单选题 It is said that Da Vinci is a versatile man who is good at many things. The underlined part means ______.

单选题 This is a long ______ —roughly 20 miles down a beautiful valley to the little village below.

单选题 Clothing made of plastic fibers has certain advantages over ______ made of natural fibers like cotton, wool, or silk.

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 done 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. Gap Year A gap year is often a time / when young people travel or work to earn more money for school.

单选题 Every year, millions of college students will sit for the post-graduate entrance examination. More and more students have regarded the pursuing of a master's degree as an indispensable part of their education. Write a composition of about 200 words to explain the main causes of the phenomenon on the following topic: Reasons for Continuing One's Education 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 More than one third of the Chinese in the United States live in California, ______ in San Francisco.

单选题 Many reporters hurried to the airport, ______ that the superstar had already left.

单选题A．reverse B．excited C．cooperative D．maintain E．involved F．characterized G．Moderate H．analyze I．involves J．aware K．universe L．psychiatrists M．contain N．Excessive O．democracy In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to 42 . The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than their parents did and to prepare more fully for participation in a world 43 by cooperation rather than by the 'battle of the sexes'. If the process goes too far and man's role is regarded as less important—and that has happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in 44 . It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of 'monism'. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children 45 a partnership of equals. There are signs that 46 , psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more 47 of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit-not all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is the home, We are beginning, however, to 48 men's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child. The family is a(n) 49 enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems. 50 authoritarianism has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is connected not only with a healthy 51 , but also with a healthy family.

单选题 When she arrived at the office, Mr. Smith______, so they had only time for a few words.

单选题 John is ______ hardworking than his sister, but he failed in the exam.

单选题 Among the four sentences below, the tag question in sentence ______ is used to seek confirmation of the asker's opinion or belief.

单选题 The two scholars worked at the task of writing a preface to the new dictionary for three hours ______ last night.

单选题 The meeting ______ at midnight and we all went home.

阅读理解PASSAGE THREE (1) Reading award-winning literature may boost your ability to read other people, a new study suggests

阅读理解PASSAGE TWO (1) There was something in the elderly womans behavior that caught my eye

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阅读理解PASSAGE ONE What does the statement

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阅读理解PASSAGE ONE (1) Life can be tough for immigrants in America

听力题SLANG We often use slang expressions when we talk because they are so vivid and colorful