单选题下面的短文后列出了10个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，选择C，并将所选答案的代码（指A、B或C）填在答题纸的相应位置上。Being "Cool" in Middle School　　A new study shows that gentle and quiet kids in middle

单选题Many countries still execute people who ______ serious crimes, especially murder. ( )

单选题Tom: Do you mind my smoking here?Mike: ________ .

单选题One possible reason why spring is the best season for thinking is that ______.

单选题Never has a straitjacket seemed so ill-fitting or so insecure. The Euro area's "stability and growth pact" was supposed to stop irresponsible member states running excessive budget deficits, defined as 3% of GDP or more. Chief among the restraints was the threat of large fines if member governments breached the limit for three years in a row. For some time now, no one has seriously believed those restraints would hold. In the early hours of Tuesday November 25th, the Euro's fiscal straitjacket finally came apart at the seams. The pact's fate was sealed over an extended dinner meeting of the Euro area's 12 finance ministers. They chewed over the sorry fiscal record of the Euro's two largest members, France and Germany. Both governments ran deficits of more than 3% of GDP last year and will do so again this year. Both expect to breach the limit for the third time in 2004. Earlier this year the European Commission, which polices the pact, agreed to give both countries an extra year, until 2005, to bring their deficits back into line. But it also instructed them to revisit their budget plans for 2004 and make extra cuts. France was asked to cut its underlying, cyclically adjusted deficit by a full 1% of GDP, Germany by 1.8%. Both resisted. Under the pact's hales, the commission's prescriptions have no force until formally endorsed in a vote by the Euro area's finance ministers, known as the "Eurogroup". And the votes were simply not there. Instead, the Eurogroup agreed on a set of proposals of its own, drawn up by the Italian finance minister, Giulio Tremonti. France will cut its structural deficit by 1.8% of GDP next year, Germany by 0. 6%. In 2005, both will bring their deficits below 3%, economic growth permitting. Nothing will enforce or guarantee this agreement except France and Germany's word. The European Central Bank (ECB) was alarmed at this outcome, the commission was dismayed, and the smaller Euro-area countries who opposed the deal were apoplectic: treaty law was giving way to the "Franco-German steamroller", as Le Figaro, a French newspaper, put it. This anger will sour European politics and may spill over into negotiations on a proposed EU constitution. Having thrown their weight around this week, France and Germany may find other smaller members more reluctant than ever to give ground in the negotiations on the document. The EU's midsized countries also hope to capitalize on this ressentiment. Spain opposes the draft constitution because it will give it substantially less voting weight than it currently enjoys. It sided against France and Germany on Tuesday, and will point to their fiscal transgressions to show that the EU's big countries do not deserve the extra power the proposed constitution will give them.

单选题People have been fond of roses since the beginning of time. In fact, it is said that the wise and knowing Confucius had a 600-book library specifically on how to care for roses. The rose is a legend on its own. The story goes that during the Roman Empire, there was a beautiful girl named Rhodanthe. Her beauty drew many suitors (求婚者). Exhausted by their pursuit, Rhodanthe was forced to hide in the temple of her friend Diana to stay away from her suitors. Unfortunately, Diana became jealous. And when the suitors broke down her temple gates to get near their beloved Rhodanthe, she became angry, turning Rhodanthe into a rose and her suitors into thorns. In Greek legend, the rose was created by Chloris, the Greek goddess of flowers. It was just a lifeless seed that Chloris found one day in a clearing in the woods. She asked Aphrodite, the goddess of love, to give her beauty, Dionysus, the god of wine, to give her a sweet scent (气味), and the three Graces to give her charm, brightness and joy. Then Zephyr, the West Wind, blew away the clouds so that Apollo, the sun god, could shine and make this flower blossom. And so the rose was born and was immediately called the Queen of Flowers. The first true primary red rose seen in Europe was introduced in 1792 from China, where it had been growing wild in the mountains. Immediately, rose breeders began using it to make a hybrid (杂交品种). Absolute perfection still hasn"t been gained, and of course never will! There is a special rose language invented as a secret means of communication between lovers who were not allowed to express their love for one another openly. In the mid-18th century the wife of the British ambassador in Constantinople described this in her letters, which were published after her death. These letters inspired many books on the language of flowers, each describing the secret message hidden in each flower. A red rose bud (花蕾) stands for secret affection, an open white rose asks "Will you love me?", an open red rose means "I"m full of love and desire", while an open yellow rose asks "Don"t you love me anymore?"

单选题When a consumer finds that his purchase has a fault in it, the first thing he should do is to______

单选题Years after the accident he was still ______ by images of death and destruction.

单选题In this {{U}}monumental{{/U}} work the entire storehouse of the world's art is surveyed.

单选题As there was not enough money to bury all dead AIDS orphans, 23 babies were interred in a modest cemetery in South Africa before World AIDS Day.

单选题 Now listen to the following recording and answer questions22-24.

单选题While on a motoring holiday abroad you might find yourself in difficulties because ______. ( )

单选题None of the servants were ______ when Mr. Smith wanted to send a message.

单选题A: I'm seventy-eight, but I never stop jogging every evening.B: You're seventy-eight? No kidding. ______

单选题People seldom trust him since he usually fails to______his promises.

单选题Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americans are drawing a new 21 st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found. Across generational lines, Americans continue to prize many of the same traditional milestones of a successful life, including getting married, having children, owning a home, and retiring in their sixties. But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it. Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found. From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searing Great Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of American life, from consumer preferences to housing patterns to politics. Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations. While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting out today, big majorities in both groups believe those "just getting started in life" face a tougher climb than earlier generations in reaching such signpost achievements as securing a good-paying job, starting a family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing. Pete Schneider considers the climb tougher today. Schneider, a 27-year-old auto technician from the Chicago suburbs, says he struggled to find a job after graduating from college. Even now that he is working steadily, he said, "I can"t afford to pay my monthly mortgage payments on my own, so I have to rent rooms out to people to make that happen." Looking back, he is struck that his parents could provide a comfortable life for their children even though neither had completed college when he was young. "I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn"t have college degrees," Schneider said. "I don"t think people are capable of that anymore."

单选题 What Is Your Dog Thinking? A. Your cute companion rests by your side, but is she dreaming of you? Does she feel guilty about stealing your steak off the kitchen counter and eating it for dinner? What is she trying to say with that annoying bark? Does she smile to you today? After decades of research, neuroscientists (神经系统学家)have begun to answer such questions, giving us access to the once-secret inner lives of our cute companions and even translating their barks and wags so mere humans can understand them. At the forefront of this effort is Stanley Coren, a behaviorist from the University of British Columbia, who draws on decades of research to explore the psychological motivations behind dogs' everyday behaviors. B. Dogs have the same brain structures that produce emotions in humans. They have the same hormones (荷尔蒙)and undergo the same chemical changes that humans do during emotional states. Dogs even have what in humans is involved with love and affection.However, it is important not to go overboard: The mind of a dog is roughly equivalent to that of a human who is 2 to 2 1/2 years old. A child that age clearly has emotions, but not all possible emotions, since many emerge later in the path to adulthood. C. Dogs go through their developmental stages much more quickly than humans do, attaining their full emotional range by the time they are 4 to 6 months old. A dog has the basic emotions: joy, fear, anger, disgust, excitement, contentment, distress, and even love. A dog does not have, and will not develop, more complex emotions, like guilt, pride, contempt, and shame, however. You might argue that your dog has shown evidence of feeling guilty. In the usual case, you come home and your dog starts avoiding you and showing discomfort and you then find his smelly brown deposit on your kitchen floor. It is natural to conclude that the dog's actions show a sense of guilt about its ill behavior. However, this is simply the more basic emotion of fear. The dog has learned that when you appear and his droppings are visible on the floor, bad things happen to him. He will also never feel shame, so feel free to dress him in that ridiculous party costume. D. Many people believe that dogs have dreams. Most dog owners have noticed that at various times during sleep, some dogs may quiver, suddenly move a leg, even utter angry sounds or snap at a sleep-created evil image, giving the impression that they are dreaming about something. At the structural level, the brains of dogs are similar to those of humans. In addition, during sleep the brain-wave patterns of dogs are similar to people's, and they exhibit the same stages of electrical activity that are observed in humans—all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaming. E. Actually, it would be surprising if dogs didn't dream, since recent evidence suggests that animals simpler and less intelligent than dogs seem to do so. Neuroscientists Matthew Wilson and Kenway Louie of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have evidence that the brains of sleeping rats function in a way that definitely suggests dreaming. Much of the dreaming you do at night is associated with the activities you engaged in that day. The same seems to be the case in rats. F. From studies of electrical recordings of the rats made while the rats were awake and learning a maze, Wilson and Louie found that some electrical patterns were quite specific and could be identified, depending on what the rat was doing. Later, when the rats were asleep and their brain waves indicated that they had entered the stage in which humans normally dream, these same electrical patterns appeared. The patterns were so clear and specific that the researchers were able to tell where in the maze the rat would be if it were awake, and whether it would be moving or standing still. Since a dog's brain is more complex than a rat's and shows the same electrical sequences, it is reasonable to assume that dogs dream as well. G. There is also evidence that they dream about common dog activities. The human brain stem contains a special structure that keeps us from acting out our dreams. When scientists removed or inactivated this same part of the brain in dogs, they observed that the dogs began to move around, even though electrical recordings of the dogs' brains indicated that they were still fast asleep. The animals started to move only when the brain entered that stage of sleep associated with dreaming. During the course of a dream episode, the dogs actually began to execute the actions they were performing in their dreams. There is also an odd fact that small dogs have more dreams than big dogs do. H. In the minds of most people, the equivalent of a dog's smiling is when he is wagging his tail. But there is actually one facial expression that comes close to what we mean by smiling in humans. In this expression, slightly opened jaws reveal the dog's tongue hanging over his front teeth. Frequently the eyes take on a teardrop shape at the same time, as if being pulled upward slightly at the outer comers. It is a casual expression that is usually seen when the dog is relaxed, playing, or interacting socially, especially with people. I. Dogs are also capable of laughing, and they typically do so when they are playing. The laughter begins with the doggy equivalent of smiling but also includes a sound that is much like heavy breathing. Several years ago, animal behaviorist Patricia Simonet at Sierra Nevada College recorded those sounds while dogs played. In one experiment, Simonetnoticed that puppies ran around for joy when they heard recordings of these sounds; in another, she was able to show that these same sounds helped to calm dogs in an animal shelter.

单选题It is proposed that this matter______at the next meeting.

单选题"credentials" in the last paragraph refers to______.