单选题It is the business of the police to prevent and detect crime and of the law courts to punish______.

单选题The foreign teacher readily accepted his students' invitation to go for a picnic.

单选题Whatever happened to the death of newspaper? A year ago the end seemed near. The recession threatened to remove the advertising and readers that had not already fled to the internet. Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom. America's Federal Trade commission launched a round of talks about how to save newspapers. Should they become charitable corporations? Should the state subsidize them? It will hold another meeting soon. But the discussions now seem out of date. In much of the world there is the sign of crisis. German and Brazilian papers have shrugged off the recession. Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled come of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit. Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same. It has not been much fun. Many papers stayed afloat by pushing journalists overboard. The American Society of News Editors reckons that 13,500 newsroom jobs have gone since 2007. Readers are paying more for slimmer products. Some papers even had the nerve to refuse delivery to distant suburbs. Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further. Newspapers are becoming more balanced businesses, with a healthier mix of revenues from readers and advertisers. American papers have long been highly unusual in their reliance on ads. Fully 87% of their revenues came from advertising in 2008, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation ＆ Development (OECD). In Japan the proportion is 35%. Not surprisingly, Japanese newspapers are much more stable. The whirlwind that swept through newsrooms harmed everybody, but much of the damage has been concentrated in areas where newspaper are least distinctive. Car and film reviewers have gone. So have science and general business reporters. Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off. Newspapers are less complete as a result. But completeness is no longer a virtue in the newspaper business.

单选题 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By the time he arrives in Beijing, we ______ here for two days. A. have been staying B. have stayed C. shall stay D. will have stayed

单选题In old days, when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something far too shocking to distract the serious work of an office, secretaries were men. Then came the first World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man's secretary became his personal servant, charged with remembering his wife's birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to the dry-cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at bay and, of course, typing and filing and taking shorthand. Now all this may be changing again. The microchip and high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much of the routine clerical work that secretaries did. "Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve only the high-powered work—and then men will want to do it again." That was said by one of the executives (male) of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this country. What he has predicted is already under way in the US. One girl described to me a recent temporary job placing men in secretarial jobs in San Francisco. She noted that all the men she dealt with appeared to be gay so possibly that is just a new twist to the old story. Over here, though, there are men coming onto the job market as secretaries Classically, girls have learned shorthand and typing and gone into a company to seek their fortune from the bottom—and that's what happened to John Bowman. Although he joined a national grocery chain as secretary to its first woman senior manager, he has since been promoted to an administration job. "I filled in the application form and said I could do audio/typing, and in fact I was the only applicant. The girls were reluctant to work for this young, glamorous new woman with all this power in the firm." "I did typing at school, and then a commercial course. I just thought it would be useful finding a job. I never got any funny treatment from the girls, though I admit I've never met another male secretary. But then I joined the Post Office as a clerk and carelessly played with the typewriter, and wrote letters, and thought that after all secretaries were getting a good ￡1,000 a year more than clerks like me. There was a shortage at that time, you see." "It was simpler working for a woman than for a man. I found she made decisions, she told everybody what she thought, and there was none of that male bitchiness, or that stuff 'ring this number for me dear,' which men go in for." "Don't forget, we were a team—that's how I feel about it—not boss and servant but two people doing different things for the same purpose." Once high technology has made the job of secretary less routine, will there be male takeover? Men should beware of thinking that they can walk right into the better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as they because they are as efficient and well trained to cope with word processors and computers, and men.

单选题 Human beings are animals. We breathe, eat and digest, and reproduce the same life{{U}} (31) {{/U}}common to all animals. In a biological laboratory, rats, monkeys, and humans seem very much the same. However, biological understanding is not enough:{{U}} (32) {{/U}}itself, it can never tell us what human beings are.{{U}} (33) {{/U}}to our physical equipment—the naked human body—we are not an{{U}} (34) {{/U}}animal. We are tropical creatures,{{U}} (35) {{/U}}hairless and sensitive to cold. We are not fast and have neither claws nor sharp teeth to defend ourselves. We need a lot of food but have almost no physical equipment to help us get it. In the purely physical{{U}} (36) {{/U}}, our species seems a poor{{U}} (37) {{/U}}for survival. But we have survived—survived and multiplied and{{U}} (38) {{/U}}the earth. Some day we will have a{{U}} (39) {{/U}}living on the moon, a place with neither air nor water and with temperatures that turn gases into solids. How can we have done all these things? Part of the answer is physical.{{U}} (40) {{/U}}its limitations, our physical equipment has some important potentials. Inhabitants of our eventual moon colony will bring their Own food and oxygen and then create an artificial earth environment to supply necessities.

单选题The number of refereeing errors in the experimental matches was______.

单选题______ is no reason for discharging her. A. Because she was a few minutes late B. The fact that she was a few minutes late C. Owing to a few minutes being late D. Being a few minutes late

单选题He erased all the pencil marks on the book.

单选题Can you imagine the fat ______ famous as an actor? A. boy become B. boy to become C. boy becoming D. boy's becoming

单选题The man looked at me suspiciously ______ that he had heard this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. A. even if to say B. as if was saying C. as if to say D. even though saying

单选题The affair looks Ususpicious/U to me.

单选题The dying soldier had the message ______ straight to the headquarters. A. be sent B. being sent C. sent D. to be sent

单选题What ______ suppose would happen if the director knew you felt that way? A. will you B. do you C. would you D. you would

单选题{{B}}Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} Regular child care provided outside home or by someone other than the mother does not in itself undermine healthy emotional connections between mothers and their 15-month-old infants, according to a long-term national study. The finding holds even if care begins during the first 3 months after birth and runs for 30 hours or more per week. Among infants who receive unkind and unresponsive care from their mothers, however, the mother-child relationship may be damaged. "This research helps us put apart complexities regarding child care that have not previously been studied in detail," contends Jay Belsky, a psychologist. The investigation consists of 1,153 children and their families living in or near Boston. The youngsters, no more than 1 month old when they entered the study in 1991, will be tracked until the age of 7. Experimenters administered questionnaires to mothers in their homes and videotaped baby caretakers interacting with the kids at ages 1, 6, and 15 months. Independent observers rated the quality of each child care efforts and noted infant nervousness. Unlike most previous studies, this one allows researchers to observe each caretaker's personality at child nursing, and kids' emotional reaction by the equipment.

单选题Share prices on the Stock Exchange plunged sharply in the morning but ______ slightly in the afternoon.

单选题The doctor suggested that your brother avoid ______ his right hand. A. to be using B. using C. having been using D. to use

单选题Mike: ______ Lynn: I'd love to, but I have to work on nay history assignment.

单选题{{B}}Passage 10{{/B}} The China boom is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Who hasn't {{U}}(1) {{/U}} the Middle Kingdom's astounding economic growth 8 percent annually, its mesmerizing {{U}}(2) {{/U}} market 1.2 billion people, the investment ardor of foreign suitors $20 billion in foreign direct investment last year {{U}}(3) {{/U}}? China is an economic juggernaut. {{U}}(4) {{/U}}Nicholas Lardy of the 13rookings Institution, a Washington D. C. -based think tank, "No country {{U}}(5) {{/U}} its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan doubled its foreign trade over {{U}}(6) {{/U}} period; {{U}}(7) {{/U}} foreign trade as quintupled. They've become the preeminent producer of labor-intensive manufacturing goods in the world." But there's been {{U}}(8) {{/U}} from the dazzling China growth story—namely, the Chinese multinational. No major Chinese companies have {{U}}(9) {{/U}} established themselves, or their brands, {{U}}(10) {{/U}} the global stage. But as Haier shows, that is starting to change. {{U}}(11) {{/U}} 100 years of poverty and chaos, of being overshadowed by foreign countries and multinationals, Chinese industrial companies are starting to {{U}}(12) {{/U}} on the world. A new generation of large and credible firms {{U}}(13) {{/U}} in China in the electronics, appliance and even high-tech sectors. Some have reached critical mass on the mainland and {{U}}(14) {{/U}} new outlets for their production—through exports and by building Chinese factories abroad, chiefly in Southeast Asia. One example: China's investment in Malaysia {{U}}(15) {{/U}} from ＄8 million in 2000 to ＄766 million in the first half of this year. {{U}} (16) {{/U}} China's export prowess, it will be years {{U}}(17) {{/U}} Chinese firms achieve the managerial and operational expertise of Western and Japanese multinationals. For one thing, many of its best companies are still at least partially state-owned. {{U}}(18) {{/U}}, China has a shortage of managerial talent and little notion of marketing and brand-building. Its companies are also {{U}}(19) {{/U}} by the country's long tradition of central planning, inefficient use of capital and antiquated distribution system, {{U}}(20) {{/U}} makes building national companies a challenge.