单选题Questions 14—16 are based on the following passage. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14—16.

单选题Every year in the united States there are______.

单选题Would you like ______ more milk? A. much B. some C. many

单选题Hawaii"s native minority is demanding a greater degree of sovereignty over its own affairs. But much of the archipelago"s political establishment, which includes the White Americans who dominated until the second world war and people of Japanese, Chinese and Filipino origins, is opposed to the idea. The islands were annexed by the US in 1898 and since then Hawaii"s native peoples have fared worse than any of its other ethnic groups. They make up over 60 percent of the state"s homeless, suffer higher levels of unemployment and their life span is five years less than the average Hawaiians. They are the only major US native group without some degree of autonomy. But a sovereignty advisory committee set up by Hawaii"s first native governor, Joahn Waihee, has given the natives" cause a major boost by recommending that the Hawaiian natives decide by themselves whether to reestablish a sovereign Hawaiian nation. However, the Hawaiian natives are not united in their demands. Some just want greater autonomy within the state—as enjoyed by many American Indian natives over matters such as education. This is a position supported by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), a state agency set up in 1978 to represent the natives" interests and which has now become the moderate face of the native sovereignty movement. More ambitious is the Ka Lahui group, which declared itself a new nation in 1987 and wants full, official independence from the US. But if Hawaiian natives are given greater autonomy, it is far from clear how many people this will apply to. The state authorities only count as native those people with more than 50 percent Hawaiian blood. Native demands are not just based on political grievances, though. They also want their claim on 660,000 hectares of Hawaiian crown land to be accepted. It is on this issue that native groups are facing most opposition from the state authorities. In 1933, the state government paid the OHA US 136 million in back rent on the crown land and many officials say that by accepting this payment the agency has given up its claims to legally own the land. The OHA has vigorously disputed this.

单选题Questions 17—20 are based on the following passage about the history of newspapers. You now have 20 seconds to read the Questions 17—20.

完形填空Each company has many "publics'' who should be able not only recognize its name 【21】 to correctly identify its industry and its 【22】 line. These publics include present customers and stockholders as well as banks, insurance companies, stockbrokers, and securities 【23】 who supply the company with essential services and capital. The 【24】 names of many well-established companies can be a of misinformation, thereby 【25】 communication with them. This was the problem that faced Michigan Seamless Tube Company ― a company with sales of ＄128 million a year. In the first 【26】 ,the company''s name tells us that it is located in Michigan 【27】 that it manufactures seamless tubing. What the name does not 【28】 to most people is the fact Michigan Seamless Tube also has operations in five 【29】 states and has a varied product line ― specialty forgings, broaching machines, tools, and steel bars ― in addition to seamless tubing. The problem was 【30】 by the company''s 【31】 , which operated 【32】 their own names and were not clearly identified with the 【33】 company. Customers, suppliers, and the financial community did not see Michigan Seamless Tube as a 【34】 based metal producer. They perceived it only as a small, 【35】 , regional manufacturing company. The company''s 【36】 decided to adopt a new corporate identity. The 【37】 point for this change was the company name. The new name had to be one that could encompass all of the company''s products and subsidiaries, a name that would correctly project the image of a 【38】 corporation. After considering many different possibilities, management decided on a 【39】 word: Quanes ― a name 【40】from a combination of the first three letters of the word " quality" and the first three letters of the Latin word "nex", which means connection.

完形填空Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully 【B1】 only among people he knows well. In the presence of strangers or foreigners he often seems inhibited, 【B2】 embarrassed. You have only 【B3】 a commuter train any morning or evening to see the truth of this. Serious-looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing in a corner; no one speaks. In fact, to do so would seem most unusual. 【B4】 , there is here an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior which, 【B5】 broken, makes the person immediately the object of 【B6】 It is a well-known fact that the English have a 【B7】 for the discussion of their weather and that, given half a chance, they will talk about it 【B8】 Some people argue that it is because English weather 【B9】 forecast and hence is a source of interest and 【B10】 to everyone. This may be so. 【B11】 Englishmen cannot have much 【B12】 in the weathermen, who, after promising fine, sunny weather for the following day, are often proved wrong 【B13】 a cloud over the Atlantic brings rainy weather to all districts! The man in the street seems to be as accurate—or as inaccurate—as the weathermen in his 【B14】. The overseas visitors may be excused for showing surprise at all the number of references 【B15】 weather that the English make to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conversational greetings are 【B16】 by comments on the weather. "Nice day, isn''t it?" "Beautiful! "may well be heard instead of "Good morning, how are you?" 【B17】 the foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic, it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to his advantage. 【B18】 he wants to start a conversation with an Englishman but is 【B19】 to know where to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather. It is a safe subject which will 【B20】 an answer from even the most reserved of Englishmen.

完形填空Do you have any knowledge of the space station? A space station is a place 【21】 people can and work on space 【22】 long periods. It orbits the earth, usually about 200 to 300 miles high. A space station may 【23】 as an observatory, laboratory, factory, workshop, warehouse, and fuel depot. Space stations are much larger than manned spacecraft, 【24】 they provide more comforts. Manned spacecraft may 【25】 people between the earth and the space station. Unmanned spacecraft may supply the station 【26】 food, water, equipment, mail and so on. Small space stations can be 【27】 on the earth and launched orbit by 【28】 rockets. Larger stations are 【29】 in space. Rockets or space shuttles 【30】 modules of the station into space, where astronauts assemble them. Old modules can be replaced, and new modules can be 【31】 to expand the station. A space station has 【32】 one docking port 【33】 which a visiting spacecraft can attach itself. Most docking ports 【34】 of a rimmed doorway called a hatch that can connect 【35】 the hatch on the visiting spacecraft to form an airtight seal. When the two hatches open, they form a pressurized tunnel between the station and the visiting spacecraft. The main tasks of a space station crew involve scientific research. For example, they might analyze the 【36】 of micro gravity on various materials, 【37】 the earth''s surface, or study the stars and planets. Astronauts 【38】 a space station also 【39】 much of their time to the assembly of equipment and the expansion of the station''s facilities. This includes 【40】 beams, connecting electrical and gas lines, and welding permanent joints between sections of the station. The crew must also fix or replace broken equipment.

完形填空The loudest outcry about poverty seemed to come in the wealthiest country by far in the world

完形填空During recent years we have heard much about "race" : how this race does certain things and that race believes certain things and so on. Yet, the 【B1】 phenomenon of race consists of a few surface indications. We judge race usually 【B2】 the coloring of the skin: a white race, a brown race, a yellow race and a black race. But 【B3】 you were to remove the skin you could not 【B4】 anything about the race to which the individual belonged. There is 【B5】 in physical structure, the brain or the internal organs to 【B6】 a difference. There are four types of blood. 【B7】 types are found in every race, and no type is distinct to any race. Human brains are the 【B8】 No scientists could examine a brain and tell you the race to which the individual belonged. Brains will 【B9】 in size, but this occurs within every race. 【B10】 does size have anything to do with intelligence. The largest brain 【B11】 examined belonged to a person of weak 【B12】 On the other hand, some of our most distinguished people have had 【B13】 brains. Mental tests which are reasonably 【B14】 show no differences in intelligence between races. High and low test results both can be recorded by different members of any race. 【B15】 equal educational advantages, there will be no difference in average standings, either on account of race or geographical location. Individuals of every race 【B16】 civilization to go backward or forward. Training and education can change the response of a group of people, 【B17】 enable them to behave in a 【B18】 way. The behavior and ideals of people change according to circumstances, but they can always go back or go on to something new 【B19】 is better and higher than anything 【B20】 the past.

完形填空According to government statistics, men of all social classes in Britain visit pubs quite often, 【21】 the kind of pub they go to may be different and their reasons for going there 【22】 ,too. At present, they often take their wives or girl-friends, which 【23】 to be the case. The fact is that the typical English pub is changing, partly 【24】 the licensing laws not being so strict as they 【25】 ,but also because publicans are trying to 【26】 away with the old Victorian 【27】 of the pub and 【28】 provide couples with an atmosphere where they can both feel happy. Pub used not to open 【29】 at certain times. The result was that they were usually 【30】 with men who seemed to be drinking as much as possible in the time 【31】 . But that kind of pub is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Curiously enough, the old British licensing laws, which foreigners found so objectionable and absurd, were 【32】 introduced as a 【33】 measure to stop workers drinking in the World War I. 【34】 , the strong Puritanical 【35】 in Parliament took 【36】of the law and 【37】 it. Opening hours are 【38】 limited to eight hours a day, but the publican can now choose which hours 【39】 him best. And nowadays you can even get a cup of coffee if you prefer 【40】 beer. But in spite of this the Puritans would never dream of admitting that a pub could become a repeatable place.

完形填空During the 1980s,unemployment and underemployment in some countries was as high as 90 percent. Some countries did not 【21】 enough food; basic needs in housing and clothing were not 【22】 Many of these countries looked to the industrial processes of the developed countries 【23】 solutions. 【24】 , problems. cannot always be solved by copying the industrialized countries . Industry in the developed countries is highly automated and very 【25】 . It provides fewer jobs than labor-intensive industrial processes, and highly 【26】 workers are needed to 【27】 and repair the equipment. These workers must be trained 【28】 many countries do not have the necessary training institutions. Thus, the 【29】 of importing industry becomes higher. Students must be sent abroad to 【30】 vocational and professional training. 【31】 ,just to begin training, the students must 【32】 learn English, French, German, or Japanese. The students then spend many years abroad, and 【33】 do not return home. All countries agree that science and technology 【34】 be shared. The point is: countries 【35】 the industrial processes of the developed countries need to look carefully 【36】 the costs, because many of these costs are 【37】 . Students from these countries should 【38】 the problems of the developed countries closely. 【39】 care, they will take home not the problems of science and technology, 【40】 the benefits.

完形填空All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply 【21】 to all of us 【22】 the covers of books ― but we must know how to avail ourselves 【23】 this treasure and how to get 【24】 from it. The most 【25】 people all over the world, are 【26】 who have never discovered how 【27】 it is to read good books. I am very interested in people, in meeting them and 【28】 about them. Some of the most 【29】 people I''ve met existed only in a writer''s imagination, then 【30】 the pages of his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I''ve found in books new friends, new societies, new words. If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who 【31】 in how. Who in the books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the way back to the first 【32】 in history; how 【33】 everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Folmes 【34】 the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners to children. Reading can make our minds feel pleased , 【35】 means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness 【36】 you a good reader. Reading is 【37】 , not because the writer is telling you something, 【38】 because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works together with the 【39】 or even goes beyond his. Your experience, 【40】 his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

写作题汽车给人们生活带来的好处，但同时也车产生很多问题，对此你是如 何看待汽车的作用

问答题In short, a leader of the new school contends, the scientific revolution, as we call it, was largely the improvement and invention and use of a series of instruments that expanded the reach of science in innumerable direction.

问答题In such a changing, complex society formerly simple solutions to informational needs become complicated. 61) Many of life's problems which were solved by asking family members, friends or colleagues are beyond the capability of the extended family to resolve. Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today? In addition to this, there is the growing mobility of people since World War Ⅱ. 62) As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable. The almost unconscious flow of information about the simplest aspects of living can be cut off. Thus things once learned subconsciously through the casual communications of the extended family must be consciously learned. Adding to social changes today is an enormous stockpile of information. 63) The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time-consuming and sometimes even overwhelming. 64) Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machine-readable files, and to program computer to locate specific information. Telecommunications developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of messages. Satellites have extended the power of communications to report events at the instant of occurrence. Expertise can be shared worldwide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. Technology has facilitated the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people. In this world of change and complexity, the need for information is of greatest importance. Those people who have accurate, reliable up-to-date information to solve the day-to-day problems, the critical problems of their business, social and family life, will survive and succeed. 65) "Knowledge is power" may well be the truest saying and access to information may be the most critical requirement of all people.

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问答题Environmentalists and activists accused the world's rich nations of managing a global conference on genetically modified foods to calm public fears. Activists said a three-day Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development conference on GM foods which began on Monday in Scotland was little more than an apology for the global biotechnology industry. A handful of environmental grofips such as Green Peace and Friends of the Earth were invited to the conference, as well as one scientist known for his opposition to GM foods and an outspoken consumer rights group. (62) But activists said that was not enough to counter dozens of representatives from biotechnology companies and scientists keen to promote research and commercialization of GM crops and foods. (63) "The overall weight of the conference is skewed toward scientists and industry, officials who are in favor of GM foods." Robin Harper. a Green Party member of the new Scottish Parliament, told a news conference. Activists, holding a separate, smaller gathering about GM foods in offices of the new Scottish parliament, said US and British regulators were not listening seriously enough to fears about GM foods. (64) The U. S-based Alliance for Bio-Integrity, a consumer activist group, said a 1998 lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration to obtain mandatory testing of all GM foods had exposed serious doubts among scientists within the FDA that GM foods were as safe as their conventional counterparts. "People are eating these foods daily. We need to face facts that there are a lot of scientists unsure about the safety of GM foods and we need to thoroughly test these products before they are approved." Steven Dmker, coordinator of the lawsuit, told the news conference. (65) The FDA said its scientists who questioned the safety, of GM foods were doing their job as part of the agency's regulatory_ process, and that their views were taken into account in the FDA's final policy. Although it is confident GM foods widely used in the US are safe, the FDA is considering the labeling of GM foods after three public consultations, said James Maryanski, biotechnology coordinator at the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

问答题A continuing phenomenon in business education is the emphasis on ethics. The American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation standards emphasize the need for an ethical awareness along with an understanding of "influence of political, social, legal and regulatory, environmental, and technological issues ... "61)One of the difficult ethical challenges it wants addressed concerns "inclusiveness", which we have interpreted to mean a "large umbrella" approach, in, for example, employee concerns. To this end, matters such as sexual preference are dealt with in a case involving a supervisor. 62) Possibly the greatest ethical idea that could build bridges in an increasingly fragmented society is the idea that empirical evidence must be sought and used to bring an agreement in controversial public issues. Clearly the greatest impact upon the business enterprise evidencing external political and social environments occurs with respect to law. Law is the way in which society and the political process translating into concrete form the forces shaping the business environment. Perhaps the most important development is the recognition that positive law has become the ethic of our time 63)A key reason for this is the highly competitive nature of the business environment, where international competitors are threatening the very existence of the domestic US businesses; this competition forces US businesses to take a "bare bones", "do just what the law requires and no more" approach to ethics. Actually, the US legal system is for more than a "bare bones" to legal rights. 64)In fact, it could persuasively be argued that law in this nature has crept into the realm of natural law and norms formerly described by private decision-makers are now decreed by legislative commands. It is true that ethics involves doing the "right" thing, the just thing, the morally correct thing; however, positive law is now commanding us to "do the right thing". Given the need to keep costs under control, most US businesses give a sigh of relied and say, "This is enough ethics for me; thanks," if they can simply comply with the pervasive positive law. These businesses point out that their foreign competitors do not have the extensive — and expensive — protective labor laws, the Clean Water Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and a host of other laws. 65) These laws have praiseworthy goals; nonetheless, they make competing with businesses in other countries without such laws difficult, if not impossible, particularly when costs are taken into account.