单选题The author was not worried about the broken leg of the chair at first because_______.

单选题When a population is said to be aging, ______.

单选题Text The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases (26) the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant (27) of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a (28) bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (29) and will strictly control the a mount of (30) that can be given to a case (31) a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he (32) with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not (33) sufficient control. (34) of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (35) of media protest when he said the (36) of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges (37) to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which (38) the European Convention on Human Rights legally (39) in Britain, laid down that everybody was (40) to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. “Press freedoms will be in safe hands (41) our British judges,” he said. Witness payments became an (42) after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995.Up to 19 witnesses were (43) to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised (44) witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to (45) guilty verdicts.

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}}