单选题I was ______by the sight that I could not take my eyes off it. A. absorbed B. immersed C. moved D. fascinated

单选题Retailers A offered deep B discounts and extra hours this weekend C in the bid D to lure shoppers.

单选题— Could you please tell me how can I get to the post office? — Go straight ahead. At the end of this road, you'll see the hospital ______ the left side of the park.A. inB. aboveC. onD. around

单选题Some social critics took a dim view of the industrialism of the nineteenth century, believing that it ______ a harsh, crude life-style.

单选题______inthepark,IcameacrossmyformerEnglishteacher.

单选题Internet shopping is a new way of shopping. Nowadays, you can shop for just about anything from your armchair. All you need is a computer which is linked to the Internet. Shopping on the Internet is becoming increasingly popular. In the United States. people spent over US$2.5 billion on Internet shopping in 1998. This figure is expected to reach USS11 billion by the year 2004. People can shop for a variety of products on the Internet. Physical products include items such as books, CDs, clothes and foods. These types of products are the most common purchases through the Internet. You can also buy information products such as on-line news or magazine stories, or you can download computer software through the Internet. Services such as booking airline tickets, reserving hotels or renting cars are also available on the Internet. You can also go shopping off the Internet for entertainment services and take part in on-line games. Internet shopping offers a number of benefits for the shopper. The most important advantage is convenience. You can shop when you like as the on-line shops are open 24 hours a day and you don't have to queue with other shoppers at the checkout counters. Secondly, it is easy to find what you are looking for on the Internet. Even out-of-print books may be ordered on line. Finally, it is often cheaper to buy goods through the Internet, and you can tell the shop exactly what you want. The main disadvantage of Internet shopping is that you cannot actually see the products you are buying or check their quality. Also, many people enjoy shopping in the city and miss the opportunity to talk to friends. Some people are worded about paying for goods using credit cards, so Internet companies are now finding ways to make on-line payment safe. Internet shopping is sure to become more and more popular in the years ahead. It promises to change the way we buy all kinds of things—from tonight's dinner to a new car.

单选题Apart from the budget office and other disinterested parties that study the law, each side in the debate uses research sponsored by interest groups, often______, to support its case.

单选题My colleagues and I were greatly{{U}} puzzled{{/U}} by our repeated failures in the experiment.

单选题I searched for my wallet and it wasn't there．I thought I ______ it at home．A．leftB．have leftC．might have leftD．could have left

单选题{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} Now, more than ever, it doesn't matter who you are but what you look like. Janet was just twenty-five years old. She had a great job and seemed happy. She committed suicide. In her suicide note she wrote that she felt "un-pretty" and that no man ever loved her. Amy was just fifteen when hospitalized for eating disorders. She suffered from both anorexia and bulimia. She lost more than one hundred pounds in two months. Both victims battled problems with their body image and physical appearance. "Oh, I'm too fat." "My butt is too big and my breasts too small." "I hate my body and I feel ugly." "I want to be beautiful." The number of men and women who feel these things about themselves is increasing dramatically. I can identify two men categories of body-image problems: additive versus subtractive. Those who enhance their appearance through cosmetic surgery fall into the additive group; those who hope to 'improve their looks through starvation belong to the subtractive category. Both groups have two things in common: They are never satisfied and they are always obsessed. Eating disorders afflict as many as five to ten million women and one million men in the United States. One out of four female college students suffers from an eating disorder. But why? Carri Kirby, a University of Nebraska mental health counselor, says that body image and eating disorders are continuum addictions in which individuals seek to discover their identities. The idea that we should look a certain way and possess a certain shape is instilled in us at a very early age. Young girls not only play with Barbie dolls that display impossible, even comical, proportions, but they are also bombarded with images of supermodels. These images leave an indelible mental imprint of what society believes a female body should look like. Kirby adds that there is a halo effect to body image as well: "We immediately identify physical attractiveness to mean success and happiness." The media can be blamed for contributing to various body-image illnesses. We cannot walk into a bookstore without being exposed to perfect male and female bodies on the covers of magazines. We see such images every day--in commercials, billboards, on television, and in movies. These images continually remind women and young girls that if you want to be happy you must be beautiful, and if you want to be beautiful you must be thin. This ideal may be the main objective of the fashion, cosmetic, diet, fitness, and plastic surgery industries who stand to make millions from body-image anxiety. But does it work for us? Are women who lose weight in order to be toothpick thin really happy? Are women who have had breast implants really happy? What truly defines a person? Is it his or her physical appearance or is it character? Beauty is supposed to be "skin deep." But we can all be beautiful inside. People are killing themselves for unrealistic physical standards dictated by our popular culture. We need to be made more aware of this issue. To be celebrity-thin is not to be beautiful nor happy. It can also be unattractive. Individuals who are obsessed with their bodies are only causing damage to themselves and their loved ones. But as long as the media maintain their message that "thin is in," then the medical and psychologies problems our society faces will continue to grow.

单选题Around the corner from the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential library in Abilene, Kansas, is the Museum of Independent Telephony. Its 20, 000 visitors a year see a bewildering collection, ranging from wooden wall phones, " candlestick" phones and old pay phones, to switchboards and a reconstructed operator's lair. Despite their years, some of the artifacts continue to work as interactive exhibits. The museum has been receiving more than usual interest in recent years, for Abilene has become a focus for a new American phenomenon. In this age of modems, mobiles and voice mail, Americans are going all gooey over old phones. The ancient railroad town has arguably become the antique phone center of America—the Antique Telephone Collectors Association is also headquartered in Abilene. It owes its status partly to the generosity of the Sprint Corporation, a telecommunications giant which funds the museum because someone called C. L. Brown founded the company there many years ago. Ironically, a big factor in the birth of the old phone market has been the Internet. It has allowed enthusiasts to link up with like-minded souls thousands of miles away. "There are too few collectors to form local organizations of any size, but the Internet has been a wonderful way for people to connect, " says Karen Poza, who two years ago joined the ranks of collectors. "We collectors are like vultures, "says Paul Wiltfong of Lenexa, Kansas, a construction worker who has collected some 14, 000 items since 1981. Auction websites like eBay offer a lively marketplace for the buying and selling of old phones and switchboards. Many vintage phones now cost between $500 and $1, 000, with a few exceptional ones running into five figures. The most popular collectable phones tend to be the ones that people remember using themselves. For instance, interest in early 20th century wooden wall phones—once the most popular models—has waned because fewer people are now alive who remember using them. One aspect of older phones that attracts aficionados is their reliability. Back in the days when the phone company—not the consumer—owned most phones, it was in the company's interest to provide durable machines that cut down on repair trips. Many collectors actually use the rotary-dial phones that they buy. Indeed, many old models are still compatible with current phone networks. "There's no such thing as an unfixable phone, " says Steve Hill who repairs phones and writes troubleshooting guides for old-phone users. Dealers say that some of the new buys in the market are people who have decorated their houses in retro styles and need "era-appropriate"phones. Indeed, some upmarket retailers are already serving this market by reproducing the old-fashioned designs. How long will it be before they end up in Abilene?

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)to help secure America's energy future? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR's oil would help ease California's electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country's energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth, with the last government survey, conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels. The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two to three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall(意外之才) in tax revenues, royalties (开采权使用费)and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling say, damage to the environment would be insignificant. "We've never had a documented case of an oil rig chasing deer out onto the pack ice," says Alaska State Representative Scott Ogan. Not so fast, say environmentalists. Sticking to the low end of government estimates, the National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America's energy problems. And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because drilling could begin only after much bargaining over leases, environmental permits and regulatory review. As for ANWR's impact on the California power crisis, environmentalists point out that oil is responsible for only 1% of the Golden State's electricity output—and just 3% of the nation's.

单选题I could have done it for you if you______. A. ask me to B. asked me to C. have asked me to D. had asked me to

单选题Right now there is a sale of 19th-century European Paintings and sculpture in the museum.(2006年清华大学考博试题)

单选题Sustainable development is the one that meets the needs of the present without ______ the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. A. compromising B. reinforcing C. lowering D. exhausting

单选题The creation of UN was, perhaps, the most ______ achievement of the 20th century. A. obscure B. notable C. acute D. objective

单选题A dolphin(海豚)looks more like a fish than certain fishes do. It is an excellent swimmer. The dolphin seems to flash through the water. Like fish, dolphins are completely at home in the water. There they play, feed, sleep, and give birth to their young. Dolphins live in the sea and can live only in the sea. Yet they are not fish. A dolphin must come to the surface to breathe. Fish can take oxygen from the water. Dolphins cannot. Like us, they breathe with lung and must take their oxygen from the air. And they are mammals(哺乳动物). Most mammals are land animals. Dolphins are evolved(进化)from land animals. Long ago, dolphin ancestors(祖先)left the land for the sea. Among the animals was a kind that would become the dolphin we know. No one is sure exactly what kind of animal it was. But there is reason to think it was related to grass-eating animals like the cow. Modern dolphins are fish-eaters.Yet their stomachs are like those of animals that eat plants. The make-up of their blood is also like that of grass-eating animals.

单选题Some people are willing to rend ______ cars instead of new ones to save money. A．abandoned B．parked C．used D．broken