单选题—I locked myself out of my apartment. I didn't know what to do. —You may call your roommate. A. could have called B. might have called C. would have called D. must have called

单选题 Questions 71-80 are based on the following passage. A federal judge on Monday certified a $ 200 billion class action lawsuit against the tobacco industry for its marketing of light cigarettes. Eastern District of New York Judge Jack B. Weinstein's 540-page opinion in Schwab v. Philip Morris USA, Inc. , 04-CIV-1945—which included an additional 965 pages of appendices for a total of 1,505 pages-gave tens of millions of smokers an avenue to recover damages from the nation's largest tobacco companies, including Philip Morris USA Inc. , R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. , Lorillard Tobacco Co. , and Liggett Group, Inc. The class will include anyone who purchased light cigarettes from the time tobacco companies began selling them in the 1970s. The judge said he even would consider broadening the class, to encompass smokers of all "low tar" brands, not just light cigarettes. The judge suggested that an expansion of the class could assist the parties in negotiating a {{U}}global settlement{{/U}}. He set a trial date for January 22, 2007. The plaintiffs intend to seek treble damages. Weinstein has expressed skepticism about the plaintiffs' theory of damages, which alleges that light smokers were defrauded of billions because they believed they were buying a {{U}}product of greater value{{/U}} because of its health advantages. The judge also questioned the {{U}}size of the class{{/U}}, as well as the claim that as many as 90 percent of light cigarette smokers chose the cigarettes because they were less harmful. In his ruling Monday, the judge stressed that while the suit was far from perfect, the evidence was sufficient. He said the jury system—which he described as the "ultimate focus group of the law"—was well equipped to sort out the {{U}}particulars{{/U}} in accordance with Amendment VII of the U. S. Constitution. Weinstein declined to grant an interlocutory appeal to the 2nd U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Theodore M. Grossman of {{U}}Jones Day{{/U}} in Cleveland, which represents R J. Reynolds, said the defendants would seek a stay and appeal the class certification under Rule 23 (f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

单选题The furious king sent out an {{U}}emissary{{/U}} to request the kidnapped ambassador in the neighboring country. A. ward B. attendant C. messenger D. translator

单选题The criminal's ______ for leniency was ignored by the jurors. A. protest B. demand C. plea D. defense

单选题At the Committee last Saturday the following proposal was agreed ______ by those present． A．to B．with C．over D．at

单选题If you left your book on the table overnight, you would find the following morning that it was still exactly when you had left it, provided nobody had moved it. If a ball is made to roll on a very smooth surface, it will roll a long distance unless something stops it or changes its direction. This tendency of an object to remain at rest unless something moves it and to continue moving unless something stops it is known as the Law of Inertia. The following examples show the truth of this law. (a) Put a table-cloth on a table and arrange a pile of books on it. Hold one edge of the table-cloth and pull it quickly. The table-cloth will come off, leaving the pile of books undisturbed. (b) Place a small piece of cardboard on an open jar and place a coin on it directly over its mouth. Use one finger to flick the piece of cardboard away. You will notice that the coin drops into the jar. (c) Sitting in a car which starts suddenly, you feel you are jerked backwards. In fact, you are not jerked backwards. Your lower half, which is in contact with the cushion, is forced to move forward with the car, and the upper part of your body, which remained at rest, is left behind.

单选题It is not long since conditions in the mines were worse than they are now. There are still 1 a few very old women who in their youth have worked 2 , with harness round their waists, and a chain 3 passed between their legs, crawling on all 4 and dragging tugs of coal. They used to go on 5 this even when they were pregnant. And 6 now, if coal could not be produced without pregnant women dragging it 7 and fro, I fancy we should let them do it 8 than deprive ourselves of coal. But most of the time, of course, we should 9 to forget that they were doing it. It is the 10 with all types of manual work; it keeps us alive, and we are oblivious of its existence. More than anything 11 perhaps, the miner can stand as the type of manual worker, not only because it is so vitally necessary and 12 so 13 , that we are capable 14 forgetting it as we forget the blood in our veins. In 15 way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt 16 your own status as an "intellectual" and a superior person generally. For it is brought 17 to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only 18 miners sweat their guts out 19 superior persons can 20 superior.

单选题Many Americans do not understand why there is so much international criticism of the US policy on ______ change. A. atmosphere B. sky C. weather D. climate

单选题______ the issues of slavery and race has been fundamental in America's development.

单选题Computers will flourish because they enable us to accomplish tasks that could never before have been undertaken. A. implement B. render C. assign D. complete

单选题This book is about how these basic beliefs and values affect important sides of American life.

单选题Which of the following would be the best title of this passage?

单选题In Germany, the baroque style of art thrived in the 17 th and 18 th centuries.

单选题Evidence came up which specific speech sounds are recognized by babies as young as 6 months old.

单选题An epigram is usually defined being a bright or witty thought that is tersely and ingeniously expressed.

单选题The ocean bottom—a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth —is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth's surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space. Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation's Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP's drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean's surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting samples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor. The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 core samples of seabed sediments and rocks at 624 drilling sites around the world. The Glomar Challenger's core samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to calculate what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger's voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes that shape the Earth. The cores of sediment drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also yielded information critical to understanding the world's past climates. Deep-ocean sediments provide a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years, because they are largely isolated from the mechanical erosion and the intense chemical and biological activity that rapidly destroy much land-based evidence of past climates. This record has already provided insights into the patterns and causes of past climatic change—information that may be used to predict future climates.

单选题Few pleasures can equal such of a cool drink on a hot day.

单选题There is a general ______ that pouring old wine into the same bottles is the wrong way to go. A. consensus B. census C. censorship D. conscience

单选题Feelings of infinite ______ seized him as he recalled the days when he met with misfortune.

单选题The author of the book On the Human Animal was not at all dubious of the disastrous future of human's life in that respect. A. ambiguous B. doubtful C. assured D. confident