单选题 火车票实名制(the name-based train ticket system)是指乘客在购买火车票和乘坐火车时，需要登记、核查个人的真实姓名和身份的一种制度。该制度于2010年的春运在部分列车上进行了试点(pilot)，并于2012年起在全国所有旅客列车推行。从某种程度上讲，该制度可以打击非法贩卖火车票的行为，对保障乘客的人身安全、加强乘车管理也起到一定的作用。

单选题There was a quick turnover of staff in the department as the manager treated his employees with ______ contempt. A. utter B. sole C. intimate D. corresponding

单选题Children don"t ______ understand what are reciting, but gradually it will have an impact on thinking.

单选题Paul: Peter, why don't you come to Mary's birthday party with us? Peter: ______.

单选题The British government intends to ______.

单选题In____programming, the user determines the sequence ofinstructions to be executed, not the programmer. A．top-down B．structure C．data-driven D．event-driven

单选题This bridge is ______ that one. A. four times as long of B. as four times as C. four times as long as D. long four times of

单选题Women are entitled to ______ status with men in private and professional life. A. identical B. equal C. same D. alike

单选题 The advocates highly value the 'sport spirit', while the opponent devalue it, asserting that it's a sheer hypocrisy and self-deception.

单选题There is something profoundly disturbing about the national craze to blame the oil companies for higher gasoline prices. It"s not disturbing that people are upset about having to pay hugely more for gasoline and oil products. It"s not disturbing that they are looking for someone to blame. The disturbing part is that we as a nation and as a government are blaming entities that have absolutely nothing or next to nothing to do with causing the high oil prices. It is as if we just arbitrarily decided that all left-handed people were to blame for the oil prices. That"s how crazy it is. Oil companies do not set oil prices. Oil prices are set on gigantic world markets by young millionaire hedge fund traders, by university endowments speculating in commodities, by foreign importers seeking new sources of oil for their economy, by us Americans needing cars to make us feel big and tough. The American oil companies pay these high prices by and large, add in the costs of refining and transporting, tack on the taxes we need to build our roads, and then sell us our gasoline. We in turn suck it down our throats and zoom around in our big huge cars as if gasoline were still $ 1.50 a gallon. Yes, some of the oil the oil companies sell is in fields they bought years ago and paid a lot less per barrel for than today"s prices. When the price of oil skyrockets , the oil companies make money, lots of money. But this is how corporations are supposed to work: when prices for things they already own go up, they make money. They"re not charities and we wouldn"t be able to drive for long if they were. And the money the companies make goes to the shareholders, which is basically everyone in the nation with a pension plan, and most of the rest goes to find new oil for us to guzzle down in our 500-horsepower chariots of the future. Where"s the harm? There"s no price fixing. There"s no stealing. There are just a lot of traders getting very rich driving up the price of oil and a lot of legitimate forces making buyers willing to pay it. You may not like it and I certainly hate paying four bucks a gallon at my local station in Malibu. But blaming the oil companies is pure scapegoat (找替罪羊). Immense world- wide forces are at work. Immense markets are at work. The oil companies are corks in the ocean compared with those forces.

单选题During the 19th century, Jews in most European countries achieved some equality of status with non-Jews. Nonetheless, at times Jews were harassed by anti-Semitic groups.

单选题 Is it any wonder that America is also a country of dangerously overweight people? According to a recent study by the National Centre for Health Statistics, the number of adults characterized as overweight in the United States has jumped to an astonishing one-third of the population. Overweight in this case means being about 20 percent or more above a person's desirable weight. Since the figures for 'desirable weight' have moved upward over the last decade or so, total poundage—even at 20 percent over—may be considerable. So are the attendant health risks. Excess weight has been linked to cardiovascular disease, hypertension, adult-onset diabetes and some forms of cancer, among other diseases. Once, when work and school and the grocery store were a two-mile hike away, Americans could afford the calories they consume. But not now, not when millions spend four or five hours a day in front of a TV set—along with a bag of chips, a bowl of buttered popcorn and a six-pack—and there's a car or two in every driveway. 'There is no commitment to obesity as a public health problem,' said Dr. William Dietz, director of clinical nutrition at the New England Medical Centre in Boston. 'We've ignored it, and blamed it on gluttony and sloth.' If one definition of a public health problem is its cost to the nation, then obesity qualifies. According to a study done by Dr. Graham A. Colditz, who teaches at Harvard Medical School, it cost America an estimated $68.8 billion in 1990. But what's wrong blaming it on gluttony and sloth? True, some unfortunate overweight people have an underlying physical or genetic problem. But for most Americans, the problem is with two of the seven deadly sins. Losing weight is a desperately difficult business. Preventing gain, however, is not. Consumer information is everywhere and there can be few adults who truly believe that hot dogs, fries, a soda and a couple of Twinkies make a good lunch. But they eat them anyway. As more and more Americans became educated to the risks of smoking, more and more Americans gave up the habit. Now it appears that Americans need an intensive education in the risks of stuffing themselves and failing to exercise as well. Given the seductiveness of chocolate and cheese, the couch and the car, that habit will be hard to break. But if an ounce of prevention can obviate a pound of fat, it is well worth the struggle.

单选题 Questions10-12 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题根据下面资料，回答问题。WouldYouMarrytheSamePersonAgain？Whichcountryhasthelowestpercentageofhappycouples？

单选题The New Madrid fault is______.

单选题He worked as a builder in London and ______ half his monthly wage to his family in the Philippines.

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. Suppose you have two options upon graduation: one is to find a job somewhere and the other to start a business of your own. You are to make a decision. Write an essay to explain the reasons for your decision. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

单选题They always keep on good ______ with their next-door neighbors for the children's sake.