单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank. A few decades ago, the world banking community invented new Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) systems to move money more efficiently across countries and around the globe. The {{U}}(1) {{/U}}benefit of such systems was to{{U}} (2) {{/U}}the float of capital that was unavailable for use{{U}} (3) {{/U}} checks were being cleared through banking{{U}} (4) {{/U}}Today, we understand that the benefits of electronic banking are far more{{U}} (5) {{/U}}than just reducing floating cash. The entire world of banking{{U}} (6) {{/U}}revolutionized. It is{{U}} (7) {{/U}}more efficient and faster, but also more global. And now{{U}} (8) {{/U}}the Internet, EFT systems are increasingly{{U}} (9) {{/U}}with the new world of e-commerce and e-trade. {{U}} (10) {{/U}}1997 and 2003, EFT value{{U}} (11) {{/U}}from less than $50 trillion to nearly $400 trillion, more than the{{U}} (12) {{/U}}economic product of all the countries and territories of the entire world. These statistics{{U}} (13) {{/U}}should emphasize the true importance of transnational EFT. Satellite, wireless, and cable-based electronic fund transfers{{U}} (14) {{/U}}the hub of global enterprise. Such electronic cash is{{U}} (15) {{/U}}central to the idea of an emerging "worldwide mind". Without the satellite and fiber infrastructure to support the flow of electronic funds, the world economy would grind to a halt.

单选题(Until recently), women (were) forbidden (by law) (from owning) property.A. Until recentlyB. wereC. by lawD. from owning

单选题I really appreciate______to help me, but I am sure that I can manage it myself. A. you to come 13. that you come C. your coming D. how you come

单选题 there are ten blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank.there are four choices marked A.B.C and D. Chosse the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice, It is, of course, very exciting to have such an important{{U}} (31) {{/U}} of my work. but the real pleasure was in the work itself. Scientific research is like an exploraion of a voyage of discovery. You are{{U}} (32) {{/U}}trying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead{{U}} (33) {{/U}}and you have to try something different, but sometimes an experment does{{U}} (34) {{/U}}and tells you something new and that it is really exciting,{{U}} (35) {{/U}}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{{U}} (36) {{/U}}and of deciding what will be the{{U}} (37) {{/U}}experiment. One of the best things about scientific research is that you are always doing something different and it is, never{{U}} (38) {{/U}}.There are good times when things go well and bad times when they{{U}} (39) {{/U}}. 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,{{U}} (40) {{/U}}is always fun.

单选题The employer must ________ that the applicants for the post have the proper qualifications.

单选题Agriculture was a step in human progress______which subsepuently was not anything comparable until our own machine age.

单选题If he had listened to me, be ______ earlier.

单选题So many directors______, the board meeting had to be put off. A. were absent B. been absent C. bad been absent D. being absent

单选题The actor and actress provided superb interpretations of their ___________ roles.

单选题If the profits in one year are not sufficient to pay the dividend, the ______ will be paid from the profits of later year. A. arrears B. debt C. difference D. margin

单选题影视画面中的“低调”摄影指( )。

单选题 Private enterprise is the thing. We went to a party on the river earlier this summer. The host {{U}}(31) {{/U}} is old enough to know better, served a lunch made with his home-made wine. As I was driving, I was {{U}}(32) {{/U}} to decline, but my wife politely took a glass and subsequently fell upstairs. The wound {{U}}(33) {{/U}} weekly dressing by the district nurse, a talkative soul who enjoyed the social {{U}}(34) {{/U}} of her work. She stayed for most of the afternoon, admiring things and gossiping about village life. At about the {{U}}(35) {{/U}} time I called in the regional crime officer, to advise me on how to make the house reasonably secure against the child criminals who commit most of the {{U}}(36) {{/U}} in these parts. He, {{U}}(37) {{/U}}, was a companionable soul and made an afternoon of it. And why is it that when I write to a public utility {{U}}(38) {{/U}} as the gas board. I get a printed card to tell they received my letter and will shortly act on it? The money spent on printing, typing, filling in and stamping these cards {{U}}(39) {{/U}} add up to a very large sum indeed, when spread over all these industries. No commercial house sends such acknowledgements. Money, {{U}}(40) {{/U}} it reaches a public service, loses the value that was stamped on it by the trouble to get it.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Esperanto is an artificial language designed to serve internationally as an secondary means of communication among speakers of different languages. The creation of Ludovic Lazar Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist(眼科学者), Esperanto was first presented in 1887. An international movement to promote its use, although originally annoyed with 'disagreement, has continued to flourish and has members in more than 80 countries. Esperanto is used internationally across language boundaries by at least one million people, particularly in specialized fields. It is used in personal contacts, on radio broadcasts, and in a number of publications of both modern works and classics. Its popularity has spread from Europe— both East and West — to such countries as Brazil and Japan. It is, however, in China that Esperanto had had its greatest impact. It is taught in universities and used in many translations (often in scientific or technological works). El Popola Cinio (From People's China), a monthly magazine in Esperanto, is read worldwide. Radio Beijing's Esperanto program is the most popular program in Esperanto in the world. Esperanto's vocabulary is drawn primarily from Latin, the Romance languages, English, and German. Spelling is completely regular. A simple and consistent set of endings indicates grammatical functions of words. Thus, for example, every noun ends in o, every adjective in a, and the infinitive(不定式) of every verb in i. Esperanto also has a highly productive system of constructing new words from old: ami, to love; malami, to hate; malameno, the tendency to hate.

单选题He ______ with Smith at least four times in the past three years. A. has been seen to meet B. was seen to meet C. had been seen meeting D. is seen meeting

单选题Unhappy peoply often ______ to violence as a means of expressing their suffering.

单选题Text 4 It is obvious that the old get sick more frequently and more severely than the young, and 86 percent have chronic health problems of varying degree. These health problems, while significant, are largely treatable and for the most part do not impair the capacity to work. Medicare pays for only 45 percent of older people's health expenses; the balance must come from their own incomes and savings, or from Medicaid, which requires a humiliating means test. A serious illness can mean instant poverty. Drugs prescribed outside of hospitals, hearing aids, glasses, dental care and podiatry are not covered at all under Medicare. There is prejudice against the old by doctors and other medical personnel who don't like to bother with them. Psychiatrists and mental—health personnel typically assume that the mental problems of the old are untreatable. Psychoanalysts, the elite of the psychiatric profession, rarely accept them as patients. Medical schools and other teaching institutions find them uninteresting. Voluntary hospitals are well known for dumping the "Medicare patient" into municipal hospitals; municipal hospital in turn funnel them into nursing homes, mental hospitals and chronic disease institutions without the adequate diagnostic and treatment effort which might enable them to return home. Persons who do remain at home while in ill health have serious difficulties in getting social, medical and psychiatric services brought directly to them. Problems large and small confront the elderly. They are easy targets for crime in the streets and in their homes. Because of loneliness, confusion, hearing and visual difficulties they are prime victims of dishonest door-to-door salesmen and fraudulent advertising, and buy defective hearing aids, dance lessons, useless "Medicare insurance supplements," and quack health remedies. Persons crippled by arthritis or strokes are yelled at by impatient bus drivers for their slowness in climbing on and off buses. Traffic lights turn red before they can get across the street. Revolving doors move too quickly. Subways usually have no elevators or escalators. Old women fare worse than old men. Women have an average life expectancy of seven years longer than men and tend to marry men older than themselves; so two thirds(six million)of all older women are widows. When widowed they do not have the same social prerogatives as older men to date and marry those who are younger. As a result, they are likely to end up alone—an ironic turn of events when one remembers that most of them were raised from childhood to consider marriage the only acceptable state. The income levels of older working women are generally lower than those of men; many never worked outside the home until their children were grown and then only at unskilled, low-paying jobs. Others who worked all their lives typically received low wages, with lower Social Security and private retirement benefits as a result. Until 1973, housewives who were widowed received only 82.5 percent of their husbands' Social Security benefits even though they were full-time home-makers.

单选题Tom. Shall we try Pizza Hut tonight? Rachel, Sure.______ A. Do you feel like pizza? B. I like pizza tonight. C. I know you like pizza. D. I love pizza.

单选题Unlike their American or European counterparts, car salesmen in Japan work hard to get a buyer. Instead of wandering around showrooms waiting for customers to drop by, many Japanese car salesmen still go out to get them. They walk on the streets selling cars door-to-door. New customers are hunted with a vengeance and existing ones entertained with fruit and cakes on their birthdays. But life is getting tough—and not just because new-car sales are falling. With more Japanese women (who often control the household budget) going out to work, the salesmen increasingly find nobody at home when they call. That means another visit in the evening or at the weekend. Then they face an extra problem: more people, especially the young, prefer to choose a new car from a showroom where they can compare different models. Even as late as the mid-1980s some 90% of new cars were sold door-to-door. In some rural areas most new cars are still sold this way. But in the big cities more than half the new cars are now sold from showrooms. Although investing in showrooms is expensive because of the high cost of Japanese land, dealers have little choice. A labor shortage and higher expectations among Japan's workforce are making it difficult to recruit door-to-door salesmen. Most of a Japanese car salesman's working day is spent doing favors for customers, like arranging insurance or picking up vehicles for servicing, rather than actually selling. Japan's door-step car salesmen are not about to vanish. The personal service they provide is so deep-rooted in Japan that they are likely to operate alongside the new showrooms. The two systems complement each other. What increasingly happens is that the showroom attracts the interest of a potential buyer, giving the footsore salesmen a firm lead to follow up with a home visit.

单选题UApproximately/U 113 000 bicycles were reported stolen last year.

单选题We can see how the product life cycle works by looking at the introduction of instant coffee. When it was introduced, most people did not like it as well as "regular" coffee and it took several years to gain general acceptance (introduction stage). At one point, though, Instant coffee grew rapidly in popularity and many brands were introduced (stage of rapid growth). After a while people became attached to one brand and sales leveled off (stage of maturity). Sales went into a slight decline (衰退)when freeze-dried coffees were introduced (stage of decline). The importance of the product life cycle to marketers is this: Different stages in the product life cycle call for different strategies. The goal is to extend product life so that sales and profits do not decline. One strategy is called market modification. It means that marketing managers look for new users and market sections. Did you know, for example, that the backpacks that so many students carry today were originally designed for the military? Market modification also means searching for increased usage among present customers or going for a different market, such as senior citizens. A marketer may re-position the product to appeal to new market sections. Another product extension Strategy is called product modification. It involves changing product quality, features, or style to attract new users or more usage from present users. American auto manufacturers are using quality improvement as one way to recapture world markets. Note, also, how auto manufacturers once changed styles dramatically from year to year to keep demand from falling.