单选题{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} Seventy years ago, a film featuring a talking mouse appeared in the United States. The character was only a pencil drawing, but it began a fantasy that America and much of the wider world have yet to grow tired of. Predicting the future is always risky. But it's probably safe to say that at least a few historians will one day speak of the 20th century as America's "Disney era". The reasons for Disney's success are varied and numerous, but ultimately the credit belongs to one person -- the man who created the cartoon and build the company from nothing, Walt Disney. Ironically(讽刺地), he could not draw particularly well. But he was a genius in plenty of other respects. In business, his greatest skills were his insight and his management ability. But what really distinguished Disney was his ability to identify with his audiences. Disney always made sure his films championed the "little guy", and made him feel proud to be American. This he achieved by creating characters that reflected the hopes and fear of ordinary people. Disney's other great virtue was the fact that his company -- unlike other big corporations -- had a human face. His Hollywood studio -- the public heard -- operated just like a democracy, where everyone was on first-name terms and had a say in how things should be run. By the time he died in 1966, Walt Disney was an icon(偶像) like Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers. To business people and filmmakers, he was a role model; to the public at large, he was "Uncle Walt" -- the man who had entertained them all their lives, the man who represented all that was good about America.

单选题Woman: I'm looking forward to the long weekend, David. It's been such a hectic week! We've been running here, running there, always on the go.Man: Well, Anna, I don't think we need to think twice about how we'd like to spend our time off.Woman: That's for sure. After taking care of a few odds and ends, let's get away from the rat race of city life!Question: What are they probably looking forward to?

单选题______ visitors to the UK were asked by newspaper reporters what their impressions of the British people were.A. The number ofB. A number ofC. Numbers ofD. Any numbers of

单选题The chair looks rather hard, but it is very comfortable to ( ).

单选题Experiments in the photography of moving objects ______ in both the United States and Europe well before 1990. A. have been conducting B. were conducting C. had been conducted D. are conducted

单选题"The effect of this medicine ______ by midnight," the doctor told Emma "You had better not try to read tonight."

单选题I didn't sleep well last night because it was too ______ outside.A. noisyB. quietC. noiseD. loud

单选题Tourism has become a very big 31 . For Spain, Italy and Greece it is the largest 32 of foreign exchange, and 33 for Britain, it is the fourth. Faced 34 this huge income, no government can afford to look 35 on the business; questions of hotel bath rooms, beach umbrellas and ice-cream sales are now 36 by ministers of tourism with solemn expertise. Before the Second World War the tourist industry was widely 37 as being unmanly and stupid. But 38 has become a new industry, as trade business used 39 ; in Spain, Italy, Greece and much of Eastern Europe, new road 40 have opened up in the country, first to tourists, and 41 to industry and locals. 42 of tourism is a nationalized industry, a 43 part of national planning. In a place west of Marseilles, the French government is killing mosquitoes and 44 six big vacation places to 45 nearly a million tourists. In Eastern Europe, a whole new seaside 46 has sprung up 47 the last few years the governments have greatly 48 when tourists from the West 49 from half a million four years 50 to nearly two million last year.

单选题The author discusses the five writers mainly to explain some of their beliefs about

单选题There are increasingly fraught relationships that adults are having with children—in all walks of life, from the police and politicians, within the public sector and within communities themselves. The fear of young people has changed the way society is policed, how pupils are treated in schools and how insecure adults relate to children on their estates. Rather than children and young people becoming more violent and anti-social, it is adults who have changed, having fewer relationships with young people and becoming less confident in their dealings with them. We must explore the role that crime and safety initiatives have on the outlook of the public. The attempt by government, council departments, the police and many others to reduce the fear within communities by developing safety initiatives is having the opposite effect, resulting in the institutionalization of this fear. Curfews have increased adults" fear of young people and reduced the amount of time young children are allowed out to play. They have raised the level of insecurity amongst parents about the safety of their children and ultimately reduced the contact between generations within this community. It is not far from the troth to say that "youth" no longer exists—if by youth we mean the freedom loving rebelliousness. The outcome of this process is breeding a generation of young people who are if anything more fragile and fearful than their grandparents. Finally, as well as exploring the fear of young people, we must look at the insecurity that parents have for their children. There has been a reduction in play, and specifically in "free play", and the effect of this more regulated environment on children"s lives is yet to be determined and not something we can continually ignore in our rush to protect society from children.

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单选题I've made a(n)______ for you to see the dentist at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

单选题Passage Two It is not compatible with the egalitarian ideal that there should be sharp differences in the scale of monetary reward for services performed. In New Zealand, care of the underdog has long since been a more important consideration than is the case in very many other countries. Successive governments may claim with some justice to have abolished poverty, but this has not been done without there taking place a narrowing of margins between the rewards for skilled and unskilled labor, with its consequent denialof incentive toacquire skill, to strive for self-improvement. The country's citizens have come to regard social security as their inalienable right, but by taking too readily for granted the State's obligation towards themselves they are apt to lose sight of the converse proposition that they themselves have obligations to the State. The reluctance to reward skilled labor at rates calculated to provide an incentive for acquiring skill has its counterpart in the reluctance to remunerate the nations' best scholars and scientists on a scale sufficient to keep a fair proportion of them at home. The fact is often deplored that so many young men of the highest ability prefer to take up a career overseas, but it is doubtful whether higher salaries would stem their exodus in more than a minor degree. Under any circumstances, regardless of monetary reward, the intellectual litewould be tempted to go abroad in search of a wider field of endeavor than can be found in so small acountry as New Zealand. In a society where great wealth is regarded as antisocial, it is natural that ostentation should be looked at askance. Marks of distinction are liable to be a handicap. For instance, the politician who accepts a title does not usually improve his chances of gaining or retaining office by doing so. Richard Seddon, it will be remembered, consistently and doubtless wisely, refused to accept a knighthood. Wealth carries with it a minimum of prestige; it is a positive disadvantage to the aspirant to a political career. Strongly marked individuality or eccentricity are seldom in evidence among New Zealanders, and even where they do exist, the qualities are tolerated rather than appreciated. The rule of conformity prevails, and if the American writer, Sydney Greenbie, is to be believed, it has already produced a considerable measure of standardization among the inhabitants of the Dominion. "In face and feature, in mind and taste. " writes Greenbie, "the modern New Zealanders are so much alike that it is hard to remember the names of persons you meet casually for lack of distinguishing characteristics to which the eye can cling." Under conditions such as those described above, it is not surprising that no privileged class should have come into existence through long possession of landed estate or other permanent source of income. Nevertheless, the claim that New Zealanders have developed a classless society can scarcely be substantiated. Snobbery, when discouraged in one quarter, is prone to appear in some new form elsewhere. Recent investigations by A. A. Congalton and R. J. Havighurst show that there is a fairly well defined and universal appreciation of the graduated social status attaching to various social occupations. Results of a survey in which a cross section of the public was asked to answer a series of apposite questions showed, for example, that doctors, lawyers, and big businessmen were graded above heads of Government Departments, clergymen, and university professors; that office workers rated higher than shop assistants, miners than wharf laborers, and so on. Incidentally, the investigation also brought to light the fact that may attempt to inquire into the existence of social distinctions within the community invariably roused resentment. A privileged class being also a leisured class, its rejection is in keeping with a deep-seated belief that work has a virtue in its own right, without regard to its usefulness. In pioneer days, when hands were few and subsistence hard to win, it was indeed a crime to remain idle, and the habit of seeing idleness as a vice has endured. At the beginning of the great slump, when Forbes the Prime Minister, shocked at what he had seen of the "dole" during a visit to England, declared that so long as he retained office there would be no payment without work, his words appealed to a moral precept deeply inculcated not only in the minds of reactionaries but of many radicals as well.

单选题The technology exists to complement and______ the human mind. A. amplify B. enrich C. stretch D. enhance

单选题—Is that a book on farming? If so, I want to borrow ______. —Yes, it is. A) this B) it C) one D) the one

单选题The accuracy of scientific observations and calculations is always at the mercy of the scientist"s time-keeping methods. For this reason, scientists are interested in devices that give promise of more precise time-keeping. In their search for precision, scientists have turned to atomic clocks that depend on various vibrating atoms or molecules to supply their "ticking". This is possible because each kind of atom or molecule has its own characteristic rate of vibration. Atom in ammonia, for example, vibrates or "ticks" 24 billion times a second. One such atomic clock is so accurate that it will probably lose no more than a second in 3000 years. It will be of great importance in fields such as astronomical observation and long-range navigation. The heart of this Atomichron is a cesium(铯) atom that vibrates 9.2 billion times a second when heated to the temperature of boiling water. An atomic clock that operates with an ammonia molecule may be used to check the accuracy of predictions based on Einstein"s relativity theories, according to which a clock in motion and a clock at rest should keep time differently. Placed in an orbiting satellite moving at a speed of 18,000 miles an hour, the clock could broadcast its time readings on a similar model. Whatever differences develop would be checked against the differences predicted.

单选题The sudden bankruptcy of these financial giants threw the investors ______ and caused them to ______.

单选题Hypertension places stress on a number of organs (called target organs), including the kidney, eyes, and heart, causing them to ______ over time. A. deteriorate B. distress C. underscore D. dilute