单选题Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film. A. simple B. serious C. short D. silent

单选题It seems that the president and the premier like each other in many ways, and on many issues.

单选题Last week the teachers didn't have the heart to give the students any writing assignments, for all the students were {{U}}busy preparing for{{/U}} the great reception. A. fluttering about B. negging about C. flustering about D. fretting about

单选题I couldn't work out why anyone would invent something so boring. A. draw up B. bring about C. put forward D. figure out

单选题In China, it is a serious crime to ______ ancient paintings out of the country.

单选题The old lady wag suffering from the empty nest syndrome for so long that she felt like to find someone she could talk to her.

单选题Questions 51-55 are based on the following passage. To Err is Human by Lewis Thomas Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped from $ 379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are mailed over and over to people with crazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the wrong bills, utility companies write that they're turning everything off, that sort of thing. If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain, you then get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same computer, saying, "Our computer was in error, and an adjustment is being made in your account." These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest accidents. Mistakes are not believed to be the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it must be a personal, human error, the result of fingering, tampering a button getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key. The computer, at its normal best, is infallible. I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole point of computers is that they represent an extension of the human brain, vastly improved upon but nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed to write obscure verse. They can do anything we can do, and more besides. It is not yet known whether a computer has its own consciousness, and it would be hard to find out about this. When you walk into one of those great halls now built for the huge machines, and standing listening, it is easy to imagine that the faint, distant noises are the sound of thinking, and the turning of the spools gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes in the effort to concentrate, choking with information. But real thinking, and dreaming, are other matters. On the other hand, the evidence of something like an unconscious, equivalent to ours, are all around, in every mail. As extensions of the human brain, they have been constructed the same property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.

单选题Buildings in the southeast of the UK are going to have to be constructed ________those in Scotland if the report findings are correct.

单选题Farmers are more anxious for rain than people in cities because they have more at ______. A. danger B. stake C. loss D. threat

单选题IPCC probably does not ______.

单选题Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often inseparately tied to their children"s success, it can be a bewildering , painful experience. So it is no wonder some parents find themselves hoping that ambition can be taught like any other subject at school. It"s not quite that simple. "Kids can be given the opportunities, but they can"t be forced," says Jacquelynne Eccles, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan who led a study examining what motivated first- and seventh-graders in three school districts. Even so, a growing number of educators and psychologists do believe it is possible to unearth ambition in students who don"t seem to have much. They say that by instilling confidence, encouraging some risk taking, being accepting of failure and expanding the areas in which children may be successful, both parents and teachers can reignite that innate desire to achieve. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. The message is that everything is within the kids" control, that their intelligence is malleable . Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and rigid separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. Some educators say it"s important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurricular activities. "The crux of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions," says Michael Nakkula, a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future), which works to get low-income underachievers in touch with their aspirations . The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to tell them the notion that classwork is irrelevant is not true, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. Like any ambitious toddler, they need to understand that they have to learn to walk before they can run.

单选题The most notorious expression of that change was last year's Ubootleg publication/U of "The Japan That Can Say No"—the book written by fight-wing politician Shintaro Ishihara and Sony chairman Akio Morita.

单选题As an English major student, I think business English is more practical than other fields.

单选题The weekend event will be centred around Wye College in Ashford, Kent, but the outing to the docks should be the highlight. A. climax B. pleasure C. expectation D. surprise

单选题In parts of the Arctic, the land grades into the land fast ice so imperceptibly that you can walk off the coast and not know you re over the hidden sea.

单选题The committee reported its findings after a thorough investigation.

单选题The suggestion that the mayor will present the prizes was accepted by everyone.

单选题Upon completing his examination over the patient, the doctor offered his judgment of her conditions.

单选题The man had a rather shady occupation and made a lot of money within a short period of time.

单选题From the end of the passage we would expect the author to start his next paragraph most probably on ______.