单选题Few Asian-American students major in human sciences mainly because ______.

单选题 Questions10-13 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题Man: We're almost finished with the project. Maybe we should stop for a break now. Woman: Actually, I would prefer to keep going. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题 SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE (1) When Tess Vigeland came home from work and cried in her backyard for three hours, she knew it was time to leave her job. Then she turned in her notice the following week. (2) With her recently published book, 'Leap: Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want,' she is encouraging people to make similar moves. While doing so certainly involves some risk, Vigeland says it doesn't mean being reckless. 'I'm not saying, 'Leave a job without bothering to think about the consequences,'' she says, adding that doing some financial planning in advance is important. Saving, trimming expenses and picking up freelance work are just a few of the ways to make leaving your job more manageable financially. (3) Indeed, Vigeland says that as the economy appears to recover, more and more people are looking to walk away from being an employee in order to pursue big dreams, self-employment, travel or other opportunities. If you are considering a similarly big change, Vigeland suggests you keep the following in mind: Scrutinize your finances. (4) Vigeland recommends considering your current expenses and income, including from alternate sources, such as a partner's salary or freelance work, to consider whether you can cover your basic living costs without your primary income. 'I did some calculations with my husband and we figured his salary could pay the mortgage with me not working at all,' she says. In addition, she planned to take on freelance work so her income would not go to zero. 'I also knew I had a large retirement account that I could tap into if I had to, and home equity,' she adds. Adjust your lifestyle (5) After leaving her job in public radio, Vigeland's income the following year was just one-third of what it had been previously, which meant she and her husband had to cut certain expenses from their budget. 'We didn't go out to dinner as much, we didn't go on big vacation trips and we just did a lot of road trips around California, and that was fine,' she says. Redefine retirement (6) Vigeland hasn't contributed much to her retirement accounts since she left her full-time job, and she's OK with that. 'I stopped living for retirement. I don't want to stop working at age 65. I'm 46 now, and I hope I'm working for the next 30 years,' she says. Instead of saving money for retirement and saving your adventures for old age, Vigeland suggests traveling and living on less now, when you can enjoy it even more. Save up before quitting (7) Vigeland wishes she had saved more money before leaving her job, and it's something she encourages others to do now. 'I felt pressure to be churning out dollars and getting a paycheck, and I think better savings, even three months, would have saved me from a lot of that,' she says. Instead of scrambling to pick up freelance assignment as soon as possible after quitting, she could have taken her time more. (8) While leaving a steady job does come with some financial risk, Vigeland says the benefit is that it offers the chance to dream big about your next steps. 'It allows you to think about possibilities outside of what you would automatically assume. When you're in a job, it's hard to have the time to explore and think about what other options might be out there for you,' she says. PASSAGE TWO (1) Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead. But Thursday's announcement that all Chinese couples will be allowed two children is as good a moment as any to write the obituary(讣告) for this controversial policy: China's one-child policy died on October 29th, 2015. It was thirty-five years old. (2) Xinhua, the official news agency, reported that China will 'fully implement a policy of allowing each couple to have two children as an active response to an aging population,' but said the implementation and timing would be up to the provinces. (3) Demographers have long warned that, because of the one-child policy, the Chinese economy will be hobbled by a shortage of workers. China's fertility rate, estimated by the World Bank in 2013 to be 1.7 births per woman, is below the replacement rate of 2.1. One in ten Chinese is now over the age of sixty-five, and that number is likely to double by mid-century. By 2022, India will become the world's most populous nation, surpassing China, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (4) Baby-related stocks reacted Thursday with the giddiness of, well, toddlers. Chinese companies that make strollers, car seats, baby formula, and baby food all advanced, according to the Wall Street Journal. (5) Beyond that, though, the near-term impact might be mainly symbolic. By switching to a 'two-child policy', the Chinese government has signaled that it does not intend to dismantle its family-planning infrastructure. Restrictions will still apply, especially to unmarried couples and single mothers; families that want more than one child will still need to go through an application procedure, although it will be simplified. (6) The English-language China Daily reported on Friday that ninety million Chinese couples will be eligible to have a second child, but it appears likely that only a fraction will choose to do so. In late 2013, the government announced that adults who had grown up without siblings would be permitted to have two children, but, of the eleven million eligible citizens, only 1.5 million have applied. In an online survey conducted by Sina News on Thursday, which received a hundred and seventy-four thousand responses, only twenty-nine per cent of couples said they would like to have a second child. 'Only if the government raises my salary' was a typical response of those who said they would not. PASSAGE THREE (1) The old saying of never forgetting a pretty face might be untrue as psychologists believe beautiful people are less likely to be recognized. A new study suggests that attractiveness can actually prevent the recognition of faces, unless a pretty face is particularly distinctive. (2) German psychologists think the recognition of pretty faces is distorted by emotions. Scientists at the University of Jena, Germany, discovered that photos of unattractive people were more easily remembered than pretty ones when they showed them to a group of people. Researchers Holger Wiese, Carolin Altmann and Stefan Schweinberger from the university, wrote in their study: 'We could show that the test subjects were more likely to remember unattractive faces than attractive ones, when the latter didn't have any particularly noticeable traits.' (3) For the study, which was published in science magazine Neuropsychologia, the psychologists showed photos of faces to test subjects. Half of the faces were considered to be more attractive and the other half as less attractive, but all of them were being thought of as similarly distinctive looking. The test subjects were shown the faces for just a few seconds to memorize them and were shown them again during the test so that they could decide if they recognized them or not. (4) The scientists were surprised by the result. 'Until now we assumed that it was generally easier to memorize faces, which are being perceived as attractive, just because we prefer looking at beautiful faces,' Dr. Wiese said. But the study showed that such a connection cannot be easily sustained. He assumes that remembering pretty faces is distorted by emotional influences, which enhance the sense of recognition at a later time. The researchers' idea is backed up by evidence from EEG-recordings (脑电图记录) which show the brain's electric activity, which the scientists used during their experiment. (5) The study also revealed that in the case of attractive faces, considerably more false positive results were detected. In other words, people thought they recognized a face without having seen it before. 'We obviously tend to believe that we recognize a face just because we find it attractive.' Dr. Wiese said. PASSAGE FOUR (1) For more than fifty years, eating at fast-food restaurants has been an almost clinically impersonal experience: the food is rapidly prepared, remarkably cheap, utterly uniform, and served immediately. (2) I asked a woman Davis working at Sweetgreen, the destination of which is fast and delicious food made with organic ingredients sourced from local farmers, if they ever patronized McDonald's or similar restaurants. She shuddered and said nothing. After a brief silence, another worker Nguyen owned up to eating at McDonald's once or twice a month, but not for a Big Mac or French fries. 'They have some surprisingly good food these days,' she said in a confessional whisper. 'But I would never be seen walking down the street with a McDonald's bag in my hand.' I asked why. 'Shame,' she replied. 'I don't know anyone who would feel differently.' (3) Speed and convenience matter as much as ever to American diners. But increasingly people also demand the information that places like Sweetgreen offer. They want to know what they are eating and how it was made; they prefer to watch as their food is prepared, see the ingredients, and have a sense of where it all came from. And they are willing to pay more for what they perceive to be healthier fare. (4) When I asked Dan Coudreaut, the company's executive chef and vice-president of culinary innovation, what mattered most to McDonald's, taste, price, or efficiency, he sighed. 'Our main job is to create value for our shareholders, for our company, for our restaurateurs,' he said. 'We are not a nonprofit organization and we are not married to any one area. We are married to being a successful business. Society is shifting in a major direction, so guess what—McDonald's is going to shift, too.' (5) The company is trying everything it can to win back deserters. Last month, in keeping with prevailing desires and current nutritional wisdom, McDonald's abandoned margarine for butter. The company announced recently that it would stop selling chickens that have been raised with antibiotics that could affect human health, and milk from cows that had been treated with growth hormones. They introduced low-calorie 'artisan grilled chicken' sandwiches and, this month, began serving breakfast all day—fulfilling a request that the Egg McMuffin crowd has been making for years. McDonald's has also jumped on the seasonal-food bandwagon (潮流), having sold about thirty-seven million Cuties, the brand of clementines that come with Happy Meals. (6) McDonald's describes all these changes as an attempt to 'reassert' itself as 'a modem, progressive burger company.' Nonetheless, daunting questions hover over its ambitious agenda, and over the entire industry. Can traditional restaurant chains, indelibly branded as places to eat cheap food fast, switch to healthier fare and stay profitable? And to what degree can companies like Sweetgreen thrive by offering a fresher, more nutritious alternative?

单选题The traffic lights were red when the driver reached them. To the surprise of his passenger, the car did not slow down. Unexpectedly the passenger was thrown forward in the vehicle as the driver put on his brakes at the last moment. The car stopped just in time. "Sorry, I didn't notice the light. I thought it was green until I saw that it was the top light which was shining." This strange story is quite true. About ten men in every hundred are color blind in some way; women are luckier--only about one in two hundred suffers from color blindness. In some cases, a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all the same as green. People often like one color more than others. Blue is the color of the sky and sea. Green makes us think of fields and trees. Red is the color of blood and makes some people think of danger. Black is the color of night. In the dark we cannot see what is around us so we are sometimes afraid of the unknown and do not like black as a color.

单选题It was not until then that I came to know knowledge______only from practice.

单选题All art booms are different. The previous one ended in 1989, when Japanese buyers withdrew from the Impressionist market. Interest rates rose in the slump that followed; there were plenty of sellers but no buyers. Today the reverse is true. Buyers are looking to diversify into alternative assets. The only problem is the sellers. There is plenty of money, but little to buy. It should follow, then, that buyers will snap up anything. But that is not quite the case, as the Old Master sales at Christie"s in London on December 8th showed only too well. In the recent sales the best pieces sold brilliantly, and the rest hardly at all. The best included a rare Raphael drawing, and an elegant self-portrait by Sir Anthony van Dyck. Many of the leading dealers were present, including Philip Mould, known as the BBC"s "art detective;" Alfred Bader, a rich American art-market broker; and the heirs to two important art-dealing businesses, William Noortman and Simon Green. Van Dyck"s oval shaped self-portrait, painted in 1640, the year before he died, had been in the same family for almost 300 years. Mr. Mould joined forces with Mr. Bader to try and win the painting. Young Mr. Noortman, the under bidder who was trying to buy the picture for stock, did not stand a chance. The winning bid was ￡7.4m, nearly three times van Dyck"s previous auction record. The last lot in Christie"s sale was a black chalk drawing, less than a foot square, by Raphael, an early 16th-century Italian master. It is the study of a head for one of the Greek muses. Its beauty, rarity and the sense that the study may well have been used by the artist himself when working on a larger painting drew collectors from far and wide. Christie"s had estimated the study would fetch ￡12m-16m. Bidding opened at ￡8.5m, with three buyers on the telephone. Jennifer Wright, Christie"s New York-based drawings specialist, made a final bid for the Raphael of if 26m—a world record for a work on paper. After the sale, Christie"s international co-head, Richard Knight, was quick to point out that, at ￡ 68.4m, theirs had been the biggest Old Master sale ever. "This result shows what a very solid market this is," he said. But that took no account of the failures, which were considerable. 15 of the 43 lots in Christie"s auction failed to sell at all.

单选题In a barter economy, finding somebody who wanted to trade his old car ______ a sailboat might not always be an easy task.

单选题—We didn't see him at the lecture yesterday.—He ______ it.

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单选题Any expenses you may ______ will be chargeable to the company.

单选题A: Congratulations! I heard you got a promotion. When was it announced? B: ______.

单选题Man: I hate to attend the history class.Woman: You make it sound like prison. What's wrong with it?Man: It seems like the teacher never tells us what we really need to know.Question: Why does the man hate to go to his history class?

单选题American presidents seem to age before our eyes. But the common belief that high-office stress grays our leaders faster than 26 may be a myth, new research finds. In fact, the majority of American presidents have lived longer than typical men of their times. That's not to 27 that chronic stress has no effect on a person's lifespan, but so does high social standing. The findings 28 to a body of research linking high status to better health: for instance, Oscar winners live longer than those who were only 29 ; and the longevity (长寿) effect is also seen in Nobel Prize winners. The new study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed the dates of birth, inauguration and death of all 34 past presidents who died of natural causes. The 30 lifespan for these men should have been 68 years, if they'd aged twice as fast during their years in office as the popular wisdom suggests they do. Instead, the study found, these presidents lived an average 73 years. And indeed, 23 of the 34presidents who died of natural causes lived longer than expected, compared with other men their age during their lifetimes. Some presidents 31 an exceptionally long time: Gerald Ford died at 93.5 years, and Ronald Reagan at 93.3. All 32 living presidents have already exceeded their life 33 , or are likely to do so. So why do people at the top of the hierarchy fare better than those below? 34 to wealth, education and the best health care of their times would seem to be obvious factors although medical attention seems to have actually killed President Garfield, who died from a fatal 35 introduced by his doctors' unsterile (未消过毒的) treatment techniques after he was shot by an assassin. A. Access B. add C. average D. boundary E. covered F. currently G. Entrance H. expectancy I. infection J. nominated K. ultimate L. usual M. persistently N. say O. survived

单选题If you don' t put the milk in the refrigerator, it may _______.

单选题It is in the chairman of the board's interest, before a meeting, to ______ with the directors about sensitive matters.

单选题In the ______ of the project not being a success, the investors stand to lose up to USD 30 million. A. face B. time C. event D. course

单选题Superficial differences between the special problems and techniques of the physical sciences and those of the biological sciences are sometimes cited as evidence for the ______of biology and for the claim that the methods of physics are therefore not adequate to biological inquiry.

单选题David did it _______  to annoy her.