单选题My parents want me to be the best at anything, but I don't have such high ______.

单选题It is important, too, that the selections be chosen from contemporary writings.

单选题{{B}}26-30{{/B}} Live Music—Late Night Jazz Enjoy real American jazz Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player. He is known to play well into the early hours, so don't want to get much sleep. PLACE: The Jazz Club　　DATES: 15～23 June PRICE: ￥100～150　　　TIME: 10 p.m. till late! TEL: 4668736 Scottish Dancing Scottish dancing is nice and easy to learn. The wonderful dance from English will be given. PLACE: Jack Stein's　　DATES: 10～20 May PRICE: ￥150　　　　TIME: 7～10p. m. TEL: 4021877 Shows in Anhui Museum There are 12000 pieces on show here. You can see the whole Chinese history. PLACE: Anhui Museum DATES: 1 Mar. ～1 Jun. PRICE: ￥60 (￥30 for students) TIME: Monday～Friday 9 a. m. ～5 p. m. Weekends 9 a. m. ～9 p. m. TEL: 4886888 Your pen friend is coming from Australia to your city for a holiday. You send him this E-mail to tell him something about the hotels. 　　　　　　　　Sun Hotel　　　　　　ROSE HOTEL 　　　Dates　　Prices (a night)　　　Prices (a night) 1 Oct. ～31 Dec. ￥168￥198 1 Jan. ～31 Mar. ￥148￥178 1 Apr. ～30 Apr. (closed)　…　　　　　… 1 May～31May 　　￥188　　　　　　　　￥218 1Jun.～30 Sep. 　￥208　　　　　　　　￥248 TEL: 4686788 E-mail: LiHong@163. com

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Clarke dressed for going out, took her handbag with her money and her key in it, pulled the door behind her to lock it and went to the over 60s Club. She always went there on Thursdays. It was a nice outing for an old woman who lived alone. At six o'clock she came home, let herself in and at once smelt cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke in her house? How? Had someone got in? She checked the back door and the windows. All were locked or fastened, as usual. There was no sign of forced entry. Over a cup of tea she wondered whether someone might have a key that fitted her front door "a master key" perhaps. So she stayed at home the following Thursday. Nothing happened. Was anyone watching her movements? On the Thursday after that she went out at her usual time, dressed as usual, but she didn't go to the club. Instead she took a short cut home again, letting herself in through her garden and the back door. She settled down to wait. It was just after four o'clock when the front door bell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making a cup of tea at the time. The bell rang again, and then she heard her letter box being pushed open. With the kettle of boiling water in her hand, she moved quietly towards the front door. A long piece of wire appeared through the letter box, and then a hand. The wire turned and caught around the knob on the door lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water over the hand. There was a shout outside, and the skin seemed to drop off the fingers like a glove. The wire fell to the floor, the hand was pulled back, and Mrs. Clarke heard the sound of running feet.

单选题It rained for two weeks on end, completely ______ our holiday. A. ruining B. ruins C. ruined D. to ruin

单选题 Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists' only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad. This wasn't always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworth's daffodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil. You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But it's not as if earlier times didn't know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today. After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology. People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too. Today the messages your average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda—to lure us to open our wallets to make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. "Celebrate!" commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks. What we forget—what our economy depends on is forgetting--is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.

单选题Caller. Hello! I want to make a person-to-person call to Toronto, Canada. The number is 932-0806.Operator: ______

单选题According to the selection, muscle participation in the process of thinking is ______.

单选题As indicated in the passage, the water problem ______.

单选题Police have ______ to the public to come forward with any information that might help them in their inquires.

单选题The word "attractions" ( line 1, para. 2) refers to ______.

单选题 {{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Kellie: You haven't been around much lately, have you? Marie: ______. Kellie: Oh? Where were you? Marie: Palm Springs. I've got a cousin there.

单选题One student after another ______ up to answer the teacher's questions. A. stand B. stands C. standing D. to stand

单选题Karen: Hello. Could I speak to Justin, please? Justin,______. A. Yes, you could. R Speaking. C. Who are you? D. Speak, please.

单选题It"s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. That"s especially true of children who remain in abusive homes because the law blindly favors biological parents. It"s also true of children who suffer for years in foster homes (收养孩子的家庭) because of parents who can"t or won"t care for them but refuse to give up custody (监护) rights. Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays fits neither description, but her recent court victory could eventually help children who do. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody baffle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge ruled that the teenager can remain with the only father she"s ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal claim" on her. The ruling, though it may yet be reversed, sets aside the principle that biology is the primary determinant of parentage. That"s an important development, one that"s long overdue. Shortly after birth in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another infant were mistakenly switched and sent home with the wrong parents. Kimberly"s biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests showed that the child wasn"t the Twiggs" own daughter, but Kimberly was, thus sparking a custody battle with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families agreed that Mr. Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting visiting rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being harmed. The decision to leave Kimberly with Mr. Mays rendered her suit debated. But the judge made clear that Kimberly did have standing to sue (起诉) on her own behalf. Thus he made clear that she was more than just property to be handled as adults saw fit. Certainly, the biological link between parent and child is fundamental. But biological parents aren"t always preferable to adoptive ones, and biological parentage does not convey an absolute ownership that cancels all the rights of children. (357 words)

单选题Agriculture was a step in human progress ______ which subsequently there was not anything comparable until our own machine age. A. to B. in C. for D. from

单选题A: Something must be wrong with my computer. All I get is a black screen. B: Will you lose all your files? A: ______

单选题Excitement, fatigue， and anxiety can all be detected from someone's blinks, according to psychologist John Stern (1) Washington University in St. Louis. Stern specialized in the study on these tiny twitches, using them as sensitive (2) of how the brain works. "I use blinks as a psychological measure to make (3) about thinking because I have very little 4 in what you tell me about what you are thinking," he says. "If I ask you the question, 'what does the phrase a rolling stone gathers no moss mean?' you can't tell me (5) you've started looking for the answer. But I can, by watching your eyes." Blinks also tell Stern when you have understood his question—often long before he's finished asking it—and when you've found an answer or part of (6) . "We blink at times (7) are psychologically important," he says. "You have listened to a question, you understand it, (8) you can take time out for a blink. Blinks are (9) marks. Their timing is tied to what is going on in your (10) ." Stern has found that (11) suppress blinks when they are absorbing or anticipating (12) but not when they're reciting it. People blink later, for example, (13) they have to memorize six numbers instead of two. "You don't blin," he says, "until you have (14) the information to some short-term memory store." And if subjects are cued (15) the set of numbers is coming, say, five seconds, they'll curb their blinks until the task is (16) . Similarly, the more important the information that people are taking in, the more likely they are to put their blinks on hold for (17) Pilots blink less when they're (18) for flying a plane than when they (19) their eyes from the road to the rearview mirror. But if they see the flashing lights of a state trooper behind them, their (20) will move fast to the speed-meter and back to the mirror.