单选题Going Back to Its Birthplace No sporting event takes hold of the world"s attention and imagination like the Olympic Games. The football World Cup fascinates fans in Europe and South America; baseball"s World Series is required viewing in North America; and the World Table Tennis Championships attracts the most interest in Asia. But the Olympics belong to the whole world. Now, after travelling to 17 countries over 108 years, the summer Games are returning to Athens, the place where the first modern Olympics was held. Participation in the Games is looked on not only as an achievement, but also as an honour. The 16 days between August 13 and 29 will. see a record 202 countries compete, up from Sydney"s 199. Afghanistan is back, having been banned from Sydney because the Taliban government didn"t let women do sports. There is also a place for newcomers East Timor and Kiribati. A total of 10,500 athletes will compete in 28 sports, watched by 5.3 million ticket-paying viewers as well as a television audience of 4 billion. Athens is to use its rich history and culture to make the Olympics as special as possible. The Games will open with cycling events which start in front of the Parthenon and Acropolis monuments. The final event will be a historic men"s marathon following the original route run by Phidippides in 490 BC to bring news of victory over the Persians. The ancient stadium at Olympia, first used for the Games nearly three centuries ago, will stage the shot put competitions. And the Panathenian Stadium, where the first modern Olympics was held, is to host the archery (射箭) events. If the well-known ancient sites deliver a great sense of history to the Games, the 39 new venues add a modern touch to the city of Athens. The main Olympic stadium, with a giant glass and steel roof, is the landmark (标志) building of the Olympics. "We believe that we will organize a "magical" Games," said Athens 2004 President Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki. "Our history with the Olympic Games goes back nearly 3,000 years, and Athens 2004 could be the best ever."

单选题Smoking will be banned in all public places here.

单选题The Old Gate In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly for defensive (51) but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable, like people with contagious (52) . The Old City of London gates were all (53) by the end of the 18th century. The last of London's gates was removed a century ago, but by a (54) of luck, it was never destroyed. This gate is, in (55) fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the (56) between the Old City of London and Westminster. In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar down, numbered the stones and put the gate in (57) because its design was (58) it was expensive to (59) and it was blocking the traffic. The Temple Bar Trust was (60) in the 1970's with the intention of returning the gate home. The aim of the Trust is the (61) of the nation's architectural heritage. Transporting the gate will mean physically pulling it (62) , stone by stone, removing and rebuilding it near St Paul's Cathedral. Most of the facade of the gate will probably be (63) , though there is a good (64) that the basic structure will be sound. The hardest (65) of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood on top of the gate.

单选题Help Your Child Become a Reader Encouraging early reading skills can build a path to a lifelong (终身的) love of reading and can help your child get a head start in school. While reading to your child is still the most important thing you can do to build reading skills, there are many techniques that can help. Make reading fun. Play games with your child as you read. Many traditional children's games can be adapted to encourage reading skills. While reading or during play, tell your child, "I spy with my little eye, something that begins with the letter b." Help the child find something on the page or in the room that begins with that letter. For example, "I see a barn." This can also he used to teach beginning letter sounds. "I spy with my little eye. Something that begins with the sounds." Help the child find a word that begins with the "s" sound. In this variation on the popular game, instruct the child that, "Simon says, 'point to something that starts with the letter n.' " The child call then find an object in the room or a body part, such as the nose, that starts with the letter presented. This can also be used to teach beginning sounds. Make a game out of rhyming (押韵) words by making up silly words to rhyme with the child's name or favorite toys. This sets the stage for rhyming real words by showing the child the similarities of sounds. As the child masters making up the words, begin rhyming real words to one another. Tips to raise a successful reader: Put books in places where the child plays. If books are easily accessible, children are more likely to pick them up. Let children "read to you" by looking at pictures. Making up stories to go along with illustrations helps children discover how words relate to pictures. Take books along on trips or even short visits to the doctor's office or grocery store. Have children help you shop. Reading grocery lists and looking for specific items helps build sight vocabulary.

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单选题It should become a general practice to include workers in some managerial decision making. There ought to be representatives of the workers on the firm's board of directors or other major policymaking groups. If rank - and - file workers are given a voice in the planning and management of the work flow, they will help to make improvements, their morale will rise, and their productivity will increase. As a further incentive, they must be given a share in the company's profits. This can be done through employee stockownership plans, bonuses, or rewards for efficiency and produetivity. Finally, when a plant can no longer operate at a profit, the workers should be given the opportunity to purchase the plant and run it themselves. Companies can give their workers a share of their profits through all the following ways EXCEPTA. employee stockownership plans.B. sale of the firm to the workers.C. bonuses.D. rewards for efficiency and productivity.

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单选题Smoking will be banned in all public places here.

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单选题Customers often defer payment for as long as possible this year.

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单选题 Plants and Mankind Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. We don't know what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of preindustrial societies that still exist, a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient. This is logical. Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even for other plants. They have always been enormously important to the welfare of people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shehers, and many other purposes. Tribes living today in the jungle of the Amazon recognize hundreds of plants and know many properties of each. To them botany has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of "knowledge" at all. Unfortunately, the more industrialized we become the farther away we move from direct contact with plants, and the less distinct our knowledge of botany grows. Yet everyone comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fall to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid. When our Neolithic ancestors, living in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer yields the next season, the first great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken. Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture: cultivated crops. From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.

单选题She married her boss's son because she wanted a husband from a wealthy family. But she had to bear her husband's bad temper. A. live in B. live on C. live with D. live up to

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单选题In the last year, ________% of ordinary Chinese and ________% of Chinese students have a positive impression of Japan.

单选题 Deport Them or Not In a country that defines itself by ideals, not by shared blood, who should be allowed to come, work and live here? In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks these questions have never seemed more pressing. On Dec. 11, 2001, as part of the effort to increase homeland security, federal and local authorities in 14 states staged "Operation Safe Travel" -raids on airports to arrest employees with false identification (身份证明). In Salt Lake City there were 69 arrests. But those captured were anything but terrorists, most of them illegal immigrants from Central or South America. Authorities said the undocumented workers' illegal status made them open to blackmail (讹诈) by terrorists. Many immigrants in Salt Lake City were angered by the arrests and said they felt as if they were being treated like disposable goods. Mayor Anderson said those feelings were justified to a certain extent, "We're saying we want you to work in these places, we're going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are, and then when it's convenient for us, or when we can try to make a point in terms of national security, especially after Sept. 11, then you're disposable. There are whole families being uprooted for all of the wrong reasons." Anderson said. If Sept. 11 had never happened, the airport workers would not have been arrested and could have gone oil quietly living in America, probably indefinitely. Ana Castro, a manager at a Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop at the airport, had been working 10 years with the same false Social Security card when she was arrested in the December airport raid. Now she and her family are living under the threat of deportation (驱逐出境). Castro's case is currently waiting to be settled. While she awaits the outcome, the government has granted her permission to work here and she has returned to her job at Ben & Jerry's.

单选题However bad the situation is, the majority is unwilling to risk change.

单选题A Health Profile A health profile is a portrait of all of the factors that influence your health. To draw your health profile, you will (51) what diseases run in your family, what health hazards you may be exposed to (52) work, how your daily (53) compares to the recommended standards, how much time per week you (54) exercising and what type of exercise you engage (55) , how stressful your work and family environments are, what kinds of illnesses you get regularly, and (56) or not you have any one of a number of addictions. (57) this portrait, you should have a checkup to determine how your blood, heart, and lungs are functioning. This checkup will serve (58) a baseline, to which you can then compare later tests. (59) this profile is thoroughly drawn, you can begin to think about setting health priorities based (60) your particular portrait. For example, if you drink two martinis every evening, have a high-stress (61) , are overweight, smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, and use marijuana occasionally on weekends, you should quit smoking first, followed (62) losing the excess weight, reducing the stress of your job, giving up your marijuana habit, and then finally giving some (63) to those martinis if you want to prevent first cancer, and then heart disease. Even for the youthful working person who has never been sick a day in his life, who is (64) excellent health, a good look at all health habits and at work and home environments may suggest changes that will (65) him in the future.

单选题New born babies can Udiscriminate/U between a man’s and a woman’s voice.

单选题The primary reason why the Constitution requires a census every ten years is to Uprovide/U a basis for the apportionment (分配，分摊) of representative among the states.