单选题通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题的四个选项中选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 The "show business" attracts many young people.{{U}} (21) {{/U}}, only very few can hope to become{{U}} (22) {{/U}}Talent (才能) is not{{U}} (23) {{/U}}. Without a good manager, a performer can never hope to succeed. Fashion (时尚)is also important in this business. The best tailor in the world will never be successful if he makes old-fashioned clothes. In exactly the same way, a performer must{{U}} (24) {{/U}}his "act" in order to{{U}} (25) {{/U}}the taste of the moment. This is true for actors and dancers, but perhaps most of all for{{U}} (26) {{/U}}. "Pop" stands for "popular", and a pop singer has to{{U}} (27) {{/U}}hard to become popular. He must either give the public what they want, or he must find a new way of singing that will attract their attention. Even when he has succeeded, and his records are sold everywhere, he cannot{{U}} (28) {{/U}}. He must work harder than ever to{{U}} (29) {{/U}}popular,{{U}} (30) {{/U}}there are always younger singers trying to become famous. The life of a successful pop singer is{{U}} (31) {{/U}}. He can only relax when he is{{U}} (32) {{/U}}, because everything he does is watched and reported in the special newspaper written for the "fans". The fans are the most important people in the world for the singer. They buy his records, they go to his concerts, and they make him rich and famous. But they can be very troublesome, too. They sometimes{{U}} (33) {{/U}}handkerchiefs, they tear off buttons, and they even cut off pieces of the unfortunate singer's hair. Many singers have been forced to{{U}} (34) {{/U}}. A pop singer has to spend a lot of money on{{U}} (35) {{/U}}, because he must always look smart. He must have a nice car. And above all, he must always keep smiling for the benefit of his public.

单选题He has been called the "missing link." Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world - Mount Everest. He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The (41) of the Snowman has been around for (42) . Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mount Everest. The native people said they (43) this creature and called it the " Yeti, " and they said that they had (44) caught Yetis on two occasions (45) none has ever been produced as evidence(证据). Over the years, the story of the Yetis has (46) . In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not (47) the tracks of a monkey or bear and (48) that the Abominable Snowman might really (49) . Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were (50) footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than (51) animal tracks, which had been made (52) as they melted(融化) and refroze in the snow. (53) , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was (54) and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But, (55) , no evidence has ever (56) been produced. These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman (57) . But if they ever (58) catching one, they may face a real (59) : Would they put it in a (60) or give it a room in a hotel?

单选题Passage Four Unless you have visited the southern United States, you probably have never heard of kudzu. Kudzu, as any southern farmer will sadly tell you, is a super-powered weed. It is a strong climbing vine. Once it gets started, kudzu is almost impossible to stop. It climbs to the tops of the tallest trees. It can cover large buildings. Whole barns and farm houses have been known to disappear from view. It has even been said to engulf small, slow-moving children, but that is probably an exaggeration. Still, wherever it grows, its thick, twisting vines are hard to remove. Kudzu was once thought to be a helpful plant. Originally found in Asia, it was brought to America to help fight erosion. It was planted where its tough roots, which grow up to five feet long, could help hold back the soil. But the plant soon spread to places where it wasn't wanted. Farmers now have to fight to keep it from eating up all the nutrients in the soil and killing other plants. It has become a sign of unemployment in the South; where there is no one to work the fields, kudzu soon takes over. The northern United States faces no threat from kudzu. Harsh winters kill off its vines. It loves the warmth of the South. But the South surely doesn't love it. If someone could invent some use for kudzu, and take it off southern farmers' lands, their fortune would be assured.

单选题This book is said to be a special one, which ______ many events not found in other history books. A. writes B. covers C. prints D. reads

单选题 She was slim and he liked her that way. So he called a lawyer. The result was a contract. According to the document, the fresh-faced bride agreed to pay a fine for each pound she gained in weight, the money refundable upon its loss. The paper signed, and the wedding went on. This is a prenuptial agreement—one more indication of the strange pass of marriage in this most trans- actional decade. You are welcome to marriage, contractual style, where increasingly detailed le- gal documents spell out everything from who' s going to do the dishes to who' s going to get the house when you split. This is family planning taken to extreme. Once employed solely by the rich, second-timers and the old industrialist carrying off the latest young cookie, the prenuptial agreement—a written pact between a couple outlining the financial obligation in the event of divorce—is becoming com- monplace in a litigious, disillusioned and materialistic age in which one in every two marriages is projected to end in divorce. The only question is: What about love? When asked whether anyone believes in Cupid any-more, Dr. Michael Vincent Miller says, "Given a century that is full of sexual liberation, com- purer-dating services and so on, one feels tempted to reply, Only in a mood of desperate nostalgia. '""Prenups do assume negativity. Founded on disillusionment, they cannot be separated from the United States." The result, argues Miller, is a kind of defending mentality. "We have got good at managing finiteness, failure and trouble with a sort of 'What's yours and what's mine is mine's realism. We've seen it isn't all about love. We've seen there's power politics in there—a fight for control, and when you've got those things, you're half way to lawyers and money." In other ways, however, the compacts embody positive, even idealistic thinking about marriage, love and relations, a law scholar Isabel Marcus believes. Marcus says, "Contracts could spell the end of romantic love as salvation. They say love exists, but that it's best accompanied by good, hard thinking about equitability." By writing a contract, the couple gains control of its marriage. "What' s good is it contributes to honesty; what' s unfortunate is the idea that any contract can govern your emotions," says the author of the book The Nature of Love.

单选题Ted Robinson ______ these days. A. was worried B. is worried C. had been worried D. has been worried

单选题A young man comes into Lucinda Roy"s office. She is the head of English at Virginia Tech, a university. He is a student whose bloodthirsty "creative writing" has set off alarm bells. He insists that his teacher is over-reacting. He is not really angry, he says. His poetry is satirical; it is supposed to make people laugh. He speaks "in the softest voice I have ever heard coming from a full-grown man," says Ms Roy. That was in October 2005. Eighteen months later the young man shot and killed 32 people, mostly fellow students, without uttering a word. Then he killed himself. As the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre approaches, crazed gunmen are in the news again. Why do such horrors happen? Some people are turning to Ms Roy"s new memoir to find out. Ms Roy favors gun control. It annoys her that Virginia still allows gun shows to sell guns without background checks to weed out buyers who are criminal or insane. But she admits that the gun advocates occasionally have a point. Armed students do sometimes subdue school shooters. Ms Roy lists examples. Whether more guns on campus would lead to fewer deaths, as some claim, or more, as others insist, is impossible to prove. There are too many confounding factors, and too few school shootings, thank heavens. In any case, the gun advocates" thesis is unlikely to be tested. Few teachers would feel comfortable in a gun-filled classroom. How do you give an "F" grade to an armed adolescent? Another popular argument, after Virginia Tech, was that the media were partly to blame. The killer had watched coverage of a previous massacre, at Columbine High School in Colorado, and decided to copy it. He also wanted to be famous. He filmed himself posing with guns and issuing an incoherent manifesto of complaints. Between his first two murders and his last 30, he posted the footage to NBC, a television channel, hoping they would broadcast it. They obliged. He thus became an icon to other lonely madman. Ms Roy agrees that some of the reporters covering Virginia Tech were insensitive. And making killers famous surely encourages copycats. But Ms Roy cautions against a rush to judgment. The media allowed people at Virginia Tech to find out what was going on in real time—no small service. And investigative reporting, she argues, helps to hold institutions accountable. She thinks the university"s leaders should have been more open about their failure to provide the killer with adequate counselling, among other things. Virginia Tech now has better locks on classroom doors and a brightly-lit notice telling staff and students what to do in an emergency. But there is no reliable way to prepare for the unpredictable. And that, alas, is the only lesson to be drawn from April 16th 2007.

单选题He told them he had never turned the gods into ridicule , as he knew it was wrong to make fun of anything which others considered sacred.

单选题I know the difference between these two words. So ______ they. A. know B. will C. do D. does

单选题The workers marched in______ to the minister's office.

单选题They started off at about 5 o'clock in the morning. They______there by now.

单选题Potentially offering a powerful new tool against terrorism, researchers have found a novel way to detect deception: in the liar's blushing face. The technique, described in the journal, Nature, uses a thermal camera to detect sudden, involuntary shifts of blood flow in the face. The system performed as accurately as a traditional polygraph, the scientists report. Yet the camera can provide answers instantly, and does not require a highly trained specialist to operate it or interpret its results. This makes it far better suited than the polygraph for a new, high-tech approach to security that is already raising the hackles of civil libertarians: the screening of large numbers of citizens, at airports and other sensitive areas, who have done nothing wrong. "The next decade is going to see the development of truly accurate lie detectors, "said Stephen M. Kosslyn, an expert on detecting lies and a professor of psychology at Harvard University. The prototype, built by researchers at the Mayo Clinic and Honeywell Laboratories in Minnesota, is at least 2 years from being ready for general use. But other scientists said the discovery of previously unknown physiological changes in the face was itself an important step forward. "This is potentially very important work, which may open a new window on the mind, "said Kosslyn. Pushed by technological advances, and with fresh interest since Sept. 11, the discovery is part of a boom in the scientific study of deceit and its detection. Although the lie remains a mysterious phenomenon, researchers in recent years have found a number of new approaches that might replace the polygraph, from brain scans, to subtle changes in eye movement, to sparks of electrical activity that signal a person has seen a victim or a crime scene before. The new finding, though, is remarkable for its simplicity. When a person tells a lie, the team found, there is a sudden rush of blood to the area around the eyes, according to the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James A. Levine. Although the change is not ordinarily visible the blood warms the skin, causing bands of color to appear through a camera sensitive to heat. The team devised a computer program that can identify the telltale changes based on the camera images. In testing at the US Departmeot of Defense Polygraph Institute, which trains federal polygraph examiners, the device performed better than polygraphs, with 85 percent accuracy compared with 70 percent for the polygraph.

单选题He's ______ by the news that I didn't know what to say.

单选题China ______ greatly in terms of its cultural values over the past five years.

单选题The preparation of a Broadway show is mentioned in order to ______.

单选题从下面的答案中，选出应填入下面叙述中______内的最确切的解答。 Network managers have long (1) practical voice-over-IP (VOIP) solutions. VOIP (2) ease network management and decreases costs by converging a companys telephony and data infrastructures into one network. And a VOIP solution implemented at a companys head-quarters with far-reaching branch offices can (3) tremendous amounts of (4) in long distance phone bills, provided that solution delivers POTS-Iike voice (5) over the Internet.

单选题The teacher spoke highly of such ______ as loyalty, courage and truthfulness shown by his students. [A] virtues [B] features [C] properties [D] characteristics