单选题When confronted with such question, my mind goes ______, and I can hardly remember my own birthday. A. dim B. blank C. vain D. faint

单选题______ for my illness I would have lent him a helping hand. A. Not being B. Had it not been C. Without being D. Were they to arrive

单选题—I'd like to get a break from studying. —Let's take the afternoon off and go to town. You can get some shopping done. —______ —Well, I definitely don't want to go to the mall.

单选题As the clerk______prepared my milk shake, I wondered how long she had been working there ,mindlessly making ice cream treats in a set order of steps.

单选题Many people prefer to have their tax forms completed by a professional rather than ______ it themselves. A. doing B. do C. to do D. did

单选题Many linguists ______ that our highly evolved brain provides us with innate language ability not found in lower organisms.

单选题The ______ talks between China and the United States were the base of the later agreement. A. original B. primary C. initial D. primitive

单选题Questions 51-55 are based on the following passage. Violin prodigies, I learned, have come in distinct waves from distinct regions. Most of the great performers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were born and brought up in Russia and Eastern Europe. I asked Isaac Stem, one of the world's greatest violinists the reason for this phenomenon, "It is very clear," he told me. "They were all Jews and Jews at the time were severely oppressed and ill treated in that part of the world. They were not allowed into the professional fields, but they were allowed to achieve excellence on a concert stage." As a result, every Jewish parent's dream was to have a child in the music school because it was a passport to the west. Another element in the emergence of prodigies, I found, is a society that values excellence in a certain field to nurture talent. Nowadays, the most nurturing societies seem to be in the Fast East. "In Japan, a most competitive society, with stronger discipline than ours," says Isaac Stern, "children are ready to test their limits every day in many fields, including music. When Western music came to Japan after World War II, that music not only became part of their daily lives, but it became a discipline as well. The Koreans and Chinese as we know, are just as highly motivated as the Japanese." That's a good thing, because even prodigies must work hard. Next to hard work, biological inheritance plays an important role in the making of a prodigy. J.S. Bach, for example, was the top of several generations of musician, and fear of his sons had significant careers in music.

单选题There is a lobby of people who insist that it’s justifiable and necessary to carry out these animal experiments _______ science．

单选题When he heard how well the new company was doing, he took a calculated ______ and invested all his money in it. A. risk B. opportunity C. danger D. venture

单选题The people around him kept saying ______ the drowned man but he went on doing artificial respiration. A. it was useless reviving B. there was no use reviving C. there was no use to try to revive D. it was no use trying to revive

单选题When I first arrived here to take up my new job, I stayed in a hotel, but I soon started looking for a permanent, a place to ______ my own. A. residence; call B. accommodation; refer C. household; be D. habitation; say

单选题The teacher was worried about the play her young class was putting on for the parents but, fortunately, everything off without any problems.

单选题Belowisadouble-tieredcardboardconfigurationthatisclosed.(Theconfigurationisshownhereastransparentforeasierviewing.)Whichoneofthefollowingchoicesisavaliddepictionofthisconfigurationifitweretobe"disassembled"enoughtolieflat?

单选题The class went to see the performance of Macbeth because it ______ in well with the project they were doing on Scottish history. A. booked B. crammed C. stood D. tied

单选题______ is the masterpiece of Jane Austin.

单选题{{B}}Section A{{/B}} There is one passage in this section followed by five questions. For each question, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice, and then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. Miss Rita Cohen, a tiny, pale-skinned girl who looked half the age of Seymour's daughter, Marie, but claimed to be some six years older, came to his factory one day. She was dressed in overalls and big ugly shoes, and a bush of wiry hair framed her pretty face. She was so tiny, so young that he could barely believe that she was at the University of Pennsylvania, doing research into the leather industry in New Jersey for her master's degree. Three or four times a year someone either phoned Seymour or wrote to him to ask permission to see his factory, and occasionally he would assist a student by answering questions over the phone or, if the student struck him as especially serious, by offering a brief tour. Rita Cohen was nearly as small, he thought, as the children from Marie's third-year class, who'd been brought 50 kilometres from their rural schoolhouse one day, all those years ago, so that Marie's daddy could show them how he made gloves, show them especially Marie's favourite spot, the laying-off table, where, at the end of the process, the men shaped and pressed each and every glove by pulling it carefully down over steam-heated brass hands. The hands were dangerously hot and they were shiny and they stuck straight up from the table in a row, thin-looking, like hands that had been flattened. As a little girl, Marie was captivated by their strangeness and called them the "pancake hands". He heard Rita asking, "How many pieces come in a shipment?" "How many? Between twenty and twenty-five thousand. " She continued taking notes as she asked, "They come direct to your shipping department?" He liked finding that she was interested in every last detail. "They come to the tannery. The tannery is a contractor. We buy the material and they make it into the right kind of leather for us to use. My grandfather and father worked in the tannery right here in town. So did I, for six months, when I started in the business. Ever been inside a tannery?" "Not yet. " "Well, you've got to go to a tannery if you're going to write about leather. I'll set that up for you if you'd like that. They're primitive places. The technology has improved things, but what you'll see isn't that different from what you'd have seen hundreds of years ago. Awful work. It's said to be the oldest industry of which remains have been found anywhere. Six-thousand-year-old relics of tanning found somewhere—Turkey, I believe. The first clothing was just skins that were tanned by smoking them. I told you it was an interesting subject once you get into it. My father is the leather scholar; he's the one you should be talking to. Start my father off about gloves and he'll talk for two days. That's typical, by the way: glovemen love the trade and everything about it. Tell me, have you ever seen anything being manufactured, Miss Cohen?" "I can't say I have. " "Never seen anything made?" "I saw my mother make a cake when I was a child. " He laughed. She had made him laugh. An innocent with spirit, eager to learn. His daughter was easily 30 cm taller than Rita Cohen, and fair where she was dark, but otherwise Rita Cohen had begun to remind him of Marie. The good-natured intelligence that would just waft out of her and into the house when she came home from school, full of what she'd learned in class. How she remembered everything. Everything neatly taken down in her notebook and memorised overnight. "I'll tell you what we're going to do. We're going to take you right through the whole process. Come on. We're going to make you a pair of gloves and you're going to watch them being made from start to finish. What size do you wear?" QUESTIONS:

单选题With increased taxation and rising prices, Erie is going to ______ on quite a lot of things, such as clothes, records and so on.