单选题The most exciting kind of education is also the most personal. Nothing can (1) the joy of discovering for yourself something that is important to you. It may be an idea or a bit of information you (2) across accidentally--or a sudden (3) , fitting together pieces of information or working through a problem. Such personal (4) are the "payoff" in education. A teacher may (5) you to learning and even encourage you in it--but no teacher can make the excitement or the joy happen. That's (6) to you. A research paper, (7) in a course and perhaps checked at various stages by an instructor, (8) you beyond classrooms, beyond the texts for classes and into a (9) where the joy of discovery and learning can come to you many times. (10) the research paper is an active and individual process, and ideal learning process.

单选题Patient: Hello, Doctor. Doctor: Good afternoon. Do take a seat. ______ ? Patient: My ear hurts. My left ear.

单选题Sam: We'll all miss Geoff and Pat.Larry: ______

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. How does water scarcity affect people? First of all, it {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}their health. It is not that they will die of thirst; rather, the poor quality of the water {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}for cooking and drinking may make them ill. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}our bodies require water to treat waste products, plentiful water is required for proper sanitation (卫生)—water that for much of mankind is simply not available. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}people without adequate sanitation rose from 2.6 billion in 1990 to 2.9 billion in 1999. And sanitation is literally a matter of life and death. In a {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}statement, United Nations officials warned: "When children lack water that is fit for drinking and sanitation, virtually every aspect of their health and development is {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}." Food production is dependent on water. Many crops, of course, are watered by rain, but in recent times irrigation has become the key {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}the world's booming population. Today percent of the world's harvest depends on irrigation. If plentiful water flows out of every tap in our home and if we have a clean toilet (抽水马桶) that conveniently washes out waste, it may be {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}to believe that the world is running out of an adequate supply of water. We should remember, however, that only 20 percent of mankind enjoy such {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}. In Africa many women spend as much as six hours a day {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}water.

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} It's conventional wisdom in the United States that the American education system is a mess. Since the rest of the world loves to criticize Uncle Sam, that view is held even more strongly elsewhere. But wait a minute. If education really is the source of economic success, as experts continually claim, American schools can't be too bad. If they were, the American economy would not be the wonder of the world, able to create good jobs at a pace that others can only envy, and with a huge advantage in many of the key technologies of the next centurey. Specially, American high schools can't be a disaster area. The proof lies in the quality of American universities. In any reasonable ranking of the best 100 universities of the world, the United States would dominate the list. College professors are not alchemists(炼金术士), they cannot turn base metal into gold. (I know; I used to be one.) If the output of American higher education is as good as it seems to be, the input must be a lot better than Americans fear. We can at least be doubtful about some common claims. For example; it's often said that the United States has a skill shortage in high technology -- and the fact that Silicon Valley recruits (征募) heavily around the world is said to be evidence of that. But without more inquiry, we can't know whether this is because American college graduates are stupid, or because that hightechnology sector has grown so fast that it cannot possibly satisfy all its demands for high-level skills from the United States.

单选题Even though leather gloves are much more expensive, they are more ______ than vinyl.

单选题 New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It's a new "global village" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly enhanced by foreign language skills. Deeply involved with this new technology is a breed of modem businesspeople who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modem markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts. Overseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer needs fear being "out of sight and out of mind". He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company's plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad, if an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to come back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and prevalent (普遍的) . Thanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets. English is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn't generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal. The employee posted abroad who speaks the country's principal language has an opportunity to fist-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign clients over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.

单选题It is strange that she ______ to see her own shortcomings. A. should have failed B. has failed C. fails D. failed

单选题Cheating. The income tax deadline (最后期限) approaches and some taxpayers' thoughts turn to it. Test time approaches and some students' thoughts turn to it. "You want something you can't get by behaving within the rules, and you want it badly enough you'll do it regardless of any guilt or deep regret and you're willing to run the risk of being caught. " That's how Ladd Wheeler, psychology (心理学) professor at the University of Rochester in New York, defines cheating. Many experts believe cheating is on the rise. "We're suffering a moral breakdown. " Pinkard says, "we're seeing more of the kind of person who regards the world as a series of things to be dealt with. Whether to cheat depends on whether it's the person's interest. " He does, however, see less cheating among the youngest students. Richard Dienabier, psychology professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, believes that society's attitudes account for much of the increase in cheating. "Twenty years ago, if a person cheated in college, society said: That is extremely serious, you will be dropped for a term if not kicked out permanently," he says, "nowadays, at the University of Nebraska, for example, it is the stated policy of the college of Arts and Sciences that if a student cheats on an exam, the student must receive an F on what he cheated on. That's nothing. If you're going to flunk anyway, why not cheat?" "Cheating is most likely in situations where the vital interests are high and the chances of getting caught are low. " says social psychologist, Lynn Kahle of the University of Oregon in Eugene.

单选题The team played hard because the championship of the state was ______.

单选题In this experiment, they were wakened several times during the night and asked to report what they ______. A. had just been dreaming B. have just been dreaming C. are just dreaming D. had just dreamed

单选题"Time is money" here means ______.

单选题"In every known human society, the male"s need for achievement can be recognized. In a great number of human societies men"s sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right, or ability, to practice some activity that women are not allowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has to be underwritten by preventing women from entering some field or performing some feat." This is the conclusion of the anthropologist Margaret Mead about the way in which the roles of men and women in society should be distinguished. If talk and print are considered it would seem that the formal emancipation of women is far from complete. There is a flow of publications about the continuing domestic bondage of women and about the complicated system of defenses which men have thrown up around their hitherto accepted advantages, taking sometimes the obvious form of exclusion from types of occupation and sociable groupings, and sometimes the more subtle form of automatic doubt of the seriousness of women"s pretensions to the level of intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed, bring to the business of running the world. There are a good many objective pieces of evidence for the erosion of men"s status. In the first place, there is the widespread postwar phenomenon of the woman Prime Minister, in India, Sri Lanka and Israel. Secondly, there is the very large increase in the number of women who are working, especially married women and mothers of children. More diffusely there are the increasingly numerous convergences between male and female behaviors: the approximation to identical styles in dress and coiffure, the sharing of domestic tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of hitherto exclusively male leisure-time activities. Everyone carries round with him a fairly definite idea of the primitive or natural conditions of human life. It is acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons than of archaeology, but that does not matter since it is not significant as theory but only as an expression of inwardly felt expectations of people"s sense of what is fundamentally proper in the differentiation between the roles of the two sexes. In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and to fight off the tribe next door while women keep the fire going. Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a club.

单选题{{B}}Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} Watercolor is the oldest painting medium known. It dates back to the early cave dwellers who discovered they could add lifelike qualities to drawings of animals and other figures on the walls of caves by mixing the natural colors found in the earth with water. Fresco, one of the greatest of all art forms, is done with watercolor. It is created by mixing pigments and water and applying these to wet plaster. Of the thousands of people who stand under Michlangelo's heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, very few are aware that they are looking at perhaps the greatest watercolor painting in the world. The invention of oil painting by the Flemish masters in the fifteenth century led to a decline in fresco painting, and for the next several centuries watercolor was used mainly as a medium for doing preliminary sketches or as a tool for study. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that English painters reinstated watercolor as a serious art form. The English have a notorious love for the outdoors and also a great fondness for small, intimate pictures. The subdued tones of watercolor had a remarkably strong appeal for them.

单选题 Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in Large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One strength of the human condition is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances. Social support consists of the exchange of resources among people based on their interpersonal ties. Those of us with strong support systems appear better able to cope with major life changes and daily hassles (困难). People with strong social ties live longer and have better health than those without such ties. Studies over a range of illnesses, from depression to heart disease, reveal that the presence of social support helps people fend off (挡开) illness, and the absence of such support makes poor health more likely. Social support cushions stress in a number of ways. First, friends, relatives, and co-workers may let us know that they value us. Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties. Second, other people often provide us with informational support. They help us to define and understand our problems and find solutions to them. Third, we typically find social companionship supportive. Engaging in leisure-time activities with others helps us to meet our social needs while at the same time distracting (转移……注意力)us from our worries and troubles. Finally, other people may give us instrumental support, a financial aid, material resources, and needed services- that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.

单选题I wish I had been in the party last night, but I ______.

单选题You Uare/U legally Uentitled to/U take faulty goods back to the store where you bought them.

单选题A: It is not like George to be late for an appointment. B: ______ He's always punctual. A. No way. B. Anyway he's late. C. I don't think so. D. You're right.

单选题You have ￥148 and you can______ in May.

单选题Electrical resistance is a common property of all materials, ______. A. only differs in degree B. only in degree it differs C. differing only in degree D. and differing in degree only