单选题He looked rather untidy as there were two buttons missing from his coat.

单选题What were the consequences of the decision she had made?

单选题The workers finally Ucalled off/U the strike.

单选题Our lives are intimately bound up with theirs. A. tensely B. nearly C. carefully D. closely

单选题She has been the subject of massive media coverage. A. extensive B. negative C. expensive D. active

单选题The town is famous for its Umagnificent/U church towers.

单选题Hitchhiking When I was in my teens and 20s, hitchhiking was a main form of long-distance transport. The kindness or curiosity of strangers 1 me all over Europe, North America, Asia and Southern Africa. Some of the lift-givers became friends, many provided hospitality 2 the road. Not only did you find out much more about a country than 3 traveling by train or plane, but also there was that element of excitement about where you would finish up that night. Hitchhiking featured importantly in Western culture. It has books and songs about it. So what has happened to 4 ? A few years ago, I asked the same question about hitchhiking in a column on a newspaper. 5 of people from all over the world responded with their view on the state of hitchhiking. "If there is a hitchhiker"s 6 , it must be Iran," came one reply. Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitchhiking, 7 was Quebec, Canada—"if you don"t mind being berated for not speaking French." But while hitchhiking was clearly still alive and well in many parts of the world, the 8 feeling was that throughout much of the west it was doomed. With so much news about crime in the media, people assumed that anyone on the open road without the money for even a bus ticket must present a danger. But do we 9 to be so wary both to hitchhike and to give a lift? In Poland in the 1960s, 10 a Polish woman who e-mailed me, "The authorities introduced the Hitchhiker"s Booklet. The booklet contained coupons for drivers, so each time a driver who had 11 somebody, he or she received a coupon. At the end of the season, 12 who had picked up the most hikers were rewarded with various prizes. Everybody was hitchhiking then." Surely this is a good idea for society. Hitchhiking would increase respect by breaking down 13 between strangers. It would help fight 14 warming by cutting down on fuel consumption as hitchhikers would be using existing fuels. It would also improve educational standards by delivering instant 15 in geography, history, politics and sociology.

单选题The meaning is still obscure.A. vagueB. transparentC. alienD. significant

单选题Sculpture has occasionally been found in the earth in an almost pure state.A. regularlyB. accidentallyC. sometimesD. successfully

单选题Big Polluters Told to Report Emissions The new rules would require 10,000 industrial sites and suppliers of petroleum products to submit the data beginning in 2011. Suppliers of fossil fuels(石油)will be asked to estimate how much carbon dioxide(二氧化碳), methane(甲烷) and other greenhouse gases are emitted when the fuels are burned by businesses and consumers in buildings and cars, the agency said. The E. P. A. said it had no firm estimate on how many businesses had the training and systems in place to report on their emissions. But a large percentage of those covered by the new regulations are already required to report emissions under other programs sponsored by the agency, it said. The agency said it had also been reaching out to businesses and offering training in how the emissions can be measured. The E. P. A. said the reposing system would provide vital data to businesses seeking to compare and control their emissions and better information to the government, which has been trying to forge (形成) a policy on how to combat climate change since President Obama took office. Yet the rules, proposed last March, remain controversial. Many businesses have asserted that the reporting requirement is a first step toward burdensome and needless government regulation. Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, has been circulating a draft amendment(修正案) to a federal budget bill that would prevent the E. P. A. from spending money to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from non- mobile sources. But some business organizations have recently taken a less antagonistic stance (反对态度). "We have always supported transparency (透明度)and do not oppose the reporting requirement," said Bill Kovacs, senior vice president for environment, technology and regulatory affairs at the United States Chamber of Commerce.

单选题Pocahontas, a young American Indian princess, assisted the early European settlers in the colony of Virginia.A. fedB. attractedC. helpedD. liked

单选题阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了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}} Rising China{{/B}} The China boom is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Who hasn't heard of the Middle Kingdom's astounding economic growth (8 percent annually), its mesmerizing(令人目瞪口呆的){{U}} (51) {{/U}}market (1.2 billion people), the investment ardor of foreign suitors( $ 40 billion in foreign direct investment last year{{U}} (52) {{/U}})? China is an economic juggernaut(主宰).{{U}} (53) {{/U}}Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution, a Washington D. C.-based think tank, "No country has expanded its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan doubled its foreign trade over{{U}} (54) {{/U}};{{U}} (55) {{/U}}foreign trade as quintupled. They're become the preeminent producer of labor-intensive manufacturing goods in the world". But there's been{{U}} (56) {{/U}}from the dazzling China growth story—namely, the Chinese multinational. No major Chinese companies have{{U}} (57) {{/U}}established themselves, or their brands, on the global stage. But as Haler shows, that is starting to change.{{U}} (58) {{/U}}100 years of poverty and chaos, of being overshadowed by foreign countries and multinationals, Chinese industrial companies are starting to{{U}} (59) {{/U}}on the world. A new generation of large and credible firms{{U}} (60) {{/U}}in China in the electronics, appliance and even high-tech sectors. Some have reached critical mass on the main land and{{U}} (61) {{/U}}new outlets for their production—through exports and by building Chinese factories abroad, chiefly in Southeast Asia. One example: China's investment in Malaysia soared from $ 8 million in 2000 to $ 766 million in the first half of this year.{{U}} (62) {{/U}}China's export prowess(杰出的才能 ), it will be years{{U}} (63) {{/U}}Chinese firms achieve the managerial and operational expertise of Western and Japanese multinationals. For one thing, many of its best companies are still at least partially state-owned.{{U}} (64) {{/U}}, China has a shortage of managerial talent and little notion of marketing and brand-building. Its companies are also{{U}} (65) {{/U}}by the country's tong tradition of central planning, inefficient use of capital and antiquated distribution system, which makes building national companies a challenge.

单选题A U.N. peacekeeping force was sent to that country.A. powerB. troopC. armsD. weapon

单选题London Cabbies (出租车司机) Every city in the world has taxis to take tourists to interesting places. London is the only city in the world where taking a taxi is an 1 experience for tourists. This is partly because of the special black cabs, which are found in no other country. But it is also because of the drivers themselves. 2 British people are famous for being polite and reserved, London cabbies are well-known 3 their willingness to talk. Some customers say that once the door shuts and the cab 4 off they are a captive (监禁了的) audience. It is impossible to get the taxi driver to stop 5 . "They"re self-confident and free thinking," said Malcolm Linskey, the author of a history of taxi drivers in London. They are also expensive. London has the most expensive taxis of any city in the world except Tokyo. That"s why Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, is planning to make taxi drivers negotiate their fares with 6 before they take a ride. Drivers agree that their fares are expensive. That"s because their black taxis 7 more than other cars, they say. And the customer is also paying for more driving expertise (专门知识) than anywhere else in the world. Before someone can qualify as a London taxi driver, that person has to pass a test 8 simply as "The Knowledge". This involves 9 the name and location of every street within six miles of a point in the exact centre of London. The trainee (受训者) must also learn the exact location of every important building within these streets. Finally he or she must be able to use this knowledge to work out the 10 distance between any two destinations within this area. It can 11 up to three years to pass "The Knowledge" Every day it is possible to see trainee taxi drivers on the streets of London, taking careful notes of popular destinations before tracing the route to their next stop. Cab driving is a job often 12 down in families. Many taxi drivers take their children out in their spare time to memorize 13 they need to know when it is their turn to do "The Knowledge". London cabbies also have bigger brains. Recent research found that the part of the brain that remembers things was larger and more 14 in cab drivers. They have to fit the whole of London into their heads, so their brains grow bigger. So perhaps it is not 15 that taxi drivers have lots to say.

单选题Spoilt for Choice Choice, we are given tol believe, is a right. In daily life, people have come to expect endless situations about which they are required to make decisions one way or another. In the main, these are just irksome moments at work which demand some extra energy or brainpower, or during lunch breaks like choosing which type of coffee to order or indeed which coffee shop to go to. But sometimes selecting one option as opposed to another can have serious or lifelong repercussions. More complex decision-making is then either avoided, postponed, or put into the hands of the army of professionals, Iifestyle coaches, lawyers, advisors, and the like. waiting to lighten the emotional burden for a fee. But for a good many people in the world, in rich and poor countries, choice is a luxury, not a right. And for those who think they are exercising their right to make choices, the whole system is merely an illusion, created by companies and advertisers wanting to sell their wares. The main impact of endless choice in people's lives is anxiety. Buying something as basic as a coffee pot is not exactly simple. Easy access to a wide range of consumer goods induces a sense of powerlessness, even paralysis, in many people, ending in the shopper giving up and walking away, or just buying an unsuitable item that is not really wanted in order to solve the problem and reduce the unease. Recent surveys in the United Kingdom have shown that a sizeable proportion of electrical goods bought per household are not really needed. The advertisers and the shareholders of the manufacturers are, nonetheless, satisfied. It is not just their availability that is the problem, hut the speed with which new versions of products come on the market. Advances in design and production mean that new items are almost ready by the time that goods hit the shelves. Products also need to have a short lifespan so that the public can be persuaded to replace them within a short time. The classic exampie is computers which are almost obsolete once they are bought. At first, there were only one or two available from a limited number of manufacturers, hut now there are many companies all with not only their own products but different versions of the same machine. This makes selection a problem. Gone are the days when one could just walk with ease. into a shop and buy one thing; no choice, no anxiety. The plethora of choice is not limited to consumer items. With the greater mobility of people around the world, people have more choice about where they want to live and work--a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, nations migrated across huge swathes of the earth in search of food, adventure, and more hospitable environments. Whole nations crossed continents and changed the face of history, so the mobility of people is nothing new. The creation of nation states and borders effectively slowed this process down. But what is different now is the speed at which migration is happening.

单选题He was resolute in his attempt to climb up to the top of the mountain.

单选题Atlas got the golden apples for Hercules because he wanted to be the king himself.

单选题Save Energy at Home On the average, Americans waste as much energy as two-thirds of the world's population consumes. That's (1) the result of driving inefficient cars, using inefficient appliances, and living and working in poorly insulated buildings. Then what can you do to improve the (2) ? Buy energy-efficient products.—Buy new appliances or electronics of the highest energy efficiency rating. New energy efficient models may cost more initially, but have a lower operating (3) over their lifetimes. The most energy-efficient models (4) the Energy Star label, which identifies products that use 20-40 per cent less energy than standard new products. According to the EPA, the typical American household can save about $-400 per year in (5) bills with products that carry the Energy Star. Switch to compact fluorescent bulbs. —Change the three bulbs you use (6) in your house to compact fluorescents. Each compact fluorescent bulb will keep half a ton of carbon dioxide out of the air over its lifetime. (7) , compact fluorescent bulbs last ten times as long and can save $-30 per year in electricity costs. Set heating and cooling temperatures correctly.—Check thermostats in your home to make sure they are (8) at a level that doesn't waste energy. Get an electronic thermostat that will allow your furnace to heat the house to a lower temperature when you're sleeping and retum it to a more (9) temperature before you wake up. Turn off the lights.— (10) lights and other electrical appliances such as televisions and radios when you're not using them. Install automatic timers for lights that people in your house frequently forget to turn them off when (11) a room. Choose renewable energy.—Many consumers can now choose their energy supplier. If you have a choice, choose an electric utility that uses renewable power (12) , such as solar, water or wind. Let the sun shine In.—The cheapest and most energy—efficient light and heat source is often right outside your windows. On (13) days, open blinds to let the sun light your home for free. Also remember that (14) entering a room equals passive solar heating. Even on cold winter days, sun streaming into a room can raise the temperature by several (15) . dioxide n. 二氧化物 insulate adj.隔热 thermostat n.温度自动调节 rating n.等级级别 timer n.定时器 fluorescent adj.荧光的 blind n.百叶

单选题Forester stared at his car, trembling with rage.A. shakingB. turningC. jumpingD. shouting

单选题Inflation Business and government leaders also consider the inflation rate to be an important general indicator. Inflation is a period of increased spending that causes rapid rises in prices. (51) your money buys fewer goods so that you get (52) for the same amount of money as before, inflation is the problem. There is a general rise (53) the price of goods and services. Your money buys less. Sometimes people describe inflation as a time when "a dollar is not worth a dollar anymore". Inflation is a problem for all consumers. People who live on a fixed income are hurt the (54) . Retired people, for instance, cannot count on an increase in income as prices rise. Elderly people who do not work face serious problems in stretching their incomes to (55) their needs in time of inflation. Retirement income (56) any fixed income usually does not rise as fast as prices. Many retired people must cut their spending to (57) rising prices. In many cases they must stop (58) some necessary items, such as food and clothing. Even (59) working people whose incomes are going up, inflation can be a problem. The (60) of living goes up, too. People who work must have even more money to keep up their standard of living. Just buying the things they need costs more. When incomes do not keep (61) with rising prices, the standard of living goes down. People may be earning the same amount of money, but they are not living as well because they are not able to buy as many goods and services. Government units gather information about prices in our economy and publish it as price indexes (62) the rate of change can be determined. A price index measures changes in prices using the price for a (63) year as the base. The base price is set at 100, and the other prices are reported as a (64) of the base price. A price index makes (65) possible to compare current prices of typical consumer goods, for example, with prices of the same goods in previous years.