单选题We realized that he was under great ______, so we took no notice of his bad temper.

单选题Doctor often ______ uneasiness in the people they deal with.

单选题They are at the moment working ______ time to get everything ready for the conference.

单选题One out of five bridges in the United States is {{U}}outmoded{{/U}}.

单选题Once the lapwing"s nest is threatened, the bird hobbles and pretends to be injured in order to lure its enemies away from the nest.

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. A. nod B. note C. norm D. notion

单选题The present meeting is being held at thje request of Syria and Lebanon, a request with what the Maoritanian delegation completely associates itself. A. to which B. with what C. with that D. with which

单选题When one is unfamiliar with the customs, it is easy to make a ______.

单选题Jackie Robinson, {{U}}the first Black American who was{{/U}} to play baseball in the major leagues, joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

单选题He is known as a ______, a man who hates woman. A. believer B. misogynist C. philatelist D. deist

单选题Some people think more of animals than {{U}}will{{/U}} of children.

单选题He was finally {{U}}enrolled{{/U}} into a member of the college after a year's hard working.

单选题______ have been made for nearly three decades to increase the amount of precipitation from clouds by seeding them with salt or silver iodide. A．Devices B．Hypotheses C．Attempts D．Commissions

单选题In many ______ a lack of direction prompted the Republican Guard to call it a day.

单选题Being just a ______ schedule, it still requires more improvement.

单选题Virtually every theory has been concerned with either the structure or the function of the language. A．Vertically B．Almost C．Actually D．Finally

单选题Which of the following is not a trouble confronting Air France?

单选题If I were on the spot that day, I should be able to prevent the disaster to happen. A. I should be able to prevent the disaster from happening. B. I should have prevented the disaster to happen. C. I would have been able to prevent the disaster from happening. D. I would be able to prevent the disaster to be happened.

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Directions: In each of the following statements there is an underlined part that is indicated as an error. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected. Reruns of situation comedies from the fifties and early sixties dramatize the kinds of problems that parents used to having 6 with their children. The Cleavers scold Beaver for not washing his hands before dinner; the Andersons punish Bud for not doing his homework; the Nelsons dock little Ricky"s allowance because he keeps forgetting to clean his room. But times have changed dramatically. Being a parent today is much more difficult than it was a generation ago. Today"s parents must try, first of all, to control all the new distractions as 7 tempt children away off 8 schoolwork. At home, a child may have a room furnished with a stereo and television. Not many young people can resist the urge to listen to an album—especially if it is time to do schoolwork. Outside the home, the distractions are even more allured 9 . Children no longer "hang out" on a neighborhood corner with 10 earshot of Mom or Dad"s reminder to come in and do homework. Instead, they congregate in vast shopping malls, buzzing video arcades, and gleaming fast-food restaurants. Parents and school assignments have obvious difficulty compete 11 with such enticing alternatives. Besides dealing with these distractions, parents also have to shield their children from a flood of sexually explicit material 12 . Today, children can find sex magazines and pornographic paperbacks in the same comer store that once offer 13 only comics and candy. Moreover, the movies young people attend often focus on high 14 sexual situations. It is difficult to teach children traditional values when films show teachers seducing students and young people tread 15 sex as a causal sport. An even more difficult matter for parents is the heavily sexual content of programs on television. Most disturbing to parents today, however, is the increase in life-threating 16 dangers that facing 17 young people. When children are small, parents fear that their youngers 18 may be victims of violence. Every news program seems to carry a report about a mass murderer who preys for 19 young girls, a deviant who has buried six boys in his cellar, or an organized child pornography ring that molests preschoolers. Though 20 children are old 21 , parents begin to worry about their kids" use of drugs. Peer pressure to experiment can be fatal if the drags have been mixed with dangerous chemicals. Within one generation, the world like 22 a place to raise children has changed dramatically. One wonders how yesterday"s parents would have dealt 23 today"s problems. Could the Andersons have kept but away from MTV? Could the Nelsons have shield 24 little Ricky form sexually explicit material? Could the Cleavers have protected Beavers from drugs? Parents must be aware 25 all these distractions and dangers, yet be willing to give their children the freedom they need to become responsible adults.