单选题A: What a pleasant surprise! I haven't seen you for a long time.B: ______

单选题Although Hong Kong was in ______, it felt confident in its recovery.

单选题That small fishing village has now ______ into an important port.

单选题How many people have been found dead in the two ferry disasters?

单选题A series of ______ scandals led to the fall of the government.

单选题Workers at this toy factory- had to suffer from ______ living and working conditions.

单选题This businessman was able to accumulate a Ufair/U fortune by investing in real estate development.

单选题Hurricanes are violent storms that cause millions of dollars in property damage and take many lives. They can be extremely dangerous, and too often people underestimate their fury. Hurricanes normally originate as a small area of thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean west of the Cape Verde Islands during August or September. For several days, the area of the storm increases and the air pressure falls slowly. A center of low pressure forms, and winds begin to whirl around it. It is blown westward, increasing in size and strength. Hurricane hunters then fly out to the storm in order to determine its size and intensity and to track its direction. They drop instruments for recording temperature, air pressure, and humidity (湿度), into the storm. They also look at the size of waves on the ocean, the clouds, and the eye of the storm. The eye is a region of relative calm and clear skies in the center of the hurricane. People often lose their lives by leaving shelter when the eye has arrived, only to he caught in tremendous winds again when the eye has passed. Once the forecasters have determined that it is likely the hurricane will reach shore, they issue a hurricane watch for a large, general area that may be in the path of the storm. Later, when the probable point of landfall is clearer, they will issue a hurricane warning for a somewhat more limited area. People in these areas are wise to stock up on nonperishable foods, flash light and radio batteries, candles, and other items they may need if electricity and water are not available after the stoma. They should also try to hurricane-proof their houses by bringing in light-weight furniture and other items from outside and covering windows. People living in low-lying areas are wise to evacuate their houses because of the storm surge, which is a large rush of water that may come ashore with the storm. Hurricanes generally lose power slowly while traveling over land, but many move out to sea, gather up force again, and return to land. As they move toward the north, they generally lose their identity as hurricanes.

单选题Woman: Next fall will be my last semester of course work for my master's and I will be very busy doing research on my thesis. Man: So you will not graduate next fall, will you? Question: When will the woman finish her course work for her master's degree?

单选题Until the late 19th century, there was no uniform system of time-keeping in the United States.

单选题What are some of the major environmental issues in developing nations? Global warming is not among them—not 21 we look at all the deaths caused by flooding, droughts, heat waves, and storms. Today, about 0.06 percent of all deaths in the developing world are the result of such 22 weather. Instead, one of the biggest environmental killers in the developing world is a problem 23 to most people in rich countries: indoor air pollution. We take for granted our 24 to heat, light, and convenience at the flick (轻打) of a switch. 25 3 billion people in developing nations have no choice but to use 26 like cardboard (硬纸板) or dung (粪) to cook their food and warm their homes. The annual death toll from breathing the smoke of these fires is at least 1.4 million and most 27 are women and children. Another big environmental problem is poverty. To the more than 1 billion people living on less than $1.25 a day, worrying about 28 issues is a distant luxury. If your family is freezing, you will cut down the last tree for fuel; if they are starving, you will strip the land bare to 29 them. And if you have no certainty about the future, you will provide for it in the only way possible, by having more children to care for you in your old age, 30 how much they will add to humanity"s demands on the planet.

单选题This is the sort of case in which judges must {{U}}exercise{{/U}} the arbitrary power described a moment ago.

单选题The fitness movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s centered around aerobic exercise (有氧操). Millions of individuals became engaged in a variety of aerobic activities, and literally thousands of health spas developed around the country to capitalize (获利) on this emerging interest in fitness, particularly aerobic dancing for females. A number of fitness spas existed prior to this aerobic fitness movement, even a national chain with spas in most major cities. However, their focus was not on aerobics, but rather on weight-training programs designed to develop muscular mass, strength, and endurance in their primarily maie enthusiasts. These fitness spas did not seem to benefit financially from the aerobic fitness movement to better health, since medical opinion suggested that weight-training programs offered few, if any, health benefits. In recent years, however, weight training has again become increasingly popular for males and for females. Many current programs focus not only on developing muscular strength and endurance but on aerobic fitness as well. Historically, most physical-fitness tests have usually included measures of muscular strength and endurance, not for health-related reasons, but primarily because such fitness components have been related to performance in athletics. However, in recent years, evidence has shown that training programs designed primarily to improve muscular strength and endurance might also offer some health benefits as well. The American College of Sports Medicine now recommends that weight training be part of a total fitness program for healthy Americans. Increased participation in such training is one of the specific physical activity and fitness objectives of Healthy People 2000, National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives.

单选题The city government is going to take measures to ______ the price.

单选题Man: I'm going to give up the violin. The orchestra rejected me again. Woman: Just because you didn't make it, is that any reason to quit? Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?

单选题Chinatown has been the center of San Francisco's Chinese community since the 1850s. Its boundaries have expanded significantly since the 1960s, and the neighborhoods built there are generally {{U}}wealthy{{/U}}.

单选题The descendants of Uprominent/U families have to learn to protect their privacy in one way or another.

单选题I can't ______ your idea for the simple reason that I have no prejudice against the handicapped.

单选题Applicant will be asked to provide information on how they will {{U}}disseminate{{/U}} information to other students at their university-or college.

单选题{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} A complex operation called spinal fusion has emerged as the treatment of choice for many kinds of back pain. But a number of researchers say there is little scientific evidence to show that for most patients, spinal fusion works any better than a simpler operation, the lamineetomy (椎板切除术). Some people would be better off with no surgery at all. Even doctors who favor fusions say that more research is needed on their benefits. In the absence of better data, critics point to a different reason for the fusion operation's fast rise: money. Medicare can pay a surgeon as much as four times more for a spinal fusion as for a laminectomy. Hospitals also collect two to four times as much. "We all cave in to market and economic forces," said Dr. Edward C. Benzel. Though doctors, as a rule, should favor the least complicated treatment—with surgery being the last resort — Dr. Benzel estimated that fewer than half of the spinal fusions done today were probably appropriate. Doctors and hospitals are not the only players with a financial stake in fusion operations. Critics blame the companies that make the hardware for promoting more complex fusions without evidence that they are significantly more effective. Some sort of hardware is used in almost 90 percent of lower-back fusions and the national bill for the hardware alone has soared to $ 2.5 billion a year. The hardware makers acknowledge giving surgeons millions of dollars for consulting and researches, but say the money promotes technical and medical advances that improve back care. But a lawsuit brought by Scott A. Wiese, a former sales representative of Medtronic-the biggest maker of spinal hardware, accused the company of trying to persuade surgeons to use its products with offers of first-class plane tickets to Hawaii and nights at the finest hotels. Medtronic said it did nothing wrong, and it denied the accusations in the lawsuit. But the company disclosed earlier this year that the federal government was investigating charges that it paid illegal kickbacks to surgeons. Federal officials declined to comment on the investigation, and Medtronic said it would vigorously defend itself. Still, between the allure of money and the quest for breakthroughs in treatment, some prominent spinal surgeons say that back care has gone astray.