单选题Around the corner from the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential library in Abilene, Kansas, is the Museum of Independent Telephony. Its 20, 000 visitors a year see a bewildering collection, ranging from wooden wall phones, " candlestick" phones and old pay phones, to switchboards and a reconstructed operator's lair. Despite their years, some of the artifacts continue to work as interactive exhibits. The museum has been receiving more than usual interest in recent years, for Abilene has become a focus for a new American phenomenon. In this age of modems, mobiles and voice mail, Americans are going all gooey over old phones. The ancient railroad town has arguably become the antique phone center of America—the Antique Telephone Collectors Association is also headquartered in Abilene. It owes its status partly to the generosity of the Sprint Corporation, a telecommunications giant which funds the museum because someone called C. L. Brown founded the company there many years ago. Ironically, a big factor in the birth of the old phone market has been the Internet. It has allowed enthusiasts to link up with like-minded souls thousands of miles away. "There are too few collectors to form local organizations of any size, but the Internet has been a wonderful way for people to connect, " says Karen Poza, who two years ago joined the ranks of collectors. "We collectors are like vultures, "says Paul Wiltfong of Lenexa, Kansas, a construction worker who has collected some 14, 000 items since 1981. Auction websites like eBay offer a lively marketplace for the buying and selling of old phones and switchboards. Many vintage phones now cost between $500 and $1, 000, with a few exceptional ones running into five figures. The most popular collectable phones tend to be the ones that people remember using themselves. For instance, interest in early 20th century wooden wall phones—once the most popular models—has waned because fewer people are now alive who remember using them. One aspect of older phones that attracts aficionados is their reliability. Back in the days when the phone company—not the consumer—owned most phones, it was in the company's interest to provide durable machines that cut down on repair trips. Many collectors actually use the rotary-dial phones that they buy. Indeed, many old models are still compatible with current phone networks. "There's no such thing as an unfixable phone, " says Steve Hill who repairs phones and writes troubleshooting guides for old-phone users. Dealers say that some of the new buys in the market are people who have decorated their houses in retro styles and need "era-appropriate"phones. Indeed, some upmarket retailers are already serving this market by reproducing the old-fashioned designs. How long will it be before they end up in Abilene?

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)to help secure America's energy future? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR's oil would help ease California's electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country's energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth, with the last government survey, conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels. The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two to three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall(意外之才) in tax revenues, royalties (开采权使用费)and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling say, damage to the environment would be insignificant. "We've never had a documented case of an oil rig chasing deer out onto the pack ice," says Alaska State Representative Scott Ogan. Not so fast, say environmentalists. Sticking to the low end of government estimates, the National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America's energy problems. And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because drilling could begin only after much bargaining over leases, environmental permits and regulatory review. As for ANWR's impact on the California power crisis, environmentalists point out that oil is responsible for only 1% of the Golden State's electricity output—and just 3% of the nation's.

单选题I could have done it for you if you______. A. ask me to B. asked me to C. have asked me to D. had asked me to

单选题Right now there is a sale of 19th-century European Paintings and sculpture in the museum.(2006年清华大学考博试题)

单选题Sustainable development is the one that meets the needs of the present without ______ the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. A. compromising B. reinforcing C. lowering D. exhausting

单选题The creation of UN was, perhaps, the most ______ achievement of the 20th century. A. obscure B. notable C. acute D. objective

单选题A dolphin(海豚)looks more like a fish than certain fishes do. It is an excellent swimmer. The dolphin seems to flash through the water. Like fish, dolphins are completely at home in the water. There they play, feed, sleep, and give birth to their young. Dolphins live in the sea and can live only in the sea. Yet they are not fish. A dolphin must come to the surface to breathe. Fish can take oxygen from the water. Dolphins cannot. Like us, they breathe with lung and must take their oxygen from the air. And they are mammals(哺乳动物). Most mammals are land animals. Dolphins are evolved(进化)from land animals. Long ago, dolphin ancestors(祖先)left the land for the sea. Among the animals was a kind that would become the dolphin we know. No one is sure exactly what kind of animal it was. But there is reason to think it was related to grass-eating animals like the cow. Modern dolphins are fish-eaters.Yet their stomachs are like those of animals that eat plants. The make-up of their blood is also like that of grass-eating animals.

单选题Some people are willing to rend ______ cars instead of new ones to save money. A．abandoned B．parked C．used D．broken

单选题Man: Friday is a public holiday. Shall we spend our weekend in Kunming? We could leave on Thursday night. Woman: I'd rather go on Friday. My uncle will drop in on Thursday evening. I haven't met him for several years. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题--Do you think the fish tastes ______? --She cooked it ______, I think. A. good, good B. well, good C. well, well D. good, well

单选题The most popular and versatile of all the writers connected with the Harlem Renaissance is______.

单选题From the article, the reader learns that Lee Wildes lives ______.

单选题On a rainy day, you will see many streams of muddy(多泥的) water running down the slopes(斜坡) of a hill. The water is muddy because it washes away soil from the hill slopes. Sometimes soil is blown away by strong winds. When the soil is carried away by water or wind, we say that the land is eroded(侵蚀). This is known as soil erosion. Plants cannot grow on eroded land. There is not enough soil on eroded land to give them the things they need. Plants need water and salts from the soil. We can do a number of things to stop soil erosion. This is called soil conservation(保护). One way of soil conservation on flat, open ground is to grow small plants such as grasses. Their roots hold the soil tightly together. Another way is to plant trees around an open field. Thus soil erosion by strong winds cannot take place. Rows of trees act as a very big wall. Soil erosion on slopes can be stopped by cutting "steps" called terraces (梯田). Water carrying soil cannot run straight down the slope now. It has to run down the terraces. This slows down the flow(流速) of the water. Most of the soil in the water is left behind on the terraces. There are some other ways for soil conservation.

单选题--Would you like some wine? --I don't drink wine as a rule, but I don't mind a glass ______. A. at any time B. once in a while C. more or less D. all the time

单选题The beginning of what was to become the United States was characterized by inconsistencies in the values and behavior of its population, inconsistencies that were reflected by population, inconsistencies that were reflected by its spokesmen, who took conflicting stances in many areas, but on the subject of race, the conflicts were particularly vivid. The idea that the Caucasian race and European civilization were superior was well entrenched in the culture of the colonists at the very time that the "egalitarian" republic was founded. Voluminous historical evidence indicates that, in the mind of the average colonist, the African was a heathen, he was black, and he was different in crucial philosophical ways. As time progressed, he was also increasingly captive, adding to the conception of deviance. The African, therefore, could be justifiaby (and even philanthropically) treated as property according to the reasoning of slavetraders and slaveholders. Although slaves were treated as objects, bountiful evidence suggests that they did not view themselves similarly. There are many published autobiographies of slaves. African- American scholars are beginning to know enough about West African culture to appreciate the existential climate in which the early captives were raised and which therefore could not be totally destroyed by the enslavement experience. This was a climate that defined individuality in collective terms. Individuals were members of a tribe, within which they had prescribed roles determined by the history of their family within the tribe. Individuals were inherently a part of the natural elements on which they depended, and they were actively related to those tribal members who once lived and to those not yet born. The colonial plantation system which was established and into which Africans were thrust did virtually eliminate tribal affiliations. Individuals were separated from kin. Interrelation- ships among kin kept together were often transient because of sales. A new identification with those slaves working and living together in a given place could satisfy what was undoubtedly a natural tendency to be a member of a group. New family units became the most important attachments of individual slaves. Thus, as the system of slavery was gradually institutionalized, West African affiliation tendencies adapted to it. This exceedingly complex dual influence is still reflected in black community life, and the double consciousness of black Americans is the major characteristic of African-American mentality. Du Bois articulated this divided consciousness as follows: The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife--this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging, he wishes neither of the older selves to be best. Several black political movements have looked upon this duality as destructively conflictual and have variously urged its reconciliation. Thus, the integrationists and the black nationalists, to be crudely general, have both been concerned with resolving the conflict, but in opposite directions.

单选题The strength of Congress lies in its numbers because ______.

单选题-- “Have you finished reading the novel?” -- “Not yet. I`m afraid I need _____ couple of days to finish it.”