单选题Despite the huge progress that has been made, the price of property is far from ______. A. satisfied B. satisfaction C. satisfactory D. satisfy

单选题When asked to disclose financial ties to drug companies, many doctors will ______ such information. A. withdraw B. withstand C. wither D. withhold

单选题They are studying what kind of preferences might ______ this surging demand for home-made TV sets. A. take a fancy to B. bring into play C. give rise to D. grow out of

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}} Electronic communication, due to its speed and broadcasting ability, is fundamentally different from Paper-based communication such as letters and memos.{{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}the other person's response time capability is{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}fast, e-mail is more "conversational" than traditional methods of communication. In a paper document, it is absolutely{{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}to make everything completely clear and unambiguous because your audience may not have a chance to ask for{{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}. With e-mail， however, your recipient can ask questions immediately. E-mail, therefore like conversational speech, tends to be much informal and more ambiguous. This is not always bad. It might not be a{{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}expenditure, of energy to slave at a message, making sure that your spelling is{{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}, your words eloquent, and that your grammar and punctuation are beyond reproach, if the point of the message is simply to inform the recipient that your are ready to go to lunch. {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}, you should put some effort into ensuring that your subjects agree with your veils, words are spelled correctly to avoid the mixing of metaphors, and so on. Because of the{{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}of vocal variation, gestures, and a shared environment, e-mail is not so{{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}a communication method as a face-to-face or even a telephone conversation. Your recipient may have difficulty{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}if you are being serious or joking, frustrated or euphoric. Thus, your e-mail compositions should be different from both your speech and paper compositions.

单选题The importance of protecting rainforests from human invasion is increasingly realized by developing and developed countries______. A. both B. either C. alike D. apart

单选题Competition compels districts to devote their limited resources to achieving results that compare______with other local districts. A. significantly B. favorably C. dramatically D. superficially

单选题 Long before the iPhone made him the god of gadgets, Steve Jobs launched his tech career by hacking land lines to make free long-distance calls. Bob Dylan's band, the Golden Chords, lost a high-school talent competition to a tap dancing act. Behind every success story is an embarrassing first effort, a stumble, a setback or a radical change of direction. It's these first clumsy steps on the road to fame and fortune that fascinate writer Seth Fiegerman, who edits the blog OpeningLines.org, a collection of case studies on the origins of famous careers. "When you see someone who's very successful, you almost imagine that it was an inevitable conclusion, that they're a genius, that they were destined for great things," says Fiegerman, who began the blog in 2009, after an early setback in his own career. "I think the big {{U}}takeaway{{/U}} is failure and setbacks, far from being uncommon, are in many ways essential." After Fiegerman, now 26, graduated from New York University in 2008, he landed a first job as a research editor at Playboy magazine. But he had worked there for just half a year when management announced that most of the staff would soon be laid off. As unemployment loomed, Fiegerman felt adrift. He began to explore the Playboy archives, discovering a valuable wealth of interviews with celebrities ranging from Marion Brando to Malcolm X. Many of these successful people shared tales of their less promising early days, and Fiegerman quickly became obsessed with these origin stories. He began reading biographies with great interest and requesting interviews with writers and musicians he admired, using the blog to document the fits and starts that began the careers of the famous and the infamous. Success, he learned, was less a matter of innate talent and more the product of perseverance, a willingness to stumble and stand up again and again. "You kind of assume that great geniuses are like Mozart," Fiegerman says. But few successful people were children of highly unusual talent and these children don't necessarily find success. "Most people don't stick to it." Like his subjects, Fiegerman found that his own early setback wasn't permanent. He landed a new job in journalism, and today he works at the tech news website Mashable, covering, appropriately enough, start-up businesses. While he has less time for the blog, he hopes his collection of origin stories will help other young people realize it's OK to fail.

单选题Scientists have been trying to ______ what factors can cause aging. A．find out B．turn out C．set out D．carry out

单选题There have been some insensible people who attempt to end their pains ______ through suicide. A. by and large B. once for all=forever C. heart and soul D. on the whole

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单选题 {{B}}Passage Three {{/B}} Young people often wonder at the large number of employers who do not respond to their applications for jobs. They say that despite enclosing return envelopes they hear nothing at all or, at best, an impersonal note is sent declaring that the post for which they applied has been filled. Applicants often develop the suspicion that vacancies are marked for friends and relatives and that advertisements are only put out to avert this accusation. Many of them tire of writing around and feel that if only they could obtain an interview with the right person their application would meet with success. Not to acknowledge applicants letters is impolite and there seems little excuse for this. Yet even sending brief replies to the many who apply takes much time and money. That so-called return envelop may not have been stamped by the sender, and a hard pressed office manager may be reluctant to send off long letters of explanation to disappointed job hunters. A brief note is all that can be managed and even that depends on the policy of the firm. But this difficulty is reasonably easy to remove with a little goodwill. The failure of an application is more often the fault of the applicant, for many applicants do not set about their task in the right way. They do not study the job requirements deeply enough and dispatch applications to all and sundry in the hope that one will bear fruit. The personnel manager of a textiles manufacturer, for example, advertised for designers. He was willing to consider young people without working experience provided they had good ideas. The replies contained many remarks like: "At school I was good at art", "I like drawing things" and even "I write very interesting stories". Only one applicant was sensible enough to enclose samples of her designs. She got the job. Personnel managers emphasize the need for a good letter of application. They do not look for the finest writing paper and perfect typing, but it is reasonable to expect legible writing on a clean sheet of paper, not a piece torn roughly from an exercise book. As soon as the applicant is lucky enough to receive an invitation to attend an interview, he should acknowledge the letter and say he will attend, but the matter does not end there. The wise applicant will fill in the interval, making himself familiar with the activities of the company he hopes to join. Some applicants have not the faintest idea what the company does and this puts them at a great disadvantage when they come to answer the questions that will be put to them in the interview. Finally, the way an applicant presents himself at the interview can sometimes mar his chances. The applicant who arrives late is almost certain not to be appointed, as no employer likes unpunctuality. Dress is important, too. An interview is a rather special occasion and the wise applicant will come dressed in a way that shows he takes it seriously.

单选题Individual goals have to fit in with the family or business goals as a whole. A. be converted into B. be superior to C. be in accord with D. be different from

单选题All the students in this university are {{U}}requested{{/U}} to comply with the regulations. A. required B. demanded C. ordered D. expected

单选题 The tomatoes your great-grandparents ate probably tasted little like the ones you eat today. In fact, tomatoes "were once so flavorful that you could take one in your hand and eat it straight away just like we regularly eat apples or peaches," according to plant scientist Alan Bennett. He belongs to a team of international scientists who now think they know one reason why the fruit has lost so much flavor. Although some unripe tomatoes have a dark green patch near the stem, farmers prefer that their unripe tomatoes are the same shade of green all over. The consistent coloring makes it easier for them to know when the fruit should be picked. But tomatoes without the dark green patch are also missing an important genetic ingredient that helps the fruit make more sugar and other tasty molecules. So by breeding tomatoes for that consistent color, Bennett's team says, crop scientists may have accidentally contributed to also making this fruit {{U}}bland{{/U}}. "It is a good illustration of unintended consequences," Harry Klee told Science News. Tomatoes make sugars in compartments called chloroplasts (叶绿体). Bennett and his colleagues found that tomatoes need the correct version of a gene (one called S1GLK2) to form chloroplasts properly in the fruit. A gene acts as a biological instruction book that tells cells which molecules to make. Tomatoes without the dark green patch have the wrong version of this gene, the researchers report in Science. As these fruits ripen, they can't make as many chloroplasts. And chloroplasts that they do produce are smaller. One result: The tomatoes make less sugar—and don't taste as good. Tomatoes also produce gases responsible for some of the odors we associate with the fruit. Even though you only breathe them, these gases affect the way that you perceive flavor. Tomatoes with weak chloroplasts can't make as much of these gases, further reducing flavor. But the newfound gene change is "not the whole story of why modern tomatoes are so bad, by a long shot," Klee told Science News. Tomatoes are also blander when they are picked too early or stored in the fridge.

单选题Too much time has ______ since we worked on this project.

单选题A.JohnFitzgeraldKennedy.B.JacquelineKennedy.C.DwightEisenhower.D.EdwardDurrellStone.

单选题On that January day in a small town, my life changed ______ and I became a high school teacher. A. course B. way C. road D. line

单选题 For years, France proudly resisted establishing domestic smoking bans. It held out longer than Britain, Spain and Italy, but on January 2, 2008, it finally forbid cigarettes in bars, cafés, restaurants and clubs. This was not a decision taken lightly. Magazines ran photo-spreads reminding us that French people look seriously cool with a cigar in their mouth. There were illustrations of Charles de Gaulle, the French president during World War Ⅱ, Brigitte Bardot, the 1950s famous fashionist, and the famous French philosopher and writer, Jean-Paul Sartre. Even the present President Nicolas Sarkozy, extremely image-conscious, posed for Paris Match magazine with a fat cigar. But now, France's traditional "café-clope" (morning coffee and cigarette) is only possible if people can bear the freezing temperatures outside. In the latter part of the 20th century, the health risks of second-hand tobacco smoke were made public. Then, in 1975, a modern wave of smoking bans started in Minnesota, the U.S.. Since then, many countries and regions have joined in the movement. Among them, the U.S. has been a pioneer, with California being the first in the world to ban indoor smoking at all public places, including bars and restaurants. Thus some French people call the non-smoking law issued on January 2 "a touch too American". However, studies before the ban showed that 70 percent of French people supported the enforcement. The public's positive response means that the smoking ban will be just one more U.S. trend accepted by French society. Even among strong smokers, no one wants to risk a fine. French barman Jean-Michel, dressed in a leather waistcoat and a cowboy-style shoelace tie, complained harshly about the ban. Was he anticipating a smokers' revolt? "No," he said calmly. "People will respect it. I'll do what I did at school. I'll smoke in the toilets." According to the non-smoking law, individuals who smoke in bars, cafés, restaurants or clubs can be fined up to 450 euros. The owners of these places can be fined up to 750 euros if they fail to stop customers from smoking.

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单选题The shop-owner took a loaf of______-crusted bread and handed it to the child. A. fragile B. crisp C. vague D. harsh