单选题Women usually tend to be very _______about what they wear.

单选题The man of many secrets -- Harry Houdini -- was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes -- from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers,, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America; crowds came to see the great Houdini and his "magic" tricks. Of course, his secret wasn' t magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted. Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother performed card tricks in a club in New York. When he married, Harry and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. Harry performed his first prison escape in Chicago in 1898. And many local newspapermen watched the escape. Harry Houdini had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape from ankle chains. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck—and a small skeleton key, which is a key that will fit many locks, passed quickly from her mouth to his. Harry arranged to escape from the local jail of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater was full.

单选题When you write about your education, you should list______.

单选题 Directions: This part is to test your reading ability. There are 5 tasks for you to fulfill. You should read the reading materials carefully and do the tasks as you are instructed. 1 Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 to 40. For each question or starement there are 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D) . You should make the correct choice. What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool?Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live?These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear. We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle(肌肉). It needs exercise. Mental(done with the mind)exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists (心理学家)think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent. Parents should also be careful with what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive(helpful)things to their children, such as“That was a very clever thing you did. ” or “You are such a smart child. ”

单选题It is imperative that the students ______ writing their papers by the end of the month.

单选题Jane isn't feeling well today. I dare not do{{U}} {{/U}}to upset her. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. a thing

单选题Directions: This section is to test your ability to understand short dialogues. There are 5 recorded dialogues in it. After each dialogue, there is a recorded question. Both the dialogues and questions will be spoken only once. When youhear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices marked ,4), B), C), D) 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Highly intelligent and strong, elephants are the largest land animals and are among the longest-lived, with life spans of 60 years or more. Healthy, full-grown elephants have no natural enemies other than humans. Elephants once lived on every continent except Australia and Antarctica, but elephants today are restricted to Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. They occupy a wide range of environments in Africa and Southeast Asia: grasslands, marshes, forests, deserts, and mountains. They need great quantities of food to support their massive size. They also need a lot of drinking water and so are restricted to areas with adequate water. Throughout history, people have prized elephants for their great size and strength. On the battlefield, elephants have defeated the enemies. Elephants also have been trained to carry heavy supplies through the forests where they once lived. Elephants have long been honored, and in Thailand, India, and other Southeast Asian countries, beautifully decorated elephants still play a significant role in traditional religious ceremonies. Over the past 40 million years, more than 600 species of elephants have lived on the earth. Today only two species are alive: the African elephant and the Asian elephant. Climate changes caused the extinction of many elephant species, but human influence has also taken its toll. At the turn of the 20th century, elephants numbered from 5 million to 10 million, but widespread hunting and city expanding reduced their numbers to an estimated 640,000 by the end of the century. At present, efforts to save elephants may be inadequate, and biologists are unsure if elephants as a species will survive.

单选题Don't be too willing to believe. If he had intended to give you the job，he would have called you by now. A．不要太高兴了，他不会给你这份工作的，要不然早就给你打电话了。 B．不要太轻信了，如果他打算给你这份工作，早就给你打电话了。 C．你怎么高兴都不过分，因为他打算给你这份工作，而且给你打了电话。 D．你太高兴了，所以都不敢相信他给了你这份工作，而且还打了电话。

单选题Directions:{{I}} This task is the same as Task 1.The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 to 45.{{/I}} The United Nations, an accepted authority on population levels and trends, estimates that the world population reached 5.3 billion in 1990, and is increasing annually by more than 90 million persons. The rate of increase, 1.7 percent per year, has fallen below the peak rate of 2 percent per year attained by 1970. However, absolute yearly increments are not expected to start declining until after the year 2000. Estimates of world population before 1900 are based on fragmentary(不全的;不完整的)data, but scholars agree that average population growth approached approximately 0. 002 percent per year. Growth was delayed and influenced by climate, food supply, disease, and war. Starting in the 17th century, great advances in scientific knowledge, agriculture, industry, medicine, and social organization made possible substantial increases in population. Inanimate (无生命的) energy gradually replaced human and animal labor. People slowly acquired the knowledge and means to control disease. All continents shared in a five-time population increase over a 300-year period—from about 500 million in 1650 to 2.5 billion in 1950—but increases were most obvious in regions where new technologies were devised and applied. Beginning about 1950, with improvements in water supplies, sewage (下水道里的污物)-disposal facilities, and transportation networks, agricultural yields increased, and deaths from infectious and parasitic diseases greatly declined. Life expectancy at birth in most developing countries increased from about 35—40 years in 1950 to 61 years by 1990.

单选题It moisturizes your skin in hot, cold and dry climate conditions, taking extra care of your skin against the drying effect of the sun, helping prevent dry skin and protecting your skin from additional loss of skin moisture. Wash the face with lukewarm water and evenly rub a little amount all over, twice daily, one in the morning and the other in the evening, and the satisfactory effect will soon be obtained.

单选题Directions:{{I}} This section is to test your ability to understand short dialogues. There are 5 recorded dialogues in it. After each dialogue, there is a recorded question. Both the dialogues and questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D) given in your test paper. Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Now the test will begin.{{/I}}

单选题Only by this means is it possible to explain his failure to act decisively. A. 唯一可解释他没有决定的原因只有用这种方法了。 B. 唯一可解释他没有采取决定性行动的原因只有用这种方法了。 C. 只有这种方法，才有可能解释他没有决定的原因。 D. 只有这种方法，才有可能解释他没有采取决定性行动的原因。

单选题Passage 2Questions 8 to 10 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题The output value in the second season increased by ten percent from a year earlier, against a rise of 5 percent in the first season.

单选题 People in different parts of the world have very different ideas about what is good to eat. Even when people in different countries eat the same food, they often prepare it very differently. If you were in Germany, you would find soup that is thick and heavy. If you were in China, you would find soup that is thin and clear. On holidays most of us eat special foods. Year after year, even if many other things change, the food is always the same. Sometimes housewives begin weeks in advance to prepare the special foods that are traditionally served on certain holidays. People in different parts of the world also have different ideas about what is good to drink. Among the most popular hot drinks are coffee and tea. Coffee is very popular in Northern Europe and in the Middle East. Some people put cream and sugar in their coffee. But in the United States, many people drink their coffee "black" that is without cream or sugar. Tea is the national drink in China, Japan, and other Oriental(东方的) countries. In the Orient, people drink tea without sugar. But in England, where it is also a national drink, many people use both sugar and hot or cold mill in their tea.

单选题Directions: Read the following passages and choose the best answers to the questions. At sixteen Ron Mackie might have stayed at school, but the future called to him excitedly. "Get out of the classroom into a job," it said, and Ron obeyed. His father, supporting the decision, found a place for him in a supermarket. "You're lucky, Ron," he said. "For every boy with a job these days, there's a dozen without." So Ron joined the working world at twenty pounds a week. For a year he spent his days filling shelves with tins of food. By the end of that time he was looking back on his school-days as a time of great variety (多样性) and satisfaction. He searched for an interest in his work, with little success. One fine day instead of going to work Ron got a lift on a lorry going south. With nine pounds in his pocket, a full heart and a great longing for the sea, he set out to make a better way for himself. That evening, in Bournemouth, he had a sandwich and a drink in a café run by an elderly man and his wife. Before he had finished the sandwich, the woman had taken him on for the rest of the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs and three meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron's breath away. At quiet times Ron had to check the old man's arithmetic in the records of the business. At the end of the season, he stayed on the coast. He was again surprised how straightforward it was for a boy of seventeen to make a living. He worked in shops mostly, but once he took a job in a hotel for three weeks. Late in October, he was taken on by the sick manager of a shoe shop. Ron soon found himself in charge there; He was the only one who could keep the books.

单选题Ever since I arrived here, I ________ in the dormitory because it is cheaper.

单选题It can be inferred from the passage that American industries ______.

单选题Generally speaking, you should arrive at the airport with plenty of time ______.