单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} Fifteen years ago, I entered The Boston Globe, which was a temple to me then. It wasn't easy getting hired. I had to fight my way into a dime-a-word job. But once you were there, I found, you were in. Globe jobs were for life--guaranteed until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there-moving from all ordinary reporter to foreign correspondent and finally to senior editor. I would have a lifetime of security if I stuck with it. Instead, I had made a decision to leave. I entered my boss's office. Would he rage? I wondered. He had a famous temper. "Matt, we have to have a talk. "I began awkwardly. "I came to the Globe when I was twenty-four. Now I'm forty. There's a lot I want to do in life. I'm resigning." "To another paper?" he asked. I reached into my coat pocket, but didn't say anything, not trusting myself just then. I handed him a letter that explained everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. That the Globe had taught me in a thousand ways. That we were at a rare turning point in history. I wanted to be directly engaged in the change. "I'm glad for you," he said, quite out of my expectation. "I just came from a board of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can deal with. But much of it we can't," he went on. "I wish you all the luck in the world," he concluded. "And if it doesn't work out, remember, your star is always high here." Then I went out of his office, walking through the newsroom for more good-byes. Everybody was saying congratulations. Everybody--even though I'd be risking all on all unfamiliar venture: all the financial security I had carefully built up. Later, I had a final talk with Bill Taylor, chairman and publisher of The Boston Globe. He had turned the Globe into a billion-dollar property. "I'm resigning, Bill," I said. He listened while I gave him the story. He wasn't looking angry or dismayed either. After a pause, he said, "Golly, I wish I were in your shoes."

单选题For nearly one thousand years, tea is the most common drink in China that is much earlier before any people in Europe ever heard about tea. British people were much slower in knowing what tea was like. The main reason is that tea used to be very expensive, which couldn't be bought in shops. Moreover, the people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so just because they were curious about tea. Many of them even were not certain about how to use it. Some of them thought it was a kind of vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. They also served them with mixed butter and salt. Though they soon found their mistake, many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and eat it as sandwiches. Tea remained rare and extremely expensive in England until early in the seventeenth century when the East India Company's ships began to bring it from China. During the next few years much tea came into the country, so that the price fell. Then many people could afford to have it. Meanwhile, more and more people on the Continent were becoming to like tea. Till one day,a famous French lady wanted to find out what tea tasted like if milk was added. She found it so delicious that she would never drink it without milk again. Since she was a great lady, her friends thought that they must copy the thing she did. They also drank their tea with milk in it. Then, this habit became wide spread and reached England. Today only very few British people drink tea without milk. Tea was used to be drunk after dinner in the evening. Tea had not been drunk in the afternoon until a duchess found that a cup of tea with some snack at three or four o'clock in the afternoon can help her stop sleeping. Then she invited her friends to enjoy this new kind of meal with her. This is what to be called afternoon tea later.

单选题Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following conversation.

单选题The author of this passage was probably a______.

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单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}}{{I}} You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer—A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE. Now look at question 1.{{/I}}

单选题Whyhasthewomancometotalktotheman?

单选题Questions 18 to 21 are based on the following passage.

单选题Steveland Morris is a household name in America. Ask Steveland Morris and he'll tell you that blindness is not necessarily disabling. Steveland was born prematurely(过早地，不到期地) and totally without sight in 1950s. He became Stevie Wonder-composer, singer, and pianist. The winner of ten Grammy awards, Stevie is widely acclaimed(喝采) for his outstanding contributions to the music world. As a child, Stevie learned not to think about the things he could not do, but to concentrate on the things that he could do. His parents encouraged him to join in his sighted brothers as many activities as possible. They also helped him to sharpen his sense of hearing, the sense upon which the usually disabled are so dependent. Because sound was so important to him, Stevie began at an early age to experiment with different kinds of sound. He would bang things together and then imitate the sound with his voice. Often relying on sound for entertainment, he sang, beat on toy drums, played a toy harmonica (口琴). and listened to the radio. Stevie soon graduated from toy instruments to real instruments. He first learned to play the drums. He then mastered the harmonica and the piano. He became a member of the junior church choir(唱诗班) and a lead singer. In the evenings and on weekends, Stevie would play different instruments and sing popular rhythm and blues tunes on the front porches (走廊)of neighbors'homes. One of Stevie's sessions was overheard by Ronnie White, a member of a popular singing group called The Miracles. Ronnie immediately recognized Stevie's talent and took him to audition(试听) for Berry Gordy, the president of Hitsville USA, a large recording company now known as Motown. Stevie recorded his first smash hit "Fingertips" in 1962 at age twelve, and the rest of Stevie's story is music history.

单选题Toys have several functions except__________.

单选题Article One: The attraction need not be electric. Rather, it builds gradually and gently, sometimes taking years to ripen. All that''s required in the beginning is some attraction, mutual openness, affection, and desire for intimacy. With the development of your relationship, the physical attraction gradually recedes to the background, while the partner''s personality and other qualities tend to stand out. This is the transitional process of going beyond physical attraction and touching the real person. Article Two: It is natural for people in love to expect further improvement in every aspect of their lives, be it personality, capacity, or living standard. However, you don''t have to be perfect to love and be loved. True love involves a measure of self-acceptance and self-respect. The expectations should be based both on the requirements of true love and on your individual personalities and needs. It is not only unattainable but also destructive to demand the impossible. So the recommendable practice is to discuss them openly, recognizing that some are nonnegotiable while others need to remain flexible. Article Three: Conflict and struggle are necessary to life and therefore also to love. Just as the old saying goes, true love never runs smooth. You and your partner must accept this fact from the start and figure out how to deal with problems when they arise. Take these difficulties as welcome ordeals to test your problem-solving abilities and co-operation capacities. This process can enlighten you with more self-knowledge and knowledge about your relationship. In a word, the process of negotiating through difficulties should help you understand each other better and bring you closer together. Article Four: True love requires a connection, but not the submersion of two individuals. Mature lovers don''t melt completely into each other, nor do they remain disconnected. Rather, they interlock, so that parts of their lives become shared. To succeed in love, you and your partner must be able to rely on each other for comfort and support without expecting all your needs to be met within the relationship. Part of your life must remain separate. You need some friends, activities, and interests that your partner doesn''t share. In addition to the personal benefits you get from these outside sources, they provide ideas, energy and information that keep the relationship open and developing. Article Five: True love is more likely to involve a process of "growing" in love rather than "falling" in love. This may sound terribly romantic to some who are used to hearing talk about "falling in love" or being "head over heels in love". True love doesn''t occur without effort and it doesn''t develop overnight. For most of us, it takes years to reach fulfillment. Through the routine of daily life, you and your partner come to know each other''s deepest hopes, fears and feelings, and discover and become part of each other''s inner rhythms. Now match each of the articles to the appropriate statement. Note: There are two extra statements. Statements A. Mutual honesty and trust. B. Realistic expectations for each other and the relationship. C. A cooperative approach to problems. D. A balance of dependence and independence. E. Shared goals, interests and belief systems. F. Role of physical attraction. G. True love as an ever-deepening process.

单选题{{I}}Questions 18～21 are based on the following dialogue.{{/I}}

单选题Labor force is defined as being the total number of people who are available to work and earn income. This definition includes everyone who is employed or seeking paid employment, so it includes employees and the self-employed. Labor is one of the country's resources which can be combined with other resources to produce the goods and services required by the community. Though the size of the workforce relies greatly on the size of the total population, there are several other aspects which also affect it. The age distribution of the total population has a very marked effect on the available workforce. If the population has a high proportion of very young people or of those too old m work, then the available workforce would be lower than if there were an evenly spread age distribution. If the population grows rapidly from natural increase, i. e. the number of births greatly exceeds the number of deaths, then as a total population increase the proportion in the workforce declines. Sometimes a population is described as aging, which means that the birth rate is either falling or growing very slowly, and as people retire from the workforce there are inadequate numbers of young people entering it to take place of those who are leaving it. The population is top-heavy with older people. So the percentage of the population in the workforce declines when there is either a rapid increase in births or a falling birth rate. The age distribution of the population has several important influences on the economy. If the population is aging and there is an increase in the number of people retiring without a corresponding increase in the number entering the workforce, this raises the problem of the ability of the economy to provide a reasonable level of social services to the retired group. If the aged are to be cared for in special homes or hospitals, finance must be available for that purpose. If the size of the workforce is small relative to the total population, then the government tax receipts are relatively low and either the government has less money available to it or the workforce members have to be taxed more heavily.

单选题Questions 11-13 are based on the following passage.

单选题Bob had yet ______ idea for a successful New Year party, the third one that evening. [A] other [B] another [C] the other [D] other one

单选题What is Helen's major?

单选题 {{I}}Questions 23—25 are based on the following conversation. You now have 15 seconds to read the questions 23—25.{{/I}}