单选题 Questions13-15 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题Applied research, ______ to solve specific practical problems, has an immediate attractiveness because the results can be seen and enjoyed. A. obtained B. undertaken C. attained D. accomplished

单选题President Clinton ______ power when the US economy was slow.

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the importance of taking advantage of group brainstorming to solve problems. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

单选题Good teachers matter. This may seem obvious to anyone who has a child in school or, for that matter, to anyone who has been a child in school. For a long time, though, researchers couldn’t actually prove that teaching talent was important. But new research finally shows that teacher quality is a close cousin to student achievement: A great teacher can cram one-and-a-half grades’ worth of learning into a single year, while laggards are lucky to accomplish half that much. Yet, while we know now that better teachers are critical, flaws in the way that administrators select and retain them mean that schools don’t always hire the best. Failing to recognize the qualities that make teachers truly effective and to construct incentives to attract and retain more of these top performers has serious consequences. Higher salaries draw more weak as well as strong applicants into teaching — applicants the current hiring system can’t adequately screen. Unless administrators have incentives to hire the best teachers available, it’s pointless to give them a larger group to choose from. Study after study has shown that teachers with master’s degrees are no better than those without. Job experience does matter, but only for the first few years, according to research by Hoover Institution’s Eric A. Hanushek. A teacher with 15 years of experience is no more effective, on average, than a teacher with five years of experience, but which one do you think is paid more? This toxic combination of rigid pay and steep rewards for seniority causes average quality to decline rather than increase as teacher groups get older. Top performers often leave the field early for industries that reward their excellence. Mediocre teachers, on the other hand, are soon overcompensated by seniority pay. And because they are paid more than their skills command elsewhere, these less-capable pedagogues settle in to provide many years-of ineffectual instruction. So how can we separate the wheat from the chaff in the teaching profession? To make American schools competitive, we must rethink seniority pay, the value of master’s degrees, and the notion that a teacher can teach everything equally well — especially math and science — without appropriate preparation in the subject. Our current education system is unlikely to accomplish this dramatic rethinking. Imagine, for a moment, that American cars had been free in recent decades, while Toyotas and Hondas sold at full price. We’d probably be driving Falcons and Corvairs today. Free public education suffers from a lack of competition in just this way. So while industries from aerospace to drugs have transformed themselves in order to compete, public schooling has stagnated. School choice could spark the kind of reformation this industry needs by motivating administrators to hire the best and adopt new strategies to keep top teachers in the classroom. The lesson that good teachers matter should be taught, not as a theory, but as a practice.

单选题The teacher had the monitor ______ the papers. A. to hand out B. hand out C. hand down D. to hand down

单选题"The artificial standard" (Paragraph 4) refers to the difference between standards of judgment for ______.

单选题 He planned to steal the money, but his ______ were discovered.

单选题I'd rather you ______ those important documents with you. A. don't take B. didn't take C. won't take D. not take

单选题Dear Tom,You asked me why I like living in New Mexico.I like it（21）it is so beautiful.We havemountains,mesas平顶山,rivers,and forests.Mesa is the Spanish（22）for a broad,flat-toppedmountain.For 12 years,I

单选题In old day's, when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something far too shocking to distract the serious work of an office, secretaries were men. Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man' s secretary became his personal servant, charged with remembering his wife' s birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to the dry-cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at bay and, of course, typing and filing and taking shorthand. Now all this may be changing again. The microchip and high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much of the routine clerical work that secretaries did. "Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve only the high-powered work and then men will want to do it again." That was said by one of the executives (male) of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this country. What he has predicted is already under way in the US. One girl described to me a recent temporary job placing men in secretarial jobs in San Francisco. She noted that all the men she dealt with appeared to be gay so possibly that is just a new twist to the old story. Over here, though, there are men coming onto the job market as secretaries. Classically, girls have learned shorthand and typing and gone into a company to seek their fortune from the bottom— and that' s what happened to John Bowman. Although he joined a national grocery chain as secretary to its first woman senior manager, he has since been promoted to an administration job. "I filled in the application form and said I could do audio/typing, and in fact I was the only applicant. The girls were reluctant to work for this young, glamorous new woman with all this power in the firm." "I did typing at school, and then a commercial course. I just thought it would be useful finding a job. I never got any funny treatment from the girls, though I admit I' ve never met another male secretary. But then I joined the Post Office as a clerk and carelessly played with the typewriter, and wrote letters, and thought that after all secretaries were getting a good ￡ 1,000 a year more than clerks like me. There was a shortage at that time, you see." "It was simpler working for a woman than for a man. I found she made decisions, she told everybody what she thought, and there was none of that male bitchiness, or that stuff ring this number for me dear, which men go in for." "Don' t forget, we were a team—that’s how I feel about it—not boss and servant but two people doing different things for the same purpose." Once high technology has made the job of secretary less routine, will there be male takeover? Men should beware of thinking that they can walk right into the better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as they because they are as efficient and well trained to cope with word processors and computers, and men.

单选题His anger was ____  that he stood there speechless. 

单选题 Neither of the young men who had applied for a position in the university ______.

单选题At that time, most people ______ the notion ______ the sun revolves around the earth.

单选题 A new partner pushes out two close friends on average, leaving lovers with a smaller inner circle of people they can turn to in times of crisis, a study found. The research, led by Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive (认知的) and Evolutionary Anthropology (人类学) at Oxford University, showed that men and women were equally likely to lose their closest friends when they started a new relationship. Previous research by Dunbar's group has shown that people typically have five very close relationships—that is, people whom they would turn to if they were in emotional or financial trouble. 'If you go into a romantic relationship, it costs you two friends. Those who have romantic relation- ships, instead of having the typical five 'core set' of relationships only have four. And of those, one is the new person who's come into their life,' said Dunbar. The study, submitted to the journal Personal Relationships, was designed to investigate how people trade off spending time with one person over another and suggests that links with fancily and closest friends suffer when people start a romantic relationship. Dunbar's team used an internet-based questionnaire to quiz 428 women and 112 men about their relationships. In total, 363 of the participants had romantic partners. The findings suggest that a new love interest has to compensate for the loss of two close friends. Speaking at the British Science Festival, Professor Dunbar said: 'This was a surprise for us. We hadn't expected it.' 'What I suspect is that your attention is so wholly focused on the romantic partner you don't get to see the other folks you had a lot to do with before, and so some of those relationships start to deteriorate (变糟).' The questionnaire allowed people to mention whether any of their closest friends were 'extra romantic partners'. In all, 32 of those quizzed mentioned having an extra love interest in their life, but these people did not lose four friends as might be expected. Instead, the extra person in their life bumped their original romantic partner out of their innermost circle of friends.

单选题What is the tone of the text?

单选题A: Can I get you a cup of tea? B: ______ A. That's very nice of you. B. With pleasure. C. You can, please. D. Thank you for the tea.

单选题The new designs of the Christmas stamps are always waited for with keen ______.

单选题Different cultures are more prone to ______ certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures.