单选题According to the law of that country, the Parliament will have to be ______ before the General Election.

单选题Mrs. White: You have a beautiful garden. Mr. Brown:______. Mrs. White: Do you do all the work yourself?. Mr. Brown: Yes.

单选题The English vocabulary is known for a(n) ______ of words which are comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversations.

单选题 What we give you is a good price

单选题"What are you busy ______ ?""I am busy ______ the plan for the sports meeting."

单选题 Living on Mars 1. Facts of Mars ■ 140 million miles away ■ Beautiful 2 . ■ Discovery of 3 2. Mars One ■ Goal: creating a/an 4 . ■ Helping human understand 5 ■ Inspiring generations to come 3. Selection of applicants ■ 6 ■ Group activities ■ 7 4. Script of Mars One ■ 2016: Training begins Teach the crew 8 . ■ 2020-2025: 9 will land on Mars Rover will scout the planet for a suitable home Life support units will be established ■ 2027: A group of 10 astronauts will land ■ 2028: A second group will depart 5. Expectations ■ The trip will be 11 . ■ The first Martian baby could be seen

单选题If businessmen are taxed too much, they will no longer be_____ to work hard, with the result that tax revenues might actually shrink.

单选题Some plants are very _________ to light; they prefer the shade.

单选题 现在没有人知道中国的背包旅行现象(backpacker phenomenon)确切的渊源，不过成千上万的人已经加入到这种生态自助型的(eco-centric)新旅游活动中。而想要成为“驴友”(friend of donkey)，你不一定要年轻力强，也不一定要囊中富足。“驴友”们很多不过是口袋空空的(impoverished)学生，每一次旅途都需要精打细算，而另一些人则可能已到了中老年。有的人徒步到偏远的地方(remote places)泡上好几个月，有的在周末来一次远足，他们总是准备着探索旅程中新的道路，发现惊喜。

单选题By dint of much practice, he became ______ and was able to sign his name with either hand.

单选题You won't know if it fits you until you______it on.

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 27 , 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 28 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 29 , something happening in one month feels psychologically 30 than something that happened a month ago. This idea was tested in a series of experiments. In one, researchers asked 323 31 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 32 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 33 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 34 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 35 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 36 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 Now listen to the following recording and answer questions25-27.

单选题No sooner had he arrived in Rome _______  he heard of the good news.

单选题(By no means) (it is) true that (all English people) know their (own) language.A. By on meansB. it isC. all EnglishD. own

单选题 Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University. The study included 386 kindergarteners from schools in the Fast Track Project, a multi-site clinical trial in the U.S. that in 1991 began tracking how children developed across their lives. With this study, researchers examined early academic attention and socio-emotional skills and how each contributed to academic success into young adulthood. They found that early attention skills were the most consistent predictor of academic success, and that likability by peers also had a modest effect on academic performance. By fifth grade, children with early attention difficulties had lower grades and reading achievement scores than their peers. As fifth-graders, children with early attention problems obtained average reading scores at least 3% lower than their contemporaries' and grades at least 8% lower than those of their peers. This was after controlling for IQ, socio-economic status and academic skills at school entry. Although these may not seem like large effects, the impact of early attention problems continued throughout the children's academic careers. Lower reading achievement scores and grades in fifth grade contributed to reduced grades in middle school and thereby contributed to a 40% lower high school graduation rate. 'The children we identified as having attention difficulties were not diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (注意力缺乏多动症) (ADHD), although some may have had the disorder. Our findings suggest that even more modest attention difficulties can increase the risk of negative academic outcomes,' said David Rabiner, an associate dean of Duke's Trinity College of Arts Sciences, whose research has focused on ADHD and interventions to in, prove academic performance in children with attention difficulties. Social acceptance by peers in early childhood also predicted grades in fifth grade. Children not as liked by their first-grade peers had slightly lower grades in fifth grade, while those with higher social acceptance had higher grades. 'This study shows the importance of so-called 'non-cognitive' or soft skills in contributing to children's positive peer relationships, which, in turn, contribute to their academic success,' said Kenneth Dodge, director of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy. The results highlight the need to develop effective early interventions to help those with attention problems stay on track academically and for educators to encourage positive peer relationships, the researchers said. 'We're learning that student success requires a more comprehensive approach, one that incorporates not only academic skills but also social, self-regulatory and attention skills,' Dodge said. 'If we neglect any of these areas, the child's development lags. If we attend to these areas, a child's success may reinforce itself with positive feedback loops.'

单选题The question ______ now is where to build the new factory.

单选题His wife is constantly finding ______ with him, which makes him very angry.