单选题The writer's attitude toward the arts is one of ______.

单选题The maximum possible weight of an aircraft is determined by______.

单选题 Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.

单选题_________ that of iron construction, the technology for constructing building with reinforced concrete developed rather rapidly.

单选题FromwhichcollegedidJeffersongraduate?

单选题His health ______ with age.

单选题 Questions 28 to 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.

单选题In order to work here the foreigner needs a work permit, which must be applied (31) by his prospective employer. The problem here is that the Department of the Employment has the right to (32) or refuse these permits, and there is little that can be (33) about it. It would be extremely unwise (34) a foreign visitor to work without a permit, since anyone doing so is (35) to immediate deportation. There are some (36) to this rule, moot notably people from the Common Market countries, who are (37) to work without permits, and who are often given (38) residence permits of up to five years. Some (39) people, such as doctors, foreign journalists, (40) and others, can work without permits. The problem with the Act is not just that some of its rules are unfair but (41) it is administered, and the people who administer it. An immigrations official has the power to stop a visitor (42) these shores coming into the country. If this happens the visitor has the (43) to appeal (44) the immigration appeal tribunal. While the appeals are being considered, the visitor has no (45) but to wait sometimes for quite a long time. Critics of the law say that immigration officials treat the (46) visitors badly, and appear to accept or reject them for no (47) reason. Which side of the political (48) you are on, there seems to be an urgent need for a good look at the (49) , for it (50) frequent argument, and in the eyes of many real injustice.

单选题 {{I}} Questions 7 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.{{/I}}

单选题Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.

单选题We desire that the tour leader______ us immediately of any changes in plans.

单选题Need he come at once? —Yes, he ______. A. must B. must not C. need D. may

单选题As a consequence of Women's Liberation Movement, the 1985 local council election saw more women coming forward.[A] franchises[B] electorates[C] candidates[D] polls

单选题Where did the customer get the sweater?

单选题I have the car now but my sister was the ______ owner.

单选题It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class English home, such as the present writer is now working in, with the inconvenience and deficiencies of the equipment of an Alexandrian writer, and one realizes the enormous waste of time, physical exertion, and attention that went on through all the centuries during which the library flourished. Before the present writer lies half a dozen books, and there are good indices to three of them. He can pick up any one of these six books, refer quickly to a statement, verify a quotation, and go on writing. Contrast with that the tedious unfolding of a rolled manuscript. Close at hand are two encyclopedias, a dictionary, an atlas of the world, a biographical dictionary, and other books of reference. They have no marginal indices, it is true; but that, perhaps, is asking too much at present. There were no such resources in the world in 300 B.C. Alexandria had still to produce the first grammar and the first dictionary. This present book is being written in manuscript; it is then taken by a typist and typewritten very accurately. It can then, with the utmost convenience, be read over, corrected amply, rearranged freely, retyped, and recorrected. The Alexandrian author had to dictate or recopy every word he wrote. Before he could turn back to what he had written previously, he had to dry his last words by waving them in the air or pouring sand over them; he had not even blotting-paper. Whatever an author wrote had to be recopied again and again before it could reach any considerable circle of readers, and every copyist introduced some new error. New books were dictated to a roomful of copyists, and so issued in a first edition of some hundreds at least. In Rome, Horace and Virgil seem to have been issued in quite considerable editions. Whenever a need for maps or diagrams arose, there were fresh difficulties. Such a science as anatomy, for example, depending as it does upon accurate drawing, must have been enormously hampered by the natural limitations of the copyist. The transmission of geographical fact again must have been almost incredibly tedious. No doubt a day will come when a private library and writing desk of the year A. D. 1925 will seem quaintly clumsy and difficult; but, measured by the standards of Alexandria, they are surprisingly quick, efficient, and economical of nervous and mental energy.