单选题I ______ her not to walk on the thin ice but she wouldn't listen to me.

单选题Doctor: What seems to be the matter?Patient: Well, my heartbeat is fast and I have trouble breathing recently.Doctor: ______ Your weight is giving much burden on your heart.

单选题The door was jammed and no matter how hard I tried I could't get it open.

单选题You are legally entitled to take faulty goods back to the store where you bought them.

单选题 According to a survey, which was based on the responses of over 188,000 students, today's traditional-age college freshmen are "more materialistic and less altruistic (利他主义的)"than at any time in the 17 years of the poll. Not surprising in these hard times, the student's major objective "is to be financially well off. Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life." It follows then that today the most popular course is not literature or history but accounting. Interest in teaching, social service and the "altruistic" fields is at a low. On the other hand, enrollment in business programs, engineering and computer science is way up. That's no surprise either. A friend of mine (a sales representative for a chemical company) was making twice the salary of her college instructors her first year on the job--even before she completed her two-year associate degree. While it's true that we all need a career, it is equally true that our civilization has accumulated an incredible amount of knowledge in fields far removed from our own and that we are better for our understanding of these other contributions- be they scientific or artistic. It is equally true that, in studying the diverse wisdom of others, we learn how to think. More important, perhaps, education teaches us to see the connections between things, as well as to see beyond our immediate needs. Weekly we read of unions who went on strike for higher wages, only to drive their employer out of business. No company; no job. How shortsighted in the long run! But the most important argument for a broad education is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages, we improve our moral sense. I saw a cartoon recently which shows a group of businessmen looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table; one of them is talking on the intercom (对讲机): "Miss Baxter," he says, "could you please send in someone who can distinguish right from wrong?" From the long-term point of view, that's what education really ought to be about.

单选题The teaching of reading will be successful if______.

单选题The grocer deals in tea, coffee, spices, and ______. A. so much B. etc. C. so forth D. alike

单选题All the following share one similarity EXCEPT______.

单选题Obviously she was ______ by the shop owner when she was shopping in that store. A. supposed B. supplemented C. swept D. cheated

单选题The police accused him of setting fire to the building but he denied______in the area on the night of the fire. A. be B. to be C. having been D. to have been

单选题Even if they are on sale, these refrigerators are equal in price to, if not more expensive than, ______ at the other store. A. any other B. the others C. the ones D. that

单选题Writing stories and articles ______ what I'm fond of.

单选题He did not deny, ______ admit, having made any statement to that effect. A．nor did he B．so did he C．either did he D．also did he

单选题We don't need air conditioning, ______. A. nor can we afford it B. and nor we can afford it C. neither can afford it D. and we can neither afford it

单选题{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} Premarital cohabitation is becoming a way of life for more and more people in American society. While some argue that the phenomenon may be a good things, sociologists Alan Booth and David R.Johnson of the University of Nebraska reject the idea, based on a nationwide study of 1 872 married persons, 16% of whom reported cohabiting before marriage. Instead, they say, it leads to lower levels of marital interaction and higher levels of marital disagreement and instability. One factor the researchers found that helps to explain the relation between cohabitation and lower marital quality is that some of those who live together already are poor marriage risks. Booth and Johnson report that those who cohabit are more likely to have drug, alcohol, and personality problems; and inability to handle money; and a history of unemployment and being in trouble with the law. In a further analysis, they found that cohabitation itself created difficulties for the subsequent marriage. Living together caused problems with parents and in-laws, a number of couples reported. Other respondents explained that unwanted children were another problem-causing factor that carried forward into their marriages. "The combination of being poor marriage material and the problems created by cohabitation itself account for the negative relation between living together before marriage and lower marital quality. Of the two, being poor marriage material and the risk factors that contribute to such a state are more significant. People whose cohabitation is trouble-free and who are good marriage material -- don't use drugs or have personality problems, are able to hold a job, and so on -- have marriages that are of the same quality as those who do not cohabit."

单选题Two main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle. The former method simply consists of setting an elephant to work and beating him until he does what is expected. Apart from any moral considerations this is a stupid method of training, for it produces a resentful animal who at a later stage may well turn man-killer. The gentle method requires more patience in the early stages, but produces a cheerful, good-tempered elephant who will give many years of loyal service. The first essential in elephant training is to assign to the animal a single mahout who will be entirely responsible for the job. Elephants like to have one master just as dogs do, and are capable of a considerable degree of personal affection. There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pained to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer. Such extreme cases must probably be taken with a grain of salt, but they do underline the general principle that the relationship between elephant and mahout is the key to successful training. The most economical age to capture an elephant for training is between fifteen and twenty years, for it is then almost ready to undertake heavy work and can begin to earn its keep straight away. But animals of this age do not easily become subservient to man, and a very firm hand must be employed in the early stages. The captive elephant, still roped to a tree, plunges and screams every time a man approaches, and for several days will probably refuse all food through anger and fear. Sometimes a tame elephant is tethered nearby to give the wild one confidence, and in most cases the captive gradually quietens down and begins to accept its food. The next stage is to get the elephant to the training establishment, a ticklish business which is achieved with the aid of two tame elephants roped to the captive on either side. When several elephants are being trained at one time, it is customary for the new arrival to be placed between the stalls of two captives whose training is already well advanced. It is then left completely undisturbed with plenty of food and water so that it can absorb the atmosphere of its new home and see that nothing particularly alarming is happening to its companions when it is eating normally, its own training begins. The trainer stands in front of the elephant holding a long stick with a sharp metal point. Two assistants, mounted on tame elephants, control the captive from either side, while others rub their hands over his skin to the accompaniment of a monotonous and soothing chant. This is supposed to induce pleasurable sensations in the elephant, and its effects are reinforced by the use of endearing epithets, such as 'ho! my son', or 'ho! My father', or 'my mother' according to the age and sex of the captive. The elephant is not immediately susceptible to such blandishments, however, and usually lashes fiercely with its trunk in all directions. These movements are controlled by the trainer with the metal-pointed stick, and the trunk eventually becomes so sore that the elephant curls it up and seldom afterwards uses it for offensive purposes.

单选题Receptionist: Can I help you? Customer: ______. Where do I pay my fees? A. Yes, please B. Thank you C. As you please D. Yes, you can

单选题Speaker A: Hi, My name is Mark. I'm from Houston, Texas. Speaker B: I'm Bill. Glad to meet you. What year are you? Speaker A: ______. A. I was born in 1990 B. I've been here for years C. I'm 19 years old D. I'm a first-year student

单选题Here, so profligate has its use become the air conditioner is almost ______ the automobile of the national tendency to overindulge in every technical possibility, to sue every convenience to such excess that country looks downright coddled. A. as glaring symptom as B. as glaring a symptom as C. as symptom glaring as D. as glaring as a symptom