单选题Questions 1~5 refer to the following e-mailAllthesales.com Customer Claim FormOrder Number:058-9199 Item Details: Date: August 15 History of Atlantis: The Lost Land [paperback] by Frank Whittman Name: Sandra WaringClaim Details:I purchased the above item on July 6 from All The Sales and was informed that the estimated delivery date for the order was between July 9 and July 28. When the item hadn't arrived by August 5, I called the customer service number listed on the Web site. I left a message on the automated recording system but did not receive a response. I left a second message on August 11 but still received no response. As I need the item right away, I plan to purchase a copy from a local bookstore. Therefore, I am asking for a full refund for the cost of this order, as the charge has already appeared on my credit card statement.To: Sandra.waring@email.comFrom: customerservice@allthesales.comDate: August 15Dear Ms. Waring,Your claim has been received and assigned reference number AZ10114. Please be advised that most claims are resolved within 7 days of the date when the claim is filed.We apologize for the inconvenience you experienced with your order. Our records indicate that your order was shipped on July 7 via standard ground shipping. We are currently investigating this matter further and will contact you with our findings within 48 hours. If your claim is approved, we will issue a refund in the same form as your original payment was made. Credit card reimbursements take 5 business days to process, while refunds for checks and money orders are sent within 24 hours by special delivery.Deodre SkehanCustomer Service DepartmentAllthesales.com

单选题Homestay provides English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home. What to Expect The host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week. You will be given the house key and the host is there to offer help and advice as well as to take an interest in your physical and mental health. Accommodation Zones Homestays are located in London mainly in Zones 2, 3 and of the transport system. Most hosts do not live in the town centre as much of central London is commercial and not residential. Zones 3 and 4 often offer larger accommodation in a less crowned area. It is very convenient to travel in London by Underground. Meal Plans Available Continental Breakfast Breakfast and Dinner Breakfast, Packed Lunch and Dinner It' s important to note that few English families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast. Your accommodation includes Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal, bread and tea or coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally part of a Continental Breakfast in England. Dinners usually consist of meat or fish with vegetables followed by dessert, fruit and coffee. Friends If you wish to invite a friend over to visit, you must first ask your host' s permission. You have no right to entertain friends in a family home as some families feel it is an invasion of their privacy. Self-Catering Accommodation in Private Homes Accommodation on a room-only basis includes shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and often a main living room. This kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestyle and is more suitable for the long-stay student. However, it does not provide the same family atmosphere as an ordinary homestay and may not benefit those who need to practice English at home quite as much.

单选题We have to act within the existing legal framework .

单选题Can you find out the {{U}}flaw{{/U}} in their research papers? A. argument B. failure C. feature D. defect

单选题Mr. Henley has {{U}}accelerated{{/U}} his sale of shares over the past year. A.held B.increased C.expected D.offered

单选题The Formica Family and Community Club are proud to bring you the annual Formica Season of Fun. Beginning on February 3 and finishing on February 23, the Season of Fun provides local residents with a fantastic (27) of exciting and educational events. The program includes a Teddy Bears' picnic at Holden Park, an Adventure Playground Challenge at the same venue, free street theater in the central city, and a Community Fun run through the Vira Marine Reserve. (28) of the scheduled events will be open to all-comers. However, those interested in the playground challenge will need to register in advance because space is limited. To find out more about the program for this upcoming festival, visit the Formica Family and Community Club website and (29) on the link to the Formica Season of Fun. We look forward to seeing you all there.

单选题If you come to visit China, you will（ ）a culture of amazing depth and variety

单选题They left for the airport very early in the morning ______ traffic jam. A.in line with B.at the risk of C.in case of D.for the sake of

单选题The walls are made of {{U}}hollow{{/U}} concrete blocks. A. big B. empty C. long D. now

单选题Major companies are already in pursuit of commercial applications of the new biology. They dream of placing enzymes in the automobile to monitor exhaust and send data on pollution to a microprocessor that will then adjust the engine. They speak of what the New York Times calls "metal-hungry microbes that might be used to mine valuable trace metal from ocean water". They have already demanded and won the right to patent new life forms. Nervous critics, including many scientists, worry that there is corporate, national, international, and inter-scientific rivalry in the entire biotechnological field. They create images not of oil spills, but of "microbe spills" that could spread disease and destroy entire populations. The creation and accidental release of extremely poisonous microbes, however, is only one cause for alarm. Completely rational and respectable scientists are talking about possibilities that stagger the imagination. Should we breed people with cow-with stomachs so they can digest grass and hay, thereby relieving the food problem by modifying us to eat lower down on the food chain? Should we biologically alter workers to fit the job requirement, for example, creating pilots with faster reaction times or assembly-line workers designed to do our monotonous work for us? Should we attempt to eliminate "inferior" people and breed a "super-race"? (Hitler tried this, but without the genetic weaponry that may soon issue from our laboratories.) Should we produce soldiers to do our fighting? Should we use genetic forecasting to pre-eliminate "unfit" babies? Should we grow reserve organs for ourselves, each of us having, as it were, a "savings bank" full of spare kidney, livers, or hands? Wild as these notions may sound, every one has its advocates (and opposers) in the scientific community as well as its striking commercial application. As two critics of genetic engineering, Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, state in their book Who Should Play God?, "Broad scale genetic engineering will probably be introduced to America much the same way as assembly lines automobiles, vaccines, computers and all the other technologies. As each new genetic advance becomes commercially practical, a new consumer need will be exploited and a market for the new technology will be created."

单选题ENTRY-LEVER POSITIONS WITH EMPLOYCO Respected employment agency seeks recent graduates for entry-level positions in the field of job recruitment. No experience is required, but you must have a bachelor's degree or higher. Desired qualities include precision, punctuality, and communication skills. A familiarity with general office computer programs is helpful, but not required. Selected candidates will assist our headhunters in recruiting personnel for some of the top corporations in America, while earning a guaranteed salary, unlimited commissions, and invaluable experience. Three weeks of paid training is required. Don't miss this chance to get out of the job market and into the nation's fastest-growing, most lucrative industry. Interested applicants should contact our Human Resources Department at HR@employco. com or 1-800-937-9924, extension 44. From: Marshall Nixon ＜nixonm@daumworld.com＞ To: HR department ＜HR@employco.com＞ Subject: About the job To whom it may concern, I am writing in response to your advertisement for entry-level positions at Employco. As a recent college graduate with a degree in Communications, I read your advertisement with great interest. With unemployment rates high these days, the employment industry seems more promising than ever. Therefore, I have made it my goal to establish a career at a respected agency in the field. I am familiar with your firm through your website, which I have used extensively as a resource in my job search. I have been quite impressed with your agency's customized service for job applicants. Your website offers a refreshing blend of helpful advice, useful information, and straightforward statistics. In short, I am excited at the prospect of joining your agency as a full-time employee. With my educational background and broad range of experiences, I feel I can make an immediate contribution to Employco. At your earliest possible convenience, please send me more information about your job vacancies and let me know how to begin the application process. Sincerely, Marshall Nixon

单选题Students taking the entrance exam are required to provide their student ______ number.

单选题—Where did you find the wallet? —It was at stadium______I played football.

单选题Mr. Tamil believes that his strategy for increasing advertising revenues will be successful, but his supervisor has requested that he research alternative ______. A. agendas B. samples C. displays D. methods

单选题Though it was raining hard, but the children practiced football on the playground. A. Though B. but C. practiced D. the

单选题Police officers caught the ______ outside a shopping center on the afternoon of March 14th. A. offence B. offensive C. offend D. offender

单选题Vingo took a bus and headed for home, if his wife would have _____him back.A. not to know B. not knownC. not knowing D. not having known

单选题 Although we already know a great deal about influenza, and although the World Health Organization is constantly collecting detailed information from its chain of influenza reference laboratories throughout the world, it is extremely difficult for epidemiologists (流行病专家), who study infectious disease, to predict when and where the next flu epidemic will occur, and how severe it will be. There are three kinds of influenza virus, known as A, B and C. Influenza C virus is relatively stable and causes mild infections that do not spread far through the population. The A and B types are unstable, and are responsible for the epidemics that cause frequent concern. Following any virus attack, the human body builds up antibodies which confer immunity to that strain of virus, but a virus with the capacity to change its character is able to by-pass this protection. Variability is less developed in the influenza B virus, which affects only human beings. An influenza B virus may cause a widespread epidemic but will have little effect if introduced into the same community soon afterwards, since nearly everyone will have built up antibodies and will be immune. The influenza A virus, which affects animals also, is extremely unstable and is responsible for some of the worst outbreaks of the disease, such as the unparalleled pandemic, or world epidemic, of 1918-1919, when about half the world's population were infected and about twenty million people died, some from pneumonia caused by the virus itself and some from secondary complications(并发症) caused by bacteria. Accurate prediction is difficult because of the complication of the factors. A particular virus may be related to one to which some of the population have partial involved immunity. The extent to which it will spread will depend on factors such as its own strength, or virulence, the ease with which it can be transmitted and the strength of the opposition it encounters. Scientists, however, have a reliable general picture of the world situation. Influenza A attacks us in waves every two or three years, while influenza B, which travels more slowly, launches its main assaults every three to six years. The outbreaks vary from isolated cases to epidemics involving a tenth or more of the population. We may confidently prophesy that sooner or later large numbers of people will be feeling the unpleasant effects of some kind of influenza virus.

单选题 The law says that women should have the chance of doing the same jobs as men and earn the same as them. The reality is very different. Women lose because, 25 years after the Equal Pay Act, many of them still get paid less than men. They lose because they do lower-paid jobs which men just won't consider. And they lose because they are the ones who interrupt a career to have children. All this is reported in an independent study ordered by the Government's Women's Unite. The biggest problem isn't equal pay in workplaces such as factories. It is a sort of work women do. Make a list of the low-paid jobs, then consider who does them. Try nurses, secretaries, cleaners, clerks, teachers in primary schools, dinner ladies, and child care helpers. Not a lot of men among that group, are there? Yet some of those jobs are really important. Surely no one would deny that about nurses and teachers, for a start. So why do we reward the people who do them so poorly? There can be only one answer——because they are women. This is not going to be put right overnight. But the Government which employs a lot of them, and other bosses have to make a start. It is disgraceful (可耻的) that we have gone into the 21st Century but still treat women as second-class citizens.

单选题With only about l，000 pandas left in the world，China is desperately trying to clone the animal and save the endangered species．That’s a move similar to what a Texas A&M University researcher has been undertaking for the past five years in a proj ect called“Noah’sArk”． Dr．Duane Kraemer，a professor in Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine and a pioneer in embryo(~胎)transfer work and related procedures，says he salutes the Chinese effort and“1 wish them all the best success possible．It’S a worthwhile project，certainly not an easy one，and it’s very much like what we’re attempting here at Texas A&M—to save animals from extinction．” Noah’s Ark is aimed at collecting eggs，embryos，semen(精子)and DNA of endangered animals and storing them in liquid nitrogen．If certain species should become extinct，Kraemer says there would be enough of the basic building blocks to reintroduce the species in the future． It is estimated that as many as 2，000 species of mammals，birds and reptiles will become extinct over the next 1 00 years．The panda，native only to China，is in danger of becoming extract In the next 25 years． This week，Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo by introducing cells from a dead female panda into the egg cells of a Japanese white rabbit．They are now trying to implant the embryo into a host animal． The entire procedure could take from three to five years tO complete． “The nuclear transfer of one species to another is not easy，and the lack of available panda eggs could be a major problem，”Kraemer believes．“They will probably have to do several hundred transfers to resuIt in one pregnancy．It take s a long time and it’s difficult，but this could be groundbreaking science if it works．They are certainly not putting any live pandas at risk，so it is worth the effort，”adds Kraemer，who is one of the leaders of the Missyplicity ProJect at Texas A&M，the first ever attempt at cloning a dog． “They are trying to do something that’s never been done，and this is very similar to our work in Noah’s Ark．We’re both trying to save animals that face extinction．I certainly applaud their effort and there’s a lot we can learn from what they are attempting to do．It’s a research that is very much needed．”