单选题They are newcomers and (don't realize) (what) (takes it) to start and (run)a business here.

单选题There isn't sound Uproof/U to support his biological theory.

单选题Man: Hello. This is Mark Smith. I'm calling to see if my blood test results are in. Woman: Dr. Miller just sent them to the lab last night, so the earliest they could be back tomorrow. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题He is a very ______character; he is never relaxed with strangers.

单选题A: You have a call on line one. B: ______.

单选题The agency's ruling crippled their plans.

单选题We shouldn't treat children as peers or friends, but guide them in making their choices, even if it means with some {{U}}discipline{{/U}}.

单选题Man: Did you speak to the famous star?Woman: I wanted to, but I was dumb and deaf when I was face to face with him.Question: What happened to the woman when she met the famous star?

单选题Scientists created a (brainy), four-legged robot (resemble) a starfish that can sense (damage) to its body, and (think up) a way to recover.

单选题Although Graham spent years (struggle) against the disapproval (of audiences) who disliked and (ridiculed her work), the power and substance of her unique vision proved in the end (to be undeniable).

单选题The journalist, unfortunately, ______ a long time to send these important facts to the editor.

单选题I've only recently explored Shakespeare with profit and pleasure.

单选题In most states in Europe, the curriculum is initially and largely determined at national level.

单选题Only when (he realized) that there (would be) more (difficulties) ahead than he expected (he came to) me for help.A. he realizedB. would beC. difficultiesD. he came to

单选题Successful leaders ______ events rather than react to them.

单选题Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of what is conceived to be reality .

单选题A: Operator, I'd like you to put me through to room 302.B: ______

单选题A: I don't know what I'd have done without you.B: ______

单选题The jury's ______ was that the accused was guilty.

单选题{{B}}{{I}}Directions{{/B}}: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring {{B}}ANSWER SHEET{{/B}}.{{/I}} {{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Many things make people think artists are weird—the odd hours, the nonconformity, the clove cigarettes. However, the weirdest may be this: artists' only jobs are to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel lousy. This wasn't always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th(上标) century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring. In the 20th(上标) century, classical music became more atonal, visual art more unsettling. Sure, there have been exceptions, but it would not be a stretch to say that for the past century or so, serious art has been at war with happiness. In 1824, Beethoven completed his "Ode to Joy". In 1962, novelist Anthoy Burgess used it in A Clockwork Orange as the favorite music of his ultra-violent antihero. You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But the reason may actually be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Today the messages that the average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and relentlessly happy. Since these messages have an agenda—to prey our wallets from our pockets—they make the very idea of happiness seem bogus(假的). "Celebrate!" commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attack. What we forget—what our economy depends on us forgetting—is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us that it is OK not to be happy, that sadness makes happiness deeper. As the wine-connoisseur movie Sideways tells us, it is the kiss of decay and mortality that makes grape juice into Pinot Norway need art to tell us, as religion once did, that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, is a breath of fresh air.