单选题4. When I try to understand ______ that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes.
单选题54. He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses. The underlined part means ______.
单选题5. The task wasn't easy, but we managed it ______.
单选题2. The growing size of the population is—major concern of ______ society nowadays.
单选题17. Did you ever have ______ on one of the jocks when you were at school or have you fallen in love with someone at first sight?
单选题. SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are four passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE (1) Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. And good writers, good cooks, do not suddenly appear full-blown. Quite the contrary, just as the cook has to undergo an intensive training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose-schoolwork, matters of business, or purely social communication. You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the writing, and the more rewarding. (2) There are still some remote places in the world where you might find a public scribe to do your business or social writing for you, for a fee. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rate kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from. But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves. (3) We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to paper. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put into the mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figure must be enormous. What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes. We want whatever we write to be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some "letters-to-be-read" file or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practicing the skill of interesting, effective writing. PASSAGE TWO (1) Despite these alarming statistics, the scale of the threat that smoking causes to women's health has received surprisingly little attention. Smoking is still seen by many as a mainly male problem, perhaps because men were the first to take up the habit and therefore the first to suffer the ill-effects. This is no longer the case. Women who smoke like men will die like men. WHO estimates that, in industrialized countries, smoking rates amongst men and women are very similar, at around 30 percent; in a large number of developed countries, smoking is now more common among teenage girls than boys. (2) As women took up smoking later than men, the full impact of smoking on their health has yet to be seen. But it is clear from countries where women have smoked longest, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, that smoking causes the same diseases in women as in men and the gap between their death rates is narrowing. On current trends, some 20 to 25 percent of women who smoke will die from their habit. One in three of these deaths will be among women under 65 year of age. The US Surgeon General has estimated that, amongst these women, smoking is responsible for around 40 percent heart disease deaths, 55 percent of lethal strokes and, among women of all ages, 80 percent of lung cancer deaths and 30 percent of all cancer deaths. Over the last 20 years, death rates in women from lung cancer have more than doubled in Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom; have increased by more than 200 percent in Australia, Denmark and New Zealand; and have increased by more than 300 percent in Canada and the United States. PASSAGE THREE (1) A new era is upon us. Call it what you will: the service economy, the information age, the knowledge society. It all translates in to a fundamental change in the way we work. Already we're partly there. The percentage of people who earn their living by making things (manufacturing) has fallen dramatically in the Western World. Today the majority of jobs in America, Europe and Japan (two thirds or more in many countries) are in the service industry, and the number is on the rise. More women are in the work force than ever before. There are more part-time jobs. More people are self-employed. But the breadth of the economic transformation can't be measured by numbers alone, because it also is giving rise to a radical new way of thinking about the nature of work itself. (2) We have only to look behind us to get some sense of what might lie ahead. No one looking ahead 20 years possibly could have foreseen the ways in which a single invention, the chip, would transform our world thanks to its applications in personal computers, digital communications and factory robots. Tomorrow's achievements in biotechnology, artificial intelligence or even some still unimagined technology could produce a similar wave of dramatic changes. But one thing is certain: information and knowledge will become even more vital, and the people who possess it, whether they work in manufacturing or services, will have the advantage and produce the wealth. Computer knowledge will become as basic a requirement as the ability to read and write. The ability to solve problems by applying of the information instead of performing routine tasks will be valued above all else. PASSAGE FOUR (1) For years there have been endless articles stating that scientists are on the verge of achieving artificial intelligence, that it is just around the comer. The truth is that it may be just around the corner, but they haven't yet found the fight block. (2) Artificial intelligence aims to build machines that can think. One immediate problem is to define thought, which is harder than you might think. The specialists in the field of artificial intelligence complain, with some justification, that anything that their machines do is dismissed as not being thought. For example, computers can now play very, very good chess. They can't beat the greatest players in the world, but they can beat just anyone else. If a human being played chess at this level, he or she would certainly be considered smart. Why not a machine? The answer is that the machine doesn't do anything cleverer than playing chess. It uses its blinding speed to do a brute-force search of all possible moves for several moves ahead, evaluates the outcomes and picks the best. Human don't play chess that way. They see patterns, which computers don't. (3) This wooden approach to thought characterizes machine intelligence. Computers have no judgment, no flexibility, no common sense. So-called expert systems, one of the hottest areas in artificial intelligence, aim to mimic the reasoning processes of human experts in the limited field, such as medical diagnosis or weather forecasting. There may be limited commercial application for this sort of thing, but there is no way to make a machine that can think about anything under the sun, which a teenage can do. (4) The hallmark of artificial intelligence to date is that if a problem is severely restricted, a machine can achieve limited success. But when the problem is expanded to a realistic one, computers fall flat on their display screens. For example, machines can understand a few words spoken individually by a speaker that they have been trained to hear. They cannot understand continuous speech using an unlimited vocabulary spoken by just any speaker.1. In this passage, good writing is compared to fine food because ______.(PASSAGE ONE)
单选题4. Which of the following italicized parts does NOT indicate subject-predicate relationship?
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单选题18. There is an unquestionable link between job losses and ______ services.
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单选题8. Which of the following italicized parts serves as a complement? ______
单选题29. The rays of the morning sun begin to shine through ______ windows, casting a glow of gold over the landscape.
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单选题4. You had only yourself to ______ for your loss in the stock market because you never take my advice.
单选题17. Electronic cigarettes should be subject ______ the same taxes and limitations on public use as traditional tobacco products.
单选题5. What a nice day! How about the three of us ______ a walk in the park nearby?
单选题From the outside, the two start-up companies’ partnership looks like________story.