单选题The author suggests that energy savings could be realized______

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, and D on ANSWERSHEET 1. What does the future hold for the problem of housing? A good {{U}}(1) {{/U}} depends, of course, on the meaning of" future". If one is thinking in {{U}}(2) {{/U}} of science fiction and the space age {{U}}(3) {{/U}} at least possible to assume that man will have solved such trivial and earthly problems as housing. Writers of science fiction have {{U}}(4) {{/U}} the suggestion that men will live in great comfort, with every {{U}}(5) {{/U}} device to make life smooth, healthy and easy, {{U}}(6) {{/U}} not happy. But they have not said what his house will be made of. The problems of the next generation or two can more readily be imagined. Scientists have already pointed out that {{U}}(7) {{/U}} something is done either to restrict the world's rapid growth in population or to discover and develop new sources of food (or both), millions of people will be dying of starvation or, {{U}}(8) {{/U}}, suffering from under feeding before this {{U}}(9) {{/U}} is out. But nobody has worked out any plan for housing these growing populations. Admittedly the worse situations will occur in the {{U}}(10) {{/U}} parts of the world, where housing can be of light structure, or in backward areas where standards are {{U}}(11) {{/U}} low. But even the minimum shelter requires materials of {{U}}(12) {{/U}} kind, and in the crowded, bulging towns the low-standard" housing" of flattened petrol mans and dirty canvas is far more wasteful {{U}}(13) {{/U}} ground space than can be tolerated. Since the war, Hong Kong has suffered the kind of crisis which is likely to {{U}}(14) {{/U}} in many other places during the next generation. {{U}}(15) {{/U}} millions of refugees arrived to {{U}}(16) {{/U}} the already growing population and emergency steps had to be taken to prevent squalor and disease and the {{U}}(17) {{/U}} of crime. Hong Kong is only one small part of what will certainly become a vast problem and not {{U}}(18) {{/U}} a housing problem, because when population grows at this rate there are {{U}}(19) {{/U}} problems of education, transport, water supply and so on. Not every area may have the same resources as Hong Kong to {{U}}(20) {{/U}} and the search for quicker and cheaper methods of construction must never cease.

单选题According to the text, in a good bookshop

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} Everyday some 16m barrels of oil leave the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. That is enough to fill a soft-drink can for everyone on earth, or to power every motor vehicle on the planet for 25 miles (40kin). Gulf oil accounts for 40% of global trade in the sticky stuff. More important, it makes up two-thirds of known deposits. Whereas at present production rates the rest of the world's oil reserves will last for a mere 25 years, the Gulf's will last for 100. In other words, the region's strategic importance is set to grow and grow. Or at least so goes the conventional wisdom, which is usually rounded out with scary talk of unstable supplies, spendthrift regimes and a potential fundamentalist menace. Yet all those numbers come with caveats. A great deal of oil is consumed by the countries that produce it rather than traded, so in reality the Gulf accounts for less than a quarter of the world's daily consumption. As for reserves, the figures are as changeable as a mirage in the desert. The most comprehensive research available, conducted by the US Geological Survey, refers to an "expected" total volume for global hydrocarbon deposits that is about double current known reserves. Using that figure, and throwing in natural gas along with oil, it appears that the Gulf contains a more moderate 30% or so of the planet's future fossil-fuel supplies. Leaving out the two Gulf states that are not covered in this survey--Iran and Iraq--the remaining six between them hold something like 20% of world hydrocarbon reserves, not much more than Russia. All the same, {{U}}it is still a hefty chunk;{{/U}} enough, you might think, to keep the people living atop the wells in comfort for the foreseeable future. But you might be wrong. At present, the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council have a combined national income roughly equal to Switzerland's, but a population which, at around 30m, is more than four times as big. It is also the fastest-growing on earth, having increased at nine times the Swiss rate over the past quarter-century. Meanwhile the region's share of world oil trade has fallen, as has the average price per barrel. As a result, the income per person generated by GCC oil exports has been diminishing since the 1970s. True, surging demand from America and Asia has recently boosted the Gulf's share of trade, but the medium-term outlook for oil pries remains weak. Combined with continued growth in oil consumption, this should create sustained upward pressure on prices. And high oil prices will speed the search for alternatives. Who knows, in 20 years' time fuel cells and hydrogen power may have started to become commercial propositions.

单选题The television programmes that frighten children are those that______

单选题Why did the Pentagon and White House object to the release of the report? Because______.

单选题The author seems to believe that ______.

单选题Accurate representation and reporting is vital in the media because______.

单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} The divorce rate in Britain has levelled off—to roughly one marriage in three—and shows no sign of reaching the much higher American rate, according to the demographers(人口统计学者) assembled in Bath last week for a conference on the family. There has been no increase in the rate in the last three years and although many expected it to rise a few more percentage points in the next decade, none believed it would reach the 50 percent that exists in America. One reason for the stabilizations of divorce is the reduction in the risk factors—fewer teenagers marrying, fewer early births in marriage, fewer pre-marital(婚前的)conceptions. Another reason which was aired at the annual conference of the British Society for Population Studies, was the increase in cohabitation. Some speakers argued that the increase in cohabitation has meant that marital couples are now much more familiar with each other before marriage and therefore less likely to separate. One out of four couples who marry today have lived together and in the older age groups the proportion is much higher. Some 34 percent of women aged over 25 who marry have cohabited, and over 50 percent of women who are marrying a divorced man or who have been divorced themselves, cohabit before marriage. Cohabitation in Britain, however, is still considerably lower than in many European states and was described by the demographers as "essentially a part of contemporary courtship". Only a small proportion of people who cohabited had children whereas in Sweden some 40 percent of births were now outside formal marriage. The British rate was 13 percent. Kath Kiernan of the Centre for Population Studies noted that the present statistics suggested that there was a marginally higher risk of separation for couples who had cohabited, but this could possibly be explained by the fact that the statistics covered a period when cohabiting had not become as socially acceptable as it was today. A third reason why the demographers thought the divorce rate could stabilize was the economic squeeze(利润等的缩减) and the recession(暴跌), which would mean there was less opportunity to separate because of the lack of housing and employment.

单选题After September 11th, long delays of express air shipping often arise because of

单选题Which of the following words could best be substituted for "relaxed" (Paragraph 3) without substantially changing the author's meaning?

单选题According to the author, breeding super-apes would be

单选题What does the author imply by "There is a silver lining. "(Par

单选题Everything seemed to have become a weapon of war. Our enemies had (1) the most familiar objects (2) us, turned shaving kits into holsters and airplanes (3) missiles and soccer coaches and newlyweds into involuntary suicide bombers. So it was (4) the President and his generals to plot the response. That is because we are (5) one enemy but two: one unseen, the other inside. Terror on this scale (6) to wreck the way we live our lives-make us flinch when a siren sounds, (7) when a door slams and think twice before deciding (8) we really have to take a plane. If we falter, they win, (9) they never plant another bomb. So after the early helplessness, what can I do? I've already given blood-people started to realize that (10) they could do was exactly, as precisely as possible, (11) they would have done if all this (12) . That was the spirit (13) in New York and Washington and all across the country, faith and fear and resolve in a tight braid. Because the killers who hate us did the (14) , nothing is unthinkable now. A plume of grill smoke venting from a Manhattan steak house (15) the evacuation of midtown office towers. After the Pentagon (16) , generals called their families and told them (17) the water, it could be poisoned. Sales of guns and gas masks spiked. The National Football League (18) its games for the first time ever; bomb scares emptied 90 sites on Thursday in New York City (19) . People wore sneakers with their suits (20) they had to fly fast down the stairs.

单选题Concerning health-care systems in Britain, the author is likely to agree to the statement that