单选题The reason why advertising is wasteful is that ______.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it expects the world economy to grow more than 4% both this year and next. Its chief economist says these could be the best two years since early this century. But the IMF also says interest rates are very low and will have to rise in the future. When rates are low, more people borrow money to buy things like homes and businesses. Prices increase. The IMF says property values in Britain and some other countries may be too high now. However, it warns that prices could fall sharply if interest rates rise too fast. Some countries also worry that large United States budget deficits (赤字) could harm the current recovery. The Bush administration says it will cut those deficits. The World Bank and IMF held their spring meetings last week in Washington where they are based. This year is their sixtieth anniversary. Protests outside were mostly peaceful. And they were smaller than before. Protesters called on rich nations to cancel the debt of poor ones. A report by the IMF and World Bank says private investment in developing countries is again increasing. The report says money is flowing to Brazil, China, Mexico and Russia. But it says poorer nations, especially in Africa, are not part of this growth. Before the meetings, World Bank President James Wolfensohn said the world is out of balance. He said one sixth of the population owns eighty percent of the wealth. At the same time, another one in sixth people lives in extreme poverty. Mr. Wolfensohn urged developed countries to open their markets and increase aid. He also urged developing nations to improve their governments and to build good legal and financial systems.

单选题According to the first paragraph, Wen Jiabao's visit to India______.

单选题Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choicesmarked [A], [B], [(2] and [D] on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that bestfits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethrough the centre. The recession is taking a serious toll on Americanretail, but e-commerce could emerge as a winner. According to a new report by Forrester Research,e-commerce sales (beyond travel) are likely to {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}11%, to $156 billion, in 2011. That. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}a slowdownfrom 13% growth last year and 18% in 2009. Themajor factor {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}to the pace shift is, of course, {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}consumer confidence. But e-commerce's slowed pace is still far betterthan the National Retail Federation's forecasted 0.5%drop in {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}retail sales this year. That means e-commerce is stealing market sharesfrom {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}retail—and fast. {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}Forrester's estimates,in 2010 e-commerce {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}for 5% of all retail sales. In2012, Forrester thinks e-commerce could have an 8%share. One recent factor is that online shopping promises {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}to price-sensitive consumers. “The recession is definitely {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}more consumers to do their homework before they goand complete a(n) {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}," says Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru. E-commerce is also somewhat protected becauseonline shoppers {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}to be wealthier: about half of allonline shopping is done by households that earn morethan $75,000 per year, even though they're just abouta third of all households with Internet {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}. {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}not all Internet companies are set to benefit{{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Last month, e-commerce giant eBay {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}itsfirst-ever quarterly revenue decline, {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}Amazonreported a sales surge of 18%. Smaller players are particularly {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}risk. "Thereare some pretty vicious (恶意的) wars as companiesgo online to get market shares," says Mulpuru."The {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}I have is that we could go back downthe spiral (螺旋) of death from 2001 and 2003,when companies would under-price themselves 86.thinking about profitability (盈利)."

单选题People's tastes in recreation differ widely. At a recent festival of pop-music in the Isle of Wight, crowds of teenagers flocked to listen to their favorite singers and musicians. They went with single railway tickets and slept in the open, a very risky thing to do in the climate of Britain, even in August. They were packed together like sardines for four days. There were innumerable thieves, a gang of roughs tried several times to break things up, and police were everywhere. At the end of the festival many young fans found themselves broke, with no money left, and they had difficulty in getting back home. Most people would consider these conditions a nightmare of discomfort; the fans appeared to enjoy it all enormously. Even in the overcrowded United Kingdom there are large tracts of open un-spoilt country, where people with more traditional tastes can go for quiet, and for the sense of freedom they derive from contact with nature. In the national parks especially, modem development of housing and industry is strictly controlled. Visitors may walk for miles through landscape of the greatest beauty and wildness, and often of considerable historic or scientific interest. Along the coasts of some of the maritime counties, public pathways have been created; these paths stretch for many miles along cliffs that look out on the Atlantic Ocean or the English Channel. Another path, lying inland, goes along the range of mountains in the north of England. It is called the Pennine Way. Here, the long-distance walker and the nature-lover can find much to enjoy, without feeling disturbed by large numbers of their fellows. Yet few people make full use of the national parks established for everyone's benefit. The commonest thing nowadays is for family groups to motor out to a beautiful spot and park their cars in a lay-by (英国的路旁停车带). A picnic basket is produced, along with a folding table and chairs, a kettle and a portable stove. They then settle down to a picnic in the lay-by beside the car. Apparently their idea of enjoyment is to get into the fresh air and amongst the country sights and sounds without having to walk a yard. They seem almost to like to hear and to smell the traffic.

单选题It"s time to stop complaining. The economy might be melting down like butter in a hot pot, but for some people — you, maybe? — this could be a very good thing. Here"s why. At no other time in recent history has it been easier or cheaper to start a new kind of company. Possibly a very profitable company. Let"s call these start-ups LILOs, for "a little in, a lot out." These are Web-based businesses that cost almost nothing to get off the ground yet can turn into great moneymakers. How do you get started? All that"s required is a great idea for a product that will fill a need in the 21st century. These days you"d do best if your idea either makes people money or saves them money. And launching now will make your company stronger later — you"ll learn to survive on fumes until the economy improves. That"s what John Tayman is doing. He"s an author who lives in San Francisco, where I met him; he wrote reviews for a business magazine I edited. Tayman knew little about technology and even less about business. And yet he dreamed of a website that would summarize car reviews from other sources and rank every model of new car. "It"ll be like RottenTomatoes.com meets Kelley Blue Book," he explained to me during lunch one day last June. Tayman said he intended to build the site on the side while continuing to write for a living. He"d work on his new company only at night and on weekends. Oh, yes, and he had only about $10,000. "Good luck with that!" I thought. Ideas are much easier to produce than they are to execute. Tayman went to work with nothing more than his PowerBook laptop. A very well-organized fellow, he quickly discovered a bunch of free stuff online — instructional manuals and sites that walk you through the process from start to finish. Within months, Tayman had a virtual staff of 20 employees working for him in five different countries. MotorMouths.com went live in January. Tayman figures he has worked about 10 hours a week on it and hasn"t spent a cent on marketing or advertising. Growth is modest but steady: nearly 10,000 people visit each week.

单选题 Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). {{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. Each for its own reason, the study of residential mobility has been a concern of three disciplines: sociology, economics, and geography. For the economist, residential shifts provide a means for studying the housing and land markets. Geographers study mobility to understand the spatial distributions of population types. For the sociologist, interest in residential mobility has two sources: one stemming from the study of human ecology and the other, from a concern with the peculiar qualities of urban life. Of course, there are clearly overlapping concerns and it is often difficult to discern the disciplinary origins of a researcher by sole examining the kinds of questions he or she raises about mobility, although it is usually easier to identify a researcher's discipline by noting the methods used and the concepts employed. Urban mobility first appears in the sociological literature as a term expressing rather generalized qualities of urban, as opposed to the nonurban life. Some sociologists refer to the mobility of the city as the considerable sum of myriad and incessant sources of stimulation impinging upon the urban dweller, a sort of sensory overload which produces sophistication, indifference and a lowered level of affection in urban dwellers. There is simply so much to experience that the urban dweller's capacity is reduced to react in a“spontaneous” and“natural”way to urban existence. It is mobility in this sense that produces some of the special qualities of urban life which, on the other hand, appeals to migrants as an escape from the dullness and oppression of rural existence with its lack of change and stimulation, and on the other hand, produces anomie and alienation in a society where men see each other primarily as means to ends rather than as ends in themselves. Of course, mobility in this larger sense of sensory overload is not a concept which lends itself easily to measurement, especially since it is a macro-system property.

单选题We live in a part of the night sky called the Milky Way Galaxy. Our galaxy can be seen (67) the naked eye at a clear summer night. It (68) a ribbon stretched across the night sky. During the summer is (69) the Milky Way is at its fullest with the stars clustered (70) . Our galaxy is a gigantic agglomeration of stars whose numbers will probably never been (71) , though technology advanced rapidly. Currently we (72) this number to be about thirty billion. Scientists have assumed that the radius of our galaxy, (73) it were to be traveled, would (74) us about fifty thousand light years. We live in small part of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is (75) to as solar system. The solar system is made up of nine planets, which (76) the center of galaxy. At the center of our (77) is the Sun. Mercury is the planet nearest to the Sun. As it does not (78) , it keeps the same face (79) the Sun at all times. This (80) that one side of the planet has a (81) burning day of 900 F, and the other side a (82) that is deadly cold. Therefore, life on mercury would be (83) Mercury is the fastest traveling (84) the nine planets, making one (85) circle around the Sun in only eight days. Mercury has little or no atmosphere to diffuse the Sun light. You would also weigh considerable less (86) the lack of gravity.

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单选题The cynics(犬儒学派的人) turned away from all desires and pleasures, and called for a pursuit of

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单选题Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

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单选题One of the most popular ideas of our time is the notion that in judging a young person's future success, we've become imbalanced, giving too much credit to whether a child has learned the stuff of textbooks, and too little value to whether that child has learned the stuff of real life. The (67) is a whole collection of behaviors and skills, from creativity to emotional-intelligence to self-discipline to (68) judgment. In this model, the elements of real life success are characterized as highly generalizable, useful (69) from the urban street corner to the meeting room. (70) , the elements that go into (71) learning are characterized as being (72) applicable, useful only for getting into college. It's commonly said that the SAT, (73) in a senior year of high school, has only about a 40% correlation (相关性) with a student's freshman year college GPA. If it's that (74) at predicting how well a kid does in college, just one year later, then how could it predict longer-term (75) in life, when other factors become increasingly important? I've always had a (76) feeling about the 40% correlation (77) . There are two self-selection problems that make it really hard to (78) the data. First, high schoolers of (79) abilities apply to different schools—the strongest students apply to one tier of colleges, and the average students apply to a (80) ambitious tier, with some overlap (重叠). Second, once students get to a college, they (81) in classes they believe they can do well (82) . At each of these colleges and courses, students might average a B grade, but the degree of difficulty in (83) that B is not comparable. It turns out that an SAT score is a far better (84) than everyone has said. When properly (85) the self-selection bias, SAT scores (86) with college GPA around 67%. In the social sciences, that's considered a great predictor.