单选题A: I'm not at all satisfied with the serviceB: ______

单选题Man: Mr. Brown asked me to tell you that he's sorry, and he can't come to meet you in person. He's really too busy to make the trip. Woman: That's OK. I'm glad you've come in his place. Question: What do we learn from the conversation?

单选题The Huntington Library has an ______ collection of rare books and manuscripts of British and American history and literature.

单选题These students are so busy with their lessons that they go to big department stores Uonce in a while/U.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Ten years ago, when environmental lawyer Kassie Siegel went in search of an animal to save the world, the polar bear wasn't at all an obvious choice. Siegel and Brendan Cummings of the Center for Biological Diversity in Joshua Tree, Calif. , were looking for a species whose habitat was disappearing due to climate change, which could serve as a symbol of the dangers of global warming. Her first candidate met the scientific criteria—it lived in ice caves in Alaska's Glacier Bay, which were melting away—but unfortunately it was a spider. You can't sell a lot of T shirts with pictures of an animal most people would happily step on. Next, Siegel turned to the Kittlitz's murrelet, a small Arctic seabird whose nesting sites in glaciers were disappearing. In 2001, she petitioned the Department of the Interior to add it to the Endangered Species list, but Interior Secretary Gale Norton turned her down. Elkhorn and staghorn coral, which are threatened by rising water temperatures in the Caribbean, did make it onto the list, but as iconic species they fell short insofar as many people don't realize they're alive in the first place. The polar bear, by contrast, is vehemently alive and carries the undeniable charisma of a top predator. And its dependence on ice was intuitively obvious; it lives on it most of the year. But it took until 2004 for researchers to demonstrate that shrinking sea ice was a serious threat to the bears' population. On Feb. 16, 2005—the day the Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse-gas emissions took effect, without the participation of the United States—Siegel petitioned to list polar bears as endangered. Three years later her efforts met with equivocal (不明确的) success, as Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne designated the bears as "threatened" (not endangered), a significant concession from an administration that has stood almost alone in the world in its reluctance to acknowledge the dangers of climate change. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) , whose odd lists of snails and bladderworts sometimes seemed stuck in the age of Darwin, had been thrust into the mainstream of 21st-century environmental politics. Break out the T shirts!

单选题Woman: What a pleasant surprise! Last week we bumped into each other here too!Man: You and I must share the idea that the only way to beat the crowds when you do weekend shopping is to be here at the morning opening hour.Question: What does the man imply?

单选题As college teachers, they enjoy talking about their own {{U}}specialties{{/U}}.

单选题 Metropolitan Museum of Art is located in New York City. It is one of the largest and most {{U}}(1) {{/U}} art museums in the world. In 1866 a group of Americans in Paris, France, gathered at a restaurant to {{U}}(2) {{/U}} the American Independence Day. After dinner, John Jay, a {{U}}(3) {{/U}} lawyer gave a speech proposing to create a "national institution and gallery of art. " During the next four years, he {{U}}(4) {{/U}} American civic leaders, art collectors, and others to support the project, and in 1870 the Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded, but it was {{U}}(5) {{/U}} in two different locations in New York City. In 1880 the museum moved to its present location in Central Park on Fifth Avenue. Many additions have {{U}}(6) {{/U}} been built around this building. The north and south {{U}}(7) {{/U}} were completed in 1911 and 1913, {{U}}(8) {{/U}} Six additional wings have been built since 1975 to house the museum's {{U}}(9) {{/U}} collections, to expand gallery space and educational {{U}}(10) {{/U}}. The museum has collected more than three million objects in every known artistic {{U}}(11) {{/U}}, representing cultures from every part of the world, from ancient times to the present. Popularly known as the Met, the museum is a private {{U}}(12) {{/U}}. The museum is one of the most popular tourist {{U}}(13) {{/U}} in the city and about five million people visit it each year. It is also a major educational institution, offering various programs for children and adults. {{U}}(14) {{/U}}, scholars of archeology and art history {{U}}(15) {{/U}} advanced research projects at the museum.

单选题The three branches of government--the legislative, the executive, and the______ --restrain and stabilize one another through their separated functions.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops and factories are discovering the greater efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output. Thus the “typical” Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality. Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that "assembly-line life" will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life—to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local cafe? Since the late 1950's life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of the competitive, goods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence. In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is preferable to the old.

单选题The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of unprecedented severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health. As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves? Our pediatrician's (儿科医师的) medical recommendation was simple: abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband's work. We are fascinated by Mexico—its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from breathing. But for millions, there is no choice. Their lives, their jobs, their futures depend on being here. Thousands of Mexicans arrive each day in this city, desperate for economic opportunities. Thousands more are born here each day. Entire families work in the streets and practically live there. It is a familiar sight: as parents hawk goods at stoplights, their children play in the grassy highway dividers, breathing exhaust fumes. I feel guilty complaining about my personal situation; we won't be here long enough for our children to form the impression that skies are colored only gray. And yet the government cannot do what it must to end this problem. For any country, especially a developing Third World economy like Mexico's, the idea of barring from the capital city enough cars, closing enough factories and spending the necessary billions on public transportation is simply not an option. So when things get bad, as in the current emergency, Mexico takes half measures—prohibiting some more cars from circulating, stopping some factories from producing—that even its own officials concede aren't adequate. The word "emergency" implies the unusual. But when daily life itself is an emergency, the concept loses its meaning. It is human nature to try to adapt to that which we cannot change, or to mislead ourselves into believing we can adapt.

单选题A: Would you mind sending champagne and strawberries to my room at 1

单选题Here"s truth to the saying that you"re only as old as you feel. "Physical well-being and subjective well-being are two sides of the same coin," says Howard Friedman, author of The Longevity Project , a research-based look at who lives the longest and why. "Mental health affects physical health, and physical health affects mental health." Research shows a compelling argument. Adults with serious mental illness like schizophrenia (精神分裂) die about 25 years earlier than the general population, according to a 2007 report from the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Why? They often get little exercise, leading to obesity and hiking the odds of heart disease. They"re also more likely than others to smoke and have alcohol and drug-abuse problems. But evidence of the mind-body connection transcends serious mental illness and the unhealthy habits that often go along with it. Take negative emotions for example. While they may not cause a disease, they appear to accelerate its progression, says Laura Carstensen, a professor of psychology at Stanford University. "We"re only beginning to understand the potential mechanisms that could be involved," she says. "But it"s clear that people who are more positive are more likely to survive, and to survive longer." In one study, older people were up to 35 percent less likely to die during a five-year period if they reported feeling happy, excited, and content on a typical day. That was true regardless of factors like chronic (慢性的) health problems, depression, and financial security, according to findings published in 2011 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . And earlier this month, Harvard researchers reported that optimism, hope, life satisfaction, and happiness are associated with lowered likelihood of heart disease and stroke. Social psychologists report similar results, including hints that attitudes about aging count, too. A research team at Yale University and the National Institute on Aging looked at surveys taken by 386 men and women under age 50, and then studied their health records four decades later. Those with the worst outlook on aging, who described older people as "feeble, helpless, and absent-minded," were significantly more likely to have had a heart attack or stroke than those with more positive views on growing old. Likewise, research suggests that people who perceive themselves as being in poor health—even if they aren"t—may die sooner than those who consider themselves healthy. Perhaps it"s a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you view older people as active, healthy members of society, there"s a good chance you"ll take care of yourself as you age, continuing to eat well and exercise. But if you feel doomed to a weak existence, you might be more inclined to let yourself go. Longevity scientists have found that people who perceive aging as a positive experience are more likely to visit the doctor regularly, eat a balanced diet, maintain an appropriate weight, and avoid tobacco. Since there"s no question that mental health affects longevity, focus on how to preserve yours—and how to cope with trouble when it arrives.

单选题Although he is recognized as one of the most brilliant scientists in his field, Professor Jefferson cannot seem to {{U}}make his ideas understood{{/U}} in class.

单选题A: You look more beautiful in such a nice dress.B: ______

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单选题Professor Johnson will come to give a lecture ______ next month.

单选题The world is full of new horrors and there's no place to hide. Who says so? Disaster psychologists, for a start. They are the people who take in the big picture of our collective reactions to human-created disaster, the ways these reactions are caused, and our coping mechanisms. And research into disaster psychology is growing fast. Among the big issues being addressed by these researchers are understanding the terrorists' weapons, assessing the full impact of terrorism—and, crucially, working out which psychological approaches actually work. It's a deeply controversial area. Take the work of Dennis Embry as an example. He argues that we have overlooked the obvious. the purpose of terrorism is to create terror. This works best "if the very symbols of everyday life become conditioned fear and anxiety stimulant". The top targets will be the most symbolic of a nation's daily life, preferably served up for prime-time television. Crashing planes from United and American Airlines into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon from 8.46 am on met those objectives all too perfectly. After the attacks, people stopped flying. Why? Not because they had made a rational risk assessment but because the mere thought of flying made their palms sweat. From terrorism to rail crashes, counseling and "debriefing” are the standard response to help those caught up in disasters. But there are growing doubts about their effectiveness. What might be going wrong? Debriefing focuses on getting people to talk through the trauma(创伤)and its emotional consequences soon after the incident. Could it be that some people are better by distancing themselves from what happened, rather than retelling it?

单选题He went to the small stable where his horse was, harnessed it, mounted , and rode out to the beach.