单选题The older view is that the laws of Nature are absolute, though they may have been inaccurately ______.

单选题A: We came so close, really. We almost won that game! B. ______ A. There, there. B. There's no use crying over spilt milk. C. You guys were superb. D. I couldn't care less.

单选题The heart is ______ intelligent than the stomach, for they are both controlled by the brain. A. not so B. not much C. no more D. much less

单选题Shop Assistant: Good morning. Can I help you? Customer: ______. I'm just looking round. A. No, you can't B. Not at the moment, thanks C. Yes, please D. Yes, thank you

单选题A thief who broke into a church was caught because traces of wax, found on his clothes, ______ from the sort of candles used only in churches.

单选题Speaker A: Where can we get the computer fixed?Speaker B: ______

单选题______ fairly recently, ______ solved, at least partially. A. Until… that this problem was B. It was until… that this problem was C. Not until… was this problem D. It was not until… when this problem was

单选题{{B}} Directions: For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices givenbelow. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar acrossthe corresponding letter in the brackets.{{/B}} Vitamins are organic compounds necessary in small amounts in the diet for the normal growthand maintenance of life of animals, including man. They do not provide energy,{{U}} 31 {{/U}}do they construct or build any part of the body. They areneeded for{{U}} 32 {{/U}}foods into energy and body maintenance. There are thirteen or more of them,and if{{U}} 33 {{/U}}is missing a deficiency disease becomes{{U}} 34 {{/U}} Vitamins are similar because they are made of the same elements-usually carbon,hydrogen, oxygen, and{{U}} 35 {{/U}}nitrogen. They are different{{U}} 36 {{/U}}their elements are arrangeddifferently, and each vitamin{{U}} 37 {{/U}}one or more specific functions in the body. {{U}} 38 {{/U}}enough vitamins is essential to life, although the body has no nutritional use for {{U}} 39 {{/U}}vitamins. Many people,{{U}} 40 {{/U}}, believe in being on the "safe side" and thus takeextra vitamins. However, a well-balanced diet will usually meet all the body' s vitamin needs.

单选题If the whole operation ______ beforehand, a great deal of time and money would have been lost. A. was not planned B. has not been planned C. had not been planned D. were not planned

单选题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{{B}}Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} The Xinhua bookstore chain, China's largest official publishing enterprise, has become a surprising flash point for interest among foreign venture capital investors. "We are actively promoting the process of shareholding reform. Every day, we receive lots of offers from domestic and foreign investors interested in getting involved and may pick one or two to do so in the next two to three months," Zhang Yashan, the leading cadre of the head store's office said. According to a company insider who requested anonymity, several securities firms are overseeing Xinhua bookstore's reform and the company could list on the domestic stock market once reforms are repotted to the government in May and then completed. The source would not reveal the specific names of the firms involved or details of the reform. "We will stipulate that we must remain the majority shareholder, but we will welcome all kinds of investment, including foreign capital, to establish a shareholding enterprise. We hope the No. 2 shareholder will be a foreign enterprise," the source said. In keeping with its World Trade Organization entry promises, China must allow foreign investment in domestic publication retailers by the end of this year.

单选题If he ______ the doctor's advice, he would be quite all right now.

单选题A baby might show fear of an unfamihar adult, he is likely to smile and reach out to another in- fant.

单选题What does the sentence "The boom was off the rose" mean?

单选题Pat. Sorry, Linda, I'm late. It took me ages to find parking. Linda：______ A. Did you have a good time there? B. Did you find the park? C．We’ve got too many cars nowadays． D. I found paking just a few minutes ago．

单选题When did hunting for animals become out of date for our forefathers?

单选题The Second World War, ______ the earlier one of 1914, prompted public concern about the physical and intellectual well-being of the country's human resources. A. so as B. as was C. same as D. as did