单选题Cab driver: Here you are, sir. Queens Hotel. Passenger: How much is it? Cab driver: Three dollars and seventy-five cents. Passenger: Here is four dollars. ______.

单选题 Jessica Bucknam shouts "tiao!"(tee—ow) and her fourth-grade students jump. "Dun!"(doo—wen) she commands, and they crouch(蹲). They giggle(吃吃的笑) as the commands keep coming in Mandarin Chinese. Half of the 340 students at the K-5 school are enrolled in the program. They can contine studying Chinese in middle and high schools. The goal: to speak like natives. About 24,000 American students are currently learning Chinese. Most are in high schools. But the number of younger students is growing in response to China's emergence as a global superpower. "China has become a strong partner of the United States, "says Mary Patterson, Woodstock's principal. "Children who learn Chinese at a young age will have more opportunities for jobs in the future. " Isabel Weiss, 9, isn't thinking about the future. She thinks learning Chinese is fun. "when you hear people speaking in Chinese, you know what they're saying," she says. "And they don't know that you know. "

单选题{{B}}Passage 9{{/B}} In the people's Republic of China the odd prequake behavior of horses and other animals {{U}}(1) {{/U}} successfully to warn people that earthquakes {{U}}(2) {{/U}}. Recently, a group of American geologists and geographers visited China and listened with great interest {{U}}(3) {{/U}} the scientists there {{U}}(4) {{/U}} explained how they have been able to predict many earthquakes in the past three years. The American scientists compared the {{U}}(5) {{/U}} of the unique Chinese program {{U}}(6) {{/U}} the impact of Chinese acupuncture {{U}}(7) {{/U}} Western medicine. The Chinese scientists use {{U}}(8) {{/U}} but they also monitor strange {{U}}(9) {{/U}} such as various ground noises, the fluctuation of well-water levels, and the strange behavior of animals. The results are quite interesting, Chinese seismologists, for example, {{U}}(10) {{/U}} predicted two magnitude 6.9 quakes near the China-Burma {{U}}(11) {{/U}} on May 9,1976. The seismologists say that their predictions have been {{U}}(12) {{/U}} precise that they were able to evacuate many of their people {{U}}(13) {{/U}} an earthquake occurred, {{U}}(14) {{/U}} saving thousands of lives. {{U}}(15) {{/U}}, the Chinese experts also admit that there have been some false alarms. American scientists have {{U}}(16) {{/U}} stories of unusual prequake animal behavior before, but they {{U}}(17) {{/U}} them too seriously until their recent visit to China. "Maybe there's {{U}}(18) {{/U}} in it", said Jack Everndon, a California scientist. We need some kind of short-term warning. We need something. He didn't mention the kind of research he may be considering, "Some of us are thinking it's {{U}}(19) {{/U}} enough to give it a serious look," he commented. "Two years ago we {{U}}(20) {{/U}} that."

单选题Speaker A: Would you like to renew your subscription to China Daily?Speaker B: Yes. For another year.Speaker A: Great. ______

单选题A: Hi! Aren"t we in the same English class? B: ______ A: Nice to meet you, Sue. I" m George.

单选题The students expected there ______ more reviewing classes before the final exams. A. is B. being C. to be D. have

单选题 While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states, at least in getting people off welfare. It's estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994. In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens County have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent--twice the national average. For advocates (代言人) for the poor, that's an indication much more needs to be done. "More people are getting jobs, but it's not making their lives any better," says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington. A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down. But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory. "Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin (毒素) that was poisoning the family," says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform policy analyst. "The reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It's beginning to rebuild the work ethic (道德观), which is much more important." Mr. Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked", then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.

单选题Thanks to the introduction of new drugs, many of the earIy problems in organ transplants, such as tissue rejection, have, to a great extent, now been solved. However, there remains a major problem. The people in need of transplant surgery far outnumber the available organs. Many countries, such as Britain, have huge waiting lists of people whose lives could be saved by being given a kidney, lung, heart, or liver transplant. Sadly, many of them die before they reach the top of those lists. Under the present British policy, people are asked to carry donor(捐赠人) cards, and/ or put their names on the national donor register. Thus, if they lose their lives suddenly, for example, in a traffic accident, they have given permission in advance of their deaths for their organs to be used. If they have not done so, surgeons are faced with the task of asking the grieved relatives for permission to use the organs of the dead. Of course, often the relatives are too upset even to think of such a thing until it is too late. Organ transplants have to take place quite soon after the death of the donor. Dying and donating organs is not something most of us like to think about, and only about 14% of people have registered. Now it has been suggested that, instead of the present register, there should be a register of potential donors who haven"t made up their minds.

单选题If you miss the cultural references ______ a word, you"re very likely to miss its meaning.

单选题The audience were so ______that they forgot to applause after his wonderful lecture on international politics.

单选题Living in the western part of the country has its problems, ______ obtaining fresh water is not the least. A. with which B. for which C. of which D. which

单选题Mark offered to help me to learn English ______.

单选题Text 3 "I've never met a human worth cloning." says cloning expert Mark Westhsin from his lab at Texas A he's put up $3.7 million so far to fund A & M's research. Contrary to some media reports, Missy is not dead. The owner wants a twin to carry on Missy's fine qualities after she does die. The prototype is, by all accounts, athletic, good-natured and supersmart. Missy's master does not expect an exact copy of her. He knows her clone may not have her temperament. In a statement of purpose, Missy's owner and the A&M team say they are "both looking forward to studying the ways that her clones differ from Missy." Besides cloning a great dog, the project may contribute insight into the old question of nature vs. nurture. It could also lead to the cloning of special rescue dogs and many endangered animals. However, Westhusin is cautious about his work. He knows that even if he gets a dog pregnant, the offspring, should they survive, will face the problems shown at birth by other cloned animals: abnormalities like immature lungs and heart and weight problems. "Why would you ever want to clone humans, "Westhusin asks," when we're hot even close to getting it worked out in animals yet?/

单选题 In ancient times the most important examinations were spoken, not written. In the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually consisted of saying poetry aloud or giving speeches. In the European universities of the Middle Ages, students who were working for advanced degrees had to discuss questions in their field of study with people who had made a special study of the subject. This custom exists today as part of the process of testing candidates for the doctor's degree. Generally, however, modern examinations are written. The written examination, where all students are tested on the same question, was probably not known until the nineteenth century. Perhaps it came into existence with the great increase in population and the development of modern industry. A room full of candidates for a state examination, timed exactly by electric clocks and carefully watched over by managers, resembles a group of workers at an automobile factory. Generally, during examinations teachers and students are expected to act like machines. One type of test is sometimes called an "objective test". It is intended to deal with facts, not personal opinions. To make up an objective test the teacher writes a series of questions, each of which has only one correct answer. Along with each question the teacher writes the correct answer and also three statements that look like correct answers to students who have not learned the material properly.

单选题It is vital that food and shelter are made ______ for people in the flood-stricken area.

单选题A: Gosh! Our luggage is overweight. B: Relax. The customs officer wouldn"t be bothered by the extra one or two pounds. A: ______

单选题 Male chauvinism--the attitude that women are the passive and inferior servants of society and of men--sets women apart from the rest of the working class. Even when they do the same work as men, women are not considered workers in the same sense, with the need and right to work to provide for their families or to support themselves independently. They are expected to accept work at lower wages and without job security. Thus they can be used as a marginal or reserve labor force when profits depend on extra low costs or when men are needed for war. Women are not supposed to be independent, so they are not supposed to have any "right to work". This means, in effect, that although they do work, they are denied the right to organize and fight for better wages and conditions. Thus the role of women in the labor force undermines the struggles of male workers as well. The boss can break a union drive by threatening to hire lower paid women or blacks. In many cases, where women are organized, the union contract reinforces their inferior position, making women the least loyal and militant union members. (Standard Oil workers in San Francisco recently paid the price of male supremacy. Women at Standard Oil have the least chance for advancement and decent pay, and the union has done little to fight this. Not surprisingly, women formed the core of the back to work move that eventually broke the strike.) In general, because women are defined as docile, helpless, and inferior, they are forced into the most demeaning and mind rotting jobs--from scrubbing floors to filing cards--under the most oppressive conditions where they are treated like children or slaves. Their very position reinforces the idea, even among the women themselves, that they are fit for and should be satisfied with this kind of work. Apart from the direct, material exploitation of women, male supremacy acts in more subtle ways to undermine class consciousness. The tendency of male workers to think of themselves primarily as men (i.e., powerful) rather than as workers (i. e., members of an oppressed group) promotes a false sense of privilege and power, and an identification with the world of men, including the boss. The petty dictatorship which most men exercise over their wives and families enables them to vent their anger and frustration in a way which poses no challenge to the system. The role of the man in the family reinforces aggressive individualism, authoritarianism, and a hierarchical view of social relations--values which are fundamental to the perpetuation (不朽) of capitalism. In this system we are taught to relieve our fears and frustrations by brutalizing those weaker than we are: a man in uniform turns into a pig; the foreman intimidates the man on the line; the husband beats his wife, child, and dog.

单选题(Despite of) the pills (which) are available, many people (still) have trouble (sleeping).A. Despite ofB. whichC. stillD. sleeping

单选题He comes from a poor country village in the mountains, so it's very hard for him to pay the whole school year's ______ at one time. A. money B. fare C. fees D. tuition

单选题It is better to die on one's feet than ______ one's knees. A. on B. live on C. living on D. to live on