单选题As a result of the busy work, he found less time than he ______ for his hobbies. A. must have hoped B. had hoped C. should have hoped D. has hoped

单选题Man: Mr. Brown asked me to tell you that he's sorry, he can't come to meet you in person. He's really too busy to make the trip. Woman: That's OK. I'm glad you've come in his place. Question: What do we learn from the conversation? A. The man is late for the trip because he is busy. B. The woman is glad to meet Mr. Brown in person. C. The man is meeting the woman on behalf of Mr. Brown. D. The woman feels sorry that Mr. Brown is unable to come.

单选题The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage (51) in the United States—about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people—is (52) higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is (53) as widespread as it was several decades ago. (54) of American adults who are married (55) from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried (56) their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some (57) in their lives. Experts (58) that about the same proportion of today's young adults will eventually marry. The timing of marriage has varied (59) over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time at an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s. (60) , young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous generation in U. S. history.

单选题It ______ to me that if I had continued to maintain eye contact, I would have been rude and aggressive.

单选题Speaker A: Are you ready? Speaker B: ______ I just need to get my jacket.

单选题 It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional. Small wonder. Americans' life expectancy has nearly doubled over the past century. Failing hips can be replaced, clinical depression controlled, cataracts removed in a 30-minute surgical procedure. Such advances offer the aging population a quality of life that was unimaginable when I entered medicine 50 years ago. But not even a great health-care system can cure death—and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours. Death is normal; we are genetically programmed to disintegrate and perish, even under ideal conditions. We all understand that at some level, yet as medical consumers we treat death as a problem to be solved. Shielded by third-party payers from the cost of our care we demand everything that can possibly be done for us, even if it's useless. The most obvious example is late-stage cancer care. Physicians—frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient—too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified. In 1950, the U.S. spent $12.7 billion on health care. In 2002, the cost will be $1,540 billion. Anyone can see this trend is unsustainable. Yet few seem willing to try to reverse it. Some scholars conclude that a government with finite resources should simply stop paying for medical care that sustains life beyond a certain age—say 83 or so, Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has been quoted as saying that the old and infirm "have a duty to die and get out of the way" so that younger, healthier people can realize their potential. I would not go that far. Energetic people now routinely work through their 60s and beyond, and remain dazzlingly productive. At 78 Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone jokingly claims to be 53. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is in her 70s, and former surgeon general C. Everett Koop chairs an Internet start-up in his 80s. These leaders are living proof that prevention works and that we can manage the health problems that come naturally with age. As a mere 68-year-old, I wish to age as productively as they have. Yet there are limits to what a society can spend in this pursuit. As a physician, I know the most costly and dramatic measures may be ineffective and painful. I also know that people in Japan and Sweden, countries that spend far less on medical care, have achieved longer, healthier lives than we have. As a nation we may be overfunding the quest for unlikely cures while underfunding research on humbler therapies that could improve people's lives.

单选题"Those days are gone, even in Hong Kong" in Paragraph 1 suggests that ______.

单选题Speaker A: Oh, hi Dr. Hill. Can I discuss my grade on my term paper with you now? Speaker B: Sure.________

单选题Man: ______ How can I possibly review all this material by next week? Women: Take it easy. I'll help you with it.

单选题During recent years we have heard much about "race": how this race does certain things and that race believes certain things and so on. Yet, the (51) phenomenon of race consists of few surface indications. We judge race usually from the coloring of the skin: a white race, a brown race, a yellow race and a black race. But (52) you were to remove the skin you could not tell anything about the race to which the individual belonged. There is nothing in physical structure, the brain or the internal organs to (53) a difference. There are four types of blood. All types are found in every race, and no type is distinct to any race. Human brains are the (54) . No scientists could examine a brain and tell you the race to which the individual belonged. Brains will (55) in size, but this occurs within every race. (56) does size have anything to do with intelligence. The largest brain ever examined belonged to a person of weak (57) . On the other hand, some of our most distinguished people have had (58) brains. Mental tests which are reasonably (59) show no differences in intelligence between races. High and low test results both can be recorded by different members of any race. (60) equal educational advantages, there will be no difference in average standings, either on account of race or geographical location.

单选题Speaker A: I'd like to check in, please.Speaker B: ______

单选题Fingerprints from an unchangeable ____ despite changes in the individual’s appearance or age. A．mark B．sign C．remark D．signature

单选题So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor. To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, important. He cannot be really happy if he is compelled by society to do what he does not enjoy doing, or if what he enjoys doing is ignored by society as of no value or importance. In a society where slavery in the strict sense has been abolished, the sign that what a man does is of social value is that he is paid money to do it, but a laborer today can rightly be called a wage slave. A man is a laborer if the job society offers him is of no interest to himself but he is compelled to take it by the necessity of earning a living and supporting his family. The antithesis to labor is play. When we play a game, we enjoy what we are doing, otherwise we should not play it, but it is a purely private activity; society could not care less whether we play it or not. Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do: what from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his own point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk, a laborer. Which a man is can be seen from his attitude toward leisure. To a worker, leisure means simply the hours he needs to relax and rest in order to work efficiently. He is therefore more likely to take too little leisure than too much; workers die of coronaries and forget their wives' birthdays. To the laborer, on the other hand, leisure means freedom from compulsion, so that it is natural for him to imagine the fewer hours he has to spend laboring, and the more hours he is free to play, the better.

单选题She asked the worker how long ______ to build the house. A. it had taken B. had it taken C. would it take D. it was taken

单选题A: Excuse me, but can you tell me the way to the nearest subway station? B: ______

单选题He is the kind of person who stops at nothing in order to ______ his own purpose. A. promote B. obtain C. reach D. achieve

单选题Wang Qing did not come to the meeting; he ______ the notice on the blackboard since we saw it on our way to the dining-hall.

单选题There are many kinds of synthetic materials, ______ plastics are the most common. A. between which B. of which C. in which D. among which

单选题It is widely accepted now that having more children ______ a lower standard of living. A. imply B. implies C. has implied D. implied

单选题If you like to take lots of vacation, the United States is not the place to work. Besides a handful of national holidays, the typical Armenian worker gets two or three precious weeks off out of a whole year to relax and see the world—much less than what people in many other countries receive. And even that amount of vacation often comes with strings attached. So what"s going on here? A big reason for the difference is that paid time off is demanded by law in many parts of the world. Germany is among more than two dozen industrialized countries—from Australia to Japan—that require employers to offer four weeks or more of paid vacation to their workers, according to a 2009 study by the human resources consulting company Mercer. Finland, Brazil and France are the champions, guaranteeing six weeks of time off. But employers in the United States are not obliged under federal law to offer any paid vacation, so about a quarter of all American workers don"t have access to it, government figures show. That makes the U.S. the only advanced nation in the world that doesn"t guarantee its workers annual leave. Most U.S. companies, of course, do provide vacation as a way to attract and retain workers. But the fear of layoffs and the ever-faster pace of work mean many Americans are reluctant to be absent from the office—anxious that they might look like they"re not committed to their job. Or they worry they won"t be able to cope with a pile of work waiting for them after a vacation. Then, there"s the way we work. Working more makes Americans happier than Europeans, according to a study published recently in the Journal of Happiness Studies. That may be because Americans believe more than Europeans do that hard work is associated with success. So despite research documenting the health and productivity benefits of taking time off, a long vacation can be undesirable, scary, unrealistic or just plain impossible for many U.S. workers.