单选题 While there's never a good age to get cancer, people in their 20s and 30s can feel particularly isolated. The average age of a cancer patient at diagnosis is 67. Children with cancer often are treated at pediatric (小儿科的) cancer centers, but young adults have a tough time finding peers, often sitting side-by-side during treatments with people who could be their grandparents. In her new book Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips, writer Kris Carr looks at cancer from the perspective of a young adult who confronts death just as she's discovering life. Ms. Carr was 31 when she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that had generated tumors on her liver and lungs. Ms. Carr reacted with the normal feelings of shock and sadness. She called her parents and stocked up on organic food, determined to become a "full-time healing addict." Then she picked up the phone and called everyone in her address book, asking if they knew other young women with cancer. The result was her own personal “cancer posse”: a rock concert tour manager, a model, a fashion magazine editor, a cartoonist and a MTV celebrity, to name a few. This club of "cancer babes" offered support, advice and fashion tips, among other things. Ms. Carr put her cancer experience in a recent Learning Channel documentary, and she has written a practical guide about how she coped. Cancer isn't funny, but Ms. Carr often is. She swears, she makes up names for the people who treat her (Dr. Fabulous and Dr. Guru), and she even makes second opinions sound fun ("cancer road trips," she calls them). She leaves the medical advice to doctors, instead offering insightful and practical tips that reflect the world view of a young adult. "I refused to let cancer ruin my party," she writes. "There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for." Ms. Carr still has cancer, but it has stopped progressing. Her cancer tips include using time- saving mass e-mails to keep friends informed, sewing or buying fashionable hospital gowns so you're not stuck with regulation blue or gray and playing Gloria Gaynor’s "I Will Survive" so loud your neighbors call the police. Ms. Carr also advises an eyebrow wax and a new outfit before yon tell the important people in your life about your illness. "People you tell are going to cautiously and not so cautiously try to see the cancer, so dazzle them instead with your miracle," she writes. While her advice may sound superficial, it gets to the heart of what every cancer patient wants: the chance to live life just as she always did, and maybe better.

单选题Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. 41 the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer"s piece in the Science Times on Tuesday. Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly 42 to live shorter lives. This suggests that 43 bulbs burn longer, that there is an 44 in not being too terrifically bright. Intelligence, it 45 , is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow 46 the starting line because it depends on learning—a 47 process—instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they"ve apparently learned is when to 48 . Is there an adaptive value to 49 intelligence? That"s the question behind this new research. I like it. Instead of casting a wistful glance 50 at all the species we"ve left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real 51 of our own intelligence might be. This is 52 the mind of every animal I"ve ever met. Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would 53 on humans if they had the chance. Every cat with an owner, 54 , is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. We believe that 55 animals ran the labs, they would test us to 56 the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for terrain. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really 57 , not merely how much of it there is. 58 , they would hope to study a 59 question: Are humans actually aware of the world they live in? 60 the results are inconclusive.

单选题The following data sufficiency problems consist of a question and two statements, labeled (1) and (2), in which certain data are given. You have to decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient for answering the question. Using the data given in the statements plus your knowledge of mathematics and everyday facts (such as the number of days in July or the meaning of counterclockwise), you must indicate whether Ａ. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient. Ｂ. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient. Ｃ. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient. Ｄ. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient. Ｅ. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

单选题A static technocratic order, by contrast, requires a very different sort of personality: a droned who does what he is told and shuns novelty, someone who avoids facing, or ______ challenges.

单选题The actor amused the audience by ______ some well-known people. A. embroidering B. rigging C. yelping D. mimicking

单选题A car manufacturer periodically discounts certain car models to its dealers to coincide with intensive advertising campaigns focused on those cars. After analyzing the results of this program, the manufacturer found that sales of the discounted cars were strong, but it also concluded that it could reap greater profits if it did not hold promotions in this way. Which of the following statements, if true, best accounts for the manufacturer's conclusion about profitability? A. Some consumers worry that discounted cars are more likely to be defective. B. The car manufacturer had not been effective in controlling the production costs of the cars, and these rising costs ate into the manufacturer's profits. C. Although dealers requested large numbers of the cars at discounted prices, they generally sold the cars at the normal retail price, thereby keeping more of the profit for themselves. D. Many consumers buy large-ticket items, such as cars, only when they are on sale. E. The manufacturer's intensive advertising campaign did not sufficiently emphasize the cars' high levels of performance on road tests.

单选题[Focus on the formality] A. domicile B. purchase C. chuck D. diminutive

单选题The following questions present a sentence, part of which or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others. These questions test correctness and effectiveness of expression. In choosing your answer, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, and sentence construction. Choose the answer that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear and exact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error.

单选题The newly built factory is in urgent need of a number of skilled and ______ workers.

单选题Which of the following is NOT a process of the lexical change? A. INVENTION. B. ACRONYM. C. LEXICON.

单选题The promoters of the Springfield music festival estimated a 50 percent increase in ticket sales from last year, but because of bad weather, ticket sales actually decreased by 25 percent from last year's level. What percent of the projected ticket sales were the actual ticket sales? A. 45 B. 50 C. 55 D. 65 E. 75

单选题Sam is training for the marathon. He drove 12 miles from his home to the Grey Hills Park and then ran 6 miles to Red Rock, retraced his path back for 2 miles, and then ran 3 miles to Rock Creek. If he is then n miles from home, what is the range of possible values for n? A. 1≤n≤23 B. 3≤n≤21 C. 5≤n≤9 D. 6≤n≤18 E. 9≤n≤15

单选题Researchers discovered that plants infected with a virus give off a gas that ______ disease resistance in neighboring plants

单选题It"s possible that while you are at work, you may dream about a month of Sundays, but your boss wishes for a week of Tuesday. That"s because he probably knows that productivity is one of the main factors bolstering a company"s growth. And a recent poll shows that workers are most productive on Tuesdays! Accountemps, an employment agency, conducted a national survey of office managers, which shows that by the middle of the week, they see a dramatic productivity decrease. While Monday is considered second in "productivity value," only nine percent of office managers think Wednesday is the peak productivity day. Five percent believe it is Thursday. And Friday, well, you can just imagine! However, forty-eight percent of the managers polled said that Tuesday is, by far, the most productive day of the week. A close analysis of workweek rhythms would turn up some obvious reasons for those survey results. First of all, Monday is overloaded with meetings, designed to "get things moving," and everybody knows meetings aren"t very productive. Wednesday is "hump day" (驼峰日) —get over it as painlessly as possible, a worker thinks, and the week is more than halfway over. On Thursday, people are running out of steam; and Friday, everybody"s thinking about the weekend. There are reasons why the other days aren"t productive, but what makes Tuesday special? Tuesdays, employees hit peak performance because they are very focused on day-to-day activities. Also, it"s usually the first day of the week when they"re focused on their own task. They"re not in meetings that take them away from their primary responsibilities. Actually, Tuesdays can be quite hectic. Workers are arriving at work fairly frantic. And so, in 10 hours, they"re doing 20-hour work. That"s productive, but it"s also tough. This does not mean that nothing happens on the last three days of the workweek. Things do not get so lax that people are sitting with their feet on desks, sipping coffee and talking on the phone all day, but there"s a definite lack of focus. The pace softens and the rhythm slows down. And this is not healthy: it produces fatigue and lowers productivity. To prevent this midweek slowdown, some management consultants suggest that employers avoid jamming so many meetings into Mondays. Work deadlines can be rescheduled to stretch out the workflow. Variations in productivity are only natural, but both workers and bosses win when the peaks and valleys are less dramatic than they are now.

单选题A type of extra-large SUV averages 12.2 miles per gallon (mpg) on the highway, but only 7.6 mpg in the city. What is the maximum distance, in miles, that this SUV could be driven on 25 gallons of gasoline? A. 190 B. 284.6 C. 300 D. 305 E. 312

单选题Perhaps what most separates motivational superstars from others is that they live life on purpose— they are doing what they fully believe they were ______ here to do.

单选题Ifa≠0,and,thenb=A.(5-a)(3+a)B.(3-a)(5+a)C.2a2-15D.-3a2+a-15E.15-2a2

单选题The questions in this group are based on the content of a passage. After reading the passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following the passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. One of the best sources modem scholars have for learning about Hellenistic Egypt is the large supply of papyrus fragments that have turned up in the Egyptian desert over the last century. Papyrus is a thick type of paper made from a reedy plant found in Egypt. Papyrus is much tougher than the wood-pulp paper used in modern society; whereas a book produced today will most likely fall apart within a century, there are papyrus fragments that are still legible over 2,000 years after scribes wrote on them. It is primarily by accident that any of these fragments have survived. Most of the surviving fragments have been found in ancient garbage dumps that were covered over by the desert and preserved in the dry heat. The benefit of this type of archeological find is that these discarded scraps often give us a more accurate picture of the daily lives of ancient Egyptians--their business affairs, personal correspondence, and religious pleas--than the stone engravings and recorded texts that were intended to be passed down to later generations. One of the most important papyrus discoveries of recent years was the revelation in 2001 that a scrap of papyrus that had been discarded and used to wrap a mummy contained 110 previously unknown epigrams (short, witty poems) by the Hellenistic poet Posidippus (ca. 280-240 B.C.). Posidippus lived in Alexandria and benefited from the support of King Ptolemy II Philadelphos (ruled 284-246 B.C.). These new epigrams have yielded fascinating insight into the court culture and literary sensibilities of early Hellenistic Egypt. King Ptolemy, of course, was also a sponsor of the famous library of Alexandria, the greatest depository of knowledge in the ancient world. According to the twelfth-century Byzantine writer John Tzetzes, the ancient library contained nearly half a million papyrus scrolls. If that library had not burned down, maybe archeologists today would not have to spend so much of their time sorting through ancient trash!

单选题Although the resistance groups do not show great military ______, they frequently penetrate deep into the interior. A. prowess B. prowl C. psalm D. psyche

单选题A.117,000B.11,700C.3,900D.1,170E.390