单选题The girl was fortune enough to live under the care of an {{U}}involved{{/U}} father and a loving mother. A. sympathetic B. convicted C. concerned D. separated

单选题Passage Three Hand in hand with the one you love, you gaze at the horizon to watch the earth rise. It sounds like science fiction, but companies around the world are working hard to make this sort of holiday a reality. The idea of space tourism has been around for nearly forty years now. At first NASA made plans for the ultimate in holiday destinations, but then private companies became involved in the mid- 1980s. The Challenger shuttle disaster of 1986 postponed their plans, but now space is back as a future holiday resort. The Hilton hotel group has produced ambitious and serious plans for hotels on the moon, as well as orbiting hotels, hoping to give their space tourists' different holiday experience. But zero-gravity will be a little uncomfortable. "There will be space motion sickness in the first few days, with headaches and nausea." says George Turner, a hopeful space tour operator. Hotels will try to prevent these problems by providing areas with the sensation of gravity. This means going to parts of the hotel that will be spinning. Centrifugal (离心的) force will push you against the wall, and give the feeling of some weight. Since it will be possible to lie down, many people will probably prefer to sleep in these areas. The alternative will be to strap themselves into a sleeping bag attached to a wall. Sunbathing will be possible, but will require some very strong sunscreen protection factor. 1,000 will do it. However the plans all depend on one thing: cheap space travel. At the moment the only re-usable rocket is NASA's space shuttle. The cost of each shuttle launch is U.S.$1 billion. A space craft that only costs U.S.$2 million per launch is what the travel industry is looking for. So far that remains a far-off dream, but it may come a lot closer if someone wins the X-Prize. Launched in 1997, the X-Prize offers U.S.$10 million to anyone who can build a re-usable space craft. All you have to do is launch three people 100 km into space twice within three weeks. So far 16 companies are racing to win the prize money. But the real prize will be the income from space tourism, estimated to be U.S.$12 billion per year: as Turner explains: "Just think what you'll be able to tell your friends that you had a holiday that was really out of this world!/

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单选题We can learn about the hazards of hunting big game in stories about their ancestors. A. adventures B. pleasures C. dangers D. consequences

单选题Since childhood, Crews had been______by health problems—fatigue, fever and trouble breathing. A. facilitated B. consoled C. plagued D. infected

单选题This terrible road accident ______ the driver disabled the rest of his life. A. kept B. remained C. preserved D. left

单选题The belief that it's healthy to let oft steam no longer ______, for we are working under heavy pressure. A. holds B. carries C. takes D. stands

单选题A respectable official will never ______ his principles in face of various pressure.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}} In this section you will hear two mini-talks. At the end of each talk, there will be some questions. Both the talks and the questions will be read to you only once. After each question, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. {{/I}}

单选题Passage Five In terms of lives lost and property destroyed, the Civil War was the most terrible armed conflict Americans have ever known, but that has not prevented them from remembering it with enduring fondness. The Civil War remains the most written-about period in American history, and it provides boundless entertainment in the United States and around the world. Instead of an object lesson in the dangers of political polarization, racial inequality, and human cruelty, fans consider their favorite war an exercise in nobility--a bloodbath that somehow forged the unbreakable bonds of American national identity. Most Civil War historians were reared in this romantic tradition, and they have yet to fully free themselves from it. They still view the struggle through rose- colored glasses, making excuses for flawed heroes who have the reputations they never deserved. With the publication of While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War, Charles W. Sanders has distinguished himself as one of the few scholars capable of addressing the Civil War with utter frankness. His brilliantly researched book is a ringing accusation of the prisoner-of-war (POW) systems maintained by both sides of that war, as well as the politicians and soldiers who deliberately sent thousands of men to needless suffering and death. There are no heroes in this study, just too many unnecessary victims. Sanders sets his study in context by first tracing the evolution of POW policy during the American Revolution, War of 1812, and Mexican War. Americans knew that POWs were vulnerable to mistreatment, and the quickest way to improve their lot was to negotiate exchanges with the enemy. At the outset of the Civil War, neither side was prepared to cope with the many prisoners-of- war their armies captured, and prisoners inevitably suffered from inadequate housing, food, medical care, and other necessities. Abraham Lincoln delayed the implementation of general exchanges until July 1862 for fear it would allow rebellious southerners to claim actual recognition of the Southern sovereignty. Once implemented, the exchange system quickly emptied prisons in the North and South, but it began breaking down by the end of the year.

单选题Timothy Dolan commented that he felt somewhat better following a private meeting with President Obama.

单选题These transit workers went on strike {{U}}in defiance of{{/U}} the relevant union policy. A. in line with B. in return for C. in response to D. in spite of

单选题In the worst times of life, you have to take full advantage of the beautiful things that _______.

单选题The price of housing varies with demand, and the same rule seems to hold for automobiles. A. contain B. fasten C. grasp D. apply

单选题Geraldine Ferraro said that whoever coined the term ObamaCare was brilliant.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}}There are 10 questions in this part of the test. Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen with a single bar across square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. {{/I}} Gradually, without seeing it clearly for quite a while, I came to realize that something is very wrong with the way American women are trying to live their lives today. I sensed it first as a{{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}mark in my own life, as a wife and mother of three small children, half-guiltily, and therefore half-heartedly using my abilities and education in work that took me{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}home. It was this personal question mark that led me to spend a great deal of time doing an intensive investigation of my college classmates, 15 years{{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}our graduation from Smith. The answers given by 200 women to those intimate open-ended questions made me realize that{{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}was wrong could not be related to education in the way it was then believed to be. The problems and satisfaction of their lives, and mine, and the way our education had{{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}them, simply did not fit the image of the modern American woman{{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}she was written about in women's magazines, studied and analyzed in classrooms and clinics, praised and damned in a ceaseless barrage of wards ever since the end of World War Ⅱ. There was a strange disagreement{{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}the reality of our lives as women and the image to which we were trying to{{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}, the image that I came to call the feminine mystique. I wondered if women{{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}this schizophrenic split(精神分裂症), and what it meant. And so I began to hunt down the origins of the feminine mystique, and its effect on women who{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}it, or grew up under it.

单选题When I asked about his son, he did not answer at first, but then he ______ in tears. A. shut down B. let down C. took down D. broke down

单选题Inflation can destroy the fabric of society by adversely affecting fixed income groups. A．stability B．perplexity C．evolution D．structure

单选题 Good news is bad news and bad news is good news, newsmen often say to one another. And when you look at the media it's only too easy to see what they mean. A dictionary definition of the media is mass communications, e.g. the press, television, radio. The media sees its main purpose as giving the public news. Naturally to provide the public with news it has first to gather it. The whole function and purpose of the media, then seem to depend on the word "news", but more important, on how the word is interpreted. The media, like any big business venture today, is an extremely competitive world of its own. In providing material for its public it has constantly to make sure it serves the right diet. No public will waste time on your paper or your TV channel otherwise. The sad truth is that there seems only one way to catch an audience—hit them right between the eyes. What started as a mild tap has now become a sledgehammer blow that goes by the name of sensationalism. A reporter chooses—has to choose—a news story because of its sensation value. The young inexperienced cub reporter rings his news editor about a car crash. He starts to explain the details to him but the experienced editor asks the cub one question: "Anyone killed?" and to himself he thinks, why do we offer jobs to children? One may accuse newsman of cynicism but they will quickly remind you of the hard facts of survival in the world of the media. The favorite words the newspaper place cards in the streets bombard the public with are, "Surprise, Sensation, Drama, Shock". You wonder, put an end to sensation long ago. As a regular newspaper reader you also thank Heavens for the light relief of the comic strips. Turn finally from them to what is referred to laughingly as "steam radio", in order to show its relative antiquity. This for many millions of people is the only live contact they have with the outside world that rightly or wrongly they have been led to believe they should have contact with. It's extremely hard of course to see why, when for the most part its news services bring them tragedy, disaster, heartbreak, other people's misfortunes—in a word, trouble. What again becomes quickly apparent is that a man's job depends on sensationalism, and we are asked to excuse him for this. Perhaps the media hasn't quite grown up and we should congratulate it on getting this far. The year 2000 may see great changes in the way news is presented to us. Again, who knows, it might even get worse—if such a thing is possible. Perish the thought!

单选题Directions: In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be read only once. Choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scored Answer Sheet.