单选题A survey of more than 1,000 philosophers, teachers and students by the authoritative Philosophers' Magazine placed Charles Darwin's The Origin of ______ as the third most important work.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Entrepreneurs are everybody's darlings these days. They may be small, but they are innovative. And innovation, we are assured, is the main engine of economic growth. For policymakers everywhere, the task is to get the little critters to nest and breed. Give them the conditions they like--plenty of venture capital, tax breaks and a risk-taking culture—and the sun will shine on all of us, just like in California. Along comes Amar Bhide to tell us most of this is plain wrong. Entrepreneurs, he asserts, are not risk-takers at all. Nor do most of them innovate, or depend on venture capital. His findings are striking enough. Start with his assertion that entrepreneurs are not innovators or risk-takers. The vast majority of new businesses, he points out, start small and stay that way. These are the hairdressing salons, corner shops and landscape gardeners. Those are mature, predictable industries. For just that reason, they are the least profitable. The success stories come in areas of high uncertainty, where markets are changing fast because of technology, regulation or fashion. A very large proportion, unsurprisingly, are in computing. But Mr. Bhide insists they are rarely innovative. The people who start high-growth businesses take a humdrum idea, usually from someone else, then change it constantly to fit the market. The starting point is much less important than what happens next. Nor are they risk-takers. These are typically young people, with no money, expertise or status. They have nothing to lose. Risk arrives later on, when they have made their pile and must decide whether to invest in long-term growth or sell out. This is one reason why so few promising start-ups become a Dell or Microsoft. Taking planned, calculated risks is the job of big, established companies, Mr. Bhide argues. True entrepreneurs rarely have the temperament for it. What they have, instead, is a high tolerance for ambiguity--defined as knowledge that you know you do not have. Few of Mr. Bhide's interviewees began with any kind of business plan. That would have been a waste of time: the future was simply too uncertain. Therein lay their opportunity. Big companies may be happy with risk, but they cannot stand ambiguity. They can invest billions in a chip plant or oil field, but only when they know the odds. When the odds are unknown, entrepreneurs have the game to themselves.

单选题{{B}}Part Ⅳ Cloze{{/B}}{{B}}{{I}}Directions{{/B}}: In this part, there is a passage with twenty blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter on your {{B}}ANSWER SHEET{{/B}} with a single line through the center.{{/I}} There is virtually no limit to how one can serve community interests, from spending a few hours a week with some charitable organization to practically fulltime work for a social agency. Just as there are opportunities for voluntary service {{U}}(71) {{/U}} (VSO) for young people before they take up full-time employment, {{U}}(72) {{/U}} there are opportunities for overseas service for {{U}}(73) {{/U}} technicians in developing countries. Some people, {{U}}(74) {{/U}} those who retire early, {{U}}(75) {{/U}} their technical and business skills in countries {{U}}(76) {{/U}} there is a special need. So in considering voluntary or {{U}}(77) {{/U}} community service there are more opportunities than there {{U}}(78) {{/U}}were when one first began work. Most voluntary organizations have only a small fulltime {{U}}(79) {{/U}} , And depend very much on volunteers and part-timers. This means that working relationships are different from those in commercial organizations, and values may be different. {{U}}(80) {{/U}} some ways they may seem more casual and less efficient, but one should not {{U}}(81) {{/U}} them by commercial criteria. The people who work with them do so for different reasons and with different {{U}}(82) {{/U}} , both personal and {{U}}(83) {{/U}} . One should not join them {{U}}(84) {{/U}} to arm them with professional expertise; they must be joined with commitment to the {{U}}(85) {{/U}} , not business efficiency. Because salaries are {{U}}(86) {{/U}} or non-existent many voluntary bodies offer modest expenses. But many retired people take part in community service for {{U}}(87) {{/U}} , simply because they enjoy the work. Many community activities possible {{U}}(88) {{/U}} retirement were also possible during one's working life but they are to be undertaken {{U}}(89) {{/U}} seriously for that. Retired people who are just looking for something different or unusual to do should not consider {{U}}(90) {{/U}} community service.

单选题The ______ of the computer changed people's life greatly.

单选题The mother is told that her child is desperately ill—the chances of survival are slim, and treatment is as Udreadful/U as the disease.

单选题He Umerely/U meant to give his opinion, not to start an argument.

单选题Flu shots are given every fall as a precaution against an epidemic the following winter.

单选题Among all societies legal marriage is usually accompanied by some kind of ceremony that expresses group {{U}}sanction{{/U}} of the union.

单选题A: Do you feel like doing anything this weekend, Jerry?B: ______

单选题(Annoying) at the long check-out lines, the shopper began (to sigh) loudly, tap his (foot), and (glance) at his watch.

单选题The animates would charge no matter how badly wounded, and in their death struggles, bellowing and rolling from side to side, they seemed to refuse to die.

单选题The military move was to integrate the West German divisions into the Atlantic defense system.

单选题It is important for families to {{U}}observe{{/U}} their traditions even as their children get older.

单选题Researchers believe one way (to minimizing) (the damage) is to get (better) at (predicting) the risk of fire.

单选题(In spite of) the ever-increasing exploitation of natural resources, (that) has now reached dangerous proportion, (little) has been done on a (world-wide) scale to slow down or stop this process.A. In spite ofB. thatC. littleD. world-wide

单选题Woman. Henry, your article in the campus news was excellent. Man: I only wish they had published the entire thing. Question: What do we learn from Henry's response?

单选题His ambition was to ______ his father and become a member of parliament.

单选题The police are good persons to turn to Uin case of/U trouble, especially in big cities.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} The job was done, and it was time for a last cigarette. Eddie began tapping the pockets of his overalls, looking for the new packet of Marlboro he bought that morning. It was not there. It was as he swung around to look in his toolbox for the cigarettes that Eddie saw the lump. Right in the middle of the brand new bright red carpet, there was a lump. A lump the size of a packet of cigarettes. "I've done it again? said Eddie angrily. "I've left the cigarettes under the carpet? He had done this once before, and taking up and refitting the carpet had taken him two hours. Eddie was determined that he was not going to spend another two hours in this house. He decided to get rid of the lump another way. It would mean wasting a good packet of cigarettes, nearly full, but anything was better than taking up the whole carpet and fitting it again .He turned to his toolbox for a large hammer. Eddie didn't want to damage the carpet itself, so he took a block of wood and placed it on top of the lump. Then he began to beat the block of wood as hard as he could. He kept beating, hoping Mrs. Vanbrugh wouldn't hear the noise and come to see what he was doing. It would be difficult to explain why he was hammering the middle of her beautiful new carpet... The lump was beginning to flatten out. After three or four minutes, the job was finally finished. Eddie picked up his tools, and began to walk out to his car. Mrs. Vanbrugh accompanied him. She seemed a little worried about something. "Young man, while you were working today, you didn't by any chance see any sign of Armand, did you? Armand is my bird. I let him out of his cage, you see, this morning, and he's disappeared. He likes to walk around the house, and he usually just comes back to his cage after an hour or so and gets right in. Only today he didn't come back. He's never done such a thing before, it's most peculiar..." "No, madam, I haven't seen him anywhere," said Eddie, as he reached to start the car. And he saw his packet of Marlboro cigarettes on the panel, where he had left it at lunchtime.... And he remembered the lump in the carpet...