单选题My father often works very hard. And he has 1 to see a film. Here I"ll tell you 2 about him. One afternoon, when he finished his work and was about to go home, he found a film ticket under the 3 on his desk. He thought he 4 to have not much work to do that day and 5 was quite wonderful to pass the 6 at the cinema. So he came back home and quickly finished his supper. Then he said 7 to us and left. But to our 8 , he came back about half an hour later. I asked him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about 9 funny thing that had happened at the cinema. When my father was sitting an his seat, a 10 came to my father"s and said that the seat was 11 . My father was surprised. He took out the ticket 12 looked at it carefully. It was Row 17. 13 . And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her 14 her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3. Why? What"s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, "The colors of the tickets are different." So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, "Oh, 15 , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please." With these words, he left the cinema.

单选题The president was expected to ______ some suggestions after reading all those reports.

单选题In War Made Easy Norman Solomon demolishes the myth of all independent American press zealously guarding sacred values of free expression. Although strictly focusing on the shameless history of media cheerleading for the principal post World War' Ⅱ American wars, invasions, and interventions, he calls into question the entire concept of the press as some kind of institutional counterforce to government and corporate power. Many of the examples compiled in this impeccably documented historical review will be familiar to readers who follow the news on the Internet. But such examples achieve flesh impact because of the way Solomon has organized and analyzed them. Each chapter is devoted to a single warhawk argument ( " America Is a Fair and Noble Superpower, " " Opposing the War Means Siding with the Enemy, " "Our Soldiers Are Heroes, Theirs Are Inhuman " ), illustrated with historical examples from conflicts in the Dominican Republic, E1 Salvador, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kosovo, both Iraq wars, and others in which the media were almost universally enthusiastic accomplices. The book should really be subtitled " War reporting doesn't just suck, it kills. " It makes you feel like demanding a special war crimes tribunal for corporate media executives and owners who joined the roll-up to " shock and awe " as non-uniformed psywar ops. To be sure, this would raise the issue of whether or not following orders might suffice for the defense of obedient slaves such as Mary McGrory and Richard Cohen, who performed above and beyond the call of duty. " He persuaded me, " McGrory gushed the morning after Colin Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations on February 5,2003, declaring that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. " The cumulative effect was stunning." In the same Washington Post edition, Cohen wrote. The evidence he presented to the United Nations—some of it circumstantial, some of it absolutely bone-chilling in its detail—had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool could conclude otherwise. Solomon demonstrates how this kind of peppy prewar warm-up degenerates into drooling and heavy breathing once the killing begins. As if observing a heavy metal computer game, the pornographers of death concentrate on the exquisite craftsmanship and visual design of the murder machines, and the magnificence of the fiery explosions they produce.

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单选题Recently TV Station has taken great pains to make a program that reviews the important ______ of 2006. A) affairs B) events C) matters D) things

单选题Passage Three Americans are well known for the strange diets they always seem to be following. It seems that Americans like to diet almost as much as they like to eat. New types of diet plans are always coming out. Usually, though, they don't stay popular for long. There are many diets on the market. It is often difficult to know which ones really work. It's also hard to believe how fast a dieter is supposed to shed pounds. A lot has been written about dieting. And some interesting facts about diets and foods have been discovered. For example, did you know that the more celery you eat, the more weight you will lose.9 Celery has "negative" calories. The body burns up more calories digesting a piece of celery than there are in the celery stick itself. Dieters shun potatoes because they think they are fattening. But they aren't. A potato has about the same number of calories as an apple. To gain a single pound, you would have to eat eleven pounds of potatoes! Some dieters even worry about getting fat from licking postage stamps. But they have nothing to worry about. The glue on an average stamp has only about one-tenth of a calorie. Maybe a diet of postage stamps would be popular?

单选题 Crossing Wesleyan University's campus usually requires walking over colorful messageschalked on the ground. They can be as innocent as meeting announcements, but in a growingnumber of cases the language is meant to shock. It's not uncommon, for instance, to see lewdreferences to professors'sexual preferences scrawled across a path or the mention of the word"Nig" that African-American students say make them feel uncomfortable. In response, officials and students at schools are now debating ways to lead theircommunities away from forms of expression that offend or harass (侵扰). In the process, they' reputting up against the difficulties of regulating speech at institutions that pride themselves onfostering open debate. Mr. Bennet of Wesleyan says he had gotten used to seeing occasional talkings filled withfour-letter words. Campus tradition made any horizontal surface not attached to a building apotential billboard. But when talkings began taking on a more threatening and lewd tone, Bennetdecided to act. "This is not acceptable in a workplace and not aeeeptahle in an institution of higherlearning." Bennet says. For now, Bennet is seeking input about what kind of message-postingpolicy the school should adopt. The student assembly recently passed a resolution saying the"right to speech comes with implicit responsibilities to respect community standards" Other public universities have confronted problems this year while considering various ways ofregulating where students can express themselves. At Harvard Law School, the recent controversywas more linked to the academic setting. Minority students there are seeking to curb what theyconsider harassing speech in the wake of a series of incidents last spring. At a meeting held by the "Committee on Healthy Diversity" last week, the school's BlackLaw Students Association endorsed a policy targeting discriminatory harassment. It would trigger areview by school officials if there were charges of "severe or pervasive conduct" by students orfaculty. The policy would cover harassment based on, but not limited to, factors such as race,religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, and ethnieity (种族划分). Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate, says other schools have adopted similar harassmentpolicies that are actually speech codes, punishing students for raising certain ideas. "Restrictingstudents from saying anything that would be perceived as very unpleasant by another studentcontinues uninterrupted, " says Silverglate, who attended the Harvard Law town meeting lastweek.

单选题Illiteracy may be considered more as an abstract concept than a condition. When a famous English writer used the (1) over two hundred years ago, he was actually (2) to people who could (3) read Greek or Latin. (4) ,it seems unlikely that university examiners had this sort of (5) in mind when they reported on "creeping illiteracy" in a report on their students' final examination in 1988. (6) the years, university lecturers have been (7) of an increasing tendency towards grammatical sloppiness, poor spelling and general imprecision (8) their students' ways of writing; and sloppy writing is all (9) often a reflection of sloppy thinking. Their (10) was that they had (11) to do teaching their own subject (12) teaching their undergraduates to write. Some lecturers believe that they have a (n) (13) to stress the importance of maintaining standards of clear thinking (14) the written word in a world dominated by (15) communications and images. They (16) on the connection between clear thinking and a form of writing that is not only clear, but also sensitive to (17) of meaning. The same lecturers argue that undergraduates appear to be the victims of a "softening process" that begins (18) the teaching of English in schools, but this point of view has, not (19) , caused a great deal of (20) .

单选题The detective, ______ to read a newspaper, glanced at the man ______ next to a woman.A. pretending, seatB. pretending, seatedC. pretended, seatingD. pretended, seated

单选题I'd like to work abroad to______my horizons.

单选题Thomas Hardy is a prolific writer whose works include the following except______.

单选题It isn't good ______ you to stay outside in the sun all day.

单选题He was a young man of barely eighteen years, evidently county ______ , and now, as it seemed, on his first visit to town.

单选题His understanding made a deep ______ on the young girl.

单选题 That summer an army of crickets started a war with my father. They picked a fight the minute they invaded our cellar. Dad didn't care for bugs much more than Mamma, and he could tolerate a few spiders and assorted creepy crawlers living in the basement Every farm house had them. A part of rustic living and something you needed to put up with ff you wanted the simple life. He told Mamma: now that were living out here, you can't be jerking your head and swallowing your gum over what's plain natural, Ellen. But she was a city girl through and through and had no ears when it came to defending vermin. She said a cricket was just a noisy cockroach, just a dumb horny bug that wouldn't shut up. She said in the city there were blocks of buildings overrun with cockroaches with no way for people to get rid of them. No sir, no way could she sleep with all that chirping going on; then to prove her point she wouldn't go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father's cigarettes and she paced between the couch and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the hardware store and hurried back. He squirted poison from a jug with a spray nozzle. He sprayed the basement and all around the foundation of the house. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it. But what he should have said was: this is the beginning, the beginning of our war, the beginning of our destruction. I often think back to that summer and try to imagine him delivering a speech with words like that, because for the next fourteen days Mamma kept find dead crickets in the clean laundry. She'd shake out a towel or a sheet and a dead black cricket would roll across the linoleum. Sometimes the cat would corner one, and swat it around like he was playing hockey, then carry it away in his mouth. Dad said swallowing a few dead crickets wouldn't hurt as long as the cat didn't eat too many. Each time Mamma complained he told her it was only natural that we'd be fending a couple of dead ones for a while. Soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma freaked because she thought they were the dead crickets come back to haunt, but Dad said these was definitely a new batch, probably coming up on the pipes. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed beneath the sink and behind the toilet and all along the baseboard until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the cellar again, and then he went outside and sprayed all around the foundation leaving a foot-wide moat of poison. For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. Dad told us to keep a sharp look out. He suggested that we'd all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn't like because he scratched and bit for no reason. I hoped the poison might kill him too so we could get a puppy. A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, he emptied the cellar of junk. Then he burned a lot of bundled newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests. He stood over that fire with a rake in one hand and a garden hose in the other. He wouldn't leave it even when Mamma sent me out to fetch him for supper. He wouldn't leave the fire, and she wouldn't put supper on the table. Both my brothers were crying. Finally she went out and got him herself. And while we ate, the wind lifted some embers onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mowers fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn't much anyone could do.

单选题Fingerprints from an unchangeable ____ despite changes in the individual’s appearance or age.