单选题The USA is composed of 50 states, ______ are separated form the others by land or water.

单选题Scientists say it may be five or six years ______ this medicine is tested on human beings.

单选题The Internet makes us better ______ than many years ago.

单选题{{B}}Passage 3{{/B}} "Equal pay for equal work" is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are unfairly treated by society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work. Some people say men have more duties than women. A married man is thought to earn money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is right for them to be paid more. Some are even against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. (80) {{U}}If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full-time jobs, they will be unable to do the things they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing up children. {{/U}} Women who disagree say they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and to have freedom to choose between work and home life, or a mixture of the two. Women have the right not only to equal pay but also to equal chances.

单选题He forgot about ______ him to attend my wife's birthday party.

单选题China has hundreds of islands, ______ the largest is Taiwan.

单选题______ faculty member at a university, one has to have a doctorate degree.

单选题Small talk is a good way to kill time, make friends and ______ something with others.

单选题______ Pacific Ocean is ______ very large sea to the west of North and South America, and to the east of Asia and Australia.

单选题There (will be) more than (three hundreds) students (taking part) in (the sports meet).

单选题Stephen Bullon is the only man in the village ______ today that has survived the war.

单选题You'd better go there by train. The train ticket is __________ the plane ticket.

单选题"What do you think of the company's forecast?""Oh, the news ______ pretty good."

单选题The reason (why) Jack (failed) to (attend) the lecture is (attend) he had a bad cold.

单选题Speaker A: Would you mind if I use your pen for a while? Speaker B: ______

单选题Goodbye! ______

单选题I would have written before, but I ______ ill.

单选题Imagine a school that expected its students to become literate (有读写能力的) without any formal instruction. Most parents would be alarmed by such an approach, which would leave their children confused and with gaps in their understanding. This however has been the philosophy on character development in many of our schools. Why is the development of character seen as somehow different from the other skills that we teach? Of course there will always be learning by osmosis (耳濡目染) in any school, but as a teacher and primary school head I have found that a child"s moral literacy is strengthened when they acquire the building blocks of good character such as consideration, courage and honor: qualities which are commonly known as virtue (美德). I personally find that exploring a virtue over a two-week period provides a simple and effective program that allows for the creative input of both teacher and student and a chance for the virtue to embed (使融入) itself. Once a lesson on a virtue such as honesty has been completed, we need to allow time for children to practice this concept just as would be the case with fractions or verbs. Allowing children to role play a situation such as making up excuses to cover a mistake can be enormously interesting, and the drama can be frozen allowing the characters to be questioned about their feelings and motives. It"s also a safe way for children to experience for themselves how a lie usually goes out of control. Our role as educators is also to look for opportunities to help our students as they attempt to strengthen their characters. When something goes wrong we guide the young person to the virtue that will prevent it from happening again. For instance, when a student thoughtlessly disturbs the calm atmosphere of the library, instead of a response such as, "that was really disrespectful and selfish of you!" we draw out from them the required virtue: "When you"re walking through the library, what virtues do you need to use?"

单选题Receptionist: Sunshine Hotel. May I help you? David: ______