单选题James: Don't you think the jewellery is too expensive? Jane: ______

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} It looked just like another aircraft from the outside. The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964．But appearances were deceptive, and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who boarded the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives. Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel. Heavily padded (填塞) from floor to ceiling, it looked a bit strange. There were almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated it. Most of the seats had been taken out, apart from a few at the back, where the young scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear. For 12 months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency. The challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducted in weightless conditions. For the next two hours, the flight resembled that of an enormous bird which had lost its reason, shooting upwards towards the heavens before rushing .towards Earth. The invention was to achieve weightlessness for a few seconds. The aircraft took off smoothly enough, but any feelings that I and the young scientists had that we were on anything like a scheduled passenger service were quickly dismissed when the pilot put the plane into a 45-degree climb which lasted around 20 seconds. Then the engines cut out and we became weightless. Everything became confused and left or right, up or down no longer had any meaning. After ten seconds of free-fall descent(下降) the pilot pulled the aircraft out of its nosedive. The return of gravity was less immediate than its loss, but was still sudden enough to ensure that some students came down with a bump. Each time the pilot cut the engines and we became weightless, a new team conducted its experiment. First it was the Dutch who wanted to discover how it is that eats always land on their feet. Then the German team who conducted a successful experiment on a traditional building method to see if it could be used for building a future space station. The Americans had an idea to create solar sails that could be used by satellites. After two hours of going up and down in the lane doing their experiments, the predominant feeling was one of excitement rather than sickness. Most of the students thought it was an unforgettable experience and one they would be keen to repeat.

单选题According to the passage, when could people start using a maglev commerciaily?

单选题The problem with the reading course as mentioned in the first Paragraph is that______.

单选题At his jokes we could not help but ______. A. laugh B. laughing C. laughed D. laughter

单选题You shouldn't have written in the ______ since the book belongs to the library.

单选题Because of the unexpected changes, they postponed ______ us an answer. A. giving B. have given C. to give D. to have given

单选题Passage Three It is hard to predict how science is going to turn out, and if it is really good science it is impossible to predict. If the things to be found are actually new, they are by definition unknown in advance. You cannot make choices in this matter. You either have science or you don't, and if you have it you are obliged to accept the surprising and disturbing pieces of information, along with the neat and promptly useful bits. The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of the 20th century science to the human intellect. In earlier times, we either pretended to understand how things worked or ignored the problem, or simply made up stories to fill the gaps. Now that we have begun exploring in earnest, we are getting glimpses of how huge the questions are, and how far they are from being answered. Because of this, we are depressed. It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance, the worst spots and here and there the not-so-bad spots, but no true light at the end of the tunnel nor even any tunnels that can yet be trusted. But we are making a beginning, and there ought to be some satisfaction. There are probably no questions we can think up that can't be answered, sooner or later, including even the matter of consciousness; to be sure, there may well be questions we can't think up, ever, and therefore limits to the reach of human intellect, but that is another matter. Within our limits, we should be able to work our way through to all our answers, if we keep at it long enough, and pay attention.

单选题Student A: Thanks a lot. I really enjoyed your company.Student B: Don't mention it.

单选题The word "they" in "…together they threaten to confuse." (Line 3, Para. 5) refers to

单选题To our ______, Geoffrey's illness proved not to be as serious as we had feared. A. anxiety B. relief C. view D. judgment,

单选题______ urgent the situation may be, you will need to make one change at a time and then move on

单选题 According to a recent survey on money and relationships, 36 per cent of people are keeping a bank account from their partner. While this financial unfaithfulness may appear as distrust in a relationship, in truth it may just be a form of financial protection. With almost half of all marriages ending in divorce, men and women are realizing they need to be financially savvy, regardless of whether they are in a relationship. The financial hardship on individuals after a divorce can be extremely difficult, even more so when children are involved. The lack of permanency in relationships, jobs and family life may be the cause of a growing trend to keep a secret bank account hidden from a partner; in other words, an "escape fund" . Margaret's story is far from unique. She is a representative of a growing number of women in long-term relationships who are becoming protective of their own earnings. Every month on pay day, she banks hundreds of dollars into a savings account she keeps from her husband. She has been doing this throughout their six-year marriage and has built a nest egg worth an incredible $100000 on top of her pension. Margaret says if her husband found out about her secret savings he'd hurt and would interpret this as a sign she wasn't sure of the marriage. "He'd think it was my escape fund so that financially I could afford to get out of the relationship if it went wrong. I know you should approach marriage as being forever and I hope ours is, but you can never be sure." Like many of her fellow secret savers, Margaret was stung in a former relationship and has since been very guarded about her own money. Coming clean to your partner about being a secret saver may not be all that bad. Take Colleen, for example, who had been saving secretly for a few years before she confessed to her partner. “I decided to open a savings account and start building a nest egg of my own. I wanted to prove to myself that I could put money in the bank and leave it there for a rainy day.” "When John found out about my secret savings, he was a little suspicious of my motives. I reassured him that this was certainly not an escape fund and that I feel very secure in our relationship. I have to admit that it does feel good to have my own money on reserve if ever there are rainy days in the future. It's sensible to build and protect your personal financial security."

单选题If you want to take photos of flowers, which hotel should be the best choice?

单选题He as well as I ______ you on that point. A. agree with B. agree to C. agrees with D. am to agree

单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank. The China boom is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Who hasn't{{U}} (1) {{/U}}the Middle Kingdom's astounding economic growth (8 percent annually} , its tremendous consumer market (1.2 billion people), the investment enthusiasm of foreign suitors ($40 billion in foreign direct investment last year{{U}} (2) {{/U}})? China is an economic wonder. {{U}}(3) {{/U}}Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution, a Washington D．C．-based think tank, "No country{{U}} (4) {{/U}}its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan doubled its foreign trade over{{U}} (5) {{/U}}period; China's foreign trade was quintupled(使成五倍). They've become the pre-eminent producer of labor-intensive manufacturing goods in the world. " But there's been{{U}} (6) {{/U}}from the dazzling China growth story-namely, the Chinese I multinational. No major Chinese companies have yet established themselves, or their brands, {{U}}(7) {{/U}}the global stage. But things are now starting to change. {{U}}(8) {{/U}}100 years of poverty and chaos, of being overshadowed by foreign countries and multinationals, Chinese industrial companies are starting to make a mark on the world. A new generation of large and credible firms{{U}} (9) {{/U}}in China in the electronics, appliance and even high-tech sectors. Some have{{U}} (10) {{/U}}critical mass on the mainland and are now seeking new outlets for their production-through exports and by building Chinese factories abroad, chiefly in Southeast Asia.

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单选题Falling sales and rising overheads have obliged the company to review each customer's ______ limit. A. credit B. currency C. check D. certificate

单选题After years of research, Dr. Duke ______ new ideas on the muses of dream.