单选题The mayor is a woman with great______and therefore deserves our political and financial support.

单选题He was______by the noise outside yesterday evening and could not concentrate on his study.

单选题 I can't put up with ______ telling me about it.

单选题It offers nothing very great ______ financial compensation.

单选题The ______ meanings of the individual words do not help define all expressions like "Drop in any time. " A. literary B. literature C. literal D. literate

单选题In sport the sexes are separate. (76) Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women are called "the weaker sex" ,or, if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women' s bodies really weaker7 The fastest men can run a mile in 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women' s speeds are always slower than men' s, but some facts are surpising. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 metres in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first "Tarzan" in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone(荷尔蒙) injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problem. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes !

单选题The research requires more money than ______. A. have been put in B. has been put in C. being put in D. to be put in

单选题Many cities in the southern part of the United States have difficulty ______ traffic flowing when it snows.

单选题If you leave a loaded weapon lying around, it is bound to go off sooner or later. Snow-covered northern Europe heard the gunshot loud and clear when Russia cut supplies to Ukraine this week as part of a row about money and power, the two eternal battlegrounds of global energy. From central Europe right across to France on the Atlantic seaboard, gas supplies fell by more than one-third. For years Europeans had been telling themselves that a cold-war enemy which had supplied them without fail could still be depended on now it was an ally ( of sorts). Suddenly, nobody was quite so sure. Fearing the threat to its reputation as a supplier, Russia rapidly restored the gas and settled its differences with Ukraine. But it was an uncomfortable glimpse of the dangers for a continent that imports roughly half its gas and that Gérard Mestrallet, boss of Suez, a French water and power company, expects to be importing 80% of its gas by 2030--much of it from Russia. It was scarcely more welcome for America, which condemned Russia's tactics. And no wonder: it consumes one-quarter of the world's oil, but produces only 3% of the stuff. Over the coming years, the world's dependence on oil looks likely to concentrate on the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia. Russian oil had seemed a useful alternative. Fear of the energy weapon has a long history. When producers had the upper hand in the oil embargo of 1973-74, Arab members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cut supply, sowing turmoil and a global recession. When consumers had the upper hand in the early 1990s, the embargo cut the other way. After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, the world shut in 5m barrels a day (b/d) of production from the two countries in an attempt to force him out. With oil costing $ 60 a barrel, five times more than the nominal price in 1999, and spot prices for natural gas in some European and American markets at or near record levels, power has swung back to the producers for the first time since the early 1980s. Nobody knows how long today's tight markets will last. "It took us a long time to get there and it will take us a long time to get back," says Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy in Washington. A clutch of alarmist books with titles such as "The Death of Oil" predict that so little oil is left in the ground that producers will always have pricing power. The question is how worried consumers should be. What are the threats to energy security and what should the world do about them? The answers suggest a need for planning and a certain amount of grim realism, but not for outright panic.

单选题John says that his present job does not provide him with enough ______ for his organizing ability. A. scope B. space C. capacity D. range

单选题The film provides a deep ______ into a wide range of human qualifies and feelings.

单选题 Questions8-10 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题下面的短文后列出了10个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，选择C。在答题卡相应位置上将答案选项涂黑。Setting Effective Goals　　Avital Schweitzer, 17, is clearly goal directed.She works hard to achieve

单选题Millions of Americans are entering their 60s and are more concerned than ever about retirement. They know they need to save, but how much? And what exactly are they saving for—to spend more time 29 the grandkids, go traveling, or start another career? It turns out that husbands and wives may have 30 different ideas about the subject. The deepest divide is in the way spouses envisage their lifestyle in their later years. Fidelity Investments Inc. found 41 percent of the 500 couples it surveyed 31 on whether both or at least one spouse will work in retirement. Wives are generally right regarding their husbands’ retirement age, but men 32 the age their wives will be when they stop working. And husbands are slightly more 33 about their standard of living than wives are. Busy juggling (穷于应付) careers and families, most couples don’t take time to sit down, 34 or together, and think about what they would like to do 5, 10 or 20 years from now. They 35 they are on the same page, but the 36 is they have avoided even talking about it. If you are self-employed or in a job that doesn’t have a standard retirement age, you may be more apt to delay thinking about these issues. It is often a 37 retirement date that provides the catalyst (催化剂) to start planning. Getting laid off or accepting an early-retirement 38 can force your hand. But don’t wait until you get a severance (遣散费) check to begin planning. A. assume B. confidential C. disagree D. formula E. forthcoming F. illustrating G. mysteriously H. observe I. optimistic J. package K. radically L. reality M. separately N. spoiling O. underestimate

单选题This cycle of growth, reached its peak in 1986, when the annual rate of growth was ______ 12 percent.

单选题Before the disastrous earthquake there was ______ chaos.

单选题Roger: Hi, Frank.Frank: Hi, Roger. The party is really nice, isn't it?Roger: ______. Lots of food and drinks !

单选题 What enables some people to get big creative breakthroughs while others only get small and non-creative breakdowns, blaming themselves and society? Are some people gifted? Are there other factors 21

单选题His classes were packed and students, responding to the warmth of his personality and the ______of his lectures, would cluster round him before and after the class to bombard him with questions.

单选题This new machine will ______ us from all the hard work.