单选题This was once a very prosperous part of the city, but now many of the businesses have moved away or gone ______.

单选题Look at the ten statements for this part. You will hear a passage about "Great Transformation ". You will listen to it twice. Decide whether you think each statement is right(R), wrong(W)or not mentioned(NM). Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.

单选题A seminar was attended by 26 men, nearly all of them in identical dark suits.

单选题The speaker addressed the audience on the subject of war and peace.

单选题He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.

单选题The situation allows of no delay.

单选题That factory ______ 500 cars that year.

单选题A well-written composition calls for good choice of words and clear organization among other things.

单选题chop

单选题In verbal communication, half of the

单选题All students must bear in mind that these books must be read by mid-semester.

单选题She has become an invaluable asset to the manager.

单选题clinic

单选题Foreign visitors to England often ask people for 1 for a good restaurant, but when their hosts suggest 2 , it is usually Italian or French or Indian — in short, anything 3 "But I mean a 4 English restaurant," they say so as not to disappoint them. The truth is that English people 5 their own cooking at home, but they are ashamed 6 it in public. Even the experts who write articles on food 7 to use the French word "cuisine", which suggests that "cooking" is 8 . In fact, English cooking is not nearly so 9 as people think. The trouble with it, in my opinion, is that the most appetizing typical dishes do not go with wine. At home, English people usually drink either water 10 beer or even tea with their 11 ; in restaurants they sometimes think they had 12 order wine for the 13 of appearance. At 14 a number of exclusive restaurants in Britain are 15 to develop a "national cuisine", But their main criterion in doing so appears to search 16 recipes in ancient cookery books and give the result names like "Mutton Winchester" — it is amazing how snobbery survives in the imitation of the French name, with the adjective after the noun. Why couldn"t have called it "Winchester Mutton"? Nevertheless, there are restaurants in London 17 you can have regional working-class specialties. Personally I would rather 18 the two extremes and go to a pub. Most pubs 19 food that goes well with beer and, English beer being what it is, who could ask 20 anything better?

单选题Communication is one of the most important bonds that hold cultural systems together.

单选题She promised to pay back the money in time, and I hope she keeps her ______.

单选题His behavior sometimes borders on madness.

单选题An accident happened at ______. crossroads a few meters away from ______bank. [A] a; a [B] /; a [C] /; the [D] the; /

单选题Every year the villagers put on their best clothes in the May festival.

单选题Bank of America, holding company for the San Francisco-based Bank of America, was once unchallenged as the nation's biggest banking organization. At its peak, it had more branches in California — 1,100 — than the US Postal Service. It was also a highly profitable enterprise. But since 1980, Bank of America's earnings have been down or flat. From March 1985 to March 1986, for example, earnings per share dropped 50. 8 percent. Samuel H. Armacost, president and CEO, has confessed that he doesn't expect a turnaround soon. Some of Bank of America's old magic seems to have rubbed off on New York's Citibank, perennial rival for top banking honors. Thanks to aggressive growth policies, Citicorp's assets topped Bank of America's for the first time in 1983 and by a healthy margin. Citibank has also been generating profits at a fast clip, enabling it to spend lavishly on campaigns to enter new markets — notably Bank of America's turf in California. The bad times Bank of America is currently facing are partly the result of the good times the bank enjoyed earlier. Based in a large and populous state and operating in a regulated environment, Bank of America thrived. Before deregulation, banks could not compete by offering savers a higher return, so they competed with convenience. With a branch at every crossroads, Bank of America was able to attract 40 percent of the California deposit market — a source of high earnings when the legal maximum payable to depositors was much lower than the interest on loans. The progressive deregulation of banking forced Bank of America to fight for its customers by offering them competitive rates. But how could this mammoth bureaucracy, with its expensive overhead, offer rates as attractive as its loaner competitors? Pruning the establishment was foremost in the minds of Bank of America policymakers. But cutbacks have proceeded slowly. Although the bank is planning to consolidate by offering full services only in key branches, so far only about 40 branches have been closed. Cutbacks through attrition have reduced the work force from 83,000 to fewer than 73,000; wholesale layoffs, it seems, would not fit the tradition of the organization. And they would intensify the morale problems that already threaten the institution.