单选题Whywasthewomanwatchingare-runprogramonTV?A.BecauseshelikesoldprogramsonTV.B.Becauseshewasverybored.C.Becauseshehadmissedtheprogramearlier.D.Becauseshedoesn'tlikeoutdooractivities.

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单选题It is generally believed that money can always bring happiness, but studies and surveys have proved that this is a {{U}}myth{{/U}}. A. fairy tale B. absolute truth C. mistaken idea D. big controversy

单选题Upon finding her son missing, the lady was {{U}}utterly{{/U}} at a loss what to do. A. partially B. impartially C. entirely D. incidentally

单选题Bill Clinton rose to prominence after he was elected ______ of Arkansas at age 32 in 1978.

单选题 In the United States it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of call shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is attached to telephone calls made after 11：00 p. m.. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it is a matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance. In social life, time plays a very important part. In the United States, guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date. But this is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans, which are made for a date more than a week away, tend to be forgotten. The meanings of time differ in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings arise between people from cultures that treat time differently. Promptness is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible. In the U.S. no one would think of keeping a business associate waiting for an hour, it would be too impolite. When equals meet, a person who is five minutes late is expected to make a short apology. If he is less than five minutes late, he will say a few words of explanation, though perhaps he will not complete the sentence. To Americans, forty minutes of waiting is the beginning of the "insult period" . No matter what is said in apology, there is little that can remove the damage done by an hour's wait. Yet in some other countries, a forty minutes' waiting period was not unusual. Instead of being the very end of the allowable waiting scale, it was just the beginning. Americans look ahead and are concerned almost entirely with the future. The American idea of the future is limited, however. It is the foreseeable future and not the future of the South Asian, which may involve centuries. Someone has said of the South Asian idea of time: "Time is like a museum with endless halls and rooms. You, the viewer, are walking through the museum in the dark, holding a light to each scene as you pass it. God is in charge of the museum, and only He knows all that is it. One lifetime represents one room" Since time has different meanings in different cultures, communication is often difficult. We will understand each other a little better if we can keep this fact in mind.

单选题Some scientists are trying to eliminate malaria by developing a GM mosquito that can"t transmit the disease.

单选题There have been some insensible people who attempt to end their pains through suicide. A. by and large B. once for all C. heart and soul D. on the whole

单选题At that time, there was a wealth of evidence that Japan was planning war in the Pacific. A. abundant B. valuable C. expensive D. priceless

单选题 CARDINAL MEZZOFANTI of Bologna was a saint who was said to speak 72 languages. No one was certain of the true Figure, but it was a lot. Visitors flocked from all corners of Europe to test him and came away stunned. Two condemned prisoners were due to be executed, but no one knew their language to hear their confession. Mezzofanti learned it in a night, heard their sins the next morning and saved them from hell. Or so the legend goes. In Babel No More, Michael Erard has written the first serious book about the people who master vast numbers of languages. A journalist with some linguistics training, Mr. Erard is not a {{U}}hyperpolyglot{{/U}} himself, but he approaches his topic with both wonder and a healthy dash of skepticism. To find out whether anyone could really learn so many languages, Mr. Erard set out to find modern Mezzofantis. The people he meets are certainly interesting. One man with a mental age of nine has a vast memory for foreign words and the use of grammatical endings, but he cannot seem to break free of English word-order. Ken Hale, who was a linguist at MIT and died in 2001, was said to have learned 50 languages. Professional linguists still swear by his talent. But he insisted he spoke only three and could merely "talk" in others. Mr. Erard says that true hyperpolyglottery begins at about 11 languages, and that while legends abound, tried and tested exemplars are few. Hyperpolyglots are likely to be introverted, which may come as a surprise to some. Hale's son always said that, in his father's case, languages were a cloak for a shy man. Emil Krebs, a German diplomat who was also. credited with knowing dozens of languages, was rude in all of them. He once refused to speak to his wife for several months because she told him to put on a winter coat. At the end of his story, however, Erard finds a surprise in Mezzofanti's archive: flashcards. Stacks of them in twelve tongues. The world's most celebrated hyperpolyglot relied on the same tools given to first-year language-learners today. The conclusion? Hyperpolyglots may begin with talent, but they aren't geniuses. They simply enjoy tasks that are tedious to normal people. The talent and enjoyment drive a virtuous cycle that pushes them to feats others simply shake their heads at.

单选题Passage Five Before the arrival of the internet, computer files were exchanged via storage media such as floppy disks (软盘) which were sent by post or delivered by foot, bike, car or train. After the appearance of the internet, a term was invented for such exchange of information: the sneakernet. Now that the internet is established, and our connections have become faster, the sneakernet sounds outmoded. Nevertheless, the opposite is true when larger files are considered. Because storage media evolve much faster than internet connections, it becomes ever more interesting to choose the route of physical transport over the internet. One of the routes is via carrier pigeon(信鸽). This may sound ridiculous (and it has been a popular joke for many years), but thanks to shrinking storage media, the speed and capacity of the pigeon internet promises to become quite amazing. A well trained contemporary carrier pigeon can maintain a speed of 50 kilometres an hour over a distance of 600 kilometres, and carry a weight of 1 gram. One gram does not seem to be much, but this weight can already contain quite some data. For instance, the Transcend Micro SD card weighing 1 gram has a capacity of 2 gigabytes. Compared to a fibre connection, the pigeon has to surrender quite fast. This internet connection only needs 2.6 minutes to send 2 gigabytes. A carrier pigeon only flies 2 kilometres far in that time. A carrier pigeon is thus faster than a fibre connection when the distance is shorter than 2 kilometres. A broadband connection needs 4 hours to send 2 gigabytes, while the pigeon can reach a distance of 200 kilometres in 4 hours. This means that sending 2 gigabytes of information from Amsterdam to Brussels goes faster by carrier pigeon than by a broadband connection. A dial-up connection needs 3.3 days to send 2 gigabytes, so in that case, the pigeon (flying 600 km per day) is faster than the internet up to a distance of about 2,000 kilometres. The bandwidth of a carrier pigeon increases faster than the bandwidth of the internet. Ten years in the future, a pigeon will be able to carry 2 terabytes (around 2,000 gigabytes). Our fibre connection will need 8.5 minutes for sending that amount of data. The carrier pigeon is then faster than a fibre connection if the distance is less than 7 kilometres-compared to 2 kilometres today.

单选题Directions: There are 10 questions in this part of the test. Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scored Answer Sheet. There are two primary causes of traffic accidents, those that are caused by the driver and those that are environmental and outside the driver's control. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}environmental issues like weather or poor road maintenance may cause an accident, statistically these are far less likely to do so. Driver distractions prove to be the main cause of accidents. The most {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}distractions are looking at traffic, crashes and roadside incidents. While it is widely believed that cell phones are a greater cause, cell phones only {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}sixth on the list. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}, laws to limit cell phone use while driving do not decrease accidents. Hands-free phones are {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}than hand-held devices. Alcohol was a factor in at least 41 percent of all fatal crashes. Alcohol {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}affects vision, reaction time and attention of the driver, and decreases overall driving performance. Fatigue {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}100,000 vehicle crashes per year, killing {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}1,500 people and injuring 71,000 people. Accidents caused by fatigue are particularly {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}for truck drivers and others taking long-haul driving trips. Speeding is another major cause of traffic accidents, particularly for younger or newer drivers. Teens are more likely to speed, and among male drivers aged 15 to 20 who were {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}a fatal crash in 2005, 37 percent were speeding at the time of the crash.

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单选题The patient"s unusual symptoms confounded even the most experienced doctor of the hospital.

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单选题This book gives a very {{U}}particular{{/U}} account of the important battles during WWⅡ. A. special B. strange C. detailed D. exceptional

单选题Our family stood in silence for a minute looking at the amazingly beautiful photograph of a human flag.

单选题Pets are ______ providing not only companionship to humans, but health benefits to many as well. A. accused of B. ascribed to C. prohibited from D. credited with

单选题It is desirable that the airplane______as light and fast as possible. A. be made B. is made C. were made D. has been made

单选题 For much of its history, psychology has seemed obsessed with human failings and pathology. The very idea of psychotherapy, first formalized by Freud, rests on a view of human beings as troubled creatures in need of repair. Freud himself was profoundly pessimistic about human nature, which he felt was governed by deep, dark drives that we could hardly control. The scientists who followed developed a model of human life that seemed to many mechanical if not robotic: humans were passive beings harshly shaped by the stimuli and the rewards and punishments that surrounded them. After World War Ⅱ, psychologists tried to explain how so many ordinary citizens could have agreed with fascism, and did work symbolized in the 1950 classic The Authoritarian Personality by T.W. Adorno, et al. Social psychologists followed on. Some of the most famous experiments proved that normal folk could become coldly insensitive to suffering when obeying "legitimate" orders or cruelly aggressive when playing the role of prison guard. A watershed moment arrived in 1998, when University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman, in his presidential address to the American Psychological Association, urged psychology to "turn toward understanding and building the human strengths to complement our emphasis on healing damage." That speech launched today's positive psychology movement. Though not denying humanity's flaws, the new positive psychologists recommend focusing on people's strengths and virtues as a point of departure. Rather than analyze the psychopathology underlying alcoholism, for example, positive psychologists might study the toughness of those who have managed a successful recovery--for example, through organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous. Instead of viewing religion as a delusion and a support, as did Freud, they might identify the mechanisms through which a spiritual practice like meditation enhances mental and physical health. Their lab experiments might seek to define not the conditions that induce wicked behavior, but those that foster generosity, courage, creativity, and laughter. Seligman's idea quickly caught on. The Gallup Organization founded the Gallup Positive Psychology Institute to sponsor scholarly work in the field. In 1999, 60 scholars gathered for the first Gallup Positive Psychology Summit; two years later, the conference went international, and ever since has drawn about 400 attendees annually.