单选题Men and women of all ages can benefit from ______ amounts of daily physical exercise. A. considerate B. desperate C. moderate D. literate

单选题Eight badminton players were charged with trying to ______ the outcome of preliminary matches. A. dominate B. manipulate C. eliminate D. simulate

单选题Directions: In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be read once.

单选题He volunteered to work in poor medicine-{{U}}deficit{{/U}} area after graduating from the medical school. A. deficient B. sufficient C. rare D. needed

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单选题The analysis suggests that the tradeoff between our children's college and our own retirement security is {{U}}chilling{{/U}}. A. frightening B. promising C. freezing D. revealing

单选题Of great significance the nation-wide movement is ______ the Kampuchean people in their heroic struggle against the aggression of the Vietnamese. A. to support B. for supporting C. supporting D. of supporting

单选题A．Tostartupherownbusiness.B．Togainexperience.C．Tosaveforhertuition.D．Tohelpherfamily.

单选题These discoveries have opened up new ______in the field of cancer research. A. rainbows B. horizons C. altitudes D. paradoxes

单选题As a new matchmaker, Internet dating sites promise two cutting edges: a vastly greater choice of potential partners and scientifically proven way of matching suitable people together. The greater choice is unarguable. But does it lead to better outcomes? And do the "scientifically tested methods" actually work? These are the questions asked by a team of psychologists led by Eli Finkel. The researchers' first observation is how any of the much-boasted partner- matching methods actually works. Many firms preserve their intellectual property as trade secrets, and there is no reason why Internet dating sites should not be among them. But this renders claims of effectiveness impossible to test objectively. There is thus no independent scientific evidence that any of these methods does enhance the chance of their hitting it off when they meet. It is possible to test the value of a claim that they match people with compatible personality traits. However, Dr. Dyrenforth asked more than 20,000 people about their relationships and assessed their personalities. Members of couples with similar personalities were indeed happier than those without. But the difference was just 0.5%. Surely, the chances of finding that magic other are increased by the second thing Internet dating brings: a multitude of choice. But here, too, things are not as simple as they might seem. An assumption behind all consumer decisions is that what people think they want is what they actually need. And the data suggest people are not good at knowing what they want. One of Dr. Finkel's own studies showed that when they are engaged in speed dating, people's stated preferences at the beginning of the process do not well match the characters of the individuals they actually like. When faced with abundant choices, people pay less attention to characteristics that require thinking and conversation to evaluate and more to physical matters. Choice, in other words, dulls the critical faculties. Finkel's conclusion is that love is as hard to find on the Internet as elsewhere. You may be just as likely to luck out in the local caf~, or by acting on the impulse to stop and talk to that stranger on the street whose glance you caught, as you are by clicking away with a mouse and hoping that, one day, Cupid's arrow will strike.

单选题A ______ division of labor has contributed most to the increase of production, promoted general welfare, and raised the standard of living in industrial countries. A. complicated B. complex C. sophisticated D. regular

单选题 Passage Three Musicians are fascinated with the possibility that music may be found in nature; it makes our own desire for art seem all the more essential. Over the past few years no less a bold musical explorer than Peter Gabriel has been getting involved. At the Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, he has been making music together with Kanzi, one of the bonobo apes (倭黑猩猩) involved in the long-term language acquisition studies of Sue and Duane Savage-Rumbaugh. I have seen the video of Kanzi picking notes out on a piano-like keyboard, with Gabriel and members of his band playing inside the observation booth in the lab. (They did it this way because Kanzi had bitten one of his trainers a few days previously—interspecies communication is not without its dangers.) The scene is beautiful, the ape trying out the new machine and looking thoughtfully pleased with what comes out. He appears to be listening, playing the right notes. It is tentative but moving, the animal groping for something from the human world but remaining isolated from the rest of the band. It is a touching encounter, and a bold move for a musician whose tune Shock the Monkey many years ago openly condemned the horrors of less sensitive animal experiments than this. What is the scientific value of such a jam session? The business of the Research Center is the forging of greater communication between human and animal. Why not try the fertile and mysterious ground of music in addition to the more testable arena of simple language? The advantage of hearing music in nature and trying to reach out to nature through music is that, though we don't fully understand it, we can easily have access to it. We don't need to explain its workings to be touched by it. Two musicians who don't speak the same language can play together, and we can appreciate the music from human cultures far from our own. Music needs no explanation, but it clearly expresses something deep and important, something humans cannot live without. Finding music in the sounds of birds, whales and other animals makes the farther frontiers of nature seem that much closer to us.

单选题Children from an {{U}}obscure{{/U}} family have to make greater efforts to climb the social ladder. A. unknown B. prominent C. controversial. D. rural

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} In this section you will hear two mini-talks. At the end of each talk, there will be some questions. Both the talks and the questions will be read to you only once. After each question, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.

单选题In the disciplines underlying our high-tech economy, America is steadily losing its global {{U}}edge{{/U}}. A. border B. superiority C. appeal D. territory

单选题The number of hours that have {{U}}intervened{{/U}} between the accident and operation is a crucial factor. A. interfered B. interlaced C. interposed D. interlinked.

单选题Passage Five Singapore's Mixed Reality Lab is working on new ways of interacting with computers, including wearable devices and a virtual war room that will allow officials to work together online as if they were all in one place. Its director is a spiky-haired Australian, a postmodern match for the fictional British agent James Bond's tool man, Q. It is funded by the Defense Science Technology Agency, which controls half the $5 billion defense budget, and sponsors hundreds of research projects every year. The agency came to worldwide attention last year when it took just one day to customize a thermal scanner in order to detect travelers with high fever, helping to stem the spread of SARS. DSTA is now working on a range of projects that are attracting attention in both the commercial and military worlds. It devised an air-conditioning system that harnesses melting ice and cool seawater to conserve electricity at the new Changi Naval Base, and could have broad civilian applications. Singapore can easily afford Western hardware, but off-the-shelf products are often unsuitable for the tropical conditions in Southeast AsiA. For example, the DSTA is funding development of an anti-chemical-weapons suit that works not as a shield, but as a sort of weapon. The Singaporean garments made of a revolutionary plastic-like material that is much lighter and cooler than traditional fabrics, actually degrade suspect substances on contact. Much of the agency's work is geared toward helping this resource-poor city-state overcome its natural limitations, says its director of RD, William Lau Yue Khei. Conserving manpower is one of the agency's most critical assignments, because Singapore is a nation of 4 million people dwarfed by larger neighbors, including Indonesia and MalaysiA. Right now, the biggest DSTA project is computerizing a stealth warship so that it can run on half the usual crew. Making equipment lighter is a particular agency specialty, because the universal military rule of thumb is that a soldier should carry no more than one third his body weight, and that means that smaller Singaporean soldiers should carry no more than 24 kilos, or 20 percent less than Europeans, says DSTA project manager Choo Hui Weing. One such program: the Advanced Combat Man System, has produced a lightweight handguard that controls an integrated laser range finder, digital compass and a targeting camerA. Top that, Q.

单选题These kids, inexperienced but curious, finally made a kite that was too {{U}}delicate{{/U}} to fly. A. subtle B. exquisite C. fragile D. delicious

单选题All the teachers you have had in your lifetime ______ several categories. A. fall behind B. fall out C. fall through D. fall into

单选题China's economy, which was now on the brink of collapse, was beginning to ______ after the implementation of reform and opening-up. A. pay off B. take off C. leave off D. drop off