单选题James: I think I"ll hart, a steak meal. Kelly: I"m not that hungry. A tuna salad will do for me.

单选题Only by shouting at the top of her voice ______. A. she was able to make herself hear B. was she able to make herself hear C. she was able to make herself heard D. was she able to make herself heard

单选题The speed of communications today, as opposed to ______, has greatly altered the manner in which business is conducted. A. one of yesterday B. those of yesterday C. that of yesterday D. the ones of yesterday

单选题I have been very luck to have won the Nobel Prize twice. It is, of course, very exciting to have such an important 1 of my work, but the real pleasure was in the work itself. Scientific research is like an exploration of a voyage of discovery. You are 2 trying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead 3 and you have to try something different, but sometimes and experiment does 4 and tells you something new and that it really exciting. 5 small the new finding may be, it is great to think "I am the only person who knows this" and then you will have the fun of thinking what this finding will 6 and of deciding what will be the 7 experiment. One of the best things about scientific research is that you are always doing something different and it is never 8 . These are good times when things go well and the bad times when they 9 . Some people get discouraged at the difficult times, but when I have a failure my policy has always been not to worry but to start planning the next experiment, 10 is always fun.

单选题He was ______ when he became president of the corporation. A. at his forty B. in his forty C. of his forties D. in his forties

单选题The play was too Usophisticated/U for them.

单选题Britain's government raises millions of pounds each year from the National Lottery (抽奖) and some of this money is used as an additional allowance for the arts. But this money can only be spent on "capital projects", and not on an institution's day-to-day expenses. Lottery money has been made available for many exciting new building projects to improve theatres, galleries and museums. But the project which has received the most publicity is the ￡ 78 million renewal on the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. The House is the home of Britain's greatest opera company, as well as the Royal Ballet(芭蕾舞团). It's also considered to be the best arts institutions -- tickets to the opera can cost up to 200 -- and not everyone is happy that so much lottery money is being used for the benefit of a rich minority. But since builders moved into the Royal Opera House last July, that controversy has been overshadowed by a more serious crisis: the opera company is facing financial collapse. According to a special investigation, the crisis is the result of serious mismanagement by Opera House staff, and there have been calls for its allowance to be withdrawn completely. Now, the Opera House has to wait to hear from a government working party about its future survival.

单选题Bill: Hello, Kate. Kate: Hello, Bill,______. Bill: I'm going to do some shopping in the town. Kate: I'm going to catch a train. I'm waiting for a bus.

单选题A: Let me introduce myself. I am Henry. B: Henry. I am Peter Brown. Call me Peter or Mr. Brown. A. How do you do? B. It's nice. C. It's very kind of you. D. How is it?

单选题Clerk: Jack's Watering Hole. Caller: Oh, I'm calling about the ad for an designer, ______ ? Clerk: Yes, it is. What kind of experience do you have?

单选题Which of the following is NOT mentioned as important to success?

单选题Thinking that you know ______ in fact you don't is not a good idea.

单选题He is an artist in ______ but not in reality.

单选题Directions: In this part there are four passages, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets. The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connections. Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the possibility of making a machine with humanlike ability, but now we have grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will he able to assemble a machine as complex as the human brain, and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software (软件) or by altering the architecture but that too will happen. I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon (硅) will arise first to rival and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will he able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon's long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe. As the intelligence of robots increases to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, mancreated world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.

单选题In the past century Irish painting has changed from a British-influenced lyrical tradition to an art that evokes the ruggedness(朴实)and roots of an Irish Celtic past. At the turn of the twentieth century Irish painters, including notables Walter Frederick Osborne and Sir William Orpen, looked elsewhere for influence. Osborne"s exposure to "plain air" painting deeply impacted his stylistic development; and Orpen allied himself with a group of English artists, while at the same time participated in the French avant-garde experiment, both as painter and teacher. However, nationalist energies were beginning to coalesce(接合), reviving interest in Irish culture—including Irish visual arts. Beatrice Elvery"s(1907), a landmark achievement, merged the devotional simplicity of fifteenth-century Italian painting with the iconography(图像学)of Ireland"s Celtic past, linking the history of Irish Catholicism with the still-nascent(初生的)Irish republic. And, although also captivated by the French plain air school, Sir John Lavery invoked the mythology of his native land for a 1928 commission to paint the central figure for the bank note of the new Irish Free State. Lavery chose as this figure, with her arm on a Celtic harp(竖琴), the national symbol of independent Ireland. In Irish painting from about 1910, memories of Edwardian romanticism coexisted with a new sense of realism, exemplified by the paintings of Paul Henry and Se Keating, a student of Orpen"s. Realism also crept into the work of Edwardians Lavery and Orpen, both of whom made paintings depicting World War I, Lavery with a distanced Victorian nobility, Orpen closer to the front, revealing a more sinister and realistic vision. Meanwhile, counterpoint(对照)to the Edwardians and realists came Jack B. Yeats, whose travels throughout the rugged and more authentically Irish West led him to depict subjects ranging from street scenes in Dublin to boxing matches and funerals. Fusing close observations of Irish life and icons with an Irish identity in a new way, Yeats changed the face of Irish painting and became the most important Irish artist of his century.

单选题He Uput/U it this way, "Unlike others, my wife works because she likes working, not because of money."

单选题He liked the painting very much, which cost him $1,000. However, he would gladly have paid ______ for it.

单选题But the success of science, both its intellectual excitement and its practical application, depends upon the self-correcting character of science. There must be a way of testing any valid idea. It must be possible to reproduce any valid experiment. The characters or beliefs of scientists are irrelevant; all that matters is whether the evidence supports their contention. Arguments from authority simply do not count; too many authorities have been mistaken too often. I would like to see these very effective scientific modes of thought communicated by the schools and media; and it would certainly be astonishment and delight to see them introduced into politics. Scientists have been known to change their minds completely and publicly when presented with new evidence or new arguments. I cannot recall the last time a politician displayed a similar openness and willingness to change.

单选题I would have paid ______ for my bike, if the salesman had insisted, because I really wanted it. A. as much again B. as much more C. twice as much D. much twice