单选题The company management attempted to ______ information that was not favorable to them, but it was all in vain. A. supplement B. suppress C. plug D. concentrate

单选题One or two friends ______ coming over for supper soon. A. is B. are C. has been D. who are

单选题The foreign teacher Ureadily/U accepted his students' invitation to go for a picnic.

单选题I got a headache. Otherwise I______to the lecture.

单选题WHAT IS ON EXHIBITIONS Oil Paintings—Oil painter Zhang Yongxu's one-man show will run January 3～19 at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Zhang, 33, graduated from the Oil Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. In the upcoming exhibition, viewers will see a personal experience of human life, and a combination of Eastern and Western art. Time: January 3～19. Address: Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, 5 Jiaowei Hutong, Wang fujing, Dongcheng District. Art from Nanjing—A group of young artists from Nanjing present a grand exhibition in the China National Art Museum from Jan. 5～11. The artists are from the Nanjing Calligraphy and Painting Institute. Inspired by the renowned artists in former generations such as Gu Kaizhi in the Jin Dynasty and the contemporary master Fu Baoshi, the artists have strenuously pursued new ways of producing quality traditional Chinese paintings. Time: Jan. 5～11. Location: China National Art Museum. Western Art Show—The China National Art Museum is displaying 117 pieces of European modern art donated by Peter Ludwig and his wife, Irene Ludwig. Many of them were done by world-famous artists, including four by Pablo Picasso. Peter Ludwig was a celebrated entrepreneur and popular social activist in Germany as well as a world-famous collector with thousands of invaluable art works. Time: from Jan. 6～20. Address: China National Art Museum, 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng District.

单选题From this passage, we can find the following facts except that______.

单选题Kitty: What do you think of that tea set as a gift for Mary's birthday? Bruce: ______. But I don't particularly care for the design. A. It's the right thing B. I think it's a Chinese style C. Not bad D. Let me think it over once again

单选题The first and smallest unit that can be discussed in relation to language is the word. In speaking, the choice of words is (31) the utmost importance. Proper selection will eliminate one source of (32) breakdown in the communication cycle. Too often, careless use of words (33) a meeting of the minds of the speaker and listener. The words used by the speaker may (34) unfavorable reactions in the listener (35) interfere with his comprehension; hence, the transmission-reception system breaks down. (36) , inaccurate or indefinite words may make (37) difficult for the listener to understand the (38) which is being transmitted to him. The speaker who does not have specific words in his working vocabulary may be (39) to explain or describe in a (40) that can be understood by his listeners.

单选题It wouldn"t do you any ______ to work a bit harder.

单选题If you know exactly what you want, the best route to a job is to get specialized training. A recent survey shows that companies like graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training. That"s especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell"s School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor"s degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies, especially, like a background of formal education coupled with work experience. But in the long run, too much specialization doesn"t pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years. As further evidence of the erosion (销蚀) of corporate (公司的) faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State"s Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices, although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. "They want someone who isn"t constrained (限制) by nuts and bolts to look at the big picture," says Scheetz. This sounds suspiciously like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems. David Birch claims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree, "I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things," says Birch. Liberal-arts means an academically thorough and strict program that includes literature, history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior—plus a computer course or two. With that under your belt, you can feel free to specialize. "A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace," says Scheetz. (365 words)

单选题Imagine eating everything delicious you want—with none of the fat. That would be great, wouldn't it? New "fake fat" products appeared on store shelves in the United States recently, but not everyone is happy about it. Makers of the products, which contain a compound called olestra, say food manufacturers can now eliminate fat from certain foods. Critics, however, say the new compound can rob the body of essential vitamins and nutrients (营养物) and can also cause unpleasant side effects in some people. So it's up to consumers to decide whether the new fat-free products taste good enough to keep eating. Chemists discovered olestra in the late 1960s, when they were searching for a fat that could be digested by infants more easily. Instead of finding the desired fat, the researchers created a fat that can't be digested at all. Normally, special chemicals in the intestines (肠) "grab" molecules of regular fat and break them down so they can be used by the body. A molecule of regular fat is made up of three molecules of substances called fatty acids. The fatty acids are absorbed by the intestines and bring with them the essential vitamins A, D, E, and K. When fat molecules are present in the intestines with any of those vitamins, the vitamins attach to the molecules and are carried into the bloodstream. Olestra, which is made from six to eight molecules of fatty acids, is too large for the intestines to absorb. It just slides through the intestines without being broken down. Manufacturers say it's that ability to slide unchanged through the intestines that makes olestra so valuable as a fat substitute. It provides consumers with the taste of regular fat without any bad effects on the body. But critics say olestra can prevent vitamins A, D, E, and K from being absorbed. It can also prevent the absorption of carotenoids (类胡萝卜素), compounds that may reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, etc. Manufacturers are adding vitamins A, D, E, and K as well as carotenoids to their products now. Even so, some nutritionists are still concerned that people might eat unlimited amounts of food made with the fat substitute without worrying about how many calories they are consuming.

单选题In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointing (1) that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot (2) . Skyscrapers are also enormous (3) , and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition (4) 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the (5) daily demand for electricity by 120,000 kilowatts— enough to (6) the entire city of Albany for a day. Glass-walled skyscraper can be especially (7) . The heat loss (or gain) through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times (8) through a typical masonry wall filled with insulation board. To lessen the strain (9) heating and air-conditioning equipment, (10) of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels of glass, and reflective glasses (11) with silver or gold mirror films that reduce (12) as well as heat gain. However, (13) skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and (14) neighboring buildings. Skyscrapers put severe pressure on a city's sanitation (15) , too. If fully occupied, the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw sewage each year—as (16) as a city the size of Stamford, Connecticut, which has a (17) of more than 109,000. Skyscrapers also (18) with television reception, block bird flyways, and obstruct air traffic. Still, people (19) to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always built them—personal ambition and the (20) of owners to have the largest possible amount of rentable space.

单选题The name of television comes from the Greek word {{I}}tele{{/I}} and the Latin word {{I}}videre{{/I}}, ______ "far" and "to see", respectively.

单选题I think ______ he said is right. A. who B. what C. that D. which

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单选题It is a wise father that knows his own child, but today a man can boost his paternal (fatherly) wisdom—or at least confirm that he's the kid's dad. All he needs to do is to shell out $30 for paternity testing kit (PTK) at his local drugstore — and another $120 to get the results. More than 60000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last year, according to Doug Fogg, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter(无需处方的) kits. More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests directly to the public, ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500. Among the most popular: paternity and kinship(亲属关系) testing, which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put up for adoption. DNA testing is also the latest rage among passionate genealogists (系谱学者)— and supports businesses that offer to search for a family's geographic roots. Most tests require collecting cells by swabbing saliva(唾液) in the mouth and sending it to the company for testing. All tests require a potential candidate with whom to compare DNA. But some observers are skeptical. "There's a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing," says Troy Duster, a New York University sociologist. He notes that each individual has many ancestors — numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back. Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome(染色体) inherited through men in a father's line or mitochondrial(线粒体的) DNA, which is passed down only from mothers. This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents. Critics also argue that commercial genetic testing is only as good as the reference collections to which a sample is compared. Databases used by some companies don't rely on data collected systematically but rather lump together information from different research projects. This means that a DNA database may have a lot of data from some regions and not others, so a person's test results may differ depending on the company that processes the results. In addition, the computer programs a company uses to estimate relationships may be patented and not subject to peer review or outside evaluation.

单选题Speaker A: Oh, I am feeling dizzy now. You know I have just enjoyed much beer.Speaker B: Really? Don't you know it is a very important party? ______!

单选题She could make a teacher far superior ______ the average.

单选题The driver tried to prevent the accident by bringing the car to a sudden stop.

单选题Policeman: OK, buddy, your driving license. How fast were you going? William: Well, it was about 50 mph or less. I was driving very slowly. Policeman: 50 mph?______All right. That'll be one hundred dollars. A. Don' t you know the speed limit downtown is 40 mph? B. Don' t you know the controlled speed downtown is 40 mph? C. You need to fix your car. D. You drive in the wrong way.