单选题It was hard to say why the man deserved such Ushabby/U treatment.

单选题I catch a cold now and then .

单选题The osprey flies above the water and when it spots a fish it swoops down to catch it.

单选题Milosevic' s Death Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead last Saturday in his cell at the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The 64-year-old had been on trial there since February 2002. Born in provincial Pozarevac in 1941, he was the second son of a priest and a school teacher. Both of his parents died when he was still a young adult. The young Milosevic was "untypical", says Slavoljub Djukic, his unofficial biographer. He was "not interested in sports, avoided excursions and used to come to school dressed in the old-fashioned way - white shirt and tie." One of his old friends said, he could "imagine him as a station-master or punctilious civil servant". Indeed that is exactly what he might have become, had he not married Mira. She was widely believed to be his driving force. At university and beyond he did well. He worked for various firms and was a communist party member. By 1986 he was head of Serbia's Central Committer. But still he had not yet really been noticed. It was Kosovo that gave him his chance. An autonomous province of Serbia, Kosovo was home to an Albanian majority and a Serbian minority. In 1989, he was sent there to calm fears of Serbians who felt they were discriminated against. But instead he played the nationalist card and became their champion. In so doing, he changed into a ruthless and determined man. At home with Mira he plotted the downfall of his political enemies. Conspiring with the director of Serbian TV, he mounted a modern media campaign which aimed to get him the most power in the country. He was elected Serbian president in 1990. In 1997, he became president of Yugoslavia. The rest of the story is well-known: his nationalist card caused Yugoslavia's other ethnic groups to fight for their own rights, power and lands. Yugoslavia broke up when four of the six republics declared independence in 1991. War started and lasted for years and millions died. Then Western countries intervened. NATO bombed Yugoslavia, and he eventually stepped down as state leader in 2000. Soon after this, Serbia's new government, led by Zoran Djindjic, arrested him and sent him to face justice at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague.

单选题The proposal provoked widespread criticism.

单选题The water in this part of the river has been {{U}}contaminated{{/U}} by sewage (污水).

单选题He inspired many young people to take up the sport

单选题California, the first city on the American continent, reached its peak of development and power about AD 1100.

单选题Some children display an unquenchable curiosity about every new thing they encounter. A．insatiable B．inherent C．indiscriminate D．incredible

单选题The weather is a constant subject of conversation in Britain. ______

单选题His Own Way to Express Love Yesterday was our three—year anniversary. We didn"t do anything romantic; we just walked hand in hand and talked about our past and the future. This was pretty much what I had expected. Andy is an unromantic guy: no sweet words or roses. Smart as he is, he is a little bit shy expressing his love. In contrast, I am an outspoken (直言不讳) girl who likes to show her feelings directly. So needless to say, I often feel that he is insensitive. I envy other girls who are surrounded by sweet words. I was in this sullen mood until I heard a beautiful sentence one day: "If one does not love you in the way you like, it does not mean that he does not love you." This simple but sensible sentence made me think about our happy days and recall his deep concern for me. One cold winter night, I got a high fever. He hurried to my dormitory and took me to the hospital. He was in such a hurry that he even forgot to wear socks. After arrival, he ran through the hospital handling all the formalities (手续). When I was put on a drip (点滴), he told me interesting stories to make me happy. Being held in his warm arms and listening to his tender (温柔的) voice, I had never felt so safe and comfortable. Gradually, I fell asleep. When I woke up 15 minutes later, he was still mumbling (咕哝地说) to me. He explained that if he had stopped talking I would have woken up. At that moment, I found love in his eyes. Another time, I had a bad quarrel with my best friend. Although I knew it was my fault, I refused to admit it. I was angry when he insisted I apologize to her. He said that it was difficult to admit a mistake, but this was what everyone should do. The next morning, I apologized to my friend and asked for her forgiveness. My unromantic boyfriend cares about my health like my father, understands me like my mother and helps me like my elder brother.

单选题John has made up his mind not to go to the meeting.

单选题When he finally emerged from the cave after thirty days, John was {{U}}shockingly{{/U}} pale. A. enormously B. startlingly C. uniquely D. dramatically

单选题 Superconductor Ceramic (陶瓷) An underground revolution begins this winter. With the flip (轻击) of a switch, 30,000 homes in one part of Detroit will soon become the first in the country to receive electricity transmitted by ice-cold, high-performance cables. Other American cities are expected to follow Detroit's example in the years ahead, which could conserve enormous amounts of power. The new electrical cables at the Frisbie power station in Detroit are revolutionary because they are made of superconductors. A superconductor is a material that transmits electricity with little or no resistance. Resistance is the degree to which a substance resists electric current. All common electrical conductors have a certain amount of electrical resistance. They convert at least some of the electrical energy passing through them into waste heat. Superconductors don't. No one understands how superconductivity works. It just does. Making superconductors isn't easy. A superconductor material has to be cooled to an extremely low temperature to lose its resistance. The first superconductors, made more than 50 years ago, had to be cooled to —263 degrees Celsius before they lost their resistance. Newer superconducting materials lose their resistance at —143 degrees Celsius. The superconductors cable installed at the Frisbie station is made of a ceramic material that contains copper, oxygen, bismuth (铋), strontium (锶) and calcium (钙). A ceramic is a hard, strong compound made from clay or minerals. The superconducting ceramic has been fashioned into a tape that is wrapped lengthwise around a long tube filled with liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen is super cold and lowers the temperature of the ceramic tape to the point where it conveys electricity with zero resistance. The United States loses an enormous amount of electricity each year to resistance. Because cooled superconductors have no resistance, they waste much less power, other cities are watching the Frisbie experiment in the hope that they might switch to superconducting cable and conserve power, too.

单选题By advocating moderate change, they think that they can keep consumer costs low.

单选题What a juicy {{U}}morsel{{/U}} it is?

单选题下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。 {{B}}第一篇{{/B}} Goal of American Education Education is all enormous and expensive part of American life. Its size is matched by its variety. Differences in American schools compared with those found in the majority of other countries lie in the fact that education here has long been intended for everyone — not just for a privileged(享有特权的) elite(精英). Schools are expected to meet the needs of every child, regardless of ability, and also the needs of society itself. This means that public schools offer more than academic subjects. It surprises many people when they come here to find high schools offering such courses as typing, sewing, radio repair, computer programming or driver training, along with traditional academic subjects such as mathematics, history, and languages. Students choose their curricula depending on their interests, future goals, and level of ability. The underlying goal of American education is to develop every child to the utmost of his or her own possibilities, and to give each one a sense of civic(公民的)and community consciousness. Schools have traditionally played an important role in creating national unity and "Americanizing" the millions of immigrants who have poured into this country from many different backgrounds and origins. Schools still play a large role in the community, especially in the small towns. The approach to teaching may seem unfamiliar to many, not only because it is informal, but also because there is not much emphasis on learning facts. Instead, Americans try to teach their children to think for themselves and to develop their own intellectual and creative abilities. Students spend much time, learning how to use resource materials, libraries, statistics and computers. Americans believe that if children are taught to reason well and to research wei1, they will be able to find whatever facts they need throughout the rest of their lives. Knowing how to solve problems is considered more important than the accumulation (积聚) of facts. This is America's answer to the searching question that thoughtful parents all over the world are asking themselves in the fast-moving time: "How can one prepare today's child for a tomorrow that one can neither predict nor understand?"

单选题Maria Chapman, abolitionist and close associate of William Lloyed Garrison, wrote many brochures condemning slavery.

单选题 Man of Few Words Everyone chases success, but not all of US want to be famous. South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}for keeping himself to himself. When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature, reporters were warned that they would find him "particularly difficult to {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}". Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago. He seemed {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}by the news he won the US $1.3 million prize. "It came as a complete surprise. I wasn't even aware they were due to make the announcement," he said. His {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend the prize, giving in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10. But despite being described as {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}to track down, the critics agree that his writing is easy to get to know. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to all English-speaking family, Coetzee {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}his breakthrough in 1980 with the novel Waiting for the Barbarians. He {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}his place among the world's leading writers with two Booker prize victories, Britain's highest honour for novels. He first {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}in 1983 for the Life and Times of Michael K ,and his second title came in 1999 for Disgrace. A major theme in his work is South Africa's former apartheid system, which divided whites from blacks. {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}with the problems of violence, crime and racial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}within. "I have always been more interested in the past than the future," he said in a rare interview. "The past {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}its shadow over the present. I hope I have made one or two people think {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}about whether they want to forget the past completely." In fact this purity in his writing seems to be {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}in his personal life. Coetzee is a vegetarian, a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesn't drink alcohol. But what he has {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}to literature, culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up. "In looking at weakness and failure in life," the Nobel Prize judging panel said, "Coetzee's work {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}the divine spark in man."

单选题{{B}}第三篇{{/B}} Barbie Dolls In the mid 1940's, the young ambitious duo Ruth and Elliot Handler, owned a company that made wooden pictures frames. It was in 1945 that Ruth and Elliot Handler joined with their close friend Harold Mattson to form a company would be named MATTEL, MATT for Mattson, and EL for Elliot. In the mid 1950's, while visiting Switzerland, Ruth Handler purchased a German Lilli doll. Lilli was a shapely, pretty fashion doll first made in 1955. She was originally fashioned after a famous cartoon character in the West German Newsletter, Build. Lilli is the doll that would inspire Ruth Handler to design the Barbie doll. With the help of her technicians and engineers at Mattel, Barbie was born. Ruth then hired Charlotte Johnson, a fashion designer, to create Barbie's wardrobe. It was in 1958 that the patent for Barbie was obtained. This would be a fashion doll unlike any of her time. She would be long limbed, shapely, beautiful, and only 11.5 inches tall. Ruth and Elliot would name their new fashion doll after their own daughter, Barbie. In 1959, the Barbie doll would make her way to the New York Toy Show and receive a cool reception from the toy buyers. Barbie has a universal appeal and collectors both young and old enjoy time spent and memories made with their dolls.