单选题{{B}}Directions: {{/B}}Each blank in the following passage is provided with four choices. Read the whole passage and choose the best answer for each blank. Then mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. American {{U}}(61) {{/U}} are similar to other cities {{U}}(62) {{/U}} the world. In every country, cities reflect the values of the {{U}}(63) {{/U}} . Cities contain the very best parts of a {{U}}(64) {{/U}} . They also {{U}}(65) {{/U}} the very {{U}}(66) {{/U}} parts of a society, violent crime, racial conflict, and poverty American cities are {{U}}(67) {{/U}} , {{U}}(68) {{/U}} American society is changing. After World War Ⅱ city residents became richer and more prosperous. They had {{U}}(69) {{/U}} children. They needed more {{U}}(70) {{/U}} . They moved {{U}}(71) {{/U}} their apartments in the city to buy their own homes. They bought houses in the suburbs-areas near a city {{U}}(72) {{/U}} people lived. These are areas {{U}}(73) {{/U}} many offices or factories. During the 1950s the American's "dream" {{U}}(74) {{/U}} have a house in the suburbs. Now things are changing. The children of the people who left the cities in 1950s are now {{U}}(75) {{/U}} . They (76) {{/U}} their parents want to live in the cities. Many young professionals, doctors, lawyers, and teachers are moving {{U}}(77) {{/U}} into the city. Many are single, others are married but often without children. They prefer the city {{U}}(78) {{/U}} the suburbs because their jobs are there, they are afraid of the fuel {{U}}(79) {{/U}} or they just enjoy the excitement and opportunities which the {{U}}(80) {{/U}} offers.

单选题By componential analysis, BECOME(x,(~ ALIVE(x)))is an explanation of______.(西安外国语学院2006研)

单选题The Smithsonian houses a miscellaneous collection of aircraft, artifacts, butterflies, stones [both precious and common], and so on.

单选题All the recent news on AIDS is bad. The death of Rock Hudson (1) public concern about the (2) almost to the point of panic. Now general concern is (3) not so much on personal risk but on the growing realization (4) this disease is having a deep impact (5) our society in a number of ways. For one thing, it is (6) financial and other resources. AIDS patients require long-term care in hospitals and out patient (7) . The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta estimates that hospital (8) for the first 10,000 AIDS patients were about ＄1.4 billion. The total economic cost to the nation of AIDS cases is estimated to (9) to ＄6 billion in health care, disability, and lost (10) .

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} "Target apologizes for any discomfort," said a spokesman for the discount chain. "that may have been caused by the baseball caps and shorts carrying the insignia '88' ." He explained that it was not the company's intent to promote hate. Since when does 88 mean "hate"? It turns out that some neoNazis have discovered that the eighth letter of the alphabet is "h", and to them the number 88 is an oh-so- secret ceded symbol for "heil Hitler" . The Boston Herald recalled the days of dot-and-dash telegraphy, with its two-digit codes for common phrases, and observed that "on CB and ham radio, and at the bottom of an odd e-mail, you still run across '88'—'love and kisses', which no gallant will dare use anymore to pique the interest of the YLs ( young ladies) for fear they'll think he is a bug-eyed, swastika--tattooed nutcake" Fans of Chet Gould's "Dick Tracy" strip of the 1950's will remember a piano-playing cartoon character with the musical name "88 Keys", played by Mandy Patinkin in the 1990 movie version. It comes from the number of keys on a piano keyboard, and its symbol can be the opposite of hatred: "Some of those 88 keys are white, and some black," notes Larry Horn of Yale University, "all playing together in peaceful harmony-and each set pretty boring on its own. Makes you wonder." This latest superstition imposed on a number, and its panicky effect on merchants, is nothing new. It's a variant of 311, throe references to the 11th letter, k, for the Ku Klux Klan. (Manufacturers who may have inadvertently turned out baseball caps with that number on it will now turn white as a sheet.) Before that, 666 was a hot number for the nervous. In the New Testament's Revelation 13: 9-18, the Apostle John recalls a vision of a boast that was an opponent of Christ: "Count the number of the beast," goes the King James Version, "for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six." Extrapolating this into a name is an example of gematria, an ancient numbers game that assigns each letter of the alphabet a numerical value. Some scholars point out that the verse characterizes, but does not name, the beast-which aren't Satan. Numbers are not letters. Hate groups and concerned cabals do not own the numbers, which can be used to stand for anything. So wear 88 all you like, and if you have nightmares about 666, as soda jerks used to say I'm 86 on the mail.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} Britain's government raises millions of pounds each year from the National Lottery (抽奖) and some of this money is used as an additional allowance for the arts. But this money can only be spent on "capital projects", and not on an institution's day-to-day expenses. Lottery money has been made available for many exciting new building projects to improve theatres, galleries and museums. But the project which has received the most publicity is the ￡ 78 million renewal on the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. The House is the home of Britain's greatest opera company, as well as the Royal Ballet(芭蕾舞团). It's also considered to be the best arts institutions -- tickets to the opera can cost up to 200 -- and not everyone is happy that so much lottery money is being used for the benefit of a rich minority. But since builders moved into the Royal Opera House last July, that controversy has been overshadowed by a more serious crisis: the opera company is facing financial collapse. According to a special investigation, the crisis is the result of serious mismanagement by Opera House staff, and there have been calls for its allowance to be withdrawn completely. Now, the Opera House has to wait to hear from a government working party about its future survival.

单选题It is necessary that an efficient worker______his work on time.

单选题My uncle ______ from the company because he was made to undertake dangerous assignments.

单选题The children in our family are always______to their elders.

单选题Although her initial success was ______ by the fact she was the daughter of a famous actor, the critics later acclaimed her as a star in her own right.

单选题In an essay, entitled "Making It in America," in the latest issue of The Atlantic , the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, "a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines." Davidson"s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and sagging middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession, but it is also because of the quantum advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers. Yes, new technology has been eating jobs forever, and always will. As they say, if horses could have voted, there never would have been cars. But there"s been an acceleration. As Davidson notes, "In the 10 years ending in 2009, factories shed workers so fast that roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs—about 6 million in total—disappeared." Besides, what the new technology won"t do in an above average way a Chinese worker will. Consider this paragraph from an article in The Times about why Apple does so much of its manufacturing in China: "Apple had redesigned the iPhone"s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly-line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the Chinese plant near midnight. A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company"s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within haft an hour started a 12-hour shift. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day. "The speed and flexibility is breathtaking," the executive said. "There"s no American plant that can match that."" There will always be change—new jobs, new products, new services. But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I. T. revolution, the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average. Here are the latest unemployment rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Americans over 25 years old: those with less than a high school degree, 13.8 percent; those with a high school degree and no college, 8.7 percent; those with some college or associate degree, 7.7 percent; and those with bachelor"s degree or higher, 4.1 percent. In a world where average is officially over, there are many things we need to do to buttress employment, but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G. I. Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to post-high school education.

单选题______ what has been said, it is unlike that population growth will be halted, either in the developed or in the undeveloped world.

单选题Advances in food preservation gave us access to ______ all foods grown in distant lands.

单选题Why did he want to talk to her?

单选题This is the very film ______ I am looking forward to for a long time. A. what B. which C. that D. why

单选题After ______ you have told me I think you should see a doctor. A. that B. what C. which D. if

单选题In 1885 Owen Wister (1850～1938) recorded that "it won't be a century before the West is simply the true America, with thought, type, and life of its own" and he wanted "to be the hand that once, for all, chronicled and laid bare the virtues and the vices of this extraordinary phase of American social progress." He never became that self-envisioned Tolstoi of the old West, but in 1902 The Virginian was published. It won instant success and skyrocketed its author to fame. It is still the most popular "Western" novel ever published and the master design for the fiction of the Wild West. The Virginian established a literary form, a formula popularly known as "horse opera", whose conventions, cliches, and values have reappeared in novels and short stories, in movies and television serials, ever since. The romantic cowboy is the hero and gentleman, one of those "good men in the humbler walks of life", who sees through shams, defends justice and a lady's honor, shoots it out with the villain and conquers evil. Because of The Virginian, Wister created a character who is the original type for the Western folk hero. He represents the embodiment of certain American ideals--a man who is equal to all occasions, who shows independence of action, a man who keeps his word who is "a broad-guage fellow living among narrow-guage folk". But the literary device and cowboy code which Wister established dictated that the hero must kill the bad man. This necessity for sanctioning murder and romanticizing of the cowboy as a gentleman prohibited The Virginian and the genre it created from becoming serious fiction, or even an authentic product of the western experience. Instead of achieving his ambition, therefore, Wister gave us a sort of American folk epic, the cowboy story.

单选题It can be inferred from the passage that most icebergs ______.

单选题We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and speed the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep, and talk efficiently. Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on timetable with one eye on the clock and the other on an appointment sheet. To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of the movie and put culture in pocket-sized packages. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-minute and the great efficiency smiles. We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy; when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it, But that of course would not be efficiency; and we Americans must be efficient.