单选题It is strange that she ______ to see her own shortcomings. A. should have failed B. has failed C. fails D. failed

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} It's conventional wisdom in the United States that the American education system is a mess. Since the rest of the world loves to criticize Uncle Sam, that view is held even more strongly elsewhere. But wait a minute. If education really is the source of economic success, as experts continually claim, American schools can't be too bad. If they were, the American economy would not be the wonder of the world, able to create good jobs at a pace that others can only envy, and with a huge advantage in many of the key technologies of the next centurey. Specially, American high schools can't be a disaster area. The proof lies in the quality of American universities. In any reasonable ranking of the best 100 universities of the world, the United States would dominate the list. College professors are not alchemists(炼金术士), they cannot turn base metal into gold. (I know; I used to be one.) If the output of American higher education is as good as it seems to be, the input must be a lot better than Americans fear. We can at least be doubtful about some common claims. For example; it's often said that the United States has a skill shortage in high technology -- and the fact that Silicon Valley recruits (征募) heavily around the world is said to be evidence of that. But without more inquiry, we can't know whether this is because American college graduates are stupid, or because that hightechnology sector has grown so fast that it cannot possibly satisfy all its demands for high-level skills from the United States.

单选题Patient: Hello, Doctor. Doctor: Good afternoon. Do take a seat. ______ ? Patient: My ear hurts. My left ear.

单选题Even though leather gloves are much more expensive, they are more ______ than vinyl.

单选题Cheating. The income tax deadline (最后期限) approaches and some taxpayers' thoughts turn to it. Test time approaches and some students' thoughts turn to it. "You want something you can't get by behaving within the rules, and you want it badly enough you'll do it regardless of any guilt or deep regret and you're willing to run the risk of being caught. " That's how Ladd Wheeler, psychology (心理学) professor at the University of Rochester in New York, defines cheating. Many experts believe cheating is on the rise. "We're suffering a moral breakdown. " Pinkard says, "we're seeing more of the kind of person who regards the world as a series of things to be dealt with. Whether to cheat depends on whether it's the person's interest. " He does, however, see less cheating among the youngest students. Richard Dienabier, psychology professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, believes that society's attitudes account for much of the increase in cheating. "Twenty years ago, if a person cheated in college, society said: That is extremely serious, you will be dropped for a term if not kicked out permanently," he says, "nowadays, at the University of Nebraska, for example, it is the stated policy of the college of Arts and Sciences that if a student cheats on an exam, the student must receive an F on what he cheated on. That's nothing. If you're going to flunk anyway, why not cheat?" "Cheating is most likely in situations where the vital interests are high and the chances of getting caught are low. " says social psychologist, Lynn Kahle of the University of Oregon in Eugene.

单选题You Uare/U legally Uentitled to/U take faulty goods back to the store where you bought them.

单选题The team played hard because the championship of the state was ______.

单选题In this experiment, they were wakened several times during the night and asked to report what they ______. A. had just been dreaming B. have just been dreaming C. are just dreaming D. had just dreamed

单选题A: It is not like George to be late for an appointment. B: ______ He's always punctual. A. No way. B. Anyway he's late. C. I don't think so. D. You're right.

单选题"Time is money" here means ______.

单选题The most exciting kind of education is also the most personal. Nothing can (1) the joy of discovering for yourself something that is important to you. It may be an idea or a bit of information you (2) across accidentally--or a sudden (3) , fitting together pieces of information or working through a problem. Such personal (4) are the "payoff" in education. A teacher may (5) you to learning and even encourage you in it--but no teacher can make the excitement or the joy happen. That's (6) to you. A research paper, (7) in a course and perhaps checked at various stages by an instructor, (8) you beyond classrooms, beyond the texts for classes and into a (9) where the joy of discovery and learning can come to you many times. (10) the research paper is an active and individual process, and ideal learning process.

单选题You have ￥148 and you can______ in May.

单选题Electrical resistance is a common property of all materials, ______. A. only differs in degree B. only in degree it differs C. differing only in degree D. and differing in degree only

单选题"In every known human society, the male"s need for achievement can be recognized. In a great number of human societies men"s sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right, or ability, to practice some activity that women are not allowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has to be underwritten by preventing women from entering some field or performing some feat." This is the conclusion of the anthropologist Margaret Mead about the way in which the roles of men and women in society should be distinguished. If talk and print are considered it would seem that the formal emancipation of women is far from complete. There is a flow of publications about the continuing domestic bondage of women and about the complicated system of defenses which men have thrown up around their hitherto accepted advantages, taking sometimes the obvious form of exclusion from types of occupation and sociable groupings, and sometimes the more subtle form of automatic doubt of the seriousness of women"s pretensions to the level of intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed, bring to the business of running the world. There are a good many objective pieces of evidence for the erosion of men"s status. In the first place, there is the widespread postwar phenomenon of the woman Prime Minister, in India, Sri Lanka and Israel. Secondly, there is the very large increase in the number of women who are working, especially married women and mothers of children. More diffusely there are the increasingly numerous convergences between male and female behaviors: the approximation to identical styles in dress and coiffure, the sharing of domestic tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of hitherto exclusively male leisure-time activities. Everyone carries round with him a fairly definite idea of the primitive or natural conditions of human life. It is acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons than of archaeology, but that does not matter since it is not significant as theory but only as an expression of inwardly felt expectations of people"s sense of what is fundamentally proper in the differentiation between the roles of the two sexes. In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and to fight off the tribe next door while women keep the fire going. Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a club.

单选题{{B}}Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} Watercolor is the oldest painting medium known. It dates back to the early cave dwellers who discovered they could add lifelike qualities to drawings of animals and other figures on the walls of caves by mixing the natural colors found in the earth with water. Fresco, one of the greatest of all art forms, is done with watercolor. It is created by mixing pigments and water and applying these to wet plaster. Of the thousands of people who stand under Michlangelo's heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, very few are aware that they are looking at perhaps the greatest watercolor painting in the world. The invention of oil painting by the Flemish masters in the fifteenth century led to a decline in fresco painting, and for the next several centuries watercolor was used mainly as a medium for doing preliminary sketches or as a tool for study. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that English painters reinstated watercolor as a serious art form. The English have a notorious love for the outdoors and also a great fondness for small, intimate pictures. The subdued tones of watercolor had a remarkably strong appeal for them.

单选题Doctor: What seems to be the matter?Patient: Well, my heartbeat is fast and I have trouble breathing recently.Doctor: ______ Your weight is giving much burden on your heart.

单选题The grocer deals in tea, coffee, spices, and ______. A. so much B. etc. C. so forth D. alike

单选题All the following share one similarity EXCEPT______.

单选题{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} Premarital cohabitation is becoming a way of life for more and more people in American society. While some argue that the phenomenon may be a good things, sociologists Alan Booth and David R.Johnson of the University of Nebraska reject the idea, based on a nationwide study of 1 872 married persons, 16% of whom reported cohabiting before marriage. Instead, they say, it leads to lower levels of marital interaction and higher levels of marital disagreement and instability. One factor the researchers found that helps to explain the relation between cohabitation and lower marital quality is that some of those who live together already are poor marriage risks. Booth and Johnson report that those who cohabit are more likely to have drug, alcohol, and personality problems; and inability to handle money; and a history of unemployment and being in trouble with the law. In a further analysis, they found that cohabitation itself created difficulties for the subsequent marriage. Living together caused problems with parents and in-laws, a number of couples reported. Other respondents explained that unwanted children were another problem-causing factor that carried forward into their marriages. "The combination of being poor marriage material and the problems created by cohabitation itself account for the negative relation between living together before marriage and lower marital quality. Of the two, being poor marriage material and the risk factors that contribute to such a state are more significant. People whose cohabitation is trouble-free and who are good marriage material -- don't use drugs or have personality problems, are able to hold a job, and so on -- have marriages that are of the same quality as those who do not cohabit."

单选题Obviously she was ______ by the shop owner when she was shopping in that store. A. supposed B. supplemented C. swept D. cheated