单选题What is the author's attitude toward the single agent service?
单选题 Question 26 is based on the following news. At the
end of the news item, you will be given 5 seconds to answer the
question. Now listen to the news.
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{{I}}Questions 21 and 22 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The house,______he is the inheritor, is located near the beautiful beach.A. from whichB. for whichC. of whichD. at which
单选题Advertising is distinguished from other forms of communication ______ the advertiser pays for the message to be delivered.A. in thatB. in whichC. in order thatD. in the way
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单选题Which kind of man is NOT to Donna's liking?
单选题{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Humour is probably the
hardest commodity to export. Jokes that make one country laugh out loud are
likely to leave another nation confused and silent. But humour can also be very
revealing, if not always funny. After all, jokes are often just another way of
expressing anxieties, fears and even prejudices. In Britain, one
of the most enduring types of humour is satire. This is the art of making fun of
people in positions of power--politicians, celebrities and even royalty--in
order to draw attention to their faults. While satire is not
uniquely British, it does have a special appeal in Britain, and one of the best
examples of this is the success of the satirical magazine Private Eye. This
magazine has been poking fun at "the great and the good" in British public life
for the last 35 years, and its victims admit to reading it and laughing with
it. One of the magazine's former contributors, Auberon Waugh,
believes the "Eye" is successful because it repeats the best jokes over and over
again. "You go back and make the same jokes with a new twist every time, so you
are, by the end, talking a private language, and I think readers like that." He
goes on to say that "Americans come to London and claim to enjoy Private Eye,
yet they can't understand a word of it." But it is not only
Americans who have difficulties understanding the "Eye". Its esoteric sense of
humour and sometimes oblique references to British news mean that only those
people who closely follow the news benefit from the jokes. This is why the
magazine has practically no buyers overseas even though each issue sells 180,000
copies in Britain. The editor of the "Eye", Ian Hislop, explains
how they choose their targets. "Anybody who--in the words of a very old English
satirist--is guilty of vice, folly or humbug. That's them." The Royal Family is
always a favourite target. One cartoon strip called "Liz" portrayed them as a
rough, working class family from northern England. Over the
years Private Eye has paid the price for criticising the powerful and has been
successfully sued several times. Ian Hislop says there are still "ten or 12"
libel writs outstanding. But some say the magazine is not as cutting or even as
funny as it used to be. They say it is too incestuous, featuring too much gossip
about journalists and not enough hard-hitting satire. So are Ian Hislop and his
gang in danger of becoming part of the establishment they claim to
expose?
单选题The general asks the soldiers many questions to keep them
on their toes
. The underlined part means ______.
单选题WWW stands for
单选题There should be room for programs of world news within children's ______ . A. range B. scope C. room D. sight
单选题{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} The human brain contains
10 thousand million cells and each of these may have a thousand connections.
Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the
possibility of making a machine with human-like ability, but now that we have
grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure. Quite soon, in
only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble a machine as complex as
the human brain, and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to
render it intelligent by loading in the right software or by altering the
architecture but that too will happen. I think it certain that
in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon will arise first to rival and
then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us, they will be capable of
their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves.
Silicon will have ended {{U}}carbon's{{/U}} long control. And we will no longer be
able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known
universe. As the intelligence of robots increases to match that
of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them
to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand
environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds
be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will
bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast,
man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be
within our power.
单选题______ money, she is quite rich. However, this does not mean that she is happy. A. Concerning B. As to C. In terms of D. In the light of
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单选题Physics is the present day equivalent of ______ used to be called natural philosophy, from most of present day science arose.[A] which, what[B] that, which[C] what, which[D] what, that
单选题It is a curious paradox that we think of the physical sciences as "hard", the social sciences as "soft", and the biological sciences as somewhere in between. This is interpreted to mean that our knowledge of physical system is more certain than our knowledge of biological systems, and these in turn are more certain than our knowledge of social systems. In terms of our capacity of sample the relevant universes, however, and the probability that our images of these universes are at least approximately correct, one suspects that a reverse order is more reasonable. We are able to sample earth's social systems with some degree of confidence that we have a reasonable sample of the total universe being investigated. Our knowledge of social systems, therefore, while it is in many ways extremely inaccurate, is not likely to be seriously overturned by new discoveries. Even the folk knowledge in social systems on which ordinary life is based in earning, spending, organizing, marrying, taking part in political activities, fighting and so on, is not very dissimilar from the more sophisticated images of the social system derived form the social sciences, even though it is built upon the very imperfect samples of personal experience. In contrast, our image of the astronomical universe, or even if earth's geological history, can easily be subject to revolutionary changes as new data come in and new theories are worked out. If we define the "security" of our image of various parts of the total system as the probability of their suffering significant changes, then we would reverse the order for hardness and as the most secure, the physical sciences as the least secure, and again the biological sciences as somewhere in between. Our image of the astronomical universe is the least secure of all simply because we observe such a fantastically small sample of it and its record-keeping is trivial records of biological systems. Records of the astronomical universe, despite the fact that we learnt things as they were long age, are limited in the extreme. Even in regard to such a close neighbor as the moon, which we have actually visited, theories about its origin and history are extremely different, contradictory, and hard to choose among. Our knowledge of physical evolution is incomplete and insecure.
单选题Which of the following sentences expresses "probability"?
单选题______ human behavior may be caused by eating substances that upset the delicate chemical balance in the brain.[A] Deliberate[B] Consistent[C] Primitive[D] Abnormal
单选题 In this section there are four passages followed by
questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked [A],
[B], [C], and [D]. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.
Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.{{B}}TEXT
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Come September, the campuses of America
will be swarming not just with returning undergraduates, but also with employers
set on signing up the most able 10% of them. "We are seeing a far more
competitive market for talent," says Steve Canale, a recruitment manager at
General Electric (GE). Students who recently could have expected two or three
offers in their final year are now getting as many as five. To gain a
competitive edge, firms are arriving ever earlier on campus with their
recruitment caravans. They also start to look at (and select) summer interns
more as potential full-time empl6yees than as mere seasonal extra hands: 60% of
GE's graduate recruits in America this year, for instance, will come from its
crop of more than 2,000 interns. Many interns will have employment contracts in
their pockets before they even return for their final year of study.
Firms are working harder to polish their image in the eyes of
undergraduates. Some have staff who do little but tour campuses throughout the
year, keeping the firm's name in front of both faculty and students, and
promoting their "employer brand". GE focuses on 38 universities where it
actively promotes itself as an employer. Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC), an
accounting firm, targets 200 universalities and gives a partner responsibility
for each. PWC says that each of its partners spends up to 200 hours a year"
building relationships on campus". That particular investment
seems to have paid off. Each year Universum, an employer-branding consultant,
asks some 30,000 American students to name their ideal employer. In this year's
survey, published recently, PWC came second (up from 4th in 2004), topped only
by BWM. Yet the German carmaker, which knocked Microsoft off the top spot,
steers clear of campuses, relying for its popularity, says Universum, on the
"coolness" of its products. Students, it seems, are heavily
influenced in their choice of ideal employer by their perception of that
employer's products and services. Soaring up this year's list were Apple
Computer (from 41st to 13th) and the Federal Bureau of Investment (from 138th to
10th). The success of Apple's cool iPod has had a powerful effect in the firm's
ability to recruit top undergraduates. Likewise, the positive portrayal of the
FBI in some recent films and TV shows has allegedly helped with
recruitment. The accounting firms say that the fall of Enron and
Arthur Andersen has done their recruitment no harm: instead, they claim, it has
made students realize that accounting is not mere number crunching, but also
involves moral judgments. The "Big Four" accounting firms are all among this
year's top 15 ideal employers. Undergraduates now do much of
their research into future employments online. There seems to be a close
correlation between their choice of ideal employer and their choice of most
impressive website--where PWC, Microsoft and Ernst & Young win gold, silver
and bronze respectively. Even so, some famous firms think they
still appreciate the personal touch, and are sending their most senior
executives to campuses to meet students and to give speeches. "The top attracts
top," says, Claudia Tattanelli, boss of Universum in America. Jeffrey Immelt,
GE's chief executive, is a keen on-campus speaker and has visited six leading
universities in the past year. In the process, he may have shaken hands with one
of his successors.
单选题The implementation of the legislation was delayed ______ some of them to acquire qualifications.A. having enabledB. to have enabledC. enablingD. to enable
