单选题That wretched woman, what she went through God knows.

单选题A: Are you feeling better now?B: ______

单选题Speaker A: _____________. Speaker B: You’d better look before you leap.

单选题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. {{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Loneliness has been linked to depression and other health problems. Now, a study says it can also spread. A friend of a lonely person was 52% more likely to develop feelings of loneliness. And a friend of that friend was 25% more likely to do the same. Earlier findings showed that happiness, fatness and the ability to stop smoking can also grow like infections within social groups. The findings all come from a major health study in the American town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 to investigate the causes of heart disease. Since then, more tests have been added, including measures of loneliness and depression. The new findings involved more than 5,000 people in the second generation of the Framingham Heart Study. The researchers examined friendship histories and reports of loneliness. The results established a pattern that spread as people reported fewer close friends. For example, loneliness can affect relationships between next-door neighbors. The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together. The study also found that loneliness spreads more easily among women than men. Researchers from the University of Chicago, Harvard and the University of California, San Diego, did the study. The findings appeared last month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The average person is said to experience feelings of loneliness about 48 days a year. The study found that having a lonely friend can add about 17 days. But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about 5%, or two and a half days. Lonely people become less and less trusting of others. This makes it more and more difficult for them to make friends—and more likely that society will reject them. John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago led the study. He says it is important to recognize and deal with loneliness. He says people who have been pushed to the edges of society should receive help to repair their social networks. The aim should be to aggressively create what he calls a "protective barrier" against loneliness. This barrier, he says, can keep the whole network from coming apart.

单选题A: Your sister seems to be a bit under the weather. B: ______

单选题In the twentieth century new drugs have markedly improved health throughout the world.

单选题Some countries urgently need competent people to ______ a concept of development based on modernization.

单选题There is a controversy even among doctors as to whether this disease is {{U}}contagious{{/U}} or not.

单选题The author thinks that Dr. Lit's findings ______.

单选题The number of permanent crew on the International Space Station will be increased, and possibly doubled, from 2006 by providing it with an extra "lifeboat". The move, announced in Japan last week by the ISS partner nations, means the space station crew will at last be able to do useful scientific research. The number of crew on the ISS has been limited to three by the capacity of the Russian Soyuz capsules that would return them to Earth in an emergency. But running the ISS requires the full-time attention of more than two crew members, leaving just half the time of one of the crew free for research. This is woefully inadequate, and a NASA-commissioned report concluded in July that no meaningful research is possible with a three-person crew. NASA originally planned to replace the Soyuz rescue capsule with a seven-person "crew return vehicle", which would have allowed the ISS to carry a significantly larger permanent crew. But faced with a $ 5 billion budget overrun, the agency cancelled the project last year. Then last month NASA announced plans for an orbital spaceplane as a successor to the ageing fleet of space shuttles. This could double as a rescue vehicle for at least six people, but it will not be ready until 2010. Waiting for the spaceplane could be a big problem as Soyuz capsules have only a six-month lifespan and the Russian agreement to supply them expires in 2006. This could leave a four-year gap with no guaranteed rescue vehicle for the ISS, and hence no crew. Russia has already warned that cash shortages could force it to stop making the capsules. If the cash can be raised, however, the new plan is to permanently station two Soyuz capsules at the ISS, raising the rescue capacity to six. The ISS's Russian-built modules have three ports where Soyuz can dock, one of which is usually used for uncrewed cargo modules.

单选题Cases of cyber- ______ have been increasing as a result of the diversification of frauds' tricks.

单选题Woman: I'd rather not talk about it. Just don't ask. Man: Come on, I think you need to let off some steam. Question: What does the man advise the woman to do?

单选题Man: I think I'll have the curtains changed! Woman: They are a bit worn. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题His writing displays the diversities of human character and capacity.

单选题Woman: Anne says she'll be visiting us on Friday.Man: I suppose that'll be the last we'll see her until she comes back to college in the fall.Question: What time does the conversation probably take place?

单选题The gold medal was ______ to Mr. Smith for his excellent performance in the play.

单选题What do we learn about Nicola Horlick?

单选题Many troubles ______ from this misunderstanding.

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{{U}} (56) {{/U}}in a single large building. The importance of interior design becomes{{U}} (57) {{/U}}when we realize how much time we{{U}} (58) {{/U}}surrounded by four walls. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be{{U}} (59) {{/U}}attractive and comfortable as possible. We also expect{{U}} (60) {{/U}}place to be appropriate to its use. You would be{{U}} (61) {{/U}}if the inside of your bedroom were suddenly changed to look{{U}} (62) {{/U}}the inside of a restaurant. And you wouldn't feel{{U}} (63) {{/U}}in a business office that has the appearance of a school. It soon becomes clear that the interior designer's most important{{U}} (64) {{/U}}is the function of the particular{{U}} (65) {{/U}}. For example, a theater with poor sight lines, poor sound-shaping qualities, and{{U}} (66) {{/U}}few entries and exits will not work for{{U}} (67) {{/U}}purpose, no matter how beautifully it might be{{U}} (68) {{/U}}. Nevertheless, it is not easy to make suitable{{U}} (69) {{/U}}for different kinds of space, lighting and decoration of everything from ceiling to floor. {{U}}(70) {{/U}}addition, the designer must usually select furniture or design built-in furniture according to the functions that need to be served.

单选题The representative of the committee was asked to Uverify/U his earlier statement.