单选题听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的[A]、[B]、 [C]三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

单选题Unemployment (失业) rose from 7.5% in June, 1996 to 7.8% in July, 1996, the highest rate since January of that year, the Labor Department reported. The main reason was a large increase—nearly 700,000 in the labor force, with a record 61.9% of the population over sixteen years of age working or actively looking for work. That growth was caused mainly by an increase in the number of women in the labor force, an increase partly because of a continuation of long-term and economic trends (经济趋势)and partly a reflection of pressure on families to increase their incomes.

单选题A doctor can expect ______ at any hour of the day or night.

单选题The witness's statement about the accident was very ______ ；we knew almost everything about it now.

单选题It's not much, but it's home. Francis Chan, an engineer, lives in Hampstead, north Lon don, in a flat that's just 4ft wide by 21ft long. He loves it. Tiny though it is, it has got all the comforts. Peter Baynes, Chan's architect(建筑师), has achieved a clever piece of design, according to architectural experts. The Chan mini-house was built on what was once a path down the side of a big Victorian house. Not an inch of space is wasted. When you step in through the front door, you're standing in the shower, on Britain's only self-cleansing doormat(自动清洁门垫). A door opens on to an equally tiny toilet with washbasin. Two steps further in comes the kitchen, complete with full-sized cooker and fridge, and washer/ drier. A worktop folds down from the wall. Another step and you're into the dining/office area. Four people can sit here for dinner, says Chan as he sets the table-top into place. He even has a fold-down drawing-board for when he's working at home. The bed is hidden under a cover board fight at the back. "I don't even have to make the bed," Chan says. "I just put the cover down. " Chan's business suits hang neatly on the wall over the bed. Daylight comes in through the skylight. The house feels like a very small boat and Chan admits he toyed with the idea of naming it the "boat-house". "It cost around ￡ 4,700 to build last year. Now it's been valued at ￡ 30,000. It proves that good design doesn't need to cost more. It just needs a lot of care," says Chan.

单选题Why don't you put the meat in the fridge? It will ______ fresh for several days.

单选题The men in the restaurant refused to sell the wine to the two young men because ______.

单选题Look! The children grew taller ______.A. year after yearB. again and againC. step and stepD. year by year

单选题Canada lies in the north part of North America. It stretches (延伸) from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. To the north is the Arctic Ocean. Canada is the world"s second largest country. It takes up most of the northern part of the North American continent and covers about 6.6 percent of the total land of the earth. Although large in area, Canada has a population of only a little over 29 million. There are only about six persons per square mile. Most of Canada is thinly inhabited(定居). Most of northern Canada is wilderness, forest of frozen Arctic wasteland. Nearly 80% of Canadians live in large cities near the border with the United States. 60% of the population is concentrated (集中) between Quebec City and the western end of Lake Ontario. Canada"s largest city, Toronto, has a population of over 3.4 mil- lion, and the third largest city is Vancouver which has a population of over 1.3 million. Most Canadian cities are much smaller. More than 44 percent of the population is British in origin(血统), and 28 percent is French in origin. Cultural and political differences between these two major groups have played an important. part in the country"s history. Other European groups in Canada include Germans, Ukrainians, Italians, Dutch, Scandinavians, Hungarians, Russians and Poles. The non-white population, which is made up of Eskimos, Indians, Asians, and black, make up about 4 percent of the population.

单选题The disease has completely ______ in this country.

单选题Who was the small man?

单选题-- Don't say anything. -- ______I would.

单选题Goodbye, Mr. Smith. I'm very pleased ______. A. to meet you B. to have met you C. meeting D. having met you

单选题The Silicon Valley of America is about seventy kilometers southeast of San Francisco. It is small in size. You will not find the 1 Silicon Valley on any maps of California. But it is a very 2 place. There are thousands of high-technology companies in Silicon Valley today. The 3 begins with Stanford University. 4 the Second World War, Stanford University was having financial problems. It also 5 several thousand hectares (公顷) that was not being 6 . A professor at Stanford did his best to 7 the problem. He learned that the university could not legally sell the land 8 the Stanford family gave it to the university for free. However, the professor discovered there was 9 to prevent the university from 10 companies to pay the university to use the land. This idea 11 the development of an area called Stanford Industrial Park. This business area was 12 in 1954. Several leading companies moved their offices there. These 48 businesses influenced other companies to move into or near the Stanford Industrial Park. 13 the beginning of the computer age, the Silicon Valley is very famous in the world. In the early 1970s, a(an) 14 named the area Silicon Valley in a series of stories for a publication called Electronic News. Young computer engineers with little 15 started companies in this area. Many of these companies are now large international businesses. One 16 is Apple Computers. The Silicon Valley is a name that has become so popular today that it is often used to 17 any area that is home to many electronics companies, such as Zhongguancun in China. 18 the first and most important Silicon Valley can still be 19 in California, America.

单选题It is often difficult for a man to be quite sure what tax he ought to pay to the government because it depends on so many different things: whether the man is married; how many children he has; whether he supports any relations; how much he earns; .how much interest he receives; how much he has spent on his house during the year, and so on and so forth. All this makes it difficult to decide exactly how much the tax is. There was a certain artist who was always very careful to pay the proper amount. One year, after posting his check as usual, he began to wonder if he had paid enough, and after a lot of work, with a pencil and paper, he decided that he had not. He believed that he owed the government something. He was just writing another check to send to the tax-collector when the postman dropped a letter into the box at the front door. Opening it, the artist was surprised to find inside it a check for five pounds from the tax-collector. The official explained that too much had been paid, and that therefore the difference was now returned to the taxpayer.

单选题They waved their hands and hats at last ______ to their friends and native land.

单选题—I wonder if I might have a quick look at your newspaper? —______. A. Look ahead B. Here you are C. Watch out D. There you go

单选题--The boy is Telling a lie. --How do you know? --His face has given him ______.

单选题What'sthemeaningof"anativeofTaiwan"?A.ApersonwhoisbornandbroughtupinTaiwan.B.ApersonwhocomesfromTaiwan.C.AnyoneinTaiwan.