单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} There are 15 questions in this part of the test. Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your-Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. When we think about addiction to drugs or alcohol, we frequently focus on negative aspects, ignoring the pleasures that accompany drinking or drug-taking. {{U}}(21) {{/U}}the essence of any serious addiction is a pursuit of pleasure, a search for a "high" that normal life does not{{U}} (22) {{/U}}. It is only the inability to function{{U}} (23) {{/U}}the addictive substance that is dismaying, the dependence of the organism upon a certain experience and a(n){{U}} (24) {{/U}}inability to function normally without it. Thus a person will take two or three{{U}} (25) {{/U}}at the end of the day not merely for the pleasure drinking provides, but also because he "doesn't feel{{U}} (26) {{/U}}" without them. {{U}} (27) {{/U}}does not merely pursue a pleasurable experience and need to{{U}} (28) {{/U}}it in order to function normally. He needs to repeat it again and again. Something about that particular experience makes life without it{{U}} (29) {{/U}}complete. Other potentially pleasurable experiences axe no longer possible, {{U}}(30) {{/U}}under the spell of the addictive experience, his life is peculiarly{{U}} (31) {{/U}}. The addict craves an experience and yet he is never really satisfied. The organism may be{{U}} (32) {{/U}}sated, but soon it begins to crave again. Finally a serious addiction is{{U}} (33) {{/U}}a harmless pursuit of pleasure by its distinctly destructive elements. A heroin addict, for instance, leads a{{U}} (34) {{/U}}life: his increasing need for heroin in increasing doses prevents him from Working, from maintaining relationships, from developing in human ways. {{U}}(35) {{/U}}an alcoholic's life is narrowed and dehumanized by his dependence on alcohol.

单选题"I am convinced that we will not ______ a millimetre nor move one step to the side," said Gov. Ruben Costas to tens of thousands of jubilant supporters waving the department's green and white flags. A. recast B. rebuke C. assert D. retreat

单选题"What About the Men?" was the title of a Congressional briefing last week timed to 1 National Work and Family Month. "What about them ?" you may be 2 to yell. When Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute, first went out on the road to talk about her organization"s research into men"s work-family 3 , she received many such grumpy responses. Work-life experts laughed at her. Men are 4 , they said. They don"t have the right to complain. That was in 2008, before the Great Recession had hit. And this year, when Galinsky went out on the road again to talk about the results of a new study on male work-life conflict, she got a very 5 response. Some men became very 6 . They felt they didn"t have permission to feel 7 . ""This is what I think about each and every day, " " she recalled another man telling her. " " I didn"t realize that anyone else did, " " he said. "He thought he was alone, " Galinsky told me. 8 men are 9 work-family conflict isn"t new. Indeed, it"s been some time now that they—and younger men in particular—have been complaining of feeling the 10 in even greater numbers of women. Failure, 11 , uncertainty, the 12 that comes from spending a lifetime playing one game 13 , mid-way through, that the rules have suddenly changed, seem to have 14 the old categories of self, work and meaning for many men. Is this a bad thing? I"d rather see it as a moment ripe 15 possibility. "A new beginning, " said Ellen Galinsky. After all, what men are starting to say sounds an awful lot like the conversational stirrings that 16 the way for the modern women"s movement. For some years now, sociologists have been tracking the patterns of what they call 17 in men and women"s lives. Mostly, when we think of this, we tend to focus 18 how they live, what they do, spend their time, whether they do or do not empty the dishwasher or care for their children. But what about how they feel? Now that this final frontier is being breached, I wonder if we aren"t fully prepared to see more meaningful change in men"s—and women"s and families " —lives than ever before. That is: if we can 19 the change and act 20 it with courage, not fear.

单选题Mary likes _______ very much, but she didn"t go _______ last Sunday.

单选题A recent history of the Chicago meat-packing industry and its workers examines how the industry grew from its appearance in the 1830's through the early 1890's. Meat-packers, the author argues, had good wages, working conditions, and prospects for advancement within the packinghouses, and did not cooperate with labor agitators since labor relations were so harmonious. Because the history maintains that conditions were above standard for the era, the frequency of labor disputes, especially in the mid-1880's, is not accounted for. The work ignores the fact that the 1880's were crucial years in American labor history, and that the packinghouse workers! efforts were part of the national movement for labor reform. In fact, other historical sources for the late nineteenth century record deteriorating housing and high disease and infant mortality rates in the industrial community, due to low wages and unhealthy working conditions. Additional date from the University of Chicago suggest that the packing houses were dangerous places to work. The government investigations commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt which eventually led to the adoption of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act found the packinghouses unsanitary, while observed that most of the workers were poorly paid and overworked. The history may be too optimistic because most of its data date from the 1880's at the latest, and the information provided from that decade is insufficiently analyzed. Conditions actually declined in the 1880's, and continued to decline after the 1880's, due to are organization of the packing process and a massive influx of unskilled workers. The deterioration. In worker status, partly a result of the new availability of unskilled and hence cheap labor, is not discussed. Though a detailed account of work in the packing-houses is attempted, the author fails to distinguish between the wages and conditions for skilled workers and for those unskilled laborers who comprised the majority of the industry's workers from the 1880's on. While conditions for the former were arguably tolerable due to the strategic importance of skilled workers in the complicated slaughtering, cutting and packing process (though worker complaints about the rate and conditions of work were frequefit), pay and conditions for the latter were wretched. The author's misinterpretation of the origins of the feelings the meat-packers had for their industrial neighborhood may account for the history's faulty generalizations. The pride and contentment the author remarks upon were, arguably, less the products of the industrial world of the packers--the giant yards and the intricate plants--than of the unity and vibrancy of the ethnic cultures that formed a viable community on Chicago's South Side. Indeed, the strength of this community succeeded in generating a social movement that effectively confronted the problems of the industry that provided its livelihood.

单选题Microwaves are ______.

单选题The sense relation which holds the pair of words guest—host is ______.

单选题______is a good form of exercise for both the old and the young.

单选题Because he is ______ , we cannot predict what course he will follow at any moment. A. incoherent B. quiet C. capricious D. harmful

单选题Because oriental ideas of woman's subordination to man prevailed in those days, she______to meet with men on an equal basis.

单选题Alison closed the door of her small flat and put down her briefcase. As usual, she had brought some work home from the travel agency. She wanted to have a quick bite to eat and then, after spending a few hours working, she was looking forward to watching television or listening to some music. She was just about to start preparing her dinner when there was a knock at the door. "Oh, no! Who on earth could that be?" she muttered to herself. She went to the door and opened it just wide enough to see who it was. A man of about sixty was standing there. It took her a moment before she realized who he was. He lived in the flat below. They had passed each other on the stairs once or twice, and had nodded to each other but never really spoken. "Uh, sorry to bother you, but.., uh. .. there's something I'd like to talk to you about," he mumbled. He had a long, thin face and two big front teeth that made him look rather like a rabbit. Alison hesitated, but then, opening the door wide, asked him to come in. It was then that she noticed the dog. She hated dogs--particularly big ones. This one was a very old, very fat bulldog. The man had already gone into her small living-room and, without being asked, had sat down on the sofa. The dog followed him in and climbed up on the sofa next to him, breathing heavily. She stared at it. It stared back. The man coughed. "Uh, do you mind if I smoke?" he asked. Before she could ask him not to, he had taken out a cigarette and lit it. "I'11 tell you why I've come. I...I hope you won't be offended but, well..." he began and then stopped. Suddenly his face went red. His whole body began to shake. Then another cough exploded from somewhere deep inside him. Still coughing, he took out a grey, dirty-looking handkerchief and spat into it. Afterwards he put the cigarette back into his mouth and inhaled deeply. As he did so, some ash fell on the carpet. The man looked around the room. He seemed to have forgotten what he wanted to say. Alison glanced at her watch and wondered when he would get to the point. She waited. "Nice place you've got here," he said at last.

单选题A number of students in this class ______ to Beijing once or twice. A. were B. have been C. is D. has been

单选题They lost their way in the forest, and ______ made matters worse was that night began to fall. A. it B. that C. which D. what

单选题Humans are social animals, and most of us 11 our relationships with family and friends. An emerging 12 of research suggests that relationships can keep us healthier. And a new study finds those social 13 may also help us live longer. This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a 14 of social interactions ranks right up with smoking and obesity 15 a risk factor for death. Researchers from Brigham Young University 16 148 studies with a total of some 300,000 participants, tracking their social relationships and 17 they survived to the end of their particular study, which averaged about seven years. "Those who scored higher on those measures of social relationships were 50 percent more likely to be 18 at that follow-up than people who scored low on those measures," said Professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad, one of the authors of the study. She pointed out several ways relationships can 19 our health. They can help us cope with stress. They can help us maintain healthy habits 20 eating well, exercising or seeing a doctor. And there"s increasing research that shows a direct but poorly-understood link between relationships and physiological processes in the body.

单选题Which of the following is NOT the reason that the man wanted to buy a stereo?

单选题Woman: Your dormitory room isn't very large, is it? Man: I can hardly turn around in it. Question: What does the man mean?

单选题As he was waiting downstairs, he suddenly heard a voice calling from ______.A. overB. aboveC. upD. upon