单选题Kimberly Rugh talked about her son's birthday party______.

单选题Ken: Gee, Martin, Pd love a cup of coffee. Martin:______. Is instant OK?

单选题Ray: ______. Where was I? Brenda: You were talking about your trip to South Africa.

单选题When were the images of Mars taken?

单选题Speaker A. I'm sorry. The brand of camera you want is not available now. Speaker B：______ A. No use sayings sorry. That's a real let down. B. I'm truly grateful for your help. C. That's a pity. Thank you anyway. D. It's just as I've expected.

单选题The manager didn't have time to read the report word for word: he just ______ it. A. skimmed B. observed C. overlooked D. glanced

单选题 I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice. It is, of course, very exciting to have such an import {{U}}{{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}of my work, but the real pleasure was in the work itself. Scientific research is like an exploration of a voyage of discovery, you are {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}trying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}and you have to try something different, but sometimes an experiment does {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}and tells you something new and that it is really exciting. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}small the new finding may be, it is great to think "I am the only person who knows" and then you will have the fun of thinking what this finding will {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}and of deciding what will be the {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}experiment. One of the best things about scientific research is that you are always doing something different and it is never {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}. There are good times when things go well and bad times when they {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Some people get discouraged at the difficult times, but when I have a failure my policy has always been not to worry but to start planning the next experiment, {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}is always fun.

单选题Planet Earth was stricken by floods, drought and fire in 1997, a year which ended with the world's major polluters quarreling about ways to prevent further environmental disasters. The climate was dominated in the latter part of the year by E1 Nino, an swelling of warmer water off the South American coast which affects global weather patterns. "I think for sure the most dramatic thing has been the E1 Nino phenomenon that has been experienced throughout the tropics," said Jeffrey Sayer, director-general of the International Center for Forestry Research. E1 Nino is being blamed for widespread floods and drought in the tropics, and has affected other areas as well. A major demonstration of the phenomenon was drought-intensified bush fires in Indonesia that spread a smog across large areas of Southeast Asia before badly-delayed rains started to fall in late November. Apart from E1 Nino, eastern and central Europe suffered the worst floods in living memory in early July, with over 100 people killed and many thousands of families displaced through the region. In the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto, a UN gathering of 159 countries on global warming finally agreed on cutting greenhouse gas emissions through the next decade after 11 days of confused and uncontrolled negotiations. The conference accepted scientific evidence that heating of the Earth's surface by gases trapped in the atmosphere causes more and fiercer storms, expanding deserts, melting polar ice and raising sea levels which threaten to flood lowlying islands. US Vice President A1 Gore called the Kyoto agreement "a vital turning point," but added that more still needed to be done.

单选题 If a farmer wishes to succeed, he must try to keep a wide gap between his consumption and his production. He must store a large quantity of grain{{U}} (31) {{/U}}consuming all his grain immediately. He can continue to support himself and his family{{U}} (32) {{/U}}he produces a surplus. He must use this surplus in three ways: as seed for sowing, as an insurance{{U}} (33) {{/U}}the unpredictable effects of bad weather and as a commodity which he must sell in order to{{U}} (34) {{/U}}old agricultural implements and obtain chemical fertilizers to{{U}} (35) {{/U}}the soil. He may also need money to construct irrigation{{U}} (36) {{/U}}and improve his farm in other ways. If no surplus is available, a farmer cannot be{{U}} (37) {{/U}}. He must either sell some of his property or{{U}} (38) {{/U}}extra fids in the form of loans. Naturally he will try to borrow money at a low{{U}} (39) {{/U}}of interest, but loans of this kind are not{{U}} (40) {{/U}}obtainable.

单选题A: I'm so glad that you've come to our wedding. B: Congratulations, and ______ A. all my good wishes! B. all wishes! C. happy forever! D. all my best wishes!

单选题Sixteen days after the earthquake, 40 people, ______ in their village, were rescued.

单选题 Passage 9 One of the most interesting of all studies is the study of words and word origins. Each language is {{U}}(1) {{/U}} of several earlier languages, and the words of a language can sometimes be traced {{U}}(2) {{/U}} through two or three different languages to their {{U}}(3) {{/U}} Again, a word from one language may pass into other languages and {{U}}(4) {{/U}} a new meaning. The word "etiquette", which is {{U}}(5) {{/U}} French origin and originally meant a label, {{U}}(6) {{/U}} a sign, passed into Spanish and kept its original meaning. So in Spanish the word "etiquette" today is used to {{U}}(7) {{/U}} the small tags which a store {{U}}(8) {{/U}} to a suit, a dress or a bottle. The word "etiquette" in French, {{U}}(9) {{/U}}, gradually developed a different meaning. It {{U}}(10) {{/U}} became the custom to write directions on small cards or "etiquette" as to how visitors should dress themselves and {{U}}(11) {{/U}} during an important ceremony at the royal court. {{U}}(12) {{/U}}, the word "etiquette" began to indicate a system of correct manners for people to follow. {{U}}(13) {{/U}} this meaning, the word passed into English. Consider the word "breakfast". "To fast" is to go for some period of time without {{U}}(14) {{/U}} . Thus, in the morning, after many hours {{U}}(15) {{/U}} the night without food, one {{U}}(16) {{/U}} one's fast. Consider the everyday English {{U}}(17) {{/U}} "Good-bye". Many years ago, people would say to each other {{U}}(18) {{/U}} parting: "God be with you." As this was {{U}}(19) {{/U}} over and over millions of times, it gradually became {{U}}(20) {{/U}} to "good-bye".

单选题These excursions will give you an even deeper ______ into our language and culture.

单选题They are Uconfronting/U tremendous and more complicated problems.

单选题 Everyone, it seems, has a health problem. After pouring billions into the National Health Service, British people moan about dirty hospitals, long waits and wasted money. In Germany the new chancellor, Angela Merkel, is under fire for suggesting changing the financing of its health system. Canada's new Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, made a big fuss during the election about reducing the country's lengthy medical queues. Across the rich world, affluence, ageing and advancing technology are driving up health spending faster than income. But nowhere has a bigger health problem than America. Soaring medical bills are squeezing wages, swelling the ranks of the uninsured and pushing huge firms and perhaps even the government towards bankruptcy. Ford's announcement this week that it would cut up to 30000 jobs by 2012 was as much a sign of its "legacy" health-care costs as of the ills of the car industry. Pushed by polls that show health care is one of his main domestic problems and by forecasts showing that the retiring baby-boomers (生育高峰期出生的人) will crush the government's finances, George Bush is expected to unveil a reform plan in next week's state-of-the-union address. America's health system is unlike any other. The United States spends 16% of its GDP on health, around twice the rich-country average, equivalent to $6280 for every American each year. Yet it is the only rich country that does not guarantee universal health coverage. Thanks to an accident of history, most Americans receive health insurance through their employer, with the government picking up the bill for the poor and the elderly. This curious hybrid (混合物) certainly has its strengths. Americans have more choice than anybody else, and their health-care system is much more innovative. Europeans' bills could be much higher if American medicine were not doing much of their Research and Development (R&D) for them. But there are also huge weaknesses. The one most often cited—especially by foreigners—is the army of uninsured. Some 46 million Americans do not have cover. In many cases that is out of choice and, if they fall seriously ill, hospitals have to treat them. But it is still deeply unequal. And there are also shocking inefficiencies: by some measures, 30% of American health spending is wasted. Then there is the question of state support. Many Americans disapprove of the "socialized medicine" of Canada and Europe. In fact, even if much of the administration is done privately, around 60% of America's health-care bill ends up being met by the government. Proportionately, the American state already spends as much on health as the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) average, and that share is set to grow as the baby-boomers run up their Medicare bills and ever more employers avoid providing health-care coverage. America is, in effect, heading towards a version of socialized medicine by default.

单选题 Crossing Wesleyan University's campus usually requires walking over colorful messageschalked on the ground. They can be as innocent as meeting announcements, but in a growingnumber of cases the language is meant to shock. It's not uncommon, for instance, to see lewdreferences to professors'sexual preferences scrawled across a path or the mention of the word"Nig" that African-American students say make them feel uncomfortable. In response, officials and students at schools are now debating ways to lead theircommunities away from forms of expression that offend or harass (侵扰). In the process, they' reputting up against the difficulties of regulating speech at institutions that pride themselves onfostering open debate. Mr. Bennet of Wesleyan says he had gotten used to seeing occasional talkings filled withfour-letter words. Campus tradition made any horizontal surface not attached to a building apotential billboard. But when talkings began taking on a more threatening and lewd tone, Bennetdecided to act. "This is not acceptable in a workplace and not aeeeptahle in an institution of higherlearning." Bennet says. For now, Bennet is seeking input about what kind of message-postingpolicy the school should adopt. The student assembly recently passed a resolution saying the"right to speech comes with implicit responsibilities to respect community standards" Other public universities have confronted problems this year while considering various ways ofregulating where students can express themselves. At Harvard Law School, the recent controversywas more linked to the academic setting. Minority students there are seeking to curb what theyconsider harassing speech in the wake of a series of incidents last spring. At a meeting held by the "Committee on Healthy Diversity" last week, the school's BlackLaw Students Association endorsed a policy targeting discriminatory harassment. It would trigger areview by school officials if there were charges of "severe or pervasive conduct" by students orfaculty. The policy would cover harassment based on, but not limited to, factors such as race,religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, and ethnieity (种族划分). Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate, says other schools have adopted similar harassmentpolicies that are actually speech codes, punishing students for raising certain ideas. "Restrictingstudents from saying anything that would be perceived as very unpleasant by another studentcontinues uninterrupted, " says Silverglate, who attended the Harvard Law town meeting lastweek.

单选题New Orleans is a city ______ older traditions can still be seen.

单选题{{B}}Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} I doubt that any historically valid treatment of that presidential administration can emerge for at least another decade, if then. I confess that when I came out of the White House I signed up to do an "insider volume", but sober, professional second thoughts have led me to put that project on ice until at least 1980. The problem is that I simultaneously know too much, and not enough. I know what I thought was happening. But I cannot fully document what happened. And I have seen enough highly classified documents to know that most of what the observers thought was happening was at best half right, at worst dead wrong. This has steered me in a different direction as far as writing is concerned. I am now preparing what is frankly and unashamedly an ex parte memoir, "My Experiences in Washington." It is based on what I believed to be true, on the picture as I conceptualized it, of the presidential administration under which I worked.