单选题 One country that is certain of the effect of films on tourism is Australia. The Tourist Office of Queensland say that Crocodile Dundee, {{U}} 61 {{/U}}Paul Hogan, made Australia the popular {{U}} 62 {{/U}}it is today. In the three years after Crocodile Dundee was {{U}} 63 {{/U}}, visitor numbers doubled. {{U}} 64 {{/U}}what makes people want to visit the place where a movie was filmed? In many cases the reason is {{U}} 65 {{/U}}the film makes audiences {{U}} 66 {{/U}}of the existence of a place. {{U}} 67 {{/U}}the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun was filmed in Phuket, Thailand, most Westerners had never heard of it. Today it is a major destination. Leonardo di Caprio's film The Beach has {{U}} 68 {{/U}}tourism in another part of Thailand. The film is about the discovery of the most idyllic beach in the world. As a result the Thai authorities are {{U}} 69 {{/U}}a tourist boom in the film's {{U}} 70 {{/U}},Koh Phi Phi. Some people are influenced by a movie's {{U}} 71 {{/U}}as much as its location, especially if it is a romance. Four Weddings and a Funeral has {{U}} 72 {{/U}}that" The Crown" hotel in Amersham has been busy ever {{U}} 73 {{/U}}the movie was first shown. In fact the bedroom where the {{U}} 74 {{/U}}played by Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell spend their first night together is {{U}} 75 {{/U}}for years ahead. "We've {{U}} 76 {{/U}}the number of marriage proposals that have been made there," say the hotel {{U}} 77 {{/U}}. It is not just the tourist boards who are happy {{U}} 78 {{/U}}the influence of films on a destination. Residents of a rather run down area of London have seen house prices almost double {{U}} 79 {{/U}}Julia Robert's romance with Hugh Grant in Notting Hill. Film stars, such as Madonna, who had previously thought of Notting Hill as a good place for a party, have now bought {{U}} 80 {{/U}}there. Perhaps they hope to revive their romances.

单选题This toothed whale has a large, square head with ______ the so-called spermaceti.

单选题______ may think they are better than the facts would justify. A. Optimists B. Pessimists C. Cynieists D. Humorists

单选题My friend's son, who is a soldier, was delighted when he was ____ only a few miles from home.

单选题Over the past century, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetize. This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet. It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zoe Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K. Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush's predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half. Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Ber-lusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chretien and Koizumi). The world's three top central bankers (Greenspan, Duisenberg and Hayami) are all close to the top of the alphabet, even if one of them really uses Japanese characters. As are the world's five richest men (Gates, Buffet, Allen, Ellison and Albrecht). Can this merely be coincidence? One theory, dreamt up in all the spare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged, is that the rot sets in early. At the start of the first year in infant school, teachers seat pupils alphabetically from the front, to make it easier to remember their names. So short-sighted Zysman junior gets stuck in the back row, and is rarely asked the improving questions posed by those insensitive teachers. At the time the alphabetically disadvantaged may think they have had a lucky escape. Yet the result may be worse qualifications, because they get less individual attention, as well as less confidence in speaking publicly. The humiliation continues. At university graduation ceremonies, the ABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans most people are literally having a ZZZ. Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.

单选题So far as the food industry is concerned, the processing of sheep and lambs is relatively ______ in the United States, accounting for only about 7 percent of meat-packing production.

单选题Assuming that a constant travel-time budget, geographic constraints and short-term infrastructure constraints persist as fundamental features of global mobility, what long-term results can one expect7 In high-income regions, (41) North America, our picture suggests that the share of traffic (42) sup plied by buses and automobiles will decline as high-speed transport rises sharply. In developing countries, we (43) the strongest increase to be in the shares first for buses and later for automobiles. Glob ally, these (44) in bus and automobile transport are partially offsetting. In all regions, the share of low-speed rail transport will probably continue its strongly (45) decline. We expect that throughout the period 1990—2050, the (46) North American will continue to de vote most of his or her 1. 1-hour travel-time (47) to automobile travel. The very large demand (48) air travel (or high-speed rail travel) that will be manifest in 2050 (49) to only 12 minutes per person a day; a little time goes a long way in the air. In several developing regions, most travel (50) in 2050 will still be devoted to nonmotorized modes. Buses will persist (51) the primary form of motorized transportation in developing countries for decades. (52) important air travel becomes, buses, automobiles and (53) low-speed trains will surely go on serving vital functions. (54) of the super-rich al ready commute and shop in aircraft, but average people will continue to spend most of their travel time on the (55) .

单选题I can't drive this car as I am not ______with its controls.

单选题Waste paper and glasses could be ______ while most plastic could not.

单选题The scholar {{U}}discoursed{{/U}} at great lengths on the unconventional poetic style of Walter Whitman, the 19th century American poet.

单选题Concern over the economic situation was ______ in the government budget.

单选题Mr. Li is the present ______ of the presidential chair of the company.

单选题The environmental balance among ecological communities is Uexceedingly/U complex.

单选题Written to be performed on a______, Thornton Wilder's play Our Town depicts life in small New England community.

单选题Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of ______ perspectives who can disagree with you without feat of revenge.

单选题The doctors were worried because the patient did not Urecuperate/U as rapidly as they had expected.

单选题"Did you cheat in the exanimation?" "Yes, but ______ it."

单选题Question 6-10 are based on the following passages. To understand the failings of existing farm programs, it's important to understand the roots of the current farm crisis. At the heart of the problem is money—how much there is and how much it costs to borrow. A farmer is a debtor almost by definition. In my own state, it's not unusual for a wheat farmer with 1,000 acres to owe several hundred thousand dollars for land and machinery. In addition to making payments on these loans, it's common for such a farmer to borrow about $40, 000 each spring to cover fertilizer, diesel fuel, seed, and other operating expenses. The months before the harvest will be anxious ones as the farmer contemplates all the things that could bring: financial hardship, bad weather, crop disease, insects, falling commodity prices. If he has a good year, the farmer can repay his loans and retain some profit; in a bad one, he can lose his whole farm. Money thus becomes one of the farmer's biggest expenses. Most consumers can find some refuge from high interest rates by postponing large purchases like houses or cars. Farmers have no choice. In 1989, for example, farmers paid $12 billion in interest costs while earning $32 billion; last year they paid $22 billion in interest costs, while earning only $ 20 billion. In a business in which profit margins are small, $4,000 more in interest can mean the difference between profit and loss. Since 1985, 100,000 family farms have disappeared, and while interest rates have fallen recently, they still imperil the nation's farmers. This is why the most basic part of our nation's farm policy is its money and credit policy--which is set by Paul Voicker and the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal Reserve Board's responsibility for nearly ruining our economy is well-known. What's often overlooked is how the board's policies have taken an especially devastating toil on farmers. While high interest rates have increased farm expenses, they've also undermined the export market farmers have traditionally relied on. High interest rates, by stalling our economic engines, have been a drag on the entire world's economy. Developing and third world nations have been particularly hard hit. Struggling just to meet interest payments on their loans from multinational banks, they have had little cash left over to buy our farm products. Even those countries that could still afford our farm products abandoned us for other producers. Our interest rates were so high that they attracted multinational bankers, corporations, and others who speculate on currencies of different countries. These speculators were willing to pay more for dollars in terms of pesos, yen, or marks because those rates guaranteed them such a substantial return.