单选题I apologize if I ______ you, but I assure you it was unintentional. A. offend B. had offended C. should have offended D. might have offended

单选题In this section, you will hear five short news items. Each item will be read only once. After each item, which will be read only once, there will be a fifteen-second pause. During the pause, read the question and the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.

单选题Christianity was first introduced into Britain by ______. A. the Celt B. The Romans C. the Viking Danes D. the Norman-French

单选题Advance notice is often referred to in America as "lead time," an expression which is significant in a culture where schedules are important. While it is learned informally, most of us are familiar with how it works in our own culture, even though we cannot state the rules technically. The rules for lead time in other cultures, however, have rarely been analyzed. At the most they are known by experience to those who lived abroad for some time. Yet think how important it is to know how much time is required to prepare people, or for things to come. Sometimes lead time would seem to be very extended. At other times, in the Middle East, any period longer than a week may be too long. How troublesome differing ways of handling time can be is well illustrated by the case of an American agriculturalist assigned to duty as an attachê of our embassy in a Latin country， After what seemed to him a suitable period he let it be known that he would like to call on the minister who was his counterpart. For various reasons, the suggested time was not suitable; all sorts of cues came back to the effect that the time was not yet ripe to visit the minister. Our friend, however, persisted and forced an appointment, which was reluctantly granted. Arriving a little before the hour (the American respect pattern), he waited. The hour came and passed; five minutes--ten minutes--fifteen minutes. At this point he suggested to the secretary that perhaps the minister did not know he was waiting in the outer office. This gave him the feeling he had done something concrete and also helped to overcome the great anxiety that was stirring inside him. Twenty minutes--twenty-five minutes--thirty minutes--forty-five minutes (the insult period)! He jumped up and told the secretary that he had been "cooling his heels" in an outer office for forty-five minutes and he was "damned sick and tired" of this type of treatment. This message was relayed to the minister, who said, in effect, "let him cool his heels." The attachê stay in the country was not a happy one. The principal source of misunderstanding lay in the fact that in the country in question the five-minute delay interval was not significant. Forty-five minutes, on the other hand, instead of being at the tail end of the waiting scale, was just barely at the beginning. To suggest to an American"s secretary that perhaps her boss didn"t know you were there after waiting sixty seconds would seem absurd, as would raising a storm about "cooling your heels" for five minutes. Yet this is precisely the way the minister registered the complaints of the American in his outer office! He felt, as usual, that Americans were being totally unreasonably. Throughout this unfortunate episode the attach6 was acting according to the way he had been brought up. At home in the United States his response would have been normal ones and his behavior correct. Yet even if he had been told before he left home that this sort of thing would happen, he would have had difficulty not feeling insulted after he had been kept waiting for forty-five minutes. If, on the other hand, he had been taught the details of the local time system just as he should have been taught the local spoken language, it would have been possible for him to adjust himself accordingly.

单选题The Emancipation Proclamation to end the slavery plantation system in the South of the U.S. was issued by ______.

单选题As domestic markets are opened up to international competition and quotas which restricted the quantity of imports from any one country are abandoned, cheap, ______ foreign imports are threatening the livelihoods of many women, small producers and entrepreneurs m cottage industries. A. rescued B. accommodated C. assisted D. subsidized

单选题Thesesessionswithacounselorare______.A.compulsoryB.availabletoanystudentC.forsciencestudentsonly

单选题Few people realize ______. A. how quickly many species of cacti are becoming extinct B. how quickly much species of cacti is becoming extinct C. how quickly are many species of cacti becoming extinct D. how quickly is much species of cacti becoming extinct

单选题The meeting ______ over, I found her ______ at the desk and ______ to the music.

单选题According to the weather forecast, which is usually ______, it will snow this afternoon. A. accurate B. exact C. precise D. perfect

单选题Forwhatoccasionhasthecakebeenmade?A.AweddingB.AbirthdaypartyC.Aconferencereception

单选题There is nothing serious ______. I had jumped out of the window when the bomb exploded. A. as well as I am concerned B. as long as I am concerned C. as I am concerned D. as far as I am concerned

单选题 Questions 56-60 are based on the following passage. Exchange a glance with someone, then look away. Do you realize that you have made a statement? Hold the glance for a second longer, and you have made a different statement. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has changed again. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a person's gaze without being intimate, rude, or aggressive. If you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted? To answer this question, consider what you typically do. You very likely give other passengers a quick glance to size them up and to assure them that you mean no threat. Since being close to another person signals the possibility of interaction, you need to emit a signal telling others you want to be left alone. So you cut off eye contact, what sociologist Erving Goffman calls "a dimming of the lights". You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another passenger's eyes. Should you break the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person exceedingly uncomfortably, and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself. If you hold eye contact for more than 3 seconds, what are you telling another person? Much depends on the person and the situation. For instance, a man and a woman communicate interest in this manner. They typically gaze at each other for about 3 seconds at a time, then drop their eyes down for 3 seconds, before letting their eyes meet again. But if one man gives another man a 3-second stare, he signals, "I know you", "I am interested in you", or "You look peculiar and I am curious about you". This type of stare often produces hostile feelings.

单选题When did the “big bang” occur?

单选题NewFindingsinArchaeology·SouthAmericaandMadagascarwerejoined70millionyearsagoAnoldcroc:ThediscoveryinBrazilofanearlycompletefossilisedskeletonoftheprehistoriccrocodileUbera-basuchusterrificus,above,supportstheoriesthatSouthAmericaandMadagascarwerejoined70millionyearsago.·We"vealljustgot40,000yearsolderTwoskullsfoundinAfricahavebeenidentifiedastheoldesthumanremainsknowntoscience.Thefossilisedbonesfoundin1967wereoriginallythoughttobe130,000yearsold.Butare-datingofrocklayersnearthosewhichyieldedthefossilsshowedtheyareactuallyabout195,000yearsold—fromthetimemodemhumansemerged.Theskulls,knownasOmoⅠandⅡ,pushbacktheknownpresenceofHomosapiensinAfricaby40,000years.ThepreviousoldestHomosapiensskulls,datedtobetween154,000and160,000yearold,werefoundnearavillagecalledHertointheafarregionofeasternEthiopia.OmoⅠandⅡwereunearthedbyfamouspalaeontologistRichardLeakeyalongtheOmoRiverinsouthernEthiopia,nearthetownofKibish.OmoⅠ"smoremodemfeaturesledtodisagreementamongexpertsoverwhethertheywerethesameage.Therocksinwhichtheywerefoundshowtheyare,saidAustralianarchaeologistProfIanMcDougall,whomadethediscovery.Hetoldscientificjournal"Nature","OmoⅠandOmoⅡarerelativelysecurelydatedto195,000yearsold,makingthemtheoldestanatomicallymodemhumanfossilsyetrecovered."

单选题Above all, they want to study a _______ question: Are humans actually aware of the world they live in?

单选题Dan: Have you ever participated in a risky sport? Kay: Yes, I like hang gliding. It's fantastic to be able to fly like a bird. Though landing is sometimes difficult, I've always felt hang gliding is quite safe. Dan: ______ Kay: I've never been seriously injured. Maybe I've just been lucky. Once, my glider turned upside down, and I lost control. I almost crashed, but I parachuted away just in time. A. What sports are risky? B. Do you ever get into some difficult situations'? C. Have you ever hurt yourself in an accident? D. Have you ever been to a sports centre?

单选题The Senate is composed of ______ seats from each state in the U. S. A. 2 B. 5 C. 8 D. 10

单选题I'll ______ his reputation, with other farmers and business people in the community, and then make a decision about whether or not to approve a loan. A. take into account B. account for C. make up for D. make out

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