单选题One's recognition vocabulary is ______.

单选题After ten years, all those young people become ______. A. growns-ups B. growns-up C. grown-up D. grown-ups

单选题Neither John nor his brothers bought what ______ needed. A. he B. they C. one D. you

单选题Experts urge a reforesting of cleared areas, promotion of reduced-impact logging, and _____________ agriculture, to maintain the rain forest.

单选题Being award of your wide experience of the China trade and of your connections with the ______ buyers in your country, we feel that your firm is the right one to do this and we have pleasure in offering you a sole agency. A．principle B．princedom C．principal D．princess

单选题What s the writer' s view about Madonna?

单选题Once the 12 Girls Band became popular, similar groups predictably starting popping up. Musicat and Beautiful Youth 18 were formed last year. Both feature now-familiar formulas of attractive young women playing different instruments in songs that combine modem music with classic Chinese tunes. Yet they add to the mix by throwing in song, dance and even acrobatics. In an interview, noted music critic Jin Zhaojun said the girl band phenomenon was not new to China, as similar acts appeared in the 1980s. However, the undying rule is that to be successful, bands have to have a novel look. "The 12 Girls Band was the first group to give big live shows and show creativity in how they present their performances. The Beijing Red Poppy Ladies Percussion group, formed in 1999, has made a name for itself because they are the only band that exclusively plays drums and percussion instruments. Bands that don't have 'a thing' are sure to die fast," Jin said.

单选题John, you ______ play with the knife, you ______ hurt yourself. A) wont; cant B) mustnt; may C) shouldnt; must D) cant; shouldnt

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} It is animals and plants which lived in or near water whose remains are most likely to be preserved, for one of the necessary conditions of preservation is quick burial, and it is only in the seas and rivers, and sometimes lakes, where mud and silt have been continually deposited, that bodies and the like can be rapidly covered over and preserved. But even in the most favorable circumstances only a small fraction of the creatures that die are preserved in this way before decay sets in or, even more likely, before scavengers eat them. After all, all living creatures live by feeding on something else, whether it be plant or animal, dead or alive, and it is only by chance that such a fate is avoided. The remains of plants and animals that lived on land are much more rarely preserved, for there is seldom anything to cover them over. When you think of the innumerable birds that one sees flying about, not to mention the equally numerous small animals like field mice and voles which you do not see, it is very rarely that one comes across a dead body, except, of course, on the roads. They decompose and are quickly destroyed by the weather or eaten by some other creatures.

单选题It was wonderful up there. Ralph wanted to reach out and touch a star, for they looked so close. He could see the earth【C1】______ smaller and smaller. The ship circled around a made star called Mars, and his space friends【C2】______ Ralph understand that this was their home. He wanted to ask all kinds of【C3】______, but no one could answer him. There was nothing to eat or drink. There people had only a few colourful pills which they can eat【C4】______ they were hungry. Soon it became even harder for Ralph【C5】______ than he felt at first. He felt so light that he could not even stand【C6】______ his own feet. "If I could only have some water," he wished, "and a ride back down to the earth!" The spacemen knew that it was【C7】______ for Ralph to leave. He could not live up there any longer without special air or suit like【C8】______ So they took him to a part of the ship【C9】______ room enough for just one man. A door closed over his head and in a minute Ralph 【C10】______ down to the earth in his own rocket ship. Suddenly he felt the rocket slow down and then stopped. He was back on the earth.

单选题Everything in today's world is going faster and faster, and television commercials are no exception. At the start of the television age the standard commercial lasted 60 seconds, but most of today's commercials are only half that length and many are even shorter. The 15-second commercial, introduced a few years ago as a way to cut skyrocketing advertising costs, may soon be the most common in the United States. (Our television-watching counterparts in Japan and Europe are already being treated to 7-second mini-commercials ! ) What stands behind the message that blips onto and off our television screens before we have time to get to the kitchen and hack? Months of planning; hundreds of interviews with potential users of the product; hours of writing; dozens of actors, directors, and technicians; days of filming; and hundreds of thousands of dollm's in payments to the television networks that will run the ad. Take for example a recent commercial for a certain brand of cough drops. The manufacturer of the cough drops spent four months trying to think of a way to boost sales. After several surveys of cough drop users, the company decided to market a strawberry-flavored lozenge. Further surveys identified tile typical users of the strawberry-flavored cough drop as persons between the ages of 15 and 30. This infforination was important in planning the content and style of the commercial (fast-paced and upbeat, with colorful graphics and lively music) and in determining when to air it (during situation comedies, prime-time dramas, and music specials). The creative team at the advertising agency that handled the cough drop company's account then took over. After hours of discussion and writing, they came up with six scripts, from which the client chose two. One involved a young woman pulling a strawberry out of a box of cough drops. The outline, or storyboard, for the commercial looked deceptively simple: four sketches and a few lines of 'voice-over.' Yet these few words and images (just enough to fill 15 seconds) had been carefully selected to convey crucial information about the product: its effectiveness in suppressing coughs and soothing sore throats, the absence of sugar, and its strawberry flavor. Turning this carefully calculated script into an effective commercial involved finding just the right actor: a young woman who would be attractive to the target audience and who could make her positive response to the cough drops look convincing. Forty-two actors were. auditioned; one was chosen. The actor wasn't the only element of the commercial that had to go through an audition. More than a hundred outfits were inspected before one was chosen for her to wear, and hundreds of strawberries had to be sorted through. The filming began at 9:30 one morning. "All" the actor had to do was to open a box of cough drops, pull out a strawberry and munch on it. Yet her movements and facial expressions had to be just right, and achieving that perfection took three hours and 72 shootings, or 'takes.' Even then—shooting completed—the job was far from done. Thousands of feet of film had to be reduced to a compact 45 feet of finished commercial. Using million-dollar, computerized equipment, the producer, writer, and art director selected the best two takes and mixed images and sound to produce a polished final product. The result? A simple, effortless-looking lisle film that shows none of the tremendous effort that went into producing it, but which should justify all of that time, creativity, and expense by boosting cough drop sales.

单选题It is one of our family's______ for eldest sons to be called John.

单选题Ittooksometimetofigureoutjusttherightshoppingcomplex,offjusttherighthighwayinterchangeandjusttherightdistancefromSeoul,thatcouldaccommodatea624,000-square-footstore—thatistosay,onemorethanthreetimesthesizeoftheaverageWal-MartSupercenter.Ittookmoretimetosolvecertainmysteries,likehowbigtomakethestore"schildren"ssectioninacountrywherekidsareoftengivenamplespaceinthefamilylivingquarters.Ittookmoretimetofigureouthowtoshowcasekitchensthatincorporatekimchirefrigerators,auniquelyKoreanappliance—andevenmoretimetountanglenuancesofthemarket,liketheSouthKorean"spreferenceformetalchopsticks.Inall,ittookaboutsixyearsforIkeatounveilitsinauguralstoreinSouthKorea,inGwangmyeong,startingfromthefirstscoutingtrip.ThelagwastypicallyIkean.Butsixyears?"Themoreglobal,themorecomplexitgets,"repliesMikaelPalmquist,theregionalmanagerofretailforAsiaPacific."Weneedtogetthesethingsrightorwewillneverbetakenseriously."TodaytheGwangmyeongstore,whichisthecompany"slargestintheworldbyshoppingarea,isontracktobecomeoneofIkea"stop-performingoutletsfor2015.Thesuccessishardlyafluke.Ikea,itseems,isageniusatsellingIkea—flatpacking,transporting,andreassemblingitsquirkySwedishstylingallacrosstheplanet.ThefurnitureandfurnishingsbrandisinmorecountriesthanWal-MartandCarrefour.China,whereIkeahaseightofits10biggeststores,isthecompany"sfastest-growingmarket.AnoutletinMoroccoiscomingsoon,andtherearehintsthatBrazilmaynotbefaroff.Meanwhile,IkeaisgoingmeatballsoutinIndia,whereitplanstoinvestabout$2billionoveradecadetoopen10stores.GettingitrightinemergingmarketslikeChinaandIndia,whereIkeaiswell-positionedtocapitalizeonagrowingmiddleclass,isakeyfactorinitsgoalofhitting50billioninsalesby2020.That"supfrom28.7billioninitsfiscal2014andalmostdoubleits2005saleslevel.TodaytheIkeaGrouphas318stores,notincludingthebrand"ssomefourdozenfranchisedlocations;it"saimingforaround500by2020.

单选题He______the meeting, but upon learning that they would discuss something irrelevant to his field of study, he dropped the idea.

单选题Woman: What's your plan for the winter holiday?Man: I'm going skiing in Colorado.Woman: But it's very dangerous for a beginner. Do your parents agree?Man: No, but I can get round them.Question: How can the man go skiing?

单选题Don't feel like ______ out today. A. go B. going C. to go D. gone

单选题As soon as he comes back I'll tell him when______and see him.

单选题If gender conflicts continue at their current rate, my partner gloomily observed, men may fade into extinction and women will manage fine without them. What with test-tube babies, cloning, a falling birth-rate, and have-it-all career women prevailing like never before, it seems as if old-fashioned, instinct-driven sexual selection was totally out of fashion. But a study from four British universities suggests it is alive and well, and busy shaping the next generation. In spite of emancipation, the feminist movement, gender equality, and consistent efforts to avoid gender-stereotyping, men still prefer to marry women who are not too brainy. In the study a high IQ hampered a woman's chance of getting married, with a 40 percent drop in marital prospects for every 16-point rise. The opposite was true for their male class-mates. Top-earning men were 8 per cent more likely to be married than their low-earning peers. How interesting that we automatically assume that men are put off by cleverness in women. Perhaps the brainy women did not wan to get married. Possibly they could not find men clever enough to satisfy them. But these interpretations hardly merit more than a passing thought because this study simply reinforces what we know to be broadly true: that most women do want a committed partner and that most stable marriages occur in a power relation, with the man being the center. We usually think of competitiveness as a male activity, and so it is mainly, which is all the more reason for it causing stress in a marriage. Our ancestry certainly included a long phase when the males competed for the alpha role, in which the top male took all the advantages and most of the group matings. Most men nurse secret dreams of being "benign" dictators. No man likes his wife to earn more than he does. We see how fragile are the marriages of those in which the female has the whip hand in the shape of fame, success, and wealth. In contrast, marriages where the female status is obviously inferior, including arranged marriages, there is a greater stability. Women have to accept that coming into our own and achieving the full potential of our (seemingly superior) capacity to use education will undoubtedly make us more inaccessible as partners. More choosy, and therefore less successful.

单选题Speaker A: I'm terribly sorry for being so careless.Speaker B:______A. Never mind.B. Don' t worry about it.C. Don' t feel sorry about it.D. I feel sorry too.