单选题 "Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather. " This statement is often made by Englishmen, which is both revealing and true. It is revealing because in it we see the Englishman insisting once again that what happens in England is not the same as what happens elsewhere; its truth can soon be found by any foreigner who stays in the country for longer than a few days. It has been said only in England can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day! Day may break as a balmy spring morning; an hour later black clouds may have appeared from nowhere and the rain may be pouring down. At midday conditions may be really wintry with the temperature down by about eight degrees or more. And then, in the late afternoon the sky will clear, the sun will begin to shine, and for an hour or two before darkness falls, it will be summer. In England one can experience almost every kind of weather except the most extreme. Some foreigners seem to be under the impression that for ten months of the year the country is covered by a dense blanket of fog; this is not true. The problem is that we never can be sure when the different sorts of weather will occur. Not only do we get several different sorts of weather in one day, but we may very well get a period of winter in summer and a period of summer in winter. This uncertainty about the weather has had a definite effect upon the Englishman's character; it tends to make him cautious, for example. The foreigner may laugh when he sees the Englishman setting out on a sunny morning wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, but he may well regret his laughter later in the day! The English weather has also helped to make the Englishman adaptable. It has been said that one of the reasons why the English colonized (开拓殖民地) so much of the world was that, whatever the weather conditions they met abroad, they had already experienced something like them at home! And, of course, the weather's variety provides a constant topic of conversation. Even the most unfriendly of Englishmen is always prepared to discuss the weather. And, though he sometimes complains bitterly of it, he would not exchange it for the more predictable (可以预防的) climate of other lands.

单选题How close parents are to their children ______ a strong influence on the development of the children"s character.

单选题He changed his mind for the second time, ______ I refused ever to go out with him again.

单选题His hand shook a little as he ______ the key in the lock.

单选题My sister and I grew up in a little village in England. Our father was a struggling 1 , but I always knew he was 2 . He never criticized us, but used 3 to bring out our best. He"d say, "If you pour water on flowers, they flourish. If you don"t give them water, they die. " I 4 as a child I said something 5 about somebody, and my father said, " 6 time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it"s a reflection of you. " He explained that if I looked for the best 7 people, I would get the best 8 From then on I"ve always tried to 9 the principle in my life and later in running my company. Dad"s also always been very 10 . At 15, I started a magazine. It was 11 a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a 12 : stay in School or leave to work on my magazine. I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision, 13 any good father would. When he realized I had made up my mind, he said, "Richard, when I was 23, my dad 14 me to go into law. And I"ve 15 regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist, 16 I didn"t pursue my 17 You know what you want. Go fulfill it. " As 18 turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national 19 for young people in the U. K. My wife and I have two children, and I" d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad 20 me.

单选题If you had told me earlier, I ______ you to fulfill it.

单选题Physics ______ always my strong point.

单选题If your complaint is a just one, the shopkeeper may offer to replace or repair the faulty article. In certain cases you may have the right to refuse the goods and ask for your money back, but this is only when you have hardly used the goods and have acted at once.

单选题I saw a boy ______ towards the lake when I stood by the phone booth.

单选题Extensive new studies suggest that the world has made extraordinary progress in reducing poverty in recent decades. The research suggests that the pace of economic progress has been rapid and continued for decades, built on the foundations of relative political stability, rising trade, and economic liberalization(自由化) after two world wars. One new study, published recently by the Institute for International Economics in Washington, find that the proportion of the 6.1 billion people in the world who live on $1 a day or less shrank from 63 percent in 1950 to 35 percent in 1980 and 12 percent in 1999. By some other measures, the progress has been more modest. Still, economists agree that poverty has plunged in key nations such as India and especially China, thanks to slowing population growth as well as economic freedom. "This is a huge success for the world as a whole," says Harvard University economist Richard Cooper. "We are doing something right". The news comes as the World Bank is about to open its annual meeting in Washington—an event that has been troubled in recent years by protests that the Bank and its sister Institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF 国际货币组织), have done too little for the world"s poor. The new economic research will not put an end to that dispute. Vast populations remain poor, and many still question the wisdom of World Bank policies. Nonetheless, the research findings are helpful to understand what policies should be followed by those institutions and hundreds of other development groups working very hard to hasten the pace of world economic progress. If dramatic gains are under way, the present policies—calling for open markets, free business activities, and tight monetary control—are working and correct. But critics of IMF and World Bank policies maintain that such economic success stories as Japan, China, South Korea and Singapore are rooted in more than just "free" markets. These nations have managed to grow rapidly, and thereby reduce poverty, by limiting imports when their domestic industries were young, pushing exports to rich nations, and putting controls on purely international financial flows. They have been open to foreign-owned factories but have often insisted that those investors share the knowledge and skill on modern technologies.

单选题Good ______! I hope you'll win the race. A. sort B. wish C. luck D. chance

单选题In this factory the machines are not regulated ______ but are jointly controlled by a central computer system.

单选题George is going to talk about the geography of his country, but I"d rather he ______ more on its culture.

单选题Silent reading is based on the idea that reading aloud is a distraction to others.

单选题Since our stay was too short, we couldn"t visit all the places ______.

单选题______ with the size of the whole earth, the highest mountain does not seem high at all. A. When compared B. Compare C. Comparing D. To compare

单选题The specific encounter I"m describing is one specific abduction (劫持) that occurred when I was 17. After I completed an ROTC pilot training course, I was on my way home. About that time I noticed a glowing object. The time was about 8:30. As this wasn"t my first encounter, I assumed it was a UFO. As I was staring at it from my car, I suddenly got out to view it. I was viewing the object for quite some time until I saw it drop down and land somewhere in the woods. I was then too scared to further investigate, so I ran back to my car and for some reason it would not start. I was about to walk down the road when I saw 4 - 5 figures emerge out of the woods. I was shocked and frightened. I did nothing but stare at the figures as they came closer until they came into my car and took me into their ship. Inside it was pitch-black and there was a screen on one wall and a chair right in front of it. They placed me in the chair and put some sort of drill(钻头) in my nose and then checked my eyes with some sort of metallic device that had a blue light. After they have done examining me they told me that I would not be harmed and I could return to my ear. Before they took me away I asked "Who or what are you"? The same voice responded telepathically (心灵感应地), "We are from the future. We travel back in time to get organs from humans before we evolve because our planet is dying." Then I was taken to my car. Since then, I haven"t been able to sleep well and I have a mental disorder. I have been placed in a mental hospital on three different occasions.

单选题They insisted that the device ______ under operating conditions.

单选题The students have been advised to _______ a healthy lifestyle---a balanced diet, plenty of sleep and a positive mental attitude.

单选题Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. The term e-commerce refers to all commercial transactions conducted over the Internet, including transactions by consumers and business-to-business transactions. Conceptually, e-commerce does not {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}from well-known commercial offerings such as banking by phone, "mail order" catalogs, or sending a purchase order to supplier {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}fax. E-commerce follows the same model {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}in other business transactions; the difference {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}in the details. To a consumer, the most visible form of e-commerce consists {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}online ordering. A customer begins with a catalog of possible items, {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}an item, arranges a form of payment, and {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}an order. Instead of a physical catalog, e-commerce arranges for catalogs to be {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}on the Internet. Instead of sending an order on paper or by telephone, e-commerce arranges for orders to be sent {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}a computer network. Finally, instead of sending a paper representation of payment such as a check, e-commerce {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}one to send payment information electronically. In the decade {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}1993, e-commerce grew from an {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}novelty (新奇事物) to a mainstream business influence. In 1993, few {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}had a web page, and {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}a handful allowed one to order products or services online. Ten years {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}, both large and small businesses had web pages, and most {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}users with the opportunity to place an order. {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}, many banks added online access, {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}online banking and bill paying became {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}. More importantly, the value of goods and services {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}over the Internet grew dramatically after 1997.