单选题It is often observed that the aged spend much time thinking and talking about their past lives, rather than about the future. These reminiscences are not simply random or trivial memories, (1) is their purpose merely to make conversation. The old person's recollections of the past help to (2) an identity that is becoming increasingly fragile: (3) any role that brings respect or any goal that might provide (4) to the future, the individual mentions their (5) as a reminder to listeners, that here was a life (6) living. (7) , the memories form part of a continuing life (8) , in which the old person (9) the events and experiences of the years gone by and (10) on the overall meaning of his or her own almost completed life. As the life cycle (11) to its close, the aged must also learn to accept the reality of their own impending death. (12) this task is made difficult by the fact that death is almost a (13) subject in the United States. The mere discussion of death is often regarded as (14) . As adults, many of us find the topic frightening and are (15) to think about it and certainly not to talk about it (16) the presence of someone who is dying. Death has achieved this taboo (17) only in the modern industrial societies. There seems to be an important reason for our reluctance to (18) the idea of death. It is the very fact that death remains (19) our control; it is almost the only of the natural processes (20) is so.

单选题I'd appreciate ______ these letters. A. you to mail B. you mail C. your mailing D. you would mail

单选题She pointed out that his resume was______because it merely recorded his previous positions and failed to highlight the specific skills he had mastered in each job.

单选题His knowledge of language and international relations ______him in his work.

单选题A：You look a little pale. Are you OK? B： ______, I feel terrible.

单选题Mary has bought a ______ carpet. A) Chinese beautiful green B) green beautiful Chinese C) beautiful green Chinese D) Chinese green beautiful

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单选题The rock music made popular by the Beatles has been modified over the past two decades.

单选题--I always look out when crossing the street.--You are right. You can't be too ______.A. nervous B. carefulC. careless D. hurried

单选题Thank you for the ______you did me. to move the sofa upstairs.

单选题She was disappointed ______ hearing the news that Chinese football team lost the first match in "World Cup".A. atB. inC. ofD. with

单选题According to "The Indian Burying Ground" , some Indian tribes buried their dead in a______ position.

单选题Because noises {{U}}modulate{{/U}} radiofrequency, radio stations use a band of frequencies to prevent interference with other stations. A. govern B. adapt C. temper D. renovate

单选题The parents ______ their daughter to marry the poor young man.

单选题Thanks to sponsorship, the fee to ______ will be＄25 ______ and participants will have to pay only travel expenses.

单选题A. powderB. ownC. meadowD. follow

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} In 1880, Sir Joshua Waddilove, a Victorian philanthropist, founded Provident Financial to provide affordable loans to working-class families in and around Bradford, in northern England. This month his company, now one of Britain's leading providers of "home credit"— small, short-term, unsecured loans—began the nationwide rollout of Vanquis, a credit card aimed at people that mainstream lenders shun. The card offers up to ￡ 200 ($ 380) of credit, at a price: for the riskiest customers, the annual interest rate will be 69%. Provident says that the typical interest rate is closer to 50% and that it charges no fees for late payments or breaching credit limits. Still, that is triple the rate on regular credit cards and far above the 30% charged by store cards. And the Vanquis card is being launched just when Britain's politicians and media are full of worry about soaring consumer debt. Last month, a man took his own life after running up debts of ￡ 130000 on 22 different credit cards. Credit cards for "sub-prime" borrowers, as the industry delicately calls those with poor credit records, are new in Britain but have been common in America for a while. Lenders began issuing them when the prime market became saturated, prompting them to look for new sources of profit. Even in America, the sub-prime market has plenty of room for growth. David Robertson of the Nilson Report, a trade magazine, reckons that outstanding sub-prime credit-card debt accounts for only 3% of the $ 597 billion that Americans owe on plastic. The sub-prime sector grew by 7.9% last year, compared with only 2.6% for the industry as a whole. You might wonder, though, how companies can make money from lending to customers they know to be bad risks—or at any rate, how they can do it legitimately. Whereas delinquencies in the credit-card industry as a whole are around 4%-5% , those in the sub-prime market are almost twice as high, and can reach 15% in hard times. Obviously, issuers charge higher interest rates to compensate them for the higher risk of not being repaid. And all across the credit-card industry, the assessment and pricing of risks has been getting more and more refined, thanks largely to advances in technology and data processing. Companies also use sophisticated computer programs to track slower payment or other signs of increased risk. Sub-prime issuers pay as much attention to collecting debt as to managing risk; they impose extra charges, such as application fees; and they cap their potential losses by lending only small amounts ($ 500 is a typical credit limit). All this is easier to describe than to do, especially when the economy slows. After the bursting of the technology bubble in 2000, several sub-prime credit-card providers failed. Now there are only around 100, of which nine issue credit cards. Survivors such as Metris and Providian, two of the bigger sub-prime card companies, have become choosier about their customers' credit histories. As the economy recovered, so did lenders' fortunes. Fitch, a rating agency, says that the proportion of sub-prime credit-card borrowers who are more than 60 days in arrears (a good predictor of eventual default) is the lowest since November 2001. But with American interest rates rising again, some worry about another squeeze. As Fitch's Michael Dean points out, sub-prime borrowers tend to have not just higher-rate credit cards, but dearer auto loans and variable-rate mortgages as well. That makes a risky business even riskier.

单选题The author implies that This World was located ______.

单选题Singletons, referring to those who live alone, are being comforted by well-meaning friends and family and told that not having a partner is not the end of the world. So, it would seem that they can say, yes, it is not. But no, in fact, it is the end. A gloomy study has just been released that says that the international trend towards living alone is putting an unprecedented strain on our ecosystem. For a number of reasons--relationship breakdown, career choice, longer life spans, smaller families—the number of individual households is growing. And this is putting intolerable pressure on natural resources, and accelerating the extinction of endangered plant and animal species. And there is worse news. Running a refrigerator, television, cooker, plumbing system just for selfish little you is a disastrous waste of resources on our over-populated planet. "The efficiency of resource consumption" is a lot higher in households of two people or more, simply because they share everything. Well imagine that. Just when you thought living alone was OK, you would find that all the time you were the enemy of mankind. Every time you put the kettle on the stove for a cup of coffee you were destroying Mother Earth. Indeed, it is not just your mother who is a bit worried by your continuing single status—you are letting down the entire human race by not having a boyfriend or girlfriend. The trouble is that society has a group instinct and people panic and hit out when they see other people quietly rebelling and straying away from the "standard" of family and coupledom. The suggestion is that singledom should be at best a temporary state. Unless you are assimilated into a larger unit, you can never be fully functional. Try "communal living." There are all these illustrations of young attractive people having a "great time," laughingly bumping into each other. It looks like an episode of the TV series "Friends. " And the message is clear: Togetherness is good, solitude is bad, and being single on your own is not allowed.

单选题 At the Kyoto conference on global warming in December 1997, it became abundantly clear how complex it has become to work out international agreements relating to the environment because of economic concerns unique to each country. It is no longer{{U}} (21) {{/U}}to try to forbid certain activities or to reduce{{U}} (22) {{/U}}of certain substances. The global challenges of the inter-link between the environment and development increasingly{{U}} (23) {{/U}}us to the core of the economic life of states. During the late 1980s we were able, through international agreements, to make deep{{U}} (24) {{/U}}in emissions{{U}} (25) {{/U}}the ozone layer. These reductions were made possible{{U}} (26) {{/U}}the harmful substances could be replaced{{U}} (27) {{/U}}negative effects on employment and the economies of states. Although the threat of global warming has been known to world for decades, we know that the effects of measures,{{U}} (28) {{/U}}harsh measures taken in some countries, would be nullified if{{U}} (29) {{/U}}countries do not control their emissions. Important and populous low- or medium-income countries are not{{U}} (30) {{/U}}willing to undertake legal commitments about their energy uses. We must,{{U}} (31) {{/U}}find a solution to the threat of global warming early in the 21st century. Such a{{U}} (32) {{/U}}would require a degree of shared vision and common responsibilities new to humanity. Success lies in the force of imaginations, in imagining what{{U}} (33) {{/U}}if we failed to act. Although many living in cold regions would welcome the global-warming effect of a warmer summer,{{U}} (34) {{/U}}would cheer arrival of the{{U}} (35) {{/U}}tropical diseases, especially where there has been none.