单选题Given the gravity of the situation, the best thing we can do is to declare the company bankrupt. A. gravitation B. fascination C. seriousness D. incurability

单选题"A, better, richer and happier life for all our citizens." That's the American (41) . In practice, it means living in a spacious, air-conditioned house, owning a car or three and maybe a boat or a holiday home, not to mention flying off to (42) destinations. The trouble (43) this lifestyle is that it consumes a lot of power. If everyone in the world started living like wealthy Americans, we (44) need to generate more than 10 times 45 energy each year. And (46) , in a century or three, we all expect to be (47) by an army of robots and fly into space on holidays, we are going to need a vast amount more. Where are we going to get so much power from? It is clear that continuing to rely on (48) fuels will have catastrophic results, because of the dramatic warming effect of carbon dioxide. But alternative power sources will affect the climate too. For now, the climatic effects of "clean energy" sources are trivial (49) those from greenhouse gases, but if we keep on using ever more power over the coming centuries, they will become ever more (50).

单选题The child is ______ all the evidence for his opinion. A. not encourage either to be critical for his opinion. B. encouraged either to be critical nor to examine C. either encouraged to be critical or to examine D. neither encouraged to be critical nor to examine

单选题I______the chocolate bar and gave each child a small piece. A. broken in B. broke through C. broke up D. broke down

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单选题Without these preventive measures, television picture would become unclear and {{U}}fragmented{{/U}}. A. fragile B. invisible C. discontinued D. vulgar

单选题Our family stood in silence for a minute looking at the amazingly beautiful photograph of a human flag. A. surprisingly B. indescribably C. permanently D. uniquely

单选题 Passage Two The book Love and Its Place in Nature observed that without love children tend to die. And Ashley Montagu noted British-born Child went so far as to say: "The child who has not been loved is biochemically, physiologically, and psychologically very different from the one whom has been loved. The former even grows differently from the latter." The Toronto Star reported on a study that reached similar conclusions. It said: "Children raised without being regularly hugged, caressed or stroked...have abnormally high levels of stress hormones." Indeed, physical neglect during infancy "can have serious long-range effects on learning and memory." These findings emphasize the need for the physical presence of parents. Otherwise, how can strong ties develop between parent and child? But sorry to say, even in affluent parts of the world, the tendency now is to try to supply a child's needs apart from his or her parents. Children are sent away to school, sent away to work, sent away to summer camp, and given money and sent away to places of recreation. Thrust out of the family nucleus, circling in orbit at a distance, as it were, millions of children naturally come to feel—if only subconsciously—neglected, unwanted, and unloved, surrounded by a hostile world of grown-ups. Such a prevailing feeling among children may be one reason why there are so many street children. Typical is young Micha, who said: "No one wanted me anymore." A nine-year-old boy similarly complained: "I would rather be our dog." Child neglect is a form of mistreatment and it can lead to more sinister forms of mistreatment such as the physical mistreatment and sexual abuse of children. Regardless of the form mistreatment takes, it sends children the message that they are unloved and unwanted. According to the German newspaper Die Welt, "more and more children are growing up to be social cripples." It adds: "Children lack the warmth of the nest. The emotional bonding between children and parents is becoming weaker, or it is never established in the first place. Such children feel neglected, and their desire for security goes unfulfilled." Children who are denied their right to be wanted and loved may become bitter, taking out their frustrations on those who have neglected them or possibly on society as a whole. Fully a decade ago, a Canadian taskforce report signaled the need for immediate action lest a whole generation "who think society doesn't care about them be lost. Unloved and unwanted youngsters may be tempted to run away from home to escape their problems, only to find bigger ones in cities plagued with crime, drugs, and immorality. In fact, police have estimated that 20,000 runaways under 16 were living in one U.S. metropolitan area alone. They were described as "the products of broken homes and brutality, often inflicted by alcoholic or drug-addicted parents. They take to the streets, use their bodies for survival and then, beaten by pimps and bereft of self-esteem, live in fear of reprisal if they attempt to escape the racket." Sad to say, despite honest efforts to change this deplorable situation, it still exists. Children growing up in the circumstances described above develop into unbalanced adults, often being unable to rear children of their own properly. Being unwanted and unloved themselves, they later produce more of their own kind.

单选题He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on. A. interested in B. hostile to C. indifferent to D. afraid of

单选题I felt good about the debates, believing that my performance had ______ expectations. A. exceeded B. succeeded C. proceeded D. preceded

单选题Incompetent leadership and bureaucracy can suppress creativity and ______. A. initial B. initiation C. initiative D. initiator

单选题In general, the amount that a student spends for housing should be held to one-fifth of the total______for living expenses. A. acceptable B. applicable C. advisable D. available

单选题In the wake of such findings, several states are rethinking their plan to open these camps. A. Based on B. Preceding C. Following D. Targeted at

单选题 Remember Farid Seif? Mr. Seif is the Houston Iranian-American businessman who mistakenly carried a Glock handgun through security, onto a plane, all the way from Houston to Indianapolis. When he got to his destination and realized his mistake, he alerted security officials. There was reportedly "nothing else" in Mr. Seif's carry-on besides the weapon. Yet the security screeners at George Bush International, America's eighth-busiest airport, missed it entirely. The scariest part of that story was that Transportation Security Administration officials told reporters that this type of incident was "not uncommon." Now another Texas airport, Dallas-Fort Worth, is proving the point. This week, a high-level TSA source told the local NBC affiliate that "An undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners." The TSA insider who blew the whistle on the test also said that none of the TSA agents who failed to spot the gun on the scanned image were disciplined. The source said the agents continue to work the body scanners today. This is not confidence-inspiring. If TSA screeners can't even stop guns getting through security, why are they taking away our bottled water? Incidents like this only lend incentives to TSA critics who say the whole airport security apparatus is an enormous waste of time and money, The TSA's attitude towards the reporting of these sorts of messes isn't helpful, either. They only provided the NBC with a brief statement claiming that they don't reveal the results of secret testing for "security reasons" and arguing that "advanced imaging technology is an effective tool to detect both metallic and nonmetallic items hidden on passengers." That's pretty much the public affairs equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears and saying "lalalalala we can't hear you!" It is really hard to have an accountable TSA without greater transparency about the results of secret testing. Instead of leaking hints to the press that failure rates have decreased since the last public reports, the TSA should back up its whispering with actual data. If it won't, some enterprising congressional committee should order it. "Trust us that this works" just isn't cutting it anymore.

单选题To me, St. Francis embodied the ideal blend of spirituality and public service. A. composition B. mixture C. elaboration D. speculation

单选题It's a new world, and we barely seem to have noticed. Places we (41) with inexpensive low-end manufacturing are going high-tech in a big (42) The spotlight is mainly in China and India, for good (43) The Chinese economy is surging, (44) by increasingly sophisticated engineering, with products (45) from automobiles to semiconductors. India has nearly as (46) an economy, powered by a cheap English-speaking labor force who (47) in software and services. Along with these (48) giants, countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore are also challenging America's (49) . If present trends continue, 90% of all the world's scientists and engineers will be living in Asia (50) 2010, according to Nobel Prize winner Richard E. Smalley, professor of chemistry and physics at Rice University.

单选题{{B}}Directions: {{/B}}{{I}}In this part of the test, there are six short passages. Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer from the four choices given and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. {{/I}} {{B}}Passage One {{/B}} The first device men had for measuring time was the sundial, which was invented around 700 B.C. The early sundial was a hollow half bowl with a bead (有孔小珠) fixed in the center. As the sun traveled across the sky, the shadow of the bead traveled in and is across the face of the bowl. The bowl was divided into 12 equal parts called hours. The length of these hours varied with the seasons, as days were longer or shorter. In the summer an hour might have been half again as long as our hours now, in the winter only half as long. For 1,600 years this way of measuring hours by dividing the daylight into 12 parts didn't change. A minute is the sixtieth part of an hour and a second is the sixtieth part of a minute. Both of these measurements are for convenience in dividing time into useful sections. The ancient Babylonians reckoned time more accurately than the people who came after than for several thousand years. They used a water clock, the water running through a hole of a very carefully calculated size from one jar into another. The time it took for the water to drip completely through was the length of the day of the equinox. Day and night are equal at that time, each lasting 12 hours. Our modem industry depends on clocks and timing. Assembly lines run on exact time schedules. In the manufacture of almost every article around you there are certain processes that must be timed precisely. China must be baked for an exact length of time, glass hardened, paint dried electrically, canned food processed. If you look around your room, you will probably see dozens of other things that had to be timed when they were made, some of them to a millionth of a second. Parts of radio tubes and light bulbs must be timed as exactly as this. Our whole world runs on a time schedule. Trains and planes, schools and business, radios, traffic lights, and the cake for dessert all depend on the clock. Flyers make a clock out of the sky, so they can call directions. They imagine it to be a huge clock face with their plane at the center of the dial. The nose of the plane points to 12 o'clock. Then if one man yells "see gull at 2 o'clock", everybody knows exactly where to look.

单选题The safety committee's report recommended that all medicines should be kept out of the ______ of children. A. reach B. hold C. grasp D. hand

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} 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-scoring Answer Sheet. An ecosystem is defined as an ecological community together with its environment, functioning as a unit. To be more {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}, an ecosystem is a complex set of relationships among the living resources, {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}, and residents of an area, composed of organisms that work together to remain healthy {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}energy is exchanged and system-level processes emerge. The ecosystem serves as the level of biological organization in which organisms {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}simultaneously with each other and with their environment. As such, ecosystems are a level above that of the ecological community but are at a level below the {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}, which is essentially the largest of all possible ecosystems. The thing about ecosystems is that they are {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}fragile and intensely complicated. If you influence the smallest variable, then it changes the {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}. This is why global warming is such a big issue, {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}whether we created it or not. Ecosystems will change; however, if they change radically enough, our way of life will forever be affected. It is sad to think that future generations will not have the {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}of witnessing these little creatures as we have in our lifetime. You have to go to preservations to witness the wildlife that {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}be an everyday occurrence.

单选题A permanent job plus a {{U}}decent{{/U}} salary is what most of these young guys in China hope for. A. noble B. adequate C. modest D. polite