单选题To our ______, Geoffrey"s illness proved not to be as serious as we had feared.

单选题It is true that he is not clever, ______ he is very diligent. A. yet B. but C. nevertheless D. still

单选题With nothing ______ to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.

单选题A: Did everything come out as exactly as you planned? B: __________________ A. Exactly. And things came out better than I'd planned. B. Not exactly. As a mater of fact, things came out rather better than I'd planned. C. Fortunately, things could have been better. D. Come on, I have no idea about it.

单选题Speaker A:I am so glad I caught you at home. I need your help! Speaker B: ________, Robin?

单选题Woman: I paid 50 dollars for these books at the Eaglewood Bookstore. They're really too expensive. Man: Too expensive? They cost a lot more in other bookstores. Question: What does the man mean?

单选题She is very ______ about her appearance. Half of her salary goes to clothes.

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} The face of the 21st century is already growing in a laboratory. Getting a piece of the new look could soon be as simple as writing a cheque. Scientists in recent years have made giant leaps in the artificial production of skin, bones and tissue. While their research has been motivated by a desire to help accident and medical victims, their work is about to go commercial. The burgeoning (萌芽) cosmetic surgery market has snapped up the technological advances. By the turn of the 21st century, changing your face or improving your body will be limited not by your imagination or desire, but by the size of your bank account. And there is even work being clone on that, with the costs of cosmetic surgery being cut to make it affordable and accessible for the average woman and her partner. "It's no longer a vanity thing, it's simply making use of the available technology to improve those parts of the body you might not be happy with," Cindy Clovetti, a Toronto-based skin and beauty care expert, said. "People who 10 years ago said they would never use a computer and would never get a boob job (胸部整形手术) are now surfing the web getting the latest information for their next operation. " Latest figures in the United States indicate the number of patients receiving cosmetic surgery in 12 months will top the magic million within two years (there were 850 000 last year), while the number of men seeking image-improving operations has increased 35 percent in the past four years. Breast implants are now very much a bread-and-butter job for many cosmetic surgeons and the big advances have been made in the development of bone implants which can produce instant high cheek bones, sculpture better shaped noses and ears and give men the chisel-shaped jaw that is always a sure-fire (必定成功的) chick-magnet (吸引女人的东西). British futurologist Ian Pearson speculates that by 2020, up to 96 percent of body weight will be replaceable with the brain being the only organ not interchangeable. "By 2020 you could have a new face, or new skim. and by 2030 a fully working replacement body part. By the end of the 21st century, people will be able to get an entirely new body. "

单选题No sooner ______ got to the station than it began to rain heavily. A. had I B. have I C. I had D. I have

单选题I managed to ______ myself to the habits and customs in the United States.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sum needed from friends and people we know. and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. This they do by issuing stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of individuals and institution, both at home and overseas. When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with which he originally placed it. Instead, he sells his shares through a stockbroker (证券经纪人) to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money. Many of the services need both by industry and by each of us are provided by the Government or by local authorities. Hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, equipment and new development, if they are to serve us properly, require more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to the Stock Exchange. There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.

单选题The trouble with television is that it discourages concentration. Television's variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus. Its serial, kaleidoscopic exposures force us to follow its lead. The viewer is on a perpetual guided tour: 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction-except on the television, typically, the spans allotted are on the order of minutes or seconds, and the chosen delights are more often car crashes and people killing one another. In short, a lot of television usurps one of the most precious gifts, the ability to focus your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it. Capturing your attention-and holding it-is the prime motive of most television programming and enhances its role as a profitable advertising vehicle. Programmers live in constant fear of losing anyone's attention. The surest way to avoid doing so is to keep everything brief, not to strain the attention of anyone but instead to provide constant stimulation through variety, novelty, action and movement. Quite simply, television operates on the appeal to the short attention span. In the case of news, this practice, in my view, results in inefficient communication. I question how much of television's nightly news effort is really absorbable and understandable. Much of it is what has been aptly described as "machine-gunning with scraps. " I think the technique fights coherence. I think it tends to make things ultimately boring and dismissible (unless they are accompanied by horrifying pictures) because almost anything is boring and dismissible if you know almost nothing about it. I believe that TV's appeal to the short attention span is not only inefficient communication but decivilizing as well. Consider the casual assumptions that television tends to cultivate: that complexity must be avoided, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal precision is an anachronism. It may be old-fashioned, but I was taught that thought is words, arranged in grammatically precise ways. There is a crisis of literacy in this country. One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "functionally illiterate" and cannot read or write well enough to answer the want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle. And while I would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause, I believe it contributes and is an influence.

单选题With some effective measures adopted in the workshop, the workers are safe_____getting injured.

单选题Don't argue with him any longer. You are only wasting your breath ______ to win him over to your side.

单选题M: Christmas is round the corner and I'm looking for a gift for my girlfriend. Any suggestions?W: Well, you have to tell me something about your girlfriend first. Also, what's your budget?Q: What does the woman want the man to do? A. Plan his budget carefully. B. Give her more information. C. Ask someone else for advice. D. Buy a gift for his girlfriend.

单选题We felt ______ to death because we could make nothing of the lecturer's speech. A. exposed B. tired C. exhausted D. bored

单选题While the total number of farmers engaged in agricultural production is barely half ______ it used to be in 1959, the size of the average farm has tripled. A. that B. what C. which D. how

单选题Man: I really need to make some extra money. I've practically spent my entire budget for the semester. Woman: You should check out the new cafeteria. I think there're a few openings left in the evening. Question: What does the woman suggest the man do? A. Have dinner at the cafeteria. B. Find out when the cafeteria opens. C. Meet her in the cafeteria this evening. D. Try to get a job at the cafeteria.

单选题Imagine fishermen walking down to the seashore, ready to carry out their early morning routine of preparing their boats and net. (51) they hope for a good catch of fish. But to their (52) , a horrible sight meets their still sleepy eyes. Thousands of fish have been washed ashore dead. The cause of this mass destruction—A red tide! Red tides are a global (53) . They have been observed on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada. They have also occurred in many other places. Though relatively few people are (54) them, red tides are not new. In the Philippines, a red tide was first seen in the province of Bataan in 1908. Since then, red tides have been seen in many other (55) . A Philippines red tide expert told us that " (56) the fish kills, the Philippines has documented 1, 926 eases of dead shellfish poisoning caused by red tides. " The term "red tide" (57) the discoloration of water that sometimes occurs in certain areas of the ocean or sea. Although the color is often red, it may also be (58) of brown or yellow. The World Book Encyclopedia reports that "the discolored areas may range from (59) a few square yards to more than 2,600 square kilometers. " What causes such discoloration? Red tides are generally caused by several species of single-celled organisms. These tiny organisms have hair-like projections which they use to (60) themselves in water.

单选题The "mad moment" in the first paragraph refers to the time when we ______.