单选题His son is quite well now, ______a slight fever.

单选题After exploring for more than half a year the ecologist felt a great ______ resulting from the rare species the team had spotted at the foot of the mountain.

单选题The word "loath"(line. 11) means ______

单选题Thanks a lot, but you ______ me a birthday present.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Write your translations in your answer sheet.{{B}}Section A{{/B}}Translate the underlined sentences into good Chinese. Americans find it difficult to think about old age until they are propelled into the midst of it by their own aging and that of relatives and friends. Aging is the neglected stepchild of the human life cycle. Though we have begun to examine the socially taboo subjects of dying and death, we have leaped over that long period of time preceding death known as old age. In truth, it is easier to manage the problem of death than the problem of living as an old person. {{U}}Death is a dramatic, one-time crisis while old age is a day-by-day and year-by-year confrontation with powerful external and internal forces, a bittersweet coming to terms with one's own personality and one's life.{{/U}} (1) We base our feelings on primitive fears, prejudice and stereotypes rather than on knowledge and insight. {{U}}In reality, the way one experiences old age is contingent upon circumstances of late-life events (in what order they occur, how they occur, when they occur) and the social supports one receives: adequate finances, shelter, medical care, social roles, religious support, recreation.{{/U}} (2) All of these are crucial and interconnected elements which together determine the quality of late life. Old age is neither inherently miserable nor inherently sublime, like every stage of life it has problems, joys, fears and potentials. {{U}}The process of aging and eventual death must ultimately be accepted as the natural progression of the life cycle, the old completing their prescribed life span, and making way for the young.{{/U}} (3) Much that is unique in old age in fact derives from the reality of aging and the imminence of death. {{U}}The old must clarify and find use for what they have attained in a lifetime of learning and adapting; they must conserve strength and resources where necessary and adjust creatively to those changes and losses that occur as part of the aging experience.{{/U}} (4) The elderly have the potential for qualities of human reflection and observation which can only come from having lived an entire life span. {{U}}There is a lifetime accumulation of personality and experience which is available to be used and enjoyed.{{/U}} (5)

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. It is generally recognized in the world that the second Gulf War in Iraq is a crucial test of high-speed Web. For decades, Americans have anxiously{{U}} (1) {{/U}}each war through a new communications{{U}} (2) {{/U}}, from the early silent film of World War I to the 24-hour cable news{{U}} (3) {{/U}}of the first Persian Gulf War. Now,{{U}} (4) {{/U}}bombs exploding in Baghdad, a sudden increase in wartime{{U}} (5) {{/U}}for online news has become a central test of the{{U}} (6) {{/U}}of high-speed Internet connections. It is also a good{{U}} (7) {{/U}}both to attract users to online media{{U}} (8) {{/U}}and to persuade them to pay for the material they find there,{{U}} (9) {{/U}}the value of the Cable News Network persuaded millions to{{U}} (10) {{/U}}to cable during the last war in Iraq. {{U}} (11) {{/U}}by a steady rise over the last 18 months in the number of people with high-speed Internet{{U}} (12) {{/U}}, now at more than 70 million in the United States, the Web sites of many of the major news organizations have{{U}} (13) {{/U}}assembled a novel collage (拼贴) of{{U}} (14) {{/U}}video, audio reports, photography collections, animated weaponry{{U}} (15) {{/U}}, interactive maps and other new digital reportage. These Internet services are{{U}} (16) {{/U}}on the remarkable abundance of sounds and images{{U}} (17) {{/U}}from video cameras{{U}} (18) {{/U}}on Baghdad and journalists traveling with troops. And they have found a{{U}} (19) {{/U}}audience of American office workers{{U}} (20) {{/U}}their computers during the early combat. (245 words)

单选题No sooner had he finished his speech ______ stormy applause broke out.

单选题The changes in globally averaged temperature that have occurred at the Earth's surface over the past century are similar in size and timing to those 61 by models that take into account the combined influences of human factors and solar variability. To 62 the question of attribution requires the 63 of more powerful and complex methods, beyond the use of global averages alone. New studies have focused on 64 maps or patterns of temperature change in 65 and in models. Pattern analysis is the climatologically equivalent of the more comprehensive tests in the medical analogy mentioned 66 , and makes it possible to achieve more definitive 67 of observed climate changes to a particular cause or causes. The expected influence of human activities is thought to be much more complex than uniform warming over the entire surface of the Earth and over the whole 68 cycle. Patterns of change over space and time therefore provide a more powerful 69 technique. The basic idea 70 pattern-based approaches is that different 71 causes of climate change have different characteristic patterns of climate response or fingerprints. Attribution studies seek to 72 a fingerprint match between the patterns of climate change 73 by models and those actually observed. The most recent assessment of the science suggests that human activities have led to a discernible 74 on global climate and that these activities will have and increasing influence on future climate. The buming of coal, oil and natural gas, as well as various agricultural and industrial practices, are 75 the composition of the atmosphere and contributing to climate change. These human activities have led to increased atmospheric 76 of a number of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane and so on in the lower atmosphere. Human activities, such as the burning of fossil, have also increased the 77 of small particles in the atmosphere. These particles can change the 78 of energy that is absorbed and reflected by the atmosphere. They are also believed to modify the 79 of air and clouds, changing the amount of energy that they absorb and reflect. Intensive studies of the climatic effects of these particles began only recently and the overall 80 is uncertain. It is likely that the net effect of these small particles is to cool the climate and to partially offset the warming of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases.

单选题The plane ______, its bombs exploding as it hit the ground. A. smashed B. crushed C. plunged D. crashed

单选题His business prospered and he became a person of means. Yet, despite his great riches, he gave no arms to the needy and no thanks to his benefactors whose savings ______ to his welfare.

单选题Because cows ______ meat and milk, they are valued in many countries.

单选题The suggestion made by the committee is to solve the problem that ______.

单选题Sichuan University has not only (a variety of) departments (but) a large (student body) (consisting in) many people from different countries all over the world.

单选题 Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that' s not how it used to be. To the men and women who{{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}in World War I1 and the people they liberated, the GI. was the{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}man grown into hero, the pool farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who{{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the{{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}of 1hod and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a vohmteer soldier, not someone well paid,{{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}an average guy, up{{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries. His name is not much. GI. is just a military abbreviation{{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}Govermnent Issue, and it was on all of the article{{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy who never{{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Magrae... a working class name.The United States has{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}had a president or vieepresident or secretary of state Joe. GI. Joe had a{{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}career fighting Geman, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character, or a{{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of GL Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle{{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}portrayde themselves in the fihn. Pyle was famous for covering the{{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}side of the warl, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports{{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}the "willie" cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men{{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}the dirt and exhaustion of war, the{{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep.{{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G. I. Joe was any American soldier,{{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}the most important person in their lives.

单选题He shouldn't have come back alive. Captain J. H. Hedley was British pilot in World War I. He fell victim to a bit of misfortune that would have been enough to kill anyone. Yet, with bad luck staring him in the face, good luck was coming up fast on his tail. Captain Hedley was flying a mission over Germany with his copilot, A Canadian flyer named Makepeace. Suddenly they were surrounded by a group of German fighters. Makepeace, an experienced pilot, knew he had to take the plane into a vertical dive in order to slip away from Germans. Inexplicably, Hedley was caught unaware by his copilot's maneuver. He was thrown sharply out of his seat and out of the plane. Makepeace sadly counted Hedley a dead man and continued his evasive maneuvers. Suddenly, Makepeace spotted Hedley clinging to the tail of the plane, Hedley hung on and pulled himself back into the plane when it leveled off. Makepeace was stunned by the sight of Hedley, but he kept his composure enough to get them out of the trouble and out of Germany. The best explanation for Hedley's reprieve(缓刑) was that the plane's sudden vertical dive had created a vacuum in the air be- hind it. Hedley fell into the vacuum and was pulled along until he grabbed the tail and made his fantastic reentry.

单选题 English as a Foreign Language Who taught you to speak English? Your parents, while you were a young child? Your teachers at school? Perhaps even the BBC as a grown-up. Whoever it was, somehow you have developed an understanding of what is rapidly becoming a truly global language. There are now about 376 million people who speak English as their first language, and about the same number who have learnt it in addition to their mother tongue. There are said to be one billion people learning English now and about 80% of the information on the Internet is in English. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? Should we celebrate the fact that more and more of us can communicate, using a common language, across countries and cultures (文化)? Or should we worry about the dangers of "mono-culturalism", a world in which we all speak the same language, eat the same food and listen to the same music? Does it matter if an increasing number of people speak the same language? On the contrary (相反), I would have thought—although I have never accepted the argument that if only we all understood each other better, there would be fewer wars. Ask the people of India (where many of them speak at least some English) and Pakistan (the same situation with India)… If we all speak English, will we then all start eating McDonalds hamburgers? Surely not. If English becomes more dominant(占主导地位的) ,will it kill other languages? I doubt it. When I travel in Africa or Asia, I am always surprised by how many people can speak not only their own language but often one or more other related languages, as well as English and perhaps some French or German as well. When we discussed this on Talking Point a couple of years ago, we received a wonderfully poetic email from a listener in Ireland. "The English language is a beautiful language. Maybe it's like a rose," he said. "But who would ever want their garden just full of roses?" Well, I love roses, and I think they make a beautiful addition to any garden. But the way I see it, just by planting a few roses, you don't necessarily need to pull out everything else. If more and more people want to plant English roses, that's fine by me.

单选题Although Julia Roberts has had much professional success. In spite of her trouble with several failed relationships.

单选题 A bite of a cookie containing peanuts could cause the airway to constrict fatally. Sharing a toy with another child who had earlier eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could raise a case of hives. A peanut butter cup dropped in a Halloween bag could contaminate the rest of the treats, posing an unknown risk. These are the scenarios that "make your bone marrow turn cold" according to L.Val Giddings, vice president for food and agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Besides representing the policy interests of food biotech companies in Washington, D. C. , Giddings is the father of a four-year-old boy with a severe peanut allergy. Peanuts are only one of the most allergenic foods; estimates of the number of people who experience a reaction to the beans hover around 2 percent of the population. Giddings says that peanuts are only one of several foods that biotechnologists are altering genetically in an attempt to eliminate the proteins that do great harm to some people's immune systems. Although soy allergies do not usually cause life-threatening reactions, the scientists are also targeting soybeans, which can be found in two thirds of all manufactured food, making the supermarket a minefield for people allergic to soy. Biotechnologists are focusing on wheat, too, and might soon expand their research to the rest of the "big eight" allergy-inducing foods: tree nuts, milk, eggs, shellfish and fish. Last September, for example, Anthony J.Kinney, a crop genetics researcher at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Del., and his colleagues reported using a technique called RNA interference (RNAi) to silence the genes that encode p34, a protein responsible for causing 65 percent of all soybean allergies. RNAi exploits the mechanism that cells use to protect themselves against foreign genetic material; it causes a cell to destroy RNA transcribed from a given gene, effectively turning off the gene. Whether the public will accept food genetically modified to be low-allergen is still unknown. Courtney Chabot Dreyer, a spokesperson for Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a subsidiary of DuPont, says that the company will conduct studies to determine whether a promising market exists for low-allergen soy before developing the seeds for sale to farmers. She estimates that Pioneer Hi-Bred is seven years away from commercializing the altered soybeans. Doug Gurian-Sherman, scientific director of the biotechnology project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest-a group that has advocated enhanced Food and Drug Administration oversight for genetically modified foods-comments that his organization would not oppose low-allergen foods if they prove to be safe. But he wonders about "identity preservation" — a term used in the food industry to describe the deliberate separation of genetically engineered and nonengineered products. A batch of nonengineered peanuts or soybeans might contaminate machinery reserved for low-allergen versions, he suggests, reducing the benefit of the gene-altered food. Such issues of identity preservation could make low-allergen genetically modified foods too costly to produce, Chabot Dreyer admits. But, she says, "it's still too early to see if that's true."