单选题{{B}}Passge Two{{/B}} If those "mad moments"—when you can't remember what your friend has told you or where you left your keys—are becoming more frequent, mental exercises and a healthy brain diet may help. Just as bodies require more maintenance with the passing years, so do brains, which scientists now know show signs of aging as early as the 20s and 30s. "Brain aging starts at a very young age, younger than any ofus had imagined and these processes continue gradually over the years,' said Dr. Gary Small, the director of the Center on Aging at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Pm convinced that it is never too early to get started on a mental or brain-fitness program," he added. In his book, The Memory Bible, the 51-year-old neuroscientist(神经学家) lists what he refers to as the 10 suggestions for keeping the brain young. They include training memory, building skills, reducing stress, mental exercises, brain food and a healthy lifestyle. It's a game plan for keeping brain cells sparking and neural networks in perfect shape. "Misplacing your keys a couple of times don't mean you should start labeling your cabinets. Memory loss is not an inevitable consequence of aging. Our brains can fight back," he said. Small provides the weapons for a fun-scale attack Simple memory tests give an indication of what you are up against and tools such as "look" and "connect" are designed to make sure that important things such as names and dates are never forgotten. "So if you wanted to learn names and faces, for example, you meet Mrs. Beatty and you notice a distinguishing facial feature, maybe a high eyebrow," said Small. "You associate the first thing that comes to mind. I think of the actor Warren Beatty so I create a mental picture of Warren Beatty kissing her brow." Small admits it may sound a bit strange but he says it works. "Mental exercises could be anything from doing crossword puzzles and writing with your left hand if you are right handed or learning a language. It could be anything that is fun that people enjoy doing," he added. He also recommends physical exercise, a low-fat diet and eating foods rich in fatty acids, such as fish, nuts, and fruits and vegetables high in antioxidants(抗氧化剂) including blueberries and onions in addition to reducing stress.

单选题We need large quantities of candles for party, please quote us your competitive price for ______ business.

单选题Passage Three When the American economy was running full tilt two years ago, few places were as breathlessly delighted as Seattle. Its port was thronged with ships bringing goods from Asia. The Boeing Company could barely keep up with demand for its airliners. Microsoft was hiring hordes of software engineers. After each rain shower, another Internet millionaire sprang up. Here was a city that had it all—Old Economy, New Economy, Not-Yet-Invented Economy. Now it has all gone sour. The past 12 months have been a non-stop succession of disappointments. Boeing's headquarters decamped to Chicago. The Internet economy popped alike a balloon in a nail factory, taking with it once promising local ventures such as Homegrocer.com and leaving can't-possibly-miss companies such as Drugstore.com barely hanging on. And an already troubled Boeing was hit even harder after September 11th both by a steep drop in airliner orders and by losing a $ 200 billion Joint Strike Fighter contract to Lockheed Martin. Washington State, battered by what is happening in Seattle, now has the highest unemployment rate in the United States--6.6% compared with 5.4% in the country as a whole. Right behind it is next-door Oregon, another former boom state, with 6.5% of its workforce out of a job, the country's second worst figure. In Oregon, manufacturing's collapse has caused the loss of nearly 30,000 jobs in a year, those hit range from Freightliner, a maker of heavy lorries, to high-tech companies such as Intel and Fujitsu. What makes the current plunge so painful is that every part of the economy seems to have stepped into an open manhole at the same time. Three years ago, when Boeing began to remove more than 20,000 people that Boeing expects to lay off by the middle of 2002 have to compete with unemployed workers not just from the high-tech industry but from construction work and even the retail sector. Portland now has more jobless than the other parts of Oregon: the opposite of how things were years ago. Even worse, the Pacific northwest's downturn, as well as being deeper than the rest of the country, may also last longer. One reason for fearing this is Boeing's continuing woes. Nowadays Boeing accounts for less than 5% of employment in the Seattle area, down from 9% two decades ago. But it remains the foundation on which the rest is built. Its network of suppliers and subcontractors gives it a far stronger multiplier effect than, say, Microsoft, which is more an island of prosperity than a center of web. The chances are that Boeing will not really bounce back until the assumed revival in air travel persuades airline companies to start buying plenty of aircraft again. And that may not be until 2003.

单选题Plato believed (that) if we (rely on) our senses, we would not be able (to acquire) true knowledge of (the universe).

单选题《伏尔塔瓦河》是捷克作曲家斯美塔那创作的交响组曲( )之第二乐章。

单选题Nonverbal (非语言的) communication has to do with gestures, movements and closeness of two people when they are talking. The scientists say that those gestures. movements and so on have meaning which words do not carry. For example, the body distance between two speakers can be important. North Americans often complain that South Americans are unfriendly because they tend to stand close to the North American when speaking, while the South American often considers the North American to be "cold" or "distant" because he keeps a greater distance between himself and the person he is speaking to. The "eye contact" provides another example of what we are calling nonverbal communication. Scientists have observed that there is more eye contact between people who like each other than there is between people who don't like each other. The length of time that the person whom you are speaking to looks at your eyes indicates the amount of interest he has in the things you are talking about. On the other hand, too long a gaze can make people uncomfortable. The eyes apparently play a great part in nonverbal communication. Genuine warmth or interest, shyness or confidence can often be seen in the eyes. We do not always consider a smile to be a sign of friendliness. Someone who is always smiling, and with little apparent reasons, often makes us uneasy.

单选题People seldom trust him since he usually fails to______his promises.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} 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 In recent years many countries of the world have been faced with the problem of how to make their workers more productive. Some experts claim the answer is to make jobs more varied. But do more varied jobs lead to greater productivity? The evidence shows that while variety certainly makes the worker's life more enjoyable, it does not actually make him work harder. As far as increasing productivity is concerned, then, variety is not an important factor. Other experts feel that giving the worker freedom to do his job in his own way is important. There is no doubt that this is true. The problem is that this kind of freedom cannot easily be given in the modern factory with its complicated machinery which must be used in a fixed way. Thus, although freedom of choice may be important, usually very little can be done to create it. Another important consideration is how much a worker contributes to the product he is making. In most factories the worker sees only one small part of the product. Some car factories are now experimenting with having many small production lines rather than a large one, so that each worker contributes more to the production of the cars on his line. It would seem that not only is degree of the worker's contribution an important factor, therefore, but it is also one we can do something about. To what extent does more money lead to greater productivity? The workers themselves certainly think this is important. But perhaps they want more money only because the work they do is so boring. Money just lets them enjoy their spare time more. A similar argument may explain demands for shorter working hours. Perhaps if we make their jobs more interesting, they will want neither more money nor shorter working hours.

单选题Share prices on the Stock Exchange plunged sharply in the morning but ______ slightly in the afternoon. A. recovered B. regained C. restored D. resolved

单选题German zoologist Randolf Menzel says bees aren't as busy as people believe they are. "Bees are not par ticularly (31) . Instead they sleep a lot and are lazy. They spend (32) 80 per cent of the night sleeping. Even during the day they often fly to the nest (33) they rest their wings," said Menzel, a zoologist at the Free University in Berlin, who has studied bees for four decades. But to (34) for their apparent laziness, they are actually very intelligent. They are (35) learners and able to recognize various smells. Menzel said bees' learning, like (36) of many animals, was based on a reward system. "If a bee is re warded once for something, it remembers it for a week. But if it is rewarded three times, it will remember it for its (37) lifetime," said Menzel. He was awarded a (38) by the German Zoological Society. The memory capacity of bees means they can (39) among more than 50 different smells to find the one they want. "What is interesting is that what smells good to a bee, is also a (40) smell for humans," said Menzel.

单选题As long as we have been on earth, we have used the sea around us. We take from the ocean and we give (41) it. We take fish from the ocean — millions of kilograms of fish, every year, to (42) millions of people. We even use (43) bones for fertilizer and meal. We take (44) from the ocean. One way to get salt (45) sea water in a shallow basin and leave it (46) it evaporates. Along with salt, other minerals are left after evaporation — iodine (碘), magnesium(镁), and bromine(溴), to (47) a few. Much gold and silver drift (48) in the waters of the sea, too. But the sea does not (49) them up by simple evaporation. Other gifts from the sea are pearls, sponges(海绵), and seaweed. Pearls become jewelry. (50) sponges become cleaning aids. Seaweed becomes (51) of many kinds — even candy, jellies, and ice cream — (52) medicine. Believe it or (53) , fresh water is another gift from the sea. We (54) drink ocean water. Some of its contents may cause illness. (55) ocean water becomes fresh water when the salts are removed. In the future, we will find (56) depending more and more on fresh water from the sea. The sea gives us food, fertilizer, minerals, water, and other (57) . What do we give the sea? Garbage. We pollute the ocean when we use it as a garbage dump. Huge (58) it is, the ocean cannot hold all the waste that we pour into it. Dumping garbage into the ocean is killing (59) sea life. Yet as the world population grows, we may need the sea and its gifts more than ever. We are finally learning that if we destroy our seas, we might also destroy ourselves. (60) , it's not too late.

单选题Sometimes very young children have trouble ______ fact from fiction and may believe that such things actually exist. A. separating B. having separated C. to separate D. for separating

单选题 Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality, but when itcomes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electri-cal engineer and, of course, any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a college witha large engineering department, famous reputation and lots of good labs and research equipment.But that' s not what I did. I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科) university that doesn' t even offera major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here formore noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a valuesystem to guide me in my career. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interactingwith people who weren't studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adultspraised me for such a sensible choice. They told me I was wise and mature beyond my 18 years,and I believed them. I headed off to college sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went tobig engineering "factories" where they didn' t care if you had values or were flexible. I was goingto be a complete engineer: technical genius and sensitive humanist (人文学者) all in one. Now I'm not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as allnoble ideals eventually do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineer-ing courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering stu-dents try to reconcile (协调) engineering with liberal-arts courses in college. The reality that has blocked my path to becoming the typical successful student is that engi-neering and the liberal arts simply don't mix as easily as I assumed in high school. Individuallythey shape a person in very different ways l together they threaten to confuse. The struggle to rec-oncile the two fields of study is difficult.

单选题Pressed by competition and its own success, the popular search engine Google has created an automated way to search for new employees who are fully appropriate as well as high-achieving. In a project, the 100,000 people who fill in online job applications for Google each month will be asked to complete a complicated questionnaire (问卷) exploring their attitudes, behaviour, personality and backgrounds going back to their school days. The questions range from whether applicants have ever set a world record, to whether their workspace is messy or tidy or what magazines they read. Answers are studied by Google"s mathematicians to calculate a score meant to predict how well a person will fit into the organization"s diversified and competitive culture. Psychometric tests (心理测试) are already used by more traditional companies to select workers, but they are unheard of in a company like Google, which is built on a belief in individual talent. The online questionnaire is based on the answers to 300 questions sent out last summer to every employee at the head office in California"s Silicon Valley. Some questions were factual: What programming languages are you familiar with? What internet mailing lists are you on? Other questions, however, tried to establish personality and behavioural characteristics: Have you ever tutored another person? "We wanted to cast a very wide net," said Laszlo Bock, Google"s Vice-President for People Operations. "It is not unusual to walk into our office and bump into dogs. Maybe people who own dogs have some personality feature that is useful."

单选题The headmaster warned him to ______his ways if he wanted to stay at the school. A. repair B. restore C. mend D. protect

单选题So loudly ______ that even people far away could hear him.

单选题 When the American economy was running full tilt two years ago, few places were as breathlessly delighted as Seattle. Its port was thronged with ships bringing goods from Asia. The Boeing Company could barely keep up with demand for its airliners. Microsoft was hiring hordes of software engineers. After each rain shower, another Internet millionaire sprang up. Here was a city that had it all--Old Economy, New Economy, Not-Yet-Invented Economy. Now it has all gone sour. The past 12 months have been a non-stop succession of disappointments. Boeing's headquarters decamped to Chicago. The Internet economy popped alike a balloon in a nail factory, taking with it once promising local ventures such as Homegrocer.com and leaving can't-possibly-miss companies such as drugstore.com barely hanging on. And an already troubled Boeing was hit even harder after September 11th both by a steep drop in airliner orders and by losing a $ 200 billion Joint Strike Fighter contract to Lockheed Martin. Washington State, battered by what is happening in Seattle, now has the highest unemployment rate in the United States--6.6% compared with 5.4% in the country as a whole. Right behind it is next-door Oregon, another former boom state, with 6.5% of its workforce out of a job, the country's second worst figure. In Oregon, manufacturing's collapse has caused the loss of nearly 30,000 jobs in a year, those hit range from Freightliner, a maker of heavy lorries, to high-tech companies such as Intel and Fujitsu. What makes the current plunge so painful is that every part of the economy seems to have stepped into an open manhole at the same time. Three years ago, when Boeing began to remove more than 20,000 people that Boeing expects to lay off by the middle of 2002 have to compete with unemployed workers not just from the high-tech industry but from construction work and even the retail sector. Portland now has more jobless than the other parts of Oregon: the opposite of how things were years ago. Even worse, the Pacific north west's downturn, as well as being deeper than the rest of the country, may also last longer. One reason for fearing this is Boeing's continuing woes. Nowadays Boeing accounts for less than 5% of employment in the Seattle area, down from 9% two decades ago. But it remains the foundation on which the rest is built. Its network of suppliers and subcontractors gives it a far stronger multiplier effect than, say, Microsoft, which is more an island of prosperity than a center of web. The chances are that Boeing will not really bounce back until the assumed revival in air travel persuades airline companies to start buying plenty of aircraft again. And that may not be until 2003.

单选题Receiver: Would you like to leave a message? I"ll let Mr. Cohen know as soon as he comes back. Caller: ______.

单选题Humans are very sociable creatures, so they need to ______ with other people.