单选题Although most people return from package holidays reasonably satisfied, this is not always the 21 Take, for instance, the nightmare experience of a Frenchman who went on 22 to Colombia. The hotel in the small Caribbean port was over-booked. The holidaymaker was 23 round the streets, looking for a 24 and breakfast place, when he was arrested for vagrancy. He was 25 , where he told the magistrate that it was the hotel"s 26 The magistrate was the hotelowner"s brother, and he charged the tourist 27 making false accusations and sent him to prison for 28 had left. He had insufficient funds to buy a return ticket, 29 he went to the Post Office to send a telegram to his home in Montpellier, asking for money. He was 30 before he could send it. This time he was charged with legal 31 . It was explained that, having missed his return 32 , he could no longer be classified as a tourist. He now needed a work 33 , he didn"t have one. He was fined $500 for this 34 , and a further $500 when he again blamed the hotel for overbooking. His 35 was confiscated because he couldn"t pay the fines. He hitch-hiked to Bogota 36 the consulate finally arranged to send him home. All things 37 , I would prefer to plan my holiday independently. 38 my view, it"s safer to "do it yourself". And the advantages of planning your holiday yourself are 39 . If it is well-planned, an independent holiday can usually be good 40 for money.

单选题 Questions 56-60 are based on the following passage. The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American by Jeff Smith Our real American foods have come from our soil and have been used by many groups—those who already lived here and those who have come here to live. The Native Americans already had developed an interesting cuisine using the abundant foods that were so prevalent. The influence that the English had upon our national eating habits is easy to see. They were a tough lot, those English, and they ate in a tough manner. They wiped their mouths on the tablecloth, if there happened to be one, and they ate until you would expect them to burst. European travelers to this country in those days were most often shocked by American eating habits, which included too much fat and too much salt and too much liquor. Not much has changed! And, the Revolutionists refused to use the fork since it marked them as Europeans. The fork was not absolutely common on the American dinner table until about the time of the Civil War, the 1860s. Those English were a tough lot. Other immigrant groups added their own touches to the preparation of our New World food products. The groups that came still have a special sense of self-identity through their ancestral heritage, but they see themselves as Americans. This special self-identity through your ancestors who came from other lands was supposed to disappear in this country. The term melting pot was first used in reference to America in the late 1700s, so this belief that we would all become the same has been with us for a long time. Thank goodness it has never worked. The various immigrant groups continue to add flavor to the pot, all right, but you can pick out the individual flavors easily. The largest ancestry group in America is the English. There are more people in America who claim to have come from English blood than there are in England. But is their food English? Thanks be to God, it is not! It is American. The second largest group is the Germans, then the Irish, the Afro-Americans, the French, the Italians, the Scottish, and the Polish. The Mexican and American Indian groups are all smaller than any of the above, though they were the original cooks in this country.

单选题The countries that are being blamed for the extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are the rich and developed countries. On a different________, the developing countries feel they will suffer the most of it.

单选题The advocates—mainly family therapy doctors—are applying a new approach to everything from marriage conflict to psychosis.

单选题Modern industrial society grants little status to old people. In fact, such a society has a system of built-in obsolescence. There is no formal system for continuing our education throughout our life in order to keep up with rapidly changing knowledge. When our education and job skills have grown obsolete, we are treated exactly like those who have never gained an education or job skills and are not encouraged or given the opportunity to begin anew. As a society becomes more highly developed, the overall status of older people diminishes. Improved health technology creates a large pool of old people, who compete for jobs with the young. However, economic technology lowers the demand for workers and creates new jobs for which the skills of the aged are obsolete, forcing older people into retirement. At the same time, young people are being educated in the new technology and are keeping pace with rapid changes in knowledge. Finally, urbanization creates age-segregated neighborhoods. Because the old live on fixed incomes, they must often live in inferior housing. All these factors—retirement, obsolete knowledge and skills, inferior standards of living—lower the status of the aged in society. A century ago, when one could expect to live only to 50 or so, the life span more or less coincided with the occupation and family cycle. But today the average life span allows for fifteen to twenty years of life after these cycles. It appears that our life span is outpacing our usefulness in society.

单选题The applications of genetic engineering are abundant and choosing one appropriate for this case can be rather difficult. A. plentiful B. sufficient C. adequate D. countable

单选题Many of the electric and electronic products we purchase and consume today are what some industrial experts call "{{U}}homogeneous toys{{/U}}".

单选题When be was told that be scored 58 in the final examination, he was in a comfort of remorse. A. a distress B. a suffering C. an agony D. a misery

单选题No one appreciated his work during his lifetime, but______it is clear that he was a great artist. A. in the aftermath B. by the time C. in retrospect D. in this eventuality

单选题The sentry guard dived into his ______ and closely observed the stranger towards him. A．fortress B．exodus C．foxhole D．eviction

单选题So far as the food industry is concerned, the processing of sheep and Iambs is relatively ______ in the United States, accounting for only about 7 percent of meat-packing production. A. irrelevant B. appropriate C. negligible D. redundant

单选题If a needle is thrown ______ on a sheet of paper ruled with lines, how often can it be expected to fall on a line? A．on purpose B．with accuracy C．at random D．according to one's own will

单选题In 1909, just two years before his death, Galton was knighted. Galtons"s place in the history of psychology is ensured. More than any other person, he set psychology on the road to quantifying its data, and, of course, the whole testing movement in educational psychology ______ Galton"s early work.

单选题The spokesman said he believed the attack was in ______ for the death of the bombing.

单选题We listened dumb-struck, full of ______, to the shocking details of the corruption of the president of the company. A. incredulity B. ingenuity C. ingenuousness D. incredibility

单选题John Smith has a blog at The Lonely Planet Times, and you can listen to a live audio stream by clicking this link below. A. steam B. water flow C. recording D. programming

单选题Written primarily for a specialized but diverse body of scholars, this book ______ the attention of those interested in seventeenth-century English literature.

单选题He read the story ______ for everybody present to hear. A. loud B. noisy C. aloud D. loudly

单选题{{U}}The belief is{{/U}} the legendary lost continent of Atlantis may someday be found.

单选题A majority of HDTV consumers could not enjoy high-quality digital pictures because ______.