单选题Cashier: How can I help you, Miss?Nancy: ______ Cashier: Sure. How do you want it?

单选题Passage One Because agriculture is so important to a nation's well-being, governments have always been concerned with it. For example, the United States and Canada have long produced surpluses that complicate their economies. Surpluses tend to lower prices to farmers and seriously endanger the agriculture industry. Governments have instituted systems of price supports to maintain a fair price when surpluses cause prices to drop. The system in the United States is a good example. A government program supports the prices paid to farmers for grains, and other agricultural products. Support prices are based on parity, which is the ratio between the prices farmers receive for their crops and the prices they must pay for things they need. The government selected the period from 1910 to 1914 as a time when farm prices were in a fair ratio with farming costs. This is the base period now used to determine parity prices. The idea is to assure farmers that what they get for a bushel of wheat will buy the same amount of, say, seed as it did in the years of the base period; if prices drop too far below this ideal the government can help in a number of ways. For example, it may buy much of a surplus at parity prices. Governments have instituted a wide variety of other controls for prices and, also, for farm output, mainly at the request of the farmers themselves. Farm prices tend to fluctuate more than other prices do, and the incomes of farmers fluctuate along with farm prices. Various measures for maintaining farm prices and incomes include tariff or import levies, import quotas, export subsidies, direct payment to farmers, and limitations on production. All of these measures are useful and are used to some extent by most developed countries. An important example of such a program is the soil-bank plan, which aimed at limiting production while improving farmland. The European Economic Community (EEC) established a common agricultural policy (CAP) for its member nations, called the Common Market countries. The aim is to create free trade for individual commodities within the community. When production of a commodity exceeds EEC consumption, the EEC may buy the excess for storage, pay to have it reprocessed, or export it to countries outside the Common Market. In this way the EEC can maintain its members' farm prices at levels equal to or even higher than those in such market-competitive nations as the United States and Canada.

单选题 Where you save your money often depends on what you are saving for. If you are saving to buy a dictionary or to go to a concert, then probably keep your money somewhere in your room. If you are saving for a big purchase like a mountain bike or a school trip, where would you save your money? One place to save money is the bank. Putting your money in a savings account will help your money earn more money. If you put your money in a piggy bank (猪形储蓄罐), one year later you'll still have the same amount of money you put in. If you put your money in a savings account, one year later, you'll have more money than you put in. Why? When you keep your money in a bank, your money earns interest. Interest is the amount of money a bank pays you to use your money. The bank uses your money ( and the money of other people, too) to loan money to people and businesses. The bank will send you a statement several times a year. A bank statement tells you how much money there is in your account, It also tells you how much interest you have earned, ff you leave your money in the bank, you can watch it grow! Another way you can save money is to buy a certificate of deposit or CD. If you have some money that you don't need to use for a long time, this is a good way to make your money grow. You can buy a CD at a bank. You agree not to use the money for a certain period of time. That period might be from six months to five years. You can't touch your money during that time. ff you do, you must pay a penalty, or fee. Since the bank is using your money for that time period, it will pay you interest. You will earn more interest with a CD than in a savings account. Can you guess why? It's because you promise to leave your money in the bank for a certain period of time. Banks pay different rates of interest. So, you may want to compare rates in newspaper ads before buying a CD.

单选题How many people will be looking for jobs this year?

单选题 Many people think there is no need to take special care over home security. "I' m all right, I' m insured." Maybe--if you're fully insured. Even then you can never recover the real value you placeupon your possessions. But you can't insure against the upset and unhappiness that we all feel ifour homes are seriously damaged by some stranger, our windows and doors smashed, ourprecious possessions ruined. "It won't happen to me." Won't it? A home is broken into almost every minute of the day. Thefts of all kinds,including cars and property stolen, happen twice as frequently. "I' ve nothing worth stealing." You may think not. But in fact every one has something worth a thief's attention. And we allhave things of special value to us even if they' re worth little or nothing in cash terms. "I' m only a tenant here." The thief doesn' t care whether you' re a tenant or an owner-occupier. You' re just as likely tobe robbed. Have a word with the owner of the house if you think extra locks and fastenings arenecessary. "They' ll get in any way." Most thieves are always looking for easy jobs. They are soon discouraged by houses they can' tget into quickly and easily. So it' s worth taking care. This booklet will help you. It's based on the practical experience of police forces throughout the country. Most of thesuggestions will cost you only a few minutes extra time and thought. A few may involve someexpense, but this is small compared with the loss and unhappiness you might otherwise suffer. Ifyou are in doubt, ask for free advice from the Crime Prevention Officer at your local police station.

单选题Pupn: Sorry, Mr. Wang. I'm late. My alarm clock didn't ring. Teacher: ______. A. It doesn't matter. These mings happen B. Excuse me, sir. I never accept any apologies at all C. Thank you. You' re welcome D. Never mind. You don't have to be so police

单选题Corruption in government was exposed through the agency of the press.

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} Most human beings actually decide before they think. When any human being—executive, specialized expert, or person in the street—encounters a complex issue and forms an opinion, often within a matter of seconds, how thoroughly has he or she explored the implications of the various courses of action? Answer: not very thoroughly. Very few people, no matter how intelligent or experienced, can take inventory of the many branching possibilities, possible outcomes, side effects, and undesired consequences of a policy or a course of action in a matter of seconds. Yet, those who pride themselves on being decisive often try to do just that. And once their brains lock onto an opinion, most of their thinking thereafter consists of finding support for it. A very serious side effect of argumentative decision making can be a lack of support for the chosen course of action on the part of the "losing" faction. When one faction wins the meeting and the others see themselves as losing, the battle often doesn't end when the meeting ends. Anger, resentment, and jealousy may lead them to sabotage the decision later, or to reopen the debate at later meetings. There is a better way. As philosopher Aldous Huxley said, "It isn't who is right, but what is right, that counts." The structured-inquiry method offers a better alternative to argumentative decision making by debate. With the help of the Internet and wireless computer technology, the gap between experts and executives is now being dramatically closed. By actually putting the brakes on the thinking process, slowing it down, and organizing the flow of logic, it's possible to create a level of clarity that sheer argumentation can never march. The structured-inquiry process introduces a level of conceptual clarity by organizing the contributions of the experts, then brings the experts and the decision makers closer together. Although it isn't possible or necessary for a president or prime minister to listen in on every intelligence analysis meeting, it's possible to organize the experts' information to give the decision maker much greater insight as to its meaning. This process may somewhat resemble a marketing focus group; it's a simple, remarkably clever way to bring decision makers closer to the source of the expert information and opinions on which they must base their decisions.

单选题I ______ the meeting yesterday, but some urgent matter prevented me from coming. A. ought to attend B. was about to attend C. was to have attended D. was to attend

单选题What do the fourth-grade students seem to be doing in the first paragraph?

单选题Nurse: Do you have any designated doctor? Patient: Yes, Dr. Hurt, Cliff Hurt. Nurse: Here is your registration card. Dr. Hurt is at clinic No. 6. ______. A. You may stay here and wait for your right B. You can sit over there and wait for your turn C. You may stand in line here and wait for your arrangement D. You may sit here and wait for your order

单选题Never before (has) (so many) people (in) the United States been (interested in) soccer.

单选题 Besides active foreign enterprises and a{{U}} (31) {{/U}} number of private employers, a consequential new development was the development of employment in state-owned enterprises (guanying or guanshang ). Started by some {{U}}(32) {{/U}} Qing officials, the yangwupai, in the late nineteenth century, sizable state-owned enterprises developed primarily {{U}}(33) {{/U}} enhancing China's national defense. Famous industrial giants of today's China such as the shipyards in Shanghai and heavy industries in cities like Wuhan, Nanjing, and Chongqing were built by the Qing or the Republic governments. Some of them later began to {{U}}(34) {{/U}} considerable private investment. After World War Ⅱ, this type of stateowned employment became very important. Labor in those enterprises consisted basically {{U}}(35) {{/U}} two tiers: a largely market-oriented allocation of blue-collar and some white-collar workers, and a mostly state allocation of most of the white-collar workers including managerial and technical personnel. The latter was a distorted labor market that featured strong {{U}}(36) {{/U}} considerations in allocating and managing labor. Personal and kinship connections, the so-called "petticoat influence," and political {{U}}(37) {{/U}} were the norm for this type of labor allocation pattern. In a way, it was midway between a rather crude market-oriented labor allocation pattern and the centuries-old, warm, family-based traditional labor allocation pattern. It covered a very small but important portion of the Chinese labor force, and thus {{U}}(38) {{/U}} our attention. Later, it apparently provided the historical precedent {{U}}(39) {{/U}} state-owned enterprises to allocate their administrative and technical cadres, even its entire industrial labor force, {{U}}(40) {{/U}} state employees.

单选题In department stores and closets all over the world, they are walking. Their outward appearance seems rather appealing because they come in a variety of styles, textures, and colors. But they are ultimately the biggest deception that exists in the fashion industry today. What are they? They are high heels—a woman's worst enemy (whether she knows it or not). High heel shoes are the downfall of modern society. Fashion myths have led women to believe that they are more beautiful or sophisticated for wearing heels, but in reality, heels succeed in posing short as well as long term hardships. Women should fight the high heel industry by refusing to use or purchase them in order to save the world from unnecessary physical and psychological suffering. For the sake of fairness, it must be noted that there is a positive side to high heels. First, heels are excellent for aerating (使通气) lawns. Anyone who has ever worn heels on grass knows what I am talking about. A simple trip around the yard in a pair of those babies eliminates all need to call for a lawn care specialist, and provides the perfect-sized holes to give any lawn oxygen without all those messy chunks of dirt lying around. Second, heels are quite functional for defense against oncoming enemies, who can easily be seared away by threatening them with a pair of these sharp, deadly fashion accessories. Regardless of such practical uses for heels, the fact remains that wearing high heels is harmful to one's physical health. Talk to any podiatrist (足病医生), and you will hear that the majority of their business comes from high-heel-wearing women. High heels are known to cause problems such as deformed feet and torn toe-nails. The risk of severe back problems and twisted or broken ankles is three times higher for a high heel wearer than for a flat shoe wearer. Wearing heels also creates the threat of getting a heel caught in a sidewalk crack or a sewer-grate (阴沟栅) and being thrown to the ground—possibly breaking a nose, back, or neck. And of course, after wearing heels for a day, any woman knows she can look forward to a night of pain as she tries to comfort her swollen, aching feet.

单选题In response to the fact that ______, more American students are learning Chinese.

单选题The millions of calculations involved, had they been done by hand, ______ all practical value by the time they were finished. A. could lose B. would have lost C. might lose D. ought to have lost

单选题After the divorce, he began to feel tired and resigned and did not want to do anything else but ______ himself to drinking. A. devote B. adapt C. abandon D. adjust