单选题The children made so much ______ that Mrs. Green had to spend three days cleaning up afterwards.

单选题Some children display an unacceptable curiosity about every new thing they encounter.

单选题Fruits are loaded with ______, vitamins and other nutrients, which can help to prevent genetic damage that can lead to the development of cancer.

单选题 New tectmology links the world as never before. {{U}}Our planet has shrunk{{/U}}. It's now a "global village" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly enhanced by foreign language skills. Deeply involved with this new technology is a breed of modem business people who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modem markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts. Overseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive ranks. The executives stationed in another country no longer need fear being "{{U}}out of sight and out of mind{{/U}}." He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company's plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to cope back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more prevalent. Thanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets. English is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn't generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the {{U}}edge{{/U}} when other qualifications appear to be equal. The employee posted abroad who speaks the country's principal language has an opportunity to fast forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to {{U}}move{{/U}} more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign clients over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.

单选题According to the passage, "No Child Left Behind (NCLB)" was most possibly a new ______.

单选题Walking through my train yesterday, staggering from my seat to the buffet and back, I counted five people reading Harry Potter novels. Not children-these were real grown-ups reading children's books, Maybe that would have been understandable. If these people had jumped whole-heartedly into a second childhood it would have made more sense. But they were card-carrying grown-ups with laptops and spreadsheets returning from sales meetings and seminars. Yet they chose to read a children's book. I don't imagine you'll find this headcount exceptional. You can no longer get on the London Tube and not see a Harry Potter book. Nor is it just the film; these throwback readers were out there in droves long before the movie campaign opened. So who are these adult readers who have made JK Rowling the second-biggest female earner in Britain (after Madonna)? As I have tramped along streets knee-deep in Harry Potter paperbacks, I've mentally slotted them into three groups. First come the Never-Readers, whom Harry has enticed into opening a book. Is this a bad thing? Probably not. Writing has many advantages over film, but it can never compete with its magnetic punch. If these books can re-establish the novel as a thrilling experience for some people, then this can only be for the better. If it takes obsession-level hype to lure them into a bookshop. that's fine by me. But will they go on to read anything else? Again, we can only hope. The second group are the Occasional Readers. These people claim that tiredness, work and children allow them to read only a few books a year. Yet now—to be part of the crowd, to say they've read it—they put Harry Potter on their oh-so-select reading list. It's infuriating, and maddening. Yes, I'm a writer myself, currently writing difficult, unreadable, hopefully unsettling novels, but there are so many other good books out there, so much rewarding, enlightening, enlarging works of fiction for adults; and yet these sad cases are swept along by the hype, the faddism, into reading a children's book. The third group are the Regular Readers, for whom Harry is sandwiched between McEwan (英国当代作家) and Balzac, Roth (德国现代诗人) and Dickens. This is the real baffler—what on earth do they get out of reading it? Why bother? But if they call rattle through it in a week just to say they ve been there—like going to Longleat (朗利特山庄英国名胜) or the Eiffel Tower—the worst they're doing is encouraging others.

单选题In a negotiation, if neither side is ready to ______ what is necessary for peace, hostility will be resumed.

单选题In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an Uimpressive/U growth in our knowledge about the environments.

单选题When the plane was flying up to the normal height, ______ and immediately the pilot had to fly it back to the airport. A. somewhere was on the blinks B. somewhere had a strange noise C. something became abnormal D. something was on edge

单选题A professor of economic and history at Atlanta University, W．E．B．Du Bois, promoted full racial equality. A. economy B. economics C. economical D. economic

单选题Japan and the newly industrialized countries are passing labor-intensive sects as garment-making over to less developed nations and moving into advanced technology and services.

单选题Nearly everyone in Britain would like to own their own home and, whether they do or not, they are prepared to put time and money into decorating and furnishing it or even to making structural change to it.

单选题Following the new discovery, the scientists had finally precluded the doubts on the validity of the theory. A. cleared up B. fired away C. put aside D. put together

单选题I don't know if the story is true, but I'll try to ______ it. A. verify B. reinforce C. identify D. confirm

单选题No matter how hard you try, you can find no {{U}}parallel{{/U}} existing between them.

单选题You might include a couple of heady growth stocks ______ with your more pedestrian investments. A. apart B. beside C. as well as D. side by side

完形填空The worlds greatest snow-capped peaks， which run in, a chain from the Himalayas to the Tianshan Mountains on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows

完形填空There is a myth out there that too many people believe: that when we reach a certain age, we can no longer be happy, independent and productive members of society

完形填空Thirty years ago, when Christian Boer was first learning how to read while growing up in the Netherlands，he made a lot of mistakes

完形填空Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of the advertising conglomerate WPP, was at Kensington Wade, Britains first primary school to offer full Chinese immersion for its pupils, on a recent evening, for a reception to celebrate the Chinese mid-autumn festival