单选题 Directions: In this part there are four passages, each followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.{{B}}11-15{{/B}} Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops and factories are discovering the greater efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output. Thus the "typical" Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality. Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that "assembly-line life" will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life-to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local cafe? Since the late 1940's life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of the competitive, goods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence. In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modem economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is preferable to the old.

单选题James' father ______.

单选题For more than a decade, the prevailing view of innovation has been that little guys had the edge. Innovation bubbled up from the bottom, from upstarts and insurgents. Big companies didn't innovate, and government got in the way. In the dominant innovation narrative, venture-backed start-up companies were cast as the nimble winners and large corporations as the sluggish losers. There was a rich vein of business-school research supporting the notion that innovation comes most naturally from small-scale outsiders. That was the headline point that a generation of business people, venture investors and policy makers took away from Clayton M. Christensen's 1997 classic, The Innovator's Dilemma, which examined the process of disruptive change. But a shift in thinking is under way, driven by altered circumstances. In the United States and abroad, the biggest economic and social challenges—and potential business opportunities—are problems in multifaceted fields like the environment, energy and health care that rely on complex systems. Solutions won't come from the next new gadget or clever software, though such innovations will help. Instead, they must plug into a larger network of change shaped by economics, regulation and policy. Progress, experts say, will depend on people in a wide range of disciplines, and collaboration across the public and private sectors. "These days, more than ever, size matters in the innovation game," said John Kao, a former professor at the Harvard business school and an innovation consultant to governments and corporations. In its economic recovery package, the Obama administration is financing programs to generate innovation with technology in health care and energy. The government will spend billions to accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records to help improve care and curb costs, and billions more to spur the installation of so-called smart grids that use sensors and computerized meters to reduce electricity consumption. In other developed nations, where energy costs are higher than in the United States, government and corporate projects to cut fuel use and reduce carbon emissions are further along. But the Obama administration is pushing environmental and energy conservation policy more in the direction of Europe and Japan. The change will bolster demand for more efficient and more environmentally friendly systems for managing commuter traffic, food distribution, electric grids and waterways. These systems are animated by inexpensive sensors and ever-increasing computing power but also require the skills to analyze, model and optimize complex networks, factoring in things as diverse as weather patterns and human behavior. Big companies like General Electric and IBM that employ scientists in many disciplines typically have the skills and scale to tackle such projects.

单选题从下面提供的答案中选出应填入下列英文语句中______内的正确答案。 All of these applications will enhance the (1) oflife and spur economic growth. Over half of the U.S. work force is now in jobs that are information (2) . The telecornmunication and information sector of the U.S. economy now (3) for 12 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, growing much faster than any other sector ofthe economy. Last year the (4) in this sector exceeded 700 billion dollars. The U.S. exported over 48 billion dollars of telecommunication equipment (5) .

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单选题(2004)____he came, he would take some pieces of news.

单选题Colin married my sister and I married his brother, ______ makes Colin and me double in-laws. A. what B. which C. that D. it

单选题Wouldn"t you rather that your child ______ to bed early?

单选题Which of the following best defines the word "aggressive" ( Line 3, Paragraph 6) ?

单选题Which one is different from the others according to manners of articulation?

单选题______ to someone, a British person often shakes hands with the stranger.A. IntroducingB. To introduceC. To be introducedD. On being introduced

单选题Animals are divided into many groups. Some groups of animals include the, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Insects are small animals that have six (21) legs and three body parts (the (22) , the thorax, and the abdomen). Many insects can fly; flying insects have one or two (23) of wings. Some flying insects include butterflies, moths, dragonflies, flies, and mosquitoes. Some (24) insects include springtails, fleas, and lice. Fish are swimming animals that have scales and fins. Fish (25) oxygen that is dissolved in the water using gills. Most fish have bony skeletons, but some, (26) sharks and rays, have only cartilage. Amphibians are animals that (27) their life in the water, breathing with gills. As they grow, they breathe air using lungs, and many (28) the land. Some amphibians include frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts. Reptiles are cold-blooded animals (29) scales, Some reptiles are: the dinosaurs, lizards, crocodilians, and snakes. Birds are animals (30) have feathers, wings, a beak, hollow bones, and an efficient, one-way breathing system. Most birds can fly, but some (31) . The biggest bird (and the fastest-running bird) is the ostrich, a (32) bird. The smallest bird is a type of hummingbird that is only as (33) as a moth. Mammals are warm-blooded (34) that nourish their young (using mammary glands) and have hair. Most mammals give birth to live young, but a few primitive mammals (like the duck-billed platypus) lay (35) . Some examples of mammals are whales, bats, cats, dogs, horses, and people.

单选题This example______the language teacher's responsibility to push beyond the limits of the drill and to add to knowledge.