单选题 The Population Situation in India With 950 million people, India ranks second to China among the most populous countries. But since China {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}a family planning program in 1971, India has been closing the gap Indians have reduced their birth rate but not nearly. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}the Chinese have. If current growth rates continue, India's population will {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}China's around the year 2028 at about 1.7 billion. Should that happen, it won't be the {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}of the enlightened women of Kerala, a state in southern India. While India as a whole adds almost 20 million people a year, Kerala's population is virtually. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}. The reason is no mystery: nearly two-thirds of Kerala women practice birth control, {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}about 40% in the entire nation. The difference {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}the emphasis put on health programs, including birth control, by the state authorities, {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}in 1957 became India's first elected Communist government. And an educational tradition and matrilineal (母系的) customs in parts of Kerala help girls and boys get {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}good schooling. While one in three Indian women is {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}, 90% of those in Kerala can read and write. Higher literacy rates {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}family planning. "Unlike our parents, we know that we can do more for our children if we have {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}of them," says Laial Cherian, 33, who lives in the village of Kudamaloor. She has limited herself {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}three children--one below the national {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}of four. That kind of restraint (抑制，克制) will keep Kerala from putting added {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}on world food supplies.

单选题Hercules worked in the king's garden.

单选题I enjoyed the play-it had a clever plot and very funny dialogues． A．long B．boring C．original D．humorous

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单选题Shopping for Clothes Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone"s satisfaction. For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop doesn"t have what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute impolitely; he does so with skill: "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned." Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: "This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on." Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only "having a look round". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lock-out for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

单选题At the age of 10, Muren was able to use computer graphics technology to make things move.

单选题That guy is intelligent but a bit dull.

单选题In their productions, choreographers of modem dance have introduced humor, protested social injustice, and probed psychological problems. A. solved B. explored C. involved D. disputed

单选题下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。 Racial Prejudice In some countries where racial prejudice is acute，violence has been taken for granted as a means of solving differences；and this is not even questioned．There are countries{{U}} (51) {{/U}}the white man imposes his rule by brute(粗暴的)force；there are countries where the black man protests by{{U}} (52) {{/U}}fire to cities and by looting and pillaging(抢劫)．Important people on both sides，who would appear to bereasonable men，get up and calmly argue in{{U}} (53) {{/U}}of violence as if it were a legitimate(合法的) solution，{{U}} (54) {{/U}}any other．What is really frightening，what really{{U}} (55) {{/U}} you with despair，is the realization that when it comes to the crunch(关键时刻)，we have made no actual{{U}} (56) {{/U}}at all．We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint，but our instincts remain basically unchanged．The whole of the recorded{{U}} (57) {{/U}}of the human race，that tedious documentation of violence，has taught us absolutely nothing．We have still not learnt that{{U}} (58) {{/U}}never solves a problem but makes it more acute．The sheer horror，the bloodshed and the suffering{{U}} (59) {{/U}}nothing．No solution ever comes to{{U}} (60) {{/U}}the morning after when we dismally(阴郁地) contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us． The truly reasonable men who{{U}} (61) {{/U}}where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing．They are despised，mistrusted and even persecuted{{U}} (62) {{/U}}their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement．If half the energy that goes into{{U}} (63) {{/U}}acts were put to good use，if our efforts were directed at{{U}} (64) {{/U}}up the slums and ghettos(贫民窟)，at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all，we would not have gone a long way to{{U}} (65) {{/U}}at a solution．

单选题College Night Owls Have Lower Grades College students who are morning people tend to get better grades than those who are night owls (晚睡的人), according to University of North Texas researchers. They had 824 undergraduate students complete a health survey that included questions about sleep habits and daytime functioning, and found that students who are morning people had higher grade point averages(GPAs) than those who are night people. "The finding that college students who are evening types have lower GPAs is a very important finding, sure to make its way into undergraduate psychology texts in the near future, along with the research showing that memory is improved by sleep," study co-author Daniel J. Taylor said in a prepared statement. "Further, these results suggest that it might be possible to improve academic performance by using chronotherapy (时间疗法) to help students retrain their biological clock to become more morning types." Taylor said. The research was expected to be presented Monday at sleep, the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, in Baltimore. In other findings expected to be heard at the meeting, University of Colorado researchers found a significant association between insomnia(失眠) and a decline in college students" academic performance. The study included 64 psychology, nursing and medical students, average age 27.4 years, who were divided into two groups—low GPAs and high GPAs. Among those with low GPAs, 69.7 percent had trouble falling asleep, 53.1 percent experienced leg kicks or twitches (痉挛) at night, 65.6 percent reported waking at night and having trouble falling back to sleep, and 72.7 percent had difficulty concentrating during the day. "In college students, the complaint of difficulty concentrating during the day Continues to have a considerable impact on their ability to succeed in the classroom," study author Dr James F. Pagel said in a prepared statement, "This study showed that disordered sleep has significant harmful effects on a student"s academic performance, including GPAs."

单选题Below 600 feet ocean waters range from {{U}}dimly{{/U}} lit to completely dark.

单选题{{B}}第三篇{{/B}} {{B}} Eat More, Weigh Less, Live Longer{{/B}} Clever genetic detective work may have found out the reason why a near-starvation diet prolongs the life of many animals. Ronald Kahn at Harvard Medical School in Boston, US, and his colleagues have been able to extend the lifespan (寿命) of mice by 18 per cent by blocking the rodent’s (啮齿动物) increase of fat in specific cells. This suggests that thinness—and not necessarily diet—promotes long life in "calorie (热量卡) restricted" animals. "It's very coal work," says aging researcher Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco. "These mice eat all they want, lose weight and live longer. It's like heaven." Calorie restriction .dramatically extends the lifespan of organisms as different as worms and rodents. Whether this works in humans is still unknown, partly because few people are willing to submit to such a strict diet. But many researchers hope they will be able to trigger the same effect with a drug once they understand how less .food leads to a longer life. One theory is that eating less reduces the increase of harmful things that can damage cells. But kahn's team wondered whether the animals simply benefit by becoming thin: To find out, they used biology tricks to disrupt the insulin (胰岛素) receptor (受体) gene in lab mice—but only in their fat cells. "Since insulin is needed to help fat cells store fat, these animals were protected against becoming fat," explains Kahn. This slight genetic change in a single tissue had dramatic effects. By three months of age, Kahn's modified mice had up to 70 per cent less body fat than normal control mice, despite the fact that they ate 55 per cent more food per gram of body weight. In addition, their lifespan increased. The average control mouse lived 753 days, while the thin rodents averaged a lifespan of 887 days. After three years, all the control mice had died, but one-quarter of the modified rodents were still alive. "That they get these effects by just manipulating the fat cells is controversial," says Leonard Guarente of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies calorie restriction and aging.. But Guarente says Kahn has yet to prove that the same effect is responsible for increased lifespan in calorie-restricted animals. "It might be the same effect or there might be two routes to long life," he points out, "and that would be very interesting."

单选题The story was {{U}}touching{{/U}}. A. inspiring B. boring C. moving D. frightening

单选题How to Start a Small Business in the US People from other countries often take America as the "land of opportunity". Americans, too, believe that the country gives no end of chances to those who want to open their own businesses. Today, many Americans are still trying hard to become small business people, although only one out of two remains in operation after the first two years. Many people start their small businesses for the wrong reasons. They want to get away from the paper work of their present jobs or to exchange the responsibility of their present jobs for free life styles. But more, not less, paper work and responsibility come with ownership of a small business. Thomas is the owner of the news magazine Mother Earth, which is now quite successful. He says that he had to work sixty hours without stopping when he was trying to bring out the first issue. Thomas had waited for years after he came up with the idea for Mother Earth. During that time, he collected as much information as he could about his business. He borrowed books from the library, talked to successful people in the field, and began planning carefully the amount of money and the kinds and numbers of supplies he would need. When he finally opened with a capital of $1,500, he set up his office in the kitchen and his printing press in the garage. Owing to his devotion to business, his talent, and his skill in management, Mother Earth now has a circulation of 300,000. Not all small businesses are doing as fine as Mother Earth. 50% of the 450,000 that start in America every year fail. Still, 95% businesses in the US can be called "small". Altogether these businesses amount to 40% of America's gross national product.

单选题It is no use debating the relative merits of this policy.

单选题He achieved success through hard work.

单选题 阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选B；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请选C。 {{B}} Winners and Losers{{/B}} Why are the biggest winners in the past decade of trade globalization mostly in South and East Asia, whereas the biggest losers are mostly in the former Soviet bloc (集团) and sub-Saharan Africa? History is a partial guide: East Asia has a long trading tradition, lately reinvigorated (给以新的活力) by the Chinese adoption of market economics. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, was sheltered from free-market forces for more than 70 years. In Africa, some countries are disadvantaged because of inadequate infrastructure (基础结构); many countries have little to trade but commodities, the prices of which have fallen in recent years. In some regions, certain countries have suffered by adopting misguided policies, often under pressure from International Monetary Fund. First among these is Russia, which in the early 1990s tried to embrace capitalism before first building the institutions that make capitalism work, such as an independent bank system, a system of business law, and an adequate method for collecting taxes. Encouraged by the 4MF, the World Bank and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, President Boris Yeltsin's regime privatized the state-owned industrial sector, creating a class of oligarchs (寡头政治集团成员 ), who, knowing how unstable conditions were at home, sent their money abroad instead of investing it at home. In contrast, China, the biggest winner from globalization, did not follow the IMF formula. Of the former states of the Soviet bloc, only a few, notably Poland and Hungary, managed to grew, which they did by ignoring IMF advice and adopting expansionary plans, including spending more than they collected in taxes. Botswana and Uganda are also success stories: despite their disadvantages, their countries achieved vigorous growth by creating stable civil societies, liberalizing trade and implementing reforms that ran counter to IMF prescriptions.

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}} Ellen MacArthur started sailing when she was eight，going out on sailing trips with her aunt．She loved it so much that she saved her money for three years to buy her first small sailing boat．When she was 18，she sailed alone around Britain and won the“Young Sailor of the Year”award． But Ellen really became famous in 2001．Aged only 24，she was one of the only two women who entered the Vendee Globe round the world solo race，which lasts 100 days．Despite many problems，she came second in the race out of 24 competitors and she was given a very warm welcome when she returned． Ambition and determination have always been a big part of Ellen's personality．When she was younger，she lived in a kind of hut(棚屋)for three years while she was trying to get sponsorship to compete in a transatlantic race．Then she took a one-way ticket to France，bought a tiny seven meter Class Miniyacht(游艇)，slept under it while she was repairing it，and then she raced it 4，000 kilometres across the Atlantic in 1997，alone for 33 days． Ellen has had to learn many things，because sailing single-handed means that she has to be her own captain，electrician，sail maker，engineer，doctor，journalist，cameraman and cook．She also has to be very fit，and because of the dangers of sleeping for long periods of time she's in the middle of the ocean，she has trained herself to sleep for about 20 minutes at a time． And she needs courage．Once，in the middle of the ocean，she had to climb the mast(桅杆)of a boat to repair the sails-at four o'clock in the morning，with 100kph winds blowing around her．It took her many hours to make the repairs；Ellen says：“I was exhausted when I came down．It's hard to describe how it feels to be up there．It's like trying to hold onto a big pole，which for me is just too big to get my arms around，with someone kicking you all the time and trying to shake you off”． But in her diary，Ellen also describes moments which make it all worthwhile(值得的)：“A beautiful sunrise started the day，with black clouds slowly lit by the bright yellow Sun．I have a very strong feeling of pleasure，being out here on the ocean and having the chance to live this．I just feel lucky to be here”．

单选题Maria Chapman, abolitionist and close associate of William Lloyed Garrison, wrote many brochures condemning slavery. A．slogans B．short poems C．sentiments D．short pamphlets

单选题We all think that the new device he has proposed is Uingenious/U.