单选题I would like to express my ______ to you all for supporting me this summer as a visiting scholar in your department.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Pictures in the British papers this week of Prince William, Prince Charles's 18-year-old son, cleaning toilets overseas, have led to a surge of altruism (利他主义). Raleigh International, the charity that organized his trip, has seen inquiries about voluntary work abroad rise by 30%. But the image of idealistic youth that William presents no longer reflects the reality of the volunteer force. It's getting older and older. Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) has about 2,000 volunteers in the field around the world. After a dip in interest in the mid-1990s, applications to work abroad are at record levels. Last year 7, 645 people submitted applications, and 920 successfully negotiated the VSO selection process and were sent abroad. When the organization was founded in 1959, the average volunteer was in his early 20s. Now, the average age is 35, and set to rise further. Partly, that is because there are more older people who want to do VSO. More people take early retirement; more, says the chief executive of VSO, "still feel that they have more to give and are in good health". And the demands of the African and Asian countries where most of the volunteers go are changing, too. Their educational standards have risen over the past couple of decades, so they want people with more qualifications, skills and experience. BESO (British Executive Service Overseas) recruits executives and businessmen with at least 15 years' experience for short-term contract work overseas. It organizes 500 placements (工作安置) a year, and at the moment supply is surpassing demand. A BESO spokesman said that the organization is "limited by funding rather than a lack of volunteers". Enthusiastic but unqualified students do not impress as much as they once did alongside accountants, managers and doctors. The typical volunteer, these days, has been in full-time employment for at least five years and is highly qualified. And the profession which provides the biggest portion of volunteers is education—headmasters and school inspectors as well as classroom teachers.

单选题The Adult Vocational College is an opportunity to gain the right qualifications for various careers, for it offers an ______ range of subjects and courses.

单选题The parents of the bride ______ my presence at the wedding as we had been neighbors for years.

单选题Man: Prof. Johnson sure was acting strangely today. Woman: I noticed that too. He was talking so quietly and then not giving us any homework. Can you believe that? Question: What can be inferred about Prof. Johnson?

单选题In the months and years that followed as I Utransit/U the Northwest Passage, I came to accept such surprises as commonplace.

单选题Senior citizens are advised to {{U}}go in for{{/U}} some creative activities to keep themselves mentally young.

单选题Man: Congratulations! I heard your field hockey team is going to the mid-Atlantic cham-pionships! Woman: Yeah] Now we're all working hard to get ready for our game tomorrow. Question: What will the woman probably do this afternoon?

单选题One of the most widely discussed subjects these days is energy crisis. Automobile drivers cannot get gasoline; homeowners may not get enough heating oil; factories are (56) by a fuel shortage. The crisis has (57) questions about the large oil companies and windfall (58) . Critics of the oil industry charge that the major companies are getting richer because of the oil shortage. Shortage, of course, drives prices up. As oil prices rise, the critics say, the oil companies will make more money (windfall profits) without doing a thing to (59) the extra cash. "Windfall" profits are sudden unearned profits-profits made (60) luck, or some special turn of events. The word itself tells what "windfall" means-- something blown down by the wind, such as trees, or fruit (61) from trees. But the word has taken on a special meaning. This meaning (getting something unearned) was first used in medieval England. This is (62) it started: at that time much of the land was in the hands of (63) barons. The rest of the people, commoners, lived and worked on their vast estates. They planted the seed, cared for the farm animals and harvested the crops. Not all the land, however, was used for farming. Every baron kept a large private forest for (64) deer and wild bear. When hungry, the people sometimes would kill the animals in the lord's forest for food. And there were times (65) they might cut down trees for fuel. So, strong laws were passed to protect the forests, and the animals. Violations were severely (66) . But there was one way people could get wood from the forest. If they found trees blown down by the wind ("windfall") they were free to take them for use as fuel in their homes. And that is the meaning that has come down to us-something good gotten by luck or (67) . The common people of old England, often hungry and cold, must often have prayed for a good strong wind. Critics today (68) that the oil industry has also been praying for something just like it -some political or military (69) that might produce a windfall-- a rise in oil prices and profits. The oil companies deny that this is so. In Congress, critics of the oil companies have proposed a (70) on such profits. The debate on rising oil price will go on for some time, and most likely we will hear more and more about windfall profits.

单选题The Chinese government reiterates that Taiwan is China's ______ and the question of Taiwan is China's internal affair.

单选题A: Are there any seats left for the opera on Saturday night?B: ______

单选题Now about half of the women who work in social {{U}}welfare{{/U}} are part-time, as compared to 38% in the private sector.

单选题 Inflation is a period of rapid rises in prices. When your money buys fewer goods so that you get {{U}}(56) {{/U}} for the same amount of money as before, inflation is the problem. Sometimes people describe inflation as a time when "a dollar is not {{U}}(57) {{/U}} a dollar anymore". Inflation is a problem for all consumers, especially people who live on a fixed income. Retired people, for instance, cannot {{U}}(58) {{/U}} on an increase in income as prices rise. They face serious problems in stretching their incomes to {{U}}(59) {{/U}} their needs in time of inflation. Many retired people must cut their spending to {{U}}(60) {{/U}} rising prices. In many cases they must stop {{U}}(61) {{/U}} some necessary items, such as food and clothing. Even {{U}}(62) {{/U}} working people whose incomes are going up, inflation can also be a problem. The {{U}}(63) {{/U}} of living goes up, and they must have even more money to maintain their standard of living. When incomes do not keep {{U}}(64) {{/U}} with rising prices, living standard goes down. People may be earning the same amount of money, but they are not living {{U}}(65) {{/U}} because they are not able to buy as many goods and services. Government units gather information about prices in our economy and publish it as price indexes {{U}}(66) {{/U}} the rate of price change can be determined. A price index measures changes in prices using the price for a {{U}}(67) {{/U}} year as the base. The base price is set {{U}}(68) {{/U}} 100, and the other prices are reported as a {{U}}(69) {{/U}} of the base price. A price index makes {{U}}(70) {{/U}} possible to compare current price with that in previous years.

单选题The young man asked his parents not to worry because he was full of optimism about his career.

单选题Actor Pierce Brosnan may play the deadly super spy in the movies, but in real life he is a ______ father and a loving husband.

单选题A: Look, I'm sorry to bother you about this, but this wall between our rooms is not very soundproof and I'm doing my revison for the final exam.B: ______ .

单选题(Overseas) travel sounds (excited) and sometimes (exotic) but not everyone can afford (it).