单选题Mary Robinson has been formally ______ as Ireland's first woman president.

单选题{{B}}Passage 3{{/B}} When you are small, all ambitions fall into one grand category: when I'm grown up. When I'm grown up, you say, I'll go up in space. I'm going to be an author. I'll kill them all and then they'll be sorry. I'll be married in a cathedral with sixteen brides- maids in pink lace. I'll have a puppy of my own and no one will be able to take him away. None of it ever happens, of course, of dam little but the fantasies give you the idea that there is something to grow up for. Indeed one of the saddest things about gild-ed adolescence is the feeling that from eighteen on, it's all downhill; I read with horror of an American hippie wedding where someone said to the groom (age twenty) 'you seem so kinda grown up somehow', and the lad had to go around seeking reassurance that he wasn't, no, early he wasn't. A determination to be better adults than the present incumbents is fine, but to refuse to grow up at all is just plain unrealism. Right, so then you get some of what you want, or something like it or something that will do all right; and for years you are too busy to do more than live in the present and put one foot in front of the other; your goals stretching little beyond the day when the boss has a stroke or the moment when the children can bring you tea in bed and the later moment when they actually bring you hot tea, not mostly clopped in the saucer. However, I have now discovered an even sweeter category of ambition. When my children are grown up I'll learn to fly an aero plane. I will career round the sky, knowing that if I do go pop there will be no little ones to suffer shock and maladjustment; that even if the worst does come to the worst I will at least dodge the geriatric ward and all that looking for your glasses in order to see where you've left your teeth. When my children are grown up I'll have fragile, lovely things on low tables; I'll have a white carpet; I'll go to the pictures in the 'afternoon. When the children are grown up I'll actually be able to do a day's work in day, instead of spread over three, and go away for a weekend without planning as if for a trip to the Moon. When I'm grown up--I mean when they're grown up--I'll be free. Of course, I know it's got to get worse before it gets better. Twelve-year-olds, I'm told, don't go to bed at seven, so you don't even get your evenings; once they're past ten you have to start worrying about their friends instead of simply shooting the intruders off the doorstep, and to settle down to a steady ten years of criticism of every- thing you've ever thought or done or won. Boys, it seems, may be less of a trial than girls since they can't get pregnant and they don't borrow your clothes--it they do borrow your clothes, of course, you've got even more to worry about. The young don't respect their parents any more, that's what. Goodness, how sad. Still, like eating snails, it might be all right once you've got over the idea: it might let us off having to bother quite so much with them when the time comes. But one is simply not going to be able to drone away one's days, toothless by the fire, brooding on the past.

单选题Our research has focused on a drug which is so ______ as to be able to change brain chemistry. A. powerful B. influential C. monstrous D. vigorous

单选题Most scholars agree that Isaac Newton, while formulating the laws of force and gravity and inventing the calculus in the late 1600s, probably knew all the science there was to know at the time. In the ensuing 350 years an estimated 50 million research papers and innumerable books have been published in the natural sciences and mathematics. The modern high school student probably now possesses more scientific knowledge than Newton did, yet science to many people seems to be an impenetrable mountain of facts. One way scientists have tried to cope with this mountain is by becoming more and more specialized. Another strategy for coping with the mountain of information is to largely ignore it. That shouldn't come as a surprise. Sure, you have to know a lot to he a scientist, but knowing a lot is not what makes a scientist. What makes a scientist is ignorance. This may sound ridiculous, but for scientists the facts are just a starting place. In science, every new discovery raises 10 new questions. By this calculus, ignorance will always grow faster than knowledge. Scientists and laypeople alike would agree that for all we have come to know, there is far more we don't know. More important, every day there is far more we know we don't know. One crucial outcome of scientific knowledge is to generate new and better ways of being ignorant: not the kind of ignorance that is associated with a lack of curiosity or education but rather a cultivated, high-quality ignorance. This gets to the essence of what scientists do: they make distinctions between qualities of ignorance. They do it in grant proposals and over beers at meetings. As James Clerk Maxwell, probably the greatest physicist between Newton and Einstein, said, "Thoroughly conscious ignorance...is a prelude to every real advance in knowledge. " This perspective on science—that it is about the questions more than the answers— should come as something of a relief. It makes science less threatening and far more friendly and, in fact, fun. Science becomes a series of elegant puzzles and puzzles within puzzles— and who doesn't like puzzles? Questions are also more accessible and often more interesting than answers; answers tend to be the end of the process, whereas questions have you in the thick of things. Lately this side of science has taken a backseat in the public mind to what I call the accumulation view of science—that it is a pile of facts way too big for us to ever hope to conquer. But if scientists would talk about the questions, and if the media reported not only on new discoveries but the questions they answered and the new puzzles they created, and if educators stopped trafficking in facts that are already available on Wikipedia—then we might find a public once again engaged in this great adventure that has been going on for the past 15 generations.

单选题Smith failed to ______ for the deficit in the company's bank balance.

单选题When I try to understand ______ that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes. A. why it does B. what it does C. what it is D. why it is

单选题We learn from the second paragraph that ______.

单选题The experiment long proved that X-rays cannot______lead.

单选题Keys should never be hidden around the house since thieves ______know where to look.

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单选题It was ______ that the restaurant discriminated against black customers. A. addicted B. alleged C. assaulted D. ascribed

单选题The word "foolish" is too mild to describe your behavior, I would prefer the word ______.

单选题{{B}}Directions: {{/B}}There are 15 questions in this part of the test. Read the passage through. Then go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. It is appropriate on an anniversary of the founding of a university to remind ourselves of its purposes. It is equally appropriate at such time for students to {{U}}(21) {{/U}} why they have been chosen to attend and to consider how they can best {{U}}(22) {{/U}} the privilege of attending. At the least you as students can hope to become {{U}}(23) {{/U}} in subject matter which may be useful to you in later life. There is, {{U}}(24) {{/U}}, much more to be gained. It is now that you must learn to exercise your mind sufficiently {{U}}(25) {{/U}} learning becomes a joy and you thereby become a student for life. {{U}}(26) {{/U}} this may require an effort of will and a period of self-discipline. Certainly it is not {{U}}(27) {{/U}} without hard work. Teachers can guide and encourage you, but learning is not done passively. To learn is your {{U}}(28) {{/U}}. There is {{U}}(29) {{/U}} the trained mind satisfaction to be derived from exploring the ideas of others, mastering them and evaluating them. But there is {{U}}(30) {{/U}} level of inquiry which I hope that some of you will choose. If your study takes you to the {{U}}(31) {{/U}} of understanding of a subject and, you have reached so far, you find that you can penetrate to {{U}}(32) {{/U}} no one has been before, you experience an exhilaration which can't be denied and which commits you to a life of research. Commitment to a life of scholarship or research is {{U}}(33) {{/U}} many other laudable goals. It is edifying, and it is a source of inner satisfaction even {{U}}(34) {{/U}} other facets of life prove disappointing. I strongly {{U}}(35) {{/U}} it.

单选题Another big issue ______ the nation is the problem of the education of its citizens. A. confining B. illiterating C. conforming D. confronting

单选题The ESRC would prefer ______.

单选题It is not a question of how much a man knows, but what use he ______ what he knows.

单选题Though ______ rich, ha was better off than at any other period in his life.