单选题The high income tax is harmful ______ it may discourage people from trying to earn more.

单选题Demand for the most common cosmetic surgery procedures, like breast enlargements and nose jobs, has increased by more than 400 per cent over the last decade. According to Dr. Dai Davies, of the Plastic Surgery Partnership in Hammersmith, the majority of cosmetic surgery patients are not chasing physical perfection. Rather, they are driven to fantastic lengths to improve their appearance by a desire to look normal. "What we all crave is to look normal, and normal is what is prescribed by the advertising media and other external pressures. They give us a perception of what is physically acceptable and we feel we must look like that." In America, the debate is no longer about whether surgery is normal; rather, it centres on what age people should be before going under the knife. New York surgeon Dr. Gerard Imber recommends "maintenance" work for people in their thirties. "The idea of waiting until one needs a heroic transformation is silly," he says. "By then, you"ve wasted 20 great years of your life and allowed things to get out of hand." Dr. Imber draws the line at operating on people who are under 18, however. "It seems that someone we don"t consider old enough to order a drink shouldn"t be considering plastic surgery." In the UK cosmetic surgery has long been seen as the exclusive domain of the very rich and famous. But the proportionate cost of treatment has fallen substantially, bringing all but the most advanced laser technology within the reach of most people. Dr. Davies, who claims to "cater for the average person", agrees. He says: "I treat a few of the rich and famous and an awful lot of secretaries. Of course, ￡3,000 for an operation is a lot of money. But it is also an investment for life which costs about half the price of a good family holiday." Dr. Davies suspects that the increasing sophistication of the fat injecting and removal techniques that allow patients to be treated with a local anaesthetic in an afternoon has also helped promote the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Yet, as one woman who recently paid ￡2,500 for liposuction to remove cellulite from her thighs admitted, the slope to becoming a cosmetic surgery veteran is a deceptively gentle one. "I had my legs done because they"d been bugging me for years. But going into the clinic was so low key and effective it whetted my appetite. Now I don"t think there"s any operation that I would rule out having if I could afford it."

单选题Customer: I' m looking for a new living room set.Salesman: We have a lot of very nice sets. What style do you have in mind?Customer:______. What I need is something comfortable.A. I really don' t knowB. It' s really not necessaryC. I really don' t botherD. It really makes no sense

单选题I suggested he should______himseff to his new conditions. A. adapt B. adopt C. regulate D. suit

单选题If women are mercilessly exploited (剥削) year after year, they are only themselves to blame. Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion. When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe (衣柜) packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that she has nothing to wear. Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste. Many women spend vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn. Women who cannot afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering the dresses they have. Skirts are lengthened or shortened; necklines are lowered or raised, and so on. No one can claim that the fashion industry contributes anything really important to society. Fashion desihners are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability (耐用). They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look fight. There can hardly be a man who hasn't at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, delicately picking her way through deep snow in high-heeled shoes. When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion the conclusions to be drawn are obvious. Do the constantly changing fashion of women's clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy and instability? Men are too clever to let themselves be treated by fashion designers. Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualifies of stabililty and feasibility? That's for you to decide.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Through the years, our view of what leadership is and who can exercise it has changed considerably. Leadership competencies have remained constant, but our understanding of what it is, how it works, and the ways in which people learn to apply it has shifted. We do have the beginnings of a general theory of leadership, from history and social research and above all from the thoughts of reflective practitioners such as Moses, Julius Caesar, and James Madison, and in our own time from such disparate sources of wisdom as Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Mao Tse-tung, and Henry Kissinger, who have very little in common except that they have not only been there but tried with some fairness to speculate on paper about it. But tales and reflective observation are not enough except to convince us that leaders are physically strong and abnormally hard workers. Today we are a little closer to understanding how and who people lead, but it wasn't easy getting there. Decades of academic analysis have given us more than 350 definitions of leadership. Literally thousands of empirical investigations of leaders have been conducted in the last seventy-five years alone, but no clear understanding exists as to what distinguishes leaders from non-leaders, and perhaps more important, what distinguishes effective leaders from ineffective leaders and effective organizations from ineffective organizations. Never have so many labored so long to say so little. Multiple interpretations of leadership exist, each providing a fragment of insight but each remaining an incomplete and wholly inadequate explanation. Most of these definitions don't agree with each other, and many of them would seem quite remote to the leaders whose skills are being examined. Definitions reflect fashions, political tides and academic trends. They don't always reflect reality and sometimes they just represent nonsense. It's as if what Braque once said about art is also true of leadership: "The only thing that matters in art is the part that cannot be explained. " Many theories of leadership have come and gone. Some looked at the leader. Some looked at the situation. None has stood the test of time. With such a track record, it is understandable why leadership research and theory have been so frustrating as to deserve the label "{{U}}the La Brea Tar Pits{{/U}}" of organizational inquiry. Located in Los Angeles, these asphalt pits house the remains of a long sequence of prehistoric animals that came to investigate but never left the area.

单选题—Are you a visitor here? —That's right. I ______ round the world and now my dream of coming to China ______ true.A. have traveled; has comeB. was traveling; had been comeC. am traveling; has comeD. have traveled; has been come

单选题I told Sally how to get here, but perhaps I ______ for her.A. had to write it outB. must have written it outC. should have written it outD. ought to write it out

单选题My woolen sweater used to be bigger than this. It has______in the wash.

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{{U}} (1) {{/U}}group of parents and children; and secondly, a{{U}} (2) {{/U}}of relations who might be expected to{{U}} (3) {{/U}}at a wedding or a{{U}} (4) {{/U}}. At the first level, my brothers and sisters and myself are all in the same{{U}} (5) {{/U}}as children, but in different ones as parents; but at the second{{U}} (6) {{/U}}, we're all in the same family from start to finish. As nuclear families become more{{U}} (7) {{/U}}, 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{{U}} (8) {{/U}}for a few minutes to watch the baby. Ideas about the{{U}} (9) {{/U}}of women have been changing: wives are thought to be the{{U}} (10) {{/U}}of their husbands rather than their (11) . But perhaps they're more{{U}} (12) {{/U}}enslaved to their children than before. The point is that there doesn't seem to be any{{U}} (13) {{/U}}. There is a genuine{{U}} (14) {{/U}}between the right of the woman to be treated as a free and self-respected{{U}} (15) {{/U}}, and the right of the child to demand care and{{U}} (16) {{/U}} We have created for ourselves three{{U}} (17) {{/U}}: social equality of men and women;{{U}} (18) {{/U}}of the marriage; and lifelong love and{{U}} (19) {{/U}}between parents and children. However, we have{{U}} (20) {{/U}}a social system in which it's quite impossible for these factors to co-exist.

单选题I will have to have my watch mended ______ late.

单选题To tell the truth, I won't go to the party ______.A. so as to inviteB. even if invitedC. if invitingD. if invite

单选题The top executives were accused of telling half-truths and even ______ lies about the company's financial conditions. A. down-to-earth B. upright C. downright D. actual

单选题She was artful and could always {{U}}get round{{/U}} her parents in the end.

单选题I don't mind ______ criticism but if you are just going to insult me I am not staying.

单选题She ______ the list of names to see if hers was on it. [A] glanced [B] gazed [C] peered [D] seamed

单选题Honesty is the most important ______ a man can have. A. habit B. manners C. quality D. effect