单选题It can be inferred from the article that the majority of tropical forests ______.

单选题 {{B}}Questions 27—30 are based on a report about generation gap. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 27—30.{{/B}}

单选题The three points of view that indicate the relations of individuals are ______.

单选题The company has consistently denied responsibility, but it agreed to the settlement to avoid the expense of______.

单选题Some people believe that "King John" was written by Shakespeare, but some people it might be written by an ______ author.

单选题Costs for regulation of business actually are a hidden tax severely reducing the competitive ness of domestic businesses ______ when they face an increasingly global marketplace.

单选题There are probably very few cases in which different races have lived in Ucomplete/U in a single country for long periods.

单选题To impress a future employer, one should dress neatly and be ______.

单选题Her shabby clothes were often made ______ by her classmates.

单选题Which of the following is true according to the last paragraph?

单选题A ship is in great danger. Please point out the ship's exact ______ .

单选题Which one of the following statements is NOT true according to the article?

单选题Throughout the empire of Kublai Khan, money made of paper was used for business, ______,something unheard of in Europe.

单选题Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more ______ emotion.

单选题One year ago we stared aghast at images of the Southeast Asian tsunami. Video cameras taken on vacation to record the everyday pleasures of the beach were suddenly turned to quivering utility as they documented the panic and mayhem of a natural disaster. Who can forget the disbelief in the recorded voices? This can't be happening to us. Human beings are never prepared for natural disasters. There is a kind of optimism built into our species that seems to prefer to live in the comfortable present rather than confront the possibility of destruction, It may happen, we seem to believe, but not now, and not to us. Mount Vesuvius has been erupting since historical records began. The eruption of A. D. 79 both destroyed Pompeii and preserved it for posterity. Pliny the Younger starkly recorded the details in prose that can still be read as a scientific ac-count. Yet houses are still being erected today at vulnerable sites around Vesuvius, in the face of the geological inevitability of further eruptions. Disasters are described as "acts of God". Whenever a natural catastrophe occurs, old questions resurface. How can we reconcile tragedy with the idea of a beneficent God? And with that question, the notion of punishment is never far behind. If classical religions were wont to attribute disasters to the wrath of the gods, even in this scientific age the old explanations still have their attractions. And who might not sneakily still wish to believe that a saint could intercede on our behalf? But there is another kind of disaster. Many scientists think that the Gulf Coast hurricanes may be a symptom of climate change. Carbon emissions have been accelerating more rapidly within a generation or two: this is not the result of some creeping plate indifferent to the fate of humans; this is our responsibility. However, there is still the same, almost willful blindness to the dangers of climate change; after all, the sun still rises, the crops still ripen--why worry? Geology tells us that there have been "green-house worlds" in the distant past. These have been times when seas flooded over continents. Even modest sea-level rises would spell the end of densely populated areas of the world like Bangladesh. In such a case, invoking the God to look after us for the best is just pie in the sky. These are not "acts of God" but acts of man. We should be ashamed of the consequences of our own willing blindness.

单选题Clark felt that his ______ in one of the most dramatic medical experiments of all time was worth the suffering he underwent. A. presentation B. participation C. apprehension D. appreciation

单选题It was ______ of them to share their meal with their out-of-work neighbors.

单选题The doctor hit me just below the knee to test my ______ .

单选题The word "investors" (in boldface in Paragraph 2) most exactly refers to those who ______.

单选题In 1993, a mall security camera captured a shaky image of two 10-year-old boys leading a much smaller boy out of a Liverpool, England, shopping center. The boys lured James Bulger away from his mother, who was shopping, and led him on a long walk across town. The excursion ended at a railroad track. There, inexplicably, the older boys tortured the toddler, kicking him, smearing paint on his face and pummeling him to death with bricks before leaving him on the track to be dismembered by a train. The boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, then went off to watch cartoon. Today the boys are 18-year-old men, and after spending eight years in juvenile facilities, they have been deemed fit for release--probably this spring. The dilemma now confronting the English justice system is how to reintegrate the notorious duo into a society that remains horrified by their crimes and skeptical about their rehabilitation. Last week Judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss decided the young men were in so much danger that they needed an unprecedented shield to protect them upon release. For the rest of their lives, Venables and Thompson will have a right to anonymity. All English media outlets are banned from publishing any information about their whereabouts or the new identities the government will help them establish. Photos of the two or even details about their current looks are also prohibited. In the U. S. , which is harder on juvenile criminals than England, such a ruling seems inconceivable. "We're clearly the most punitive in the industrialized world," says Laurence Steinberg, a Temple University professor who studies juvenile justice. Over the past decade, the trend in the U. S. has been to allow publication of ever more information about underage offenders. U. S. courts also give more weight to press freedom than English courts, which, for example, ban all video cameras. But even for Britain, the order is extraordinary. The victim's family is enraged, as are the ever-eager British tabloids. "What right have they got to be given special protection as adults." asks Bulger's mother Denise Fergus. Newspaper editorials have insisted that citizens have a right to know if Venables or Thompson move in next door. Says Conservative Member of Parliament Humfrey Malins: "It almost leaves you with the feeling that the nastier the crime, the greater the chance for a passport to a completely new life./