单选题Life insurance, before available only to young, healthy persons , can now be obtained for old people, and even for pets.

单选题The underlined word "reside" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

单选题Senator James Meeks has called off a boycott of Chicago Public Schools, organized to protest Illinois education funding system. A. reclaimed B. proposed C. canceled D. indulged

单选题Considering the age and his family"s poor living conditions and environments, he was not punished by the police as he should have been.

单选题Scarcely had the van turned the comer than the mirror came off.

单选题Many of the electric and electronic products we purchase and consume today are what some industrial experts call "homogeneous toys". A. identical B. homosexual C. unrelated D. distinguishable

单选题My students found the book ______ it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject. A. enlightening B. confusing C. distracting D. amusing

单选题Our company has been made one of the largest manufacturers in the field of chemical industry. A. become, in B. made. in field of C. became, in the field D. been made of, in

单选题According to the newly released documents, this idea of rectification will be made known to all fields of the superstructure. A. spheres B. spears C. communities D. branches

单选题Daylight saving time was instituted to increase productivity.

单选题The first recorded use of natural gas to light street lamps it was in the town of Frederick, New York, in 1825.

单选题Much ______ I have traveled, I have never seen anyone to equal her for thoroughness, whatever the job. A. when B. more C. farther D. as

单选题Whenever we hear of a natural disaster, we feel sympathetic to the people to be affected .

单选题James"s independence of mind and his ability to go beyond the ______ once again were in evidence.

单选题Congratulations on your achievements! And I wish you to have great success in the years ahead. A. have greater B. still greater C. have greater D. to have greater

单选题Some authorities trace the jury system to Anglo Saxon or even more ______ Germanic times. A. remote B. similar C. austere D. barbaric

单选题"This practice" in Paragraph 1 most probably refers to the fact that the middleman ______.

单选题 A total of 4.6 million digital televisions have been sold, and the sales of HDTV sets have quadrupled since last year. Consumers have bought HDTVs to play their DVDs and to have clearer pictures and wide screens. Only a small percentage of the people who have purchased HDTVs, however, have actually {{U}}hooked their TVs up{{/U}} to receive high-definition television digital signals. Perhaps television viewers are having trouble keeping up with the changes in technology. Even the manufacturers of HDTVs, like Mitsubishi, Thomson Multimedia, Sony, and Samsung seem to have a tough time learning how to make their sets work with the various digital TV formats because little standardization has been required or implemented in the industry. Some of the HDTVs Weigh over 200 lbs., and a variety of retailers offer a delivery service to the buyer's home to help install the heavy sets. This is known as a white-glove service and usually comes with an extra fee. After HDTV purchasers get their sets home and hook them up, they will still need to Work to get the digital signals to their systems. Most of the industry's cable providers do not yet offer high-definition programing, and only about 15% of commercial television stations have switched over to even the lowest improved digital pictures. Worse yet, viewers may need to install antenna before they can even get the digital signals to their new HDTV sets. Another frustration for home-theater seekers is that the current HDTV sets allow owners only to watch high-definition programs, not to record them.

单选题 In this section you will find after each of the passages a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with 4 (A, B, C and D) choices to answer the question or complete the statement. You must choose the one which you think fits best. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET. Questions 61-70 are based on the following passage. While some international {{U}}couriers{{/U}} are showing signs of exhaustion, EMS (Express Mail Service), the generic name for the courier services of post offices, seems to be finding its {{U}}stride{{/U}}. Known as Datapost in Britain, as Chronopost in France, and as A1-Barid al-Mumtaz in Saudi Arabia, EMS is now second in the international courier business (jointly with TNT Skypack). Last year it delivered 5.6 million items, weighing less than 20 kilograms each, across borders. That and its annual growth rate of around 5 percent have worried DHL, the market leader, enough for it to counter-attack in the Courts. On October 26, a Dutch judge ruled against DHL on all three counts filed against the Dutch post office: that the three-initial name was too close to DHL's; that the orange lines in the EMS logo were too similar to DHL's dark red ones; and that the claim to the widest route system in the world was unfounded. DHL has threatened the Swiss post office with similar action, but it may reconsider after the Dutch ruling. EMS has some advantages over the private couriers. One is a dense ready-made network of offices, especially in Europe, the avowed target area of the private couriers. Another advantage is a long tradition of working with customs authorities. In a business where minutes count, it pays to have good friends at customs. That advantage particularly irritates the private couriers because there is no legal way to combat such unquantifiable coziness. The private courier services are also annoyed because in countries like Switzerland and Italy, where the post office is officially a monopoly, they pay it a fee. In Switzerland DHL says it pays more than SFr lm ($ 708,000) "to the competition" each year. In France the couriers have won a battle for exoneration. Although governments are under little pressure to keep prices artificially low, EMS is often cheaper than the private couriers, but not always. A recent test in Britain (on a domestic route) showed Datapost about halfway between the least and the most expensive, but gave it full marks for speed and service. Each national EMS is free to set its rates and follow its own rules on things like bulk discounts. The Universal Postal Union, based in Berne, determines how costs and revenues are split between sending and receiving countries, and standardizes procedures. More than 100 postal administrations have linked into the system—and more are coming, including Russia's. That makes the feisty EMS particularly happy since its rivals have not been allowed to serve anywhere in Russia.

单选题The interactions between China and the US will surely have a significant ______ on peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region and the world as a whole.