单选题Whatisthefindingofthenewstudyofaspirin?A.Ithasbeenproventobethebestpainkiller.B.Itisapossiblecureforheartdisease.C.Itcanhelplowerhighbodytemperatureeffectively.D.Itreducesthechanceofdeathforheartsurgerypatients.

单选题 {{B}} Michael{{/B}} The future will not determine itself. The future is determined by the action of the present day. The future is not something imposed upon us by fate or other forces beyond our control. We ourselves build the future both through what we do and what we do not do.{{B}} Tony{{/B}} The future will see more unbelievable things. In the future, people will be able to predict their performance from the strength of the brain's electrical activity. Doctor Kramer has found that the strength of the brain's electrical activity can be measured through the scalp. Bosses would measure brain activity through the scalp and tell whether a worker is performing well, working hard, or too tired to do the job properly.{{B}} Mary{{/B}} In the new century, things around us will be more fascinating. The chemical gelatin in the brain is said to increase your desire for fat, when it is stimulated. This means that disturbances of this chemical gelatin can lead to overeating. Doctor Sarah Leibowits presented an academic paper suggesting that the appetite for fat-rich food can be controlled through drugs that block the effects of gelatin.{{B}} David{{/B}} In the future our life will change dramatically. It is quite certain that computers will play an important part in our life. You will visit your doctor, and find that he uses a computer screen and visual information about your condition, instead of his text books. Computers in your home will enable you to answer interactive question about your health and show the alternative results which will affect you if you act in a certain way.{{B}} Kate{{/B}} In the future, computers will change the way the doctors diagnose and treat their patients. Also doctors will change their traditional notion of medicine. Although pills for tension, heart conditions, being overweight and other life-threatening conditions are prescribed by Western doctors, most doctors now require patients to focus on a healthy way of living by changing diets and using more exercise as a means to keep well.{{I}} Now match each of the people (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement. Note: There are two extra statements.{{/I}}{{B}} Statements{{/B}} A. We create our own future. B. Changing diets and having exercise is a good way to stay healthy. C. Computers will play an essential role in our life. D. Pills for tension, overweight will no longer be prescribed by doctors. E. Your brain waves may be used to check out your work performance. F. People no longer need to see doctors. G. Chemical gelatin, once stimulated, can increase our desire of eating fat-rich food.

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单选题 A modern supermarket can be divided into three main sections: the entrance-exit area (including checkstands), the space along the four walls, and the central area that consists of long rows of two-sided shelves with aisles between them. The entrance of a supermarket always leads customers directly to the shopping carts and shopping baskets. Sometimes it is impossible to leave through the entrance because the automatic doors open only one way or because there is a turnstile inside the market that moves in one direction only. The walls near the entrance and exit are reserved for large and heavy items, so that customers can pick up these kinds of items on their way out. Ordinarily the back wall of a supermarket is reserved for meats. The meats are always arranged according to kind. Poultry, such as chicken and turkey, is in one part of the meat section. Pork is in another part, and lamb and beef in another. In the American supermarket, there is more beef than other kinds of meat. There isn' t much fish in most supermarkets and all kinds of meats come in plastic packages. The entire center section of the supermarket consists of numbered rows and aisles. Each row is a long section of two-sided shelves. Certain items, such as bread and pastry, are generally found together in the central aisle section of a supermarket. Most supermarkets also carry nonfood products like toilet paper, toothpaste, soap and detergents. "One-stop Shopping" is possible at a large supermarket, as customers can buy everything they need—both food and nonfood products—at one store.

单选题{{B}}{{I}}Questions 11～13 are based on the following dialogue between two colleagues.{{/I}}{{/B}}

单选题 Motivation is necessary in order to succeed. Whether you are working out to feel and look better, participating in the "Day of Silence" to support a cause, or working hard in school to get good grades and get accepted at one's college of choice, everything that people do has a motive behind it. However, motivation is a quality that many high school students seem to lack. Maybe it is because they feel as though the information that they are learning will never be useful to them, that they think their teachers are terrible, or that they simply "hate school." But no one else is forcing you to do your work. You've decided to take it on. It all comes down to what you want and what you are willing to do in order to get there. Minor setbacks often discourage people from trying. For example, if a student fails a French quiz, it could lead to him to not studying for a French test, and thereby not scoring well on it. Instead of allowing "feelings of inadequacy to get you down, think about all the things you do have and let those push you to succeed. Don't worry about or dwell on things that go wrong. Concentrate on your successes. Both UT Austin and Virginia Tech are readable and understandable websites for self help. The UT Austin site presents suggestions in bullet form and separates general motivation skills from academic ones. The Virginia Tech site also suggests ways to increase motivation, and then has a checklist. This list makes it easy for students to target the source of their poor motivation. Both sites seem to be aimed at college students, but they are perfectly suitable for high school students as well. Both websites were well presented and clear. However, in order to improve the Virginia Tech website, I would include a suggestion box after the checklist so after completing the list, after reading the suggestions from this box, one could have some sort of plan of action.

单选题On the night of September 2,1600, a fire broke out in a baker's shop near Fish Street Hill in London. Before the flames were finally put out, nearly the entire city had been reduced to ashes. Over thirteen thousand homes, fifty churches, and numerous public buildings and hospitals were lost in the blaze. For all practical purposes, London was destroyed. The Great Fire was not seen as a total tragedy, however. The miserable conditions of the city had been attacked by physicians and humanitarians for years before the fare, thus, with the opportunity clearly presented to create a shining new city, artists and craftsmen from all over England hurried to submit their designs for the rebuilding of London. Among those who submitted plans was Sir Christopher Wren, one of England's leading architects and the Surveyor General of London. The task of rebuilding the city was given to him. Wren realized that the Great Fire would not have been so damaging if the city had been better laid out: broader streets wore needed to replace the crooked, narrow lanes overhung with old wooden houses and shops. He also felt that redesigning the main streets of London would result in increased and more effective transportation within the city. Shortly after Wren began working on his first drafts for the rebuilding, King Charles I made an announcement prohibiting the construction of any house or shop within the city limits until after the plans were completed. When the plans were revealed to the citizens of London, however, they were overwhelmingly rejected. The most active leaders of the opposition were the landlords, who feared that such a complete widening of the streets would reduce the amount of land available for development. Winter was approaching; consequently, it was necessary for the rebuilding to proceed at once. Permission was therefore, granted for the town people and landlords to commence reconstruction of their houses and shops at the sites where they had been before the fare. Had the need for immediate action not been so pressing, some kind of compromise could likely have been reached. This was not to be, however, and the ideas that could have made London one of the world's most beautiful cities never came to pass.

单选题This passage is probably taken from a book ______.

单选题According to the passage, a large population will produce a chance for developing ______.

单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} Why do some new products succeed, bring millions of dollars to innovative companies, while others fail, often with great losses7 The answer is not simple, and certainly we cannot say that "good" products succeed while "bad" products fail. Many products that function well and seem to meet consumer needs have fallen by the wayside. Sometimes, virtually identical products exist in the market at the same time with one emerging as profitable while the other fails. Mc. Neal Laboratories' Tylenol has become successful as an aspirin substitute, yet Bristol Meyers entered the test market at about the same time with Neotrend, also a substitute for aspirin which quickly failed. The nature of the product is a factor in its success or failure, but the important point is that they should aim at meeting the customer's need, and the introductory promotion should seek to communicate that need satisfying quality and motivate the customer to try the product. Often, attitude change is involved, and, in the extreme, changes in life style may be sought. Here the company walks a tightrope. A new product is more likely to be successful if it represents a truly novel way of solving a customer problem, but this very newness, if carried too far, may ask the customer to learn new behavior patterns. The customer will make the change if the perceived benefit is sufficient, but inertia is strong and consumers will often not go to the effort that is required. During the late sixties and early seventies Bristol Meyers met with new product failures that exemplify both of these problems. In 1967 and 1968 the company entered the market with a $ 5 million advertising campaign for fact toothpaste, and an $11 million campaign to promote resolve. Both products failed quickly, not be cause they didn't work or because there was no consumer need, but apparently because consumers just could see no reason to shift from an already satisfactory product to a different one that promised no new benefit.

单选题Some time ago, I discovered that one of the chairs in my front hall had a broken leg. I didn't foresee any great difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a whole lot of antique shops on Pimlico Road which is three minutes' walk from my fiat, so I set forth one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop confidently expecting a friendly reception, with a kindly man saying, "What a charming chair! Yes, that's quite a simple job. When would you want it back? " I was quite wrong. I wasn't too concerned; after all, it was only the first try and there are many more shops on both sides of the road. The reaction at the second shop, though slightly politer, was just the same, and at the third and the fourth—so I decided that my approach must be wrong. I entered the fifth shop with some confidence because I had thought of a plan. I placed the chair gently on the floor, then the rather fierce shop owner looked it over carefully and said, "Yes, not a bad little chair, how much do you want for it?" "￡20," I said. "It's got a slightly broken leg," I said. "Yes, I saw that. It's nothing; don't worry about it. " "what will you do with it?" I asked. "Oh, it will be very saleable once the repair is done, I like the bit of old green velvet on the top, I shall leave that, yes, very saleable. " "I'll buy it," I said. "Yes, I know, but I've changed my mind; as a matter of fact, it is just what I'm looking for. I've got a pair to it at home; I'll give you ￡ 27 for it." "You must be crazy," he said; then suddenly the penny dropped and he smiled and said, "I know what you want, you want me to mend your chair." "And what would you have done if I had walked in and asked you to repair it for me?" "I wouldn't have done it," he said. "We don't do repairs, not enough money in it and too much of a nuisance(麻烦事情), but I'll mend this for you. /

单选题Educationalists are still arguing about ______.

单选题Questions 22～25 are based on the following monologue on T-shirts.

单选题Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题34 Queen RoadSydney, AustraliaOctober 6th, 2004Dear Wang Lan, How are you? It's been three months since I left China. After coming back, I miss you very much. Thank you for your photo. I like it very much. I can see it was very cold that day. Everything is covered with snow. You look really beautiful in that red coat. It's so cold in your country now, but it's hot here in Australia. We have beautiful sunshine every day. I often go swimming in a lake near my home. I enjoy it very much. I really miss the days when we had together, the days when we went lo the park, the days when we rode bikes all round the city, the days when we studied each other's languages, the days when we met problems in our life but we finally made them out ... These are all beautiful days in my life. I'll remember them all through my life! Please send my regards to your father and your mother. Thank you for the big meal! Sincerely yours, Lora

单选题 When next year's crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they'll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost (教务长) of Yale, who'll become Oxford's vice-chancellor—a position equivalent to university president in America. Hamilton isn't the only educator crossing the Atlantic. Schools in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc, have also recently made top-level hires from abroad. Higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays, and like so many businesses, it's gone global. Yet the talent flow isn't universal. High-level personnel tend to head in only one direction: outward from America. The chief reason is that American schools don't tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the university's budget. "We didn't do any global consideration," says Patricia Hayes, the board's chair. The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist (活动家) who is likely to do well in the main task of modern university presidents: fund-raising. Fund-raising is a distinctively American thing, since U.S. schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity. Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly dependent on government funding. But government support has failed to keep pace with rising student number. The decline in government support has made funding-raising an increasing necessary ability among administrators and has hiring committees hungry for Americans. In the past few years, prominent schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2003, when Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost, as its vice-chancellor, the university publicly stressed that in her previous job she had overseen "a major strengthening of Yale's financial position." Of course, fund-raising isn't the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind of promoting international programs and attracting a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.