单选题The Vaccination Week campaign was launched ______.

单选题What problem at the office are Cathy and Stan discussing?

单选题IQuestions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the conversation./I

单选题I think Mary is a ______ woman and would not have done foolish things like that.A. sensitiveB. sensibleC. unusualD. savage

单选题China's resuming exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and Macao is ______ of Chinese prosperity. A. indulgent B. indifferent C. indignant D. indicative

单选题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______ have known each other for ten years.

单选题Which one of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

单选题Intit-for-tatexpulsions,IndiaandPakistan

单选题Something unexpected has turnedA. upB. backC. outD. around

单选题The King, delighted to ______ a real gardener, entrusted him with the care of his garden.A. findB. having foundC. have foundD. be found

单选题 {{I}}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.{{/I}}

单选题______is the center of our planetary system was a difficult concept to grasp in the Middle Ages.

单选题If you ______ the bottle and cigarettes, you'll be much healthier. A.take off B.keep off C.get off D.set off

单选题Modem advertising men try to justify what they do by telling us of the advantages of advertising. Thus, it is said that advertising (31) the price of goods because it increases the number that (32) . In fact, products could often be sold more cheaply if (33) not wasteful (34) between companies. This results (35) expensive advertisements, the cost of which is passed (36) the public. A magazine has point ed out that headache pills without (37) name can be sold very cheaply, but the same pills, advertised (38) a cost of half a million pounds a year, cost five times (39) . Secondly, it is suggested that advertising gives information to the customer. It is, of course, (40) to know what is (41) at the local cinema, the date of a (42) or even that certain types of goods are available. But most advertising does (43) than inform, and much is misleading. You would be very wrong to believe that all the tests shown on television are (44) . Thus, in a polish advertisement, black glass was used instead of wood to give a shiny (45) , and in a cat's food advertisement, (46) meat was used because the eat refusal to eat the tinned product. That whiter than white shirt in a washing powder ad is (47) to be bright blue. Finally, it is said that advertising (48) the quality of goods because advertisers worry about their reputations, This may be so in many (49) , but it could also be argued that advertising has made people willing to (50) poor quality goods.

单选题He would never forget the occasions in the past ______ he had been bullied and humiliated.

单选题{{B}}TEXT D{{/B}} Unlike any other scientific topics, consciousness—the first-person awareness of the world around—is truly in the eye of beholder. I know I am conscious. But how do I know that you are? Through logical analogy—I am a conscious human being, and therefore you as a human being are also likely to be conscious—I conclude I am probably not the only conscious being in a world of biological puppets. Extend it to other creatures, and uncertainty grows. Is a dog conscious? An elm? A rock? "We don't have the mythical consciousness meter," said Dr. Chalmers, a professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. "All we have directly to go on is behavior." So without even an elementary understanding of what consciousness is, the idea of instilling it into a machine—or understanding how a machine might evolve consciousness—becomes almost unfathomable. The field of artificial intelligence started out with dreams of making thinking or conscious machines, but to debate, its achievements have been modest. The field has evolved to focus more on solving practical problems like complex scheduling tasks than on imitating human behavior. But many believe that the original goals of artificial intelligence will be attainable within a few decades. Some people, like Dr. Hans Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, believe a human being is nothing more than a fancy machine, and that it will be possible to build a machine with the same features, that there is nothing magical about the brain and biological flesh. "I'm confident we can build robot with behavior that is just as rich as human being behavior," he said. "You could quiz it as much as you like about its internal mental life, and it would answer as any human being." To Dr. Moravec, if it acts consciously, it is conscious. To ask more is pointless. Dr. Chalmers, regards consciousness as an unutterable trait, and it may be useless to try to pin it down. "We've got to admit something here is irreducible," he said. "Some primitive precursor consciousness could go all the way down" to the smallest, most primitive organisms, he said. Dr. Chalmers too sees nothing fundamentally different between a creature of flesh and blood and one of metal, plastics and electronic circuits. "I'm quite open to the idea that machines might eventually become conscious," he said, adding that it would be "equally weird". And if a person gets into involved conversations with a robot about everything from Kant to baseball, "We'll be as practically certain they are conscious as other people," he said. "Of course, that doesn't resolve the theoretical question". But others say machines, regardless of how complex, will never match people. The arguments can become mysterious. In his book Shadows of the Mind, Dr. Roger Penrose, a mathematician at Oxford University, enlisted the incompleteness theorem in mathematics. He uses the theorem, which states that any system of theorems will invariably include statements that cannot be proven, to argue that any machine that uses computation—and hence all robots—will invariably fall short of the accomplishments of human mathematicians. Instead, he argues that consciousness is an effect of quantum mechanics in tiny structures in the brain that exceeds the abilities of any computer.