单选题通读下面的短文，掌握其大意。然后，从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选项。Over the summer, my family took a divip to Iceland to see the natural beauty of it.Little did I21　 I would wake up one morning to have my eyes swelled up（肿胀

单选题A TIME columnist bears witness to an operation to help triplets with cerebral palsy walk like other boys. Cindy Hickman nearly bled to death the day she gave birth — three months prematurely — to her triplet sons. Weighing less than 2 lbs. each, her babies were alive, but barely. They clung so tenuously to life that her doctors recommended she name them A, B and C. Then, after a year of heroic interventions —brain shunts, tracheotomies, skull remodeling — often requiring emergency helicopter rides to the hospital nearest their rural Tennessee home, the Hickmans learned that their triplets had cerebral palsy. Fifteen years ago there wasn"t much that could be done about cerebral palsy, a disorder caused by damage to the motor centers of the brain. But pediatric medicine has come a long way since then, both in intervention before birth, with better prenatal care and various techniques to postpone delivery, and surgical interventions after birth to correct physical deficiencies. So although the incidence of cerebral palsy seems to be increasing(because the odds of preemies surviving are so much better), so too are the number of success stories. This is one of them. Lane, Codie and Wyatt(as the Hickman boys are called)have spastic cerebral palsy, the most common form, accounting for nearly 80% of cases. "We first noticed that they weren"t walking when they should," Cindy recalls. "Instead they were only doing the combat crawl." Their brains seemed to be developing age appropriately, but their muscles were unnaturally stiff, making walking difficult if not impossible. Happily, spastic cerebral palsy is also the most treatable form of CP, largely thanks to a procedure known as selective dorsal rhizotomy, in which the nerve roots that are causing the problem are isolated and severed. Among the first to champion SDR in the U.S. in the late 1980s was Dr. T.S. Park, a Korean-born pediatric neurosurgeon at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., who has preformed more than 800 of these operations and hopes to do an additional 1,000 before he retires. Peering through a microscope and guided by an electric probe, we were able to distinguish between the two groups of nerve roots leaving the spinal cord. The ventral roots send information to the muscle; the dorsal roots send information back to the spinal cord. The dorsal roots cause spasticity, and if just the right ones are severed, the symptoms can be greatly reduced. Nearly half a million Americans suffer from cerebral palsy. Not all are candidates for SDR, but Park estimates that as many as half may be. He gets the best results with children between ages 2 and 6 who were born prematurely and have stiffness only in their legs. He is known for performing the operation very high up in the spine, right where the nerve roots exit the spinal cord. It"s riskier that way, but the recovery is faster, and in Park"s skilled hands, the success rate is higher. Cindy and Jeremy Hickman will testify to that. Just a few weeks after the procedure, two of their sons are walking almost normally and the third is rapidly improving.

单选题 School shootings are in the news again. An Ohio teenager opened fire on five classmates, killing three students and injuring two others. In Seattle, the 9-year-old boy brought a gun to school and seriously injured a classmate when it was accidentally discharged in his backpack. Children are injured and murdered every day, but school violence carries a symbolic power because we like to think of schools as safe havens (避难所) from the harshness of adult life. It's frightening to think that the institutions could be a place of injury or even death. Politicians and taxpayers like to hold teachers responsible for their students' failures for the belief that a child's fate rests largely in the hands of the teacher in whose care he or she spends approximately 1,000 hours per year. Yet the remaining 7,760 hours are on someone else's watch: the parents. That's right, children spend on average only about 11% of their childhood lives in school. But we rarely talk honestly about what can happen during the other eight-ninths of their waking and even sleeping hours. Children arrive at school poorly nourished and too fatigued to work. They spend too much time on television and too little on exercise. They are poorly socialised in ways that inhibit (阻碍) learning and kindness. They also bring unsecured weapons to school and use them on innocent people, including, sometimes, themselves. Where are the parents? Children are being injured and killed through the negligence (疏忽) of the adults who are responsible for them. About one-third of households with children report owning at least one gun. Forty-three percent of these homes report keeping firearms in an unlocked place, while only 39% of these homes keep the guns locked, unloaded and separate from ammunition (子弹), as recommended by many gun-safety advocates. Nationally, 90% of fatal firearm shootings of children ages 0 to 14 occur in the home. We are not saying that every time a kid does something wrong, a parent must be held responsible or be blamed. But a system that focuses its attention for kids' faults everywhere but at home is equally blind. We hold hosts liable when a driver drinks at their home and kills someone while driving drunk. Having an unlocked, loaded gun in a home with a child under 16 should be a crime.

单选题If he had not been hurt ______ much, he'd never resign from office.

单选题Perhaps my dishes will not be as delicious as those which you are accustomed to eating, but I beg you to grant my ______ and have dinner with me. A. resentment B. requirement C. request D. reservation

单选题She regretted paying ______ for the camer

单选题He was working in Africa and was considered by the company as the best manager at collecting ______ and making money.

单选题 Questions13-16 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题A: What shall I do? I've got so many things on my mind now. Will anybody help me? B: __________________ A. How can I get support from others? B. Don't expect me to help you. Is there anybody who can help me? C. Don't ask me. It's your baby, Mary. See, my hands are full. D. Sorry. I didn't expect you are so busy.

单选题At what time of the year do the modem Olympics take place?

单选题Speaker A: Want to come over Thursday for supper.9 Speaker B:______.

单选题A: We don't seem to have a reservation for you, Sir. I'm sorry. B: ______.

单选题On an average of six times a day, a doctor in Holland practices "active" euthanasia: intentionally administering a lethal (致死的) drug to a terminally ill patient who has asked to be relieved of suffering. Twenty times a day, life-prolonging treatment is withheld or withdrawn when there is no hope that it can effect an ultimate cure. "Active" euthanasia remains a crime on the Dutch statute books, punishable by 12 years in prison. But a series of court cases over the past 15 years has made it clear that a competent physician who carries it out will not be prosecuted. Euthanasia, often called "mercy killing" is a crime everywhere in Western Europe. But more and more doctors and nurses readily admit to practicing it, most often in the "passive" form of withholding or withdrawing treatment. The long simmering euthanasia issue has lately boiled over into a, sometimes, fierce public debate, with both sides claiming the mantle of ultimate righteousness. Those opposed to the practice see themselves upholding sacred principles of respect for life, while those in favor raise the banner of humane treatment. After years on the defensive, the advocates now seem to be gaining ground. Recent polls in Britain show that 72 percent of British subjects favor euthanasia in some circumstances. An astonishing 76 percent of respondents to a poll taken last year in France said they would like the law changed to decriminalize mercy killings. Euthanasia has been a topic of controversy in Europe since at least 1936, when a bill was introduced in the House of Lords that would have legalized mercy killing under very tightly supervised conditions. That bill failed, as have three others introduced in the House of Lords since then. Reasons for the latest surge of interest in euthanasia are not hard to find. Europeans, like Americans, are now living longer. Therefore, lingering chronic diseases have replaced critical illnesses as the primary cause of death. And the euthanasists argue that every human being should have the right to "die with dignity," by which they usually mean the right to escape the horrors of a painful or degrading hospitalization (住院治疗). Most experts believe that euthanasia will continue to be practiced no matter what the law says.

单选题 发展中国(上海)自由贸易实验区是国家战略，是深化改革、扩大开放的重大措施，意义深远。这项重大改革是以制度创新为着力点，重在提升软实力，各项工作影响大、难度高。建设中国(上海)自由贸易实验区是顺应全球经贸发展新趋势、实行更加积极主动(proactive)的开放战略的一项重大举措。其主要任务是探索中国对外开放的新路径和新模式，推动加快转变政府职能和行政体制改革，促进转变经济增长方式和优化(optimize)经济结构。

单选题Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and experience? Strangely enough， the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent, person's intelligence is fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways. It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random(随意地) from the population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth. Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We should soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion isalso suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.

单选题Because it takes longer to install and involves some tinkering to get it to work just right, it's best for more experienced users. But, oh, what joy! ______ a detailed log of every ad it annihilates, ______ it makes a satisfying 'thunk' when it nabs one.

单选题选出下面读音不同的选项。

单选题Attempts to persuade her stay after she felt insulted were A.of no avail B.out of focus C.at a loss D.in no way

单选题 Creating a Harmonious Family For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Creating a Harmonious Family by commenting on the saying, 'If family lives in harmony, all affairs will prosper.' You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.