单选题Alice came back from her trip, ______the house completely deserted.

单选题No one here believes the reason ______ he gave for his lateness.

单选题Doctor: ______. Patient: I've caught a bad cold and got a sour throat.

单选题A tennis competition between two people is called a tennis ______.

单选题 Reading ______ the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

单选题I hope my students will allow a ______ for error correction.

单选题Nancy: Hello, Ted. What's wrong with your arm? Ted: I broke it when I was skating on the holiday. Nancy: Oh, no ! ______ Ted: Much better, thanks. A. What a nuisance! B. How awful! C. Why was that? D. What a trouble!

单选题The year 2000 will bring big changes in communication. Cell phones will be small enough to carry in your pocket. Videophones will let you see the person you are talking to on the phone. Tiny hand size computers will know your favorite subjects. The Internet and email will be everywhere. Technologists believe 2000 will be the year of video messaging. You will be able to see whom you're talking to. Also in the near future small wireless boxes will pick up information from satellites. In 5 years, computers won't need to be connected through wires. All of this will be good for rural areas and countries that don't have cable or telephone now. In 20 years you may only need to think about something and the computer will do it. Constance Hale is the author of Sin and Syntax, "I believe that email has been an incredible boon to communication. People are writing today where they would have been telephoning yesterday. So people are engaging with words more than they have for the last couple generations." If people use email and the Internet more, it could make people better readers and writers. Some people think the most important part of communication is to make people understand each other better. Will technology make that easier? The translator also comes in handy in medical emergencies. Tam Dinh says, "Where people are injured it's always important to get as much information as quickly as possible." Bob Parks is an Associate Editor of Wired Magazine, ~'Bob's morning begins at about 6:45 am. and Bob is kind of mad, because Bob usually gets up at around 7:15 and likes to cut it close with his morning commute, but I look at my radio and it says that there's a traffic jam on 101 South and I'm gonna need an extra 1/2 hour. And so my radio has got a net connection, wireless net connection as well as a good old power cord to the wall and it has received notice that there's a traffic jam and it has calculated an extra 1/2 hour commute time." Some day everything may be connected to the Internet. Your refrigerator will add milk to your Internet grocery list when the date on the carton has passed. Light bulbs will be ordered before they burn out. It's fun to try to guess the future. Usually the predictions are wrong. The one thing we know for sure is that we can't imagine how technology will change.

单选题The figure of world illiteracy was obtained by ______.

单选题 Questions10-13 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题You can enjoy______ at Jack Stein's.

单选题During the graduation ________ , the president gave a wonderful opening speech.

单选题His business was very successful, but it was at the _____ of his family life.

单选题Did he really expect her to smile now and ______ with his plans, treat all this deception as no more than an unusual diversion?

单选题Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy more freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so 27 on their parents. They think more for themselves and do not blindly accept the ideals of their elders. Events which the older generation remembers 28 are nothing more than past history. This is as it should be. Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. The old always assume that they know best for the simple reason that they have been around a bit longer. They don't like to feel that their 29 are being questioned or threatened. And this is precisely what the young are doing. They are questioning the assumptions of their elders and 30 their complacency(自满). Who said that all the men in the world should wear dull grey suits and convict haircuts? Why have the older generation so often used violence to solve their problems? Why are they so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives, so 31 with mean ambitions and the desire to amass (积累) more and more material 32 ? These are not questions the older generation can shrug off lightly. Traditionally, the young have turned to their elders for 33 . Today, the situation might be 34 . The old could learn a thing or two from their children. One of the biggest lessons they could learn is that enjoyment is not ' 35 '. Enjoyment is a principle one could apply to all aspects of life. It is surely not wrong to enjoy your work and enjoy your leisure; to 36 restricting inhibitions. A. disturbing B. distinctively C. guidance D. shed E. reliance F. dependent G. obsessed H. sinful I. dissolving J. vividly K. reversed L. brutal M. possessions N. values O. rein

单选题Clark felt that his ______ in one of the most dramatic medical experiments of all time was worth the suffering he underwent.

单选题Although the weather was very bad, the buses still ran on______.

单选题We use both words and gestures to express our feelings, but the problem is that these words and gestures can be understood in different ways. It is true that a smile means the same thing in any language. So does laughter or crying. There are also a number of striking similarities in the way different animals show the same feelings. Dogs, tigers and humans, for example, often show their teeth when they are angry. This is probably because they are born with those behavior patterns. Fear is another emotion that is shown in much the same way all over the world. In Chinese and in English literature, a phrase like "he went pale and begin to tremble" suggests that the man is either very afraid or he has just got a very big shock. However, "he opened his eyes wide" is used to suggest anger in Chinese whereas in English it means surprise. In Chinese "surprise" can be described in a phrase like "they stretched out their tongues!" Sticking out your tongue in English is an insulting gesture or expresses strong dislike. Even in the same culture, people differ in ability to understand and express feelings. Experiments in America have shown that women are usually better than men at recognizing fear, anger, love and happiness on people"s faces. Other studies show that older people usually find it easier to recognize or understand body language than younger people do.

单选题 U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appealed Friday for a new generation of extraordinary teachers, calling education the civil rights cause of our time. Duncan told about 100 prospective (未来的) teachers at the University of Virginia that veterans, retirees and professionals seeking a second career must pay attention to the call to teach. He said the need is especially acute for black men in the nation's classrooms. The Virginia address is the first of several Duncan will make in October to press for bright candidates to enter teaching. He'll host a virtual town meeting with teachers from around the nation on Oct. 20, then deliver a major address on teacher preparation two days later in New York City. Duncan stressed the importance of teaching as the U.S. competes with an increasingly educated global work force, saying strong education is needed to reduce dropout rates among African-American, Latino and low-income students. 'I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation,' Duncan said. 'If you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality and social injustice, the classroom is the place to start.' Duncan noted that the next four years alone could see one-third of the nation's teachers and administrators leave. The departure of veteran educators will create huge demand for new teachers—200,000 annually in good economic times, he said. Duncan stressed that the demand for teachers is greatest among 'high-poverty, high-needs' and rural schools, as well as in subjects such as math and science. 'It is especially troubling,' he added, 'that less than 2 percent of our nation's teachers are African-American males.' Duncan said the way to bring more young black men into the teaching profession is to make sure that they continue their studies and don't drop out at the high rates they do now. 'Our African male dropout rate is too high. If you're dropping out of high school you can't be a teacher,' he said. Duncan said the nation cannot rely alone on schools of education to produce the next generation of teachers. He called for expanding alternatives such as Teach for America, which recruits recent college graduates to teach in schools in poor communities for at least two years.