单选题The Americans usually play games as if they ______ a war. A. had fought B. fight C. were fighting D. should fight

单选题As the Titanic was sinking and women and children climbed into lifeboats, the musicians from the ship"s band stood and played. They died when the ship went down. Men stood on the deck and smoked cigarettes. They died, too. This behavior is puzzling to economists, who like to believe that people tend to act in their own self-interest. "There was no pushing," says David Savage, an economist at Queensland University in Australia who has studied witness reports from the survivors. It was "very, very orderly behavior". Savage has compared the behavior of the passengers on the Titanic with those on the Lusitania, another ship that also sank at about the same time. But when the Lusitania went down, the passengers panicked (恐慌). There were a lot of similarities between these two events. These two ships were both luxury ones, they had a similar number of passengers and a similar number of survivors. The biggest difference, Savage concludes, was time. The Lusitania sank in less than 20 minutes. But for the Titanic, it was two-and-a-half hours. "If you"ve got an event that lasts two-and-a-half hours, social order will take over and everybody will behave in a social manner," Savage says. "If you"re going down in under 17 minutes, basically it"s instinctual." On the Titanic, social order ruled, and it was women and children first. On the Lusitania, instinct won out . The survivors were largely the people who could swim and get into the lifeboats. Yes, we"re self-interested, Savage says. But we"re also part of a society. Given time, social norms (规范) can beat our natural self-interest. A hundred years ago, women and children always went first. Men were stoic (坚忍的). On the Titanic, there was enough time for these norms to become forceful.

单选题Speaker A: Hello, Spring Hotel. May I help you? Speaker B: ______? A. What kind of room do you think I like B. I'm wondering if you have any vacancies tomorrow C. Thanks for calling. Will I have a room ready for you D. Have you made a reservation for a double-bed room

单选题He ______ working till he was seventy years old. A. kept up B. kept on C. kept to D. kept out

单选题The interviewer should take down notes at the moment the person ______ answers the questions.

单选题Toronto"s third City Hall, now known as Old City Hall, was designed by Edward James Lennox and declared open on Sept. 18, 1899. Created to provide more space for city officials, it turned out to be the largest building in the city and the largest city building in North America at the time. Lennox took three years to design the City Hall and it took 11 years to build it. Contemporaries believe that the odd carvings (雕刻) above the Queen Street entrance were actually caricatures (漫画) of councilors at the time. Lennox even included himself in the caricatures, on the west side of the central arch (拱门), and left a strange signature in the stonework of the link portions of the building. The third City Hall was originally used as councilors" offices and legal offices, but it is used only as a courthouse today. When the fourth City Hall (the one we know today) was declared open in 1965, Old City Hall was threatened to be pulled down. It was saved by a group of people called the "Friends of Old City Hall". The clock tower stands parallel with the middle of Bay Street, rather than with the center of the building. The bells in the tower were not installed until the building opened. Old City Hall was declared a historical site in 1989. （80） The entire structure cost more than $2.5 million to build at the time. This is equal to $53 million today.

单选题Adam: I’m very sorry for stepping on your foot. Bob: ______ . It's very crowded on the train.

单选题By the end of this month, we surely ______ satisfactory solution to the problem. A. have found B. will be finding C. will have found D. are finding

单选题Teacher: Good morning, class. We'll take Lesson Ten today. Now put on your headphones ______. We'll listen to the dialogue first. Jessica: Henry, I'm nervous. Henry: Take it easy, Jessica. A. and keep close your books B. and keep closing your books C. and keep your books closing D. and keep your books closed

单选题Had he ______ his promise, he would have made it to Harvard University.

单选题The story you have just told______ me of an experience I once had. A. informs B. convinces C. reminds D. warns

单选题Guest: I' d like a room with an ocean view (风景), please. Clerk: I' m sorry. __________

单选题For married mothers, the time spend on child care increased to an average of 12.9 hours a 　　　　A　　　　　　　　　　　　　　B　　　　　　　　　C　　　　　　D 　　week in 2009.

单选题Chark: I absolutely love what you are wearing today. Clara: Thanks.______

单选题______ of the two brothers are fond of classical music.

单选题The courses at our school are very different from _____ at your school.

单选题There is no rush now, for the game has been ______.A. taken offB. made outC. called offD. switched

单选题The chairman proposed that every speaker must limit himself to fifteen minutes. A. every speaker B. must C. himself D. to

单选题Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior. Viewed biologically, the modern footballer is in reality a member of a hunting group. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey (猎物) into a goal mouth. If his aim is accurate and he scores a goal, he enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey. To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look back at our fore- fathers. They spent over a million years evolving as cooperative hunters. Their very survival depended on success in the hunting field. Under this pressure their whole way of life, even their bodies, became greatly changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers, throwers and prey-killers. They cooperated as skillful male group attackers. Then about ten thousand years ago, after this immensely long period of hunting their food, they became farmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, was put to a new use—that of controlling and domesticating their prey. The hunt became suddenly out of date. The food was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of the hunt were no longer essential for survival. The skills and thirst for hunting remained, however, and demanded new outlets. Hunting for sport replaced hunting for necessity. This new activity involved all the original hunting sequences, but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation. Instead the sportsmen set off .to test their skills against prey that were no longer essential to their survival. To be sure, the kill may have been eaten, but there were other, much simpler ways of obtaining a meaty meal.