单选题"I would tell anyone who's thinking about going back to school that it's not as difficult as you think," says Karen Jonaitis, a woman, last year, at 47, earned a bachelor's degree in business administration at a college. "I realized that I would not move up in my career without a degree. " A generation ago, Jonaitis would have been a rarity(稀罕)in college. Today about 6 million people aged 25 or older are studying in American institutions of higher learning. Whether they are returning to improve job skills or for the love of learning, adults no longer see age as a deterrent(障碍). Most people jump at the opportunity to do something new. Some of them make changes they'd been thinking about all their lives. Others return to school out of economic necessity. New developments in neuroscience(神经科学)and psychology are confirming that there are few age limits on how much the brain can absorb and for how long--if you stay active. Continuing to learn keeps us mentally in shape and able to learn more. On mental tests, experts discovered, half to two-thirds of the people in their 70s were as intellectually quick as people in their 30s. Those who fell below average tended to be people who had not made a lifelong habit of reading. They also were less physically active. Many adult students say learning is easier for them today. They bring different skills to the classroom, and they're less upset if something goes wrong. They have a real thirst, a real desire to learn.

单选题I should insist that he ______ accepted as a member, since he is very had-tempered.

单选题With the development of artificial intelligence, robots will do some mental work in office ______ some manual work on the production line. A. in addition B. except C. as well as D. as well

单选题Which do you think is ______ important, health or wealth?

单选题The meeting had pulled us six very different men from six very different countries; we proved in the end that we weren"t very different ______.

单选题Tomas is kind, humorous, clever and ______ he is diligent.

单选题 by Columbus, all the arguments came to an end.A) Tile new land was discoveredB) Was the new land discoveringC) With the new land discoveredD) With the new land discovering

单选题Running is often ______your health.A) good forB) good atC) good ofD) good in

单选题By the time he arrives in Beijing,we ______ here for two days. A) will have stayed C) have been staying B) shall stay D) have stayed

单选题 Directions: This section is to test your ability to understand short conversations. There are 2 recorded conversations in it. After each conversation, there are some recorded questions. Both the conversations and questions will be spoken two times. When you hear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the four choices marked, given in your test paper. Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

单选题Some 1.2 million small firms have opened their doors over the past six years of economic growth．．．

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单选题Some people insist on finding fault with the results of other people's work，without ever making a constructive contribution to their efforts.

单选题The word "hot" (Line 2, Para. 6) most probably means ______.

单选题Whether we like it or not，the world we live in has changed greatly in the last decade，and it is likely to change even more in the next decade． A．无论我们是否喜欢这个世界，它都在过去的十年问发生了巨大的变化，而其在未来十年内会有更大的变化。 B．无论我们是否愿意，我们的生活在过去十年间已经改变了许多，而且在未来十年里可能改变变化更多。 C．无论我们是否愿意，我们的生活方式令这个世界改变了很多，而且在未来还会有更大的变化。 D．无论我们是否愿意，我们生活的世界在过去十年间已经变化了许多，而且在未来的十年里可能变化更多。

单选题David told me the day before yesterday that you would take a trip to America , ______?

单选题Faces, like fingerprints, are not the same as one another. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the characters that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child--even an animal, such as a bird--can learn to recognize faces. We all take this ability for granted. We also tell people apart by how they behave. When we talk about someone"s personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks, and feels that make him different from others. Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone" s personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. If you were asked "to describe what a "nice face" looks like, you would have a difficult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a "nice per son", you might begin to think about someone who was kind, thoughtful, friendly, warm. And so on. There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels, and acts. Gordon Allport, a U.S. scientist who studies the mind and particular person, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in person" s behavior. And many of us use this information as a standard for describing or typing a person, bookworms, fools, hard-working types--people are described with such term.

单选题The study of this course will bring you in contact with many issues; some of these will be of more interest to you than others. A．该课程的学习会使你接触到很多问题，你对其中有些问题的兴趣会更大一些。 B．在该课程的学习中你要就很多问题签订合同，与其他同学相比，这些合同带给你的利益会更多一些。 C．该课程的学习会使你接触到很多问题，与其他同学相比，你对于这些问题可能更感兴趣一些。 D．在该课程的学习中你要就很多问题签订合同，其中有些合同带给你的利益会更多一些。

单选题 People, a magazine featuring the lives of famous people, recently revealed the 50 prettiest celebrities (名人) worldwide. Chinese actress Zhang Ming was ranked the fifth. Now Shanghai audience will get a chance to see her. Shanghai will be the last stop on her world tour which she started last summer. People magazine said she sang extremely well and was also an outstanding actress. Several years ago, she performed in the film Happy Days, which won her the Best Actress title in one of the world's major film festivals. As the number one singer in Asian pop song field, Zhang is not only the focus of Asian region but also the focus of world attention. Zhang was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, a famous publication in America that seldom uses performer's pictures for their cover, let alone Asian stars. In the Asian pop song field, she is like a legend—every song she sings soon becomes popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland. Born in 1970 in Beijing, Zhang Ming moved to Hong Kong in 1991. In 1993 she attended a pop song competition, in which she came second. In the same year, she launched her first personal recording. Ever since then, no one could stop her rising to tile top of the pop song field in Hong Kong and Asia. Zhang will perform sob in Shanghai, on December 12 and 13. This will be the first time she has given a solo performance since 1998.

单选题She has set a new record, that is, the sales of her latest book ______ 50 million.