单选题People are criticizing the economic policies that have______the decline of manufacturing industry.

单选题The workmates congratulated her ______ her promotion to the position of the general manager.

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the importance of taking advantage of group brainstorming to solve problems. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

单选题None of students in the class likes the mistress, who is used to being ______ of everything they do.

单选题John went to his teacher for______ about his French.

单选题He felt it rather difficult to take a stand ______ the opinion of the majority.

单选题A: I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have thrown your violin away. Why didn’t you tell me it was a birthdaypresent from your Dad? B:_____ What’s done is done.

单选题It was no use______ that I had not seen him, so I waved to him.

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单选题Man: If I don't find my wallet pretty soon, I have to report it stolen. Woman: Hold on! Before you call the campus security office, have you checked your Car, all your jacket pockets everywhere? Question: What does the woman suggest the man do?

单选题The ideological make-up of the unions is now ______ different from what it had been.

单选题People in Bangladesh can use ______ as a safe source of drinking water.

单选题 Odd ______ it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary particle physics.

单选题影视听觉语言的三大基本类别是( )。

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled My View on Plastic Surgery. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words according to the outline given below in Chinese.

单选题It was ________ that they went for a picnic in the park last weekend.

单选题The first time I tried shark-fin soup was at Time Warner's annual dinner in Hong Kong. Shark-fin soup is a luxury item ($100 bowl in some restaurants)in Hong Kong and Mainland China, its biggest consumers; it's a dish that embodies east Asia's intertwined notions of hospitality and keeping (or losing) "face". "It's like champagne", says Alvin Leung, owner of Bo Innovation, a Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong. "You don't open a bottle of Coke to celebrate. It's a ritual. " Unfortunately, this gesture of hospitality comes with a price tag much bigger than that $ 100 bowl. All told, up to 70 million sharks are killed annually for the trade, despite the fact that 30% of shark species are threatened with extinction. "Sharks have made it through multiple mass extinctions on our planet, " says Matt Rand, director of Pew's Global Shark Conservation division. "Now many species are going to go the way of the dinosaur—for a bowl of soup. " The shark-fin industry has gained notoriety in recent years not just because of what it's doing to the global shark population but also because of what's known as finning—the practice of catching a shark, removing its fins and dumping the animal back into the sea. While a pound of shark fin can go for up to $ 300, most shark meat isn't particularly valuable, and it takes up freezer space and weight on fishing boats. Today, finning is illegal in the waters of the E. U. , the U. S. and Australia, among others; boats are required to carry a certain ratio of fins to carcasses(尸体) to prevent massive overfishing. But there are loopholes in antifinning laws that are easy to exploit. In the E. U. , for example, ships can land the fins separately from the carcasses, making the job of monitoring the weight ratio nearly impossible. In the U. S. , a boat found carrying nearly 65, 000 lb. ( 30, 000 kg) of illegal shark fins won a court case because it was registered as a cargo vessel, which current U. S. finning. laws do not cover. Sharks populations can't withstand commercial fishing the way more fertile marine species can. Unlike other fish harvested from the wild, sharks grow slowly. They don't reach sexual maturity until later in life—the female great white, for example, at 12 to 14 years—and when they do, they have comparatively few offspring at a time, unlike, tunas, which release millions of eggs when they spawn. The shark's plight is starting to be weighed against the delicacy's cultural value. The conservation group has lobbied local restaurants that offer the classic nine-course banquet served at Cantonese weddings, of which shark fin is traditionally a part, to offer a no-shark menu as a choice to couples. After my first encounter with shark-fin soup, I decided that, like my colleagues, I would probably skip it next time. Unfortunately, that next time came at an intimate dinner in a small, private dining room, where I was both a guest and a stranger. When the soup—the centerpiece of the meal—was set down before me, I ate it. Apparently, I'm not the only one to cave. "You go to a wedding, and you refused to eat it just because you feel you're insulted— I'm not that extreme, " Leung, the chef, says. "If other people believe that it brings luck .or brings face, I'd be a spoilsport. "To make a dent in the slaughter of the sharks, however, there are going to have to be a lot of people willing to spoil this particular sport.

单选题Speaker A: So, how did you enjoy the food in Thailand?Speaker B: ______. Spicy and hot, but really delicious.