单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}}{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on Answer Sheet 1.{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} The Catholic Church is changing in America at its most visible point: the parish church where believers pray, sing and clasp hands across pews to share the peace of God. Today there are fewer parishes and fewer priests than in 1990 and fewer of the nation's 65 million Catholics in those pews. And there's no sign of return. Some blame the explosive 2002 clergy sexual abuse scandal and its financial price tag. But a study of 176 Roman Catholic dioceses shows no statistically significant link between the decline in priests and parishes and the $ 772 million the church has spent to date on dealing with the scandal. Rather, the changes are driven by a constellation of factors: ·Catholics are moving from cities in the Northeast and Midwest to the suburbs, South and Southwest. ·For decades, so few men have become priests that one in five dioceses now can't put a priest in every parish. ·Mass attendance has fallen as each generation has become less religiously observant. ·Bishops--trained to bless, not to budget--lack the managerial skills to govern multimillion-dollar institutions. All these trends had begun years before the scandal piled on financial pressures to cover settlements, legal costs, care and counseling for victims and abusers. The Archdiocese of Boston, epicenter of the crisis, sold chancery property to cover $ 85 million in settlements last year, and this year will close 67 churches and recast 16 others as new parishes or worship sites without a full-time priest. Archbishop Sean O'Malley has said the crisis and the {{U}}reconfiguration plan{{/U}} are "in no way" related. He cites demographic shifts, the priest shortage and aging, crumbling buildings too costly to keep up. Fargo, N. D. , which spent $ 821,000 on the abuse crisis, will close 23 parishes, but it's because the diocese is short of more than 50 priests for its 158 parishes, some with fewer than a dozen families attending Mass. They know how this ~eels in Milwaukee. That archdiocese shuttered about one in five parishes from 1995 to 2003. The city consolidations "gave some people who had been driving back into the city from new homes in the suburbs a chance to say they had no loyalty to a new parish and begin going to one near their home,' says Noreen Welte, director of parish planning for the Milwaukee Archdiocese. "It gave some people who already were mad at the church for one reason or another an excuse to stop going altogether. "

单选题Although research is important, the university exists______ for the students.

单选题Her sadness was obvious, but she believed that her feeling of depression was______. (2004年清华大学考博试题)

单选题Have you ever had ______ in your country?A. a women ' s boxerB. a woman' s boxerC. a women boxerD. a woman boxer

单选题Henry viewed Melissa as ______; she seemed to be against any position regardless of its merits. A. heretical B. disobedient C. contrary D. inattentive

单选题Dan Niles thinks that the PC market______.

单选题One difficulty is that while other disciplines investigate a specific range of phenomena, philosophy, particularly in the hodgepodge conception, investigates all of existence.

单选题Forget what Virginia Woolf said about what a writer needs--a room of one's own. The writer she has in mind wasn't at work on a novel in cyberspaee, one with multiple hypertexts, animated graphics and downloads of trance, charming music. For that you also need graphic interfaces, Real Player and maybe even a computer laboratory at Brown University. That was where Mark Amerika--his legally adopted name; don't ask him about his birth name--composed much of his novel Gramatron. But Grammatron isn't just a story. It's an online narrative (gramatron. com) that uses the capabilities of cyberspace to tie the conventional story line into complicated knots. In the four years it took to produce-it was completed in 1997-each new advance in computer software became another potential story device. "I became sort of dependent on the industry," jokes Amerika, who is also the author of two novels printed on paper. "That's unusual for a writer, because if you just write on paper the 'technology' is pretty stable." Nothing about Gramatron is stable. At its center, if there is one, is Abe Golam, the inventor of nanograph a quasi mystical computer code that some unmystical corporations are itching to acquire. For much of the story, Abe wanders through Prague-23, a virtual "city" in cyberspace where visitors indulge in fantasy encounters and virtual sex, which can get fairly graphic. The reader wanders too, because most of Gramatron's 1,000-plus text screens contain several passages in hypertext. To reach the next screen just double-click. But each of those hypertexts is a trapdoor that can plunge you down a different pathway of the story. Choose one and you drop into a corporate-strategy memo. Choose another and there's a XXX-rated sexual rant. The st0ry you read is in some sense file story you make. Amerika teaches digital art at the University of Colorado, where his students develop works that straddle the lines between art, film and literature. "I tell them not to get caught up in mere plot," he says. Some avant-garde writers--Julio Cortazar, Italo Calvino-have also experimented with novels that wander out of their author's control. "But what makes the Net so exciting," says Amerika, "is that you can add sound, randomly generated links, 3-D modeling, animation." That room of one's own is turning into a fun house.

单选题You must always be ready to sacrifice ______ to duty. A. inclination B. tendency C. interest D. career

单选题Allison was out of the office when I called, so I left a ______ with her secretary. A．passage B．messenger C．message D．massage

单选题I must leave now,______, if you want that book I"ll bring it to you tomorrow.

单选题The spellings of many Old English words have been ______ in the living language, although their pronunciations have changed.

单选题I think this exhibition is ______ of the two. I have never seen ______ exhibition. A. by far better; the better B. far better; a better C. by far the better; a better D. far the better; a better

单选题Hardly ______ the office when it began to rain. A) did I leave B) had I left C) I left D) I had left

单选题Woman: I’ve just been reading through your last project report.Man: I hope you didn’t find much wrong in it.

单选题You have come back to the hotel just to make an urgent (紧急) phone call. But you notice a lot of people around the Reception desk. Judging from the notice, would it be quickest to ______ ?

单选题Because they hadn't booked a room in advance, there were ______left when they arrived at the hotel. A. none B. no one C. nobody D. nothing

单选题(Neither) the engineer (nor) his assistants (was able to) solve the problem that had caused (a) great loss to the factory.

单选题The survival of civilization as we know it is( )threat.