单选题Newspapers and magazines carry extensive ______ of diet and health topics and diet books are among the best sellers.

单选题His composition is better than ______ in the class. A. anyone B. anyone's C. anyone else D. anyone else's

单选题Speaker A: ______ Speaker B: I think I"ve caught a bad cold and got a terrible sour throat.

单选题{{B}}Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} The Xinhua bookstore chain, China's largest official publishing enterprise, has become a surprising flash point for interest among foreign venture capital investors. "We are actively promoting the process of shareholding reform. Every day, we receive lots of offers from domestic and foreign investors interested in getting involved and may pick one or two to do so in the next two to three months," Zhang Yashan, the leading cadre of the head store's office said. According to a company insider who requested anonymity, several securities firms are overseeing Xinhua bookstore's reform and the company could list on the domestic stock market once reforms are repotted to the government in May and then completed. The source would not reveal the specific names of the firms involved or details of the reform. "We will stipulate that we must remain the majority shareholder, but we will welcome all kinds of investment, including foreign capital, to establish a shareholding enterprise. We hope the No. 2 shareholder will be a foreign enterprise," the source said. In keeping with its World Trade Organization entry promises, China must allow foreign investment in domestic publication retailers by the end of this year.

单选题—Have you watered the flowers? —No, but ______. A) I am B) Im going C) Im just going to D) I will go

单选题In the sunlight, the coolest clothes would be ______.

单选题Education is all enormous and expensive part of American life. Its size is matched by its variety. Differences in American schools compared with those found in the majority of other countries lie in the fact that education here has long been intended for everyone—not just for a privileged elite. Schools are expected to meet the needs of every child, regardless of ability, and also the needs of society itself. This means that public schools offer more than academic subjects. It surprises many people when they come here to find high schools offering such courses as typing, sewing, radio repair, computer programming or driver training, along with traditional academic subjects such as mathematics, history, and languages. Students choose their curricula depending on their interests, future goals, and level of ability. The underlying goal of American education is to develop every child to the utmost of his or her own possibilities, and to give each one a sense of civic (公民的) and community consciousness. Schools have traditionally played an important role in creating national unity and "Americanizing" the millions of immigrants who have poured into this country from many different backgrounds and origins. Schools still play a large role in the community, especially in the small towns. The approach to teaching may seem unfamiliar to many, not only because it is informal, but also because there is not much emphasis on learning facts. Instead, Americans try to teach their children to think for themselves and to develop their own intellectual and creative abilities. Students spend much time, learning how to use resource materials, libraries, statistics and computers. Americans believe that if children are taught to reason well and to research well, they will be able to find whatever facts they need throughout the rest of their lives. Knowing how to solve problems is considered more important than the accumulation of facts. This is America"s answer to the searching question that thoughtful parents all over the world are asking themselves in the fast-moving time: "How can one prepare today"s child for a tomorrow that one can neither predict nor understand?"

单选题Having lost consciousness for twenty hours, the wounded soldier ( ) at last.

单选题Frank Lloyd Wright probably is the greatest architect that the United States has ever produced. He was very (21) and had a natural ability (22) . His buildings were not only beautiful, but they were (23) functional. They fit their purposes very well. Wright's churches, (24) make people feel like (25) . His office buildings make people (26) working, and his houses make people (27) comfortable, at home. However. Wright's beautiful, (28) buildings are not the only reason (29) he is famous. There is another reason. Frank Lloyd Wright is called the greatest American architect because he started an American style (30) . Most of the architecture in the U. S. before Wright was really European, (31) . Wright's buildings do not (32) old European buildings. They have their own (33) . Wright's ideas about style are still used in the U. S. and in other parts of the world. The most important idea in Frank Lloyd Wright's Style of Architecture is that a building must (34) and the land around it . His houses are often called "grassland houses" because their lines are (35) to the lines on the grass land. (36) the lines of the grassland and the lines of Wright's houses (37) the horzon, the place (38) earth and sky seem to meet. They are horizontal lines. Most European style houses, (39) , have many vertical lines that form 90° angles (40) the horizon.

单选题The struggle against sand storm will not end ______ victory unless we pay much attention to the balance of nature.A. atB. inC. forD. with

单选题Most leading magazines would be given to consumers for free as long as______.

单选题 There are several ways you can find out about the countries and places you wish to visit. You can talk to friends who{{U}} (41) {{/U}}to the places, or you can go and see a{{U}} (42) {{/U}}film about them,{{U}} (43) {{/U}}you can read travel books. {{U}} (44) {{/U}}would seem that there are three kinds of travel books. The first are those that give a personal,{{U}} (45) {{/U}}account of travel which the author has actually{{U}} (46) {{/U}}himself. If they are informative and have a good index,{{U}} (47) {{/U}}they can be useful to you when you{{U}} (48) {{/U}}your travel. The second kind are those books{{U}} (49) {{/U}}purpose is to give a purely objective{{U}} (50) {{/U}}of things to be done and seen. If a{{U}} (51) {{/U}}, cultured person has written such a book, then it is even more useful. It can{{U}} (52) {{/U}}as a selective guide book. The third kind are those books which are called a "guide"{{U}} (53) {{/U}}some place or other. If they are good, they will,{{U}} (54) {{/U}}their factual information , give an{{U}} (55) {{/U}}or an interpretation. Like the first kind, they can be inspiring and{{U}} (56) {{/U}}, but their primary function is to{{U}} (57) {{/U}}the reader who wishes to plan in the most practical way. Whatever kind of travel book you choose, you must make sure that it does not describe everything{{U}} (58) {{/U}}marvellous, fabulous or magical. You{{U}} (59) {{/U}}also note its date of publication, because travel is a very{{U}} (60) {{/U}}affair and many things change quickly in the 20th century. Finally you should make sure that the contents are well-presented and easy to find.

单选题She is too shy to ask a stranger the time, ______ speak to a room of people.

单选题The reasons shown in Young Soldiers for children to join the army are ______.

单选题A good modem newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features (特定) as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out, glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interesied in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality (时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient (短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day's paper, his own selection and sequence, his own news paper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.