单选题(When) I heard the principal (called) my name, I walked to (the) front (to receive) my diploma.

单选题A: Tom, why didn't you come to the class yesterday?B: ______

单选题Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly. Now, Brown and other U. S. medical schools are plugging geriatric (老年) courses into their curricula. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the number of elderly Americans will nearly double to 71 million by 2030. The first members of the Baby Boomer generation, so named for the explosion in births in the years after World War Two, turn 65 in three years. In addition, people are living longer than ever. "The first ripples of the silver tsunami are lapping at the shores of our country, but there is not a coordinated or strategic response taking place in America," said Richard Besdine, who is direetor of the geriatrics division at Brown University medical school in Providence. Geriatries has never been a field of choice for young doctors. Elderly care doctors are paid less than most other physicians and surgeons and the aged can be hard to treat. They have complicated medical histories and their ailments, even such routine illnesses as pneumonia (肺炎), can be more difficult to diagnose because they may be masked by other conditions. Also, drugs can affect them differently than middle-aged adults." It's a hard job; it's not paid very well; it's complicated; and there's very little status within the hierarchy of medical specialties to being a geriatric physician," said Gavin Hougham, senior program officer and manager of medicine programs at the John A. Hartford Foundation. Out of 800 000 doctors in the United States, roughly 7 000 are geriatricians, Hougham said. The country needs another 13 000 to adequately care for today's older population, according to the American Geriatrics Society. The shortfall could reach 36 000 by 2030. To help counter that, private groups are bankrolling medical schools' emphasis on aging. The Hartford Foundation has given more than $40 million to 27 schools to train faculty in elderly care, and the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation has given more than $100 million to 30 schools to include more geriatrics content. "If they don't learn it, they still have to deal with it," Hougham said. "It's not that not learning geriatrics will cause these older people to go away. They're coming whether we're ready or not. /

单选题A: You did an excellent job on the presentation.B: ______

单选题The attitude of the writer toward top managers quitting is ______

单选题(Despite of) diligent effort to promote domestic production during the war years, the Continental Army (had to rely) primarily on (captures) and imports for (much) of its military hardware and even for clothing.

单选题A: Did you hear that I won first prize in the talent show? B: ______.

单选题Only her friends knew she had a(n) fatal illness, and her family was not informed.

单选题Shopping malls customarily experience some slack periods for sales, especially so in summer.

单选题The president believed that the ______ of his personality and of his travels would compete forcefully against the "image-making" publicity tours of his rivals.

单选题The increase in global trade means that international companies cannot afford to make costly advertising mistakes if they want to be competitive. Understanding the language and culture of target markets in foreign countries is one of the keys to successful international marketing. Too many companies, however, have jumped into foreign markets with embarrassing results. Translation mistakes are at the heart of many blunders in international advertising. General Motors, the US auto manufacturer, got a costly lesson when it introduced its Chevrolet Nova to the Puerto Rican market. "Nova" is Latin for "new (star)" and means "star" in many languages, but in spoken Spanish it can sound like "nova", meaning "it doesn't go". Few people wanted to buy a car with that cursed meaning. When GM changed the name to Caribe, sales "picked up" dramatically. Marketing blunders have also been made by food and beverage companies. One American food company's friendly "Jolly Green Giant" (for advertising vegetables) became something quite different when it was translated into Arabic as " Intimidating Green Ogre". When translated into German, Pepsi's popular slogan, "Come Alive with Pepsi" came out implying "Come Alive from the Grave". No wonder customers in Germany didn't rush out to buy Pepsi. Successful international marketing doesn't stop with good translations—other aspects of culture must be researched and understood if marketers are to avoid blunders. When marketers do not understand and appreciate the values, tastes, geography, climate, superstitions, religion, or economy of a culture, they fail to capture their target market. For example, an American designer tried to introduce a new perfume into the Latin American market but the product aroused little interest. The main reason was that the camellia used in it was traditionally used for funerals in many South American countries. Having awakened to the special nature of foreign advertising, companies are becoming much more conscientious in their translations and more sensitive to cultural distinctions. The best way to prevent errors is to hire professional translators who understand the target language and its idiomatic usage, or to use a technique called "back translation" to reduce the possibility of blunders. The process uses one person to translate a message into the target language and another to translate it back. Effective translators aim to capture the overall message of an advertisement because a word-for-word duplication of the original rarely conveys the intended meaning and often causes misunderstandings. In designing advertisements for other countries, messages need to be short and simple. They should also avoid jokes, since what is considered funny in one part of the world may not be so humorous in another.

单选题Mary succeeded in living ______her extraordinary reputation.

单选题The country announced that it would halt nuclear testing this year and hoped that other countries would take the same action.

单选题One of the reasons for the obesity epidemic currently observed in industrialized countries is that in these countries .

单选题A: Why didn't Tom give you one of his paintings? B：______

单选题Although interior design has existed since the beginning of architecture, its development into a specialized field is really quite recent. Interior designers have become important partly because of the many functions that might be (61) in a single large building. The importance of interior design becomes (62) when we realize how much time we (63) surrounded by four walls. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be (64) attractive and comfortable as possible. We also expect (65) place to be appropriate to its use. You would be (66) if the inside of your bedroom were suddenly changed to look (67) the inside of a restaurant. And you wouldn't feel (68) in a business office that has the appearance of a school. It soon becomes clear that the interior designer's most important (69) is the function of the particular (70) . For example, a theater with poor sight lines, poor sound-shaping qualities, and (71) few entries and exits will not work for (72) purpose, no matter how beautifully it might be (73) . Nevertheless, it is not easy to make suitable (74) for different kinds of space, lighting and decoration of everything from ceiling to floor. (75) addition, the designer must usually select furniture or design built-in furniture according to the functions that need to be served.

单选题Woman: What seems to be the problem? Man: Well, I understand the lectures, but I get mixed up when I try to read the book. Question: What does the man mean?

单选题It is difficult to comprehend, but everything you have ever seen, smelt, heard or felt is merely your brain's {{U}}interpretation{{/U}} of incoming stimuli.

单选题His laziness makes it impossible for him to ______ success.