单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}} 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 1.{{/I}} {{B}} Text{{/B}} To find out what the weather is going to be, most people go directly to the television, the radio or newspaper to get a weather forecast. But {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}you know what to look for, you can use your own {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}to make weather predictions. There are many {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}which can help you. For example, in fair weather the air pressure is generally {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}. The air is still and often full of dust. Faraway objects may look {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}. But when a storm is gathering, the pressure {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}and you are often able to see things {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}clearly. Sailors took note of this long ago and came {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}with a saying "The farther the sight, the nearer the rain." Your sense of {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}can also help you find weather changes. Just {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}it rains, odours become stronger. This is {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}odours are suppressed in a fair, high-pressure center. When a bad weather low moves {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}, air pressure lessens and odours are {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}. You can also hear a(n) {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}storm. An old saying {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}it this way: "Sound travelling far and wide, a stormy day will betide." And don't {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}if your grandfather says he can {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}a storm coming. It is commonly known {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}} many people feel pains in their bones when the humidity {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}, the pressure drops, and bad weather is on the {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}.

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单选题The reforms that Horace Mann achieved were ______.

单选题The scientists were searching for minerals by using __________.

单选题In many businesses, computers have largely replaced paper work, because they are fast, and do not make mistakes. AS one bank manager said, "unlike humans, computers never have a bad day." And they are honest. Many banks put advertisements in the newspaper showing that their business deals are "untouched by human hands" and therefore safe from human temptation. Obviously, computers have no reason to steal money. But they also have no conscience, and the growing number of computer crimes shows they can be used to steal. Computer criminals don't use guns. And even if they are caught, it is hard to punish them because there are no witnesses and often no evidence. A computer cannot remember who used it; it simply does what it is told. One clerk at a New York City bank used a computer to steal more than one end a half million dollars in just four years. No one noticed this because he moved money from one account to another. Each time a customer he had robbed questioned the balance in his account, the clerk claimed a computer error, then replaced the missing money from some one else's account. This clerk was caught only because he was gambling. When the police broke up an illegal gambling operation, his name was put in the records. Some employees use the computer's power to get revenge on employers they consider unfair. Recently, a large insurance company fired its computer-tape librarian for reasons that involved her personal rather than her professional life. She was given thirty days' notice. In those thirty days, she wiped out all the company's programmed records in the computer. Most computer criminals have been minor employees. But police wonder if it is true. As one official says, "I have a feeling that there is more crime out there than we ere catching. What we are seeing now is all so poorly done. I wonder what the real experts are doing- the ones who really know how a computer works./

单选题Whatisthesubjectofthisconversation?A.HowandwhenwecelebrateThanksgiving.B.ThetraditionalThanksgivingdinner.C.WhenThanksgivingbegan.D.AbrahamLincoln.

单选题Questions 18-21 are based on the following dialogue.

单选题Whatdoesthemanmean?A.Helenthisnotestoaclassmate.B.Heforgottoborrowthenotes.C.Hedoesn'thaveanexam.D.Helefthisnotesinclass.

单选题"Too many people view their jobs as a five-day prison from which they are paroled every Friday," says Joel Gookman, founder of The Humor Project, a humor-consulting group in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Humor unlocks the office prison because it lets adults bring some of their childlike spirit to the job. According to Howard Pollio, professor of psychology at the University of Tennesse, Knoxville, an office with humor breaks is an office with satisfied and productive employees. Pollio conducted a study that proved humor can help workers excel at routine production task. Employees perform better when they have fun. In large corporations with a hierarchy of power, there is often no outlet for stress, "Every company needs underground ways of poking fun at the organization," says Lynn M. Mark, a speaker on workplace humor for St. Mary's Health Center in St. Louis. Kodak's Rochester, N.Y., branch discovered a way for its 20,000 employees to uncork their bottomed-up resentments. Their 1,000-square-foot "Humor Room" features a "toy store." Among the room's many stress-reducing gadgets, the main attraction is a boss doll with Velcro arms and legs. Employees can dismantle the boss, as long as they put its arms and legs back in place. Every April Fool's day, Sun Microsystems of mountain View, Calif., concocts an intricate hoax aimed at one of its employees. One year, CEO Scott McNealy's office was decorated as a one-hole, par-four miniature golf course. The annual gag does so much for encouraging teamwork and boosting morale that the company has set aside an April Fool's hoax budget. Sandy Cohen, owner of a graphic print-production business, created "The Quote Board" to document the bizarre phrases people say when under strict deadlines. "When you're under stress, you say stupid things," says Cohen. "Now we just look at each other and say, That's one for the Quote Board!/

单选题Whatdoesthewomanmean?

单选题WhatdoesthemanthinkofCuracao?A.Itisdifficulttoreach.'B.Itisatouristparadise.C.Itisaperfectplaceforsports.D.Itisanordinarytropicalisland.

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单选题WhatwilltheweatherprobablybelikeonThursday?

单选题It is implied that venture capital is often ______.

单选题Soon after the two hen birds had arrived______.