单选题第一段①近年来，葡萄牙成功应对欧洲主权债务危机挑战，在发展国民经济、弘扬民族文化、促进社会进步等方面取得重要成就，古老大地不断焕发勃勃生机。②中国和葡萄牙虽然分处亚欧大陆东西两端，但两国人民友谊源远流长，历久弥坚。③几百年前，中国青花瓷漂洋过海来到葡萄牙，同当地瓷器制作技术相融合，形成了独具魅力的“葡萄牙蓝”。④葡萄牙东北部的弗雷索城很早就使用源于中国的桑蚕织造技术，享有“丝绸之乡”的美誉。第二段⑤当代，两国人民友好交往的佳话不断涌现。⑥一对中国老教师夫妇克服疾病困难，数十年如一日在葡萄牙教授中文、传播中华文化。⑦这样的故事还有很多，见证了两国人民跨越时空的友谊。⑧当前，中国和葡萄牙都处在各自发展的关键阶段。⑨中国正在全面深化改革，扩大对外开放。⑩葡萄牙也在励精图治，寻求更大发展。中方愿同葡方一道，共同创造中葡关系更加美好的明天。

单选题 当今，世界各国的实力较量涉及诸多因素，其中最重要的一个要素是市场规模。哪个国家的市场大，对其他国家的吸引力就越大，也越容易处于领先地位。中国有14亿人口，这就决定了它拥有世界上最大的消费市场。经济学家都认为，过去这些年，中国市场发展的速度是世界上最快的。 连续九年，中国是世界上最大的汽车市场。2016年，美国销售了1,700万辆汽车，同年中国则销售了2,400万辆。其中在中国的美国合资公司销售的汽车占比很大。中国还是世界上最大的智能手机市场，也是最大的服装、电商、国内旅游和农产品市场。中国市场展现了惊人的发展潜力。在中国，中产和富裕阶层人士迅速增长，年轻人有了全新的消费习惯，线上线下销售渠道覆盖了全国各地。随着医疗、养老产业不断发展，还将进一步提升中国人的消费能力。

单选题 作为远古人类留给我们的宝贵的文化遗产，岩画堪称是记载人类早期社会生活的百科全书，它不仅传承着源远流长的古代文明，也是史前人类文化、宗教、民俗以及原始艺术史的见证。 在世界上，中国岩画是诞生最早、分布最广、内容最丰富的国家之一，而贺兰山又是华夏土地上遗存最集中、题材最广泛、保存最完好的岩画地区之一。在贺兰山腹地，共发现20余处遗存岩画，其中最具代表性的是贺兰山贺兰口岩画。 贺兰山岩画在山口内外分布着近6000幅岩画，其中罕为人见的人面像岩画就有70幅之多。据考证，贺兰山口岩画是不同时期先后刻制的，大多为北方游牧民族创作。岩画造型粗犷稚拙、构图朴实自然，牛、马、驴、鹿、鸟、虎等动物栩栩如生，各种人头的造型同样是千奇百态。凭着自己对社会现实的理解与感悟，对美好生活的追求与向往，把自己的亲身感受与体验，忠实地记录在岩石之上，同时也为后人留下了神秘瑰丽的贺兰山岩画。 有学者说贺兰口是史前人类凭借自然魅力打造的祭祀圣地，又有专家认为，贺兰口岩画是象形文字前的图画文字，在文字没有发明前，这里的人们艰难地把他们的理想、愿望、欢乐、悲伤，通过岩画的形式表现出来。于是，在亘古不变的贺兰山上，写就了一部史前人类的“天书”。

单选题 他是个极其自负的怪人。除非事情与自己有关，否则他从来不屑对世界或世人瞧上一眼。对他来说，他不仅是世界上最重要的人物，而且在他眼里，他是惟一活在世界上的人。他认为自己是世界上最伟大的戏剧家之一、最伟大的思想家之一、最伟大的作曲家之一。听听他的谈话，仿佛他就是莎士比亚、柏拉图、贝多芬三人集于一身。想要听到他的高论十分容易，他是世上最能使人精疲力竭的健谈者之一。同他度过一个夜晚，就是听他一个人滔滔不绝地说上一晚。有时，他才华横溢；有时，他又令人极其厌烦。但无论是妙趣横生还是枯燥无味，他的谈话只有一个主题：他自己，他的所思所为。 他狂妄地认为自己总是正确的。任何人在最无足轻重的问题上露出丝毫的异议，都会激起他的谴责。他可能会一连好几个小时滔滔不绝，千方百计地证明自己如何如何正确。有了这种使人耗尽心力的雄辩本事，听者最后都被他弄得头昏脑涨，耳朵发聋，为了图个清净，只好同意他的说法。

单选题 ①上个月召开的中国共产党全国代表大会，明确提出中国将坚持和平发展道路，坚定不移在和平共处五项原则基础上发展同各国的友好合作，积极促进“一带一路”国际合作，继续参与全球治理体系改革和建设，推动建设相互尊重、公平正义、合作共赢的新型国际关系，推动构建人类命运共同体。②这可以从亚洲开始，从周边起步。③中国将按照亲诚惠容理念，继续奉行与邻为善、以邻为伴的周边外交政策，奉行互利共赢的开放战略，把自身发展同地区国家发展对接起来，把自身安全同地区国家安全融合起来。④中国的发展只会给东亚乃至世界发展繁荣带来机遇，不会对任何国家构成威胁。⑤中方愿与峰会各方齐心协力，维护地区和平发展合作的良好势头，积极推进东亚经济共同体建设，共同谱写东亚合作新篇章、开创东亚发展新愿景!

单选题Para.1Fromthefoyerofhissmallguesthousesome100feetfromtheshoreline,MohamedNizar,52,waswonderinghowlonghisbusinesscouldremainviable.Para.2Lastyear,duringanunusuallynastystorm,watersnakedthroughthenarrowstreetsofGuraidhoo,asmallislandintheMaldives,poolingaroundthefloorofthethree-roomhouseandchasingawayguests.Para.3①Downalongthebeach,thepicturewasevenworse.②Erosionoftheshorehasbecomesosevere,hesaid,thattheownerofaneighboringguesthousestakesplasticjerrycansinthesandtocurbfloodingduringseaswells.Para.4①'Whatisthelagoonnowusedtobethefootballfieldonthisisland,'Mr.Nizarsaidonarecentafternoon.②'Ihavetoleavethisguesthouseifitkeepseroding.③Iamsureofit.'Para.5GuesthouseshaveproliferatedacrossthisarchipelagointheIndianOcean,astheMaldivesshiftsawayfromcateringtotheandwelcomesbudget-conscioustravelers.Para.6Butunlikeresortislands,whichspendmillionsofdollarsonconstructingseawails,dredgingsandandhiringmarinebiologists,islandswithsmall-scaleguesthousesaremostlyreliantonthegovernmentforprotectionfromshoreerosionandrisingseas,whichmanyonGuraidhooattributetoclimatechange.Para.7①Residentssaythefundsforconservationprojectsareavailableintheformoftouristtaxes,paidthroughbusinessownerstothegovernment.②Theproblem,theysay,isthatitisunclearwherethemoneyisgoing—orwhetheritultimatelycansavetheworld'slowest-lyingcountry.Para.8'IftheMaldivesdon'texist,we'renotlosingjust400,000people,'saidMaeedMohamedZahir,thedirectorforadvocacyatEcocare,anenvironmentalorganizationbasedinMalé,thecapital.Para.9①'We'relosinganationality,anidentity,aculturalhistory,alanguage,ascript,'headded.②'We'relosingthebeaches.③We'relosingthecoconutpalms.④We'relosingeverything.'Para.10①Now,withguesthousesinjectingcashintolocaleconomiesandprovidinggreateremploymentopportunitiesoutsidetheresortindustry,manyhopethisnewrevenuegeneratorisheretostay.②Thatis,ofcourse,iftheislandsremainabovewater.Para.11①TohelpfundconservationandwastemanagementprojectsintheMaldives,thegovernmentpassedabilllevyinga'greentax'ontouristsvisitingresorts.②Foreverynightbooked,touristspay$6.③Lastyear,guesthouses,whichwereinitiallyexemptfromthepolicy,wereaddedtothelistofgreentaxpayingbusinessesatadiscountedrateof$3anight.Para.12①Guraidhoohasapermanentpopulationofaround1,900people,buthosts12guesthousesandanother1,000dayvisitors.②Butresidentssaythegovernmenthasyettostartworkontheirisland.Para.13①'Itisverysimple,'saidMohamedSolih,50,theownerofIthaaBeachInn.②'Thecowthatgivesmoremilkhastobefedmore.③Soislandsthatpaytourismtaxesshouldbeapriorityinshoreprotectioninitiativesbythegovernment.'Para.14①Askedhowgreentaxesarespent,theMinistryofEnvironmentdirectedquestionstothecountry'sEnvironmentalProtectionAgency,whichdirectedquestionstotheMinistryofFinance.②TheMinistryofFinancedeclinedtocommentdespiterepeatedquestions.③Areviewofthecountry'sbudgetproposaldidnotyieldinformationaboutwheregreentaxrevenueisallocated.

单选题 第一段 ①中国是世界上最大的发展中国家，美国是世界上最大的发达国家。②中美经贸关系既对两国意义重大，也对全球经济稳定和发展有着举足轻重的影响。 第二段 ③中美两国建交以来，双边经贸关系持续发展，利益交汇点不断增多，形成了紧密合作关系，不仅使两国共同获益，而且惠及全球。④特别是进入新世纪以来，在经济全球化快速发展过程中，中美两国遵循双边协定和世界贸易组织等多边规则，拓展深化经贸合作，基于比较优势和市场选择形成了结构高度互补、利益深度交融的互利共赢关系。⑤双方通过优势互补、互通有无，有力促进了各自经济发展和产业结构优化升级，同时提升了全球价值链效率与效益，降低了生产成本，丰富了商品种类，极大促进了两国企业和消费者利益。 第三段 ⑥中美两国经济发展阶段、经济制度不同，存在经贸摩擦是正常的。⑦双方为此付出了不懈努力，保障了中美经贸关系克服各种障碍，不断向前发展，成为中美关系的压舱石和推进器。

单选题 第一段 ①综合分析国内外形势，我国发展面临的机遇和挑战并存。②世界经济有望继续复苏，但不稳定不确定因素很多，主要经济体政策调整及其外溢效应带来变数，保护主义加剧，地缘政治风险上升。③我国经济正处在转变发展方式、优化经济结构、转换增长动力的攻关期，还有很多坡要爬、坎要过，需要应对可以预料和难以预料的风险挑战。 第二段 ④实践表明，中国的发展成就从来都是在攻坚克难中取得的。⑤当前我国物质技术基础更加雄厚，产业体系完备、市场规模巨大、人力资源丰富、创业创新活跃，综合优势明显，有能力有条件实现更高质量、更有效率、更加公平、更可持续的发展。

单选题 第一段 ①扎实推进区域协调发展战略。②完善区域发展政策，推进基本公共服务均等化，逐步缩小城乡区域发展差距，把各地比较优势和潜力充分发挥出来。 第二段 ③塑造区域发展新格局。④加强对革命老区、民族地区、边疆地区、贫困地区改革发展的支持。⑤以疏解北京非首都功能为重点推进京津冀协同发展，高起点规划、高标准建设雄安新区。⑥以生态优先、绿色发展为引领推进长江经济带发展。⑦出台实施粤港澳大湾区发展规划，全面推进内地同香港、澳门互利合作。③制定西部大开发新的指导意见，落实东北等老工业基地振兴举措，继续推动中部地区崛起，支持东部地区率先发展。⑨促进资源型地区经济转型。⑩壮大海洋经济，坚决维护国家海洋权益。

单选题 It was a dark and stormy evening, rapidly turning into the proverbial dark and stormy night, and I needed to find a place to stay. I was driving along an Austrian freeway, so I did what I've done on any number of previous occasions: I took the near exit and looked for a sign pointing to the nearest gasthof, or inn. The exit was Gleisdorf, between Graz and the Hungarian border. And off the highway, a couple of kilometers along the road, there it was, a sign at a lefthand turn, pointing up a narrow country road into the dark. The sign read 'Gasthof Gruber' — so of course I followed the indication. Fifteen minutes or so later, I found myself in the village of Markt, at a quaint-looking inn whose windows glowed invitingly and whose balconies were full of flowers. A smiling woman in a floor-length dirndl led me to a comfortable room, equipped with a television and private bath. I dropped my bags, went back downstairs, and settled into the dining room, which was heated by a big, old-fashioned tiled stove. Soon I was sipping a glass of sturm, a mildly alcoholic, fleshly fermented grape juice, and digging in to a bowl of delicious soup. The room, with a full breakfast, cost 30, or about $ 36, and my dinner, with wine, cost 10. One of the pleasures of driving in Austria is, in fact, stopping for the night. All parts of the country are studded with family-run country inns that, like the Gasthof Gruber, offer spotless, moderately priced rooms and good, sometimes excellent, food that often features specialties of the region. Room prices average ∈25 to ∈35 for a single. Some inns are clustered in towns or villages along main roadways. But many are deep in the countryside or in mountain hamlets reached by winding lanes. Standardized green signs bearing the name of a gasthof and the symbols of a bed and crossed knife and fork point the way at many intersections. In popular vacation areas, there may be half a dozen or more such signs stacked on one post or standing next to each other at a turn-off. In years of driving regularly in Austria, I have rarely booked a room in advance, trusting always that I will find a pleasant place to stay by following the signs. I've rarely been disappointed, and often my night in a gasthof has proved such an enjoyable oasis between bouts of long-distance driving that I found it difficult to leave in the morning and get back on the road.

单选题第一段①五年来，中国经济实力跃上新台阶。②国内生产总值从54万亿元增加到82.7万亿元，年均增长7.1%，占世界经济比重从11.4%提高到15%左右，对世界经济增长贡献率超过30%。③财政收入从11.7万亿元增加到17.3万亿元。④居民消费价格年均上涨1.9%，保持较低水平。⑤城镇新增就业6600万人以上，13亿多人口的大国实现了比较充分就业。第二段⑥经济结构出现重大变革。⑦消费贡献率由54.9%提高到58.8%，服务业比重从45.3%上升到51.6%，成为经济增长主动力。⑧高技术制造业年均增长117%。⑨粮食生产能力达到1.2万亿斤。⑩城镇化率从52.6%提高到58.5%，8,000多万农业转移人口成为城镇居民。第三段创新驱动发展成果丰硕。全社会研发投入年均增长11%，规模跃居世界第二位。科技进步贡献率由52.2%提高到57.5%。载人航天、深海探测、量子通信、大飞机等重大创新成果不断涌现。高铁网络、电子商务、移动支付、共享经济等引领世界潮流。“互联网+”广泛融入各行各业。大众创业、万众创新蓬勃发展，日均新设企业由5千多户增加到1万6千多户。快速崛起的新动能，正在重塑经济增长格局、深刻改变生产生活方式，成为中国创新发展的新标志。

单选题 Para. 1 Last spring, Bhairavi Desai, a middle-aged woman without a driver's license and thus an unlikely leader for thousands of mostly male drivers in the world's largest market for hired vehicles, delivered emotional testimony in front of New York City's Taxi Limousine Commission about the mounting existential difficulties in her field. Para. 2 The executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Ms. Desai had been a labor activist for 21 years but she had never seen anything like the despair she was witnessing now—the bankruptcies, foreclosures and eviction notices plaguing drivers who were calling her with questions about how to navigate homelessness and paralyzing depression. Para. 3 'Half my heart is just crushed,' she said, 'and the other half is on fire.' Para. 4 ①The economic hardship that Uber and its competitors had inflicted on conventional drivers in New York and London and other cities had become overwhelming. ②For decades there had been no more than 12,000 to 13,000 taxis in New York but now there were myriad new ways to avoid public transportation, in some cases with ride-hailing services like Via that charged little more than $5 to travel in Manhattan. Para. 5 ①While Uber has sold that 'disruption' as positive for riders, for many taxi workers, it has been devastating. ②The gross annual bookings of full-time yellow-taxi drivers in New York declined and their annual salary fell from $88,000 a year to just over $69,000. ③Medallions, which grant the right to operate a taxi in New York City, were now depreciating assets and drivers who had borrowed money to pay for them, once a sound investment strategy, were deeply in debt. ④Ms. Desai was routinely seeing grown men cry and she had become increasingly concerned about the possibility that they would begin taking their lives. Para. 6 For taxi drivers staring down an even bleaker future of driverless cars at a moment when Washington considers a weekly paycheck bump of $1.50 an occasion to break out the layer cake, it is hard to see where the metaphoric Prozac will come from. Para. 7 ①The problems facing the city's taxi drivers have become so bad, Ms. Desai said, that even on New Year's Eve many complained that they roamed around unable to pick up fares. ②At about that time she had received a call from a woman who runs a community radio station in the Bronx, with an audience made up mostly of Dominican livery drivers. ③Two drivers that the host knew of had killed themselves and other drivers were on the show talking about the isolation and fear they Saw all around them. Para. 8 ①Doug Schifter, a livery driver in his early 60s, killed himself with a shotgun in front of City Hall in Lower Manhattan. ②In the days preceding his death, Mr. Schifter wrote a lengthy Facebook post laying out the structural cruelties that had left him in such dire circumstance. ③He had lost his health insurance and accrued credit card debt and he would no longer work for 'chump change,' preferring, he stud, to die in the hope that his sacrifice would draw attention to what drivers, too often unable to feed their families now, were enduring.

单选题 Para. 1 Civil rights advocates say the arrest of a Coast Guard lieutenant charged with planning a massive domestic terrorist attack show the military has allowed a problem with white nationalism in the ranks to fester while it focused on aggressively vetting immigrants. Para. 2 Branches of the U.S. military have boosted background checks on immigrant recruits since last year, changing the naturalization process, adding extra security screenings and discharging hundreds who had been recruited specifically for valuable foreign language and medical skills. Para. 3 At the same time, advocates charge that military officials have failed to take effective action to root out enlistees who support white nationalism and white supremacy, pointing to the case of Christopher Paul Hasson, who was arrested last Friday, as a notable example. Para. 4 ①'[The vetting] is not happening to native-born Americans at all,' said retired Army Reserve Lt. Col. Margaret Stock, who has fought for the rights of immigrant enlistees in court. ②'That's one of the reasons why they're having such a huge problem right now with white supremacists in the military. ③That's actually the big security threat right now.' Para. 5 ①A survey by the Military Times found that nearly one in four U.S. troops said they had seen white nationalism among military members. ②Thirty percent of respondents also said that white nationalists posed a significant threat to national security. Para. 6 But the military's most recent focus has been on toughening standards for immigrants who want to enlist. Para. 7 ①The U.S. Army discharged more than 500 immigrant enlistees last year, the Associated Press reported in October, after those immigrants were recruited for their skills and promised a path to citizenship. ②These immigrants entered the Army under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program, which started a decade ago to bring in people who had vital language and medical skills. Para. 8 ①The Washington Post reported last month that the Defense Department is working on a plan to examine military recruits with foreign ties, including some U.S. citizens. ②And multiple reports have documented the way that the Pentagon's vetting system for MAVNI recruits now can flag activities. Para. 9 ①The Pentagon has pushed back on complaints about how it has handled MAVNI recruits, saying the system is working normally. ②A Pentagon spokeswoman said that long wait times for background investigations can happen because MAVNI recruits omen come from countries with lots of terrorist activity and poor government records. Para. 10 Some members of the military and veterans have spoken out against the crackdown on immigrants. Para. 11 ①'The leadership at the Pentagon is sending a terrible message that the U.S. military does not welcome anybody who has connections to foreign countries, which is totally counterproductive,' Stock said. ②'We need people in the military who speak foreign languages, who understand foreign cultures, who come from foreign cultures. ③It's been a long tradition that those folks serve and we can't deploy globally without them.' Para. 12 She argued that the stricter scrutiny of immigrants may even be contributing to the problem of white nationalism. Para. 13 'Immigrants are 13.5% of the population so if you're going to make them unwelcome in the military, you're going to have problems recruiting people and you're going to have to take native born Americans who are not qualified,' she said.

单选题 Para. 1 Eight Egyptian museum officials are to face a disciplinary tribun al for their role in a botched repair job that caused lasting damage to the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamen, one of the country's most prized artifacts, the country's administrative prosecutor has said. Para. 2 The judicial action is the latest step in an embarrassing saga at the state-run Egyptian Museum in Cairo where workers accidentally knocked the beard from the 3,300-year-old artifact as they repaired a light fixture in its display case, and then made things worse by trying to glue it back on. Para. 3 ①Tourists took photos of museum employees as they reattached the blue-and-gold beard using an insoluble epoxy resin that left a visible ring of glue around the edge of the beard. ②Fears that the damage was irreversible proved unfounded, however, after German experts carefully removed the epoxy and restored the solid gold mask using beeswax, the adhesive used by the ancient Egyptians. Para. 4 ①The mask was returned to public display last month, albeit with some fine scratches caused by improvised earlier attempts to remove the glue stains using a sharp object. ②In a statement, the administrative prosecution authority, which investigates legal violations involving public servants, accused eight officials, including a former director of the museum and a former head of restoration, of 'gross negligence and blatant violation of scientific and professional rules.' Para. 5 'In an attempt to cover up the damage they inflicted, they used sharp instruments such as scalpels and metal tools to remove traces of the glue on the mask, causing damage and scratches that remain,' the statement said. Para. 6 The accused officials have been suspended from their jobs and now face possible dismissal and heavy fines, but they will not go to prison. Para. 7 ①The scratches to the mask will not be visible to most visitors, according to Monica Hanna, an archaeologist and a member of Egypt's Heritage Task Force, an initiative to protect the nation's cultural heritage. ②Ms. Hanna blamed the debacle on declining standards at the 104-year-old museum, which is home to the world's largest collection of mummies and other Pharaonic antiquities but has become increasingly neglected in recent years. Para. 8 ①'There's been a shift in the people working there,' she said. ②'The experienced people have retired and the new ones do not have adequate training.' Para. 9 Ms. Hanna said part of the collection was set to be shifted to two new museums in the coming years—the Grand Egyptian Museum, an $800 million project under construction near the Giza pyramids, and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization，which has been completed but is yet to open to the public. Para. 10 ①The mask of Tutankhamen, an enigmatic young king, was discovered by the British archaeologist Howard Carter at the Valley of the Kings in 1922. ②It set off a global fascination with Egyptology that became a cornerstone of Egypt's tourism industry. Para. 11 ①That industry has suffered badly in recent years. ②In recent months, though, Tutankhamen became the focus of renewed interest after the British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves promoted a tantalizing theory that behind his burial chamber lies the long-sought tomb of Queen Nefertiti.

单选题 Para. 1 Mexico City's Roma has long been a place of secrets and spells, where the boundary between real and imaginary dances like clothes fluttering in the breeze on the barrio's rooftop washing-lines. Para. 2 ①Those celestial laundries feature in Roma, Alfonso Cuarón's cinematic memoir, a movie that transports its viewers to the then-faded district a couple of miles to the west of the ancient centre of the vast sprawl that is Mexico City. ②It has already won four Baftas and received a rapturous 10 nominations for this year's Oscars, including for best director and best film. Para. 3 ①Roma has a grand hinterland, as its ornate, fin de siècle mansions, with their shuttered French windows and intricate balconies, suggest. ②Some of them have been redeveloped, of which the best-known is Casa Lamm, now an upmarket arts centre-cum-restaurant-cum-bookshop. ③The area's heyday was in the first half of the 20th century, when it became the desirable neighbourhood for wealthy Europeans; by the time Leonora and her fellow émigré artists arrived, refugees from the second world war, it was beginning to fade. Para. 4 ①That continued through Cuarón's childhood; perhaps the director's decision to shoot his movie in black and white reflects it. ②But the spacious houses were there, as Roma's lingering shots depict: open-plan living rooms, internal courtyards, Bauhaus-style windows, open-air iron staircases leading to the rooftop laundries. ③Leonora's house is five minutes' walk from Cuarón's; the movie was shot on the street where he grew up, Tepeji, in the house opposite his family's own. Para. 5 ①The biggest blow to Roma's fortunes came suddenly and without warning, 15 years or so after the year in which the film is set. ②An 8.1-magnitude earthquake devastated the city, killing 5,000, and Roma was one of the barrios that was hardest-hit. ③The disaster's legacy remains: the churned-up, uneven pavements on some side roads; the occasional still-ruined building, usually housing stray cats. ④The area's rehabilitation was slow, and in some ways it continues, but the run-down ambience led to cheap rents and a way of life that was affordable for a new generation of artists, and their influence has helped shape its current air of bohemianism. Para. 6 ①Roma's cafés and bars are lively places. ②The most popular ones include Buna Café, great for people-watching; Borola Café with its airy interior and wide range of delicious coffees; and the tiny roadside shacks, where you can buy a beverage to go or linger in the sunshine, drinking it all in. Para. 7 ①Roma is the area's stylish eclecticism that gives it the edge. ②It seems to have taken the essence of this complicated, busy, gritty, art-fixated, colourful, musical city and made it its own: but it's not touristy like Coyoacán, where Frida Kahlo lived, or high-rise like Polanco, where American business people flock. ③It's not expensive like ultra-fashionable Condesa, or crowded like the Zócalo, the city's historic heart. ④And it's a proper neighbourhood, where frequent visitors know the bartenders and the baristas, the porters in the hotel hallway and the friendly staff in the local launderette.

单选题 For all the natural and man-made disasters of the past year, travelers seem more determined than ever to leave home. Never mind the tsunami devastation in Asia last December, the recent earthquake in Kashmir or the suicide bombings this year in London and Bali, among other places on or off the tourist trail. The number of leisure travelers visiting tourist destinations hit by trouble has in some cases bounced back to a level higher than before disaster struck. 'This new fast recovery of tourism we are observing is kind of strange,' said John Koldowski, director for the Strategic Intelligence Center of the Bangkok-based Pacific Asia Travel Association. 'It makes you think about the adage that any publicity is good publicity.' It is still too soon to compile year-on-year statistics for the disasters of the past 12 months, but travel industry experts say that the broad trends are already clear. Leisure travel is expected to increase by nearly 5 percent this year, according to the World Tourism and Travel Council. 'Tourism and travel now seem to bounce back faster and higher each time there is an event of this sort,' said Ufi lbrahim, vice president of the London-based World Tourism and Travel Council. For London, where suicide bombers killed 56 and wounded 700 on July 8, she said, 'It was almost as if people who stayed away after the bomb attack then decided to come back twice.' Early indicators show that the same holds true for other disaster-struck destinations. Statistics compiled by the Pacific Asia Travel Association, for example, show that monthly visitor arrivals in Sri Lanka, where the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami left more than 30,000 people dead or missing, were higher than one year earlier for every month from March through August of this year. A case commonly cited by travel professionals as an early example of the trend is Bali, where 202 people were killed in bombings targeting Western tourists in October 2002. Visitor arrivals plunged to 993,000 for the year after the bombing, but bounced back to 1.46 million in 2004, a level higher than the two years before the bomb, according to the Pacific Asia Travel Association. Even among Australians, who suffered the worst casualties in the Bali bombings, the number of Bali-bound visitors bounced back within two years to the highest level since 1998, according to the Pacific Asia Travel Association. Bali was hit again this year by suicide bombers who killed 19 people in explosions at three restaurants. Visits are also on the upswing to post-tsunami Thailand, where the giant waves killed 5,400 and left more than 5,000 missing. Although the tsunami killed more than 500 Swedes on the Thai resort island of Phuket, the largest number of any foreign nationality to die, Swedes are returning to the island in larger numbers than last year, according to My Travel Sweden, a Stockholm-based group that sends 600,000 tourists overseas annually and claims a 28 percent market share for Sweden. 'We were confident that Thailand would eventually bounce back as a destination, but we didn't think that this year it would come back even stronger than last year,' said Joakim Eriksson, director of communication for My Travel Sweden. 'We were very surprised because we really expected a significant decline.' Eriksson said My Travel now expects a 5 percent increase in visitors to both Thailand and Sri Lanka this season compared with the same season last year. This behavior is a sharp change from the patterns of the 1990s, Eriksson said. 'During the first Gulf war we saw a sharp drop in travel as a whole, and the same after Sept. 11,' Eriksson said. 'Now the main impact of terrorism or disasters is a change in destination.'

单选题 The archivists requested a donkey, but what they got from the mayor's office were four wary black sheep, which, as of Wednesday morning, were chewing away at a lumpy field of grass beside the municipal archives building as the City of Paris's newest, shaggiest lawn mowers. Mayor Bertrand Delanoë has made the environment a priority since his election in 2001, with popular bike- and car-sharing programs, an expanded network of designated lanes for bicycles and buses, and an enormous project to pedestrianize the banks along much of the Seine. The sheep, which are to mow (and, not inconsequentially, fertilize) an airy half-acre patch in the 19th District intended in the same spirit. City Hall refers to the project as 'eco-grazing,' and it notes that the four ewes will prevent the use of noisy, gas-guzzling mowers and cut down on the use of herbicides. Paris has plans for a slightly larger eco-grazing project not far from the archives building, assuming all goes well; similar projects have been under way in smaller towns in the region in recent years. The sheep, from a rare, diminutive Breton breed called Ouessant, stand just about two feet high. Chosen for their hardiness, city officials said, they will pasture here until October inside a three-foot-high, yellow electrified fence. 'This is really not a one-shot deal,' insisted René Dutrey, the adjunct mayor for the environment and sustainable development. Mr. Dutrey, a fast-talking man in orange-striped Adidas Samba sneakers, noted that the sheep had cost the city a total of just about $335, though no further economic projections have been drawn up for the time being. A metal fence surrounds the grounds of the archives, and a security guard stands watch at the gate, so there is little risk that local predators—large, unleashed dogs, for instance—will be able to reach the ewes. Curious humans, however, are encouraged to visit the sheep, and perhaps the archives, too. The eco-grazing project began as an initiative to attract the public to the archives, and informational panels have been put in place to explain what, exactly, the sheep are doing here. But the archivists have had to be trained to care for the animals. In the unlikely event that a ewe should flip onto her back, Ms. Masson said, someone must rush to put her back on her feet.

单选题 第一段 ①早在两千多年前，亚欧大陆的两端就开启了对话，丝绸之路也由此肇始。②中国秦汉时期，古丝绸之路已形成并逐步发展，到隋唐时期，进入最繁荣的阶段。③唐宋时期，凭借先进的航海技术，我们的祖先成功开辟了通往西方的海上丝绸之路。 第二段 ④沿途各国互通有无，商贸兴盛，文明融合，呈现祥和繁荣景象。⑤历史深刻启迪我们，以和平合作、开放包容、互学互鉴、互利共赢为特征的丝绸之路精神，值得今人继承和弘扬。 第三段 ⑥推进“一带一路”建设，是共同应对风险，促进全球经济复苏的时代要求。⑦发展是世界面临的重大问题。⑧当前，国际金融危机的阴云远未消散，世界经济也复苏乏力。⑨面对防风险促复苏的艰巨任务，各国需要精诚合作，发挥协同效应。⑩“一带一路”建设将促进中国与沿线国家的贸易投资，促进沿线国家的互联互通与新型工业化，促进各国共同发展，让发展成果实实在在地惠及沿线各国人民，为世界经济加快复苏增加正能量、增添新活力。

单选题 In 2009, Time magazine hailed School of One, an online math program piloted at three New York City public schools, as one of the year's 50 best innovations. Each day, School of One software generated individualized math 'play lists' for students who then chose the 'modality' in which they wished to learn — software, a virtual teacher or a flesh-and-blood one. A different algorithm sorted teachers' specialties and schedules to match a student's needs. 'It generates the lessons, the tests and it grades the tests,' one veteran instructor marveled. It saved salaries, too, thereby 'teacher proofing'(as policy wonks say) education in a few clicks. Although School of One made only modest improvements in students' math scores and was adopted by only a handful of New York schools (not the 50 for which it was slated), it serves as a notable example of a pattern that Andrea Ga bor, who holds the Bloom berg chair of business journalism at Baruch College/CUNY, charts in 'After the Education Wars.' For more than three decades, an unlikely coalition of corporate philanthropists, educational technology entrepreneurs and public education bureaucrats has spearheaded a brand of school reform characterized by the overvaluing of technology and standardized testing and a devaluing of teachers and communities. The trend can be traced back to a hyperbolic 1983 report, 'A Nation at Risk,' issued by President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education. Against the backdrop of an ascendant Japanese economy and consistent with President Reagan's disdain for public education (and teachers' unions), 'A Nation at Risk' blamed America's ineffectual schools for a 'rising tide of mediocrity' that was diminishing America's global role in a new high-tech world. Policymakers turned their focus to public education as a matter of national security, one too important (and potentially too profitable) to entrust to educators. The notion that top-down decisions by politicians, not teachers, should determine what children need was a thread running through the bipartisan 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, the Obama administration's Race to the Top and state-initiated Common Core standards, and the current charter-driven agenda of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. 'Accountability' became synonymous with standardized tests, resulting in a testing juggernaut with large profits going to commercial publishing giants like Pearson. The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers, over 17 percent of whom drop out within their first five years. No one believes that teaching to the test is good pedagogy, but what are the options when students' future educational choices, teachers' salaries and retention and, in some states, the fate of entire schools rest on student test scores? In meticulous if sometimes too laborious detail, Gabor documents reform's institutional failings. She describes the sorry turns in New York City's testing-obsessed policies, the undermining of Michigan's once fine public schools (spurred in part by constant pressure from the DeVos family) and the heartbreaking failure of New Orleans to remake its schools after Hurricane Katrina. The largely white city establishment bypassed the majority-black community, inviting philanthropists and the federal government to rebuild its public schools as the nation's first citywide, all-charter system. A dozen years later, more than a third of the city's charter schools have failed.

单选题 第一段 ①坚持以供给侧结构性改革为主线，着力培育壮大新动能，经济结构加快优化升级。②紧紧依靠改革破解经济发展和结构失衡难题，大力发展新兴产业，改造提升传统产业，提高供给体系质量和效率。 第二段 ③高速铁路运营里程从9,000多公里增加到2万5千公里、占世界三分之二，高速公路里程从9.6万公里增加到13.6万公里，新建改建农村公路127万公里，新建民航机场46个，开工重大水利工程122项，完成新一轮农村电网改造，建成全球最大的移动宽带网。④五年来，发展新动能迅速壮大，经济增长实现由主要依靠投资、出口拉动转向依靠消费、投资、出口协同拉动，由主要依靠第二产业带动转向依靠三次产业共同带动。⑤这是我们多年想实现而没有实现的重大结构性变革。第三段 ⑥推进供给侧结构性改革，必须破除要素市场化配置障碍，降低制度性交易成本。⑦针对长期存在的重审批、轻监管、弱服务问题，我们持续深化“放管服”改革，加快转变政府职能，减少微观管理、直接干预，注重加强宏观调控、市场监管和公共服务。