单选题The rules are too rigid to allow for human error.

单选题 阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出4个选项。请根据短文的内容，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 {{B}}Coffee{{/B}} The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted in the market places despite their obvious advantages. Furthermore, the advertising expenditure for instant coffee was far greater than that for regular coffee. Efforts were {{U}}(51) {{/U}} to find the cause of the consumers' seemingly unreasonable {{U}}(52) {{/U}} to the product. The reason given by most people was {{U}}(53) {{/U}} for the taste. The producers suspected that there might be {{U}}(54) {{/U}} reasons, however. This was confirmed by one of motivation research's classic studies, one often cited in the trade. Mason Haire, of the University of California, {{U}}(55) {{/U}} two shopping lists that were identical except for one item. There were six items common to both lists: hamburger, carrots (胡萝卜), baking power, bread, canned peaches and potatoes, {{U}}(56) {{/U}} the brands or amounts specified. The seventh item, in the fifth {{U}}(57) {{/U}} both lists, read "1 lb. Maxwell House coffee" on one list and "Nescafe instant coffee" on the {{U}}(58) {{/U}}. one list was given to each person in a group of fifty {{U}}(59) {{/U}}, and the other list to those in an other group of the same {{U}}(60) {{/U}}. the women were asked to study their lists and then to describe as far as they could, the kind of woman ("personality and character") {{U}}(61) {{/U}} would draw up that shopping list. {{U}}(62) {{/U}} half of those who had received the list including instant coffee described a housewife who was laze and a poor planner. {{U}}(63) {{/U}}, only one woman in the other group described the housewife, who had {{U}}(64) {{/U}} regular coffee on her list, as lazy; only six of that group suggest ed that she was a poor lanner.. eight women felt that the instant-coffee user was probably not a good wife! No one in the other group {{U}}(65) {{/U}} such a conclusion about the housewife who intended to buy regular coffee.

单选题Englishman The English have the reputation of being very different from all other nationalities. It is claimed that living on an island separated from the rest of Europe has much to do with it. Whatever the reasons, it may be fairly stated that the Englishman has developed some attitudes and habits distinguishing him from other nationalities. Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, and reserved person among people he knows well. Before strangers he often seems inhibited, even embarrassed. You have only to witness a railway compartment any morning or evening to see the truth. Serious-looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing (打盹) in a corner, and no one speaks. An English wit once suggested to overseas visitors, "On entering a railway compartment shake hands with all the passengers." Needless to say, he was not being serious. There is an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior, which, if broken, makes the person immediately the object of suspicion. It is well known that the English seldom show openly extremes of enthusiasm, emotion etc. Of course, an Englishman feels no less than any other nationality. Imagine a man commenting on the great beauty of a young girl. A man of more emotional temperament might describe her as "a marvelous jewel", while the Englishman will flatly state "Urn, she's all right." An Englishman may recommend a highly successful and enjoyable film to friends by commenting, "It's not bad." The overseas visitors must not be disappointed by this apparent lack of interest. They must realize that "all right", "not bad" are very often used with the sense of "first class", "excellent". This special use of language is particularly common in English.

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单选题I expect that she will be able to cater for your particular needs. A. supply B. reach C. provide D. meet

单选题Many people think that she takes after her father.

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单选题These are defensive behavior patterns which derive from our fears. A. stem B. rely C. develop D. grow

单选题The council meeting terminated at 2 o"clock.

单选题The index is the government"s chief gauge of future economic activity.______

单选题{{B}}第二篇{{/B}} {{B}} In Favor of the Death Penalty{{/B}} With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most controversial issue across the United States today is the death penalty. Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑) to murder, while others maintain there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty reduces the number of murders. The principal argument advanced by those opposed to the death penalty, basically, is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, that it is the mark of a brutal society, and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as deterrent to crime anyway. In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary evil. Throughout recorded history there have always been those extreme individuals in every society who were capable of terribly violent crimes such as murder. But some are more extreme than others. For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in a fit of blind rage, but quite another to coldly plot and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Thus, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of relative degree. While it could be argued with some conviction that the criminal in the first instance should be merely isolated from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer. The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to debate. But the overwhelming majority of citizens believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is reinforced by evidence which shows the death penalty deters murder. For example, from 1954 to 1963, when the death penalty was consistently imposed in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100,000 population. Since 1964 the death penalty has been imposed only once, and the murder rate has risen to 10.4 murder rate, which began when executions stopped, is no coincidence (巧合). It is convincing evidence that the death penalty does deter many murders. If the bill reestablishing the death penalty is vetoed (否决), innocent people will be murdered—some whose lives may have been saved if the death penalty were in effect. This is literally a life or death matter. The lives of thousands of innocent people must be protected.

单选题The two girls look alike .

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单选题 Intellectual Revolution Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}on God's earth. What we should {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}, and their culture will lead them as {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}as philosophy and as high as art. We have to remember that the valuable {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}development is self-development, and that it {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}takes place between the ages of sixteen and thirty. As to training, the most important part is given by mothers before the age of twelve. In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "inert ideas" —that is to say, ideas that are merely. {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations. In the history of education, the most {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a craze for genius, in a {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. The reason is that they are overladen with inert ideas. Except at {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}intervals of intellectual motivation, education in the past has been radically. {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}with inert ideas. That is the reason why {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}clever women, who have seen much of the world, are in middle life so much the most cultured part of the community. They have been saved from this horrible {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}of inert ideas. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}greatness has been a {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}protest against inert ideas.

单选题Penguins do not suffer from the cold in Antarctica because their feathers secrete protective oil.

单选题What Is Globalization? It was the anti-globalization movement that really put globalization on the map. As a word it has existed since the 1960s, but the protests against this allegedly new process, which its opponents condemn as a way of ordering people"s lives, brought globalization out of the financial and academic worlds and into everyday current affairs. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the business model called the "globalize" financial market came to be seen as an entity that could have more than just an economic impact on the parts of the world it touched. Globalization came to be seen as more than simply a way of doing business, or running financial markets—it became a process. From then on the word took on a life of its own. So how does the globalize market work? It is modern communications that make it possible; for the British service sector to deal with its customers through a call centre in India, or for a sportswear (运动服) manufacturer to design its products in Europe, make them in southeast Asia and sell them in north America. But this is where the anti-globalization side gets stuck in (关注). If these practices replace domestic economic life with an economy that is heavily influenced or controlled from overseas. Then the creation of a globalize economic model and the process of globalization can also be seen as a surrender of power to the corporations, or a means of keeping poorer nations in their place. Not everyone agrees that globalization is necessarily evil, or that globalize corporations are running the lives of individuals or are more powerful than nations. Some say that the spread of globalization, free markets and free trade into the developing world is the best way to beat poverty the only problem is that free markets and free trade do not yet truly exist. Globalization can be seen as a positive, negative or even marginal process. And regardless of whether it works for good or ill, globalization"s exact meaning will continue to be the subject of debate among those who oppose, support or simply observe it.

单选题Who Built Giza’s Pyramids(金字塔)? 1 For centuries, the pyramids of Giza have been timeless symbols of Egyptian culture. But who actually built them? For years, we did not know for sure. But archeologists(考古学家)recently discovered an ancient village near the pyramids. Close by, there was also a cemetery(墓地)where pyramid builders were buried. From studying these places, archeologists can now confirm that the pyramids were not built by slaves or foreigners. Ordinary Egyptians built them. 2 It took about eighty years to build the pyramids. According to archeologists, about 20,000-30,000 people were involved in completing the task. The workers had different roles. Some dug up the rock, some moved it, and some shaped it into blocks. People also worked on different teams, each with its own name. On a wall in Khufu's Great Pyramid, for example, a group of workers wrote "Friends of Khufu." Teams often competed to do a job faster. 3 Life for these workers was hard. "We can see that in their skeletons(骨架),” says Azza Mohamed Sarry El-Din, a scientist studying bodies found in the cemetery. The bones show signs of arthritis(关节炎), which developed from carrying heavy things for a long time. Archeologists have also found many female skeletons in the village and cemetery. The damage to their bones is similar to the men's. Their lives may have been even tougher: male workers lived to age 40-45, but women to only 30-35. However, workers usually had enough food, and they also had medical care if they got sick or hurt. 4 The work was challenging, but laborers were proud of their work. "lt's because they were not just building the tomb of their king," says Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass. “They were building Egypt. It was a national project, and everyone was a participant.” 　23. Paragraph 1______ 　　24. Paragraph 2______ 　　25. Paragraph 3______ 　　26. Paragraph 4______ 　　A. Builders of the pyramids 　　B. Egyptian slaves 　　C. Pyramid builders' jobs 　　D. Pyramid builders' tough lives 　　E. An important national project 　　F. Female pyramid builders: the challenges 　　27. The pyramids of Giza were built ______ 　　28. To build the pyramids, the workers had different roles and worked ______ 　　29. Both men and women workers suffered from arthritis which developed ______ 　　30. The pyramid builders were proud ______ 　　A. of their king 　　B. from taking heavy things 　　C. on different teams 　　D. by foreigners 　　E. of their work 　　F. by ordinary Egyptians

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单选题He was kept in appalling conditions in prison.