单选题Certainly, the most popular method of traveling used by Americans is the privately-owned automobile. The vast majority of Americans have a car, and many families have two. (31) during your visit to the United States, you may decide to rent a car to travel outside the city or to travel to other parts of the country. Car rental companies are (32) in the telephone book and are located in most cities and towns. (33) , there are usually rental cars at airports and train and bus stations. As is tree everywhere in the world, you can rent a car (34) the day, week, or month. Some companies (35) have special weekend rates that you may find especially interesting if you have only a limited (36) of time to travel around the area you are visiting. Since each company has its own rules and rates, it is a good idea to (37) prices among companies to get the best rates to suit your purposes. For example, most car rental costs (38) how long you plan to keep the car and how far you travel. However, some companies may include gasoline in their rates, but (39) do not. Some companies require that you (40) the car to its starting point; others will permit you to leave the car in another city.

单选题The development of rapid transit rail lines in cities should parallel local economic development and blind construction of such lines should be avoided, a State Council conference said yesterday. The meeting, chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, said the building of rapid-transit rail lines in cities should be carried out according to strict guidelines and management systems of such lines should be improved. It stressed that the amount of domestically made equipment used in such infrastructure projects needs to be increased. The meeting also deliberated on the draft amendments for laws governing the People's Bank of China and commercial banks. Also discussed were the draft law on the supervision and management of banking sector and draft regulations on the management of central food reserves. It was agreed at the meeting that the laws governing the People's Bank of China and commercial banks need to be amended so that the roles and responsibilities of the two are made clear.

单选题Psychology Today (is) (interesting), informative, and (it is) easy (to read).A. isB. interestingC. it isD. to read

单选题Alice: Ted asked me to go to the beach this weekend. What's your plan?Laura: I've to work overtime. Sometimes I envy you a lot. Ted is a good guy.Alice: ______. You just haven't met the right person. And I think you work too much. You should learn how to entertain yourself and enjoy your life.

单选题 Until recently most historians spoke very critically of the Industrial Revolution. They{{U}} (31) {{/U}}that in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the{{U}} (32) {{/U}}man. But they insisted that its{{U}} (33) {{/U}}results during the period from 1740 to 1840 were widespread poverty and misery for the{{U}} (34) {{/U}}of the English population.{{U}} (35) {{/U}}contrast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from 1640 to 1740, when England was still a{{U}} (36) {{/U}}agricultural country, a period of great abundance and prosperity. This view,{{U}} (37) {{/U}}is generally thought to be wrong. Specialists{{U}} (38) {{/U}}history and economics, have{{U}} (39) {{/U}}two things: that the period from 1640 to 1740 was{{U}} (40) {{/U}}by great poverty, and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of the populace.

单选题More thunderstorms .______in summer than any other time of the year.

单选题Henry Ford's introduction of the assembly line vastly reduced the time it took ______a car. A. in making B. for making C. on making D. to make

单选题Jack: What a lovely coat you are wearing! Julia: ______

单选题After a 300 million yuan renovation project, Lidai Diwang Miao, or the Imperial Temple of Emperors of Successive Dynasties, was reopened to the public last weekend. Originally constructed about 470 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the temple was used by emperors of both the Ming and Qing to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. It underwent two periods of renovation in the Qing Dynasty, during the reigns of emperors Yongzheng and Qianlong. From 1929 until early 2000, it was part of Beijing No. 159 Middle School. The temple's Jingdechongsheng Hall contains stone tablets memorializing 188 Chinese emperors. The jinzhuan bricks used to pave the floor, the same as those used in the Forbidden City, are finely textured and golden-yellow in color. According to Xi Wei, an official from the Xicheng District government present at the reopening of the temple, jinzhuan bricks were made in Yuyao, Suzhou, specially for imperial use. The renovation was done strictly according to that carried our at the orders of Emperor Qianlong, and only those sections of the temple too damaged to repair have been replaced.

单选题Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do—especially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. "It"s amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves. " he says. "Resume (简历) arrive with stains. Some candidates don"t bother to spell the company"s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I eliminate the candidate," Crossley concludes. "If they cannot take of these details, why should we trust them with a job?" Can we pay too much attention to detail? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. "To keep from losing the forest for the trees," says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco. "We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we"re working on fit into the larger picture. If they don"t, we should drop them and move to something else." Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time. " says Garfield, "But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary. " Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake. Too often we believe what accounts for others" success is some special secret or a lucky break (机遇). But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow. (271 words)

单选题The rapid-transit rail lines should ______.

单选题Mary: I gave your phone number to my friend's telemarketing company. Jack:______. I hate getting those kinds of calls.

单选题We hurried to the station only to find that the train had been delayed. We ______. A. didn't need to hurry B. need not have to hurry C. needn't have hurried D. should not hurry

单选题James: I'm dreadfully sorry, Nit

单选题It does a company much good to Uintegrate/U a more masculine(男性的) style into the management.

单选题 The ocean bottom a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible, bidden beneath waters averaging over 3 600 meters deep. Totally without light and Subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth's surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space. Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation's Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP's drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean's surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting samples of sediments and rocks from the ocean floor. The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged 600 000 kilometers and took almost 20 000 core samples of seabed sediments and rocks at 624 drilling sites around' the world. The Glomar Challenger's core samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundred of millions of years ago and to calculate what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger's voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes that shape the Earth. The cores of sediment drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also yielded information critical to understanding the world's past climates. Deep-ocean sediments provide a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years, because they are largely isolated from the mechanical erosion and the intense chemical and biological activity that rapidly destroy much land-based evidence of past climates. This record has already provided insights into the patterns and causes of past climatic change information that may be used to predict future climates.