单选题{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} The most effective attacks against globalization are usually not those related to economies. Instead, they are social, ethical and, above all, cultural. These arguments surfaced amid the protests in Seattle in 1999 and more recently in Davos, Bangkok and Prague. They say this: the disappearance of national borders and the establishment of a world interconnected by markets will deal a death blow to regional and national cultures, and to the traditions, customs, myths and mores that determine each country's or region's cultural identity. Since most of the world is incapable of resisting the invasion of cultural products from developed countries that inevitably trails the great transnational corporations, North American culture will ultimately impose itself, standardizing the world and annihilating its richness of diverse cultures. In this manner, all other peoples, and not just the small and weak ones, will lose their identity, their soul, and will become no more than 21st-eentury colonies modeled after the cultural norms of a new imperialism that, in addition to ruling over the planet with its capital, military might and scientific knowledge, will impose on others its language and its ways of thinking, believing, enjoying and dreaming. Even though I believe this cultural argument against globalization is unacceptable, we should recognize that deep within it lies an unquestionable truth. This century, the world in which we will live will be less picturesque and filled with less local color than the one we left behind. The festivals, attire, customs, ceremonies, rites and beliefs that in the past gave humanity its culturally and racially variety are progressively disappearing or confining themselves to minority sectors, while the bulk of society abandons them and adopts others more suited to the reality of our time. All countries of the earth experience this process, some more quickly than others, but it is not due to globalization. Rather, it is due to modernization, of which the former is effect, not cause. It is possible to lament, certainly, that this process occurs, and to feel nostalgia for the past ways of life that, particularly from our comfortable vantage point of the present, seem full of amusement, originality and color. But this process is unavoidable. In theory, perhaps, a country could keep this identity, but only if — like certain remote tribes in Africa or the Amazon — it decides to live in total isolation, cutting off all exchange with other nations and practicing self sufficiency. A cultural identity preserved in this form would take that society back to prehistoric standards of living. It is true that modernization makes many forms of traditional life disappear. But at the same time, it opens opportunities and constitutes an important step forward for a society as a whole. That is why, when given the option to choose freely, peoples, sometimes counter to what their leaders or intellectual traditionalists would like, opt for modernization without the slightest ambiguity.

单选题Tony has not the least ______ of giving up his research work. A. intention B. interest C. wish D. desire

单选题Large animals that inhabit the desert have evolved a number of adaptations for reducing the effects of extreme heat. (31) adaptation is to be light in color, and to (32) rather than absorb the sun's rays. Desert mammals also depart from the normal mammalian practice of maintaining a (33) body temperature. (34) trying to keep down the body temperature deep inside the body, (35) would involve the expenditure of water and energy, desert mammals allow their temperatures to rise to what would normally be fever (36) , and temperatures as high as 46 degrees Celsius have been measured in gazelles (瞪羚羊). Another strategy (37) large desert animals is to tolerate the loss of body water to a point (38) would be fatal for non-adapted animals. The camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight (39) water without harm to itself, (40) human beings die after losing only 12 to 13 percent of their body weight. An equally important adaptation is the ability to (41) this water loss (42) one drink. Desert animals can drink prodigious' volumes in a short time, and camels have been known to (43) over 100 liters in a few minutes. A very dehydrated person, (44) , cannot drink enough water to rehydrate at one (45) , because the human stomach is not sufficiently big and because a too rapid (46) of the body fluids causes death from water intoxication. The (47) of water loss is of obvious advantage in the desert, as animals do not have to remain (48) a water hole but can obtain food from grazing sparse and far-flung pastures. Desert-adapted mammals have the (49) ability to feed normally when extremely dehydrated; it is a common experience in people that appetite is lost even (50) conditions of moderate thirst.

单选题Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.

单选题You can actually see the deer at close range while driving through that area. The italicized phrase means ______.A. clearlyB. very nearC. quicklyD. very hard

单选题He's always ready to take ______ heavy responsibilities.

单选题What was the outcome of the policy of the American government toward the airline industry?

单选题We had difficulties at first but everything worked ______ smoothly in the end.

单选题How will Ms. Cook probably get to the waterfall?

单选题In the legal profession, men ______ women by five to one. A. supersede B. outnumber C. outclass D. overcome

单选题 Questions 11 to 13 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He ought to attend the meeting,______ ?A. should heB. ought heC. shouldn't heD. oughtn't he

单选题The publishers will send you a specimen copy of their new books ______.

单选题Why did the two robbers stop searching the flat?

单选题Where are the two people, most probably?

单选题The inventor ______ his original design in order to increase the machine's efficiency. A. executed B. modified C. cultivated D. decorated

单选题I don't think her ability is in ______; what I question is her attitude.A. debateB. disputeC. troubleD. action

单选题According to the passage, Mathew Brady is remembered today because_________.

单选题The recent announcement that GPs (全科医生) may send patients with depression away with the suggestion that they 41 a "mood-enhancing" book will have entranced some 42 left others bristling. When we set up our bibliotherapy service through The School of Life in 2008, our 43 was obvious: to show people that books, and 44 novels, not only have the 45 to lift spirits, but to 46 fundamental psychological shifts, healing and enriching the heart, the intellect and the soul in extraordinary ways. But you could 47 that someone with depression would 48 to make their way to the library, 49 put a spring in their stride, simply by the offer of some mood enhancing reads. One of the things we have found as bibliotherapists is that clients with depression 50 a therapeutic book require a very 51 prescription. Some may want a book that offers some escape— 52 case the odd English humour of Dodie Smith"s I Capture the Castle may 53 the trick. But others may 54 with impatience to anything 55 seems too unlike real life. The majority of our clients do not come to us for medical reasons; most come 56 they love reading, and in this day of publishing overload they want to be sure they use their reading time well. There are few greater pleasures in life than discovering a novel that 57 back a world you recognise—and yet takes you into a deeper experience of that world. And research has shown that reading can be highly effective in 58 stress. We find Henry James a 59 way to order your mind when everything becomes too much—the literary 60 of Beethoven or Bach.