单选题The education of the young is seen ______ of primary importance.

单选题There are many disadvantages in grouping pupils just according to their intellectual ability. In fact, bright children are rarely ______ by mixed-ability teaching. A. held out B. held back C. held up D. held in

单选题The issue of e-commerce did not ____ any detailed discussions at the conference.

单选题W: We are going to go away on vacation...Can you hear me? M: I"m all ears. Q: What does the man mean?

单选题Having spent two days on one subject and ______ two days on the other subject, I am now ready for the exam. A. other B. next C. those D. another

单选题The union threatened a strike but called it ____ at the last minute. A．off B．out C．back D．up

单选题Can you have your report ______ tomorrow? A. finish B. finished C. to finish D. finishing

单选题What you're ______ to read may challenge your assumptions about the kind of world we live in.

单选题 In this age of ad clutter and junk mail, entrepreneurs are finding that one of the easiest ways to connect with customers is to moonlight (兼职) as a publisher. Newsletters remind clients you're still there, help spark repeat business, and sometimes can be used to attract new clients. Newsletters are certainly catching on. The Standard Periodical Directory counts more than 4,000 of them and estimates the number grows 15% a year. Maybe that's because it's not hard. All you need is a little cash and creativity. First, obviously, decide what to say. Stick to useful information, as opposed to self-promotion. Can you offer tips unavailable elsewhere? How about new ways to use an old product? As for design, software programs such as Adobe PageMaker provide templates (模板) for the do-it-yourself. Or you can hire a professional out of the Yellow Pages or off the Web. They'll do the design work, write the copy, and even do the mailing. Expect to spend about $1 per copy, including postage, for a run of several thousand; unit costs drop as the press run increases. Newsletters also can be published on the Web or sent via e-mail, but beware. Experts say unsolicited (未请求的，主动提供的) e-mail is far less effective than a physical publication. In either case, aim for people who will find it genuinely useful and interesting. "If you don't send it to the right people, it just gets thrown out," says Paul Swift, editor of The Newsletter about Newsletters. A poorly designed newsletter, or one rife with errors, is worse than no newsletter. A newsletter should not be seen as a substitute for efforts to expand your existing customer base. "You still need to try to get yourself mentioned in real news media," advises Laura Ries, of the Roswell marketing firm Ries ＆ Ries Inc. A well-executed newsletter can work wonders. Consider the one Lisa Skriloff, owner of New York's Multicultural Marketing Resources Inc., puts out. Every two months, Skriloff spends several days—and several thousand dollars—producing Multicultural Marketing News, a four-page newsletter filled with tips on reaching minority consumers. "It helps position my company as an expert in the field," Skriloff says. She also distributes the newsletter at conferences and mails it to potential clients—outreach that generates 10…… of her business. Perhaps it's time more entrepreneurs take a page from the academics: publish or perish (毁灭，死亡).

单选题Peter and Bob both did a good job, but Peter is ______ talented of the two.

单选题Woman: I know you like this restaurant. But I just don"t like the food here. Man: Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. Question: What does the man mean?

单选题Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them 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.{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} A useful definition of an air pollutant is a compound added directly or indirectly by humans to the atmosphere in such quantities as to affect humans, animals, vegetation, or materials adversely. Air pollution requires a very flexible definition that permits continuous change. When the first air pollution laws were established in England in the fourteenth century, air pollutants were limited to compounds that could be seen or smelled — a far cry from the extensive list of harmful substances known today. As technology has developed and knowledge of the health aspects of various chemicals has increased, the list of air pollutants has lengthened. In the future, even water vapor might be considered an air pollutant under certain conditions. Many of the more important air pollutants, such as sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides, are found in nature. As the Earth developed, the concentrations of these pollutants were altered by various chemical reactions; they became components in biogeochemical cycles. These serve as an air purification scheme by allowing the compounds to move from the air to the water or soil. On a global basis nature's output of these compounds dwarfs that resulting from human activities. However, human production usually occurs in a localized area, such as a city. In this localized region, human output may be dominant and may temporarily overload the natural purification scheme of the cycles. The result is an increased concentration of noxious (有毒的) chemicals in the air. The concentrations at which the adverse effects appear will be greater than the concentrations that the pollutants would have in the absence of human activities. The actual concentration need not be large for a substance to be a pollutant; in fact the numerical value tells us little until we know how much of an increase this represents over the concentration that would occur naturally in the area. For example, sulfur dioxide has detectable health effects at 0.08 parts per million (ppm), which is about 400 times its natural level. Carbon monoxide, however, has natural level of 0.1 ppm and is not usually a pollutant until its level reaches about 15 ppm.

单选题Man: Bob and Sue seem never discipline their daughter. She"s real nuts. Woman: They are kept in the dark about their daughter"s behavior at school. Question: What can we learn about Bob and Sue"s daughter?

单选题The first men to study the nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modern electrical technology, without which we can scarcely______contemporary life.

单选题No other drug is available at present ______ can produce the same therapeutic effect with less risk. A. that B. than C. when D. as

单选题The girls in their sixth grade class in East Palo Alto, California, all have the same access to computers as boys. But researchers say, by the time they get to high school, they are victims of what the researchers call a major new gender (性别) gap in technology. Janice Weinman of the American Association of University Women says, "Girls tend to be less comfortable than boys with the computer. They use it more for word processing rather than for problem solving, rather than to discover new ways in which to understand information." After re-examining a thousand studies, the American Association of University Women researchers found that girls make up only a small percentage of students in computer science classes. Girls consistently rate themselves significantly lower than boys in their ability and confidence in using computers. And they use computers less often than boys outside the classroom. An instructor of a computer lab says he"s already noticed some differences. Charles Cheadle of Cesar Chavez School says, "Boys are not so afraid they might do something that will harm the computer, whereas girls are afraid they might break it somehow." Six years ago, the software company Purple Moon noticed that girls" computer usage was falling behind boys. Karen Gould says, "The number one reason girls told us they don"t like computer games is not that they"re too violent, or too competitive. Girls just said they"re incredibly boring." Purple Moon says it found what girls want, characters they can relate to and story lines relative to what"s going on in their own lives. Karen Gould of Purple Moon Software says, "What we definitely found from girls is that there is no intrinsic (固有的) reason why they wouldn"t want to play on a computer; it was just a content thing." The sponsor of the study says it all boils down to this: the technology gender gap that separates the girls from the boys must be closed if women are to compete effectively with men in the 21st century.

单选题I don't think Mr. Watson will come here again today. Please give the ticket to ______ comes here first.

单选题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. There is one fairly standard reason why some thinkers regard the meaning-of-life question as being itself meaningless. They argue {{U}}(51) {{/U}} meaning is a matter of language, not objects. It is a {{U}}(52) {{/U}} of the way we talk about things, not a feature of things themselves, {{U}}(53) {{/U}} shape, weight or colour. A cabbage or a computer is not meaningful in itself; it becomes {{U}}(54) {{/U}} only by being caught up in our conversation. On this theory, we can make life {{U}}(55) {{/U}} by our talk about it; but it cannot have a meaning in itself, {{U}}(56) {{/U}} than a cloud can. It would not {{U}}(57) {{/U}} sense, for example, to speak of a cloud as being true or false. {{U}}(58) {{/U}}, truth and falsehood are function of our human judgments about clouds. However, there are problems with this argument, {{U}}(59) {{/U}} there are with most philosophical arguments. We shall be {{U}}(60) {{/U}} a few of them later on.

单选题It's true that the old road is less direct and a bit bumpy. We won't take the new one ______ because we feel as safe on it. A. however B. though C. nevertheless D. whatsoever

单选题The old always assume that they know best for the simple reason ______ they have been around a bit longer.