单选题When the subject is money, women often cling to two persistent stereotypes, one a pleasant dream, the other a nightmare. In the (1) , they hate fantasies that a white (2) will provide happily-ever-after financial security. (3) the nightmare, by contrast, they fear that an impoverished retirement could (4) them into bag ladies on the street. Now (5) advisers and managers are (6) forces to change those images. In a proliferation of books, seminars, conferences, Web (7) , and investment clubs, they are (8) out to women, helping them to become financially savvy and economically (9) . Prince Charming, they warn, may not come. "If and when he does show (10) , he may have less than you do," quips Brooke Stephens, a financial adviser.

单选题The great use of a school education is ______ to teach you things as to teach you the art of learning. A. much B. much as C. not so much D. much more

单选题The newspaper did not mention the ______ of the damage caused by the fire. A. range B. level C. extent D. quantity

单选题This advertising company managed to obtain the ______ right to do the advertisements for a famous joint company in Beijing. A. exclusive B. excluding C. extra D. extraordinary

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} By the mid-nineteenth century, the term "ice-box" had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861- 1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the ice-box, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented. Making an efficient ice-box was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best ice-box was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient ice-box. But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an ice-box of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his ice-box, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.

单选题July didn't quite like her new boss, because she thought he always found ______ with her. A. error B. mistake C. fault D. failure

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as "all too human", with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it all too monkey, as well The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food tardily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of "goods and services" than males. Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan's and Dr. dewaal's study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of eucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in sepa rate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their became markedly different. In the world of capuchins grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to; accept the slice of cu cumber indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to reduce resentment in a female capuchin. The researches suggest that capuchin monkeys, like humans, are guided by social emotions. In the wild, they are a co-operative, groupliving species. Such co-operation is likely to be stable only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of righteous indignation, it seems, are not the preserve of people alone. Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems form the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.

单选题To understand ______ wars continue to go on when nearly everyone wants to have peace, we must look into the nature of war.

单选题Surely you remember ______ him the money? I hope that he won't forget to pay you back.

单选题Traffic is a perennial problem in Hong Kong. Over the years many suggestions have been (1) to ease transport difficulties. These include from constructing wider roads and an underground railway (2) to staggering hours for schools to open and close. One official report pressed (3) for working hours to be spaced out to (4) congestion at (5) periods. In England and other countries this system is called "staggering working hours" because many business centers use it. It is (6) that greater working (7) can be achieved, employees are happier because they can arrange (8) personal working hours, buses and trains can be dispatched at suitable (9) , and so on. The idea of (10) working days follows on from staggering hour.

单选题The word "imperative"(Line 5, Par

单选题产品设计的( )集中体现在适用性、工艺性和审美表现三个方面。

单选题Tina: Mmm ... This is the best pudding I've ever had!Lyle: ______I know you'd like it.

单选题The ______ choice for a consumer, therefore, is the choice among the available ones that will enable him or her to maximize utility. A. optimal B. optional C. optical D. optimistic

单选题In no circumstances can more work be got out of a machine than ______. A. be put into it B. is put into it C. to put into it D. that is to be put into it

单选题He is said to ______ two trips to China in the last two years. A. make B. be making C. have been making D. have made

单选题Max, along with the three men, ______ to represent the union at the meeting. A. is B. are C. be D. to be

单选题To paraphrase 18th century statesman Edmund Burke, "all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing. One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelly to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal. For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, "Then I would have to say yes." Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, "Don't worry, scientists will find some way of using computers." Such well-meaning people just don's understand. Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother's hip replacement, a father's bypass operation a baby's vaccinations, and even a pet's shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst. Much can be done. Scientists could "adopt" middle school classes and present their own research. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and ac quire a deceptive appearance of truth. Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.

单选题The architectural differences may ______ confusion or discomfort for the foreign travelers. A. vary B. describe C. cause D. impress

单选题The honor will be awarded to ______ finishes the work first.