单选题Whom would you rather have ______ with you, him or me? A. to be gone B. gone C. going D. go

单选题The Consumers' Institute website is normally a ______ primary source of information about new products. A. rely B. relying C. reliable D. reliably

单选题This summer"s World Cup competition will see teams competing to play the world"s best foot ball. But the football they play will not all be of the same kind. The fans expect different styles of play from Brazil, Germany, or Italy. What makes Brazilian football Brazilian? Our style of playing football contrasts with the Europeans because of a combination of qualities of surprise, accuracy and good judgment. This style has won Brazil five world cups. Yet many Brazilian fans only count four of these victories. In 1994, the team abandoned this style for modern, scientific training and tactics. The team won the cup, but in a boring way. The Italians think differently. "To many Italians, the score 0:0 has a glorious quality, suggesting perfection," says the British football writer Simon Kuper. In the Italian culture, the idea of face is very important. This is why Italian teams are traditionally built around strong defenses. The Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff once said that Italian teams never exactly beat you. It"s just that you often lose to them. In Holland, there is a tradition of decision making through argument and discussion. It is a society where everybody is expected to have a point of view. "Every Dutch player wants to control the game," says Arnold Muhren. "You play football with your brains and not your feet." "A Dutch player argues," says Simon Kuper. "An English player obeys his superior. He is a soldier." The qualities valued in English football are military-strength, aggression and courage. This can make for exciting football. But it also means that the English find it difficult to use skillful players. David Beckham is usually criticized for his failure to defend—despite the fact that he is an attacker. If the English like to fight, the Germans like to win. In recent years, Germany has tried to change its image as a country of ruthless efficiency and a desire for victory at all costs. But Germans are quite happy for these qualities to remain in their national football team. "Football is a simple game," Gary Lineker once said. "You kick a ball about for ninety minutes and in the end the Germans win." It"s difficult to predict who will win this year"s World Cup. There is no strong favorite. But a look at the track record of previous winners shows that it is the nations with the strongest national characteristics in the football that perform best. It seems that you need to know where you come from if you want to get to the top.

单选题Just tell me what subject you'd like me to ______ so that i could get some notes ready. A. give a talk on B. have a talk C. have a talk on D. give a talk

单选题The teacher told the pupils to stand in a row and not call out loudly.A. toB. inC. andD. call out

单选题Come out, or I"ll bust the door down.

单选题This time yesterday Jack ______ his bike. He ______ TV. A. repaired; didn't watch B. was repairing; watched C. repaired; watched D. was repairing; wasn't watching

单选题Anyone may borrow books, and it cost nothing to borrow them. A. Anyone B. cost C. to D. them

单选题 What comes to mind when you think of a lake? You probably imagine a pretty scene with blue water, birds, and fish. For the people in the northwestern Cameroon, however, the image is very different. For them, lakes may mean terrible disasters. In 1984, poisonous gases exploded out of Lake Monoun and came down into the nearby villages, killing thirty-seven people. Two years later, Lake Nyos erupted. A cloud of gases rolled down the hills and into the valleys and killed 1, 700 people. Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun are crater (火山口) lakes. They were formed when water collected in the craters of old volcanoes. The volcanoes under Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun are not active anymore. However, poisonous gases from the center of the earth continue to flow up through cracks in the bottom of the lake. This is normal in a crater lake. In most crater lakes, these gases are released often because the water 'turns over' regularly. That is, the water from the bottom of the lake rises and mixes with the water at the top, allowing the gases to escape slowly. However, in Lakes Nyos and Monoun, there is no regular turning over. No one knows the reason for this fact, but as a result, these lakes have more gases trapped at the bottom than other crater lakes. In fact, scientists who have studied Lakes Nyos and Monoun have found 16, 000 times more gases. When a strong wind, cool weather, a storm, or a landslide (滑坡) causes the water to turn over suddenly, the gases escape in a violent explosion. In the past, no one knew when the gases might explode, so there was no way for the villagers to escape disaster. Now scientists from the United States, France, and Cameroon have found a way to reduce the gas pressure at the bottom of Lake Nyos. They stood a 672-foot plastic pipe in the middle of the lake, with one end of the pipe near the bottom and the other end in the air. Near the top of the pipe, the team put several holes that could be opened or closed by a computer. Now, when the gas pressure gets too high, the holes are opened and some of the gas-filled water shoots up through the pipe into the air like a fountain. With less pressure, a disastrous explosion is much less likely. However, the scientists are not sure that one pipe will be enough to prevent explosions. They hope to put in others soon and they plan to install a similar pipe and a computer system at Lake Monoun as well. To protect people nearby until all of the pipes are in place, the scientists have installed early warning systems at both lakes. If the gas pressure rises to a dangerous level, computers will set off loud sirens (警报) and bright lights to warn the people in the villages. In that way, they will have time to escape from the dangerous gases.

单选题Butter and bread ______ their daily food, but the bread and the butter up now. A. is; is eaten B. are; have been eaten C. are; are eaten D. is; have been eaten

单选题At a certain time in our lives we consider every place as the possible site (地点) for a house. I have thus searched the country within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms, one after another, and I knew their prices. The nearest thing that I came to actual ownership was when I bought the Hollowell place. But before the owner completed the sale with me, his wife changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me additional dollars to return the farm to him. However, I let him keep the additional dollars and sold him the farm for just what I had given for it. The real attractions of the Hollowell farm to me were its position, being about two miles from the village, half a mile from the nearest neighbor, bounded (相邻) on one side by the river, and separated from the highway by a wide field. The poor condition of the house and fences showed that it hadn't been used for some time. I remembered from my earliest trip up the river that the house used to be hidden behind a forest area, and I was in a hurry to buy it before the owner finished getting out some rocks, cutting down the apple trees, and clearing away some young trees which had grown up in the fields. I wanted to buy it before he made any more of his improvements. But it turned out as I have said. I was not really troubled by the loss. I had always had a garden, but I don't think I was ready for a large farm. I believe that as long as possible it is better to live free and uncommitted (不受约束的). It makes but little difference whether you own a farm or not.

单选题The City Planning In the past, cities usually grew in a disorderly way because few cities were built according to a plan. In the late 1800s, the idea of a "beautiful city" came into 1 . People felt that a city should have wide street, parks, and a civic centre. People 2 to realize that cities need to be planned. In the first part of the 1900s, cities began to 3 zoning laws. Zoning laws say what kind of building can be put up in different parts of a city. A factory cannot be put up on land 4 for apartments. Apartments, 5 , cannot be built on land for houses. Meanwhile, cities were growing rapidly and changing almost 6 . They faced many problems. Sometimes the streets in a city caused traffic 7 . Sometimes there were not enough schools or hospitals for all the people who needed them. As people moved 8 to new areas of the city, older parts of town often became run-down. At first, citizens 9 groups that tried to solve the problems a city faced. Today, most large cities have city planning board 10 part of their city government. On the board are city 11 who have special training. Many of them have college 12 in city planning. They must know how a city"s land can be 13 used. They 14 new areas of the city and decide how to improve older 15 . City planing boards help the city meet the needs of all the people who live there.

单选题All Dressed Up, a popular song by jazz musician Lonny Dangerfield, is featured in ______ for Bridgeport Custom Tailors. A. charts B. advances C. recordings D. commercials

单选题What you said sounded ______ but in fact it was untrue. A.reasonable B.reasonful C.reasonless D.unreason

单选题This notice concerns all employees who use the conference rooms. Starting immediately, you will need to officially reserve any conference room you wish to use. Any reservations of longer than three consecutive hours will require the written approval of your department manager. Reservation forms are available in the employee lounge. You must submit each form to your department secretary at least three business days in advance. If you need to cancel a meeting, please be sure to inform the secretary so that your reservation may be canceled as well. Any employees using the conference rooms without proper authorization will be asked to leave. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter. Joseph Mohammad Assistant Director of Operations From: Holly Graham ＜graham1917@nkkcompany.com＞ To: Joseph Mohammad ＜mohahello@nkkcompany.com＞ Subject: About the reservation of conference room Dear Joseph, I'm writing in response to your notice on reserving conference rooms. As a company sales manager, I have to say that my salespeople are not too happy with this sudden change in procedure. Please keep in mind that they are often away on business trips or working on other assignments that keep them out of the office for long periods of time. They simply don't have the time to check the schedule and make reservation like on-site employees. If one of our clients shows up unexpectedly, it will be embarrassing for everyone if we don't have a conference room available. I'd like you to consider making an amendment to the rule, allowing our sales force to reserve conference rooms at short notice. Thanks. Holly Graham

单选题 Since the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy and numbered accounts. Over the years, they had successfully withstood every challenge to this system by their own government who, in turn, had been frequently urged by foreign governments to reveal information about the financial affairs of certain account holders. The result of this policy of secrecy was that a kind of mystique had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a widely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainly because of its numbered accounts and bankers' reluctance to ask awkward questions of depositors. Contributing to the mystique was the view, carefully propagated by the banks themselves, that if this secret was ever given up, foreigners would fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the Swiss banking system would virtually collapse overnight. To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks announced they had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank (the Central Bank). The aim of the agreement was to prevent the improper use of the country's bank secrecy laws, and its effect to curb (遏制) severely the system of secrecy. The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbered accounts subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be required, if necessary, to identify the origin of foreign fund going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to stop such accounts being used for dubious (可疑的) purposes. Also, they agreed not to accept funds resulting from tax evasion or from crime. The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules. Although the banks agreed to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts, they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss government. To some extent, therefore, the principle of secrecy had been maintained.

单选题Every boy and every girl knows that each day and each hour brings their duty.A. andB. knowsC. bringsD. their

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单选题The subject ______ we are going to turn is about English studies.

单选题The thunder {{U}}scared{{/U}} the little girl who is sleeping in the room. A. frightened B. killed C. endangered D. rescued