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单选题Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

单选题{{B}}Section A{{/B}}{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D], and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

单选题Since you don' t feel ______ to cook dinner tonight, what about dining out?

单选题The______ of a diploma to students with disabilities has a negative effect on their future educational and occupational attainment.

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单选题The belief that America is losing its economic edge is pervasive. Americans are more pessimistic about their country"s prospects than at any point since Gallup, a polling firm, first started asking them in 1959. The recession may gradually be receding, the worry goes, but long-ignored obstructions to growth will stumble the recovery and prevent future generations from achieving the American dream. The misgivings are easy to understand. Growth is sluggish, unemployment is high and investors are wary. America"s public debt is approaching $17 trillion, more than 100% of GDP, and it has been growing fast. Much of this stems from the temporary effects of the recession, but it will get worse rather than better. On the current social trajectory (轨迹), the soaring costs of Medicare and Medicaid, the government"s health care schemes for the old and the poor respectively, along with Social Security, the state pension scheme, will consume all federal revenues within a generation, leaving nothing for anything else. "Is this a country that can still get big things done?" asked the head of the US Chamber of Commerce, a business lobby, in January. On every count, despite glaring problems, the outlook is less bleak than the pessimists maintain. That is partly because they overstate their case. For instance, rumours of the death of American innovation are exaggerated: the country is spending as much of its output on R&D as it ever has, and continues to come up with dramatic breakthroughs. It still towers over emerging giants in crucial matters such as the quality of its research universities and respect for intellectual-property rights. And another reason for cheer is that no one is waiting for the federal government to fix the economy. At the regional and local level America is already reforming and innovating vigorously. Local officials are competing viciously to lure migrants and investment. They are using every imaginable temptation, from scrapping income tax to building more bike paths. But they are also embarking on far-reaching reforms. Education, for example, is being turned upside down in the most comprehensive overhaul in living memory. On infrastructure, mayors and governors are grasping the nettle Congress will not, by coming up with new funding mechanisms. So America"s competitive recovery is not as strong as it should be, and it will remain overshadowed by its shaky public finances. But it is real. What is unfolding around the country offers a model for reform at the national level.

单选题Evening was ______ as I took the road over Mountain Top.

单选题The Arabs and the Japanese differ in that ______.

单选题A.Hedoesn'texpecttoenjoytheplay.B.Hecan'tgowiththewoman.C.Hedoesn'tlikegoingtothecrowdedplace.D.Herarelygoestoplays.

单选题After the death of the king, his two sons asserted their right to the ______.

单选题Why in an age of advanced technology, should so many people still cling to an ancient belief? In part it must be because astrology--claims to tell us something about ourselves, and all of us are interested in ourselves. I think it is because astrology is presented as if it were a science by its modern practitioner, and many people are misled by this. In fact, astrology was never a science. It was not a hypothesis or theory developed to describe natural phenomena, and until fairly recent times, there was not attempt to test or verify its predictions. Astrology began approximately three thousand years ago in Babylonia; it was applied to monarchs and kingdoms, but not to individuals. It spread in the 6th century BC as far as India, where it flourishes today. The Egyptians, meanwhile, developed their own kind of astrology. But the astrology now practiced in Europe and America is that developed by the Greeks, who synthesized the ideas of the Babylonians and Egyptians and enriched them with concepts from their own fertile imaginations. The Greeks believed that the earth was composed of four elements, and the heavens of a perfect crystalline material. The planets themselves were variously thought to be gods, residences of gods, or at least manifestations of gods. The gods were immortal, but otherwise had the same attributes of anger, happiness, jealousy, rage and pleasure as we do. Now if what the gods' thought was capricious (变化无常的), at least the planets were predictable in their movements. Because our own lot in life is so unpredictable, it must be purely at the mercy of gods. But if the gods are the planets, or somehow associated with them, then we have only to learn the rules of the motions of the planets to understand the whims of the gods and how they shape our own lives. So the belief developed that each of our lives is preordained by the precise configuration of the planets in the sky at the time of our birth. Astrology could not, of course, have seemed as incredible to the ancients as it does to us. The role of the sun influencing our daily and yearly lives is obvious; it was a natural extension to attribute other powers to the other planets as well. It wasn't until the time of Newton that we understood that the laws of Nature apply to the celestial worlds as well as to the terrestrial one. During antiquity, however, all great scholars believed in astrology.

单选题The ability of transferring language function will disappear ______.

单选题As a teacher, you shouldn't be ______ to any of the kids, they should share equal care.

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单选题He resolutely______ to what he had said at the meeting: he had not changed his mind in any way.

单选题Marlin is a young man of independent thinking who is not about ______ compliments to his political leaders.

单选题A.Hisschoolmates.B.Peopleofdifferentages.C.Peopleinthehallofresidence.D.Hisfriendsattheuniversity.