单选题Which of the following statements about Laurie Bauer is true?

单选题If you want to know more details about these buildings, you can go to the sales office and ask for a sales ______.

单选题A young consultant"s life is tiring. A 41 week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to 42 the client is based. He can 43 to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily texting a(n) 44 lover. "It"s quite 45 to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. So the job 46 "insecure overachievers"— a phrase 47 used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven"t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most 48 within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the business world, 49 their experience and 50 allow them to slot in several levels 51 their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where 52 young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places 53 London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating 54 are richest. Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. 55 consultancies benefit from it. They 56 bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one 57 why consultants have to travel so much. The system 58 , more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not 59 hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all, 60 enough sleep.

单选题Jane was reading a piece of science fiction, completely ______ to the outside world.

单选题The girl was so ______ by the mighty river that she would spend hours sitting on its bank and gazing at the boats and rafts going and coming.

单选题______ the advances of scientific forecasting, in spite of the thousands of daily bulletins and advisories that get flashed about, the weather is still ultimately capricious and unpredictable.

单选题 {{B}}Ageism{{/B}} American society has been described as maintaining a stereotypic and often negative perception of older adults. This negative and/or stereotypic perception of aging and aged individuals is readily apparent in such areas as language, media, and humor. For example, such commonly used phrases as "over the hill" and "don't be an old fuddy-duddy" denote old age as a period of impotency and incompetency. The term used to describe this stereotypic and often negative bias against older adults is ageism. Ageism can be defined as "any action, or institutional structure which subordinates a person or group because of age or any assignment of roles in society purely on the basis of age". As an "ism", ageism reflects a prejudice in society against older adults. Ageism, however, is different from other "isms'' ( sexism, racism, etc. ), for primarily two reasons. First, age classification is not static. An individual's age classification changes as one progresses through the life cycle. Thus, age classification is characterized by continual change, while the other classification systems traditionally used by society such as race and gender remain constant. Second, no one is exempt from at some point achieving the status of old, and therefore, unless they die at an early age, experiencing ageism. The later is an important distinction as ageism can thus affect the individual on two levels. First, the individual may be ageist with respect to others. That is s/he may stereotype other people on the basis of age. Second, the individual may be ageist with respect to self. Thus, ageist attitudes may affect the self concept. Much research has been conducted concerning ageism. However, the empirical evidence is inconclusive. Some research demonstrates the existence of ageist attitudes and other research does not. This discrepancy is most likely the result of methodological differences and, in particular, methodological errors. A brief discussion of the major methodological errors or problems found in ageism research may be helpful in clarifying this point.

单选题He closed his eyes and held the two versions of La Mappa to his mind's_____ to analyze their differences.

单选题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.

单选题_________ , Shirley thought Carol's husband was ill, but later she realized he wasn't.

单选题Where is the man going on vacation?

单选题{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Last summer, some twenty-eight thousand homeless people were offered shelter by the city of New York. Of this number, twelve thousand were children and six thousand were parents living together in families. The average child was six years old, the average parent twenty-seven. A typical homeless family included a mother with two or three children, but in about one-fifth of these families two parents were present. Roughly ten thousand single persons, then, made up the remainder of the population of the city's shelter. These proportions vary somewhat from one area of the nation to another. In all areas, however, families are the fastest-growing sector of the homeless population, and in the Northeast they are by far the largest sector already. In Massachusetts, three-fourths of the homeless now are families with children; in certain parts of Massachusetts--Attleboro and Northhampton, for example--the proportion reaches 90 percent. Two-thirds of the homeless children studied recently in Boston were less than five years old. Of the estimated two to three million homeless people nationwide, about 500,000 are dependent children, according to Robert Hayes, counsel to the National Coalition for the Homeless. Including their parents, at least 750, 000 homeless people in America are family members. What is to be made, then, of the supposition that the homeless are primarily the former residents of mental hospitals, persons who were carelessly released during the 1970s? Many of them are, to be sure. Among the older men and women in the streets and shelters, as many as one-third (some believe as many as one-half) may be chronically disturbed, and a number of these people left mental hospitals during the 1970s. But in a city like New York, where nearly half the homeless are small children with an average of six, to operate on the basis of such a supposition makes no sense. Their parents, with an average age of twenty-seven, are not likely to have been hospitalized in the 1970s, either.

单选题What institution is the man work for?

单选题Why did the woman decide to enroll in the distance-learning course?

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As the train will not leave until one hour later, we ______ grab a bite at the snack bar.

单选题Her younger brother is ______ the run from the police.A. inB. offC. onD. after