单选题I don"t know whether what she said is true, but I"ll try to confirm it.

单选题We take our skin for granted until it is burned ______ repair.

单选题He looked rather ______ when the professor asked him a question which he didn"t know how to answer.

单选题We started out earlier and arrived an hour ahead of schedule.

单选题accuracy

单选题He is junior to me, though he"s older.

单选题Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D. Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family. Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended when she slept. The father and his sister, Chris's Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced argument over nothing. The continuous exchange further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an endurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago lift them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University. Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement. A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. With this ambition in mind, she throws herself into a venture with noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long stored mattress, pillows and bed linen aired in the sun. The huge ketch was attacked. Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took a copy of modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, home atmosphere in a historic mansion, and the company of we-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank-clerk and the other a maiden employed in the bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show their rooms, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room's gloomy vastness. When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pitchers and no towels in their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baildon were not inn keepers, and they treated them to an account of the family's past glories.

单选题Questions 14-22 ·Look at the ten statements for this part. ·You will hear apassage about "Credit Cards History ". You will listen to it twice. ·Decide whetheryou think each statement is right(R), wrong(W) or not mentioned(NM). ·Markyour answers on the Answer Sheet.

单选题acquire

单选题Reebok executives do not like to hear their stylish athletic shoes called "footwear for yuppies". They contend that Reebok shoes appeal to diverse market segments, especially now that the company offers basketball and children's shoes for the under-18 set and walking shoes for older customers not interested in aerobics or running. The executives also point out that through recent acquisitions they have added hiking boots, dress and casual shoes, and high-performance athletic footwear to their product lines, all of which should attract new and varied groups of customers. Still, despite its emphasis on new markets, Reebok plans few changes in the up-market retailing network that helped push sales to $1 billion annually, ahead of all other sports shoes marketers. Reebok shoes, which are priced from $27 to $85, will continue to be sold only in better specialty, sporting goods, and department stores, in accordance with the company's view that consumers judge the quality of the brand by the quality of its distribution. In the past few years, the Massachusetts-based company has imposed limits on the number of its distributors(and the number of shoes supplied to stores), partly out of necessity. At times, the unexpected demand for Reebok's exceeded supply, and the company could barely keep up with orders from the dealers it already had. These fulfillment problems seem to be under control now, but the company is still selective about its distributors. At present, Reebok shoes are available in about five thousand retail stores in the United States. Reebok has already anticipated that walking shoes will be the next fitness-related craze, replacing aerobics shoes the same way its brightly colored, soft leather exercise footwear replaced conventional running shoes. Through product diversification and careful market research, Reebok hopes to avoid the distribution problems Nike came across several years ago, when Nike misjudged the strength of the aerobics shoes craze and was forced to unload huge inventories of running shoes through discount stores.

单选题______ these wide modem roads are generally smooth and well maintained, direct route is not always the most enjoyable one.

单选题______ your timely advice, I would never have known how to go about the work.

单选题butter

单选题He wasn"t appointed chairman of the committee, ______ not very popular with all its members.

单选题Traditional marriage in Britain is currently in a disturbance. Not only is the divorce rate rising, 1 the rate at which people marry is falling. Living together is more popular than 2 before. The shape of the family is now no longer one man, one woman and their children. Instead, there are 3 numbers of families which include step-parents, half sisters and brothers, or merely one lonely parent coping 4 her own. 5 other countries, Britain is still conservative in its marriage patterns. In America, the divorce rate is even more shocking. Two out of five marriages 6 divorce. In Sweden living together is now more popular than marriage among couples in their early twenties and a similar 7 seems to be emerging in Denmark. Although this is happening on a smaller 8 in Britain, it has not yet become such a marked trend. But 9 we do follow the American and Scandinavian patterns, the future will see many more couples living together before marriage — and 10 more divorce. Interestingly enough, it is women 11 men who get a divorce in the courts. Seven out of ten divorces are 12 to the wife. Divorce, of course, only reflects the 13 winding up of a marriage which may have 14 broken up long before. The partner who asks for divorce may not be the partner who 15 the marriage. Women usually have more to gain from the courts in the way of money, rights 16 the home, and child maintenance. 17 there is also a certain unequal proportion in one of the grounds that the sexes choose for divorce. The grounds 18 unreasonable or cruel behaviour are overwhelming, chosen by ten 19 more women than men. Does this mean that women will 20 less than they used to?

单选题The lay-off of Tom is owing to his constant carelessness in the work.

单选题Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space. For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet. Nuclear Age The Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey opened when the Beatles were still together, and since 1969 its single 645-MW boiling-water reactor has provided enough energy to power 600,000 homes annually. But the oldest nuclear plant in the U.S. will be retired a little【C1】______Last year its owner, Exelon. announced that it would【C2】______Oyster Creek in 2019, 10 years ahead of schedule. The reason: the【C3】______plant costs too much to keep running【C4】______. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has focused new attention on the【C5】______future of the American atomic sector. But the U.S. nuclear industry was already facing a very【C6】______problem: its aging fleet of reactors. Nuclear plants were built with 40-year licenses that can theoretically be【C7】______to 60 or even 80 years. Half the country's 104 reactors are more than 30 years old and【C8】______middle age. So far, 62 plants have been【C9】______20-year extensions, and 20 more have applications pending.【C10】______like the one in Fukushima, the oldest plants in the U.S.【C11】______to have fewer safety measures. If regulators crack down, operators could【C12】______-as Exelon did with Oyster Creek—that upgrading is not worth the【C13】______and shut down the plants If no new nuclear plants are built to【C14】______them, nuclear could fade into obsolescence. Ironically, that could have【C15】______environmental effects. A report by the Breakthrough Institute, an energy think tank, found that replacing all U.S. nuclear【C16】______a mix of coal and gas would raise carbon【C17】______9% by 2030. "We need to understand that there would be【C18】______to pulling back on nuclear," says Michael Levi, a senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations.【C19】______a great athlete, nuclear power may be【C20】______after it retires.

单选题An agreement between countries to further their mutual aims is known as an alliance.

单选题Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space. Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any【C1】______know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid of goods at reasonable prices,【C2】______establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide【C3】______export at competitive prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it【C4】______an increasing need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services:【C5】______advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 percent more. And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy【C6】______the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live【C7】______the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little【C8】______through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good【C9】______not to buy the inferior article more than once. If you see an article【C10】______advertised, it is the surest proof. I know that the article does what is【C11】______for it, and that it represents good value. Advertising does more for the【C12】______benefit of the community than any other force I can think of. There is one more point I feel I ought to【C13】______on. Recently I heard a well-known television personality【C14】______that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was drawing【C15】______fine distinctions. Of course advertising【C16】______to persuade. If its message were【C17】______merely to information — and that in itself【C18】______difficult if not impossible to achieve,【C19】______even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasive — advertising would be so boring【C20】______no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that is what the well-known television personality wants.

单选题Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-1980, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time? The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term. Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past. Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultation and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP(in constant prices)rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0. 25%- 0. 5% of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies — to which heavy industry has shifted — have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed. One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist's commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.