单选题Wolfgang Kundt,who has developed an alternative theory

单选题The earliest kind of desk was a box that had a {{U}}sloping{{/U}} lid, under which there was storage space for writing materials.

单选题The French and Indian War of 1756-1763 pitted Britain, her American colonists, and her Indian allies against France, her Canadian colonists, and her Indian allies.

单选题I had some difficulty in carrying out the plan.

单选题Making a Loss is the Height of Fashion Given that a good year in the haute couture (高级定制女装) business is one where you lose even more money than usual, the prevailing mood in Paris last week was sensational. The big-name designers were falling over themselves to boast of how many outfits they had sold at below cost price, and how this proved that the fashion business was healthier than ever. Jean-Paul Gaultier reported record sales, "but we don"t make any money out of it," the designer assured journalists backstage. "No matter how successful you are, you can"t make a profit from couture," explained Jean-Jacques Picart, a veteran fashion PR man, and co-founder of the now-bankrupt Lacroix house. Almost 20 years have passed since the unusual economics of the couture business were first exposed. Outraged that he was losing money on evening dresses costing tens of thousands of pounds, the couturier Jean-Louis Scherrer published a detailed summary of his costs. One outfit he described curtained over half a mile of gold thread, 18,000 sequins (亮片), and had required hundreds of hours of hand-stitching in an atelier (制作室). A fair price would have been ￡50,000, but the couturier could only get ￡35,000 for it. Rather than riding high on the follies of the super-rich, he and his team could barely feed their hungry families. The result was an outcry and the first of a series of government—and industry—sponsored inquiries into the surreal (超现实的) world of ultimate fashion. The trade continues to insist that couture offers you more than you pay for, but it"s not as simple as that. When such a temple of old wealth starts talking about value for money, it isn"t to convice anyone that dresses coating as much as houses are bargain. Rather, it is to preserve the peculiar mystique (神秘), lucrative (利润丰厚的) associations and threatened interests that couture represents. Essentially, the arguments couldn"t be simpler. On one side are those who say that the business will die if it doesn"t change. On the other are those who say it will die if it is highly dated. Huge in its costs, tiny in its clientele and questionable in its influence, it still remains one of the great themes of Parisian life. In his book, The Fashion Conspiracy, Nicholas Coleridge estimates that the entire couture industry rests on the whims (一时兴起) of less than 30 immensely wealthy women, and although the number may have grown in recent years with the new prosperity of Asia, the number of couture customers worldwide is no more than 4,000. To qualify as couture, a garment must be entirely handmade by one of the 11 Paris couture houses registered to the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Each house must employ at least 20 people, and show a minimum of 75 new designs a year. So far, so traditional, but the Big Four operators—Chanel, Dior, Givenchy and Gaultier—increasingly use couture as a marketing device for their far more profitable ready-to-wear, fragrance and accessory lines.

单选题The factory is due to be pulled down next year.

单选题下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题。{{B}}第一篇{{/B}} {{B}} Life Connected with Computer{{/B}} After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend's Liverpudlian accent suddenly becomes indecipherable after the clarity of his words on screen, a secretary's tone seems more rejecting than I'd imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid—hours become minutes, and alternately seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days. For the last three years, since I stopped working as a producer for Charlie Rose, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit articles and edit them via E-mail and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England, so much of our relationship is computer-mediated. If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the blizzard of '96 on TV. But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though I've merged with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another node on the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to strongly dislike the outside forms of socializing. It's like attending an A. A. meeting in a bar with everyone holding a half-sipped drink. We have become the Net Opponents' worst nightmare. What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become an avoidance, a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult. At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to chatter in the background, something that I'd never done previously. The voices of the programs soothe me, but then I'm jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or compulsively needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. "Dateline, " "Frontline, " "Nightline, "CNN, NewYork 1, every possible angle of every story over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves from foreground to background.

单选题People fishing on a lake must wait {{U}}calmly{{/U}} so as not to scare the fish away.

单选题Even a novel in which there is no narrator tacitly creates a picture of an author behind the scenes.

单选题We have to put up with her behavior.

单选题Illinois has produced writers such as Carl Sandburg, gangsters such as A1 Capone, and architects such as Louis Sullivan. A. violent criminals B. politicians C. musicians D. industrialists

单选题I got a note from Moira urging me to get in touch.A. instructingB. notifyingC. pushingD. inviting

单选题Many fine cooks insist on ingredients of the highest quality.

单选题When I opened the door, a parcel on the floor caught my eye.

单选题The policeman wrote down all the particulars of the accident.

单选题Ammonia, one of the earliest known nitrogen compounds, was originally produced by distilling organic materials.A. massesB. fabricsC. substancesD. liquids

单选题Where Have All Our Visitors Gone? Sixty years ago, a man named Kenneth Arnold saw something that people are still (51) today, something that changed popular culture for ever. Flying his plane over mountains in the US state of Washington, he saw a line of strange objects, either crescent -shaped or disc-like, flying (52) the motion of a saucer skimming on water. The media soon picked up on the story--the Flying Saucers were here! Was the earth being (53) by creatures from another planet? Soon, so many sightings were made that the US military began to (54) . It called these strange objects UFOs Unidentified Flying Objects, and that is how they are (55) today. Military investigations found no evidence of visitors from outer space. But that did not stop the true (56) . The military were (57) up, they said. Or (58) it was because the travelers from space were of such superior intelligence that they could hide from the most sophisticated military analysts. People have always seen strange lights in the sky. In the past these were explained in (59) ways. In a world where religion was less influential and science fiction was popular, signs from god were replaced by visitors from other (60) . The date of the first UFO signings was also significant. In 1947, World War II had just ended and the (61) war was just beginning. Humanity seemed locked in endless conflicts. Like generations before them, people looked (62) the skies for help. But instead of seeking God, they looked for help from super-intelligent aliens with (63) technology. Belief in UFOs became the first religion of science. However, even people who believe in UFOs are not quite sure why they visit the earth. The universe is a big place and it is (64) to assume that there is life somewhere out there. It is possible that aliens have worked out how to travel through space. Yet some people report that they have been-taken by aliens and have had experiments (65) on them. Why would anyone travel across half the universe to conduct medical experiments on people living in small towns in the United States?

单选题The municipal home-rule system used in many United States cities gives a city the right to {{U}}draft{{/U}} its own charter.

单选题What is the main idea of this passage?

单选题Hens laying eggs need plenty of nourishing food.A. eatB. requireC. findD. use