单选题His actions were more ______ of his real purpose than were his words. A. magnificent B. significant C. splendid D. superb

单选题They left at nine, so they ______ by now. A. may arrive B. must arrive C. should have arrived D. ought to arrive

单选题The mystery guest on the show is ______ other than the President. A. no B. none C. not D. nothing

单选题 The United States in the 1990s has had seven years of economic boom with low unemployment, low inflation, and low government deficit. Amid all of this good news, inequality has increased and wages have barely risen. Common sense knowledge seems to be right in this instance, that is, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is shrinking. Though President Clinton boasts that the number of people on welfare has decreased significantly under his regime to 8 million, a 44% decline from 1994, he forgets that there are still 36.5 million poor people in the United States, which is only a 2% decline in the same amount of time. How is it possible that we have increasing inequality during economic prosperity? This contradiction is not easily explained by the dominant neoclassical economic discourse of our time. Nor is it resolved by neoconservative social policy. More helpful is the one book under review: James K. Galbraith's Created Unequal, a Keynesian analysis of increasing wage inequality. James K. Galbraith provides a multicausal analysis that blames the current free market monetary policy for the increasing wage inequality. He calls for a rebellion in economic analysis and policy and for a reapplication of Keynesian macroeconomics to solve the problem. In Created Unequal, Galbraith successfully debunks the conservative contention that wage inequality is necessary because the new skill-based technological innovation requires educated workers who are in short supply. For Galbraith, this is a fantasy. He also critiques their two other assertions: first, that global competition requires an increase in inequality and that the maintenance of inequality is necessary to fight inflation. He points to transfer payments that are mediated by the state: payment to the poor in the form of welfare is minor relative to payment to the elderly in the form of social security or to the rich in the form of interest on public and private debt. Galbraith minimizes the social indicators of race, gender, and class and tells us that these are not important in understanding wage inequality. What is important is Keynesian macroeconomics. To make this point, he introduces a sectoral analysis of the economy.. Here knowledge is dominant (the K-sector) and the producers of consumption goods (the C-sector) are in decline. The third sector is large and low paid (the S-sector). The K-sector controls the new technologies and wields monopoly power. Both wages and profit decline in the other two sectors. As a result of monopoly, power inequality increases.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} As America's prison population has exploded, hard-pressed officials have relied on private prisons to house about 5 percent of the nation's 1.7 million prisoners. But a number of recent incidents have strengthened accusations that for-profit prisons do not always measure up on security and reliability. A judge ordered a Youngstown, Ohio, prison for criminals from Washington, D. C. to remove violent prisoners after 13 stabbings(刺伤案), two of them fatal. Colorado closed a center for teen lawbreakers after a suicide and evidence that prisoners had been abused. Tennessee legislators have now put on hold a plan to privatize most of that state's prison system. Last week, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees issued a report charging that private prisons save taxpayers little money and are full of waste and deception (欺骗). The union accused some firms of persuading public officials for profitable contracts and then running substandard facilities. Nashville-based Corrections Corp of America, a privatization leader, insists it can cut costs and operate high-quality prisons. A spokeswoman blanked some problems at its Youngstown unit on errors by Washington, D.C. officials and said the new report reflects union fears of "change and a loss of power". A new test is shaping up in the capital: Congress has voted to put 2 000 more local prisoners in private prisons by mid-1999.

单选题{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} How physically attractive someone is plays a major role in determining your ideas about the desirability of developing an acquaintance or a friendship with that person. Attractiveness seems to influence our perception of others' traits. Attractive people are judged to be more poised, sociable, independent, interesting, exciting, and to have greater sexual warmth. In one study concerned with the importance of physical attractiveness, Karen Dion and her colleagues asked university students to rate a series of photographs of both males and females as high, average, or low in physical attractiveness. The photos were then passed onto another group of students, who were asked to rate those pictures on a number of personality traits and to predict future events in their lives. The results showed that, regardless of whether the rater(评判人) was the same or the opposite sex as the subject, attractive people of both sexes were rated as having more socially desirable personality traits than less attractive people. In addition, attractive people were predicted to have greater personal happiness and more prestigious future occupations than less attractive people. These impressions of beautiful people do not suddenly appear during adolescence. As early as age 4 or 5, attractive children are more popular with their peers than their unattractive counter parts. Adults also form more favorable impressions of attractive children. In one study, women read a description of an aggressive act performed by a 7-year-old child. The description was ac companied by a photograph of either an attractive child or an unattractive one.. When the women were asked to describe the child whose picture they had seen, they characterized the unattractive child as bratty(讨厌的), selfish, and antisocial. The attractive child was likely to be excused for aggressive acts because these were assumed to be deviations(偏离) from the youngster's usual behavior. Attractive people are apparently not unaware of their effect on other people. Being attractive may help determine the way that people actually behave as well a show they are perceived. Attractive males are more assertive(武断的) than less attractive males. They also have less fear of rejection and have more of their social interactions with females than with males. Attractive females are not as assertive as females who are less attractive, but both groups of women have an equal number of social interactions.

单选题It is no good ______ remember grammatical rules; you need to practise what you have learned.

单选题To an advertiser, which one should they pay more attention to?

单选题(It) was (her) (who) represented her country in the United Nations and (later) became ambassador (大使) to the United States.

单选题Very few people could understand his lecture because the subject was very ______. A. faint B. indefinite C. obscure D. gloomy

单选题 Passage 3 I don't believe that men have deliberately turned us into slaves, as one of your correspondents writes. {{U}}(1) {{/U}} I do know that many women are exploited at work. There must be equal pay {{U}}(2) {{/U}} equal work, and where this is not the case, the abuse must be resisted at all costs. I don't believe that men {{U}}(3) {{/U}} us their mental inferiors. But I do know that there's still a great {{U}}(4) {{/U}} of prejudice against women. Certain jobs are still considered to be for men {{U}}(5) {{/U}}, for example top jobs in industry, in the government and the law. This sort of {{U}}(6) {{/U}} must be resisted at all costs. We are born with brains just as good as men's, and {{U}}(7) {{/U}} we are not expected to use them. It all begins in the home and at school, {{U}}(8) {{/U}} girls are expected to play a smaller {{U}}(9) {{/U}} than boys, and to be less {{U}}(10) {{/U}} I was lucky. I was brought up with the idea of {{U}}(11) {{/U}} something to society--not just to sit at home waiting for {{U}}(12) {{/U}}. As a result, I {{U}}(13) {{/U}} some people would call me a successful 'career girl', but let me {{U}}(14) {{/U}} you, I enjoy it, and my family doesn't {{U}}(15) {{/U}}

单选题Ask most people how they define the American Dream and chances are they"ll say, "Success. " The dream of individual opportunity has been home in American since Europeans discovered a "new world" in the Western Hemisphere. Early immigrants like Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur praised highly the freedom and opportunity to be found in this new land. His glowing descriptions of a classless society where anyone could attain success through honesty and hard work fired the imaginations of many European readers: in Letters from an American Farmer (1782) he wrote, "We are all excited at the spirit of an industry which is unfettered (无拘无束的) and unrestrained, because each person works for himself... We have no princes, for whom we toil (干苦力活), starve, and bleed; we are the most perfect society now existing in the world. " The promise of a land where "the rewards of a man"s industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labor" drew poor immigrants from Europe and fueled national expansion into the western territories. Our national mythology (神话) is full of illustration of the American success story. There"s Benjamin Franklin, the very model of the self-educated, self-made man, who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist, philosopher, and statesman. In the nineteenth century, Horatio Alger, a writer of fiction for young boys, became American"s best-selling author with rags-to-riches tales. The notion of success haunts us: we spend million every year reading about the rich and famous, learning how to "make a fortune in real estate with no money down", and "dressing for success". The myth of success has even invaded our personal relationships: today it"s as important to be "successful" in marriage or parenthoods as it is to come out on top in business. But dreams easily turn into nightmares. Every American who hopes to "make it" also knows the fear of failure, because the myth of success inevitably implies comparison between the haves and the have-nots, the stars and the anonymous crowd. Under pressure of the myth, we become indulged in status symbols: we try to live in the "right" neighborhoods, wear the "right" clothes, and eat the "right" foods. These symbols of distinction assure us and others that we believe strongly in the fundamental equality of all, yet strive as hard as we can to separate ourselves from our fellow citizens. (403 words)

单选题Customer: I'm looking for a new living room set.Salesman: We have a lot of very nice sets. What style do you have in mind?Customer: ______. What ! need is something comfortable.

单选题There is abundant evidence that cars have a harmful effect on the environment.

单选题{{B}}21-25{{/B}} Tony Huesman．a heart transplant recipient(接受者)who livcd a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of leukemia(白血病), but his heart will going strong．“He had leukemia．” his widow Carol Huesmon said．“His heart—believe it or not—{{U}}held out{{/U}}. His heart never gave up until the end．when it had to．” Huesman got heart transplant in 1978 at Stanford University．That was just 11 years after the world's first heart trasplant was performed in South Africa．At his death．Huesman was listed as the world's longest survivor of a single tranplanted heart both by Stanford and the Richmond．Virginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing. “I'm a living proof of a person who can go through a life-threatening illness．have the operation and return to a productive life．” Huesman told The Dayton Daily News in 2006． Huesman worked as marketing director at a sporting-goods store．He was found to have serious heart disease while in high school．His heart attacked by a pncumonia(肺炎)virus．was almost four times its normal size from trying to pump blood with weakened muscles． Huesman's sister, Linda Huesmaa Lamb．also was strieken with the same problem and receive a heart transplant in 1983．The two were the nation's first brother and sister heart transplant recipients．She died in 1991 at age 29． Huesman founded the Huesman Heart Foundation in Dayton．which seeks to reduce heart disease by educating children and offers a nursing scholarship in honor of his sister．

单选题Although punctual himself, the person was quite used ______ late for his lecture. A. to have students B. for students being C. for students to be D. to students' being

单选题Speaker A: Are you Ms. Kelsey, the office manager?Speaker B: ______.

单选题We sometimes hear that essays are an old-fashioned form, that so-and-so is the "last essayist", but the facts of the marketplace argue quite otherwise. Essays of nearly any kind are so much easier than short stories for a writer to sell, so many more see print, it's strange that though two fine anthologies (collections) remain that publish the year's best stories, no comparable collection exists for essays. Such changes in the reading public's taste aren't always to the good, needless to say. The art of telling stories predated even cave painting, surely; and if we ever find ourselves living in caves again, it (with painting and drumming) will be the only art left, after movies, novels, photography, essays, biography, and all the rest have gone down the drain--the art to build from. Essays, however, hang somewhere on a line between two sturdy poles: this is what I think, and this is what I am. Autobiographies which aren't novels are generally extended essays, indeed. A personal essay is like the human voice talking, its order being the mind's natural flow, instead of a systematized outline of ideas. Though more changeable or informal than an article or treatise, somewhere it contains a point which is its real center, even if the point couldn't be uttered in fewer words than the essayist has used. Essays don't usually boil down to a summary, as articles do, and the style of the writer has a "nap" to it, a combination of personality and originality and energetic loose ends that stand up like the nap (绒毛) on a piece of wool and can't be brushed flat. Essays belong to the animal kingdom, with a surface that generates sparks, like a coat of fur, compared with the flat, conventional cotton of the magazine article writer, who works in the vegetable kingdom, instead. But, essays, on the other hand, may have fewer "levels" than fiction, because we are not supposed to argue much about their meaning. In the old distinction between teaching and storytelling, the essayist, however cleverly he tries to conceal his intentions, is a bit of a teacher or reformer, and an essay is intended to convey the same point to each of us. An essayist doesn't have to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, he can shape or shave his memories, as long as the purpose is served of explaining a truthful point. A personal essay frequently is not autobiographical at all, but what it does keep in common with autobiography is that, through its tone and tumbling progression, it conveys the quality of the author's mind. Nothing gets in the way. Because essays are directly concerned with the mind and the mind's peculiarity, the very freedom the mind possesses is conferred on this branch of literature that does honor to it, and the fascination of the mind is the fascination of the essay.