单选题I can't agree with my Mum. I think that such an old-fashioned dress can't cost a ______. She says 100 pounds is a real ______.

单选题John: I'm just going out for a newspaper. ______. Liza: It's Sarah's birthday today. I've got her a card, but can you buy her some flowers or some chocolate? John: She'd prefer a nice plant. I'll get that. Liza: OK.

单选题Therefore, whoever tells a lie, however well intentioned he might be, ______ the consequences, however unforeseeable they were, and pay the penalty for them even in a civil tribunal.

单选题What has the UN Security Council decided to do to deal with the problem in Mali?

单选题Conversation One

单选题{{B}}Section D{{/B}} In this section, there is one passage followed by fire questions. Read the passage carefully, and then answer the questions in a maximum of 10 words. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. The modest farm run by Solomy Leston and her husband, a few picturesque acres in the central African country of Malawi, is in most ways a model of third world development. Every season the Lestons reserve a corner of their maize field for a fast growing cash crop that they sell at local markets for top American dollars. The crop grows fast in the rich red soil without sophisticated fertilisers, herbicides or irrigation and is dried on simple wooden sun racks before being stacked away in rough mud brick shelters prior to sale. If the crop were something wholesome, tea perhaps or spices, it might serve as a model for the many African countries that struggle to find a profitable niche in the global free market economy. Instead, this lucrative local industry sits uneasily in the eyes of organisations like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund whose aid dollars are so influential to policy makers throughout Africa: the Lestons and their neighbors are tobacco farmers. Tobacco is at the heart of an ethical and political battle taking place in Malawi that is seeing the world's largest health organisations pitted against the industry that props up the economy of this impoverished African nation. At stake is the issue of who will bear responsibility for the world's deadly nicotine addiction, and a conflict between the need to reduce smoking deaths in the developed world while not sacrificing the impoverished farmers whose livelihoods depend on cigarettes. Malawi's Green Gold They call it "Green Gold" in Malawi. Tobacco rakes in more than 70 percent of Malawi's foreign exchange and contributes one third of the country's gross domestic product, giving Malawi the dubious honour of being the most tobacco-dependent economy in the world. In turn, the country contributes five percent of global tobacco exports including a fifth of the world's burley tobacco, a sought-after sun-dried variety used in strong-tasting cigarette brands like Marlborough. As an indication of the country's dependence on tobacco sales, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 70 percent of Malawi's 11 million residents depend either directly or indirectly on tobacco for their livelihoods. Tobacco became the backbone of Malawi's economy under the dictatorship of Dr Hastings Banda who assumed control of the country at its independence from Britain in 1964 and remained in power until he was deposed by a referendum in 1993. During his almost three-decade reign, Dr Banda encouraged the tobacco industry and amassed a personal empire that saw him become the largest private tobacco grower in the world. Today, only foreign aid provides more income for Malawi than tobacco. Therefore tobacco's reputation as a leading cause of preventable death worldwide is a dilemma for the government. As one of the poorest countries in Africa, Malawi depends on tobacco exports to buy food as well as maintain struggling health, education and infrastructure initiatives. Yet without the support of foreign aid organizations, most of which oppose tobacco growing, Malawi's fragile economy would crumble. One does not have to look far to predict the consequences of an economic collapse in Malawi. This year, failure of the east African maize crop combined with economic mismanagement triggered the country's worst famine on record. Thousands have already died of starvation and the British aid organization Oxfam estimates that 3 million people in Malawi face a similar fate unless something is done. The food crisis only adds to existing burdens in a country where adult HIV rates are estimated at one in five, malaria is endemic and childhood malnutrition widespread. Remove tobacco profits from this equation and many fear a human calamity. Ethical Dilemmas Compromising situations can create unusual political alliances and the tobacco industry in Malawi has some unlikely supporters. Dr J. M. Mfutso Bengo, for instance, is a senior lecturer at the Malawi College of Medicine in Blantyre, a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee and has a PhD in bioethics from a German university. When the World Health Organization was looking for a consultant in Malawi for their anti-tobacco lobby in 2001, Dr Mfutso Bengo was well qualified for the position. He chose not to apply because of ethical and moral objections to the WHO campaign in Malawi. "My position is not motivated from ideology, it is motivated from pragmatism," says Dr Mfutso Bengo, who himself is a non-smoker and receives no funding from the industry. "Tobacco employs more than half of Malawi's labour force. IT they take away tobacco, it would be economic suicide for Malawi. The social and health infrastructures would collapse and it would push Malawi further towards absolute dependence on foreign aid. The WHO could give me money to campaign against the industry but the poor people who are employed by the industry, where would they be?" Dr Mfutso Bengo sees double standards at work in the international anti-tobacco lobby, whose concerns about smoking-related deaths in the developed world he says overlook the more immediate health and economic problems in Malawi. "In a country where 60 percent of people live below the poverty line, basic health needs are most pressing—things like the prevention of cholera, malnutrition, malaria. Dealing with tobacco-based cancer is a luxury." he says. Questions:

单选题Where is the Institute of Radiation Physics located?

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, then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome, the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man. A man's presence is dependent upon the promise of power which he embodies. If the promise is large and credible his presence is striking. If it is small or incredible, he is bound to have little presence. The promised power may be moral, physical, temperamental, economic, social, and sexual—but its object is always exterior to the man. A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. His presence may be fabricated, in the sense that he pretends to be capable of what he is not. But the pretense is always toward a power which he exercises on others. By contrast, a woman's presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her. Her presence is manifest in her gestures, voices, opinions expressions, clothes, chosen surroundings, taste—indeed there is nothing she can do which does not contribute to her presence. Presence for a woman is so intrinsic to her person that men tend to think of it as an almost physical emanation, a kind of heat or smell or aura. To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men. The social presence of women has developed as a result of their ingenuity in living under such tutelage within such a limited space. But this has been at the cost of a woman's self being split into two. A woman must continually watch herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituents yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others, and ultimately how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another. Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated. To acquire some control over this process, women must contain it and internalize it. That part of a woman's self which is the surveyor treats the part which is the surveyed as to demonstrate to others how her whole self would like to be treated. And this exemplary treatment of herself by herself constitutes her presence. Every woman's presence regulates what is and is not "permissible" within her presence. Every one of her actions—whatever its direct purpose or motivation—is also read as an indication of how she would like to be treated. If a woman throws a glass on the floor, this is an example of how she treats her own emotion of anger and so of how she would wish to be treated by others. If a man does the same, his action is only read as an expression of his anger. If a woman makes a good joke this is an example of how she treats the joker in herself and accordingly of how she as joker-woman would like to be treated by others. Only a man can make a good joke for its own sake. Questions:

单选题What’s the purpose of the campaign British scientists are launching?

单选题Which year is expected to be the hottest year on record?

单选题Youaregivenaseriesofpictures.Yourtaskistoseehowtheygotogether,thenworkoutwhichwillbethenextfigureintheseries.Youhavetochooseonefromthefourpossibleanswersprovided.

单选题Inthebigsquareontheleftbelowoneofthesmallsquareshasbeenleftempty.Oneofthefourfiguresontherightshouldfilltheemptysquare.Findthisfigure.A．B．C．D．

单选题When I first began writing poetry, I think the poets that I had studied at school ______ my approach and the things I wrote about. A. communicated B. impressed C. influenced D. discussed

单选题Customer: I think I'll have the tomato soup to start. ______. Waiter: Right. And would you like croutons in your soup? Customer: No, thank you. Waiter: How would you like your steak? Rare, medium or well done?

单选题Antarctica is the highest, coldest, and most ______ place on earth, a continent twice the size of Western Europe, capped by ice over two miles thick. A. delicate B. resolute C. desolate D. obsolete

单选题ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ The alphabet is here to help you with these questions. You need to work out a different code for each question. Choose the correct answer. If the code for ORANGE is RUDQJH , what does SLQN mean?

单选题Though its wings look extremely ______, the butterfly is ______ enough to fly as high as 7000 feet. A. vivid ... powerful B. slender ... thick C. beautiful ... heavy D. fragile ... sturdy

单选题My friend Tanya ______ Japanese for six years before she ______ Japan. I"ve just received a letter from her. It says she has been studying Chinese for three months and ______ for China in a month.

单选题What we all work for is to free ____ time for the thing we really want to do.

单选题Which of the following was NOT one of the authors of the Constitution?