填空题6. The novel represents the ______ of two generations. (collide)

填空题14. He attended his friend a ______ service. (bury)

填空题5. Some criminal courts have overcrowded schedules and ______ of cases. (accumulate)

填空题1. Many import or export deals are arranged through an exporter's agent or ______ abroad. (distribute)

填空题10. The ______ way is to grant them a two-week stay of execution. (alternate)

填空题9. It was difficult to decide which side was guilty of ______. (aggressive)

填空题18. We need hire a ______ to develop a new computer system. (consult)

填空题16. He now has ______ over the people he used to take orders from. (authorize)

单选题For much of the past decade, American and British scientists have been annoyed by the phenomenon known as the French Paradox. Nutritionally speaking, the French have been getting away with murder: they eat all the butter, cream, foie gras, pastry and cheese that their hearts desire, and yet their rates of obesity and heart disease are much lower than ours. The French eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do, and only a third as many die of heart attacks. It's maddening. Baffled, scientists struggled to come up with a few hypotheses: maybe it was something in the red wine, they said. But while winemakers worldwide celebrated that news, more sober research has suggested that any alcohol — whether Lafite Rothschild, a banana daiquiri or a cold Bud — pretty much has the same nice, relaxing effect. So while a little wine is apt to do you good, the French aren't so special in having a drink now and then(though the fact that they drink wine moderately and slowly with meals, instead of downing shots at the bar, could make a difference). After the wine argument, scientists ventured that it must be the olive oil that keeps the French healthy. But this doesn't explain the butter or brie. Then, voila, French scientist Serge Renaud(made famous on "60 Minutes" as an expert on the French Paradox)said it's the foie gras that melts away cholesterol. This, too, is dicey: while people in Toulouse — the fattened force-fed duck-liver-eating area of France-do indeed have one of the lowest rates of heart disease in the developed world, they actually only eat the delicacy about six times a year. And they're a lot more likely to die of stroke than we are anyway. Other researchers, perhaps sponsored by the garlic and onion industry, suggested that the French Paradox effect is due to garlic and onions. Claude Fischler, a nutritional sociologist at INSERM, the French equivalent of America's National Institutes of Health, says all these single hypotheses are more wishful thinking than science. Last May, researchers writing in the British Medical Journal came up with the least cheerful hypothesis of all. They argued that it's just a matter of time before the French — who are in fact eating more hamburgers and French fries these days — catch up with Americans, and begin suffering the same high rates of cardiovascular disease. These researchers, Malcolm Law and Nicholas Wald, call this the " time lag explanation" for the French Paradox. As far as they are concerned, the McDonaldization(this is a French catch — all term for the importation of fast food and other American cultural horrors)of France will continue at a frantic pace, and it is as inevitable that Frenchmen will start keeling over of heart attacks as it is that Frenchwomen will eventually wear jean shorts and marshmallow tennis shoes on the streets of Paris.

单选题The music aroused an intense feeling of homesickness in me.

单选题bucket

单选题When you go to a foreign country, you must adapt yourself to new manners and customs.

单选题Music theory ______ the same relation to actual music as linguistics does to language.

单选题My father approves of my trying to earn some money during summer holidays.

单选题We cannot judge a person simply on the ______ of his education.

单选题damp

单选题Read the following article and answer questions 19~25. For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. The Haunted America Countries are like little homes; they house a nation, hold ideologies and provide shelter and comfort to its people in hopes that the occupants will nurture better ideas for themselves and further flourish humanity. Such are primary desires and goals of most countries on this small planet. America is no exception. For decades, billions of people around the world slept at night on empty stomachs amidst dreadful circumstances, often dreaming of the freedoms and liberties of America, which they likened to a great land, a paradise and a final destination point. The best and brightest of the world gravitated to the great USA in search of golden opportunities; in hordes they came, and en masse they settled. America became the nation which acknowledged greatness and provided the driving force to allow the dreams of small, ordinary people to take form and flourish. Free from restrictions, allowing grand expressions with extraordinary liberties, that no other nation in the history of mankind has been able to match at such a grand scale. But currently, it seems that this home of the American nation has started to resemble that old mansion, elegantly pristine(质朴的)but known to be haunted, sitting at the end of that dead-end street where ghosts, mysterious apparitions(幽灵)and unexplainable signs have emerged. This planet, like an old street, is already full of such haunted houses, which at times seem abandoned, lifeless and unable to give or receive neighborly warmth; factors so critical for any country on the global scene. Can this badly damaged image of America be fixed today and by whom and at what cost? What must it include — a new costume, a new mask or a new heart? These are very important underlying questions, but the biggest question remains — can an entire country be branded to the rest of the world in the same fashion as a breakfast cereal or laundry detergent? The answer is a flat no. Only the branding-circus would come up with such a fake, superficial, logo-centric-slogan-happy attempt to rebuild a nation painted with banners and billboards. In reality, countries cannot be branded in such a simple process from the past; firstly, nations are already branded over decades and centuries by their histories and cultural interactions and exportable identities. A global image is not in the hands of a polling company or controlled by a branding agency. Rather, they take form in the minds of the global masses, who paint their own mental picture based on their own interpretation of a nation. Therefore, it demands an awesome force, as the global public will not be swayed by ad-campaigns, rather by the exuberance(茂盛)of sincere and honest truth and internal fixing leading to an inviting charm. After all, this is how the image of America was built in the first place. As a rule, if it has cost trillions to get where America is on global public opinion today, then it is easily understandable why it would cost a similar amount to fix the damages. Nations can only hope to improve their domestic issues first, before reflecting out to the world and preaching to the rest of the neighborhood. In commercial terms, American brands have lost their luster at an alarming rate during the last five years, and are now in serious danger of being over-powered by brand new identities arising from all over the newly repositioned world. This super-accelerated nouveau-consumerism has all the making of this global shift increasingly permanent on brand image leadership, a position that the USA once proudly held. The future is clearly drawn out for new countries currently engaged in trying out this global-image-creation-wizardry with full force while the early signs indicate a major world-wide mega branding and global-image-repositioning shift. How can this great nation housed in America immediately nurture harmony within, balance the out-of-touch extreme ideologies among republicans and democrats, and educate its youth that is currently the lowest among G-8 and slipping into the level of developing countries? It must have a nation that deeply engages in voting and really takes care of its own people. Most importantly, it needs real guts and must once again re-learn to face the truth and move forward in the good, old-fashioned American style.

单选题Let"s go and inspect the damage.

单选题Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space. For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, CorD on the Answer Sheet We Really Can Tell if We Are Being Watched Stories about how people somehow know when they are being watched have been going around for years. However, few【C1】______have been made to investigate the phenomenon scientifically. Now, with the completion of the largest ever【C2】______of the so-called staring effect, there is impressive evidence that this is a recognisable and【C3】______sixth sense. The study【C4】______hundreds of children. For the experiments, they sat with their eyes【C5】______so they could not see, and with their【C6】______to other children, who were told to either stare at them or look away. Time and time again the【C7】______showed that the children who could not see were able to【C8】______when they were being stared at. In a【C9】______of more than 18,000 trials carried out worldwide, the children【C10】______sensed when they were being watched almost 70% of the time. The experiment was repeated with the【C11】______precaution of putting the children who were being watched outside the room,【C12】______from the starers by the windows. This was done just in case there was some【C13】______going on with the children telling each other whether they were looking or not. This【C14】______the possibility of sounds being【C15】______between the children. The results, though less【C16】______. were more or less the same. Dr Sheldrake, the biologist who【C17】______the study, believes that the results are【C18】______enough to find out through further experiments【C19】______how the staring effect might actually【C20】______.

单选题They would not admit us at the opera because we arrived late.