单选题This is the (longest)flight I (have ever taken). By the time we get to Los Angeles, we (had flown) (for)13 hours.

单选题Which is the following statement is not true according to the passage?

单选题A: I really must be going now. B: ______

单选题I"ve been reporting on extraordinary people for 25 years as a television journalist, but this small Oregon town and the man at its center, Woody Davis, stand alone in my memory. When I read a newspaper clip about the community"s reaction to Woody"s declining health, I knew that this would be a special story. But nothing prepared me for what happened when I traveled to Oregon last December and began knocking on doors. Every single person knew Woody and had countless stories to tell about his selflessness and generosity. For five decades, he helped plow cars out of snow, cut wood, repaired farm equipment, and more. He was the perfectly good neighbor, and in his time of need, the community was rallying around him. I"d never seen anything like it. Folks in this small town east of Portland are now going out of their way to thank Woody for the thousands of good deeds he"s done for them over the past 50 years. Recently, they all got together to cut and stack his firewood for winter. A couple of guys fixed up his old pickup. Someone even built him a beautiful wooden box and invited the whole town to sign it. Woody"s son Clint said all the work his dad did for people had been repaid tenfold. "Bill Gates could not come to Corbett and buy this. You can"t buy the love that people have poured out for Dad." A few months ago, Woody was diagnosed with ALS—Lou Gehrig"s disease. Doctors tell him he has about six months. The disease, which attacks the nervous system, is already making it hard for him to lift much of anything or even talk. But his attitude remains unaffected. "What do you think of what everybody"s been doing for you?" I asked. "I feel blessed that I"m dying slowly." I really didn"t think I"d heard him right. "Wait, did you just say you feel blessed that you"re dying slowly?" "Because people have a chance to express to me how they feel," he said. In most communities, death is whispered, and praise is saved for the eulogy (悼词、颂词). But Woody Davis and the people of Corbett, Oregon, show us why that may be too late. Turns out even angels like to know they"ve made a difference.

单选题A: My telephone doesn't seem to be working. And I have lots of calls that I have to return this evening. B: ______

单选题A: ______ B: Trim the back, but leave it long at sides, please.

单选题Among picture books for 4-8-year-olds, several outstanding works appeared that combined original stories with ______ illustrations.

单选题Tom doesn't think he could ever ______ what is called "free-style" poetry.

单选题More and more attention is being given to the conservation of wild life in allocated game reserves.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} It may look like just another playgroup, but a unique educational center in Manhattan is really giving babies something to talk about. "It's a school to teach languages to babies and young children with games, songs--some of the classes also have arts and crafts," said Francois Thibaut, the founder of the Language Workshop for Children, a place where babies become bilingual. Children as young as few months are exposed to French and Spanish before many of them can even speak English. Educators use special songs and visual (视觉的) aids to ensure that when a child is ready to talk, the languages will not be so foreign. "Children have a unique capacity to learn many languages at the same time," said Thibaut. "Already at nine months, a child can tell the differences between the sounds he or she has heard since birth and the sounds he or she has never heard yet." Thibaut says the best time to expose children to language is from birth to 3 years old. For the last 30 years, the school has been using what it calls the Thibarut Technique, a system that combines language lessons with child's play. "I always wanted to learn Spanish, but by the time I got to high school it was too late to pick it up and speak fluently," said Marc Lazare, who enrolled his son at the school. "I figured at this age, two, it's a perfect time for him to learn." Aside from learning a language, the kids also gain a tremendous sense of confidence. One young student boasted that aside from French, she can speak five languages (though that included "monkey" and "lion"). The school gives children the tools to communicate, and sometimes that gives them an advantage over their parents. "I think they sometimes speak French when they think I won't understand them," said parent Foster Gibbons. Depending on the age group, classes run from 45 minute up to 2 hours. Even when students are not in class, the program is designed to make sure the learning continues at home. Tapes and books are included so kids can practice on their own.

单选题Consumer groups are {{U}}protesting against{{/U}} higher prices in this city now.

单选题Some forgeries are intended to confound or ridicule the expels; others are intended to imitate an artist or genre.

单选题Guests at this house are amazed by the flowers and a well-kept lawn traversed by concrete walks.

单选题Very young children with no reading experience may astound their parents with the first words they read, such as a department store sign announcing Big Sale.

单选题It sounds as if you"re hesitant to let go of some of the control you"ve established as a hands-on entrepreneur. This is a common early hurdle for companies moving to the next level of sophistication. But before you spend time and money building systems or hiring employees, you"ll need to sell yourself fully on this idea: If you don"t, even your best efforts to delegate tasks won"t work. "The first person to convince that you can have a business that works without you is yourself. If you do not have a vision of what that looks like, then how can you expect someone else to have that vision for you?" asks Brian Blomgren, owner of business coaching and training firm Action COACH in Atlanta. "Because an owner has already sacrificed so much to build the company, he or she may not be able to see their value to others outside of the role they play in their professional life. If you find yourself in this situation, take the time to create a new identity that you want to pursue and live up to," Blomgren says. Another stumbling block you may run across as you begin turning responsibilities over to your new employees is the feeling that you must constantly be busy—or even over-whelmed—with work during your day. As your employees begin taking over some of the detail work that you"ve always handled, you"ll need to step back and not indulge your tendency to micromanage and control every part in a way that is not necessary or useful. "Build a vision for yourself on what you will be doing once your business is running day to day on a self-sufficient basis," Blomgren says. Many entrepreneurial companies suffer because their leaders do not have the time to keep up with trends, check in with clients, talk to vendors and competitors, and strategize about their firms" future direction. As you let go of routine business jobs, free up some time every day, or even every week, to think about your company"s overall vision and brainstorm with key employees. Your ideas will help your firm grow in a smart, strategic manner. Once you begin hiring a staff, make sure each individual"s job responsibilities, goals, and expectations are given to them in writing. Employees are happiest when they have clearly defined tasks and some goals to strive for within a specific time frame. Blomgren recommends spelling out "positional agreements" with your employees. "Positional agreements are different from job descriptions, in that there is a definition of what the employer and employee agree to do, with key measurements defined," he says. "I can assure you that top employees want to work where they are valued in a positive work environment where achievement is recognized and rewarded."

单选题{{U}}Without question{{/U}}, people's lives in China have improved dramatically in the past two decades.

单选题Personality in Americans is further complicated by successive waves of immigration from various countries.

单选题A: What a surprise. You had your hair premed. B: Yes, and another surprise. I'm going to get married next Saturday. A: ______

单选题{{B}}Part Ⅳ Cloze{{/B}}{{B}}{{I}}Directions{{/B}}: In this part, there is a passage with 15 blanks. For each blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring {{B}}ANSWER SHEET{{/B}}.{{/I}} For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In {{U}}(61) {{/U}} a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend {{U}}(62) {{/U}} can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are {{U}}(63) {{/U}} readers. Most of us develop poor reading {{U}}(64) {{/U}} at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency {{U}}(65) {{/U}} in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have {{U}}(66) {{/U}} meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. {{U}}(67) {{/U}} , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to {{U}}(68) {{/U}} words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over {{U}}(69) {{/U}} you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which {{U}}(70) {{/U}} down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as {{U}}(71) {{/U}} reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an {{U}}(72) {{/U}} , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate {{U}}(73) {{/U}} the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, {{U}}(74) {{/U}} word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first {{U}}(75) {{/U}} is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but also your comprehension will improve.

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} Compared with their cosmologist(宇宙学家) colleagues, cosmogonists(星源学家) can sound a little old-fashioned. Edgar Allen Poe turned to the mysteries of cosmogony in an 1848 public lecture, just reprinted by Hesperus Press. And we encountered a reference to cosmogonists most recently in a new edition of Poe's prose poem Eureka. What's the difference between cosmologists and cosmogonists? Just two letters and a few billion light years. Cosmologists worry about where the Universe came from, cosmogonists with how the Solar System formed. The interesting thing is that one-and-a-half centuries after Poe, they still can't reach agreement on what happened in the nearest 5 light years of space. What's the problem? It turns out that there are a couple of competing explanations for why our neighbourhood is the shape it is, as well as several bizarre anomalies in the data. Cosmogonists know that the Solar System is essentially flat. With the exception of two tiny outliers, Mercury and Pluto, the orbits of all the other planets lie in very nearly the same plane. And most cosmogonists agree that this is because the planets themselves formed from a nebular(星云状的)disc orbiting the early Sun, which had itself coalesced out of the same cloud of gas and dust. But there's a catch. If the planets and the Sun came from the same nebular disc, then the Sun's equator should lie in the planetary plane. It doesn't. The Sun leans over at an angle of 7.25° The majority of cosmogonists insist that the angle is so close to zero that it really doesn't matter. Anyway, they add, the Sun has been losing mass for most of its life, and may have slipped a little. The remaining minority aren't having this. How can 7.25° be the same as zero? The Sun and the planets did come from cosmic dust, they say, but not from the same cloud of material. The Sun took shape somewhere in the Galaxy. Then it sailed along and picked up the planets—or perhaps the gas and dust that gave birth to them—elsewhere. Is a tilting Sun the cosmogonists' only headache? Not at all. It's also hard to agree on how the outer planets formed. Far out in the nebular disc, matter would have been so spread out that it couldn't quickly have dumped together. Some suggest planet-sized gravitational instabilities, others can find no reason for Uranus and Neptune to have formed yet. The closer you get to home, it seems, the deeper the mysteries.