单选题Other spectator spots include wrestling, boxing, arid horse racing. Although horse - racing fans call themselves sportsmen, the accuracy of the term is questionable, as only the jockeys who ride the horses in the races can be considered athletes. The so - called spoasmen are the spectatars, who do "not assemble" primarily to see the horses race, but to bet upon the outcome of each race. Gaming is the attraction of horse racing. People who call themselves sportsiren in horse racing are actuallyA. the horse riders.B. professional gamblers.C. spectators.D. gambling organizers.

单选题How Do American Consumers Borrow? Young consumers often have not established their credit ratings. Many do not have steady incomes. They might have difficulty borrowing money from an agency in business to make loans. Parents or relatives are usually their best source of loans. Of course, the parents or relatives would have to have money available and be willing to lend it. You might even get an interest-free loan. However, a parent or relative who lends should receive the same interest as any other lender. There are disadvantages in borrowing from parents or relatives. One is that they may not insist on you paying back the money by a certain time. As a result, you might let the loan drag on. This is especially true if you are not required to pay interest. This is not a way to develop good credit habits. For most consumers, the cheapest place to borrow is at a commercial bank. Banks are a good source of installment loan which may run for 12 months or up to 30. Most banks also make single payment loans to consumers for short periods — 30, 60, or 90 days. The newest type of bank loan is one that a depositor can get simply by writing a check. It is usually called something like "ready credit" or "reserved checking." It works like this. A depositor is given a limited amount of credit, usually between $ 500 and $1, 000. He or she may write checks up to the amount allowed. Once a check has been written, the amount of the check becomes a loan. Usually no charge is made for interest (利息) until the loan is made. A typical interest rate is 3 cents per $100 per day, or just under 1 percent a month. Suppose that you used $100 of your credit and repaid it in 30 days. The cost would be 90 cents. If you repaid it in 10 days, the cost would be only 30 cents. The advantage of borrowing from a bank is that banks generally charge lower rates than most other lenders. One reason is that banks have more strict credit requirements than most other lenders. A consumer must have a fairly good credit rating to get a bank loan.

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}}Why Is the Native Language Learnt So Well{{/B}} How does it happen that children learn their mother tongue so well? When we compare them with adults learning a foreign language, we often find this interesting fact. A little child without knowledge or experience often succeeds in a complete mastery of the language. A grown-up person with fully developed mental powers, in most cases, may end up with a faulty and inexact command. What accounts for this difference? Despite other explanations, the real answer in my opinion lies partly in the child himself, partly in the behaviour of the people around him. In the first place, the time of learning the mother tongue is the most favourable of all, namely, the first years of life. A child hears it spoken from morning till night and, what is more important, always in its genuine form, with the right pronunciation, fight intonation, right use of words and right structure. He drinks in all the words and expressions which come to him in a flesh, ever-bubbling spring. There is no resistance: there is perfect assimilation. Then the child has, as it were, private lessons all the year round, while an adult language-student has each week a limited number of hours which he generally shares with others. The child has another advantage: he hears the language in all possible situations, always accompanied by the right kind of gestures and facial expressions. Here there is nothing unnatural, such as is often found in language lessons in schools, when one talks about ice and snow in June or scorching heat in January, And what a child hears is generally what immediately interests him. Again and again, when his attempts at speech are successful, his desires are understood and fulfilled. Finally, though a child's "teachers" may not have been trained in language teaching, their relations with him are always close and personal. They take great pains to make their lessons easy.

单选题{{B}}第三篇{{/B}} {{B}} When to Take Medicine Is Important{{/B}} Our bodies are wonderfully skillful at maintaining balance. When the temperature jumps, we sweat to cool down. When our blood pressure falls, our hearts pound to compensate. As it turns out, though, our natural state is not a steady one. Researchers are finding that everything from blood pressure to brain function varies rhythmically with the cycles of sun, moon and seasons. And their insights are yielding new strategies for keeping away such common killers as heart disease and cancer. Only one doctor in 20 has a good knowledge of the growing field of "chronotherapeutics", the strategic use of time (chronos) in medicine. But according to a new American Medical Association poll, three out of four are eager to change that. "That field is exploding," says Michael Smolensky. "Doctor used to look at us like, what spaceship did you guys get off? Now they're thirsty to know more." In medical school, most doctors learn that people with chronic conditions should take their medicine at steady rates. "It's a terrible way to treat disease," says Dr. Richard Martin. For example, asthmatics (气喘患者) are most likely to suffer during the night. Yet most patients strive to keep a constant level of medicine in their blood day and night, whether by breathing in on an inhaler (吸入器 ) four times a day or taking a pill each morning and evening. In recent studies, researchers have found that a large midafternoon dose of a bronchodilator (支气管扩张) can be as safe as several small doses, and better for preventing nighttime attacks. If the night belongs to asthma, the dawn belongs to high blood pressure and heart disease. Heart attacks are twice as common at 9 a.m. as at 11 p.m. Part of the reason is that our blood pressure falls predictably at night, then peaks as we start to work for the day. "Doctors know that," Dr. Henry Black of Chicago's Medical Center, "but until now, we haven't been able to do anything about it." Most blood-pressure drugs provide 18 to 20 hours of relief. But because they're taken in the morning, they are least effective when most needed. "You take your pill at 7 and it's working by 9," says Dr. William White of the University of Connecticut Health Center. "But by that time you've gone through the worst four hours of the day with no protection." Bedtime dosing would prevent that lapse, but it would also push blood pressure to dangerously low levels during the night.

单选题 Charter Schools American public education has changed in recant years. One change is that increasing numbers of American parents and teachers are starting independent public schools (51) charter schools (特许学校). In 1991, there were no charter schools in the United States. Today, more than 2,300 charter schools (52) in 34 states and the District of Columbia. 575,000 students (53) these schools. The students are from 5 years of age through 18 or older. A charter school is (54) by groups of parents, teachers and community (社区) members. It is similar in some ways (55) a traditional public school. It receives tax money to operate just as other public schools do. The (56) it receives depends on the number of students. The charter school must prove to local or state governments that its students are learning. These governments (57) the school with the agreement, or charter that permits it to operate. Unlike a traditional public school, (58) , the charter school does not have to obey most laws governing public schools. Local, state or federal governments cannot tell it what to (59) . Each school can choose its own goals and decide the ways it wants to (60) those goals. Class sizes usually are smaller than in many traditional public schools. Many students and parents say (61) in charter schools can be more creative. However, state education agencies, local education-governing committees and unions often (62) charter schools. They say these schools may receive money badly (63) by traditional public schools. Experts say some charter schools are doing well while others are struggling. Congress provided 200 million dollars for (64) charter schools in the 2002 federal budget (预算). But, often the schools say they lack enough money for their (65) . Many also lack needed space.

单选题I have traveled through the length and {{U}}breadth{{/U}} of this country.

单选题The rules are too rigid to allow for human error.

单选题 阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出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}}Coffee{{/B}} The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted in the market places despite their obvious advantages. Furthermore, the advertising expenditure for instant coffee was far greater than that for regular coffee. Efforts were {{U}}(51) {{/U}} to find the cause of the consumers' seemingly unreasonable {{U}}(52) {{/U}} to the product. The reason given by most people was {{U}}(53) {{/U}} for the taste. The producers suspected that there might be {{U}}(54) {{/U}} reasons, however. This was confirmed by one of motivation research's classic studies, one often cited in the trade. Mason Haire, of the University of California, {{U}}(55) {{/U}} two shopping lists that were identical except for one item. There were six items common to both lists: hamburger, carrots (胡萝卜), baking power, bread, canned peaches and potatoes, {{U}}(56) {{/U}} the brands or amounts specified. The seventh item, in the fifth {{U}}(57) {{/U}} both lists, read "1 lb. Maxwell House coffee" on one list and "Nescafe instant coffee" on the {{U}}(58) {{/U}}. one list was given to each person in a group of fifty {{U}}(59) {{/U}}, and the other list to those in an other group of the same {{U}}(60) {{/U}}. the women were asked to study their lists and then to describe as far as they could, the kind of woman ("personality and character") {{U}}(61) {{/U}} would draw up that shopping list. {{U}}(62) {{/U}} half of those who had received the list including instant coffee described a housewife who was laze and a poor planner. {{U}}(63) {{/U}}, only one woman in the other group described the housewife, who had {{U}}(64) {{/U}} regular coffee on her list, as lazy; only six of that group suggest ed that she was a poor lanner.. eight women felt that the instant-coffee user was probably not a good wife! No one in the other group {{U}}(65) {{/U}} such a conclusion about the housewife who intended to buy regular coffee.

单选题Englishman The English have the reputation of being very different from all other nationalities. It is claimed that living on an island separated from the rest of Europe has much to do with it. Whatever the reasons, it may be fairly stated that the Englishman has developed some attitudes and habits distinguishing him from other nationalities. Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, and reserved person among people he knows well. Before strangers he often seems inhibited, even embarrassed. You have only to witness a railway compartment any morning or evening to see the truth. Serious-looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing (打盹) in a corner, and no one speaks. An English wit once suggested to overseas visitors, "On entering a railway compartment shake hands with all the passengers." Needless to say, he was not being serious. There is an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior, which, if broken, makes the person immediately the object of suspicion. It is well known that the English seldom show openly extremes of enthusiasm, emotion etc. Of course, an Englishman feels no less than any other nationality. Imagine a man commenting on the great beauty of a young girl. A man of more emotional temperament might describe her as "a marvelous jewel", while the Englishman will flatly state "Urn, she's all right." An Englishman may recommend a highly successful and enjoyable film to friends by commenting, "It's not bad." The overseas visitors must not be disappointed by this apparent lack of interest. They must realize that "all right", "not bad" are very often used with the sense of "first class", "excellent". This special use of language is particularly common in English.

单选题Contact your doctor if the cough Upersists/U.

单选题I expect that she will be able to cater for your particular needs. A. supply B. reach C. provide D. meet

单选题Many people think that she takes after her father.

单选题The training course was rather {{U}}demanding{{/U}} but his strong will finally pulled him through.

单选题The weather was Ucrisp/U and clear and you could see the mountain fifty miles away.

单选题These are defensive behavior patterns which derive from our fears. A. stem B. rely C. develop D. grow

单选题The council meeting terminated at 2 o"clock.

单选题The index is the government"s chief gauge of future economic activity.______

单选题{{B}}第二篇{{/B}} {{B}} In Favor of the Death Penalty{{/B}} With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most controversial issue across the United States today is the death penalty. Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑) to murder, while others maintain there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty reduces the number of murders. The principal argument advanced by those opposed to the death penalty, basically, is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, that it is the mark of a brutal society, and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as deterrent to crime anyway. In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary evil. Throughout recorded history there have always been those extreme individuals in every society who were capable of terribly violent crimes such as murder. But some are more extreme than others. For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in a fit of blind rage, but quite another to coldly plot and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Thus, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of relative degree. While it could be argued with some conviction that the criminal in the first instance should be merely isolated from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer. The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to debate. But the overwhelming majority of citizens believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is reinforced by evidence which shows the death penalty deters murder. For example, from 1954 to 1963, when the death penalty was consistently imposed in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100,000 population. Since 1964 the death penalty has been imposed only once, and the murder rate has risen to 10.4 murder rate, which began when executions stopped, is no coincidence (巧合). It is convincing evidence that the death penalty does deter many murders. If the bill reestablishing the death penalty is vetoed (否决), innocent people will be murdered—some whose lives may have been saved if the death penalty were in effect. This is literally a life or death matter. The lives of thousands of innocent people must be protected.

单选题The two girls look alike .

单选题The word “expertise’’ in line 3 could be best replaced by