单选题If prisoners behave well they are allowed the ______ of visiting their families at the weekend.

单选题The Portuguese give a great deal of credit to one man for having promoted sea travel, that man ______ prince Henry the navigator, who lived in the 15th century.

单选题Only by publishing at least five articles on top journals______have the chance to be promoted to professors.

单选题The gap between what we know and all that can be known seems not to ______, but rather to increase with every new discovery.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} The study of social science is more than the study of the individual social sciences. Although it is true that to be a good social scientist you must know each of those components, you must also know how they interrelate. By specializing too early, many social scientists can lose sight of the interrelationships that are so essential to understanding modern problems. That's why it is necessary to have a course covering all the social sciences. In fact, it would not surprise me if one day a news story such as the one above should appear. The preceding passage placed you in the future. To understand how and when social science broke up, you must go into the past. Imagine for a moment that you're a student in 1062, in the Italian city of Bologna, site of one of the first major universities in the western world. The university has no buildings. It consists merely of a few professors and students. There is no tuition fee. At the end of a professor's lecture, if you like it, you pay. And if you don't like it, the professor finds himself without students and without money. If we go back still earlier, say to Greece in the sixth century B. C., we can see the philosopher Socrates walking around the streets of Athens, arguing with his companions. He asks them questions, and then other questions, leading these people to reason the way he wants them to reason (this became known as the Socratic method). Times have changed since then; universities sprang up throughout the world and created colleges within the universities. Oxford, one of the first universities, now has thirty colleges associated with it, and the development and formalization of educational institutions has changed the roles of both students and faculty. As knowledge accumulated, it became more and more difficult for one person to learn, let alone retain it all. In the sixteenth century one could still aspire to know all there was to know, and the definition of the Renaissance man (people were even more sexist then than they are now) was of one who was expected to know about everything. Unfortunately, at least for someone who wants to know everything, the amount of information continues to grow {{U}}exponentially{{/U}} while the size of the brain has grown only slightly. The way to deal with the problem is not to try to know everything about everything. Today we must specialize. That is why social science separated from the natural sciences and why it, in turn, has been broken down into various subfields, such as anthropology and sociology.

单选题 {{B}}Questions 27—30 are based on a report about procrastinators: students who put off studying. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 27—30.{{/B}}

单选题Those who spread superstition did not welcome public diversions because ______.

单选题Mike lost his ______on the bike and fell off.

单选题When a forest goes ablaze, it Udischarges /Uhundreds of chemical compounds, including carbon monoxide.

单选题The police are investigating how $ 20 million was illegally______out of the bank account.

单选题Admiral Cervera knew he was being ordered to certain destruction but felt compelled to obey. He chose the morning of July 3 for a gallant escape attempt.

单选题The map was drawn to the standard ______ of 1/100000 so there was not much detail.

单选题Of the following people, who are not involved in the program?

单选题Teachers of young children should Uscrupulously/U avoid ridicule and sarcasm.

单选题In the______ light I could see the outlines of the beacon towers.

单选题Australia continued the fight to end Japan's annual whale hunts, warning that its plan to kill humpback whales in Antarctica could ______ outrage. A. spark B. lead C. result D. involve

单选题I was sure that I could ______ our little misunderstanding, and that Sergia would then be glad to have me on the job.