单选题With keen ______,convincing facts and a global angle, Epstein vividly recorded a brilliant page of the great Chinese revolution.

单选题 {{I}} Questions 4 to 6 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.{{/I}}

单选题The Countess was ______ enough to show us around her home.

单选题He listened hard but still couldn't ______ what they were talking about. A. make over B. make up C. make upon D. make out

单选题Taste is such a subjective matter that we don't usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyone's is that it's one person's opinion. But because the two big cola companies -- Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola --are marketed so aggressively, we've wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either CocaCola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting. We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either CocaCola Classic or Pepsi, Diet Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought they'd have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand. We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants' choices with what mere guesswork could have accomplished. Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too though, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet cola drinkers did a little worse -- only 7 out of 27 identified all four samples correctly. While both groups did better than chance would predict; nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so fatigue, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.

单选题Which one is not included in the conditions for the US's changing attitude towards Iran?

单选题What can we infer from United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan' s words?

单选题Social companionship is beneficial in that ______.

单选题A convenient way is to set the food on a piece of aluminum oil, ______to the air for half an hour, and then cover it with a dish.

单选题The ______ regarding vitamin C is unlikely to be resolved in the near future. A. deviation B. controversy C. distinction D. comparison

单选题The party began at eight. So they ______ dine at seven.

单选题The original report in Newsweek reported ______

单选题He kept his head at that critical moment; otherwise the accident ______. A. would happen B. happened C. would have been happened D. would have happened

单选题Prior to the formation of a tornado, ______.

单选题{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} Chris Baildon, tall and lean, was in his early thirties, and the end product of an old decayed island family. Chris shared the too large house with his father, an arthritic and difficult man, and a wasp-tongued aunt, whose complaints ended only when she slept. The father and his sister, Chris's Aunt Agatha, engaged in shrill-voiced arguments over nothing. The continuous exchanges further confused their foolish wits, and yet held off an unendurable loneliness. They held a common grievance against Chris, openly holding him to blame for their miserable existence. He should long ago have lifted them from poverty, for had they not sacrificed everything to send him to England and Oxford University? Driven by creditors or pressing desires, earlier Baildons had long ago cheaply disposed of valuable properties. Brother and sister never ceased to remind each other of the depressing fact that their ancestors had wasted their inheritance. This, in fact, was their only other point of agreement. A few years earlier Agatha had announced that she intended doing something about repairing the family fortunes. The many empty rooms could be rented to selected guests. She would establish, not a boarding house, but a home for ladies and gentlemen, and make a tidy profit. She threw herself into the venture with a noisy fury. Old furniture was polished; rugs and carpets were beaten, floors painted, long-stored mattresses, pillows and bed linen aired and sweetened in the sun. Agatha, with a fine air of defiance, took the copy for a modest advertisement to the press. Two guests were lured by the promise of beautiful gourmet meals, a home atmosphere in an historic mansion, the company of well-brought-up ladies and gentlemen. The two, one a bank clerk and the other a maiden lady employed in a bookshop, arrived simultaneously, whereupon Agatha condescended to show them to their room, and promptly forgot about them. There was no hot water. Dinner time found Baildon and Agatha sharing half a cold chicken and a few boiled potatoes in the dining room's gloomy vastness. When the guests came timidly to inquire about the dining-hours, and to point out that there were no sheets on the beds, no water in the pots, no towels on their racks, Agatha reminded them that the Baidons were not inn-keepers, and then treated them to an account of the family's past glories.

单选题 {{I}}Questions 28 and 29 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.{{/I}}

单选题—______ all three people in the car injured in the accident? — No, ______ only the two passengers who got hurt.

单选题Jack wishes that he ______ business instead of history when he was in university. A. studied B. study C. had been studying D. had studied