单选题Rather than allowing the government to control investments, true power, should be given to the people, allowing individually owned and privately managed investment accounts ______.Individual Retirement Accounts.

单选题The damage to his car was ______; therefore, he could repair it himself. [A] appreciable [B] negligible [C] considerable [D] invisible

单选题Los Angeles has planted 2,000 rubber trees down the middle of one of its main streets. These trees do not (21) rubber. They are, (22) , made of rubber. Mr. Joe Dynamo, a spokesman for Los Angeles (23) council, explained the reasons. He said: "These (24) are representative of our virtual society. We have polystyrene grass on our golf (25) . We have non-milk powder (26) our coffee. We (27) copies in plastic of old wooden furniture. We have fiberglass tombstones. (28) shouldn't we have trees made of rubber?" "At 50 miles an hour, (29) motorist will see any difference. And our preservation (30) will be lower. You give the trees an annual rinse (清洗) with detergent, and (31) them off twice a year. We (32) a lot of money because transplanting, pruning, weeding and leaf-collection are all (33) . And we have a 60-year (34) guarantee on each plant. This is rationalization at (35) best. /

单选题 It was a beautiful summer day and I was taking a walk in the downtown area of Madrid. When I turned a street{{U}} (56) {{/U}}I heard the voice of a lovely Spanish singer{{U}} (57) {{/U}}from a nearby cafe. The music{{U}} (58) {{/U}}me, so I went to the cafe to hear it{{U}} (59) {{/U}}. I sat down at a table near the door. The waiter came over, and I{{U}} (60) {{/U}}a glass of wine. While{{U}} (61) {{/U}}my wine, I listened to the soft music. The{{U}} (62) {{/U}}was a young lady, a little too fat, but{{U}} (63) {{/U}}pretty. A black young man was playing the piano. The waiter returned{{U}} (64) {{/U}}the glass of wine and put it on the{{U}} (65) {{/U}}. I started drinking the wine slowly and{{U}} (66) {{/U}}the other people in the cafe. They were all men{{U}} (67) {{/U}}women seldom go into the cafes in Spain. There were three men{{U}} (68) {{/U}}at a table near mine. I could{{U}} (69) {{/U}}by their accents that one of them was an American, one an Englishman and the third man a{{U}} (70) {{/U}}. The waiter served each of the three men a glass of beer. By chance, each glass had a{{U}} (71) {{/U}}in it. The American picked up his glass, noticed the fly and poured the beer and the fly was thrown onto the floor. The English- man looked into his glass, noticed the fly and{{U}} (72) {{/U}}a spoon, with which he took the fly out of the beer, and drank the{{U}} (73) {{/U}}of it. The stranger noticed the fly in the beer,{{U}} (74) {{/U}}. He picked it up with his fingers, squeezed it carefully in order to save every drop of beer, then drank the beer{{U}} (75) {{/U}}.

单选题—What would you like, sir? —______. A．Two cups coffee B．Two cups of coffees C．Two coffees D．Two cup of coffees

单选题Text 4 As a wise man once said, we are all ultimately alone. But an increasing number of Europeans are choosing to be so at an ever earlier age. This isn't the stuff of gloomy philosophical contemplations, but a fact of Europe's new economic landscape, embraced by sociologists, realestate developers and ad executives alike. The shift away from family life to solo lifestyle, observes a French sociologist, is part of the "irresistible momentum of individualism" over the last century. The communications revolution, the shift from a business culture of stability to one of mobility and the mass entry of women into the workforce have greatly wreaked havoc on Europeans private lives. Europe's new economic climate has largely fostered the trend toward independence. The current generation of home-aloners came of age during Europe's shift from social democracy to the sharper, more individualistic climate of American-style capitalism. Raised in an era of privatization and increased consumer choice, today's tech-savvy workers have embraced a free market in love as well as economics. Modern Europeans are rich enough to afford to live alone, and temperamentally independent enough to want to do so. Once upon a time, people who lived alone tended to be those on either side of marriage twenty something professionals or widowed senior citizens. While pensioners, particularly elderly women, make up a large proportion of those living alone, the newest crop of singles are high earners in their 30s and 40s who increasingly view living alone as a lifestyle choice. Living alone was conceived to be negative—dark and cold, while being together suggested warmth and light. But then came along the idea of singles. They were young, beautiful, strong! Now, young people want to live alone. The booming economy means people are working harder than ever. And that doesn't leave much room for relationships. Pimpi Arroyo, a 35-year-old composer who lives alone in a house in Paris, says he hasn't got time to get lonely because he has too much work. "I have deadlines which would make life with someone else fairly difficult." Only an Ideal Woman would make him change his lifestyle, he says. Kaufmann, author of a recent book called "The Single Woman and Prince Chaming—, thinks this fierce new individualism means that people expect more and more of mates, so relationships don't last long—if they start at all. Eppendorf, a blond Berliner with a deep tan, teaches grade school in the mornings. In the afternoon she sunbathes or sleeps, resting up for going dancing. Just shy of 50, she says she'd never have wanted to do what her mother did—give up a career to raise a family. Instead, "I've always done what I wanted to do: live a serf-determined life/

单选题The police were tracking the criminal who was said ______ in the forest. A. to have hidden B. to be hiding C. to hiding D. to hide

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} Elections often tell you more about what people are against than what they are for. So it is with the European ones that took place last week in all 25 European Union member countries. These elections, widely trumpeted as the world's biggest-ever multination- al democratic vote, were fought for the most part as 25 separate national contests, which makes it tricky to pick out many common themes. But the strongest are undoubtedly negative. Europe's voters are angry and disillusioned—and they have demonstrated their anger and disillusion in three main ways. The most obvious was by abstaining. The average overall turnout was just over 45% , by some margin the lowest ever recorded for elections to the European Parliament. And that average disguises some big variations: Italy, for example, notched up over 70%, but Sweden managed only 37%. Most depressing of all, at least to believers in the European project, was the extremely low vote in many of the new member countries from central Eu- rope, which accounted for the whole of the fall in turnout since 1999. In the biggest, Po- land, only just over a fifth of the electorate turned out to vote. Only a year ago, central Europeans voted in large numbers to join the EU, which they did on May 1st. That they abstained in such large numbers in the European elections points to early disillusion with the European Union—as well as to a widespread feeling, shared in the old member countries as well, that the European Parliament does not matter. Disillusion with Europe was also a big factor in the second way in which voters pro- tested, which was by supporting a ragbag of populist, nationalist and explicitly anti-EU parties. These ranged from the 16% who backed the UK Independence Party, whose declared policy is to withdraw from the EU and whose leaders see their mission as "wrecking'' the European Parliament, to the 14% who voted for Sweden's Junelist, and the 27% of Poles who backed one of two anti-EU parties, the League of Catholic Families and Selfdefence. These results have returned many more Eurosceptics and trouble-makers to the parliament: on some measures, over a quarter of the new MEPS will belong to the "awkward squad". That is not a bad thing, however, for it will make the parliament more representative of European public opinion. But it is the third target of European voters' ire that is perhaps the most immediately significant: the fact that, in many EU countries, old and new, they chose to vote heavily against their own governments. This anti-incumbent vote was strong almost everywhere, but it was most pronounced in Britain, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Sweden. The leaders of all the four biggest European Union countries, Tony Blair in Britain, Jacques Chirac in France, Gerhard Schroder in Germany and Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, were each given a bloody nose by their voters. The big question now is how Europe's leaders should respond to this. By a sublime (or terrible) coincidence, soon after the elections, and just as The Economist was going to press, they were gathering in Brussels for a crucial summit, at which they are due to agree a new constitutional treaty for the EU and to select a new president for the European Commission. Going into the meeting, most EU heads of government seemed determined to press ahead with this agenda regardless of the European elections —even though the atmosphere after the results may make it harder for them to strike deals.

单选题Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease. In the past, it was often considered a death sentence. But many patients now live longer 1 of improvements in discovery and treatment. Researchers say death 2 in the United States from all cancers combined have fallen for thirty years. Survival rates have increased for most of the top fifteen cancers in both men and women, and for cancers in 3 . The National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the number of cancer survivors. A cancer survivor is defined 4 anyone who has been found to have cancer. This would include current patients. The study covered the period from 1971 to 2001. The researchers found there are three 5 as many cancer survivors today as there were thirty years ago. In 1971, the United States had about three million cancer survivors. Today there are about ten million. The study also found that 64% of adults with cancer can expect to still be 6 in five years. Thirty years ago, the five-year survival rate was 50%. The government wants to 7 the five-year survival rate to 70% by 2010. The risk of cancer increases with age. The report says the majority of survivors are 65 years and older. But it says medical improvements have also helped children with cancer live 8 longer. Researchers say 80% of children with cancer will survive at least five years after the discovery. About 75% will survive at 9 ten years. In the 1970s, the five-year survival rate for children was about 50%. In the 1960s, most children did not survive cancer. Researchers say they expect more improvements in cancer treatment in the future. In fact, they say traditional cancer-prevention programs are not enough anymore. They say public health programs should also aim to support the 10 numbers of cancer survivors and their families.

单选题I can't ______ his bad temper any longer.

单选题Regular child care provided outside home or by someone other than the mother does not in itself undermine(削弱) healthy emotional connections between mothers and their 15-month-old infants, according to a long-term national study. The finding holds even if care begins during the first 3 months after birth and runs for 30 hours or more per week. Among infants who receive unkind and unresponsive care from their mothers, however, the mother-child relationship may be damaged. "This research helps us put apart complexities regarding child care that have not previously been studied in detail." contends Jay Belsky, a psychologist at Pennsylvania State University. Belsky and several of his colleagues announced their findings last week at the international conference. The investigation consists of 1 153 children and their families living in or near Boston. The youngsters, no more than 1 month old when they entered the study in 1991, will be tracked until the age of 7. Experimenters administered questionnaires to mothers in their homes and videotaped baby caretakers interacting with the kids at ages 1, 6, and 15 months. Independent observers rated the quality of each child care efforts and noted infant nervousness. Unlike most previous studies, this one allows researchers to observe each caretaker's personality at child nursing, and kids' emotional reaction by the equipment. After taking family factors into account, other psychologists state that the researchers found no relation between the quality of child care and infants' response. But the experimenters contend that the boys who spent more than 30 hours per week in child care exhibited more emotion for their mothers than other boys who didn't, and the girls who spent the same hours per week in child care showed a modest rise in this emotion. Therefore, quality of child care outside home plays an important role in the connection between mothers and infants.

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单选题When she handed in her term paper late, Diane ______ a story that her computer had crashed. The truth is that she doesn't even use a computer.

单选题Time______, we will arrange for the tourists to visit two or three more remote spots of culture value.

单选题Psychology and sociology are both categorized as social sciences, and both study human behavior. However, psychology is the study of individual behavior, whereas sociology is the study of group behavior. Psychology deals with the possible problems an individual might have in social interaction with other individuals, but the main concern of sociology is the ways that different societies with different cultures deal with each other. Sociology asks and tries to answer questions like these: why does one society progress rapidly and another one remain primitive for centuries? What is the main reason for revolution in a society? What is the role of religion or art in a society? Psychology asks and tries to answer questions like these: why does an individual adapt easily to a changing environment and another individual become mentally disturbed? What are the causes of antisocial behavior? What role does religion or art play in an individual"s mental and emotional life? Psychology and sociology often work together in their study of human behavior. It is assumed that by better understanding individual motivation and behavior, more will be learned about group motivation and behavior. The reverse is also assumed: if scientists can learn more about social groups, they will learn more about individuals.

单选题As a mother, she is too ______ towards her daughter, and she should let her see more of the world.