单选题Whatisthewomanwillingtodo?

单选题Wheredoestheconversationmostprobablytakeplace?

单选题Howdidthenameof"computervirus"comeintobeing?A.Itresemblesthebiologicalvirus.B.Itworksthesamewayasthehumanvirus.C.Itinfluencesthehumanasthebiologicalvirusesdo.D.Itspreadstopeoplewhousetheinfectedcomputers.

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} To enjoy a longer life has been a dream for mankind since always. With the improvement of health care, nutrition and health knowledge, we began to make dramatic efforts to reduce the effects of the forces that had traditionally shortened human existence. 10 million to 17 million people aged 65 or older made up less than 1 percent of the world's population in 1900. Survival rates began to climb for infants, children and women of childbearing age, gradually lifting humanity's average life span. By 2000, 606 million were aged 60 or older, and they made up almost 10 percent of the world's population. According to the United Nations report World Population Prospects, by 2050 that group could swell to 1.9 billion and constitute one fifth of the world's projected population. But it is not all about to live a longer life. And it would not be such a good idea to live your last years in illness and pain. In fact, it would turn into a torture. No, we want to live better, more youthful days while we're living longer. Diet, exercise and a lucky draw from the gene pool can take us only so far, however. That's where science comes in. As medicine tries to find out the means to extend life, culture and its institutions will have to deal with the consequences of success. Age-entitlement programs, such as Social Security, were formed when younger workers far outnumbered retirees, who drew benefits for only a few years; what reforms will longer lives require? When savings are used up by parents who may be retired for up to one third of their lives? And, equally important, how will we make our extra years emotionally rewarding and rich? Medicine will continue to advance, and, we expect, society and policymakers will have to learn to adapt to the challenges of longevity-both providing it and providing for it-that await us all.

单选题 {{I}}Questions 11-13 are based on the following dialogue.{{/I}}

单选题"Is jazz a kind of folk music? Is it a performing style? How is it different from other kinds of music?" There is no simple answer to these questions, because the most important quality of jazz comes from its unique combination of different musical sources over a period of almost 400 years. The quality that unites the many different jazz forms is, in some degree, separate from its musical sources. That quality is the expression of freedom. The idea of freedom is central. The ancestors of jazz were black people from West Africa who were brought to America as slaves, or forced laborers, from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s. Most of them remained slaves until President Lincoln set them free on January 1, 1863, at the midpoint of the American Civil War. With the less of their personal freedom and the breaking up of their families, the slaves also borrowed the social traditions of their music from Africa. The complex rhythms of this music involved a number of people performing together. The breaking apart of these social groups forced slaves to create new songs--that is, to develop a completely new musical tradition. Using some of the remembered African rhythms, the slaves gradually began to add some features of the European classical music that was played by the white slave owners. The slaves were also influenced by American folk songs. But the result of adding these borrowed elements to the complex African rhythms was the beginning of a completely new kind of music. Still, this music only existed privately among groups of slaves. The slaves' work had another effect on their music. It introduced new kinds of music rhythms. Some of these rhythms became work songs to accompany their planting end picking of cotton. Other rhythms were developed by teams of workers who needed to lift heavy loads of cotton onto carts that passed through the fields. Later, during the building of the railroads, individual workers created new songs to match the sharp rhythms of steel striking, as they fixed the rails into place.

单选题{{B}} Directions:{{/B}} You are going to hear four conversations. Before listening to each conversation, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. After listening, you will have time to answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear each conversation ONLY ONCE. Mark your answers in your test booklet. {{B}} Questions 11 ～ 13 are based on the following conversation.{{/B}}

单选题You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.

单选题How many steps in producing A book are mentioned in the passage?

单选题Why should the British be so interested in the vagaries of their climate? The key lies in its unpredictability. Its swings of mood don't bear out its dull reputation at all. Far from always having the drizzly, mediocre summers and mild, wet winters of popular misconception, British weather can switch rapidly from drought to flood, damp cold to oppressive heat. Each dramatic change catches Britons on the hop. The summer of 1976 contained the longest spell of continuous heat, while in August 1990 temperatures reached the highest ever recorded: 98.8°F (37.1℃). Hurricanes in 1987 and 1990 caused several deaths and uprooted thousands of trees, Western film style dust "devils" have blown through the lanes of Surrey, and waves higher than a double-decker bus submerged a seaside town in Wales. Such violent extremes are made all the harder to bear because national habits, buildings and clothing are simply not designed to cope with them. Few homes or offices have fans or air conditioning to alleviate the summer's heat. In winter, heating and insulation systems work at half-cock, while road and rail networks inevitably come to a standstill in anything more than an inch of snow (British Rail, brought to a halt by one light snowfall, said it was the "wrong kind" of snow). Unwary motorists, villagers and livestock disappear under mounds of drifting snow in a manner that puzzles Continentals used to handling such seasonal hazards. The British have a strange pride in describing their childhood bedrooms in winter. These were often of such incredible coldness that parental false teeth and pet goldfish supposedly froze solid in their water overnight. They like to pretend to ignore the weather. They would prefer to pit themselves against the worst the elements can throw at them, rather than make themselves comfortable, which would be wimpish. So, in summer's oven heat, they do not hide in tree-shaded piazzas or close their shutters to keep the tiled floor cool. Their cities are designed to ensure that streets become sweltering canyons, while over-furnished homes become more stuffy. In winter, people frequently dress inadequately, as if out of bravado. Women slush through icy pavements to the shops wearing carpet slippers. Men sweat in summer traffic jams in heavyweight synthetic suits, tie only slightly loosened.

单选题Whydoesthewomanrefusetogotheparty?

单选题{{I}} Questions 11 ～ 13 are based on a talk by a speaker about hamburgers.{{/I}}

单选题Questions 11 --14 are based on the following dialogue.

单选题In Japan many workers for large corporations have a guarantee of lifetime employment. They will not be laid off during recessions or when the tasks they perform are taken over by robots. To some observers, this is capitalism at its best, because workers are treated as people not things. Others see it as necessarily inefficient and believe it cannot continue if Japan is to remain competitive with foreign corporations more concerned about profits and less concerned about people. Defenders of the system argue that those who call it inefficient do not understand how it really works, In the first place not every Japanese worker has the guarantee of a lifetime job. The lifetime employment system includes only "regular employees". Many employees do not fall into this category, including all women. All businesses have many part-time and temporary employees. These workers are hired and laid off during the course of the business cycle just as employees in the United States are. These "irregular workers" make up about 10 percent of the nonagricultural work force. Additionally, Japanese firms maintain some flexibility through the extensive use of subcontractors. This practice is much more common in Japan than in the United States. The use of both subcontractors and temporary workers has increased markedly in Japan since the 1974—1975 recession. All this leads some to argue that the Japanese system is not all that different from the American system. During recessions Japanese corporations lay off temporary workers and give less business to subcontractors. In the United States, corporations lay off those workers with the least seniority. The difference then is probably less than the term "lifetime employment" suggests, but there still is a difference. And this difference cannot be understood without looking at the values of Japanese society. The relationship between employer and employee cannot be explained in purely contractual terms. Firms hold on to the employees and employees stay with one firm. There are also practical reasons for not jumping from job to job. Most retirement benefits come from the employer. Changing jobs means losing these benefits. Also, teamwork is an essential part of Japanese production. Moving to a new firm means adapting to a different team and at least temporarily, lower productivity and lower pay.