单选题I start my day here at five o"clock. I get up and prepare all the children"s clothes. If there are shoes to shine, I do it in the morning. About seven o"clock I bathe the children. I leave the baby with the baby sitter and I go to work at the settlement house. I work until twelve o"clock. Sometimes I"ll work longer if I have to go to welfare and get a check for somebody. When I get back, I try to make hot food for the kids to eat. In the afternoon it"s pretty well on my own. I scrub and clean and cook and do whatever I have to do. Welfare makes you feel like you"re nothing. Like you"re laying back and not doing anything and it"s falling in your lap. But you must understand, mothers, too, work. My house is clean. I"ve been scrubbing since this morning. You could check my clothes, all washed and ironed. I"m home and I"m working. I am a working mother. Some men work eight hours a day. There are mothers that work eleven, twelve hours a day. We get up at night, a baby vomits, you have to be calling the doctor, and you have to be changing the baby. When do you get a break, really? You don"t. This is an all-around job, day and night. Why do they say it"s charity? We"re working for our money. I am working for this check. It is not charity. We are giving some kind of home to these children. I"m so busy all day I don"t have time to daydream. I pray a lot. I pray to God to give me strength. If He should take a child away from me, to have the strength to accept it. It"s His kid. He just borrowed him to me. It"s living off welfare and feeling that you"re taking something for nothing the way people have said. You get to think maybe you are. You get to think, why am I so stupid? Why can"t I work? Why do I have to live this way? You feel degraded. The other day I was at the hospital and I went to pay my bill. This nurse came and gave me the green card. Green card is for welfare. She went right in front of me and gave it to the cashier. She said, "I wish I could stay home and let the money fall in my lap." I felt rotten. I was just burning inside. You hear this all the way around you. The doctor doesn"t even look at you. People are ashamed to show that green card. This nurse, to her way of thinking, she represents the working people. The ones with the green card, we represent the lazy no-goods.

单选题 On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to speak at the National Soldiers Cemetery. The Civil War was still going on. There was much criticism of President Lincoln at the time. He was not at all popular. He had been invited to speak at Gettysburg only out of politeness. The principal speaker was to be Edward Everett, a famous statesman and speaker of the day. Everett was a handsome man and very popular everywhere. It is said that Lincoln prepared his speech on the train while going to Gettysburg. Late that night, alone in his hotel room and tired out, he again worked briefly on the speech. The next day Everett spoke first. He spoke for an hour and 57 minutes. His speech was a perfect example of the rich oratory of the day. Then Lincoln rose. The crowd of 15 000 people at first paid little attention to him. He spoke for only nine minutes. At the end, there was little applause. Lincoln turned to a friend and remarked, "I have failed again. " On the train back to Washington, he said sadly, "That speech was a flat failure, and the people are disappointed." Some newspapers at first criticized the speech. But little by little as people read the speech they began to understand better. They began to appreciate its simplicity and its deep meaning. It was a speech which only Abraham Lincoln could have made. Today, every American schoolchild learns Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by heart. Now everyone thinks of it as one of the greatest speeches ever given in American history.

单选题How to talk to a Martian is an academic question.

单选题An Olympic Marathon is 26 miles and 385 yards, ______ approximately from Marathon to Athens. A. distance B. is the distance C. the distance D. the distance is

单选题All ______ is a continuous supply of the basic necessities of life. A. what is needed B. the time needed C. for our needs D. that is needed

单选题The committee is expected to ______ a decision this evening.

单选题A: That necklace looks really lovely on you. B: ______.

单选题Good research involves (more) merely (gathering) information; (it) is (essentially) a thinking activity.

单选题When television first began to expand, very few of the people who had become famous as radio commentators were able to be effective on television. Some of the difficulties they experienced when were trying to (31) themselves to the new medium were technical. When working on radio, for example, they had become (32) to seeing on behalf of the listener. This (33) of seeing for others means that the commentator has to be very good at talking. Above all, he has to be able to (34) a continuous sequence of visual images which (35) meaning to the sounds which the listener hears. In the (36) of television, however, the commentator sees everything with the viewer. His role, therefore, is completely different. He is there to make (37) that the viewer does not miss some point of interest, to help him focus on particular things, and to (38) the images on the television screen. Unlike his radio colleague, he must know the (39) of silence and how to use it at those moments (40) the pictures speak for themselves.

单选题{{B}}Questions 26-30 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} {{B}} Help Wanted Ad{{/B}} Outstanding opportunity with local real estate corporation. Requires strong background in real estate, financing. Some legal training helpful. Prefer candidate with M.A. and two or more years of successful real estate experience. Broker's license required. Salary range $50,000--$80,000 yearly in accordance with education and experience. Begin immediately. Interviews will be conducted Tuesday and Thursday, June 10 and 12. Call for an appointment 243-11522, or send a letter of application and resume to: Personnel Department Executive Real Estate Corporation 500 Capital Avenue Lawrence, Kansas 67884

单选题However, at times this balance in nature is______, resulting in a number of possiblyunforeseen effects. A. troubled B. disturbed C. confused D. puzzled

单选题Double Income and No Kids (DINK) becomes fashionable in China. The DINK couples are usually regarded as those who have higher educations and 11 careers with higher incomes. The increase in DINK families has shattered the Chinese traditional idea of the family and 12 typical. A survey conducted recently in Beijing by a market survey company 13 that about 3.3 percent of 1,300 surveyed families in Beijing said they have 14 plans to have children. It is estimated there are about 600,000 DINK families in large cities like Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing. Why they choose such a lifestyle is concluded in 15 reasons. Some are showing great worry for the rapid growth of population; some are indulged in building a more well-off family; some are showing sharp 16 to get themselves free from the obligation of raising children. 17 , most people still believe it is necessary to bear a child to keep the family line on. As an old Chinese saying goes, there are three aspects in failing to be a filial son and the 18 serious one is to have no heir for the family. So childless couples will suffer discrimination 19 family members and neighbors. But it is clear that the new tide of ideas has come, which suggests young people 20 to choose their own way of life. They are installing modern ideas into traditional families and society. In the modernization process, personal choices will be highly respected.

单选题The new director of the television station wants to ______ its programs.

单选题The person who is interested in the position should ______.

单选题Ken: Gee, Martin, I"d love a cup of coffee. Martin: ______, is instant OK?

单选题所谓“脱口秀”(talk show)主要指( )类电视节目。

单选题Manager: ______ Secretary: Someone did call. But I can hardly understand the dialect he used.

单选题There is no mother ______ loves her own children. A. who B. that C. but D. who not

单选题{{B}}练习十二{{/B}} Selling is the direct confrontation between the company and its customer. Management training and material tend to be devoted to “closing the sale”, "effective presentation skills", "use of visual aids" , and so on. The one aspect of selling which is often neglected is "prospecting(寻找可能的顾客)". In advance of any direct selling activity or, indeed, any promotion, it is important to take time and allocate resources to prospecting for clients. Prospecting identifies buyers and makes the best use of time available for selling. It is the quality, not the quantity, of prospects that matters. Market segmentation(条块化) will show the market segment most likely to yield buyers, e.g. manufacturing companies with a turnover in excess of ￡5 million within 50 miles of your offices. Building up a prime prospect file is the most valuable activity a salesperson can do. Once achieved, canvassing(游说顾客) is necessary only to "top up" the prospect reservoir when the level drops; that is, a prospect is converted to a customer, ceases to be a prime prospect and is replaced by another prime prospect. The prospect file will help only if it is kept up to date and used systematically. A follow-up or bring-forward system will force you to plan your time effectively. The selection of prospects can be done at the desk or by telephone. It involves a relatively low cost resource, compared with a field salesperson. The use of computers enables companies to develop a database of prospects which can be used interactively, depending on sales objectives or changes in strategy. By using a computerized marketing database, you can analyze important factors such as source of prospect/lead, date last called, change in staff. A new sales in a market sector can open the door to acquiring a number of new prospects in this sector.

单选题The high living standards of the US cause its present population to ______ 25 percent of the world's oil. A. assume B. consume C. resume D. presume