单选题Scarcely ______ when it began to rain. A. did he return B. had he returned C. he did return D. he had returned

单选题The speech which he made______ the project has bothered me greatly.

单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}}Directions : Read the following four passages. Answer the questions blow each passage by choosing A, B, C and D． {{B}}Text 1{{/B}} Less than 40 years ago in the United States, it was common to change a one-dollar bill for a dollar's worth of silver. That is because the coins were actually made of silver. But those days are gone. There is no silver in today's coins. When the price of the precious metal rises above its face value as money, the metal will become more valuable in other uses. Silver coins are no longer in circulation because the silver in coins is worth much more than their face value. A silver firm could find that it is cheaper to obtain silver by melting down coins than by buying it on the commodity markets. Coins today are made of an alloy of cheaper metals. Gresham's Law, named after Sir Thomas Gresham, argues that "good money" is driven out of circulation by "bad money". Good money differs from bad money because it has higher commodity value. Gresham lived in the 16th century in England where it was common for gold and silver coins to be debased. Governments did this by mixing cheaper metals with gold and silver. The governments could thus make a profit in coinage by issuing coins that had less precious metal than the face value indicated. Because different mixings of coins had different amounts of gold and silver, even though they bore the same face value, some coins were worth more than others as commodities. People who dealt with gold and silver could easily see the difference between the "good" and the "had" money. Gresham observed that coins with a higher content of gold and silver were kept rather than being used in exchange, or were melted down for their precious metal. In the mid-1960s when the U. S. issued new coins to replace silver coins, Gresham's law went right in action.

单选题Children's intelligence, music ability, physical endurance, etc. ______ enormously from individual to individual.

单选题There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.

单选题Give me your telephone number ______I need your help.

单选题 Directions: For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given below. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets. When television first began to expand, very few of the people who had become famous as radio commentators were able to be effective on television. Some of the difficulties they experienced when were trying to {{U}}(31) {{/U}} themselves to the new medium were technical. When working on radio, for example, they had become {{U}}(32) {{/U}} to seeing on behalf of the listener. This {{U}}(33) {{/U}} of seeing for others means that the commentator has to be very good at talking. Above all, he has to be able to {{U}}(34) {{/U}} a continuous sequence of visual images which {{U}}(35) {{/U}} meaning to the sounds which the listener hears. In the {{U}}(36) {{/U}} of television, however, the commentator sees everything with the viewer. His role, therefore, is completely different. He is there to make {{U}}(37) {{/U}} that the viewer does not miss some point of interest, to help him focus on particular things, and to {{U}}(38) {{/U}} the images on the television screen. Unlike his radio colleague, he must know the {{U}}(39) {{/U}} of silence and how to use it at those moments {{U}}(40) {{/U}} the pictures speak for themselves.

单选题 Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the{{U}} (31) {{/U}}of the year, or manured a field; but we know{{U}} (32) {{/U}}about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so{{U}} (33) {{/U}}so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are{{U}} (34) {{/U}}that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are,{{U}} (35) {{/U}}they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in{{U}} (36) {{/U}}an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and{{U}} (37) {{/U}}them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is{{U}} (38) {{/U}}conquerors and generals have done -- is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other{{U}} (39) {{/U}}by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then{{U}} (40) {{/U}}that that side which has killed most has won.

单选题If you want to see some European paintings, you can go to China National Art Museum on______.

单选题{{B}}练习十六{{/B}} In 1985, the Coca-Cola company made the decision to change the formula(配方) of its leading soft drink. The change was based on the findings of many market studies. These studies had shown that the general response to the new product was good. However, the change of the traditional. Coca-Cola by New Coke was rejected by the majority of drinkers. In fact, the company had to step back and restart production of the old formula of Coca-Cola. The most important reason why New Coke was rejected was the emotional relationship that existed between drinkers and the old soft drink formula, Drinking Coca-Cola had become a tradition for many people over its 99 years of existence. The change made by the company was not only in Coke's formula but also in the traditional values and memories that it represented to the drinkers. "We had taken away more than the product Coca-Cola. We had taken away a little part of them and their past". The drinkers rejected this "improvement" because "they believed that Coke stood for traditional value,…so they felt betrayed when the product changed completely overnight". Although a lot of research was done by Coca-Cola company, it didn't show the depth of drinkers' emotion for the product. The studies took many forms, but none of the tests was able to measure the degree of personal and emotional reactions caused by the disappearance of the old, traditional Coca-Cola. The weakness of the research was that it was mainly quantitative in form. The result was only numbers that could not show the deep meaning the product had for many people. A more extensive study focusing on the qualitative aspects of the change would perhaps have been able to demonstrate the close relationship existing between drinkers and product.

单选题Speaker A: Nancy, you look very well. Speaker B: Thank you, Jane. You look wonderful too. Your weekend swimming must have done good to you. Speaker A: ______

单选题Liquids such as water and oil take up space and they are measured in units of liquid ______. A. vessel B. barrel C. tank D. volume

单选题A: How much would it cost me to send this parcel to New York?B: That'll be twenty-five dollars.A: Twenty-five dollars? ______

单选题John was very upset because he was ______ by the police with breaking the law.

单选题A scientist who does research in economic psychology and who wants to predict the way in which consumers will spend their money must study consumer behavior. He must obtain data both on the resources of consumers and on the motives that tend to encourage or discourage money spending. If an economist were asked which of three groups borrow most -- people with rising incomes, stable incomes, or declining incomes -- he would probably answer: those with declining incomes. Actually, in the years 1947 -- 1950, the answer was: people with rising incomes. people with declining incomes were next and people with stable incomes borrowed the least. This shows us that traditional assumptions about earning and spending are not always reliable. Another traditional assumption is that if people who have money expect prices to go up, they will hasten to buy. If they expect prices to go down, they will postpone buying. But research surveys have shown that this is not always true. The expectations of price increases may not stimulate buying. One typical attitude was expressed by the wife of a mechanic in an interview at a time of rising prices. "In a few months," she said, "we'll have to pay more for meat and milk; we'll have less to spend on other things." Her family had been planning to buy a new car but they postponed this purchase. Furthermore, the rise in prices that has already taken place may be resented(怨恨) and buyer's resistance may be evoked(唤起，引起). This is shown by the following typical comment: "I just don't pay these prices; they are too high." The investigations mentioned above were carried out in America. Investigations conducted at the same time in Great Britain, however, yielded results that were more in agreement with traditional assumptions about saving and spending patterns. The condition most conducive (有助于……的 ) to spending appears to be price stability. If prices have been stable and people consider that they are reasonable, they are likely to buy. Thus, it appears that the common business policy of maintaining stable prices is based on a correct understanding of consumer psychology.

单选题John seems a nice person. ______, I don't trust him. A. Even though B. Even so C. Therefore D. Though

单选题{{B}}21-25{{/B}} So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. Douglas insists that "reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible. " Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. They differ in kind and function. The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language. Almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process is not open to public scrutiny. If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable, what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest (探索) for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions. "Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful, enjoyable and frequent experience for children. " When the roles of teacher and learner are seen for what they are, and when both teacher and learner fulfill them appropriately, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminate& Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of learning to read by reading.

单选题The old ______ well looked after by the government.

单选题They tried to prevail ______ Mary to invest all her money in the project.