单选题Speaker A.. Are you going to your family reunion this Christmas holiday? Speaker B:______

单选题He should ______ be allowed to get up until he has completely recovered from his illness. A. in case B. in any case C. in that case D. in no case

单选题Mary had taken pains to ______that her guests had everything they could possibly want. A. see B. know C. feel D. learn

单选题Speaker A: Can I do anything for you, sir? Speaker B: ______

单选题When Columbus landed in the New World, he believed he had found a new ______ to Asia.

单选题I don"t mind ______ the decision as long as it won"t be prolonged till Friday.

单选题Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each of the passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} When TV news programs report wars or disasters, the editors rarely use the most horrifying pictures of dead or wounded victims because they don't want to upset their viewers. Even so, viewers are usually warned in advance that they "may find some of these scenes disturbing", so they can look away if they choose. But the men and women whose job is to record those scenes — the TV cameramen — have no such choice. It is their duty to witness the horrors of the world and record them no matter how gruesome and unpleasant they may be. Consequently, it is one of the most dangerous, exposed and emotionally taxing jobs the world has to offer. Today, the demand for their work is rising, the explosion of satellite broadcasting and 24hour news in recent years has created an almost insatiable demand for TV information. But major broadcasters and TV news agencies — such as Reuters and WTN — have never had enough staff to meet the worldwide demand for up-to-date pictures, so increasingly they turn to "freelance" TV cameramen. These freelance cameramen are independent operators tied to no particular organization. They will work for any company which hires them, be it for just a few hours or for several weeks in a war zone. But if the freelance cameraman is injured, in the course of the job, the TV company is not responsible for him. The freelancer must survive on his own. "TV will always need hard, vivid moving pictures which are fresh, but these companies feel uncomfortable with large numbers of employees on their books," explains Nick Gowing, once foreign editor for Britain's Channel 4 news and now a BBC presenter. "By hiring freelancers, they can buy in the skills they need only when they need them. It also enables them to contract out the risk," he says.

单选题Ants first captured the attention of software engineers in the early 1990s. A single ant cannot do much on its own, but a group of ants (52) can solve complex problems. That inspired people like Marco Dorigo, who is one of the founders of a (53) known as group intelligence. Ants are good at choosing the shortest possible route between a food (54) and their nest. This reminds us of a classic computational travelling-salesman problem. Given a list of cities and their (55) apart, the salesman must find the shortest route needed to visit each city once. As the number of cities (56) , the problem gets more complicated. Ants solve their own problem using chemical signals called pheromones (信息素), when an ant finds food, she takes it back to the nest, (57) a pheromone trail that will attract others. The more ants that (58) the trail, the stronger it becomes. (59) , the pheromones evaporate (挥发) quickly, so once all the food has been collected, the trail soon goes cold. This rapid evaporation means long trails are less (60) than short ones, all else being equal. Pheromones thus turn the (61) intelligence of the individual ants into something more powerful.

单选题I was annoyed by my friend who came late for our appointment but did not bother to ask how long I

单选题{{B}}Part Ⅲ Cloze Test{{/B}}Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. One of the most convenient and cheapest ways to see America is by riding a Greyhound bus. This interstate bus system connects all major cities in the United States,{{U}} (51) {{/U}} people with frequent and convenient service. The bus system even has an international service {{U}}(52) {{/U}} makes connection with cities in Canada and Mexico. Its network even extends to some of the smaller towns and out-of-the-way communities {{U}}(53) {{/U}} the great interior of the country. Traveling by bus may {{U}}(54) {{/U}} longer than flying by plane, but the terminals are located in the center of most cities and there is {{U}}(55) {{/U}} to the downtown area. These buses are comfortable and air-conditioned. They are all equipped with toilets in the rear to {{U}}(56) {{/U}} the convenience of the passengers, but there are some very severe {{U}}(57) {{/U}} of conduct which are strictly enforced. On all buses {{U}}(58) {{/U}} is forbidden and the consumption of alcoholic drinks is not allowed. {{U}} (59) {{/U}} bus travel may not be suited to everyone's taste, it affords budget travelers the {{U}}(60) {{/U}} to see America in comfort and safety and at a leisurely unhurried pace.

单选题I ______ rather solve the problems in my farm myself than seek the help of other people.

单选题A terminally ill patient is one who ______.

单选题Man: I don't know whether to ask Joe or Cora to draw the posters. Woman: What difference does it make? They are both excellent artists. Question: What does the woman imply about Joe and Cora?

单选题Man: Thank you for your helpful assistance. Otherwise, I'd surely have missed it. The place is so out of the way.Woman: It was a pleasure meeting you. Good-bye.Question: Why does the man thank the woman?

单选题Applicants must show that they have ＄10.000 or more ______ for living expenses and approximately ＄10,000 for tuition.

单选题On July 15th India will become the latest country to shut down its official telegram service. In Britain, telegrams were replaced by telemessages, which were simply telegrams printed out and put into the post，in 1982. America"s telegram service, operated by Western Union, ended in 2006. Australia shut down its telegram service in 2011. Are telegrams dead? Not quite. The honorable technology still clings to life, and not just in India. The mechanical telegraph dates back to the 1790s. In the 1840s such mechanical telegraphs gave way to electrical telegraphs, which sent messages as coded pulses along wires, and the word "telegram" emerged shortly afterwards to describe a message sent by telegraph. The invention of the telephone in the 1870s did not result in the immediate decline of the telegram, because the technical difficulty and expense of making long-distance phone calls meant that telegrams were still the easiest way to send international messages quickly. But as long-distance telephony became cheaper and easier, it was only a matter of time. From the 1970s, the emergence of electronic means of communication, starting with the fax machine, and then followed by e-mail and mobile-phone text messages in the 1990s, restricted telegrams to ceremonial uses such as messages relating to births, marriages and deaths. In India, the telegram held on a bit longer because it was used for internal government communications. Even after the shut-down of India"s official service, the telegram survives in a few other countries, including Belgium, Japan and Sweden, where it was kept as a nostalgic(怀旧的) service. And in many other countries private firms offer telegram-delivery services. So despite several recent reports to the contrary, the telegram is not quite dead, and will probably never die. Moreover, in some ways the tradition of the telegram is healthier than ever. Tweets, like text messages, also require users to keep their messages brief and telegraphic. Such digital messages have undermined the business case for the telegram, but have preserved aspects of telegraphic tradition. Some mobile phones used to announce incoming text messages with beeps that sound like Morse code, the international alphabet of telegraphy. The 19th-century technology of the telegram lives on, in spirit at least, in our 21st-century devices.

单选题Speaker A: Hello! Professor Freeman's secretary. Can I help you? Speaker B:______

单选题This firm is our best choice ______ the price of the product. A. in place of B. by means of C. in terms of D. in charge of

单选题Speaker A: Good afternoon, I'm here for my four o'clock appointment with Dr. Brown. Speaker B: ______ A. Nice to see you. I'm Dr. Brown's secretary. B. Why don't you have a seat for a moment? C. Excuse me, when did you make this appointment with him? D. I'm sorry. He will be busy the whole afternoon

单选题For the first time in this century also, many people are able to enjoy their leisure to the full, ______ trips to the country or seaside at weekends, instead of being confined to their neighborhood. A. making B. to make C. made D. having made