单选题Two trucks were reported to have______head-on yesterday.

单选题______ this coming Thursday, it will be too late to enroll for the course. A. As of B. As for C. As to D. As on

单选题A plane is a______and so is a car.

单选题Culture in general A is concerned with beliefs and values B on the basis of that people interpret experiences and behave, individually and in groups. C Broadly and simply put , "culture" refers to a group or community D with which you share common experiences that shape the way you understand the world.

单选题Sports, and not learning, seem to ______ in that school.

单选题Diana made a lot of effort to persuade her parents into ______ to her going to the United States to study business administration in MIT.

单选题In New York City ______ has highly restrictive guidelines for ______ police may use their guns, the number of people shot by local cops soared in the past three years from 68 to 108.

单选题The designer has applied for a ______ for his new invention. A. tariff B. discount C. version D. patent

单选题The "chronic reference doses" (in boldface in Paragraph 3) refer to ______.

单选题There are few, if any, countries in the world in which sports ______ national life to the degree that they do in the US.

单选题Any troop of wild animals should be approached warily .

单选题Questions 27—30 are based on the passage about Isadora Duncan, a famous dancer. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 27—30.

单选题Theories have features that are (indicative) of their truth, and the. task of justification is to identify these features and (using them) to guide choices (as to) (which theories) to believeA. indicativeB. using themC. as toD. which theories

单选题The members of parliament were ______ that the government had not consulted them.

单选题The trouble seems to be that income tax is progressive, so that the richer you get, the less rich you are than ______.

单选题{{B}}阅读理解二{{/B}} {{B}}Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.{{/B}} Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard's chief executive, came out fighting on November 14th. In a conference call with analysts, she announced better-than-expected quarterly results, even though profits were down. Ms Fiorina also reiterated why she believes her $24 billion plan to acquire Compaq is the best way forward for HP, despite objections by Hewlett and Packard family members. Last week Walter Hewlett, whose father co-founded the company, expressed concern that the merger would increase HP's exposure to the shrinking PC market and would distract managers from the more important task of navigating through the recession. There are two ways to defend the deal. One is to point out its advantages, which is what Ms Fiorina did this week. Merging with Compaq, she said, would enable HP to reach its goals faster than it could on its own. The deal would improve HP's position in key markets such as storage and high-end computing, as well as the economics of its PC business. It would double the size of HP's sales force and broaden its customer base, providing more potential clients for its services and consulting arms. It would improve cashflow, margins and efficiency by adding "breadth and depth" to HP. "Having spent the last several months planning the integration of these two companies, we are even more convinced of the power of this combination," Ms Fiorina concluded. It sounds too good to be true, and it almost certainly is. But the other way to defend the deal is to point out that, even if it was a bad idea to start with, abandoning it could be even worse—a view that, unsurprisingly, Ms Fiorina chose not to advance, but is being quietly put forward by the deal's supporters. Scrapping the merger would be extremely painful for a number of reasons. Since the executive teams of both firms have committed themselves to the deal, they would be utterly discredited if it fell apart, and would probably have to go. Under the terms of the merger agreement, HP might have to pay Compaq as much as $675m if it backed out. The two firms would be considerably weakened; they would also be rivals again, despite having shared confidential technical and marketing information with each other over the past few months. In short, it would all be horribly messy. What can be done to save the deal? Part of the problem is that HP has no plan B. "They need a brand-recovery effort immediately," says one industry analyst. HP must give the impression that it is strong and vital, rather than desperate, and that its future is not dependent on the deal going forward. That could make the merger look more attractive and bring investors back on board. This week's results will certainly help. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which owns just over one-tenth of HP's shares, will decide whether to back the merger in the next few weeks, and HP's shareholders are to vote on it early next year. The more credible HP's plan B, the less likely it is that it will be needed.

单选题Very few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered because its subject was very ______. A. obscure B. indefinite C. dubious D. intriguing