单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Most Americans today have some insurance against long-term illness or injury, or the death of the family wage-earner. Nearly all who work, including the self-employed, are covered by retirement programs. Four out of five employees now have access to unemployment benefits. The Social Security law, which covers more than 90 percent of the work force, provides a national system of payments in old age and disability benefits. Over the years the law has been broadened' to give greater protection in all categories. The Social Security system is financed through a tax paid by workers and their employers during the years of employment. Self-employed persons, who also pay into the system, are covered as well. When workers retire at age 65, they receive monthly payments on a scale to their previous earnings; reduced benefits am paid to those retiring at ages 62 through 64. Benefits are also paid to nonworking widows and widowers, to children under 18 and to dependent parents. More than 35 million people currently receive these monthly payments. Unemployment insurance is financed through a payroll(工资单) tax paid by the employer. The federal government provides money to the states to cover the cost of operating this program; the states determine the conditions under which benefits are paid. Civilians who work for the federal government share the cost of their pension system and group health insurance programs. Most state and city government workers have similar protections. The federal government also has programs to protect railroad workers and members of the armed forces. In addition, all the states have "workers' compensation" laws that provide payments to workers or their families for jobconnected injury or death. The federal government makes grants to the states to help them finance public assistance and social services program for the needy and those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits. The federal government also helps the states meet the medical costs of the needy aged, the blind and disabled, and dependent children. Millions of workers in industry get extra protection through private plans offered by their employers on a fully paid or share-the-cost basis. These usually provide sickness and accidents benefits, hoptalization and medical care costs, disability and retirement payments. More than 800 000 business organizations offer some such plan.

单选题Which of the following is NOT tree according to the advertisement?

单选题 Directions: In this part there are four passages, each followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer.{{B}}11-15{{/B}} Television has opened windows in everybody's life. Young men will never again go to war as they did in 1914. Millions of people now have seen the effects of a battle. And the result has been a general dislike of war, and perhaps more interest in helping those who suffer from all the terrible things that have been shown on the screen. Television has also changed politics. The most distant areas can now follow state affairs, see and hear the politicians before an election. Better informed, people are more likely to vote, and so to make their opinion count. Unfortunately, television's influence has been extremely harmful to the young. Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world; that TV advertisements lie to sell products that are sometimes bad or useless. They believe that the violence they see is normal and acceptable. All educators agree that the "television generations" are more violent than their parents and grandparents. Also, the young are less patient. Used to TV shows, where everything is quick and interesting, they do not have the patience to read an article without pictures; to read a book that requires thinking; to listen to a teacher who doesn't do funny things like the people on children's programs. And they expect all problems to be solved happily in ten, fifteen, or thirty minutes. That's the time it takes on the screen.

单选题______ for your laziness, you could have finished the assignment by now.

单选题It could have saved me some trouble ______ about it.

单选题Few people are able to listen to familiar music without ______.

单选题A: Hi Mary, long time no see. B: ______ A. Hi John. Nice meeting you. B. Yes. Menu, please. C. Oh, I see. I've lots of work to do here. D. Yes. Do you know I've moved to a new apartment?

单选题I didn't know the word. I had to a dictionary. A. look out B. make out C. refer to D. go over

单选题______ that my head had cleared, my brain was also beginning to work much better.

单选题 America's economic recovery remains uncomfortably weak. The latest data show industrial production falling while the trade deficit soars to record levels. To round off a dismal week for economic statistics, the Fed (美联储) announced that industrial production fell by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month. That came as a disappointment to economists who had been expecting a small rise. Monthly data are always unreliable, of course; there is always a plausible explanation for unexpectedly bad (or good) news. But nearly all recent economic statistics point to the same conclusion--that America's recovery remains sluggish and erratic. It could put pressure on the Fed to consider cutting interest rates again when its policymaking committee meets at the end of the month. The biggest obstacle to healthier economic performance, though, is political. As the Fed's chairman, Alan Greenspan, acknowledged in the closing months of 2002, uncertainty about the future is holding both investors and consumers back. The shadowy threat of international terrorism and the much more explicit prospect of a war with Iraq have made many Americans nervous about the future. For businesses still reeling from the speed at which the late-1990s boom turned to slump, the political climate is one more reason to put off investing in new plant and equipment or hiring new staff. For consumers, for so long the mainstay of the American economy, the thrill of the shopping mall seems, finally, to be on the wane. It is hard to put a favorable interpretation on most of the data. But it is important to keep a sense of perspective. Some recent figures look disappointing partly because they fall short of over-optimistic forecasts -- a persistent weakness of those paid to predict the economic future, no matter how often they are proved wrong. The Fed will be watching carefully for further signs of weakness during the rest of the month. Mr. Greenspan is an avid, even obsessive, consumer of economic data. He has made it clear that the Fed stands ready to reduce interest rates again if it judges it necessary--even after 12 cuts in the past two years. At its last meeting, though, when it kept rates on hold, the Fed signaled that it did not expect to need to reduce rates any further. Monetary policy still offers the best short-term policy response to weak economic activity, and with inflation low the Fed still has scope for further relaxation. President Bush's much-vaunted fiscal stimulus is unlikely to provide appropriate help, and certainly not in a timely way.

单选题American women were ______ the right to vote until 1920.

单选题Peter: ______ Cathleen: Do you know that place next to the travel agency on South Street? Peter: Sure. I'll go and have a look.

单选题(The Chinese) were the first and (large) ethnic(种族) group (to work) on the construction (of) the transcontinental railroad system.

单选题It is absolutely necessary for us to have sufficient oxygen if we ______ to go on living. A. are B. were C. had D. having

单选题Speaker A: What shall we do this weekend?Speaker B: How about going to London on Saturday? There's a good exhibition on at the Royal Academy.Speaker A: ______ Shall we get the coach or the train?

单选题Speaker A. We have a booking for tonight. The name's Cliff. Speaker B: ______. Yes. that was two single rooms with bath. A. I'll take care of you B. Just a moment please C. Thank you for coming D. Nice to meet you

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} Andrea had never seen an old lady hitchhiking(搭车) before. However, the weather and the coming dark ness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door, and pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet. She said to Andrea, in a voice that was almost a whisper. "Thank you dearie—I'm just going to Brockbourne." Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn't know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, some thing odd, something.., dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous? It was absurd. Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with the thick black hairs... Thick black hairs? Hairy arms? Andrea% blood froze. This wasn't a woman. It was a man. At first, she didn't know what to do. Then suddenly, an idea came into her racing, terrified brain. Swinging the wheel suddenly, she threw the car into a skid (刹车), and brought it to a halt. "My Cod!" she shouted, "A child! Did you see the child? I think I hit her!" The "old lady" was clearly shaken by the sudden skid, "I didn't see anything dearie, she said. "I don't think you hit anything." "I'm sure it was a child!" insisted Andrea. "Could you just get out and have a look? Just see if there's anything on the road?" She held her breath. Would her plan work? It did. The passenger slowly climbed out to investigate. As soon as she was out of the vehicle, Andrea gunned the engine and accelerated madly away, and soon she had put a good three miles between herself and the awful hitchhiker. It was only then that she thought about the bag lying on the floor in front of her. Maybe the bag would provide some information about the real identity about the man. Pulling into the side of the road, Andrea opened the heavy bag curiously. It contained only one item—a small hand axe, with a razor-sharp blade. The axe and the inside of the bag were covered with the dark red stains of dried blood. Andrea began to scream.

单选题Questions 26-30 are based on the following passage: 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Medicine Directions I　　Take two tablets with warm water, followed by one tablet every eight hours, asrequired. For maximum nighttime and early morning relief, take two tablets at bedtime. Donot exceed six tablets in twenty-four hours.　　For children six to twelve years old, give half the adult dosage. For children under sixyears old consult your doctor.　　Reduce dosage if nervousness, restlessness, or sleeplessness occurs.

单选题In some underdeveloped areas of the world, sick people go to a witch or priest instead of doctors for

单选题 A youngster's social development has a profound effect on his academic progress. Kids who have trouble getting along with their classmates can end up behind academically as well and have a higher chance of dropping out (退学). In the early grades especially, experts say, youngsters should be encouraged to work in groups rather than individually so that teachers can spot children who may be having problems making friends. "When children work on a project, " says Lillian Kate, an educational professor at the University of Illinois, "they learn to work together, to disagree, to think, to take turns and lighten tensions. These skills can't be learned through lecture. We all know people who have wonderful technical skills but don't have any social skills. Relationships should be the first R. " At a certain age, children are also learning to judge themselves in relation to others. For most children, school marks the first time that their goals are not set by an internal clock but by the outside world. Just as a 1-year-old struggles to walk, a 6-year-old is struggling to meet adults' expectations. "Young kids don't know how to distinguish between effort and ability. " says Professor Tynette Hills, an early-childhood educator for the state of New Jersey, "If they try hard to do something and fail, they may conclude that they will never be able to accomplish a particular task. The effects of obvious methods of comparison such as posting grades can be serious," says Hills, "a child who has had his confidence really damaged needs a rescue operation".