单选题What does the man wish to do?

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Rowena and Billy Wrangler are model high school students. They study hard and do extremely well on achievement tests. And next year, Rowena will be attending Harvard University. Billy, her younger brother, hopes to go to Cornell. What makes Rowena and Billy different from most students is that they don't go to school. In fact, they've never been to school. Since kindergarten, they've studied at home. Neither Rowena nor Billy feels as if they've missed out on anything by being taught at home. Like many of more than one million people who receive home schooling in the United States, they feel as if they've gotten a good education. The home-schooling trend began in the U. S. in the 1980s with parents keeping their children out of public schools so they could provide religious education at home. Today, as the home-schooling trend continues to grow, parents are more likely to consider home schooling as an option because they believe schools don't do a very good job of teaching and are occasionally dangerous places. But can parents really do a better job? The answer in many cases is yes. In many studies, students taught at home ranked average or above average when compared to students who went to public schools. More importantly, these students were often more self-directed and have a greater depth of knowledge. "They are very well prepared for academic challenges," says Patricia Riordan, the dean of admissions at George Mason University. One such student, Robert Conrad, now a sophomore at university, claims he really learned how to study and schedule his time during his eight years of home schooling. Still, not every student is as successful as Robert. "For every home-schooling success story, there are an equal number of failures," states Henry Lipscomb, an educational researcher. "There are just so many disadvantages that students taught at home have to overcome. " For example, they have fewer chances to interact with others of their own age. Consequently, they sometimes lack the usual social skills. "No matter what, though," states Lipscomb, "home-schooling is a growing trend. I think we'll be seeing more and more of this. /

单选题A scientist who does research in economic psychology and who wants to predict way in which consumers will spend their money must study consumer behaviors. He must obtain data both on the resources of consumers and on the motives, that tend to encourage or discourage money spending. If an economist were asked which one of the three groups borrow most— people with rising incomes, stable incomes, or declining incomes— he would probably answer: those with declining incomes. Actually, in the years 1947 to 1950, the answer was: people with rising incomes. People with declining incomes were next and people with stable incomes borrowed the least. This shows us that traditional assumption is that if people who have money expect prices to go up, they will hasten to buy. If they expect prices to go down, they will postpone buying. But research surveys have shown that this is not always true. The expectations of income increases may not stimulate buying. One typical attitude was expressed by the wife of a mechanic in an interview at a time of rising prices. "In a few months," she said, "we"ll have to pay more for meat and milk, we"ll have less to spend on other things." Furthermore, the rise in prices that has already taken place may be resented and buyer"s resistance may be evoked. This is shown by the following typical comment: "I just don"t pay these prices, they are too high." Traditional assumptions should be investigated carefully, and factors of time and place should be considered. The investigations mentioned above were carried out in America. Investigations conducted at the same time in Great Britain, however, yielded results that were more in agreement with traditional assumptions about saying and spending patterns. The condition most conductive to spending appears to be price stability. If prices here been stable and people have become accustomed, to consider them "right" and expect them to remain stable, they are likely to buy. Thus, it appears that the common business policy of maintaining stable prices with occasional sales or discounts is based on a correct understanding of consumer psychology.

单选题Whatdoesthemanmean?

单选题Whydoesthespeakersaythatpickingsomebody'spocketisanhonorableprofessioninsoutheastLondon?

单选题Whyaremothersfedupwiththeirjobs?A.Becausethejobsaredifficult.B.Becausethejobsmakethemhavelittletimefortheirchildren.C.Becausetheirchildrenandfamilyareintrouble.D.Becausetheydon'tlikethejobs.

单选题Man cannot continue (26) his numbers (27) the present rate. In the (28) thirty years man will face a period of crisis. (29) experts believe that there will be a widespread food (30) Other experts think this is (31) pessimistic, and that man can keep things (32) worse than they are now. But (33) that two thirds of the people in the world are undernourished or starving now. One thing that man can do is to limit (34) of babies born. The need (35) this is obvious, but it is not easy to achieve. People have to (36) to limit their families. In the countries of the population (37) ,many people like big families. The parents think that this (38) a bigger income for the family and ensures there will be someone in the family who will look (39) them in old age. Several governments have (40) birth control policies in recent years. (41) them are Japan, China, India and Egypt. In some (42) the results have not been (43) . Japan has been an exception. The Japanese adopted a birth control policy in 1948. People (44) to limit their families. The birth rate fell from 34.3 per thousand per year to about 17.0 per thousand per year (45) .

单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or D on your ANSWER SHEET. Folk toys are those whose designs have passed down through the generations, made by hand and not in factories. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}manufactured toys, they are not protected by copyrights or patents, {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}have they been standardized by machine production. Early folk toys were made of natural materials {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}wood, cloth, metal, earth, and {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}found materials. Wood was often used {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}it was available, easily worked, and required no painting. Toys were considered unimportant, so {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}was written about them. A parent made toys for a child, or children themselves made toys. The toys often were {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}made and used action movements. Traditionally, fathers and boys have been most interested in {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}toys, while mothers and girls have {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}dolls and needlework. Folk toys include action toys, models, games, puzzles, and dolls. This basic {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}can be enlarged to include skill toys, balance toys, flying toys, shooting toys, {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}incorporating music or noise, and animated toys. The {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}name is lost in history, and the descriptive names given to the toys {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Typical names include Bullroarer, Jacob's Ladder, and Limber Jack. Early settlers of the Appalachian region mostly came from Germany, England, Scotland, and Ireland, {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}knowledge of folk toys from their home countries. The designs often were {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}in the process of handing them {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}, so now there are many variations. The making of homemade toys decreased in {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}of prosperity, when people could {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}manufactured toys. Recently there is a new {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}for the mountain folk toy heritage, {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}And handcrafted toys are sometimes bought in preference to manufactured toys.

单选题Questions 4-7 are based on a talk about the film.

单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} The long years of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing is virtually suspended, and overseas suppliers have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet instead of joy, there is widespread uneasiness and confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising, when there seems to be so much more food about7 Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay7 Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing more food at home? No one knows what to expect. The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britain's overseas suppliers of meat, too, are offering more this year and home production has also risen. But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has been made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shops are overstocked with food net only because there is more food available, but also because people, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it. Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world prices have begun to fall, with the result that imported food, with the exception of grain, is often cheaper than the home-produced variety. And now grain prices, too, are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit from this trend. The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generations have seen it all happen before. Despite the present price and market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food imports and a shrinking home market. Present production is running at 51 per cent above pre-war levels, and the government has called for an expansion to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated Ministerial advice is carrying little weight and the expansion program is not working very well.

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单选题Could you ______ me a hand when we are in trouble? A. borrow B. lend C. take

单选题Whatisthemansuggesting?

单选题 {{I}}Questions 15 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.{{/I}}

单选题Th author's attitude towards women taking a career is _______.