单选题Nurse: Do you have any designated doctor?Patient: Yes, Dr. Hurt, Cliff Hurt.Nurse: Here is your registration card. Dr. Hurt is at clinic No. 6. ______.

单选题Academic freedom ______ refers to the right to pursue what one believes to be the truth.

单选题Person A: Excuse me. Can you tell me the way to the museum? Person B: ______.

单选题Student A: You are not from Britain, are you?Student B: ______.

单选题The classic difficulty felt with democracy arises from the fact that democracy can never express the will of the whole people because there never exists any such unchanging will (at least in any society that call itself democratic). The concept of government of the whole people by the whole people must be looked on as being in the poetry rather than in the prose of democracy; the fact of prose is that real democracy means government by some kind of dominant majority. And the ever-present danger, repeatedly realized in fact, is that this dominant majority may behave toward those who are not of the majority in such a manner as to undermine the moral basis of the right of people, because they are people, to have some important say in the setting of their own course and in the use of their own faculties. Other forms of government may similarly fail to respect human independence. But there is at least no contradiction in that; the underlying assumption of every kind of government by wisers and betters is that people on the whole are not fit to manage their own affairs, but must have someone else do it for them, and there is no paradox when such a government treats its subjects without respect, or deals With them on the basis of their having no rights that the government must take into account. But democracy affirms that people are fit to control themselves, and it cannot live in the same air with the theory that there is no limit to the extent to which public power--even the power of a majority--can interfere with the lives of people. Rational limitation on power is therefore not a contradiction to democracy, but is of the very essence of democracy as such. Other sorts of government may impose such limitations on themselves as an act of grace. Democracy is under the moral duty of limiting itself because such limitation is essential to the survival of that respect for humankind which is in the foundations of democracy. Respect for the freedom of all people cannot, of course, be the only guide, for there would then be no government. Delicate ongoing compromise is what must be looked for. But democracy, unless it is to deny its own moral basis, must accept the necessity for making this compromise and for giving real weight to the claims of those without the presently effective political power to make their claims prevail in elections.

单选题Research findings show we spend about two hours dreaming every night, no matter what we ______ during the day.

单选题{{B}}26-30{{/B}} WHAT IS ON EXHIBITIONS Oil Paintings—Oil painter Zhang Yongxu's one-man show will run January 3～19 at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Zhang, 33, graduated from the Oil Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. In the upcoming exhibition, viewers will see a personal experience of human life, and a combination of Eastern and Western art. Time: January 3～19. Address: Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, 5 Jiaowei Hutong, Wang fujing, Dongcheng District. Art from Nanjing—A group of young artists from Nanjing present a grand exhibition in the China National Art Museum from Jan. 5～11. The artists are from the Nanjing Calligraphy and Painting Institute. Inspired by the renowned artists in former generations such as Gu Kaizhi in the Jin Dynasty and the contemporary master Fu Baoshi, the artists have strenuously pursued new ways of producing quality traditional Chinese paintings. Time: Jan. 5～11. Location: China National Art Museum. Western Art Show—The China National Art Museum is displaying 117 pieces of European modern art donated by Peter Ludwig and his wife, Irene Ludwig. Many of them were done by world-famous artists, including four by Pablo Picasso. Peter Ludwig was a celebrated entrepreneur and popular social activist in Germany as well as a world-famous collector with thousands of invaluable art works. Time: from Jan. 6～20. Address: China National Art Museum, 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng District.

单选题Modem technology has brought ______ communication between people far apart.

单选题 Sea horses have unusual parents. The female sea horses lay the eggs, but unlike other creatures. It's the males that give birth to the young. Male sea horses have a fold of skin on their bellies that forms a pocket, called a brood pouch. During the breeding season, the sea horse's pouch swells to receive eggs. A female sea horse lays Up to 200 eggs at a time in the pouch. Then she swims off, leaving her male partner to care for the developing eggs and give birth to young sea horses. The female will return every day to check on her mate and the eggs, but she doesn't stay long, nor does she take part in the birth. It takes from five to six weeks for the eggs in the male' s pouch to develop. During this time the male avoids open water and hides in sea grass. His big pouch makes it difficult from him to swim, so the male often uses his tail to grasp a piece of sea grass. Firmly, gripping the grass, he will stay perfectly still for hours or even days. The male sea horse will change his color to blend with his surroundings and avoid being seen by predators who will try to eat him or poke holes in his pouch to get the eggs. The eggs hatch inside the male's pouch. When the babies begin moving around, the male sea horse knows it's time for them to be born. He grabs a sea grass stern with his tail and begins rocking, bending his body back and forth, this causes the opening to enlarge until wide enough for the first baby sea horse to shoot out. the father sea horse continues rocking, bending, and stretching his body so that the rest of the babies can be born. Sometimes he has to press his pouch against a rock or some stiff seaweed to force the young out. Sea horse babies are born in groups of five or more. Sometimes it takes two clays for the father sea horse to give birth to all his young. He is very tiered when it's over. Soon after giving birth to one brood, the male will approach his mat and show her his empty pouch. This tells her he is ready to receive eggs again.

单选题A: Fine day, isn't it? B: Well, yeah, it's beautiful. A: ______. B: Yes, I'm extremely well.

单选题The thief tried to open the locked door but ______. A. in no way B. in vain C. without effect D. at a loss

单选题______ is the center of our planetary system was a difficult concept to grasp in the Middle Ages. A. It is the sun and not the earth B. Being the sun and not the earth C. The sun and not the earth D. That the sun and not the earth

单选题You needn't worry ______ regards the cost of the operation. A. with B. which C. as D. about

单选题{{B}}26-30{{/B}} 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: What a lovely coat you are wearing! B: ______ A. Of course. It's excellent. You should buy one. B. No. It's not very expensive, you see. C. Thank you. My husband gave it to me for my thirtieth birthday. D. Yes. I don't like it very much.

单选题The bill was passed in the parliament by a majority of 200 votes ______ 30.

单选题Weather ______, the picnic will be held as scheduled.

单选题You should use ______ and natural language when you write a personal letter. A. forillal B. political C. magic D. plain

单选题 When I was still an architecture student, a teacher told me, "We learn more from buildings that fall down than from buildings that stand up." What he meant was that construction is as much the result of experience as of theory. Although structural design follows established formulas, the actual performance of a building is complicated by the passage of time, the behavior of users, the natural elements--and unnatural events. All are difficult to simulate. Buildings, unlike cars, can't be crash-tasted. The first important lesson of the World Trade Center collapse is that tall buildings can withstand the impact of a large jetliner. The twin towers were supported by 59 perimeter columns on each side. Although about 30 of these columns, extending from four to six floors, were destroyed in each building by the impact, initially both towers remained standing. Even so, the death toll (代价) was appalling--2,235 people lost their lives. I was once asked, how tall buildings should be designed given what we'd learned from the World Trade Center collapse. My answer was, "Lower". The question of when a tall building becomes unsafe is easy to answer. Common aerial fire-fighting ladders in use today are 100 feet high and can reach to about the 10th floor, so fires in buildings up to 10 stories high can be fought from the exterior (外部). Fighting fires and evacuating occupants above that height depend on fire stairs. The taller the building, the longer it will take for firefighters to climb to the scene of the fire. So the simple answer to the safety question is "Lower than 10 stories." Then why don't cities impose lower height limits? A 60-story office building does not have six times as much rentable space as a 10-story building. However, all things being equal, such a building will produce four times more revenue and four times more in property taxes. So cutting building heights would mean cutting city budgets. The most important lesson of the World Trade Center collapse is not that we should stop building tall buildings but that we have misjudged their cost. We did the same thing when we underestimated the cost of hurtling along a highway in a steel box at 70 miles per hour. It took many years before seat beks, air bags, radial tires, and antilock brakes became commonplace. At first, cars simply were too slow to warrant concern. Later, manufacturers resisted these expensive devices, arguing that consumers would not pay for safety. Now we do willingly.

单选题Speaker A: Is everyone always so helpful to you in your office?Speaker B: ______