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

单选题The word "radical" in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.

单选题 {{B}}Valentine' s Day{{/B}} February 14th welcoming spring. It is very popular to send cards and flowers to express love. Sometimes people put their love message in a heart-shaped box of chocolate, or a bunch of flowers tied with red ribbons. Many couples arrange romantic dinners by candle light for this occasion. Universities also hold a Sweethearts' Ball for the young students to celebrate the Valentine' s Day. {{B}}Easter Day{{/B}} It is the second of the two most important religious holidays for Christians. On the Easter morning, millions of people gather at open spaces to salute another Easter dawn for there is a rising of hope and joy. Eggs and bunnies are those symbols often associated with Easter. The Easter Parade is very popular in the United States. The most famous one is along the Fifth Avenue in New York City. University students usually have a "Spring Break" to return home to spend the holiday with their parents. {{B}}Halloween{{/B}} It is a time for frightening costumes, masks, and tricks — all for fun. Children with curious masks go from house to house to frighten people and threaten them with "trick or treat" (Give me something nice, or I' ll play a trick on you.). Since 1950, most children have asked for pennies instead of candies for UNICEF to help children in other countries, for which the 1956 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to American children. {{B}}Thanksgiving Day{{/B}} It is an annual day of thanks for the blessings people have enjoyed during the year. The theme has always been peace and health and happiness. The first National Thanksgiving Day was set on Nov. 26, 1789 by George Washington in his inauguration. In 1839, Lincoln appointed the last Thursday of Nov. to be the day. Americans usually have such traditional food as roast turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce and so on. {{B}}Christmas Day{{/B}} It celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. It is a time of warmth and love, hospitality and good will. The Christmas tree is very popular during this time because people think it can bring good luck. Most people exchange presents and send cards to their friends. Adults also leave the brightly wrapped packages under Christmas trees and children have fun for guessing what special surprises are in store for them. Most families go to church on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning.{{I}} Now match each of the festivals with the appropriate statement. Note: there are two extra statements.{{/I}} {{B}}Statements{{/B}} [A] It is sentimental and full of accidents. [B] It is religious and full of love. [C] It is romantic and full of love. [D] It is unpractical and full of daydreams. [E] It is horrible and full of fun.[F] It is peaceful and full of happiness.[G] It is religious and full of hope.

单选题 Autonomous robots are able to move and decide by themselves. At a simple level, these can include robot vacuum cleaners that "decide" what to react to human behaviors without human intervention. The University of the West of England's David McGoran takes his Heart Robot on a touchy feely tour, allowing it to come face to face with a spider-like robot built by Matt Denton of Micromagic Systems. Both robots are being displayed at the London Science Museum until July 31st. The heart robot that "enjoys" being hugged and stroked could be among the first robots to signify a new era of "emotional machines" used for medical treatment and enjoyment, according to one of its inventors. It has a beating heart which rises when the body is shaken, but slows down when treated calmly. In addition, Heart's eyes flutter in response to touch. David McGoran, of the University of the West of England, predicts the part-puppet, part-machine creation he helped develop is an example of how robots will increasingly adopt human characteristics. "Right now we're seeing the first implementations in toys," he told BBC News. "There are little robotic dinosaurs. There's a new robotic toy from the film Wall-E that's coming out, and that's a very expressive robot." Nevertheless he believes there could be major implications for social care, with research already taking place into giving elderly care homes robots that express emotions. "This raises really interesting social and ethical questions," said Mr. McGoran. He added that there could be many benefits, particularly for people taking medical treatment. "If scientists can put this natural interface into robots then it would be much easier for us to relate to robots." The Heart Robot is on display alongside a face-tracking insect-like robot. The "ic Hexapod" by Micromagic Systems has been programmed to recognize human facial features and follow people as they move around. It tracks human faces and takes photos. Like the Heart Robot, it is billed as an example of the increasingly sophisticated ways in which machines are able to recognize and mimic human behavior.

单选题One major difference between the look-say method of learning reading and tile phonics method is______.

单选题The word "like" in an ad often focuses the consumer' s attention on ______.

单选题Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题 {{I}}Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.{{/I}}

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单选题What'sthepurposeofthistalk?

单选题The 30-day forecast is determined by examining ______.

单选题Howlongwilltheadultsandteenagersinthisprogramlivetogether?A.Fiveweeks.B.Sixweeks.C.Sevenweeks.D.Eightweeks.

单选题 Questions 15 ～ 17 are based on the following conversation.

单选题When they marry, husbands and wives have well-developed health histories and well-established inborn and developmental habits toward good and iii health. Substantial research suggests that, given the existing health tendency and health condition of an individual at a particular time, his or her probability of better or worse future health is affected by a variety of social factors that are subject to influence or operation by his or her spouse. Spouses can affect each other's health by developing psychological stress. A substantial literature develops strong evidence that psychological stress causes illness, increase risk of death rate, and serves as an important mechanism that links socioeconomic characteristics to health and death rate. Stress-reducing mechanisms include removal of sources of stress, and management of stress by talking about it to a trusted person, psychological treatment, physical exercise, recreation and other means. You can go to see professionals, but they cannot give a satisfactory solution. A spouse can provide or encourage all of these stress-reducing behaviors. Spouses also can promote each other's health by providing each other with supporting social contact, and they can facilitate or inhibit each other's social contact with others. Evidence suggests that health is greatly advanced by supporting social contacts, including positive interaction with relatives, friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Recent experimental data shows that persons with more diverse social networks are more resistant to psychological diseases than persons with less diverse social networks. Spouses can also promote each other's health by providing each other with money, and they can help each other manage money effectively. Money does not buy health directly, but it can be used to purchase goods and services that make good health more likely. These goods and services include nutritious food, a tidy and safe environment, medical care, and pleasant things that reduce psychological stress. Unless estranged or unusually wealthy, husbands and wives almost always share their financial resources and purchase and consume many of these health-promoting goods and services together. In short, there are many ways in which spouses can influence each other's probability of good health.

单选题Questions 14-17 are based on the following dialogue.

单选题"I ask you to drink to his health as a young man full the spirit of adventure who has lit up the world with a flash of courage." With these words, the British Minister of Air turned and raised his glass to the young man who sat beside him—a young man who, only a month before, was completely unknown. Yet, on that summer day in 1927 his name was on the world's lips — Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly the Atlantic alone. He had been an air mail pilot, flying back and forth between Chicago and the city of St. Louis. Determined to win the ＄25,000 prize offered by a fellow American for the first flight from New York to Paris, Lindbergh had persuaded a group of St. Louis businessmen to finance the building of a special plane for him. The news that Lindbergh intended to fly the Atlantic alone was received with disbelief. The plane would never fly, people said. It would run out of fuel. It had only a single engine. Lloyds of London refused to insure the flight. Men called Lindbergh the "flying fool". But on May 20th, 1927, just after ten to eight in the morning, Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis", heavily laden with fuel, struggled into the air from a New York airfield. For several hours the weight of the petrol prevented the young pilot from flying more than a few feet above the wavetops. Night came and thick fog covered up the stars. Lindbergh flew steadily on, hoping that his course was the right one. He struggled to keep awake, checking the fuel all the time to keep his mind active. Through the next day the "Spirit of St. Louis" flew on over the seemingly limitless sea. Then a fishing boat appeared, and, an hour later, land. It was Ireland. Lindbergh set a compass course for Paris. By ten o'clock the lights of France's capital were shining beneath him. Tired, unshaved, suddenly hungry, the "flying fool" came to Le Bourget airport, and landed in front of a huge crowd of wildly cheering people. After 34 hours of continuous piloting, the flight of 3,600 miles was over.

单选题Women are quite often competent drivers, but they are very seldom consistently first-class. At best they are a mild hazard, at worst potentially lethal. A wise male driver will always give them plenty of road and still be on the look-out for the unpredictable to happen. This deficiency has nothing to do with their lack of ability to cope with the mechanical complexities of the vehicle; it is due to an inherent, characteristic which, in certain other circumstances, may be highly desirable, but which, behind the wheel, is deadly. It is their lust for talking. Women together in a car succumb to this need and when they talk they look into each other's faces. Simple words are insufficient. It is necessary for them to see the expression of their partners and so read the meaning the words leave unsaid. When talking instead of listening, they look to estimate the reaction their words have had. Thus two women in the front of a car repeatedly distract each other's attention from the road and represent an incredible danger because the one nominally driving the car feels it necessary not only to see and hear what her companion is talking about but also, such is her nature, what those in the back are discussing in case it is anything into which she can inject an added opinion, or in the hope of collecting fresh fuel to feed other fires on later occasions. Quite apart from this factor, which means that the road ahead is often an unknown quantity, women seldom use the driving mirror except for cosmetic purposes ,after which its position gives the driver little indication of the state of the road behind. A final important factor that seems to lie at the back of feminine attitudes to driving is that comparatively few women have the feel for a machine that so many men have; the satisfaction of a slick changedown means nothing to them. The co-ordination between the various manoeuvres, an operation which gives many men a boost of pride, is only a momentary lapse in their concentration on the topic in hand.

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