单选题Some modern children's fiction deals with serious problems and situations with a realism seldom ______ in earlier books.

单选题In assessing the impact of the loss of a parent through death and divorce it was the distortion of family relationships not the of the bond with the parent in divorce that was vital.

单选题Contrary to popular opinion, bats are not generally aggressive and rabid; most are shy and

单选题My mother tried to ______ a little money each month for his summer ruction.

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单选题The discoveries of science often are a mixed blessing. On the one hand they give us valuable pesticides that enable the farmer to grow more abundant crops and on the other hand they ______ the benefits by destroying the balance of nature. A. compromise B. misplace C. damage D. counterract

单选题Why does Sweden have a lower rate of hip implant failure? 

单选题The doctor asked Bob to quit______because of his health.

单选题______, it is widely used in making flares and fireworks.

单选题______ is often the case, one third of the workers have over-fulfilled the production plan.

单选题Many will know that the word "muscle" comes from the Latin for "mouse" (rippling under the skin, so to speak ). But what about "chagrin", derived from the Turkish for roughened leather, or scaly sharkskin. Or "lens" which comes from the Latin "lentil" or "window" meaning "eye of wind" in old Norse? Looked at closely, the language comes apart in images, like those strange paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo where heads are made of fruit and vegetables. Not that Henry Hitchings's book is about verbal surrealism. That is an extra pleasure in a book which is really about the way the English language has roamed the world helping itself liberally to words, absorbing them, forgetting where they came from, and moving on with an ever-growing load of exotics, crossbreeds and subtly shaded near-synonyms. It is also about migrations within the language's own borders, about upward and downward mobility, about words losing their roots, turning up in new surroundings, or lying in wait, like "duvet" which was mentioned by Samuel Johnson, for their moment. All this is another way of writing history. The Arab etymologies of " saffron ", "crimson" and "sugar" speak of England's medieval trade with the Arab world. We have "cheque" and "tariff" from this source too, plus "arithmetic" and "algorithm"-just as we have "etch" and "sketch" from the Dutch, musical terms from the Italians and philosophical ones from the Germans. French nuance and finesse are everywhere. At every stage, the book is about people and ideas on the move, about invasion, refugees, immigrants, traders, colonists and explorers. This is a huge subject and one that is almost bound to provoke question-marks and explosions in the margins-soon forgotten in the book's sheer sweep and scale. A balance between straight history and word history is sometimes difficult to strike, though. There is a feeling, occasionally, of being bundled too fast through complex linguistic developments and usages, or of being given interesting slices of history for the sake, after all, of not much more than a "gong" or a "moccasin". But it is churlish to carp. The author's zest and grasp are wonderful. He makes you want to check out everything-" carp" and "zest" included. Whatever is hybrid, fluid and unpoliced about English delights him. English has never had its Acad mie Francaise, but over the centuries it has not lacked furious defenders against foreign "corruption". There have been rearguard actions to preserve its "manly" pre-Norman origins, even to reconstruct it along Anglo-Saxon lines: "wheel- saddle" for bicycle, "painlore" for pathology. But the omnivorous beast is rampant still. More people speak it as their second language than as their first. Forget the language of Shakespeare. It's "Globish" now, the language of aspiration. No one owns it, a cause for despair to some. Mr. Hitchings admits to wincing occasionally, but almost on principle he is more cheerful than not.

单选题Papousek noticed in his studies that a baby ______.

单选题 As the plane circled over the airport, everyone sensed that something was wrong. The plane was moving unsteadily through the air, and {{U}}(31) {{/U}} the passengers had fastened their seat belts, they were suddenly thrown forward. At that moment, the air-hostess {{U}}(32) {{/U}} . She looked very pale, but was quite {{U}}(33) {{/U}} . Speaking quickly but almost in a whisper, she {{U}}(34) {{/U}} everyone that the pilot had fainted and asked if any of the passengers knew anything about machines or at least how to drive a car. After a moment's {{U}}(35) {{/U}} , a man got up and followed the hostess into the pilot's cabin. Moving the pilot aside, the man took his seat and listened carefully to the urgent instructions that were being sent by radio from the airport below. The plane was now dangerously close {{U}}(36) {{/U}} the ground, but to everyone's relief, it soon began to climb. The man had to {{U}}(37) {{/U}} the airport several times in order to become {{U}}(38) {{/U}} with the controls. Therefore the danger had not yet passed. The terrible {{U}}(39) {{/U}} came when he had to land. Following information, the man guided the plane toward the airfield. It shook violently {{U}}(40) {{/U}} it touched the ground and then moved rapidly along the runway and after a long run it stopped safely.

单选题Pat: Sorry, Linda, I'm late. It took me ages to find parking. Linda:______ A. Did you have a good time there? B. Did you find the park? C. We' ve got too many cars nowadays. D. I found parking just a few minutes ago.

单选题Over and over in War of the Worlds, he evokes the sensation, more familiar from dreams than movies,_ an otherworldly entity, glimpsed from a great distance, ______ suddenly, violently clawing its way into your personal space.

单选题By definition, a discount store offers standard (merchandises) at prices (lower than those) of more conventional merchants. It is able to do so by accepting a lower profit margin, by purchasing (at higher volume), and by (paying workers less).

单选题Long Conversation 2 Questions 12 to 14 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （）

单选题An old woman was badly hurt in _______ the police describe as an apparently motiveless attack.

单选题 Domestic laws, not a global treaty, are the way to fight global warming. Governments like to cite 29 constraints (限制)—such as meeting the conditions for an international difficulty—when pushing through unpopular policies. But with measures to 30 with climate change, the opposite prevails. Each round of intergovernmental talks on cutting 31 and compensating victims seems to achieve less than the one before. Meanwhile, according to a new study the number of new domestic environment laws rose quickly. And the overall trend is a strong increase in legal activism. Last year Mexico passed an important law to guide all its climate-change 32 . Some people define what counts as a climate law is hard when so much 33 the environment. The number of laws alone is not the 34 measure: some are comprehensive and others specific. Rules set by other layers of government may 35 more than the national kind. And just because a law passes does not mean it will do any good. Yet Sam Fankhauser of the London School of Economics says the rise in national legislation helps stop the skeptics' claim that it is self-defeating for a country to act alone on climate change. He also points out that many big countries still have a way to go. The study 36 the weak link between global action and domestic change. Holding a big climate conference 37 a series of laws a couple of years later. But by and 38 voters appear more willing to accept domestic environmental laws than international ones. A. affects F. external K. matter B. crucial G. internal L. policies C. deal H. large M. promote D. effects I. less N. prompts E. emissions J. literally O. reveals