单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} Every year New Zealanders living in London can be seen loading up Kombi vans and heading off to experience the "classic European holiday". The trip usually starts in the north of France, after crossing the channel from Dover in England to Calais, driving down through France, over the Pyrenees into Spain, west into Portugal and then across the Continent to Italy and often beyond. There are numerous reasons young New Zealanders take this rite of passage—as well as seeing all the fantastic sights and tasting the delights of Europe's food and wine, it's relatively inexpensive. The Kombi is transport and accommodation all in one, cutting down significantly on costs. There is just one problem. As the Kombis become "antique", these trips are usually punctuated with numerous roadside sessions as the van sits idle, in no hurry to start, while you swelter in the hot sun. But do not let this deter you. Travelling Europe in your own vehicle means no public transport schedules to cramp your style, the ability to explore the quaint, off-the-beaten-track villages where the "real" locals live, freedom to not have to book accommodation in advance—you can nearly always get a campsite and can load your vehicle with cheap, fantastic regional wines and souvenirs. With these bonuses in mind, here are some suggestions for planning the great Europe road adventure. The key to a pleasurable driving experience is a good navigator and a driver with a cool head. If you do not feel relaxed driving around New Zealand's cities and highways, then you probably will not enjoy driving around Europe. As copilot to the driver, you need to read (and understand) maps, look out for turn-offs—and keep the music playing. Language is not a big problem once a few essential terms are mastered. The biggest challenge is in the cities, where traffic can be chaotic, and elaborate one-way systems and narrow, cobbled alleyways can make finding your destination hard work. It can be easier to leave the vehicle on the outskirts of town or in a camping ground and use public transport. This also avoids paying for costly parking.

单选题As the case of Amitar Ray and his family exemplifies, professional immigrants are among the most rapidly ______ first because of their occupational success and second because of the absence of strong ethnic networks that reinforce the culture of origin.

单选题Human beings are animals. We breathe, eat and digest, and reproduce the same life (21) common to all animals. In a biological laboratory rats, monkeys, and humans seem very much the same. However, biological understanding is not enough: (22) itself, it can never tell us what human beings are. (23) to our physical equipment the naked human body--we are not an (24) animal. We are tropical creatures, (25) hairless and sensitive to cold. We are not fast and have neither claws nor sharp teeth to defend ourselves. We need a lot of food but have almost no physical equipment to help us get it. In the purely physical (26) , our species seems a poor (27) for survival. But we have survived--survived and multiplied and (28) the earth. Some day we will have a (29) living on the moon, a place with neither air nor water and with temperatures that turn gases into solids. How can we have done all these things? Part of the answer is physical. (30) its limitations, our physical equipment has some important (31) . We have excellent vision and hands that can (30) objects with a precision unmatched by any other (33) . Most importantly, we have a large brain with an almost (34) number of neural (35) .

单选题The selection says that every animal is a living radiator because it ______.

单选题Our program is different ______ it stresses the technical skills that business and industry seek as they incorporate the internet into their enterprise systems.

单选题As the trial went on, the story behind the murder slowly ______ itself.

单选题The assessment center gives each applicant the opportunity to ______ whether they are suited to the work.

单选题Not all persons arrested and______with a crime are guilty, and the main function of criminal courts is to determine who is guilty under the law.

单选题On Christmas Eve in America the shopping malls are Usaturated/U with shoppers in a frantic competition for last minute gifts.

单选题In various parts of the world, the devout participate enthusiastically in public procession during the major events of the liturgical year.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} There are twenty blanks in the following passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the right word or phrase from the choices given below for each of the blanks. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. Critics of early schooling cite research that questions whether 4-year-old children are ready to take on formal learning. Educators find that {{U}}(21) {{/U}} toddlers are more likely to succeed during. their school careers. {{U}}(22) {{/U}} their younger counterparts are more likely to {{U}}(23) {{/U}}. Kindergarten children who turn five during the {{U}}(24) {{/U}} half of the year seem to be at a disadvantage when it {{U}}(25) {{/U}} physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development. Additionally, children who are nearly six when they enter kindergarten {{U}}(26) {{/U}} to receive better grades and score higher on achievement {{U}}(27) {{/U}} throughout their schooling experience {{U}}(28) {{/U}} do those who begin kindergarten having just turned five. Being bright and verbally skillful and being ready for school do not seem to be the {{U}}(29) {{/U}} thing. It is easy to confuse the superficial poise and sophistication of many of today's children {{U}}(30) {{/U}} inner maturity. Indeed, evidence suggests that early schooling boomerangs: Youngsters {{U}}(31) {{/U}} parents push them to attain academic success in preschool are less creative, have {{U}}(32) {{/U}} anxiety about tests, and, by the end of kindergarten, fall to maintain their initial academic advantage {{U}}(33) {{/U}} their less-pressured peers. Many psychologists and educators remain skeptical of approaches that place 4-year-olds in a formal educational setting. They question {{U}}(34) {{/U}} environmental enrichment can significantly alter the built-in developmental timetable of a child reared in a non-disadvantaged home. They do not deny, however, the {{U}}(35) {{/U}} of day-care centers and nursery schools that provide a homelike environment and allow children {{U}}(36) {{/U}} freedom to play, develop at their own {{U}}(37) {{/U}} , and evolve their social skills. But they point out that many of the things children once did in first grade are now {{U}}(38) {{/U}} of them in kindergarten, and they worry lest more and more will now be asked of 4- year-olds. These psychologists and educators believe we are driving young children too {{U}}(39) {{/U}} and thereby depriving them of their {{U}}(40) {{/U}}.

单选题Question 16-20 ale based On the following dialogue：

单选题After you've start to master the techniques, the real struggle is just beginning. It's______that makes you great. A. persistence B. insistence C. continuation D. mentality

单选题In the United States and many other countries around the world, there are four main ways for people to be 41 about developments in the news: newspapers, magazines, and radio or television news broadcasts. A person may use one, or all, of these 42 for information. Each source is useful in its 43 way. Newspapers and magazines can give much information about a particular event. They may 44 some history of the event, some of its 45 , some of its effects, or perhaps give a(n) 46 or point of view on a particular development. Radio and television can help a person to be well informed about what is happening each day. It is also 47 to listen to radio or watch TV 48 do something else at the same time. Many people can listen to the news on their car radio while driving 49 . For the student of English as a foreign language, an English language newspaper may be the most helpful news source that will also 50 you practice in reading English. Most daily English language newspapers are not very hard to find. They are interesting and helpful in many 51 . In some of them, you may be able to find news about your 52 country. You will find news and information about important national and international political 53 . 54 what you are interested in, you can probably find something in the newspaper about it. A(n) 55 in the newspaper may help you solve a problem. Other stories may be about good movies, concerts, or TV shows. Usually, an English language newspaper has several 56 or parts. Each part of the newspaper 57 stories about different kinds of news. Some sections have a lot of advertisements which may be helpful if you want to save money. By reading the advertisements, you may find something you want 58 sale. Or you may find that two stories axe advertising the 59 thing, but at one store the price is lower. Other sections may have 60 . advertisements or have only a specific type of advertisement to interest the people.

单选题The repression in the Netherlands, instead of solving a crucial problem, elicited bitter criticism from every major European state. Alba was unrepentant about his tough policy convinced that the population must remain in a state of fear, so that every individual has the feeling that one fine night or morning the house will fall in on him. Of the leading dissidents who escaped from Alba's hands, only William of Orange remained. Tall, dark-haired, with a small moustache and a short peaked beard, the prince of Orange-Nassau was aged thirty-five at the moment that fortune left him in the unenviable role of defender of his country. A comrade-in-arms of Philip during the latter's years abroad in mid-century, he never made a secret of his concern for the privileges of his class or of his dislike for religious dogmatism. Widowed in 1558, in 1561 he married Anne, the Lutheran daughter of the late Maurice of Saxony. The marriage, celebrated in Leipzig, gave him a useful link with the princes of the Holy Roman Empire. When news came of Alba's departure from Spain, Orange opportunely took refuge in Germany. it became clear that the only way to regain the Netherlands was by the use of arms. In the course of 1568 Orange sponsored invasions by several small forces, which entered from France and from Germany. All were defeated. Captured prisoners gave details of Orange's links with Protestants in several countries. The invasions could not fail to affect the fate of the distinguished prisoners in Alba's hands. On 5 June 1568, in the public square of Brussels, the counts of Egmont and Homes were beheaded for high treason. The executions shocked opinion throughout Europe. The two nobles, as knights of the Golden Fleece, could be tried only by their peers. But Philip, grand master of the order, had cleared the way for the trial by a special patent which he had drawn up in April 1567 and sent to Alba in December. There is no doubt that Philip considered Egmont responsible for much of the trouble in Flanders, but the pressure for an exemplary punishment came rather from the members of his council, particularly [it seems] from cardinal Espinosa. Alba had always regretted the need to arrest the two counts, whom "I have always loved and esteemed as my own brothers." According to some, he was reluctant to proceed to execution. Philip wrote formally to Alba: "I very deeply regret that the offenses of the counts were so serious that they called for the punishment that has been carried out." The remorse, which came too late, was probably sincere. The counts were victims of a political crisis. Their names, interestingly enough, continued to be held in honour at the Spanish court. A book on the events of Flanders published in Castile a few years later, when all books had to be licensed by the royal council, referred to them as "outstanding princes, well loved and of the highest and finest character./

单选题Angus Graham is the person who can advise you best. ____, he is coming here tomorrow.

单选题In the______of the project not being a success, the investors stand to lose up to $ 30 million.

单选题The history of African-Americans during the past 400 years is traditionally narrated (21) an ongoing straggle against (22) and indifference on the part of the American mainstream, and a straggle (23) as an upward movement is (24) toward ever more justice and opportunity. Technology in and of (25) is not at fault; it's much too simple to say that gunpowder or agricultural machinery or fiber optics (26) been the enemy of an (27) group of people. A certain machine is put (28) work in a certain way-the purpose (29) which it was designed. The people who design the machines are not intent on unleashing chaos; they are usually trying to (30) a task more quickly, cleanly, or cheaply, (31) the imperative of innovation and efficiency that has ruled Western civilization (32) the Renaissance. Mastery of technology is second only (33) money as the true measure of accomplishment in this country, and it is very likely that by (34) this under-representation in the technological realm, and by not questioning and examining the folkways that have (35) it, blacks are allowing (36) to be kept out of the mainstream once again. This time, however, they will be (37) from the greatest cash engine of the twenty-first century. Inner-city blacks in particular are in danger, and the beautiful suburbs (38) ring the decay of Hartford, shed the past and learn to exist without contemplating or encountering the tragedy of the inner city. And blacks must change as well. The ways that (39) their ancestors through captivity and coming to freedom have begun to loose their utility. If blacks (40) to survive as full participants in this society, they have to understand what works now.

单选题Death ensued as a result of suffocation. A. heart failure B. an accident C. disease D. asphyxiation

单选题{{B}}Passage 3{{/B}} The need for solar electricity is clear, it is safe, ecologically sound, efficient, continuously available, and is has no moving parts. The basic problem with the use of solar photovoltaic devices is economics, but until recently very little progress has been made toward the development of low-cost photovoltaic devices. The larger part of research funding has been devoted to study of single-crystal silicon solar cells, despite the evidence, including that of the leading manufacturers of crystalline silicon, that the technique holds little promise. The reason for this pattern is understandable and historical. Crystalline silicon is the active element in the very successful semiconductor industry, and virtually all of the solid state devices contain silicon transistors and diodes. Crystalline silicon, however, is particularly unsuitable to terrestrial solar cells. Crystalline silicon solar cells work well and are successfully used in the space program, where cost is not an issue. While single crystal silicon has been proven in extraterrestrial use with efficiencies as high as 18 percent, and other more expensive and scarce materials such as gallium arsenide can have even higher efficiencies, costs must be reduced by a factor of more than 100 to make them practical for commercial use. Beside the fact that the starting crystalline silicon is expensive, 95 percent of it is wasted and does not appear in the final device. Recently, there have been some imaginative attempts to make polycrystalline and ribbon silicon, which are lower in cost than high-quality single crystals. But to date the efficiencies of these apparently lower-cost arrays have been unacceptably small. Moreover, these materials are cheaper only because of the introduction of disordering in crystalline semiconductors, and disorder degrades the efficiency of crystalline solar cells. This dilemma can be avoided hy preparing completely disordered or amorphous materials. Amorphous materials have disordered atomic structure as compared to crystalline materials. That is, they have only short-range order rather than the long-range periodicity of crystals. The advantages of amorphous solar cells are impressive. Whereas crystals can be grown as wafers about four inches in diameter, amorphous materials can be grown over large areas in a single process. Whereas crystalline silicon must be made 200 microns thick to absorb a sufficient, amount of sunlight for efficient energy conversion, only I micron of the proper amorphous materials is necessary. Crystalline silicon solar cells cost in excess of $100 per square foot, but amorphous films can be created at a cost of about 50 per square foot. Although many scientists were aware of the very low cost of amorphous solar cells, they felt that they could never be manufactured with the efficiencies necessary to contribute significantly to the demand for electric power. This was based on a misconception about the feature which determines efficiency. For example, it is not the conductivity of the material in the dark which is relevant, but only the photoconductivity, that is the conductivity in the presence of sunlight. Already, solar cells with efficiencies well above 6 percent have been developed using amorphous materials, and further research will doubtless find even less costly amorphous materials with higher efficiencies.