单选题How much money did the man give the clerk before he got the change?
单选题According to the conversation, what food does the student not like?
单选题You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.Going Nowhere FastTHIS is ludicrous! We can talk to people anywhere in the world or fly to meet them in a few hours. We can even send probes to other planets. But when it comes to getting around our cities, we depend on systems that have scarcely changed since the days of Gottlieb Daimler.In recent years, the pollution belched out by millions of vehicles has dominated the debate about transport. The problem has even persuaded California—that home of car culture—to curb traffic growth. But no matter how green they become, cars are unlikely to get us around crowded cities any faster. And persuading people to use trains and buses will always be an uphill struggle. Cars, after all, are popular for very good reasons, as anyone with small children or heavy shopping knows.So politicians should be trying to lure people out of their cars, not forcing them out. There's certainly no shortage of alternatives. Perhaps the most attractive is the concept known as personal rapid transit(PRT), independently invented in the US and Europe in the 1950s.The idea is to go to one of many stations and hop into a computer-controlled car which can whisk you to your destination along a network of guideways. You wouldn't have to share your space with strangers, and with no traffic lights, pedestrians or parked cars to slow things down, PRT guideways can carry far more traffic, nonstop, than any inner city road.It's a wonderful vision, but the odds are stacked against PRT for a number of reasons. The first cars ran on existing roads, and it was only after they became popular—and after governments started earning revenue from them—that a road network designed specifically for motor vehicles was built. With PRT, the infrastructure would have to come first—and that would cost megabucks. What's more, any transport system that threatened the car's dominance would be up against all those with a stake in maintaining the status quo, from private car owners to manufacturers and oil multinationals. Even if PRTs were spectacularly successful in trials, it might not make much difference. Superior technology doesn't always triumph, as the VHS versus Betamax and Windows versus Apple Mac battles showed.But "dual-mode" systems might just succeed where PRT seems doomed to fail. The Danish RUF system envisaged by Palle Jensen, for example, resembles PRT but with one key difference: vehicles have wheels as well as a slot allowing them to travel on a monorail, so they can drive off the rail onto a normal road. Once on a road, the occupant would take over from the computer, and the RUF vehicle—the term comes from a Danish saying meaning to "go fast"—would become an electric car.Build a fast network of guideways in a busy city centre and people would have a strong incentive not just to use public RUF vehicles, but also to buy their own dual-mode vehicle. Commuters could drive onto the guideway, sit back and read as they are chauffeured into the city. At work, they would jump out, leaving their vehicles to park themselves. Unlike PRT, such a system could grow organically, as each network would serve a large area around it and people nearby could buy into it. And a dual-mode system might even win the support of car manufacturers, who could easily switch to producing dual-mode vehicles.Of course, creating a new transport system will not be cheap or easy. But unlike adding a dedicated bus lane here or extending the underground railway there, an innovative system such as Jensen's could transform cities.And it's not just a matter of saving a few minutes a day. According to the Red Cross, more than 30 million people have died in road accidents in the past century—three times the number killed in the First World War—and the annual death toll is rising. And what's more, the Red Cross believes road accidents will become the third biggest cause of death and disability by 2020, ahead of diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis. Surely we can find a better way to get around?Questions 1-6Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? In boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet, writeTRUE if the statement agrees with the informationFALSE if the statement contradicts the informationNOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
单选题What is the tutor trying to do in the tutorial?
A describe one selection technique
B criticise traditional approaches to interviews
C illustrate how she uses personality questionnaires
单选题According to the text, the greatest progress in rocket technology was made
A from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries.
B from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
C from the early nineteenth to the late nineteenth century.
D from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
单选题Studies have proven that recycling A. reduces carbon emissions in most cases. B. only reduces emissions if it is not done using road transport. C. reduces carbon emissions in a limited number of cases.
单选题What is the difficulty with Mary in study?
单选题Listen to the conversation and circle the appropriate letter.
单选题{{B}}Questions 36-40{{/B}} For questions 36-37
write A very happy with service
B happy with service C not happy
with service For questions 38-40 write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
for each answer.
Crime
Focus of study
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Assault
Male
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Female
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Theft
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business
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country living
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单选题Darren Lyons
单选题Circle the appropriate letters A-C.
单选题BIRD MIGRATIONA Birds have many unique design features that enable them to perform such amazing feats of endurance. They are equipped with lightweight, hollow bones, intricately designed feathers providing both lift and thrust for rapid flight, navigation systems superior to any that man has developed, and an ingenious heat conserving design that, among other things, concentrates all blood circulation beneath layers of warm, waterproof plumage, leaving them fit to face life in the harshest of climates. Their respiratory systems have to perform efficiently during sustained flights at altitude, so they have a system of extracting oxygen from their lungs that far exceeds that of any other animal. During the later stages of the summer breeding season, when food is plentiful, their bodies are able to accumulate considerable layers of fat, in order to provide sufficient energy for their long migratory flights.B The fundamental reason that birds migrate is to find adequate food during the winter months when it is in short supply. This particularly applies to birds that breed in the temperate and Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, where food is abundant during the short growing season. Many species can tolerate cold temperatures if food is plentiful, but when food is not available they must migrate. However, intriguing questions remain.C One puzzling fact is that many birds journey much further than would be necessary just to find food and good weather. Nobody knows, for instance, why British swallows, which could presumably survive equally well if they spent the winter in equatorial Africa, instead fly several thousands of miles further to their preferred winter home in South Africa's Cape Province. Another mystery involves the huge migrations performed by arctic terns and mudflat-feeding shorebirds that breed close to Polar Regions. In general, the further north a migrant species breeds, the further south it spends the winter. For arctic terns this necessitates an annual round trip of 25,000 miles. Yet, en route to their final destination in far-flung southern latitudes, all these individuals overfly other areas of seemingly suitable habitat spanning two hemispheres. While we may not fully understand birds' reasons for going to particular places, we can marvel at their feats.D One of the greatest mysteries is how young birds know how to find the traditional wintering areas without parental guidance. Very few adults migrate with juveniles in tow, and youngsters may even have little or no inkling of their parents' appearance. A familiar example is that of the cuckoo, which lays its eggs in another species' nest and never encounters its young again. It is mind boggling to consider that, once raised by its host species, the young cuckoo makes it own way to ancestral wintering grounds in the tropics before returning single-handedly to northern Europe the next season to seek out a mate among its own kind. The obvious implication is that it inherits from its parents an inbuilt route map and direction-finding capability, as well as a mental image of what another cuckoo looks like. Yet nobody has the slightest idea as to how this is possible.E Mounting evidence has confirmed that birds use the positions of the sun and stars to obtain compass directions. They seem also to be able to detect the earth's magnetic field, probably due to having minute crystals of magnetite in the region of their brains. However, true navigation also requires an awareness of position and time, especially when lost. Experiments have shown that after being taken thousands of miles over an unfamiliar landmass, birds are still capable of returning rapidly to nest sites. Such phenomenal powers are the product of computing a number of sophisticated cues, including an inborn map of the night sky and the pull of the earth's magnetic field. How the birds use their 'instruments' remains unknown, but one thing is clear: they see the world with a superior sensory perception to ours. Most small birds migrate at night and take their direction from the position of the setting sun. However, as well as seeing the sun go down, they also seem to see the plane of polarized light caused by it, which calibrates their compass. Traveling at night provides other benefits. Daytime predators are avoided and the danger of dehydration due to flying for long periods in warm, sunlit skies is reduced. Furthermore, at night the air is generally cool and less turbulent and so conducive to sustained, stable flight.F Nevertheless, all journeys involve considerable risk, and part of the skill in arriving safely is setting off at the right time. This means accurate weather forecasting, and utilizing favorable winds. Birds are adept at both, and, in laboratory tests, some have been shown to detect the minute difference in barometric pressure between the floor and ceiling of a room. Often birds react to weather changes before there is any visible sign of them. Lapwings, which feed on grassland, flee west from the Netherlands to the British Isles, France and Spain at the onset of a cold snap. When the ground surface freezes the birds could starve. Yet they return to Holland ahead of a thaw, their arrival linked to a pressure change presaging an improvement in the weather.G In one instance a Welsh Manx shearwater carried to America and released was back in its burrow on Skokholm Island, off the Pembrokeshire coast, one day before a letter announcing its release! Conversely, each autumn a small number of North American birds are blown across the Atlantic by fast-moving westerly tail winds. Not only do they arrive safely in Europe, but, based on ringing evidence, some make it back to North America the following spring, after probably spending the winter with European migrants in sunny African climes. You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage 2 below.Questions 14-20Reading passage 2 has seven paragraphs, A-G.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.Write the correct number, i-x, in boxes 14-20 on your answer sheet.List of headingsi The best moment to migrateii The unexplained rejection of closer feeding groundiii The influence of weather on the migration routeiv Physical characteristics that allow birds to migratev The main reason why birds migratevi The best wintering grounds for birdsvii Research findings on how birds migrateviii Successful migration despite trouble of windix Contrast between long-distance migration and short-distance migrationx Mysterious migration despite lack of teaching
单选题This statement is about the __________ of the dinosaur museum.
单选题Questions 1-4 Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
单选题Whichisthecorrectconstructionforacousticdoubleglazing?
单选题The church is the oldest building of the town.________
单选题Questions 21-23 Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
单选题Questions 31-40 Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
单选题
An Infant's Preference for
Faces A The human face is one of the most
complex visual stimuli encountered by the infant: it moves, it is
three-dimensional, it has areas of both high and low contrast; and it contains
features that change (when talking, when changing expression, when looking at or
away from the baby), but which are in an invariant relationship (the eyes are
always above the mouth, etc). While the image is degraded and unfocused to the
newborn, enough information is potentially available for the infant to learn to
recognize its mother's face, and for other aspects of face perception. Several
investigators have found that infants recognize, and prefer, their mother's face
soon after birth. There is considerable evidence suggesting that faces are
special, right from birth. Here we will describe some of the research that has
investigated other aspects of face perception at, or near birth, and discuss how
face perception might develop during infancy. B Several
researchers have found that infants prefer to look at attractive faces, when
these are shown paired with faces judged by adults to be less attractive (Hoss
and Langlois, 2003). The "attractiveness effect" has also been found in studies
with infants who averaged less than 3 days from birth at the time of testing
(e.g. Slater et al, 1998). The typical interpretation of the "attractiveness
effect" is that it results from a facial prototype: if many faces of the same
gender are computer-averaged, the resulting "average" face is always perceived
as being attractive. According to this interpretation, attractive faces are seen
as more "face-like" because they match more closely either the facial prototype
which infants form from experience, or one they enter the world with.
C Some of the clearest evidence that faces are special for infants
is the finding that, only minutes after birth, they imitate a range of
expressions that they see an adult produce (e.g. Reissland, 1988). Apparently,
this was first discovered by a student of the eminent psychologist Piaget, Olga
Maratos, who reported to him that if she stuck out her tongue to a young baby,
the baby would respond by sticking out its tongue to her (according to Piaget's
theory, this ability should not appear until the second year). Apparently, when
Piaget was informed of these findings, he sucked contemplatively on his pipe for
a few moments, and then commented "How rude!" D Facial
imitation can be taken to indicate that babies can match what they see to some
inbuilt knowledge of their own face, and can then use this match to produce the
same facial expression (which might be tongue protrusion, mouth opening,
furrowing of the brow, or other expression). The infants, of course, cannot see
themselves as they produce it. This seems to be an inborn ability, and raises
the question of why infants imitate. One idea is that babies imitate as a form
of social interaction, and as a way of learning about people's identity
(Meltzoff and Moore, 2000). These findings support the view that infants enter
the world with a detailed representation of the human face. E At first
glance the development of the ability to recognize faces appears to follow a
typical trajectory: rapid change during infancy, followed by more gradual
improvement into adolescence. This pattern contrasts with some aspects of
language development. For example, speech perception is characterized by a loss
of ability with age, such that 4-to 6-month olds can discriminate phonetic
differences that distinguish syllables in both their native and unfamiliar
languages, whereas 10-to 12-month olds can only discriminate the phonetic
variations used in their native language. However, Nelson (2001) proposed that
the ability to perceive faces also narrows with development, due in large
measure to the cortical specialization that occurs with experience. This
hypothesis is indirectly supported by several lines of research. For example,
human adults are far more accurate in recognizing individual human than monkey
faces; the opposite is true for monkeys. F A recent study
by Pascalis et al (2002) into ability to discriminate between human and monkey
faces found that 9-month-old infants and adults only discriminated between faces
of their own species, while the 6-month olds showed discrimination between
individuals of both species. Their results support the hypothesis that the
perceptual window narrows with age, and that during the first year of life the
face processing system becomes attuned to a human template.
G Infants are also able to discriminate on the basis of gender. Quinn et
al (2002) presented 3-to 4-month-old infants with a number of colour photographs
of different faces, all of which were from the same gender category, either male
or female. Subsequently infants were presented with two novel stimuli, a new
face from the familiar category, and a face from the other, unfamiliar gender.
The fact that the infants looked longer at the new face from the unfamiliar
gender is taken as evidence that the infants have successfully categorized the
new face from the familiar gender, and recognized that the new face from the
unfamiliar gender does not belong to this category. H
Quinn also found that infants who had been familiarized to male faces
subsequently showed a strong preference for looking at a female face when this
was shown side-by-side with a novel male face, but those familiarized to female
faces did not show a preference for a male face. In their second experiment it
turned out that this was because all the infants had a strong tendency to look
at female faces in preference to male ones! However, a majority of infants, at
least in Western societies, are reared with a female primary caregiver for at
least the first few months. When Quinn et al tested infants who were reared with
a male primary carer they found the opposite result—these infants responded
better to male faces. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or
D.
单选题Which of the following statements is wrong?
