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单选题whatdoesthewomanfindinherbook?A.Aphotograph.B.Aninscription.C.Anoldenvelope.D.Alistofprices.

单选题To get a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking: The box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived, the cellophane wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed, the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this overuse of wrapping is not confined to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in beautiful wrapping. The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up scarce energy and resources and messing up the environment. Recycling is already happening with milk bottles which are returned to the dairies, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles. The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs. It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and reuse of various materials and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers as opposed to producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and make things look better so more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly. What is needed now is a more advanced approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.

单选题As we have seen, the focus of medical care in our society has been shifting from curing disease to preventing disease—especially in terms of changing our many unhealthy behaviors, such as poor eating habits, smoking, and failure to exercise. The line of thought involved in this shift can be pursued further. Imagine a person who is about the right weight, but does not eat very nutritious (有营养的) foods, who feels OK but exercises only occasionally, who goes to work every day, but is not an outstanding worker, who drinks a few beers at home most nights but does not drive while drunk, and who has no chest pains or abnormal blood counts, but sleeps a lot and often feels tired. This person is not ill. He may not even be at risk for any particular disease. But we can imagine that this person could be a lot healthier. The field of medicine has not traditionally distinguished between someone who is merely "not ill" and someone who is in excellent health and pays attention to the body"s special needs. Both types have simply been called "well". In recent years, however, some health specialists have begun to apply the terms "well" and "wellness" only to those who are actively striving to maintain and improve their health. People who are well are concerned with nutrition and exercise, and they make a point of monitoring their body"s condition. Most important, perhaps, people who are well take active responsibility for all matters related to their health. Even people who have a physical disease or handicap (缺陷) may be "well" in this new sense, if they make an effort to maintain the best possible health they can in the face of their physical limitations. "Wellness" may perhaps best be viewed not as a state that people can achieve, but as an ideal that people can strive for. People who are well are likely to be better able to resist disease and to fight disease when it strikes. And by focusing attention on healthy ways of living, the concept of wellness can have a beneficial impact on the ways in which people face the challenges of daily life.

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单选题I did not know the city at all and, what is more, I couldn't speak a word of the language. After having spent my first day sight-seeing in the town-center, I decided to lose my way deliberately on my second day, since I believed that this was the surest way of getting to know my way around. I got on the first bus that passed and descended some thirty minutes later in what must have been a suburb. The first two hours passed pleasantly enough. I discovered mysterious little book-shops in back streets and finally arrived at a market-place where I stopped and had coffee in an open-air calf. Then I decided to get back to my hotel for lunch. After walking about aimlessly for some time, I determined to ask the way. The trouble was that the only word I knew of the language was the name of the street in which I lived — and even that I pronounced badly. I stopped to asked a friendly-looking newspaper-seller. He smiled and handed me a paper. I shook my head and repeated the name of the street and he thrust the paper into my hands. Seeing that it would be impossible to argue about the matter, I gave him some money and went on my way. The next person I asked was an old lady who was buying vegetables. She was very hard of hearing and I repeated the word several times. When she finally heard me, she seemed to take offence and began shouting and shaking her walking-stick at me. I hurried away quickly and was relieved to see a policeman on a corner. He certainly would be able to help me. The policeman listened attentively to my question, smiled and gently took me by the arm. There was a distant look in his eyes as he pointed left and right and left again. He glanced at me for approval, and repeated the performance. I nodded politely and began walking in the direction he pointed. About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting fewer and green fields were appearing on either side on me. I had come all the way into the country. The only thing left for me to do was to find the nearest railway-station!

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单选题 Do you find it very difficult and painful to get up in the morning? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle. During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you're "hot". That's true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as: "Get up, Peter! "You'll be late for work again!" The possible explanation to the trouble is that Peter is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrel ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has. You can't change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you're sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning, but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won't change your cycle, but you'll get up steam and work better at your low point. Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

单选题Text … The message of 1 such as this is 2 natural systems are complex, unpredictable: understanding them 3 patient observation and 4 analysis. The lack of these conditions explains why, in the early modern era, grass snakes were killed as venomous, and gardeners 5 worms because they 6 gnaw plant roots. The assumption that people "ought" to know about such things is based on an urban-rural divide that opened up in the 18th century. For a 7 of centuries, city and country people did 8 separate realms. But the car, the phone, the media and the Internet have contributed to the 9 tendency of what we call modern lifestyle; and the vast population 10 from cities into rural areas blurred the difference 11 urban and rural. Thus, a new word—"rurban" —has been coined to 12 this condition. Most of us now work 13 or in an office, and 14 we are involved in our primary industries, we are 15 more likely to be staring 16 a computer than 17 with the landscape. Human life has turned generally into a 18 by work, sleep, shopping and TV—all 19 identical 20 performed in town or country.

单选题John Shilling is a twenty-year-old student at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. It is a small school (1) different from Cornell University in New York State which is huge and famous. John (2) have gone to any college of his (3) , but he chose this school because of its small size and its excellent (4) in his major field—physics. He likes Cornell as well as he (5) to. There are just three students in his physics class, (6) the professor often invites the three to his home for dinner. (7) maintaining an "A" average in his (8) , John finds time to play (9) the football and tennis teams, and he has (10) with his girl friend, Linda Spies. They study together in the library (11) go for walks in the nearby meadow. Linda, who is (12) in elementary education, is one of the many college students who give free (13) to children of poor families in a city near Cornell. John, (14) nearly half his classmate, has a scholarship that pays (15) of his college expense. He works as a laboratory (16) to help pay other bills, and during the summer he earns (17) money at a factory in his hometown, Madison, Wisconsin. John's (18) for the future is to teach physics for a few years in a university and then to (19) his life to research in science. First, (20) , he hopes for two years' experience in another country serving in the Peace Corps.

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单选题To hunt for the buried treasure, John and Rudi ______.

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单选题{{I}} You will hear 4 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer—[A], [B], [C], or[D]. You will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.{{/I}}

单选题 Questions 15-18 are based on an interview between a magazine reporter and a famous negotiator．