单选题In this age, education is considered an important key to success and minority groups especially are ______ to better themselves by going to college.

单选题Shopping has always been something of an impulse activity, in which objects that catch our fancy while strolling are immediately bought on a whim. Advertisers and sellers have taken advantage of this fact, carefully positioning inexpensive but attractive items on paths that we are most likely to cross, hoping that our human nature will lead to a greater profit for them. With the dawn of the Internet and its exploding use across the world, the same tactics apply. Advertisers now place "banners", links to commercial web sites decorated with attractive pictures designed to catch our eyes while browsing the webs, on key web sites with heavy traffic. They pay top dollar for the right, thus creating profits for the hosting web site as well. These actions are performed in the hopes that during the course of our casual and leisurely web surfing, we'll click on that banner that sparks our interest and thus, in theory, buy the products advertised. Initial results have been positive. Web sites report a huge inflow of cash, both from the advertisers who tempt customers in with the banners and the hosting web sites, which are paid for allowing the banners to be put in place. As trust and confidence in Internet buying increases and information security is heightened with new technology, the volume of buying is increasing, leading to even greater profits. The current situation, however, is not quite as optimistic. Just as magazine readers tend to unconsciously ignore advertisements in their favorite periodicals, web browsers are beginning to allow banners to slip their notice as well. Internet users respond to the flood of banners by viewing them as annoyances, a negative image that is hurting sales, since users are now less reluctant to click on those banners, preferring not to support the system that puts them in place. If Internet advertising is to continue to be a viable and profitable business practice, new methods will need to be considered to reinvigorate the industry. With the recent depression in the technology sector and slowing economy, even new practices may not do the trick. As consumers are saving more and frequenting traditional real estate businesses over their Internet counterparts, the fate of Internet business is called into question. The coming years will be the only reliable indication of whether shopping on the world wide web is the wave of the future or simply an impulse activity whose whim has passed.

单选题In recent years there has been a ______ increase in the cost of living; many families have to depend on the federal aids.

单选题It is no good ______ English without speaking English.

单选题A good ______ of animals hibernate and during their hibernation they eat ______.

单选题You"ve only got a slight cold. You"ll ______ it in a day or two.

单选题The suspect ______ that he had not been in the neighborhood at the time of the crime. A. advocated B. alleged C. addressed D. announced

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

单选题Tom: How long have you worked in this department? John:______.

单选题 In 'What do you think will be discussed in the meeting next week?', the italicized word is ______ of the sentence.

单选题EDUCATE: CHILD

单选题What he expressed as a mere {{U}}supposition{{/U}} was taken by others as a positive statement.

单选题He entered the office hurriedly,__________the door open.

单选题If the ocean were free of ice, storm paths would move further north, ______ the plains of North America of rainfall. A. to deprive B. deprived C. depriving D. deprive

单选题Tom: you know who came yesterday?Mike: Yao Ming? We had a basketball match.Tom: ________ . He came and watched the game.

单选题The children will not be allowed to come with us if they don't______ themselves.

单选题Man: I missed the bus again today because I turned my alarm clock off in my sleep. I don't know what to do. Woman: Try putting it far away from your bed so that you have to get up to turn it off. Question: What does the woman suggest the man do?

单选题 The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions (收购)ever witnessed. The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might. Many in these countries are looking at this process and worrying: 'Won't the wave of business concentration turn into an uncontrollable anti-competitive force?' There's no question that the big are getting bigger and more powerful. Multinational corporations accounted for less than 20% of international trade in 1982. Today the figure is more than 25% and growing rapidly. International affiliates account for a fast-growing segment of production in economies that open up and welcome foreign investment. In Argentina, for instance, after the reforms of the early 1990s, multinationals went from 43% to almost 70% of the industrial production of the 200 largest firms. This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world economy. I believe that the most important forces behind the massive MA wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customers' demands. All these are beneficial, not detrimental, to consumers. As productivity grows, the world's wealth increases. Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could recreate the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S., when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies, such as World Com, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing—witness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan—but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt. Yet the fact remains that the merger movement must be watched. A few weeks ago, Alan Greenspan warned against the mega mergers in the banking industry. Who is going to supervise, regulate and operate as lender of last resort with the gigantic banks that are being created? Won't multinationals shift production from one place to another when a nation gets too strict about violation to fair competition? And should one country take upon itself the role of 'defending competition' on issues that affect many other nations, as in the U.S. vs. Microsoft case?

单选题Speaker A: I'd like some ice-cream. Do they have Coke only?Speaker B: ______