单选题Receptionist: Front desk. Can I help you? Hotel guest: This is Mr. Burton in 1205. ______? Receptionist: Of course. What time?

单选题The elderly Russians find it hard to live on their state ______. A. pensions B. earnings C. salaries D. donations

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单选题 Poverty depresses most people; ______ my father it was otherwise.

单选题Tom went out to play with his homework ______.

单选题It can be inferred from the passage that Whately found Dickens' characters to be

单选题Jim was ______ asking his mother to buy him a new bike, so she finally gave in.

单选题A lot of people were ready to work long hours because high unemployment meant that they could easily be ______.

单选题 There has not been a great response to the sale, ______?

单选题According to a paper to be published in Psychological Science this has an interesting psychological effect. A group of researchers, led by Eugene Caruso of the University of Chicago, found that people judge the distance of events 24 , depending on whether they are in the past or future. The paper calls this the 'Temporal Doppler Effect'. In physics, the Doppler effect describes the way that waves change frequency depending on whether their 25 is traveling towards or away from you. Mr. Caruso argues that something similar happens with people's perception of time. Because future events are associated with diminishing distance, while those in the past are thought of as 26 , something happening in one month feels psychologically 27 than something that happened a month ago. This idea was tested in a series of experiments. In one, researchers asked 323 28 and divided them into two groups. A week before Valentine's day, members of the first were asked how they planned to celebrate it. A week after February 14th the second group reported how they had celebrated it. Both groups also had to describe how near the day felt on a 29 of one to seven. Those describing forthcoming plans were more likely to report it as feeling 'a short time from now', while those who had already 30 it tended to cluster at the 'a long time from now' end of the scale. To account for the risk that recalling actual events requires different cognitive functions than imagining ones that have not yet happened, they also asked participants to 31 the distance of hypothetical events a month in the past or future. The asymmetry (不对称) remained. Mr. Caruso speculates that his research has 32 for psychological well-being. He suspects that people who do not show this bias—those who feel the past as being closer—might be more 33 to rumination (沉思) or depression, because they are more likely to dwell on past events. A. advancing B. apparently C. available D. closer E. differently F. evaluate G. experienced H. implications I. prospect J. rate K. receding L. scale M. source N. subject O. volunteers

单选题Many teakettles whistle when the ______ starts to boil.

单选题Harson seldom (pays his bills) (on time), and (his) brother (does too).

单选题Would you please let me finish my words?Don't _____ in the middle of a sentence. 

单选题Why does the author use the term "the dividend" even though he has acknowledged that in fact it does not exist?

单选题 The last few weeks have brought an unusual convergence of voices from both the centre and the left about a topic that is typically part of conservative rhetorical territory: poverty and single-parent families. Just as some conservatives have started talking seriously about rising inequality and stagnant incomes, some liberals have finally begun to admit that our stubbornly (难以对付地) high rates of poverty and social and economic immobility are closely entwined with the rise of single motherhood. But that's where agreement ends. Consistent with its belief in self-sufficiency, the right wants to see more married-couple families. For the left, widespread single motherhood is a fact of modern life that has to be met with vigorously expanded government support. Liberals point out, correctly, that poverty rates for single-parent households are lower in most other advanced economies, where the welfare state is more generous. That argument ignores a troubling truth: Single-parent families are not the same in the United States as elsewhere. Simply put, unmarried parents here are more likely to enter into parenthood in ways guaranteed to create turmoil in their children's lives. The typical American single mother is younger than her counterpart in other developed nations. She is also more likely to live in a community where single motherhood is the norm rather than an alternative life choice. All of this would be of merely passing interest if it weren't for the evidence that this kind of domestic churn is really bad news for kids. The more 'transitions' experienced by a child—the arrival of a stepparent, a parental boyfriend or girlfriend, or a step- or half sibling (兄弟，姊妹)—the more children are likely to have either emotional or academic problems, or both. Part of the problem is that a nonresident father tends to fade out of his children's lives if there's a new man in his ex's house or if he has children with a new partner. For logistical, emotional and financial reasons, his loyalty to his previous children slackens (变弱) once he has a child with a new girlfriend or wife. Nor is it likely, from the overlooked child's point of view, that a mother's new boyfriend or husband can fill the gap. There's substantial research showing that stepfathers are sometimes worse than none at all.

单选题At the height of Detroit's boom in the mid 20th century, this plant manufactured Packard automobiles, employing about 40,000 people. The promise of good pay and plenty of work at similar 27 around the city attracted people like Tennessee native George McGregor in the 1960s. Today, he's president of the United Auto Workers Local 22 in Detroit. 'When I first came here, in the automobile factory, they were begging people to come. The hour 28 was something like $3.25 an hour,' he recalled. But the auto industry stopped begging when 29 for American cars slowed and interest in foreign automobiles increased. The Packard brand became 30 , and the hum of its once mighty factory is silent. Crumbling buildings are part of one of the largest vacant industrial complexes in the world. They 31 Detroit's boom-to-bust story. 'There were about a dozen auto factories, and you know very large 32 , and over time those have been shut down to now there's only one left,' Scorsone said. Economist Eric Scorsone, at Michigan State University, said although General Motors 33 the most prominent set of buildings in downtown Detroit, the auto industry plays a much smaller role in the city's economy. 'In fact, health care is the biggest employer now in the city,' he said. There were about 300,000 auto factory jobs in Detroit in the 1950s, when the 34 was around 1.8 million. Today, there are fewer than 27,000 jobs in plants operated by Chrysler and GM, and the overall population is just above 700,000. 'We got three casinos and two auto factories,' McGregor explained. 'We went from 35 to gaming for jobs.' McGregor's UAW Local 22 Detroit 36 workers at the GM Hamtramck plant still in operation here. A. inquire B. people C. demand D. make E. boasts F. represents G. employees H. symbolize I. plants J. manufacturing K. extinct L. population M. employers N. standard O. rate

单选题Woman: Come on, we're almost there. I'll race you to the top of the hill. Man: I'm so out of shape. I might have to crawl the rest of the way. Question: What can be inferred about the man? A. He's tired. B. He lost the race. C. He has already been to the top of the hill. D. He prefers doing exercise indoors.

单选题There is no need ______. He won't show up.