increase spending on "research and development" from its current figure of 1.9% of GDP a year to 3%. But how will European politicians compel businesses to invest more in research? Nobody seems to know. And the one big research project agreed on at Barcelona, the Galileo satellite-positioning system, which is supposed to cost 3.2 billion of public money, is of dubious commercial value, since the Europeans already enjoy free access to the Americans' GPA system. Edward Bannerman, head of economics at the Centre for European Reform, a Blairite think-tank, calls Galileo "the common agricultural policy in space."

单选题It can be inferred that ______. A. Henry Ford always tried to avoid waste B. Henry Ford required total observation once the standards were established C. Henry Ford always encouraged his workers to make changes oft he products D. Henry Ford made his own designs of his cars

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} Conventional wisdom says trees are good for the environment. They absorb carbon dioxide -- a greenhouse gas -- from the atmosphere and store it as carbon while releasing oxygen. The roots of trees have been thought to trap sediments and nutrients in the soil, keeping nearby rivers free flowing . Trees have also been credited with steadying the flow of these rivers, keeping it relatively constant through wet and dry seasons, thus preventing both drought and flooding. Pernicious nonsense, conclude two pieces of research published this week. The first, a four-year international study led by researchers at the University of Newcastle, in Britain, and the Free University of Amsterdam, identifies several myths about the link between forests and water. For example, in arid and semi-arid areas, trees consume far more water than they trap. And it is not the trees that catch sediment and nutrients, and steady the flow of the rivers, but the fact that the soil has not been compressed. The World Commission on Water estimates that the demand for water will increase by around 50% in the next 30 years. Moreover, around 4 billion people -- one half of the world's population -- will live in conditions of severe water stress, meaning they will not have enough water for drinking and washing to stay healthy, by 2025. The government of South Africa has been taking a tough approach to trees since it became the first to treat water as a basic human right in 1998. In a scheme praised by the hydrologists, the state penalizes forestry companies for preventing this water reaching rivers and underground aquifers. In India, large tree-planting schemes not only lose valuable water but dim the true problem identified by the hydrologists: the unregulated removal of water from aquifers to irrigate crops. Farmers need no permit to drill a borehole and, as most farmers receive free electricity, there is little economic control on the volume of water pumped. So a report of Britain's Department for International Development concludes that there is no scientific evidence that forests increase or stabilize water flow in arid or semi-arid areas. It recommends that, if water shortages are a problem, governments should impose limits on forest plantation. The second piece of research looked at how long the forests of the Amazon basin cling on to carbon. Growing trees consume carbon dioxide and it was thought that only when the tree died, perhaps hundreds of years later, would the carbon be returned to the atmosphere. No such luck. In a paper published in Nature this week, a team of American and Brazilian scientists found that trees were silently returning the carbon after just five years. Before taking an axe to trees, however, consider the merits of the tropical rainforests.

单选题When we listen to a person talking, the most important thing for us to do is______.

单选题Speaker A. Hello, John. Fancy meeting you here!Speaker B: ______ A. How do you do? B. Hi, Jane. Where are you going? C. Hello, Jane. Haven't seen you since Christmas. D. How are you? Have you had your meal?

单选题Specialists in marketing have studied how to make people buy more food in a supermarket. They do all kinds of things that you do not even notice. For example, the simple, ordinary food that everybody must buy, like bread, milk, flour, and vegetable oil, is spread all over the store. You have to walk by all the more interesting and more expensive things in order to find what you need. The more expensive food is in packages with bright colored pictures. This food is placed at eye level so you see it and want to buy it. The things that you have to buy anyway are usually located on a higher or lower shelf. However, candy and other things that children like are on lower shelves. One study showed that when a supermarket moved four products from floor to eye level, it sold 78 percent more. Another study showed that for every minute a person is in a supermarket after the first half hour, she or he spends $50. If someone stays forty minutes, the supermarket has an additional $5. So the store has a comfortable temperature in summer and winter, and it plays soft music. It is a pleasant place for people to stay and spend more money. Some stores have red or pink lights over the meat so the meat looks redder. They put light green paper around lettuce(生菜)and put apples in red plastic bags. So be careful in the supermarket. You may go home with a bag of food you were not planning to buy. The supermarket, not you, decided you should buy it.

单选题My friend, Emma Danicls, spent the summer of 1974 traveling in Israel. During her month-long stay in Jerusalem, she often went to a caf6 called Chocolate Soup. It was run by two men, of the whom—Alex—used to live in Montreal. One morning when Emma went in for coffee, while chatting with her new friend Alex, she mentioned that she had just finished the book she was reading and had nothing else to read. Alex said he had a wonderful book she might like, and that he'd be happy to lend it to her. As he lived just above the cafe, he quickly ran up to get it. The book he handed to Emma just minutes later was Markings, a book by a former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN). Emma bad never read it, nor had she ever bought a copy, but when she opened it up, she was floored to see her own name and address inside the cover, in her own handwriting (笔迹). It turned out that the summer before, at a concert back in Montreal, Emma had met a Californian who was in town visiting friends. They decided to exchange (交换) addresses, but neither of them had any paper. The man opened up a book he was carrying in his backpack (背包) and asked Emma to write her name and address inside. When he returned to California, he left the book behind in Montreal, and his friend Alex kept it. When Alex later moved to Jerusalem, he took the book along.

单选题{{B}}Section B{{/B}}{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} In the following passage, a number of words are missing. Fill in each blank with a single suitable word. Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take{{U}} (46) {{/U}}for granted, we often don't clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, we are usually friends{{U}} (47) {{/U}}only a very few, for example the average among students is about 6 per person, In all the cases of friendly relationships, two people like one another and enjoy being together, but beyond that, the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for their shared interests vary enormously. {{U}}(48) {{/U}}we get to know people we take into account things like age, race, economic condition, social{{U}} (49) {{/U}}and intelligence. Although these factors are not of prime importance, it is more difficult to get on with people when there is a marked difference{{U}} (50) {{/U}}age and background. Some friendly relationships can be kept on argument and discussion, but it is usual for close friends to have{{U}} (51) {{/U}}ideas and beliefs, to have attitudes and interests in common they often talk about "being on the same wavelength." It generally takes time to reach this point. And the more they rely on{{U}} (52) {{/U}}another. People want to do friends favours and hate to break a{{U}} (53) {{/U}}. Equally, friends have to learn so put up with annoying habits and to tolerate differences of opinion. In contrast with marriage, there are no friendship ceremonies to{{U}} (54) {{/U}}the association between two people. But the supporting and understanding of each other that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to create a powerful bond, {{U}}(55) {{/U}}can overcome differences in background, and break down barriers of age, class or race.

单选题It's my firm belief that socialist system is______to all other social systems.

单选题The university is now making efforts to make the supply and demand of information more ______ and to protect students" rights with legal advice.

单选题The car pollutes, but advances in fuel quality and efficiency, and in micropro-cessed engine technology, have radically cut______.

单选题Results of a recent study appear to explain the long-standing question of why many women develop lung cancer, ( ) they themselves are non-smokers.

单选题The phrase "put on their thinking caps" ( Line 5, Paragraph 2) most probably means

单选题The actual production and comprehension of the speech by speakers of a language is called ______. (北二外2010研)

单选题In the ______ of the project not being a success the investors stand to lose up to ＄30 million. A) event B) face C) time D) course