单选题The press mocked his attempts to appeal to young voters. A. ridiculed B. entertained C. ignored D. drew

单选题They have ______ the price of the coat from $ 50 to $ 25.

单选题Chemistry is closely______with other studies: physics, biology and so on. A. corresponded B. concerned C. correlated D. cooperated

单选题The hum of conversation _______ as the chairman mounted the rostrum.

单选题The jurors came to a deadlock in the defendant's trial for murder.

单选题According to the passage, who shall we fall back on for a better future for the environment?

单选题 Directions: In this part, there are incomplete sentences in the following passage. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. One country that is certain of the effect of films on tourism is Australia. The Tourist Office of Queensland say that Crocodile Dundee, {{U}}61 {{/U}} Paul Hogan, made Australia the popular {{U}}62 {{/U}} it is today. In the three years after Crocodile Dundee was {{U}}63 {{/U}} , visitor numbers doubled. {{U}}64 {{/U}} what makes people want to visit the place where a movie was filmed? In many cases the reason is {{U}}65 {{/U}} the film makes audiences {{U}}66 {{/U}} of the existence of a place. {{U}}67 {{/U}} the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun was filmed in Phuket, Thailand, most Westerners had never heard of it. Today it is a major destination. Leonardo di Caprio's film The Beach has {{U}}68 {{/U}} tourism in another part of Thailand. The film is about the discovery of the most idyllic beach in the world. As a result the Thai authorities are {{U}}69 {{/U}} a tourist boom in the film's {{U}}70 {{/U}} ,Koh Phi Phi. Some people are influenced by a movie's {{U}}71 {{/U}} as much as its location, especially if it is a romance. Four Weddings and a Funeral has {{U}}72 {{/U}} that" The Crown" hotel in Amersham has been busy ever {{U}}73 {{/U}} the movie was first shown. In fact the bedroom where the {{U}}74 {{/U}} played by Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell spend their first night together is {{U}}75 {{/U}} for years ahead. "We've {{U}}76 {{/U}} the number of marriage proposals that have been made there," say the hotel {{U}}77 {{/U}}. It is not just the tourist boards who are happy {{U}}78 {{/U}} the influence of films on a destination. Residents of a rather run down area of London have seen house prices almost double {{U}}79 {{/U}} Julia Robert's romance with Hugh Grant in Notting Hill. Film stars, such as Madonna, who had previously thought of Notting Hill as a good place for a party, have now bought {{U}}80 {{/U}} there. Perhaps they hope to revive their romances.

单选题Humans should not develop their economy at the ______ of the ecological environment. A. destruction B. pollution C. expense D. mercy

单选题Although the work needs to be done more exhaustively, efforts have been made to collect the songs and ballads of the American Revolution.

单选题A knowledge of history ______ us to deal with the vast range of problems confronting the con temporary world. A. equips B. provides C. offers D. satisfies

单选题Manufacturing is China's most important economic activity, ______over 30 percent of the workforce.

单选题A(For) all the fretting about outsourcing and B(trade deficits) in the United States, MTV offers a C(highly-end) case study in how to export what seems, at first glance, to be D(a uniquely American brand.)

单选题They are taught by their superiors that a soldier who ______ his post in time of war is to be shot.

单选题{{B}}Passage 2{{/B}} Justice in society must include both a fair trial to the accused and the selection of an appropriate punishment for those proven guilty. Because justice is regarded as one form of equality, we find in its earlier expression the idea of a punishment equal to the crime. Recorded in the Bible is the expression "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." That is, the individual who has done wrong has committed an offense against society. To make repayment for this offense, society must get equally balanced, which can be done only by imposing an equal injury upon him. This conception of deserved-punishment justice is reflected in many parts of the legal codes and procedures of modern times, which is illustrated when we demand the death penalty for a person who has committed murder. This philosophy of punishment was supported by the German idealist Hegel, who believed that society {{U}}owed it to the criminal to put into operation a punishment equal to the crime he had committed.{{/U}} The criminal had by his own actions denied his true self and it is necessary to do something that will eliminate this denial and restore the self that has been denied. To the murderer nothing less than giving up his life will pay his debt. The demand for the death penalty is a right the state owes the criminal and it should not deny him what he deserves. Modern jurists have tried to replace deserved-punishment justice with the notion of corrective justice. The aim of the latter is not to abandon the concept of equality but to find a more adequate way to express it. It tries to preserve the idea of equal opportunity for each individual to realize the best that is in him. This does not mean that criminals will escape punishment or be quickly returned to take up careers of crime. It means that justice is to heal the individual, not simply to get even with him. Therefore, his conviction of crime must not deprive him of the opportunity to make his way in the society of which he is a part.

单选题Some weeks ago, riding in a cab from Boston to Cambridge, my driver turned and asked me what I did for a living. "Teach English," I said. "Is that so?" The young man continued. "I was an English major." But then, instead of chatting idly about Joyce or dropping the subject altogether, this driver caught me short. "You guys," he said, turning back so that his furry face pressed into the glass partition, "ought to be shot." I think he meant it. The guilty party in this present state of affairs is not really the academic discipline. It is not the fault of English and philosophy and biology that engineering and accounting and computer science afford students better job opportunities and increased flexibility in career choice. Literature and an understanding of, say, man's evolutionary past are as important as ever. They simply are no longer perceived in today's market as salable. That is a harsh economic fact. And it is not only true in the United States. Employment prospects for liberal arts graduates in Canada, for example, are said to be the worst since the 1930s. What to do? I think it would be shortsighted for colleges and universities to advise students against majoring in certain subjects that do not appear linked (at least directly) to careers. Where our energies should be directed instead is toward the development of educational programs that combine course sequences in the liberal arts with course in the viable professions. Double majors--one for enrichment, one for earning one's bread--have never been promoted very seriously in our institutions of higher learning, mainly because liberal arts and professional-vocational faculties have long been suspicious or contemptuous of one another. Thus students have been directed to one path or the other, to the disadvantage of both students and faculty. A hopeful cue could be taken, it seems to me, from new attempts in the health profession (nursing and pharmacy, for example), where jobs are still plentiful, to give the humanities and social sciences a greater share of the curriculum. Why could not the traditional history major in the college of arts and sciences be pointed toward additional courses in the business school, or to engineering, or to physical therapy? This strategy requires a new commitment from both the institution and the student and demands a much harder look at the allocation of time and resources. But in an age of adversity, double majors are one way liberal arts students can more effectively prepare for the world outside.

单选题Perhaps all societies (are significantly more advanced) than our own have achieved an effective personal immortality and lose the motivation for interstellar gallivanting, which (may), (for all we know), (be) a typical urge only of adolescent civilizations.

单选题Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one's side, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell. Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War Ⅱ and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm's length away from others. Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable. Our linguistic and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world. Even here in the United States, we make few concessions to the needs of foreign visitors. There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildings or monuments; we do not have multilingual guided tours. Very few restaurant menus have translations, and multilingual waiters, bank clerks and policemen are rare. Our transportation systems have maps in English only and often we ourselves have difficulty understanding them. When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is spoken. The attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those natives--usually the richer--who speak English. Our business dealings, as well as the nation's diplomacy, are conducted through interpreters. For many years, America and Americans could get by with cultural blindness and linguistic ignorance. After all, America was the most powerful country of the free world, the distributor of needed funds and goods. But all that is past. American dollars no longer buy all good things, and we are slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing. A 1979 Harris poll reported that 55 percent of Americans want this country to play a more significant role in world affairs; we want to have a hand in the important decisions of the next century, even though it may not always be the upper hand.