单选题 If a farmer wishes to succeed, he must try to keep a wide gap between his consumption and his production. He must store a large quantity of grain{{U}} (31) {{/U}}consuming all his grain immediately. He can continue to support himself and his family{{U}} (32) {{/U}}he produces a surplus. He must use this surplus in three ways: as seed for sowing, as an insurance{{U}} (33) {{/U}}the unpredictable effects of bad weather and as a commodity which he must sell in order to{{U}} (34) {{/U}}old agricultural implements and obtain chemical fertilizers to{{U}} (35) {{/U}}the soil. He may also need money to construct irrigation{{U}} (36) {{/U}}and improve his farm in other ways. If no surplus is available, a farmer cannot be{{U}} (37) {{/U}}. He must either sell some of his property or{{U}} (38) {{/U}}extra fids in the form of loans. Naturally he will try to borrow money at a low{{U}} (39) {{/U}}of interest, but loans of this kind are not{{U}} (40) {{/U}}obtainable.

单选题Librarian:______. Student: I'd like to borrow The Lost Necklace in English.

单选题Speaker A: I"m getting pretty bored. We should do something despite the rain. Speaker B: ______ What do you have in mind?

单选题When were the images of Mars taken?

单选题 Passage 9 One of the most interesting of all studies is the study of words and word origins. Each language is {{U}}(1) {{/U}} of several earlier languages, and the words of a language can sometimes be traced {{U}}(2) {{/U}} through two or three different languages to their {{U}}(3) {{/U}} Again, a word from one language may pass into other languages and {{U}}(4) {{/U}} a new meaning. The word "etiquette", which is {{U}}(5) {{/U}} French origin and originally meant a label, {{U}}(6) {{/U}} a sign, passed into Spanish and kept its original meaning. So in Spanish the word "etiquette" today is used to {{U}}(7) {{/U}} the small tags which a store {{U}}(8) {{/U}} to a suit, a dress or a bottle. The word "etiquette" in French, {{U}}(9) {{/U}}, gradually developed a different meaning. It {{U}}(10) {{/U}} became the custom to write directions on small cards or "etiquette" as to how visitors should dress themselves and {{U}}(11) {{/U}} during an important ceremony at the royal court. {{U}}(12) {{/U}}, the word "etiquette" began to indicate a system of correct manners for people to follow. {{U}}(13) {{/U}} this meaning, the word passed into English. Consider the word "breakfast". "To fast" is to go for some period of time without {{U}}(14) {{/U}} . Thus, in the morning, after many hours {{U}}(15) {{/U}} the night without food, one {{U}}(16) {{/U}} one's fast. Consider the everyday English {{U}}(17) {{/U}} "Good-bye". Many years ago, people would say to each other {{U}}(18) {{/U}} parting: "God be with you." As this was {{U}}(19) {{/U}} over and over millions of times, it gradually became {{U}}(20) {{/U}} to "good-bye".

单选题He was ______admission of the restaurant for not wearing a tie.

单选题Kimberly Rugh talked about her son's birthday party______.

单选题Ray: ______. Where was I? Brenda: You were talking about your trip to South Africa.

单选题 I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice. It is, of course, very exciting to have such an import {{U}}{{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}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 {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}trying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}and you have to try something different, but sometimes an experiment does {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}and tells you something new and that it is really exciting. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}small the new finding may be, it is great to think "I am the only person who knows" and then you will have the fun of thinking what this finding will {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}and of deciding what will be the {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}experiment. One of the best things about scientific research is that you are always doing something different and it is never {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}. There are good times when things go well and bad times when they {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/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}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}is always fun.

单选题Planet Earth was stricken by floods, drought and fire in 1997, a year which ended with the world's major polluters quarreling about ways to prevent further environmental disasters. The climate was dominated in the latter part of the year by E1 Nino, an swelling of warmer water off the South American coast which affects global weather patterns. "I think for sure the most dramatic thing has been the E1 Nino phenomenon that has been experienced throughout the tropics," said Jeffrey Sayer, director-general of the International Center for Forestry Research. E1 Nino is being blamed for widespread floods and drought in the tropics, and has affected other areas as well. A major demonstration of the phenomenon was drought-intensified bush fires in Indonesia that spread a smog across large areas of Southeast Asia before badly-delayed rains started to fall in late November. Apart from E1 Nino, eastern and central Europe suffered the worst floods in living memory in early July, with over 100 people killed and many thousands of families displaced through the region. In the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto, a UN gathering of 159 countries on global warming finally agreed on cutting greenhouse gas emissions through the next decade after 11 days of confused and uncontrolled negotiations. The conference accepted scientific evidence that heating of the Earth's surface by gases trapped in the atmosphere causes more and fiercer storms, expanding deserts, melting polar ice and raising sea levels which threaten to flood lowlying islands. US Vice President A1 Gore called the Kyoto agreement "a vital turning point," but added that more still needed to be done.

单选题A: I'm so glad that you've come to our wedding. B: Congratulations, and ______ A. all my good wishes! B. all wishes! C. happy forever! D. all my best wishes!

单选题Sixteen days after the earthquake, 40 people, ______ in their village, were rescued.

单选题These excursions will give you an even deeper ______ into our language and culture.

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} Just over a year ago, I foolishly locked up my bicycle outside my office, but forgot to remove the pannier(挂篮). When I returned the pannier had been stolen. Inside it were about ten of the little red notebooks I take everywhere for jotting down ideas for articles, short stories, TV shows and the like. When I lost my notebooks, I was devastated; all the ideas I'd had over the past two years were contained within their pages. I could remember only a few of them, but had the impression that those I couldn't recall were truly brilliant. Those little books were crammed with the plots of award-winning novels and scripts for radio comedy shows that were only two-thirds as bad as the ones on at the moment. That's not all, though. In my reminiscence, my lost notebooks contained sketches for many innovative and incredible machines. In one book there was a design for a device that could turn sea water into apple cider; in another, plan for an automatic dog; in a third, sketches for a pair of waterproof shoes with television screens built into the toes. Now all of these plans are lost to humanity. I found my notebooks again. It turns out they weren't in the bike pannier at all, but in a carrier bag in my spare room, where I found six months after supposedly losing them. And when I flipped through their pages, ready to run to the patent office in the morning, I discovered they were completely full of rubbish. Discovering the notebooks really shook me up. I had firmly come to believe they were brimming with brilliant, inventive stuff--and yet clearly they weren't. I had deluded myself. After surveying my nonsense, I found that this halo effect always attaches itself to things that seem irretrievably lost. Don't we all have a sneaking feeling that the weather was sunnier, TV shows funnier and cake-shop buns bunnier in the not-very-distant past? All this would not matter much except that it is a powerful element in reactionary thought, this belief in a better yesterday. After all, racism often stems from a delusion that things have deteriorated since "they" came. What a boon to society it would be if people could visit the past and see that it wasn't the paradise they imagine but simply the present with different hats. Sadly, time travel is impossible. Until now, that is. Because I've suddenly remembered I left a leather jacket in an Indonesian restaurant a couples of years ago, and I'm absolutely certain that in the inside pocket there was a sketch I'd made...

单选题Janet has learned to drive, but she's like to have ______.

单选题Ken: Gee, Martin, Pd love a cup of coffee. Martin:______. Is instant OK?

单选题Speaker A. I'm sorry. The brand of camera you want is not available now. Speaker B：______ A. No use sayings sorry. That's a real let down. B. I'm truly grateful for your help. C. That's a pity. Thank you anyway. D. It's just as I've expected.

单选题The manager didn't have time to read the report word for word: he just ______ it. A. skimmed B. observed C. overlooked D. glanced

单选题They are Uconfronting/U tremendous and more complicated problems.