单选题The patient's progress was very encouraging as he could______get out of bed without help. A. nearly B. only C. merely D. barely

单选题Whatdoesthewomanprefertodo?A.Togotoaconcertwiththeman.B.Togivethemanalifttothecountryside.C.Toenjoythesunshine.D.Tohaveashorttripforpleasure.

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单选题Many people invest in the stock market hoping to find the next Microsoft and Dell. However, I know from personal experience how difficult this really is. For more than a year, I was 11 hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a day investing in the market. It seemed so easy, I dreamed of 12 my job at the end of the year, of buying a small apartment in Paris, of traveling around the world. But these dreams came to a sudden and dramatic end when a stock I 13 , Texas cellular pone wholesaler, fell by more than 75 percent 14 a one year period. On the worst day, it plunged by more than $15 a share. There was a rumor the company was exaggerating sales figures. That was when I learned how quickly Wall Street punishes companies that misrepresent the 15 In a panic, I sold all my stock in the company, paying off margin debt with cash advances from my credit card. Because I owned so many shares, I 16 a small fortune, half of it from money I borrowed from the brokerage company. One month, I am a winner, the next, a loser. This one big loss was my first lesson in the market. My father was a stockbroker, as was my grandfather 17 him.(In fact, he founded one of Chicago"s earliest brokerage firms.) But like so many things in life, we don"t learn anything until we experience it for ourselves. The only way to really understand the inner 18 of the stock market is to invest your own hard-earned money. When all your stocks are doing 19 and you feel like a winner, you learn very little. It"s when all your stocks are losing and everyone is questioning your stock-picking 20 that you find out if you have what it takes to invest in the market.

单选题 {{B}}Passage Four {{/B}} President Bill Clinton is being squeezed on the issue of gays in the military. Gays demand that he lift the ban on them. But the generals and admirals say, please, spare us this massive migraine. If Clinton wants maximum effectiveness from the military, he'll try to squirm out of his political promise to end the ban. He can't soothe both sides on this issue. If he keeps his word, he'll anger the military and a large segment of America. If he breaks his promise, he'll anger gays and their Hollywood supporters, who gave him votes and money last year. Were I asked to cast a tie-breaking vote; it would be for the military. They know more about what it takes to win wars than Barbra. Streisand or the Gay and Lesbian Alliance. And if the Pentagon had done a better job of arguing its case, the vast majority of Americans would agree. Instead, gays have skillfully used the media to argue that the military ban is nothing more than discrimination. Those who disagree are called gay-bashers. "We're caught in a propaganda war being waged by the media and gay lobbyists," Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis recently wrote," Most media members who advocate lifting the ban never served in the military. They don't understand the lack of privacy and forced intimacy in the barracks." He's right. Military life is unique. The civilian job closest to soldiering is being a cop. There are gay cops, and that's okay. But as a cop, you work your shift and go home. You don't live on a ship with another cop 24 hours a day. You don't shower and sleep near him for months at a time. And since we're talking about sex-specifically a form of sex that most Americans consider morally wrong-anybody who says that it won't affect morale and discipline in the military has never been in a barracks or on a crowded troopship. Yes, there are polls that tell us that more than 40 percent of Americans think the gay ban should be lifted. These polls are about as meaningful as those that say ten percent of Americans believe Elvis lives. A poll limited to those in the military and those who have served would show that an overwhelming majority would be against lifting the ban. They know that most who volunteer to serve in our military have conservative, middle-class, God-country-family values. It's conformist organization from haircut to stockings. And it places less value on individual rights than on the unit as a whole. It has its own laws and justice system, which by civilian standards would be considered authoritarian. Maybe you don't want to live that way, but if we are going to fight wars, it works. If gays are accepted by the military, they will demand change. Some activists will probably push for a gay quota at West Point. There's nothing wrong with change if it has a positive purpose. This doesn't. We're not talking about patriotism, love of country, sacrifice. Gay obsessive-not to be confused with ordinary people who happen to be gay-have an agenda: total social acceptance. And they are using the military ban as a blue chip in their poker game. A gay Washington lawyer summed it up when he told the New York Times: "Any instruments that defer or delegate this issue to the military are inherently suspect." Hey, lawyer, this country's military has won many more battles than it has lost. When it comes to fighting, Gen. Colin Powell's views are less suspect than those of a Washington lawyer who hasn't spent one minute in combat. From ousting Saddam from Kuwait to helping Somalia, our military has been effective. As the saying goes, if it isn't broke, don't fix it.

单选题It made me ask questions about life, death and mortality that {{U}}ultimately{{/U}} helped me get through the disaster. A. decisively B. eventually C. somewhat D. somehow

单选题Passage Three It's hard to know who to trust these days. When we see people staging protests we think, Wow! These folks are passionate about their cause-otherwise, why would they stand in the rain for hours? But sometimes it's a show: You and even your Congressman may have been raised to power by manipulative marketers who pay serious money to hire protesters. It's a mean trick. Let's say you want to stage a political rally, but you just can't find enough people for a good turnout. What you need are folks with lots of time on their hands, who can be persuaded to make a fuss over almost anything. Solution: Head down to a homeless shelter and take out cash. No joke-hiring the homeless is catching on. Last October, a Georgia activist pushing a state law to crack down on illegal immigrants paid 14 homeless men $10 each to hold signs and march around. It worked. People thought the rally was genuine-a local radio station even broadcast it live. But listeners had no idea this was just a crowd for hire. Pay for rage works--the homeless get a little income and the lobbying group gets a crowd. The only losers are citizens and the media, who think the whole show is legitimate. After a Phoenix TV station recently noticed rallies featuring the homeless, they asked some of the protesters, who were holding signs about a local labor dispute, what they were upset about. Many had no idea. 'All we do is stand out here and hold the signs," said one. Some bold organizers have been known to "borrow" people's names. In one case a few years ago, members of Congress were swamped with telegrams about a telecom bill. But some constituents were confused when they got phone calls from their concerned Congressmen-because they'd never written in to begin with. It turned out that thousands of the telegrams were faked by a telecom- industry PR firm. And guess what? No aspect of this campaign appears to have violated Postal Service regulations. That means your name could be used next in support of a corporate cause you've never heard of. All of this amounts to a corruption of our democratic system: You can't trust someone who's calling you about a political issue, and ff you write to your Congressman, he might not trust that you haven't been manipulated. Maybe the solution starts with unmasking all those protest rallies that are just outrage-for-hire purchased down at the local shelter.

单选题With the progress in modern medicine, it is no longer difficult to {{U}}attain{{/U}} old age. A. evade B. reach C. postpone D. retard

单选题The performance of these new employees will highlight the role of positive thinking.

单选题Whatdoesthewomanmean?A.Themancanmakearandomdecision.B.Themanshoulddecidelater.C.Themanshouldforgetaboutit.D.Themandoesn'thavetobesoserious.

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单选题He {{U}}demanded{{/U}} that effective measures be taken to put an end to cheating in exams. A. hoped B. urged C. persuaded D. convinced

单选题To test his theory, the chemist ______ an experiment. A. set up B. set out C. set forth D. set in

单选题There is nearly one million dollars that this suspect could not account for .

单选题 If the universality of immersion-style language programs, emergency test prep classes, tired college kids is any indication, cramming (临时抱佛脚) is a wildly popular study strategy. Professors frown upon it yet conspire by squeezing vast topics like "Evolution" or "World history 1914 to present" into the last week of a course. So is cramming effective or not? A new study by UC-San Diego psychologists confirms what you may suspect deep down: The answer is no. Hurried memorization is a hopeless approach for retaining information. But it's not all bad news. The team offers a precise formula for better study habits, and it doesn't necessarily need dogged discipline and routine. To arrive at their prescription, the scientists tested the "spacing effect" on long-term memory. In other words, they wanted to know how the time gap between study sessions influences the ability to remember material on test day. They asked 1,354 volunteers to memorize 32 trivial facts, such as "Who invented snow golf?." (Rudyard Kipling) and "What European nation consumes the most spicy Mexican food?" (Norway). Participants reviewed the answers anywhere from several minutes to several months after first learning them, and then were tested up to a year later. The findings? Students perform better when they space their study sessions rather than when they try to cram everything into their heads during one sitting. But for those who must cram, timing is everything. According to the researchers, if you have only one date on which to study, choose a day that's closer to when you first learned the material than when you take the test--but not too close. For instance, if you have a French lesson on Monday and a quiz the following Monday, you should study on Wednesday for maximum retention. Tuesday is too early and Sunday is too late. If you want to remember something for a year, wait about a month to review what you learned. Hal Pashler, one of the lead authors, suspects that most crammers don't realize the error of their ways. "Even in the scientific community, cram-type summer courses on new research methods are extremely popular," he told me in an email. And I have never heard people who take these courses even notice the fact that they are a perfect prescription for rapid forgetting."

单选题 Virtually nobody has memories from very early childhood-but it's not because we don't retain information as young children. Rather, it may be because at that age, our brains don't yet function in a way that bundles information into the complex neural patterns that we know as memories. It's clear that young children do remember facts in the moment-such as who their parents are, or that one must say "please" before morn will give you candy. This is called "semantic memory." Until sometime between the ages two and four, however, children lack "episodic memory" - memory regarding the details of a specific event. Such memories are stored in several parts of the brain's surface, or "cortex." For example, memory of sound is processed in the auditory cortexes, on the sides of the brain, while visual memory is managed by the visual cortex, at the back. A region of the brain called the hippocampus (海马体) ties all the scattered pieces together. "If you think of your cortex as a flower bed, there are flowers all across the top of your head," said Patricia Bauer of Emory University in Atlanta. "The hippocampus, tucked very neatly in the middle of your brain, is responsible for pulling those all together and tying them in a bouquet (花束) ." The memory is the bouquet-the neural pattern of linkages between the parts of the brain where a memory is stored. So why do kids usually fail to record specific episodes until the two-to-four age range? It may be because that's when the hippocampus starts tying fragments of information together, said psychologist Nora Newcombe of Temple University in Philadelphia. And there may be a reason for this, Newcombe said. Episodic memory may be unnecessarily complex at a time when a child is just learning how the world works. "I think the primary goal of the first two years is to acquire semantic knowledge and from that point of view, episodic memory might actually be a distraction," Newcombe said.

单选题The Mexican settlers built cities and mansions in what ______ become California. A. used to B. had to C. ought to D. was to

单选题The city council decided to set up a school devoted exclusively to the needs of problem children. A. forcefully B. externally C. reluctantly D. entirely

单选题The self-image controls a person's attitudes or ______ of what happens to her. A. interpretations B. approaches C. commitments D. simulations

单选题It was a tragic love affair that only gave rise to pain. A. brought forward B. brought about C. brought down D. brought in