单选题To ______ the risk of theft, install a good alarm system.A. decreaseB. minimizeC. limitD. eliminate

单选题Questions 26 to 28 are based on the .following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.

单选题Some 130 penalties were issued to schools and colleges for malpractice in this summer's GCSEs and A-levels—the highest number on record. Ofqual, the qualifications watchdog, revealed that five institutions were stripped of the power to run their own exams "altogether because of concerns over the way tests were organised. One more school had its exam entries suspended. Schools can be subjected to official reprimands for helping pupils in the exams hall, breaches of security, allowing students to open test papers early or a lack of proper invigilation. A further 60 individual teachers also faced penalties for "malpractice", the regulator said, although this was down on a year earlier. The disclosure comes amid an ongoing investigation into cheating in GCSEs by one of the Government's flagship academies. Kingsdale Foundation School in south London was alleged to have changed pupils' work after tests and fabricated coursework in an attempt to drive up grades. According to reports, one former pupil even claimed that teachers entered the exam hall during a test, telling students to change their answers. Ofqual insisted that the sharp rise in school reprimands was down to a clampdown on malpractice by one exam board—Edexcel. A spokeswoman for Pearson, which runs the board, said: "In 2012 we introduced a more rigorous warning process so that we can gain far more accurate data across centres on all incidents, both minor and major." According to figures, 130 penalties were imposed on schools and colleges in England, Wales and Northern Ireland this summer, compared with just 56 a year earlier and 106 in 2010. It was the highest total since records were first collated in 2009. School-wide penalties can be imposed for a serious management failure across an entire institution or department, rather than the isolated actions of one teacher. Three schools were found to be giving assistance to pupils in the exam hall and examiners reported security breaches on 21 occasions, it emerged. Remaining penalties were imposed for a variety of reasons, including opening papers early, sitting an exam at the wrong time and failing to invigilate candidates properly. Most cases resulted in a written warning, although five had their power to run exams withdrawn. This penalty had previously only been used five times over the last three years. Some 60 teachers or lecturers were subjected to individual penalties, with two-thirds of cases related to "inappropriate assistance to candidates". Other staff were reprimanded for coaching or prompting students and giving candidates more time beyond the official finishing point. Overall, 23 teachers were suspended from involvement in exams. The use of mobile phones and other electronic devices in the exam hall was the most common reason—covering almost half of cases—followed by plagiarism, failing to acknowledge sources and copying from other students.

单选题The director tried to get the actors to ______ to the next scene by hand signals.A. move onB. move offC. move outD. move along

单选题Under more favorable conditions, he ______ a great general but he only ended up as captain.

单选题Whether work should be placed among the causes of happiness or among the causes of unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as a doubtful question. There is certainly much work that is exceedingly weary and an excess of work is always very painful. I think, however, that provided work is not excessive in amount, even the dullest work is to most people less painful than idleness. There are in work all grades, from mere relief of tedium up to the profoundest delights, according to the nature of the work and the abilities of the workers. Most of the work that most people have to do is net in itself interesting, but even such work has certain great advantages. To begin with, it fills a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what one shall do. Most people, when they are left free to fill their own time according to their choice, are at a loss to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing. And whatever they decide on, they are troubled by the feeling that something else would have been pleasanter. To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Moreover the exercise of choice is in itself tiresome. Except to people with unusual initiative it is positively agreeable to be told what to do at each hour of the day, provided the orders are not too much unpleasant. Most of idle rich men suffer unutterable boredom as the price of their freedom from toil. At times, they may find relief by hunting big game in Africa, or by flying round the world, but number of such sensation is limited, especially after youth is past. Accordingly the more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as if they were poor, while rich women for the most part keep themselves busy with innumerable trifles of whose earthshaking importance they are firmly persuaded. Work therefore is desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days. With this advantage of work another is associated, namely that it makes holidays much more precious when they come. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to impair his vigor, he is likely to find far more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find. The second advantage of most paid work and of some unpaid work is that it gives chances of success and opportunities for ambition. In most work success is measured by income, and while our capitalistic society continues, this is inevitable. It is only where the best work is concerned that this measure ceased to be the natural one to apply. The desire that men feel to increase their income is quite as much a desire for success as for the extra comforts that a higher income can acquire. However dull work may be, it becomes bearable if it is means of building up a reputation, whether in the world at large or only in one's own circle.

单选题It is easier to fight for principles than to ______ them. A. live on B. live up to C. live through D. live by

单选题There is much discussion today about the need for the government to ______ the theater. A. substitute B. subsidize C. subscribe D. subordinate

单选题It can be inferred from the passage that the author's opinion of nowadays' human beings is ______.

单选题In many cultures people make a distinction between fine art and folk art. Although telling the difference between these two types of art is not always easy, each has certain general characteristics that help to identify it. One characteristic of folk art, for example, is that it is the product of ordinary people, the folk. Further more, folk art is often traditional in composition and subject matter. Fine art, in contrast, is usually the product of professionals who have studied art. These professional artists are usually more strongly influenced by the contemporary world and modern composition than by tradition. Another difference between folk and fine art is that folk art is often created to decorate a functional object. For example, a person who decorates his or her home by sculpting the wooden beam that holds up the roof is creating folk art. Fine art, on the other hand, is usually purely decorative Its only function is to its environment. A third distinguishing characteristic of folk art is that it is "participatory". This means that the art is created through the active involvement of the participants in the artistic project. For instance, a work song is created when a group of workers with one job to do sing together. By singing together, they make their work easier and also create a song that is considered to be folk art. In addition, paintings on the walls of churches are some times considered folk art since many people are involved in the endeavor, not only painters. The participants who are not skillful at drawing or painting, mix colors or clean up spilled paint. Fine art, such as music, how ever, seldom involves participation of any one besides the artist. Other people are usually not involved in the production. People at a music concert are only listeners, not participants. In the same way, a fine-art painting is primarily the work of one known artist, not a group. Folk art is characterized by anonymity ; the folk artist is rarely, if ever, known. A final distinctive characteristic of folk art is that it tends to become rarer as a society becomes more industrialized. When machines produce all of the objects that people are likely to need in their everyday lives, people are likely to stop producing and decorating household objects at home. Likewise, when most people have ra dios, they tend to listen to the songs on the radio while they work rather than to sing traditional work songs. However, the quality and quantity of fine art do not decrease with industrialization. In fact, the amount may in crease if industrialization raises the standard of living, thus creating a larger number of people who can afford to buy fine art.

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单选题When did the Vice President begin to suffer his heart attack?

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单选题The Northeast, with 60 million people, is the most ______ populated part of the United States. A. densely B. intensely C. abundantly D. highly

单选题In his study Professor Smith asked the subjects ______

单选题If a reporter who has been in the front row walks into the conference room one day and finds he is sitting five rows back, it means ______.

单选题He wants to find someone with ______ he could discuss such questions.