单选题How should one invest a sum of money in these days of inflation? Left in a bank it will hardly keep its value, however high the interest rate is. Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market. Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings, and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past. Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques. I sometimes wonder what a being from another planet might report back about our way of life. "The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound. It has a face with twelve black marks and two hands. Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round people's wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control. This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves. " Whether or not we are slaves of time today depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time. Certain men were very clever at measuring the time of day according to the beating of their own hearts. They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would shout the time. So it seems that the first clocks were human beings. However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time. They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun. They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour-glasses, and invented water-clocks. Indeed, any serious student of antiques should spend as much time as possible visiting palaces, stately homes and museums to see some of the finest examples of clocks from the past. Antique clocks could be very expensive, but one of the joys of collecting clocks is that it is still possible to find quite cheap ones for your own home. After all, if you are going to be ruled by the time, why not invest in air antique clock and perhaps make a future profit?

单选题Blind imitation is self-destruction. To those who do not recognize their unique worth. Imitation appears attractive: to those who know their strength. Imitation is unacceptable. In the early stages of skill or character development, imitation is helpful. When I first learned to cook, I used recipes and turned out some tasty dishes. But soon I grew bored. Why follow someone else' s way of cooking when I could create my own? Imitating role models is like using training wheels on a child' s bicycle; they help you get going, but once you find your own balance, you fly faster and farther without relying on them. In daily life, imitation can hurt us if we subconsciously hold poor role models. If, as a child, you observed people whose lives were bad, you may have accepted their fear and pain as normal and gone on to follow what they did. If you do not make strong choices for yourself, you will get the results of the weak choices of others. In the field of entertainment, our culture glorifies celebrities. Those stars look great on screen. But when they step off screen, their personal lives may be disastrous. If you are going to follow someone, focus on their talent, not their bad character or unacceptable behaviors. Blessed is the person willing to act on their sudden desire to create something unique. Think of the movies, books, teachers, and friends that have affected you most deeply. They touched you because their creations were motivated by inspiration, not desperation. The world is changed not by those who do what has been done before them, but by those who do what has been done inside them. Creative people have an endless resource of ideas. The problem a creator faces is not running out of material; it is what to do with the material knocking at the door of imagination. Study your role models, accept the gifts they have given, and leave behind what does not server. Then you can say, "I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors" tragedies and declare victory, and know that they are cheering on.

单选题The substance can be added to gasoline to accelerate the speed of automobiles.

单选题I wish it ______ fine tomorrow.

单选题Listen! Do you hear someone______for help?

单选题Aging Throughout history man has had to accept the fact that all living things must die, but people now live longer than they used to. Yet all living things still show the 31 of aging, which will eventually 32 death. Aging is not a disease, but as a person passes maturity, the cells of the body and the 33 do not function as well as they did in childhood and adolescence (青春期). The body provides less 34 against disease and is more likely 35 have accident. A number of related causes may 36 aging. Some cells of the body have a fairly long life, but they are not reborn when they die. As a person ages, 37 of brain cells and muscle cells decreases. The other cells are replaced by new cells. In an aging person the 38 cells and muscle cells may not be as viable (能生存的) or as capable 39 growth as those of a young person. Another 40 in aging may be changes within the cells themselves. Some of the protein chemicals in cells are known 41 with age and became less elastic. This is why the skin of old people wrinkles and 42 . This is also the reason old people 43 in height. There may not be other more important chemical changes in the cells. Some complex cell chemicals, such as DNA and RNA, store and 44 information that the cells need. Aging may affect this 45 and change the information-carry molecules so that they do not transmit the information as well.

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单选题The majority of the contract ______ that took place during the year were handled by lawyers from a local law firm. A. negotiate B. negotiations C. negotiable D. negotiator

单选题[2011年典型真题]America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close．The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to【B1】_____ plans for a paywall around its digital offering，【B2】_____ the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news． Struggling【B3】_____an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales，The New York Times【B4】_____to introduce a“metered”model at the beginning of 2011．Readers will be required to pay when they have【B5】_____a set number of its online articles per month． The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper【B6】_____the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm(鸿沟)in the media industry．But others，including the Guardian，have said they will not【B7】_____internet readers，and certain papers，【B8】_____London’s Evening Standard，have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions 【B9】_____． The New York Times’s publisher，Arthur Sulzberger，【B10】_____that the move is a gamble：“This is a【B11】_____，to a certain degree，in where we think the web is going．” Boasting a print【B12】_____of 995000 on weekdays and 1．4 million on Sundays，The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper，【B13】_____the Wall Street Journal and USA Today．【B14】_____most US papers focus on a single city，The New York Times is among the few that can【B15】_____national scope-as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area．it has 11 offices around the US and【B16】_____26 bureaus elsewhere in the world． But【B17】_____ many in the publishing industry，the paper is in the grip of a【B18】_____financial crisis．Its parent company，the New York Times Company，has 15 papers，but【B19】_____a loss of$70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a$250 million【B20】_____from a Mexican billionaire。Carlos Slim，to strengthen its balance sheet．

单选题______ her time at the university, Dr. LeFleur built a solid reputation for leadership among both students and faculty.

单选题The vast number of new business the city is attracting is good news for the local economy; however, the ______ of vacant office space is something the major has to figure out soon. A. level B. training C. shortage D. exaggeration

单选题Lily, together with my classmates, like to play basketball in the spare time. A. together B. with C. like D. in

单选题He regretted______too much time on computer game.

单选题He has changed a lot. He ______ not what he ______. A.is, is B.was, was C.is, was D.was, is

单选题The police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135,000 demonstrators confronted the police on the construction site of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide power to most of Southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge demonstration said that the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrator had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area, would create thermal pollution in the bay, and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wasters. The demonstrations would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system would collapse. Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconsideration of the power project and no delay in its construction set for completion in three years. "This project will begin on time and the people of this state will begin to receive its benefits on schedule. Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law," he said. And the police called in reinforcements from all over the state to handle the disturbances. The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand demonstrators broke through the police lines around the cordoned-off construction site. They carried placards that read "No Nukes is Good Nukes," "Sunpower, Not Nuclear Power," and "Stop Private Profits from Public Peril. " They defied police order to move from the area. Tear gas canisters fired by the police failed to dislodge the protestors who had been prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths. Finally the gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one. The protestors did not resist the police, but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be charged with unlawful assembly, trespassing, and disturbing the peace.

单选题Don't do any more work now, you look so tiring.A. anyB. moreC. lookD. tiring

单选题 The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays are gone. Enter the Red Hat Society—a group holding the belief that old ladies should have fun. "My grandmothers didn't do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that," said Emily Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society. While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have sometimes seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers (生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents' way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old. If you take into consideration feminism (女权主义), a bit of spare money, and better health for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable (必然的). In this society, women over 50 wear red hats and purple (紫色的) clothes, while the women under 50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing. "The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that begins. When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go," said Ellen Cooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the red hats, they attracted lots of attention. "The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someone else," Cooper said, "Women feel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for themselves." This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything useful. "We're a ladies' play group. It couldn't he more simple," added Cooper's assistant Joe Heywood.

单选题His composition was so confusing that I could hardly make any ______ of it. A. meaning B. message C. information D. sense

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单选题The contempt he felt for his fellow students was obvious.