单选题{{B}}Passage 3{{/B}} The air is polluted. The earth is poisoned. Water is unsafe to drink and garbage is burying the civilization that produced it. Our environment is being polluted faster than nature man's efforts can prevent it. Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry. More people and more industry will bring us more motor-cars, larger cities, and the growing use of man made materials. This is happening not only in the advanced societies but among the developing nations as they become industrialized. Now many scientists are worrying about the possibility of world pollution. Some experts declare that the balance of nature is being so upset that the very survival of human beings is in danger. {{U}}What can solve this problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by man—by his greed and his modern way of life. {{/U}}We make "increasing industrialization" our chief aim. For its sake we are willing to sacrifice everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. There is constant flow of people from the countryside into cities, eager for the benefits of modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, so has pollution become a serious problem. Isn't it time that we stopped to ask where we are going and why? It reminds us of the story about the airline pilot who told his passengers over the loudspeaker: "I've some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we're making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we*re lost and don't know where we are going." The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when applied to our modern society.

单选题 Lobbying groups often try to disguise a financial self-interest by clumsily dressing up their arguments in the guise of concern for the public. You see this tendency in the pharmaceutical industry{{U}} (21) {{/U}}in energy and lumber companies who like to tout their{{U}} (22) {{/U}}of the environment. But{{U}} (23) {{/U}}, two new books argue, are these tactics more{{U}} (24) {{/U}}a cause for concern than in agribusiness. Marion Nestle's "Food Safety: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bio-terrorism' looks at the way the American meat and biotechnology industries have{{U}} (25) {{/U}}successfully on Capitol Hill{{U}} (26) {{/U}}stricter federal regulation, which the author argues has undermined the safety of the food supply.(27) , Maxime Schwartz's "How the Cows Turned Mad"{{U}} (28) {{/U}}the origins of mad-cow disease over more than two centuries, and reveals the fallout from the British government's blind{{U}} (29) {{/U}}that the disease could not be{{U}} (30) {{/U}}to humans. In 1999, Ms Nestle writes in her earlier book, Rosemary Mueklow, the executive director of the National Meat Association, lobbied against President Clinton's{{U}} (31) {{/U}}to establish a more thorough testing regime for E. coli 0157: H7, a potentially{{U}} (32) {{/U}}pathogen. Ms Muck low’s organization—which represents meatpackers and processors who{{U}} (33) {{/U}}to discard or reprocess meat found to be infected under the new testing regime—argued on Capitol Hill that{{U}} (34) {{/U}}microbial testing in meat could actually lead to a greater public health risk{{U}} (35) {{/U}}confident consumers might relax their own safe-handling procedures at home.

单选题{{B}}Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} I doubt that any historically valid treatment of that presidential administration can emerge for at least another decade, if then. I confess that when I came out of the White House I signed up to do an "insider volume", but sober, professional second thoughts have led me to put that project on ice until at least 1980. The problem is that I simultaneously know too much, and not enough. I know what I thought was happening. But I cannot fully document what happened. And I have seen enough highly classified documents to know that most of what the observers thought was happening was at best half right, at worst dead wrong. This has steered me in a different direction as far as writing is concerned. I am now preparing what is frankly and unashamedly an ex parte memoir, "My Experiences in Washington." It is based on what I believed to be true, on the picture as I conceptualized it, of the presidential administration under which I worked.

单选题I don't doubt______ she will learn a lot during her stay in China.

单选题The whole passage carries a tone of ___________.

单选题The temperatures are somewhat lower than the average temperature in May this year. A. rather B, very C. a little D. less

单选题He got excited at the news, ______ I was calm.A. whenB. whileC. becauseD. after

单选题Which of the following is true about the difference between great art and simple entertainment according the author?

单选题We should make a clear______between ' competent' and ' proficient' for the purposes of our discussion.

单选题______ news and current affairs, I hardly watch any television. A. Aside from B. Regardless of C. In the face of D. So far as

单选题Mergers may be effective to revive or rejuvenate failing business by the {{U}}infusion{{/U}} of new management and personnel. A. inspection B. introduction C. evaluation D. concentration

单选题Output is now six times ______ it was before 1990.

单选题The police tried {{U}}in vain{{/U}} to break up the protest crowds in front of the government building.

单选题Why did the man fasten the end of the rope before he climbed up the ladder?

单选题Now a paper in Science argues that organic chemicals in the rock come mostly from ______ on earth than bacteria on Mars.

单选题______ that you kindly take immediate action on the matter. A) It requested B) It is requested C) That requested D) That is requested

单选题For the moment, mind-reading is still science fiction. But that may not be true for much longer. Several lines of inquiry are converging on the idea that the neurological activity of the brain can be decoded directly, and people"s thoughts revealed without being spoken. Just imagine the potential benefits. Such a development would allow both the fit and the disabled to operate machines merely by choosing what they want those machines to do. It would permit the profoundly handicapped to communicate more easily than is now possible even with the text-based speech engines used by the likes of Stephen Hawking. It might unlock the mental prisons of people apparently in comas, who nevertheless show some signs of neural activity. For the able-bodied, it could allow workers to dictate documents silently to computers simply by thinking about what they want to say. The most profound implication, however, is that it would abolish the ability to lie. Who could object to that? You will not bear false witness. Tell the truth, and shame the Devil. Transparency, which speaks for honesty in management, is put forward as the answer to most of today"s evils. But honestly speaking, the truth of the matter is that this would lead to disaster, for lying is at the heart of civilization. People are not the only creatures who lie. Species from squids to chimpanzees have been caught doing it from time to time. But only human beings have turned lying into an art. Call it diplomacy, public relations or simple good manners: lying is one of the things that make the world go round. The occasional untruth makes domestic life possible, is essential in the office and forms a crucial part of parenting. Politics might be more entertaining without lies—"The prime minister has my full support" would be translated as, "If that half-wit persists in this insane course we"ll all be out on our ears"—but a party system would be hard to sustain without the semblance of loyalty that dishonesty permits. The truly scary prospect, however, is the effect mind-reading would have on relations between the state and the individual. In a world in which the authorities could peep at people"s thoughts, speaking truth to power would no longer be brave: it would be unavoidable. Information technology already means that physical privacy has become a scarce commodity. Websites track your interests and purchases. Mobile phones give away your location. Video cameras record what you are up to. Lose mental privacy as well, and there really will be nowhere.