单选题We also want to use the water to irrigate barren desert land. A. hairless B. bare C. empty D. bald

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}} Hundreds of thousands of people supporting immigration rights in the US filled streets all over America in early 2006．Many held signs and American flags and asked to be treated as citizens-not criminals．Many of these supported legislation from Senator John McCain that would open a path to citizenship to immigrants who were already in the country illegally．Proposed legislation from other politicians called for stricter measures-including rounding up undocumented immigrants and sending them back to their home countries． Canadian officials say that immigration applications continue to rise．Some want to keep the doors open．They need the labor．About 400，000 immigrants were allowed into the country in 2005，according to the Canadian Government statistics．However，all this growth means that cities need to adapt．Newcomers don't always make a smooth transition into jobs for which they are skilled．So industries are using mentoring(辅导) programs to help new immigrants find proper jobs． With the large numbers of undocumented African immigrants arriving in the Canary Islands and showing no sign of abating(减少)，the Spanish Government has decided to get tough．There will be no more mass amnesties(特赦)for illegals，and anyone coming to Spain without permission will be sent back，the government has announced．About 23，000 migrants(移民)landed on the islands in 2006，and riots have erupted in some crowded reception centers。This has promoted local authorities to appeal to the United Nations for help． France's new immigration and integration law gives the government new powers to encourage high skilled migration．It takes effect in 2007．The new law authorizes the government to identify particular professions where France has a talent shortage．Then the government will help these identified employers find immigrant workers with needed skills or qualifications．The selected foreign employees will be granted“skills and talents”visas，valid for three years．But some people show the concern that it'll cause brain drain in developing countries．

单选题The Industrial Age and Employment The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought about may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting (大胆的) thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom. Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving (剥夺) them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted (乘车往返) longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people's work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived. Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary (惯例的) for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes. It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded-a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some efforts and resources away from the utopian (乌托邦的) goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

单选题A young man is being hailed a hero tonight after rescuing two children.A. reportedB. provedC. praisedD. caught

单选题The scientists began to accumulate a huge mass of data.A. build upB. put upC. make upD. clear up

单选题Smoking 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 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 from 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.

单选题When did British gentlemen begin to wear ties regularly?

单选题The policemen acted quickly because lives were at stake .

单选题The republication of the poet's most recent works will certainly {{U}}enhance{{/U}} his national reputation.

单选题The once barren hillsides are now good farmland.

单选题If a thing is {{U}}conspicuous{{/U}} by its absence, it is something that everyone expects to be there.

单选题Ford"s Assembly Line When it comes to singling out those who have made a difference in all our lives, you cannot overlook Henry Ford. A historian a century from now might well conclude that it was Ford who most influenced all manufacturing, everywhere, even to this day, by introducing a new way to make cars—one, strange to say, that originated in slaughterhouses (屠宰场). Back in the early 1900s, slaughterhouses used what could have been called a "disassembly line". Ford reversed this process to see if it would speed up production of a part of an automobile engine called a magneto. Rather than have each worker completely assemble a magneto, one of its elements was placed on a conveyor, and each worker, as it passed, added another component to it, the same one each time. Professor David Hounshell of the University of Delaware, an expert on industrial development, tells what happened. "The previous day, workers carrying out the entire process had averaged one assembly every 20 minutes. But on that day, on the line, the assembly team averaged one every 13 minutes and 10 seconds per person." Within a year, the time had been reduced to five minutes. In 1913, Ford went all the way. Hooked together by ropes, partially assembled vehicles were towed (拖、拉) past workers who completed them one piece at a time. It hasn"t been long before Ford was turning out several hundred and thousand cars a year, a remarkable achievement then. And so efficient and economical was this new system that he cut the price of his cars in half, to $260, putting them within reach of all those who, up until that time, could not afford them. Soon, auto makers and the world all copied him. In fact, he encouraged them to do so by writing a book about all of his innovations, entitled Today and Tomorrow . The Age of the Automobile has arrived. Today, aided by robots and other forms of automation (自动化), everything from toasters to perfumes is made on assembly lines.

单选题A {{U}}deadly{{/U}} disease has affected these animals. A. contagious B. serious C. fatal D. worrying

单选题I have been trying to quit smoking.

单选题The great changes of the city Uastonished/U every visitor to that city.

单选题The policeman asked him to identify the thief.

单选题It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in 1997, to support the Red Cross's campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola, television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. "I knew the statistics," she said, "But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me: like when I met Sandra, a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her. " The Princess concluded with a simple message: "We must stop landmines. " And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message. But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, "which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press. They described her as "very ill-informed" and a "loose cannon" (乱放炮的人). The Princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms:"This is a distraction (干扰) we do not need. All I'm trying to do is help. " Opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess's trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in Angola and the British government's policy regarding landmines. The result was a severe embarrassment for the government. To try and limit the damage, the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind, claimed that the Princess's views on landmines were not very different from government poliey, and that it was "working towards" a worldwide ban. The Defense Secretary, Michael Portillo, claimed the matter was "a misinterpretation or misunderstanding. " For the Princess, the trip to this war torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. She said that the experience had also given her the ehance to get closer to people and their problems.

单选题The new garment fits her perfectly.

单选题A Pay Rise or Not? "Unless I get a rise. I"ll have a talk with the boss, Henry Manley," George Strong said to himself. George liked his job and he liked the town he lived in, but his wife kept telling him that his pay was not enough to meet the needs of the family. That was why he was thinking of taking a job in Birmingham, a nearby city about 50 miles away. He had been offered a job in a factory there, and the pay was far better. George lived in Wyeford, a medium-sized town. He really liked the place and didn"t like the idea of moving somewhere else, but if he took the job in Birmingham, he would have to move his family there. Henry Manley was the manager of a small company manufacturing electric motors. The company was in deep trouble because, among other reasons, the Japanese were selling such things at very low prices. As a result, Manley had to cut his own prices and profits as well. Otherwise he would not get any orders at all. Even then, orders were still not coming in fast enough, so that there was no money for raises (加工资) for his workers. Somehow, he had to struggle along and keep his best workers as well. He sighed. Just then the phone rang. His secretary told him that George Strong wanted to see him as soon as possible. Manley sighed again. He could guess what it was about. George Strong was a very young engineer. The company had no future unless it could attract and keep men like him. Manley rubbed his forehead (前额); his problems seemed endless.

单选题In most supermarkets goods are stored