单选题Can you follow the plot? A. change B. investigate C. write D. understand

单选题Intellectual Revolution Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to de with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless 1 on God"s earth. What we should 2 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 3 , and their culture will lead them as 4 as philosophy and as high as art. We have to remember that the valuable 5 development is self-development, and that it 6 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 7 into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations. In the history of education, the most 8 phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a craze for genius, in a 9 generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. The reason is that they are overladen with inert ideas. Except at 10 intervals of intellectual motivation, education in the past has been radically 11 with inert ideas. That is the reason why 12 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 13 of inert ideas. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity 14 greatness has been a 15 protest against inert ideas.

单选题It is important for you to raise more capitals to set up a company.A. moneyB. energyC. savingsD. income

单选题Their interpretation was Ufaulty/U.

单选题It is understandable that early civilizations blamed storms on the gods.

单选题Astronomers believe that matter in different parts of the universe

单选题Once again Tom checked his test paper carefully to {{U}}diminish{{/U}} all the spelling mistakes from it.

单选题The Sea What do you know about the sea? We know that it looks very pretty when the sun is shining on it. We also know that it can be very rough when there is a strong wind. What other things do we know about it? The first thing to remember is that the sea is very big. When you look at the map of the world you will find there is more water than land. The sea covers three quarters of the world. The sea is also very deep in some places. It is not deep everywhere. Some parts of the sea are very shallow. But in some places the depth of the sea is very great. There is one spot, near Japan, where the sea is nearly 11 kilometers deep! The highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometers high. If that mountain were put into the sea at that place, there would be 2 kilometers of water above it! What a deep place! If you have swum in the sea, you know that it is salty. You can taste the salt. Rivers, which flow into the sea, carry salt from the land into the sea. At that place, there would be 2 kilometers of water above it. What a deep place! If you have swum in the sea, you know that it is salty. You can taste the salt. Rivers, which flow into the sea, carry salt from the land into the sea. Some parts of the sea are saltier than other parts. There is one sea, called the Dead Sea, which is very salty. It is so salty that swimmers cannot sink! Fish cannot live in the Dead Sea! In most parts of the sea, there are plenty of fishes and plants. Some live near the top of the sea. Others live deep down. There are millions of tiny living things that float in the sea. These floating things are so small that it is hard to see them. Many fish live by eating these. The sea can be very cold. Divers, who go deep down in the sea, know this. On the top the water may be warm. When the diver goes downwards, the sea becomes colder and colder. Another thing happens. When the diver goes deeper, the water above presses down on him. It squeezes him. Then the diver has to wear clothes made of metal. But he cannot go very deep. Some people who wanted to go very deep used a very strong diving ship! They went down to the deepest part of the sea in it. They went down to a depth of eleven kilometers!

单选题It has been said that the Acts provided a new course of action and did not merely regulate or enlarge an old one. A. limit B. control C. replace D. offset

单选题Working Mothers Carefully conducted researches that have followed the children of working mothers have not been able to show any long-term problems, compared with children whose mothers stayed at home. My personal (51) is that mothers should be allowed to work if they wish. Whether we like it or not, there are a (52) of mothers who just have to work. There are those who have invested such a big part of their lives in establishing a career that they cannot (53) to see it lost. Then there are many who must work out of pure economic (54) . Many mothers are not (55) out to be full-time parents. After a few months at home with a much loved infant, they feel trapped and isolated. There are a number of options when it (56) to choosing childcare. These range from child minders and nannies through to Granny or the kind lady (57) the street. (58) , however, many parents don't have any choice； they have to accept anything they can get. Be prepared! No (59) how good the childcare may be, some children are going to protest wildly if they are left. This is a (60) normal stage of child development. Babies separate well in the first six months, but soon after that they start to get a crush on Mum and close family (61) Make sure that in the first week you allow (62) time to help your child settle in. All children are different. Some are independent, while others are more (63) to their mothers. Remember that if you want to 64．the best for your children, it's not the quantity of time you spend with them, it's the 65．that matters.

单选题The Eskimo is perhaps one of the most trusting and considerate of all Indians but seems to be {{U}}unconcerned{{/U}} about the welfare of his animals. A. critical about B. indignant at C. indifferent to D. subject to

单选题Terrible disputes can result when neither the employer nor the employee know what is the problem the other wants to discuss. Sometimes the fight will go away when the issues are made clear. The employee has to get his point across clearly in order to make the boss understand it. If the employee can't get his point across clearlyA. there may be terrible quarrels between them.B. the boss will find out a way to figure it out.C. the boss can still understand him.D. they will find another way to communicat

单选题The pressure on her from her family caused her to resort to the drastic measures.

单选题After seeing some of Louis Kahn's architectural plans,Jonas Salk asked him to build a laboratory in La Jolla, California.

单选题You can't let your eyes glide across the lines of a book and {{U}}arrived at{{/U}} a conclusion of what you have read.

单选题The thief scattered the papers all over the room while he was searching.

单选题If you want to keep healthy, you should Uvary/U the foods you eat.

单选题The herb medicine eventually cured her disease.A. nicelyB. apparentlyC. finallyD. naturally

单选题The Only Way Is Up Think of a modem city and the first image that come to mind is the skyline. It is full of great buildings, pointing like fingers to heaven. It is true that some cities don't permit buildings to go above a certain height. But these are cities concerned with the past. The first thing any city does when it wants to tell the world that it has arrived is to build skyscrapers. When people gather together in cities, they create a demand for land. Since cities are places where money is made, that demand can be met. And the best way to make money out of city land is to put as many people as possible in a space that covers the smallest amount of ground. That means building upwards. The technology existed to do this as early as the 19th century. But the height of buildings was limited by one important factor. They had to be small enough for people on the top floors to climb stairs. People could not be expected to climb a mountain at the end of their journey to work, or home. Elisha Otis, a US inventor, was the man who brought us the lift--or elevator, as he preferred to call it. However, most of the technology is very old. Lifts work using the same pulley system the Egyptians used to create the Pyramids. What Otis did was attach the system to a steam engine and develop the elevator brake, which stops the lift falling if the cords that hold it up are broken. It was this that did the most to gain public confidence in the new invention. In fact, he spent a number of years exhibiting lifts at fairgrounds, giving people the chance to try them out before selling the idea to architects and builders. A lift would not be a very good theme park attraction now. Going in a lift is such an everyday thing that it would just be boring. Yet psychologists and others who study human behavior find lifts fascinating. The reason is simple. Scientists have always studied animals in zoos. The nearest they can get to that with humans is in observing them in lifts. "It breaks all the usual conventions about the bubble of personal space we carry around with us--and you just can't choose to move away," says workplace psychologist, Gary Fitzgibbon. Being trapped in this setting can create different types of tensions, he says. Some people are scared of them. Others use them as an opportunity to get close to the boss. Some stand close to the door. Others hide in the comers. Most people try and shrink into the background. But some behave in a way that makes others notice them. There are a few people who just stand in a comer taking notes. Don't worry about them. They fire probably from a university.

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作出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A项；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B项；如果该句信息文章中没有提及，请选择C项。 {{B}} Smoking{{/B}} Since 1939, numerous studies have been conducted to determine whether smoking is a health hazard. The trend of the evidence has been consistent and indicates that there is a serious health risk. Research teams have conducted studies that show beyond all reasonable doubt that tobacco smoking is associated with a shortened life expectancy. Cigarette smoking is believed by most research workers in this field to be an important factor in the development of cancer of the lungs and cancer of the throat and is believed to be related to cancer of some other organs of the body. Male cigarette smokers have a higher death rate from heart disease than non-smoking males. Female smokers are thought to be less affected because they do not breathe in the smoke so deeply. Apart from statistics, it might be helpful to look at what smoking tobacco does to the human body. Smoke is a mixture of gases, vaporized chemicals, minute particles of ash and other solids. There is also nicotine, which is powerful poison, and black tar. As smoke is breathed in, all those components form deposits on the membranes of the lungs. One point of concentration is where the air tube and bronchus divides. Most lung cancer begins at this point. Filters and low tar tobacco are claimed to make smoking to some extent safer, but they can only slightly reduce, not eliminate the hazards.