单选题A: You are a college student. Tel1 me what you would like to do? B. ______ A. I like to take a taxi. B. I don't know, but I like to develop computer software. C. I will go and have fun with my classmates. D. I don't know. but I like to have a choice.

单选题An interpreter's job is one that he can't afford any errors.

单选题{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} Seventy years ago, a film featuring a talking mouse appeared in the United States. The character was only a pencil drawing, but it began a fantasy that America and much of the wider world have yet to grow tired of. Predicting the future is always risky. But it's probably safe to say that at least a few historians will one day speak of the 20th century as America's "Disney era". The reasons for Disney's success are varied and numerous, but ultimately the credit belongs to one person -- the man who created the cartoon and build the company from nothing, Walt Disney. Ironically(讽刺地), he could not draw particularly well. But he was a genius in plenty of other respects. In business, his greatest skills were his insight and his management ability. But what really distinguished Disney was his ability to identify with his audiences. Disney always made sure his films championed the "little guy", and made him feel proud to be American. This he achieved by creating characters that reflected the hopes and fear of ordinary people. Disney's other great virtue was the fact that his company -- unlike other big corporations -- had a human face. His Hollywood studio -- the public heard -- operated just like a democracy, where everyone was on first-name terms and had a say in how things should be run. By the time he died in 1966, Walt Disney was an icon(偶像) like Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers. To business people and filmmakers, he was a role model; to the public at large, he was "Uncle Walt" -- the man who had entertained them all their lives, the man who represented all that was good about America.

单选题Doctor: What seems to be the problem? Patient: ______.

单选题The point is worth______.

单选题Neither John nor his brothers bought what ______ needed. A. he B. they C. one D. you

单选题Once the 12 Girls Band became popular, similar groups predictably starting popping up. Musicat and Beautiful Youth 18 were formed last year. Both feature now-familiar formulas of attractive young women playing different instruments in songs that combine modem music with classic Chinese tunes. Yet they add to the mix by throwing in song, dance and even acrobatics. In an interview, noted music critic Jin Zhaojun said the girl band phenomenon was not new to China, as similar acts appeared in the 1980s. However, the undying rule is that to be successful, bands have to have a novel look. "The 12 Girls Band was the first group to give big live shows and show creativity in how they present their performances. The Beijing Red Poppy Ladies Percussion group, formed in 1999, has made a name for itself because they are the only band that exclusively plays drums and percussion instruments. Bands that don't have 'a thing' are sure to die fast," Jin said.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} Genetic engineering holds great potential payoffs for farmers and consumers by making crops resistant to pests, diseases, and even chemicals used to kill surrounding weeds; but new research raises concerns that altering crops to withstand such threats may pose new risks--from none other than the weeds themselves. This is due to the weeds' ability to acquire genes from the neighboring agricultural crops. Researchers found that when a weed cross-breeds with a farm-cultivated relative and thus acquires new genetic traits--possibly including artificial genes engineered to make the crop hardier--the hybrid weed can pass along those traits to future generations. "The result may be very hardy, hard-to-kill weeds," said Allison Snow, a plant ecologist at Ohio State University in Columbus who conducted the experiments over the past six years along with two colleagues. They presented their results last week at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Madison, Wisconsin. The findings suggest that genetic engineering done with the aim of improving crops--growing the new genetic traits such as resistance to herbicides or pests-- could ultimately have unintended and harmful consequences for the crops if weeds acquire the same trait and use it to out-compete the crops. "Gene movement from crops to their wild relatives is an ongoing process that can be ultimately harmful to crops," said Snow. The results of the experiments challenge a common belief that hybrids gradually die out over several generations, Snow explained. "There has been an assumption that crop genes wouldn't persist in crop-weed hybrids" because hybrids are thought to be less successful at reproducing, she said. However, Snow's research contradicted this assumption: Hybrid wild radishes survived in all six generations that were grown since the study began. Although the genetic traits the scientists monitored were natural and not genetically engineered, the findings nonetheless suggest that artificial improvements introduced into crops through genetic engineering could spread to weeds and become permanent traits of the weed population. So strengthened, the weeds may pose a serious risk to the long-term health of agricultural crops. The danger exists in a number of crop plants--including rice, sunflower, sorghum, squash, and carrots--that are closely related to weeds with which they compete. Snow is concerned that the transfer of genes from crops to related weeds could rapidly render many herbicides (chemicals which kill weeds) ineffectual. That situation, she said, would be much like bacterial diseases acquiring resistance to antibiotics. Because plant hybrids arise in a single generation, however, it could happen much more quickly; "Modern agriculture is heavily dependent on herbicides," she said, "so people will notice when those don't work anymore."

单选题Passer-by: ______? Loeal resident: Yes, there's one near the end of the street. It's behind the church. A. Hello. sir. Where's the bus station B. Excuse me. Is there a parking lot anywhere around here C. Excuse me, sir. How can I find the way to the police station D. Which building is the Department of Immigration, please

单选题How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets. Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child—things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too wellknown. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong. When the young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in society.

单选题Modern manufacturing has ______ a global river of materials into a stunning array of new products.

单选题The Tuscan town of Vinci, birthplace of Leonardo and home to a museum of his machines, should fittingly put on a show of the television-robot sculptures of Nam Jun Paik. This Korean-born American artist and the Renaissance master are kindred spirits: Leonardo saw humanistic potential in his scientific experiments, Mr Paik endeavors to harness media technology for artistic purp9ses. A pioneer of video art in the late 1960s, he treats television as a space for art images and as material for robots and interactive sculptures. Mr Paik was not alone. He and fellow artists picked on the video cameras because they offered an easy way to record their performance art. Now, to mark video art's coming of age, New York's Museum of Modern Art is looking back at their efforts in a film series called "The First Decade". It celebrates the early days of video by screening the archives of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), one of the world's leading distributors of video and new media art, founded 30 years ago. One of EAI's most famous alumni is Bill Viola. Part of the second generation of video artists, who emerged in the 1970s, Mr Viola experimented with video’s expressive potential. His camera explores religious ritual and universal ideas. The Viola show at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin shows us moving-image frescoes that cover the gallery walls and envelop the viewer in all-embracing cycles of life and death. One new star is a Californian, Doug Aitken, who took over London's Serpentine Gallery last October with an installation called "New Ocean". Some say Mr Aitken is to video what Jackson Pollock was to painting. He drips his images from floor to ceiling, creating sequences of rooms in which the Space surrounds the viewer in hallucinatory images, of sound and light. At the Serpentine, Mr Aitken created a collage of moving images, on the theme of water's flow around the planet as a force of life. "I wanted to create a new topography in this work, a liquid image, to show a world that never stands still," he says. The boundary between the physical world and the world of images and information, he thinks, is blurring. The interplay of illusion and reality, sound and image, references to art history, politics, film and television in this art form that is barely 30 years old can make video art difficult to define. Many call it film-based or moving-image art to include artists who work with other cinematic media. At its best, the appeal of video art lies in its versatility, its power to capture the passing of time and on its ability to communicate both inside and outside gallery walls.

单选题This multiple choice test ______ 35 incomplete statements, please choose A, B, C or D to complete them.

单选题______ all our kindness to help her, Sara refused to listen. A. At B. In C. For D. On

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given below. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets. Recruiting(招募) the right candidate to fill a vacancy can be a difficult and costly task.{{U}} (31) {{/U}}the wrong person could be an expensive mistake which could cause personal problems for the whole department. And, as every HR(Human Resource) manager knows, it is much more difficult to get rid of someone than it is to{{U}} (32) {{/U}}them. The HR manager's first decision is{{U}} (33) {{/U}}to recruit internal applicants or advertise the vacancy outside the company.{{U}} (34) {{/U}}applicants are easy to recruit by memo, e-mail, or newsletter. Furthermore, they are easy to assess and know the company well.{{U}} (35) {{/U}}, they rarely bring fresh ideas to a position. More- over, a rejected internal candidate might become unhappy and leave the company. Recruiting outside the company means either advertising the vacancy directly or{{U}} (36) {{/U}}an employment agency. If the company decides to advertise the vacancy directly, it has to decide where to place the{{U}} (37) {{/U}}. Traditionally this has meant newspapers and professional journals but now the Intemet is also very popular. The decision normally depends on the vacancy. Companies advertise blue-collar or clerical jobs in local news- papers and senior management{{U}} (38) {{/U}}in national papers or professional journals,{{U}} (39) {{/U}}the Intemet is one of the best ways of advertising IT vacancies or recruiting abroad. However, with the Internet is a risk{{U}} (40) {{/U}}receiving unsuitable applications from all over the world.

单选题Sophia: There'll be an issue next month introducing your newly published book and I'd like to have an interview with you, if possible.Josh: An interview ? I'd like to, but I'm afraid my schedule is 'all full.Sophia: It won't take you long, Mr. Josh. ______.

单选题The two countries achieved some progress in the sphere of trade relations, traditionally a source of ______ irritation. A. mutual B. optional C. neutral D. parallel

单选题Kindness and honesty are the most important ______ a man can have.

单选题If it ______ more humid in the Desert of the Southwest, the hot temperatures would be unbearable.