单选题Guest:Clerk: Certainly. Do you have a reservation?Guest: Yes. The name is Morales. Mr. and Mrs. Morales.Clerk: Here we are. For five nights. Could you fill in the registration card, please? And I'll need your credit card.

单选题Nowhere in nature is aluminum found free, owing to its always ______ with other elements, most commonly with oxygen. A. combine B. combined C. being combined D. having combined

单选题After a 300 million yuan renovation project, Lidai Diwang Miao, or the Imperial Temple e f Emperors of Successive Dynasties, was reopened to the public last weekend. Originally constructed about 470 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the temple was used by emperors of both the Ming and Qing to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. It underwent two periods of renovation in the Qing Dynasty, during the reigns of emperors Yongzheng and Qianlong. From 1929 until early 2000, it was part of Beijing No. 159 Middle School. The temple's Jingdechongsheng Hall contains stone tablets memorializing 188 Chinese emperors. The jinzhuan bricks used to pave the floor, the same as those used in the Forbidden City, are finely textured and golden-yellow in color. According to Xi Wei, an official from the Xicheng District government present at the re-opening of the temple, jinzhuan bricks were made in Yuyao, Suzhou, specially for imperial use. The renovation was done strictly according to that carded out at the orders of Emperor Qianlong, and only those sections of the temple too damaged to repair have been replaced.

单选题Tourist: Thank you for showing me round your beautiful city. I enjoyed the tour very much. Guide: ______ Wish you could come again. A. My pleasure. B. You are very kind. C. It's very kind of you. D. A piece of cake.

单选题Weather Forecast The following forecast shows for the listed cities the projected weather conditions and the expected range of temperatures from September 25,8-00 to September 26,8.00. Area City September 25 08:00～September 25 20:00 September 25 20:00～September 26 08:00 China Beijing Light rain S 3m/h 77°F Cloudy N 3m/h 57°F Jinan Overcast N 3m/h 79°F Overcast S 3m/h 63°F Macao Shower E 24 m/h 84°F Cloudy E 18m/h 77°F Hong Kong Cloudy E 18m/h 82°F Cloudy E 18m/h 77°F Tianjin Light rain S 3m/h 75°F Overcast EN 12m/h 61°F Kunming Cloudy ES 3m/h 73°F Cloudy E 3m/h 59°F Lhasa Cloudy N 3m/h 70°F Cloudy N 3m/h 52°F Europe Athens Clear WS 3m/h 75°F Clear ES 3m/h 63°F Berlin Clear ES 8m/h 77°F Clear ES 3m/h 57°F London Shower E 3m/h 70°F Cloudy E 3m/h 54°F Paris Overcast W 3m/h 68°F Cloudy WN 3m/h 55°F Rome Moderate rain ES 3m/h 72°F Moderate rain W 3m/h 61°F North America Chicago Clear E 3m/h 68°F Clear E 3m/h 48°F Havana Clear S 3m/h 88°F Clear W 3m/h 70°F New York Clear W 3m/h 72°F Clear W 3m/h 59°F San Francisco Clear EN3 m/h 77°F Clear E 3m/h 55°F Toronto Shower E 3m/h 63°F Cloudy EN 3m/h 48°F

单选题A: It's been a wonderful evening. Thank you very much. B: ______ A. My pleasure. B. I'm glad to hear that. C. No, thanks. D. It's OK.

单选题A: Let ' s meet again some time early next week and see what each of us comes up with. B:______ A. Can I make an appointment with you on Monday afternoon? B. Monday afternoon is fine with me. C. Let' s go to dinner together on Monday. D. I look forward to seeing you on Monday.

单选题Passage 2 It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in 1997, to support the Red Cross's campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola, television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. "I knew the statistics," she said, "But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like when I met Sandra, a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her." The Princess concluded with a simple message: "We must stop landmines". And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message. But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press. They described her as "very ill-informed" and a "loose cannon (乱放炮的人)." The Princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms: "This is a distraction we do not need. All I'm trying to do is help." Opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess's trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in Angola and the British government's policy regarding landmines. The result was a severe embarrassment for the government. To try and limit the damage, the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind, claimed that the Princess's views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was "working towards" a worldwide ban. The Defence Secretary, Michael Portillo, claimed the matter was "a misinterpretation or misunderstanding." For the Princess, the trip to this war-tom country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. She said that the experience had also given her the chance to get closer to people and their problems.

单选题The newly released movie was______ as to arouse so much sensation among the young people.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} There are many aspects of the women's liberation movement. Some women agree with all of the goals of women's liberation. They want full equality with men in every aspect of life. In marriage, they want husbands and wives to share all of the work and responsibilities of a home and family. In work, they want women and men to have the same jobs and the same chance to succeed. They want women to be paid just as much as men are for the same work. Other women agree with some of the ideas of women's liberation. They want the same pay if they hold the same job as a man. At home, however, they do not expect their husbands to share in the cleaning, cooking, and other household jobs. It is important to remember that the women's liberation movement is not concerned only with concrete issues. The movement is also concerned with attitudes and beliefs. One example of this concern is the issue of a woman's identity. A woman's identity is what she thinks of herself as a person, who she thinks she is, and what she thinks she can do. Some women do not think they are capable of doing anything important, The women's liberation movement would like to help these women improve their view of themselves. Mary women who are concerned with women's liberation have taken jobs, have helped others, have raised healthy children, and have done many other things to contribute to their communities. They have shown that they are capable of being good leaders and of doing many important things.

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单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} Divorces in Japan have more than doubled, from just over 95 000 in 1970 to 206 955 in 1996, according to health ministry statistics. One in three Japanese marriages now ends in divorce. Atsuko Okano was in one of those failed marriages. Three years ago, she found herself alone in her 30s, with children to raise and a future full of question marks and social shame. But she al so saw an opening — and became a consultant helping people like herself. "My husband was cheating on me," she recalls. "I did everything to bring him back to me but it didn't work, so I dumped him." Such frankness is a major characteristic of Japan's recently divorced — and a striking break with the past. Divorced people — particularly women—have long been looked down upon in Japan, where self-sacrifice and family stability are regarded ms ideals. In the past, bored housewives remained bored. Philandering(逢场作戏) husbands philandered without being blamed. The security of the family unit was the most important thing. Now, young Japanese are increasingly choosing satisfaction in life over the demands of tradition, and more women are financially independent. As a result, Japanese divorce rates' are flying. Experts attribute this to the erosion of a long-standing double standard that granted divorced men respectability, but branded(打……标记) divorced women as damaged goods. Over the past decade, growing numbers of highly educated and successful professional women have challenged that assumption by turning their backs on unhappy marriages and disregarding the taboo(禁忌) of divorce. The majority of divorce proceedings now are initiated by women.

单选题China is no longer ______ it used to be. A. what B. of what C. if D. which

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} It has been a wretched few weeks for America's celebrity bosses. AIG’s Maurice Greenberg has been dramatically ousted from the firm through which he dominated global insurance for decades. At Morgan Stanley a mutiny is forcing Philip Purcell, a boss used to getting his own way, into an increasingly desperate campaign to save his skin. At Boeing, Harry Stonecipher was called out of retirement to lead the scandal-hit firm and raise ethical standards, only to commit a lapse of his own, being sacked for sending e- mails to a lover who was also an employee. Carly Fiorina was the most powerful woman in corporate America until a few weeks ago, when Hewlett-Packard (HP) sacked her for poor performance. The fate of Bernie Ebbers is much grimmer. The once high-profile boss of WorldCom could well spend the rest of his life behind bars following his conviction last month on fraud charges. In different ways, each of these examples appears to point to the same, welcome conclusion: that the imbalance in corporate power of the late 1990s, when many bosses were allowed to behave like absolute monarchs, has been corrected. Alas, appearances can be deceptive. While each of these recent tales of chief-executive woe is a sign of progress, none provides much evidence that the crisis in American corporate governance is yet over. In fact, each of these cases is an example of failed, not successful, governance. At the very least, the boards of both Morgan Stanley and HP were far too slow to address their bosses' inadequacies. The record of the Boeing board in picking chiefs prone to ethical lapses is too long to be dismissed as mere bad luck. The fall of Messrs Greenberg and Ebbers, meanwhile, highlights the growing role of government—and, in particular, of criminal prosecutors—in holding bosses to account a development that is, at best, a mixed blessing. The Sarbanes-Oxley act, passed in haste following the Enron and WorldCom scandals, is imposing heavy costs on American companies; whether these are exceeded by any benefits is the subject of fierce debate and may not be known for years. Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney-general, is the leading advocate and practitioner of an energetic "law enforcement" approach. He may be right that the recent burst of punitive actions has been good for the economy, even if some of his own decisions have been open to question. Where he is undoubtedly right is in arguing that corporate America has done a lamentable job of governing itself. As he says in all article in the Wall Street Journal this week: "The honour code among CEOs didn't work. Board oversight didn't work. Self-regulation was a complete failure." AIG's board, for example, did nothing about Mr. Greenberg's use of murky accounting, or the conflicts posed by his use of offshore vehicles, or his constant bullying of his critics—let alone the firm's alleged participation in bid-rigging—until Mr. Spitzer threatened a criminal prosecution that might have destroyed the firm.

单选题"Are you going to take the post Mr. Smith offered you?" "I don't know, but it is worth ______ about, isn't it?" A. to think B. of thinking C. thinking D. to be thought

单选题Although the false banknotes fooled many people, they did not ______ close examination. A. put up B. keep up C. stand up to D. look up to

单选题When do people start to plan for the Championships?

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.