单选题(Phone call) Daughter: OK, Dad. Nice talking to you and glad everything's all right. ______. Dad: All right. Good-bye. Daughter: Good-bye, Dad.

单选题Dr. Hawking has made much contribution to the theories of modern physics at the ______ of his health.

单选题What are the prospects of getting a good job in California?

单选题The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is 1 to say it anyway. He is that 2 bird, a scientist who works independently 3 any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not 4 thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested. 5 he, however, might tremble at the 6 of what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only 7 that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about. The group in 8 are a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural selection. This group generally do well in IQ test, 9 12-15 points above the 10 value of 100, and have contributed 11 to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the 12 of their elites, including several world renowned scientists, 13 . They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, 14 , have previously been thought unrelated. The former has been 15 to social effects, such as a strong tradition of 16 education. The latter was seen as a (an) 17 of genetic isolation. Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately 18 . His argument is that the unusual history of these people has 19 them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this 20 state of affairs.

单选题In 1991, while the economies of industrialized countries met an economic ______ , the economies of developing countries were growing very fast.

单选题Guest: Well, I have to be off. Thank you for your wonderful dinner. Host: ______.

单选题A: Lunch together tomorrow? B: ______.

单选题China intends to join WTO (World Trade Organization) and she is making every effort to accomplish the negotiation procedure.

单选题Nigel is carrying out research on early Christian art.

单选题Samuel: What a surprise! You have changed your car. Diana: Yes, and another surprise. I'm going to get engaged with Jessic

单选题The role of governments in environmental management is difficult but inescapable. Sometimes, the state tries to manage the resources it owns, and does so badly. Often, (1) , governments act in an even more harmful way. They actually subsidize the exploitation and (2) of natural resources. A whole (3) of policies, from farm-price support to protection for coal-mining, do environmental damage and (often) (4) no economic sense. Scrapping them offers a two-fold (5) : a cleaner environment and a more efficient economy. Growth and environmentalism can actually go hand in hand, if politicians have the courage to (6) the vested interest that subsidies create. No activity affects more of the earth's surface than farming. It shapes a third of the planet's land area, not (7) Antarctica, and the proportion is rising. World food output per head has risen by 4 per cent between the 1970s and 1980s mainly as a result of increases in (8) from land already in (9) , but also because more land has been brought under the plough. Higher yields have been achieved by increased irrigation, better crop breeding, and a (10) in the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in the 1970s and 1980s. All these activities may have (11) environmental impacts. For example; land clearing for agriculture is the largest single (12) of deforestation; chemical fertilizers and pesticides may (13) water supplies; more intensive farming and the abandonment of fallow periods (14) exacerbate soil erosion; and the spread of monoculture and use of high-yielding varieties of crops have been accompanied by the (15) of old varieties of food plants which (16) some insurance against pests or diseases in future. Soil erosion threatens the productivity of land in both rich and poor countries. The United States, (17) the most careful measurements have been done, discovered in 1982 that about one-fifth of its farmland was losing topsoil at a rate (18) to diminish the soil's productivity. The country subsequently (19) a program to convert 11 per cent of its cropped land to meadow or forest. Topsoil in India and China is (20) much faster than in America.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Much has been written about the potential for management to become isolated from customers and employees. This phenomenon often occurs not just within top management, but also within middle management. I've seen this isolation phenomenon in many companies. The symptoms are quite apparent: Managers spend a great deal of time talking to themselves and studying operating numbers. They spend precious little time with customers or with employees, trying to understand the system of the business. And when they do spend time with them, they often do not probe deeply into needs, concerns, and opportunities. This phenomenon, often referred to as being "internally focused", can be tremendously insidious (隐伏陷害的). Although the need for understanding and spending time with customers has been well documented, I find few managers spending time in the field. The benefits of doing so are clear. A visit with your counterparts at customers' distribution centers, for example, not only builds relation ships that can prove useful when problems arise, but also uncovers numerous opportunities to enhance(增进，提高) your performance and deepen your company's linkage with those customers. There are many ways to connect with and understand employee perspectives(观点，看法). Some companies have found formal sessions in which senior managers solicit (恳求，请求) ideas from employees to be very useful. These can be run either as focus groups or as structured discussions. Managers also should exploit every opportunity to gather organizational knowledge from employees. Some successful managers collect employees' opinions by what often is referred to as "managing by walking around" or the "10-minute cup of coffee". They, may, for example, go to employees' offices and solicit their opinions. Or at lunch or when they take a cup of coffee, they "mix with the troops" and solicit their input. Rather than talk about the latest game, you can solicit employees' ideas by asking questions like: What are you working on? How's it going? What's good about our organization? What could be better? How could we better serve our customers or improve our processes? What do you think we should be doing differently? You'll be surprised at how valuable a "10-minute cup of coffee" together with a brief conversation with an employee can be. It will make you a more effective manager.

单选题Customer: ______ Clerk: Here you are. 20 dollars. A. Give me 20 dollars worth of stamps, please. B. I want to purchase 20 dollars of stamps, please. C. Five 2-dollar and ten 1-dollar stamps, please. D. Could I have some stamps, please?

单选题Directions: There are ten blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. The hobby of collecting autographs (亲笔签名) is called philography, from a Greek word meaning love of writing. People {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}many kinds of autographs. Some collect signatures or other handwritten materials of authors, composers, movie stars, or sports heroes. Others focus on certain {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}, such as the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a presidential election, or the space program. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}collectors try to acquire a complete set of autographs of Nobel Prize winners or Academy Award winners. Collectors may request autographs {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}celebrities either in person or by letter. Most beginning autograph collectors do not have the knowledge to determine {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}an autograph is genuine (真实的). They may mistake other kinds of signatures for {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}handwritten signatures. For example, some people have secretaries who sign their mail. Some individuals send out mass-produced letters or signed photographs to collectors who {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}their autographs. Many famous people use a mechanical device called an Autopen to sign autographs. The {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}can sign 3,000 signatures in eight hours. The only way to recognize an Autopen autograph is to compare two of them. All Autopen autographs are {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}, but no two handwritten autographs are {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}alike.

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单选题The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent eases (1) the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant (2) of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a (3) bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (4) and will strictly control the amount of (5) that can be given to a case (6) a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he (7) with a committee report this year which said that self-regulation did not (8) sufficient control. (9) of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (10) of media protest when he said the interpretation of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges rather than to Parliament.

单选题Fear and its companion pain are two of the most useful things that men and animals possess, if they are properly used. If fire did not hurt when it burnt, children would play it until their hands were burnt away. Similarly, if pain existed but fear did not, a child would burn itself again and again, because fear would not warn it to keep away from the fire that had burn it before. A really fearless soldier--and some do exist--is not a good soldier because he is soon killed; and a dead soldier is of no use to his army. Fear and pain are therefore two guards without which men and animals might soon die out. In our first sentence we suggested that fear ought to be properly used. If, for example, you never go out of your house because of the danger of being knocked down and killed in the street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too much. Even in your house you are not absolutely safe: an airplane may crash on your house, or ants may eat away some of the beams in your roof so that the latter falls on you, or you may get cancer! The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but instead to use fear as your servant and guide. Fear will warn you of dangers; then you have to decide what action to take. In many cases, you can take quick and successful action to avoid the danger. For example, you see a car coming straight towards you; fear warns you, you jump out of the way, and all is well. In some cases, however, you decide that there is nothing that you can do to avoid the danger. For example, you cannot prevent an airplane crashing onto your house. In this case, fear has given you its warning; you have examined it and decided on your course, of action, so fear of this particular danger is no longer of any use to you, and you have to try to overcome it.

单选题 Amy Johnson was a pioneer airwoman in Britain. She was born on July 1, 1903, in Yorkshire and lived there until 1923 when she went to Sheffield University to study for a BA. After graduation she took a job as a secretary to a London lawyer. At the same time she became interested in aviation, and to succeed in some project which would prove to the world that women could be as competent as men in a male-dominated field in those days. Early in 1930, she chose her objective: to fly solo to Australia and to break the previous record of 16 days. Her parents and some of her friends lent her money to buy a used airplane. Amy set off on May 5, 1930. Her route took her over Vienna and Baghdad. She was caught in a sandstorm and had to make an emergency landing in the desert. Six days later she landed in India. After experiencing much hardship, she finally reached Australia on May 24, completing a flight of 11,000 miles. She was the first woman to fly alone to Australia. In later years, she set several other records in flight history.

单选题Speaker A: ______? Speaker B: Yes, I"d like to open a savings account.