单选题 Mr. Verder never thought that he would become a member of the board of directors because of his ______ origin.

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单选题 Very soon a computer will be able to teach you English. It will also be able to translate any language for you too. It's just one more incredible result of the development of microprocessors-those tiny parts of a computer commonly known as 'silicon chips'. So give up going to classes, stop buying more textbooks and relax. In a couple of years you won't need the international language of English. Already Texas instruments in the United States are developing an electronic translation machine. Imagine a Spanish secretary, for example, who wants to type a letter from the boss to a business man in Sweden. All he or she will have to do is this: first type the letter will appear on another television screen in Stockholm in perfect Swedish. And that's not all. Soon a computer will be able to teach you English, if you really want to learn the language. You'll sit in front of a television screen and practice endless structures. The computer will tell you when you are correct and when you are wrong. It will even talk to you because the silicon chips can change electrical impulses into sounds. And clever programmers can predict the responses you, the learner, are likely to make. So think of it. You will be able to teach yourself at your own pace. You will waste very little time, and you can work at home. And if after all that, you still can't speak English you can always use the translating machine. In a few years, therefore, perhaps there will be no need for BBC Modern English, or BBC English by Radio programs—no more textbooks or teachers of English. Instead of buying an exciting new textbook, the computer will ask you to replace it with microprocessor one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four. Fast, reliable and efficient language learning and translating facilities will be available to you. Think of that no more tears or embarrassing moments. One little problem is that a computer can't laugh yet-but the scientists are working on it. Happy learning!

单选题 As far back as he could remember, Larry had longed to go to Hollywood and become a film star. The young man's hopes for success were broken again and again, however. Hollywood just did not seem interested. When he first came to California Larry had decided never to give up and return home without success. Therefore, he kept on trying. Someday, he told himself, his big opportunity would come. Larry found a job parking cars for one of Hollywood's big restaurants. His pay was basic, but since the guests were kind enough to give him more money, he managed to make a living. One day he recognized an important film director driving into the parking lot and getting out of his car. Larry had recently heard that the man was ready to make a new picture. Larry got into the car and prepared to drive it on into the lot and park it. Then he stopped, jumped out, and ran over to the director. 'Excuse me, sir, but I think it's only fair to tell you that it's now or never if you want me in your next picture. A lot of big companies are after me.' Instead of pushing away the boy, the director got interested in Larry's words and stopped. 'Yes? Which companies?' he asked. 'Well,' replied the boy, 'there's the telephone company, the gas company, and the electric company, to tell you only a few.' The director laughed, then wrote something on a card and handed it to.the young man. 'Come and see me tomorrow.' Larry got a small part in the director's next film. He was on his way!

单选题Scientists who study the brain have found out a great deal about how we learn.They have_____21_____that babies learn much more from the sights and sounds around them than we_____22_____before.You can?

单选题 Warman's, the makers of office materials, had advertised for a travelling salesman. Mr. Barlow applied for the job, and soon afterwards was invited to the company's head office to meet Mr. Snell, the sales manager. Mr. Snell asked Mr. Barlow what experience he had had as a salesman. 'I worked as a salesman for a brush company until six months ago. I sold brushes, dusters, tins of polish, things like that. I went from door to door selling direct to housewives.' Mr. Snell then asked him why he had left that job. 'Well, to be honest, it was very hard work,' Mr. Barlow replied. 'It meant walking sometimes six or eight miles a day. But the real reason for leaving was that I didn't think very highly of the goods that I was selling. They were not of the best quality, and that made it difficult for me to be sincere when I had to tell housewives what wonderful brushes they were. I knew perfectly well they wouldn't last beyond a month. What's more, the pay was rather poor. I realized after a while that I wouldn't be able to support a family on the money I was earning.' 'I see,' said Mr. Snell. 'So what did you do next?' 'For the last six months I have been a salesman in a department store,' said Mr. Barlow. 'And do you think you could sell Warman's office materials with clear conscience?' Mr. Snell asked. 'Do you think you could be sincere, as you put it, about selling the papers, inks, copying- machines and so on that we produce here?' Mr. Barlow said that he thought he could; that Warman's office materials enjoyed a very high reputation, and that in his department at Caldwell's he sold almost nothing else. He said he had always wanted to work for a big company with a good name; to travel all over the country, selling goods to other companies, rather than to housewives on doorstep; and—he added with a smile—to enjoy the money and the working conditions offered with the job for which he had applied. 'Mr. Barlow,' said Mr. Snell, 'do you have a clean driving license?' 'Yes, I do,' Mr. Barlow replied. 'Then as long as your medical examination proves to be satisfactory, I'm quite prepared to offer you the job.' Mr. Snell got up and shook Mr. Barlow by the hand. 'Congratulations,' he said, 'and welcome to Warman's.'

单选题 Alaska, which was called Russian America before it was sold to U.S.A., joined the union as the forty-ninth state in 1959. Alaska is now the largest of all the 50 states of the U.S.. It was in 1867 that President A. Johnson's Secretary of State (国务卿), Seward bought Alaska from the Russians at a cost of 7.2 million. The buying of the huge northern land mass seemed at first something foolishly done. Not only was Alaska difficult to reach, but it was also hard to live in, and it appeared to have no importance in time of war. Besides, there are volcanoes there as Alaska lies on the Pacific' ring of fire'. In Alaska large treeless areas are covered with snow all the year. For these reasons the buying of Alaska was called 'Seward's Fooly' at that time. However, in 1896 gold was found in Alaska, and people poured tin to the land quickly. Since then other important natural resources were discovered, including oil. Soon people changed their thinking about 'Seward's Fooly'. But most people visit Alaska in order to see the endless beauty of nature that the northern land discloses to them. For instance, there are about 11,000 islands in Alaska. And in a certain area of Alaska the sun does not set for 82 days every year.

单选题 The majority of people in Scotland are in favor breaking away from the rest of the UK and becoming independent, according to a poll taken just before the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union, which united Scotland and England. A pair of Acts of Parliament, passed in 1706 and 1707 that came into effect on May 1, 1707, created Great Britain. The parliaments of both countries were dissolved, and replaced by a new Parliament of Great Britain in Westminster, London. The poll showed support for independence for Scotland is running at 51%. This is the first time since 1998 that support for separation has passed 50%, and the first time since devolution gave power to the country in 1999. Six months before elections for the Scottish Parliament, these poll results come as good news to the Scottish Nationalist Party, who are hoping to make progress against Labor and further the cause of an independent Scotland. Many people have become disillusioned with devolution, and believe that the Scottish Parliament has failed to deliver what they had hoped it would; only a tenth has no opinion. In fact, only 39% of those polled want to keep things as they are.

单选题 Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, and horseback riding. When I was 13, my family moved away, so Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special times, like my wedding and Linda's. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped 'Address Unknown'. I had no idea about how to find Linda. Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill. One day, I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman—Linda's married name. 'There must be thousands of Wagmans.' I thought, but I still wrote to her. She called as soon as she got my letter. 'Mrs. Tobin!' she said excitedly, 'Linda Evans Wagman is my mother.' Minutes later I heard a voice that I recognized at once, even after 40 years. We laughed and cried and caught up on each other's lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled, and there's one thing that Linda and I know for sure: we won't lose each other again!

单选题 It is because she is too inexperienced ______ she does not know how to deal with the situation.

单选题Joe: Hi, have you read today's newspaper?Henry: 56 ?Joe: The People's Daily.Henry: 57 . But I only looked through it while having lunch.Joe: Did you notice an interesting article?Henry: 58 ?Joe: About ait pollution.Henry: 59 . On which page?Joe: On page 5. At the bottom.Henry: Good. I'll read it this afternoon.Joe: Don't forget to tell me what you think after reading it.Henry: Sure. 60 Joe: See you.

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单选题 It is customary tor adults to forget how hard and dull and long school is. The learning by memory of all the basic things one must know is a most incredible and unending effort. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don' t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. School is not easy and it is not for the most part very much fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a real teacher. Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of my luck. My first was a science and math teacher in high school, my second, a professor of creative writing at Stanford, and my third was my friend and partner, Ed Ricketts. My three had these things in common: They all loved what they were doing. They did not tell they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung, wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious. I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she brought discovery. She aroused us to shouting, book-waving discussions. She had the noisiest class in school and she didn't even seem to know it. We could never stick to the subject. Our speculation ranged the world. She breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured fireflies. I can tell my son who looks forward with horror to fifteen years of drudgery that somewhere in the dusty dark a magic may happen that will light up the years if he is very lucky.

单选题 Your sales methods will depend ______ the customers with whom you deal.

单选题 On television all over the world there are programmes about the work of the police. They are popular because they are usually very exciting. In London there is a television programme called 'Police Five '--because it is on for five minutes once a week. A television reporter, Shaw Taylor. talks about crimes in the London area. He asks for public help. The police station needs the help of ordinary people because sometimes you or I have information that can be useful to the police. Shaw Taylor shows pictures of paintings, jewellery (珠宝) and other things which thieves stole during the week. Sometimes he shows the car that the thieves escaped in. When people see men or things on the television programme which they may remember, they can tell the police where they saw them. With their help the police may catch more criminals. Sometimes the police find a car or some money. Shaw Taylor shows them on television. The owners sometimes see them. Then they can telephone the police and say, 'Thank you very much-- that's mine!'

单选题 Cara Lang is 13. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, in the US Last Thursday, she didn't go to school. She went to work with her father instead. Every year, on the fourth Thursday in April, millions of young girls go to work. This is Take Our Daughters to Work Day. The girls are between the ages of 9 and 15. They spend the day at work with an adult, usually a mother, father, aunt, or uncle. They go to offices, police stations, laboratories, and other places where their parents or other family members work. Next year, the day will include sons, too. The Ms. Foundation, an organization for women, started the program about ten years ago. In the US, many women work outside the home. The Ms. Foundation wanted girls to find out about many different kinds of jobs. Then, when the girls grow up, they can choose a job they like. Cara's father is a film director. Cara says,' It was very exciting for me to go to the studio with my dad. I saw a lot of people doing different jobs. ' Many businesses have special activities for girls on this day. Last year, Cara went to work with her aunt at the University of Massachusetts. In the engineering department, the girls learned to build a bridge with toothpicks and candy. In the chemistry department, they learned to use scales. They learned about many other kinds of jobs, too. Right now, Cara does not know what job she will have when she grows up. But because of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, she knows she has many choices.

单选题We can make mistakes at any age.Some mistakes we make are about money.But most mistakes?are about people.Did Jerry really care when I broke up with Helen?When I got that great job,did Jim really feel

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单选题 He raised his arms to ______his face from the blow.