单选题Man: How did you go to Canada, Jane? Did you fly? Woman: I was planning to, because it's such a long trip by bus or by train. But Fred decided to drive and invited me to join him. It took us two days and a night. Question: What can we infer from the conversation? A. Fred is planning a trip to Canada. B. Fred usually flies to Canada with Jane. C. Fred persuaded Jane to change her mind. D. Fred likes the beautiful scenery along the way to Canada.

单选题Jenny is the only one of the grade who ______selected to school fashion-show team

单选题 It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class English home, such as the present writer is now working in, with the inconveniences and deficiencies of the equipment of an Alexandrian writer, and one realizes the enormous waste of time, physical exertion, and attention that went on through all the centuries during which that library flourished. Before the present writer lie half a dozen books, and there are good indices to three of them. He can pick up any one of these six books, refer quickly to a statement, verify a quotation, and go on writing. Contrast with the tedious un- folding of a rolled manuscript. Close at hand are two encyclopedias, a dictionary, an atlas of the world, a biographical dictionary, and other books of reference. They have no marginal indices, it is true, but that, perhaps, is asking too much at present. There were no such resources in the world in 300 B.C. Alexandria had still to produce the first grammar and the first dictionary. This present book is being written in manuscript; it is then taken by a typist and typewritten very accurately. It can then, with the utmost convenience, be read over, corrected amply, rearranged freely, retyped, and recorrected. The Alexandrian author had to dictate or recopy every word he wrote. Before he could turn back to what he had written previously, he had to dry his last words by waving them in the air or pouring sand over them; he had not even blotting-paper. Whatever an author wrote had to be recopied again and again before it could reach any considerable circle of readers, and every copyist introduced some new error. New books were dictated to a roomful of copyists, and so issued in a first edition of some hundreds at least. In Rome, Horace and Virgil seem to have been issued in quite considerable editions. Whenever a need for maps or diagrams arose, there were fresh difficulties. Such a science as anatomy, for example, depending as it does upon accurate drawing, must have been enormously hampered by the natural limitations of the copyist. The transmission of geographical fact again must have been almost incredibly tedious. No doubt a day will come when a private library and writing desk of the year A.D. 1925 will seem quaintly clumsy and difficult; but, measured by the standards of Alexandria, they are astonishingly quick, efficient, and economical of nervous and mental energy.

单选题California is a land of variety and contrast. Almost every type of physical land feature, sort of arctic ice fields and tropical jungles can be found within its borders. Sharply contrasting types of land often lie very close to one another. People living in Bakersfield, for instance, can visit the Pacific Ocean and the coastal plain, the fertile San Joaquin Valley, the arid Mojave Desert, and the high Sierra Nevada, all within a radius of about 100 miles. In other areas it is possible to go snow skiing in the morning and surfing in the evening of the same day, without having to travel long distance. Contrast abounds in California. The highest point in the United States(outside Alaska)is in California, and so is the lowest point(including Alaska). Mount Whitney, 14,494 feet above sea level, is separated from Death Valley, 282 feet below sea level, by a distance of only 100 miles. The two areas have a difference in altitude of almost three miles. California has deep, clear mountain lakes like Lake Tahoe, the deepest in the country, but it also has shallow, salty desert lakes. It has Lake Tulainyo, 12,020 feet above sea level, and the lowest lake in the country, the Saltan Sea, 236 feet below sea level. Some of its lakes, like Owens Lake in Death Valley, are not lakes at all: they are dried up lake beds. In addition to mountains, lakes, valleys, deserts, and plateaus, California has its Pacific coastline, stretching longer than the coastlines of Oregon and Washington combined.

单选题(2004)She has got a chair____.

单选题You can' t go that way, I' m afraid, as the road is ______ repair.

单选题______ preparations were being made for the Prime Minister's official visit to the four universities.

单选题It is difficult to discern the sample that is on the slide unless the microscope is adjusted properly. A. overlook B. disclaim C. discard D. detect

单选题If you" re among the two-thirds of working women who earn their living in offices, it" s far too early to let out a sigh of relief about how healthy and happy your working environment is. If you are among that number, however, you probably already know that. Without question, office work doesn" t pose the risks or dangers of jobs in manufacturing, mining, or even agriculture. The closest many of us come to working with a chemical is when we get toner smudges on our hands from photocopies or apply dabs of correcting fluid. By most people" s standards, even the dingiest office beats an assembly line, factory, or a mine for atmosphere. A white collar isn" t exactly protective clothing, however. More than 40,000 disabling injuries(including back and neck injuries and muscle pulls)and 200 safety-related deaths occur in offices each year. There are also considerable other stresses associated with office work, including boredom, repetitiveness, and low status, which can affect health. One thing is certain: as the numbers of office workers grow, so too will office health problems. In the 1950s and early 1960s the office had begun its climb to economic fame and power, jockeying into position to replace industry as the largest employer in the United States. It was the beginning of what author John Naisbitt calls the "information age" in his influential book Megatrends, "Now," he says, "more than 65 percent of us work with information as programmers, teachers, clerks, secretaries, accountants, stock brokers, managers, insurance people, bureaucrats, lawyers, bankers, and technicians. And many more workers hold information jobs within manufacturing companies."

单选题In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child"s acquisition(获得) of each new skill—the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feeling of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself. Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters, others are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child"s own happiness. As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality(道德). Also, parents should realize that "example is better than precept ". If they are not sincere and do not practice what they preach (说教), their children may grow confused and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled. A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parent"s principles and their moral can be a dangerous disappointment.

单选题The United Nations imposed______ on Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait in 1991.

单选题As human children are unusually dependent far an unusually long time, it's obvious that every society must provide a domestic context in which the children are brought up and educated. In present-day English, the word "family" has two meanings: firstly, the (1) group of parents and children; and secondly, a (2) of relations who might be expected to (3) at a wedding or a (4) . At the first level, my brothers and sisters and myself are all in the same (5) as children, but in different ones as parents; but at the second (6) , we're all in the same family from start to finish. As nuclear families become more (7) , families of relations become more dispersed (分散). The young mother can still talk to her Mum on the phone, but she can't ask her to (8) for a few minutes to watch the baby. Ideas about the (9) of women have been changing: wives are thought to be the (10) of their husbands rather than their (11) . But perhaps they're more (12) enslaved to their children than before. The point is that there doesn't seem to be any (13) . There is a genuine (14) between the right of the woman to be treated as a free and self-respected (15) , and the right of the child to demand care and (16) We have created for ourselves three (17) : social equality of men and women; (18) of the marriage; and lifelong love and (19) between parents and children. However, we have (20) a social system in which it's quite impossible for these factors to co-exist.

单选题Young ______ he is, he knows what is the right thing to do.A. thatB. asC. althoughD. however

单选题In the United States, it is important to be on time, or punctual, for an appointment, a class, etc. However, this may not be true in all countries. An American professor discovered this difference while teaching a class in a Brazilian (巴西的) university. The two-hour class was scheduled to begin at 10 A. M. and end at 12. On the first day, when the professor arrived on time, no one was in the classroom. Many students came after the scheduled time. Several arrived half an hour later. Few apologized for their lateness. Were these students being rude? He decided to study the students' behavior. The professor talked to American and Brazilian students about lateness in both an informal and a formal situation, at a lunch with a friend and in a university class. He found that if they had a lunch appointment with a friend, the average American student defined lateness as 19 minutes after the agreed time. However, the average Brazilian student felt the friend was late after 33 minutes. In an American university, classes not only begin at the scheduled time in the United States, but also end at the scheduled time. In the Brazilian class, only a few students left the class at 12:00; many remained past 12:30 to discuss the class and ask more questions. While arriving late may not be very important in Brazil, neither is staying late.

单选题It's more than half a century ______ my grandfather joined the Party and became a servant to the people.A. whenB. thatC. sinceD. while

单选题Information has been put forward ______ more middle school graduates will be admitted into universities. A) while B) that C) when D) as

单选题Most injures can be prevented, provided a parent goes about it the right way. Mr. Grant was a skilled and capable surgeon. His wife--intelligent, charming and a qualified nurse--had suggested they see me about their 16-month-old son, Neville. Mrs. Grant spoke first. "We're both professional people, and I guess we're supposed to know more than most people. It hurts us to admit our little Neville is such a problem." "He's all over the house, climbing, handling things he's not supposed to be touching," Mr. Grant interrupted, "and we're afraid he'll badly injure himself and it'll be our fault." "Does he have some understanding of the word ' no'," I asked… "That's just it, we can't be sure if he has or not. Sometimes he seems to understand, but at other times he just doesn't seem to mind when we say 'no'," the father replied. "Teaching a child the meaning of the word 'no' can be crucial in preventing accidents. Unless your Neville can understand the true meaning of 'no'--and only you two can teach it to him at this stage--there's bound to be trouble," I stated emphatically. Children between the age of one and two often injure themselves, sometimes quite seriously, if they've not been properly trained to respond to the word 'no'. It's only natural that our child, having only recently learned to move about, should want to explore and find out about this big, beautiful world around him. His sense of curiosity gets the better of him. To begin with, the fewer "no's" you tell your child, the better off things it will be. This can be done by thoughtfully removing from the room all those forbidden objects you suspect he'll reach for. You must be absolutely consistent. Be quick, alert, and fast-acting in preventing him from reaching for a forbidden object. Draw his attention, towards something else he can play with.

单选题According to the passage, at a pedestrian crossing you should not ______.