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单选题What is the difference between mediation and arbitration?

单选题Written in central Canada in the early part of the twentieth century, ______, depicts life in Manitoba.

单选题Miranda : It"s getting late. What time is the last subway train, Joe? Joe : I think it"s already gone. Miranda : Are there any night buses? Joe : I"m not sure. Sorry. Miranda : ______ Joe : Go ahead.

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单选题It was unfortunate, but she had no _____ but to act as she did.

单选题Usually vertical stripes give a ______ impression of greater height.

单选题I'm sorry to tell you I failed the physics course. Mom. —______. The world won't end if you don't pass an exam. —Thank you for your encouragement. A. Let's face it. B. I'm so sad to hear that. C. Let's go to see the doctor. D. Don't go away.

单选题{{B}}Section D{{/B}} Directions: You are going to read a passage. Seven sentences have been removed from it. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. I wish you'd met my Uncle Bill. He was a tall man--so tall that he could change the bulbs in light sockets while hardly reaching above his head. He said that he wasn't supposed to reach up--it was something to do with a heart condition--and that being tall made life much easier. {{U}}(72) {{/U}} Those accessible bulbs were an easy target for that lofty, blundering head of his. I realized from the start that his problem was not so much tallness as clumsiness. He blundered into anything and everything and often had injuries (though not in fact burns) to prove how accident-prone he was. A miserly man, my uncle always stuck replacement soles on his shoes as the old ones wore through, no matter how shabby the uppers became--or how badly he injured himself in the process. {{U}}(73) {{/U}} Well, strictly it wasn't the sticking that did it but the razor blade adjustments that followed. In his clumsiness, he nearly always stuck the soles slightly out of position. Once firmly glues they couldn't be moved but at least the protruding parts could be neatly trimmed away. {{U}}(74) {{/U}} I can see him now in my mind's eyes! There was the sole, slightly out of position, and there was my uncle, his fingers encrusted with firmly set glue. {{U}}(75) {{/U}} Then he'd blunder round his house in search of lint and sticking plasters. Vases would topple; ornaments would get knocked off walls. He lived alone but his frequent visitors were used to the commotion my uncle made as he hurried round his untidy house. {{U}}(76) {{/U}} Even going to answer the phone could cause calamities and a trail of damage. {{U}} (77) {{/U}} No, they were due to injured fingers, banged heads and falls down stairs. As a matter of fact he survived so many serious injuries that in the end I came to doubt that there was anything wrong with his heart at all. {{U}}(78) {{/U}} Sentences: A. I think he preferred to claim a bad heart than admit to bad eyesight or total and utter clumsiness! B. He would set to work with his razor blade, and a minute later we'd hear his cry of pain and frustration. C. My uncle's visits to hospital never resulted from that famous heart condition of his. But how could even a clumsy man suffer injuries sticking soles on his shoes? E. And that's where the razor blades came in, and all the consequent injuries to fingers and thumbs. " F. However, it also created problems for him. G. The slightest haste was enough to cause an accident. H. You should have seen him when he really got going!

单选题{{B}}Section B{{/B}} In this section, there is one passage followed by 7 statements. Go over the passage quickly and mark the answers on the Answer Sheet. For questions 58-64, mark Y (for Yes) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for No) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for Not Given) if the information is not given in the passage. Questions 58- 64 are based on the following passage. The need for a satisfactory education is more important than ever before. Nowadays, without a qualification from a reputable school or university, the odds of landing that plum job advertised in the paper are considerably shortened. Moreover, one's present level of education could fall well short of future career requirements. It is no secret that competition is the driving force behind the need to obtain increasingly higher qualifications. In the majority of cases, the urge to upgrade is no longer the result of an insatiable thirst for knowledge. The pressure is coming from within the workplace to compete with ever more qualified job applicants, and in many occupations one must now battle with colleagues in the reshuffle for the position one already holds. Striving to become better educated is hardly a new concept. Wealthy parents have always been willing to spend the vast amounts of extra money necessary to send their children to schools with a perceived educational edge. Working adults have long attended night schools and refresher courses. Competition for employment has been around since the curse of working for a hying began. Is the present situation so very different to that of the past? The difference now is that the push is universal and from without as well as within. A student at a comprehensive school receiving low grades is no longer as easily accepted by his or her peers as was once the case. Similarly, in the workplace, unless employees are engaged in part-time study, they may be frowned upon by their employers and peers and have difficulty even standing still. In fact, in these cases, the expectations is for careers to go backwards and earning capacity to take an appreciable nosedive. At first glance, the situation would seem to be laudable; a positive response to the exhortations of politicians for us all to raise our intellectual standards and help improve the level of intelligence within the community. Yet there are serious ramifications according to at least one educational psychologist. Dr. Brendan Gatsby has caused some controversy in academic circles by suggesting that a bias towards what he terms "paper excellence" might cause more problems than it is supposed to solve. Gatsby raises a number of issues that affect the individual as well as society in general. Firstly, he believes the extra workload involved is resulting in abnormally high stress levels in both students at comprehensive schools and adults studying after working hours. Secondly, skills which might be more relevant to the undertaking of a sought-after job are being overlooked by employers not interviewing candidates without qualifications on paper. These two areas of concern for the individual are causing physical as well as emotional stress. Gatsby also argues that there are attitudinal changes within society to the exalted role education now plays in determining how the spoils of working life are distributed. Individuals of all ages are being driven by social pressures to achieve academic success solely for monetary considerations instead of for the joy of enlightenment. There is the danger that some universities are becoming degree factories with an attendant drop in standards. Furthermore, our education system may be rewarding doggedness above creativity; the very thing tutors ought to be encouraging us to avoid. But the most undesirable effect of this academic paper chase, Gatsby says, is the disadvantage that "user pays" higher education confers on the poor, who invariably lose out to the more financially favoured. Naturally, although there is agreement that learning can cause stress, Gatsby's comments regarding university standards have been roundly criticized as alarmist by most educationists who point out that, by any standard of measurement, Britain's education system overall, at both secondary and tertiary levels, is equal to that of any in the world. Statements :

单选题It could take fourteen weeks to complete the______journey on foot from London to Rome in the Middle Ages. A. grueling B. sluggish C. lax D. tottering

单选题ThenumbersincolumnDarelinkedinsomewaytothoseinA,BandC.Whatnumbershouldreplacethequestionmark?

单选题William Shakespeare's comedies often revolve around marriage arid family matters, and have happy endings such as The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, ______, etc. A. Midsummer Night's Dream B. Othello C. King Lear D. Macbeth

单选题Apostmandeliversmailroundahousingestate.Hedoesnotwanttovisitthesamestreetmorethanonce,butcanpassoverthesamestreetcorners.Onwhichhousingestateisthispossible?

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单选题______ no cause for alarm, the old man went back to his room. A. There was B. Since C. Being D. There being

单选题Too much salt is known to contribute to hypertension, ______ is a factor in half the deaths in the U. S. each year. A. what B. that C. which D. this

单选题You ____ his words seriously. He was talking nonsense.

单选题Thankfully, my dry-clean-only shirt looked ______ for having gone through the washing machine.