单选题 {{I}} Questions 8 to 10 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 Questions 5 to 7 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.

单选题I heard a knock at the door. I peered through the peephole, and there was my father. As I opened the door, Dad began talking although he seemed strangely out of breath, "The power is out all along the northern east coast. People are saying that something went wrong at Niagara Falls. A power line must have failed." I was astounded. Power line? I was getting on the elevator, and the door wouldn't close. I got irritated with it and finally climbed down to the lobby — all nine stories — to find out what the matter was. That was just like Dad to get angry at something that didn't work. All of a sudden, we heard people shouting from outside. Dad opened up the window. "Wow, look out them!" Intrigued, I opened another window and looked out. The street was packed with cars whose drivers didn't know when or where to go. Policemen filled the streets trying to mollify the pandemonium. Right across the road, workers, who had been trapped on the eleventh floor while building, attempted to cling to railing and climb down to safety. Peoples' interrogating and mucous shouts filled the hot August air. I realized my father was speaking, "We can't stay up here. With no power, there will be no emergency services. If the building caught on fire, we'd be trapped. Let's go and I'll try to call Mom." He grabbed some cash and the cell phone. I followed him in the fatiguing trip down the stairs to the lobby. Why couldn't we have gotten a room on the first floor? I took a small couch and sat down. The stifling hotel lobby was full of people. Some were hoping to get a room; others had returned to the hotel because their flights had been canceled. Many attempted to contact family or friends on cell phones. I relaxed on the couch, noticing the only light in the room was from the few sunrays that managed to enter through the windows. Restless, Dad left to wander around Times Square. He could never sit around without being occupied. After what seemed like hours, Dad finally returned. I let him sit on the couch while I tried to cool down on the marble floor. The sun had set, and the room was dark, illuminated only by two small candles that tossed shadows upon the wall. I lay down on the floor and tried to nap. The surface was very hard, but it was nice and cool. I drifted off to sleep only to awaken immediately. At first this had been an exciting adventure, but now I just wished the electricity would come back on so we would be able to go back to our room. I lay there with my eyes closed, unable to sleep, listening to people nearby as they talked. I must have finally. fallen asleep though, for I woke up and asked Dad what time it was. "Eight. The lights are on two blocks down from us. The power should come back on pretty soon." He paused, a look of reverie on his face, "You know, last night 1 was able to see the stars over Times Square. I wonder how long it's been since somebody was able to say that./

单选题{{B}}TEXT G{{/B}} How warm parents are with their children has a strong influence on the childrens personalities. Boy who are highly masculine, for example, tend to see their fathers as very warm and regarding. The warmth of both parents tends to lead to more feminity in girls. The influence of the fathers seems to be more important, since fathers generally treat male and female children differently as compared to mothers who treat male and female children in a more similar manner.

单选题 Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.

单选题 {{I}}Questions 29 and 30 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Governing bodies of the American colonies raised questions about land distribution and use soon after winning independence. A 1785 law provided for surveying the west, with the intention of opening up land for family farms. Areas between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, for example, were allowed to become states on equal terms with the original thirteen as soon as their populations reached a certain level. The lands were to be sold at $ 2. 50 per hectare. Most of the settlers who braved the many dangers of western expansion did not have money to pay for land. Often they settled as occupiers of land without any clear title to their farms. After becoming established, these settlers campaigned to get the law changed so that some of the land was declared free, while other lands could be bought at a minimal price and paid for over a period of years. Successive laws culminated in the Homestead Act of 1862, giving free land to prospective settlers provided they agreed to farm the land or live on the land for a period of years. The strategy behind this and subsequent laws was to get land into the hands of family farmers. Land was also given to those who organized the railroads to encourage those costly ventures, and other lands were given to "land grant colleges," which were designed to educate farmers in the newest agricultural and scientific methods. In turn, these groups sometimes sold land to settlers at modest cost. All in all, the law-making did meet its objective of covering the new nation with family farms.

单选题 [1] In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price— five dollars—was far beyond Reuben Earle's means. [2] Reuben couldn't ask his father for the money. Everything Mark Earle made through fishing in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, Canada. Reuben's mother, Dora, stretched like elastic to feed and clothe their five children. [3] Nevertheless, he opened the shop's weathered door and went inside. Standing proud and straight in his flour-sack shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, "But I don't have the money right now. ① Can you please hold it for me for some time?" [4] "I'll try", the shopkeeper smiled. "Folks around here don't usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should keep for a while. " [5] Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked worn into the sunlight with the bay rippling in a freshening wind. There was purpose in his loping stride. He would raise the five dollars and not tell anybody. [6] Hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea. [7] He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails purchased in Hessian sacks from a local factory. Sometimes the sacks were discarded in the flurry of building, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents a piece. ② [8] That day he found two sacks, which he took to the rambling wooden factory and sold to the man in charge of packing nails. [9] The boy's hand tightly clutched the five-cent pieces as he ran the two kilometers home. [10] Near his house stood the ancient barn that housed the family's goats and chickens. Reuben found a rusty soda tin and dropped his coins inside. Then he climbed into the loft of the barn and hid the tin beneath a pile of sweet smelling hay. [11] It was dinner time when Reuben got home. His father sat at the big kitchen table, working on a fishing net. Dora was at the kitchen stove, ready to serve dinner as Reuben took his place at the table. [12] He looked at his mother and smiled. Sunlight from the window gilded her shoulder-length blonde hair. Slim and beautiful, she was the center of the home, the glue that held it together. [13] Her chores were never-ending. Sewing clothes for her family on the old Singer treadle machine, cooking meals and baking bread, planting and tending a vegetable garden, milking the goats and scrubbing soiled clothes on a washboard. But she was happy. Her family and their well-being were her highest priority. [14] Every day after chores and school, Reuben scoured the town, collecting the hessian nail bags. All summer long, despite chores at home weeding and watering the garden, cutting wood and fetching water— Reuben kept to his secret task. ③ [15] Often he was cold, tired and hungry, but the thought of the object in the shop window sustained him. Sometimes his mother would ask: "Reuben, where were you? We were waiting for you to have dinner. " [16] "Playing, Mum. Sorry. " [17] Dora would look at his face and shake her head. Boys. [18] Finally spring burst into glorious green and Reuben's spirits erupted. The time had come!

单选题The electric fan does not work because of the ______ of service. A. pause B. break C. interruption D. breakdown

单选题Most children with healthy appetites are ready to eat almost anything that is offered them and a child rarely dislikes food 21 it is badly cooked. The 22 a meal is cooked and served is most important and an 23 served meal will often improve a child"s appetite. Never ask a child 24 he likes or dislikes a food and never 25 likes and dislikes in front of him or allow 26 else to do so. If the father says he hates fat meat or the mother 27 vegetables in the child"s hearing he is 28 to copy this procedure. Take it 29 granted that he likes everything and he probably 30 . Nothing healthful should be omitted from the meal because of a 31 dislike. At meal times it is a good 32 to give a child a small portion and let him 33 back for a second helping rather than give him as 34 as he is likely to eat all at once. Do not talk too much to the child 35 meal times, but let him get on with his food, and do not 36 him to leave the table immediately after a meal or he will 37 learn to swallow his food 38 he can hurry back to his toys. Under 39 circumstances must a child be coaxed (哄骗) 40 forced to eat.

单选题His manner was so pleasant that Bolla felt at ______ with him at once.[A] peace[B] large[C] ease[D] best

单选题How many dictionaries have been quoted which give the definition of Censorship only in this article?

单选题When the Cultural Revolution was launched in China, his father ______ college. A. attended B. had been attending C. was attending D. has been attending

单选题Burton said he could not swim until the ______ came in because the sea was too far out.

单选题Which country has not signed the free- trade agreement with Iraq?

单选题Why can't visitors enjoy real English food?