单选题 Which of the following sentences is a SUGGESTION?

单选题 Which of the following sentences is CORRECT?

单选题 It is not so much the language ______ the cultural background that makes the book difficult to understand.

单选题 Everyone wants to be happy. But people have different ideas about what makes life happy. Some people think that money may make them happy. Some believe that good health means happiness. And some think that only success in their career can please them. What is your opinion? Write a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: What Makes Life Happy? Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

单选题 A fire engine must have priority as it usually has to deal with some kind of ______.

单选题 Mary is an eloquent speaker; ______, she lacks depth.

单选题 Which of the following is a stative verb (静态动词)?

单选题 The summit will be an opportunity for every state head to give ______ to their feelings.

单选题 ______, he is ready to accept suggestions from different sources.

单选题 I felt somewhat disappointed and was about to leave, ______ something occurred which attracted my attention.

单选题 His ideas are invariably condemned as ______ by his colleagues.

单选题 The scheme fell ______ owning to lack of funds.

单选题 SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are four passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Passage One The international space station is getting a new, inflatable room that resembles a giant spare tire, NASA announced on Wednesday. Slated to launch in mid-2015, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, will fly to space deflated before being puffed into a 13-by-10-foot cylinder. Rather than providing new living space for astronauts, the module will test whether inflatable habitats have a future as orbiting laboratories, lunar outposts or living quarters for deep-space missions. And it's arriving at a bargain price for space hardware. NASA is paying Bigelow Aerospace of Nevada $17.8 million for the module. 'This is a great way for NASA to utilize private-sector investment, and for pennies on the dollar to expand our understanding of this technology,' said Lori Garver, the agency's deputy administrator. Station astronauts will periodically enter the BEAM to check whether its thick yet flexible walls, which include layers of Kevlar, adequately block the twin hazards of space travel: radiation and micrometeoroids traveling faster than bullets. 'The plan is to have the hatch closed most of the time, with the crew going in and out a few times a year to collect data,' Garver said. The module will stay attached to the station for two years. 'We have ambitions to go to the moon someday, and have a base there,' said Robert Bigelow, the real estate and hotel magnate who founded Bigelow Aerospace. Inflatables offer two advantages over traditional aluminum-can-like modules. They weigh less per cubic foot of living space, making them cheaper to launch, and they can balloon to diameters far too wide to fit on current rockets. Bigelow licensed the concept from NASA in 1999 after the agency abandoned plans to use inflatable living quarters for a mission to Mars. NASA is Bigelow's first customer. On Wednesday, Bigelow said he and his wife have invested $250 million into developing inflatable space habitats. They hope to attract wealthy tourists, pharmaceutical companies and governments that want affordable space programs to an orbital outpost that Bigelow says will be ready to fly in 2016. Called Alpha, the private space station will offer living space for 12, twice the occupancy of the international space station. Renting one-sixth of Alpha for two months will cost $25 million, Bigelow said, transportation not included. It's unclear if a market exists for a private space station, said Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. Still, Bigelow has already tasted success. In 2006 and 2007, the company launched two small inflatable satellites atop Russian ballistic missiles. Both operated as planned. Wednesday's announcement marks a deepening of NASA's partnerships with commercial companies. The agency is also funding three companies developing craft to transport astronauts to and from orbit — vehicles also needed to bring customers to Bigelow's outposts. One of those companies, Space Exploration Technologies, or Space X, will fly the BEAM module to the space station in the 'trunk' of one of its unscrewed Dragon capsules. 'It sounds like a good deal for both NASA and Bigelow,' said Pace. 'Nothing can replace flight-test experience.' The project may also stymie criticism that the 16-nation international space station, which took 13 years to construct, has been underutilized by NASA, said former station commander-Michael Lopez-Alegria, President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. 'It's a real step in the right direction.' Passage Two The year 2010 began with a herd of manufacturers chasing Amazon's Kindle. It ends with some of the same companies in pursuit of Apple's iPad. In between those tablet-computing crazes, we've all been challenged to keep up with the expanding universes of social networking and smartphones. Nothing illustrates what makes the tech business both fascinating and frustrating as well as the rise of Facebook, The social-networking site crossed the 500 million- user mark and debuted numerous features, such as an upgraded e-mail service and options to share your location with friends and get discounts from nearby retailers. But it also spent much of the year infuriating users with privacy changes that exposed more of their data and were confusing or impossible to undo. The simpler privacy interface it launched in May should help, but it won't if this company again forgets that its users don't all operate at start-up speeds. Other social networks had a smoother road. Twitter offered its growing user base a more reliable service and a busier but more useful interface, while Foursquare had users checking into such far-off locations as the international space station. You can't write the story of any of these sites without noting how smartphones have allowed their users to connect from so many places. Apple's iPhone 4 led that pack in 2010, but Google's Android operating system improved at a faster pace and didn't require its users to sign up with only one carrier, even if some of the carriers selling Android phones showed a serious lack of taste in their tweaks to Google's software. I probably devoted more column inches to smartphones than to any other sort of hardware, and with good reason: This is the most exciting, fastest-moving part of the electronics industry. Tablet computers aren't far behind, though. Apple's launch of the iPad in January redefined this market in a way that finally made the concept relevant to home users. Competitors took the hint and have begun rolling out devices that will never qualify as 'iPad killers' but do earn the title of 'iPad competitor.' The success of the iPad and other tablets pushed down the price of the kindle and other e-book readers. But Amazon's e-reader may need to drop below $100 and get a major screen upgrade to hold its place in the market. Both smartphones and tablets have further eroded the significance of traditional desktop and laptop computers. Sure, people still buy the things in massive numbers. But when you can get so much work and play done on a smartphone or tablet — or, for that matter, any other device with a browser that can run Web-based applications like Google Docs — why bother stressing out over your choice of one brand of computer? This trend has hurt Microsoft, the company that once benefited more than any other from the traditional computing market. Its biggest software shipment of the year, its Office 2010 productivity suite for its Windows operating system, was a yawner of a release. Passage Three When a doctor determines your risk for heart disease, he or she might look at your weight and blood pressure. But soon, they may also look at your neck. Independent of other factors, the width of your neck may play a role in determining your heart disease risk, according to researchers with the National Heart, Lung and Blood's Framingham Heart Study, who presented their data Wednesday at a meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Fla. 'It's very interesting that neck circumference was associated with (higher measures of) heart disease risk,' said Dr. Vijay Nambi, a cardiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine, who was not involved with the research. He noted that if the results of the preliminary research hold up after further study, it could provide a novel approach in determining a patient's risk. 'We normally end up struggling with trying to find out what are the best measures of obesity and fat?' said Nambi. Since this is the first presentation of the data, Sarah Rosner Preis, a postdoctoral fellow in NHLBI and the study's lead author, noted that the findings are preliminary. Her findings were that a wider neck was associated with riskier levels of other measurements for heart disease — such as higher systolic blood pressure and lower 'good' HDL cholesterol — but not heart disease itself. Still, the connection could be an important one if the finding is borne out in future research. And if true, heart disease would join a list of other diseases linked to a thicker neck. 'To our knowledge, there has been no study that has specifically examined the association between neck circumference and risk of heart disease,' she said. 'Prior studies have suggested that neck circumference may be associated with diabetes, insulin resistance and hypertension.' But even if a thicker neck turns out to be a sign of an at-risk heart, Nambi said, that might not mean that measuring your neck alone will ever be a conclusive test that lets a doctor determine heart disease risk. He noted that even now, there is some correlation between waist-to-hip ratio and obesity and heart disease, but cholesterol level and blood pressure remain the measurements of choice in determining heart risk. The reason is that there are numeric goals for cholesterol and blood pressure, but there is not as simple a numeric target for weight loss. Similarly, he noted, more research would be needed to determine how the circumference of the neck affects heart disease risk in order for the measurement to become useful in the clinic. Ultimately, said Nambi, research is needed to determine whether the neck fat causes heart disease or if it is just a sign of risks caused by something else. And ultimately, obsessing about your collar size may not be the key to a healthy heart. 'When you lose weight from one source, you're going to lose fat all over your body,' he said. 'Having a healthy lifestyle, several studies have shown that's the best you can do to improve your (heart health) profile.' Passage Four Wearable gadgets like smart watches and Google Glass can seem like a fad that has all the durability of CB radios or Duran Duran, but they're important early signs of a new era of technology that will drive investment and innovation for years. Tech companies are pushing out waves of wearable technology products—all of them clumsy and none of them yet really catching on. Samsung is excitedly hawking its Galaxy Gear smart watch, and Google, Apple, Qualcomm, and others are expected to come out with competing versions. Google Glass gets lots of gee-whiz attention, and every other day, someone new introduces a fitness tracker, a GPS kid- monitoring bracelet, or—yeah, seriously-interactive underwear. These are all part of a powerful trend: Over the past 40 years, digital technology has consistently moved from far away to close to us. Go back long enough, and computers the size of Buiks stayed in the back rooms of big companies. Most people never touched them. By the late 1970s, technology started moving to office desks — first as terminals connected to those hidden computers, and then as early personal computers. The next stage: We wanted digital technology in our homes, so we bought desktop PCs. A 'portable' computer in the mid-1980s, like the first Compaq, was the size of a carry-on suitcase and about as easy to lug as John Goodman. But by the 1990s, laptops got better and smaller, for the first time liberating digital technology from a place and attaching it more to a person. Now we want our technology with us all the time. This era of the smartphone and tablet began with the iPhone in 2007. The 'with us' era is accelerating even now: IBM announced that it's making its powerful Watson computing—the technology that beat humans on Jeopardy! —available in the cloud, so it can be accessed by consumers on a smart device. In technology's inexorable march from far away to close to us, and now with us, there are only three places left for it to go: on us, all around us, and then in us. 'Wearable is the next paradigm shift,' says Philippe Kahn, who invented the camera phone and today is developing innards for wearable tech. 'We are going to see a lot of innovation in wearable in the next seven years, by 2020.' Hard to know which products will catch on. Glasses are an obvious way to wear a screen, but most people don't want to look like a tech geek (极客). The masses might get interested if Google Glass can be invisibly built into hot-looking frames. A start-up called Telepathy is developing a slim arm that holds a microprojector that shoots images back to your eye. Another concept is to build a device with a tiny projector that suspends text or images out in front of you, like a heads-up display.

单选题 In spite of the ______ economic forecast, manufacturing output has risen slightly.

单选题 Critics believe that the control of television by mass advertising has ______ the quality of the programs.

单选题 What Is Good Writing? 1. Good thinking. Not only substantive, but also having 2 things to say. Particularly important for 3 . Good writing is not 4 . You are excited by a piece of writing because it 5 the subject, or you feel it in a 6 way, or you cannot express yourself 7 . 2. Involves thoughtful 8 . 99% hard work and 1% 9 . 3. Directed towards the 10 . They determine the 11 of your writing.

单选题 Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be clone at normal speed again, and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given ONE minute to check through your work once more. The air is seriously polluted, and the earth is partially poisoned.

单选题 It's reported that though many people take vitamins, they are still ______ in many essential vitamin compounds.

单选题 By July 2019, Bill ______ in this city for twelve years, a city totally different from his home town in the Netherlands.