单选题What people firstly used flexible working hours?

单选题{{I}}{{B}}Questions 25 and 26 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.{{/B}}{{/I}}

单选题The football match is scheduled to be televised ______.A. live B. lively C. alive D. life

单选题English upper-middle-class families preferred to______

单选题What is mentioned about the employees that will be hired?

单选题Before the project was started, we asked the designer to give us an ______ of the cost of building such a museum. A. estimate B. evaluation C. assessment D. value

单选题Not content with its doubtful claim to produce cheap food for our own population, the factor, farming industry also argues that "hungry nations are benefiting from advances made by the poultry (家禽) industry" . In fact, rather than helping the fight against malnutrition(营养不良) in "hungry nations," the spread of factory farming has, inevitably aggravated the problem. Large-scale intensive meat and poultry production is a waste of food resources. This is because more protein has to be fed to animals in the form of vegetable matter than can ever be recovered in the form of meat. Much of the food value is lost in the animal" s process of digestion and cell replacement. Neither, in the case of chicken, can one eat feathers, blood, feet or head. In all, only about 44% of the live animal fits to be eaten as meat. This means one has to feed approximately 9 - 10 times as much food value to the animal than one can consume from the carcass. As a system for feeding the hungry, the effects can prove disastrous. At times of crisis, grain is the food of life. Nevertheless, the huge increase in poultry production throughout Asia and Africa continues. Normally British Or US firms are involved. For instance, an American based multinational company has this year announced its involvement in projects in several African countries. Britain" s largest suppliers chickens, Ross Breeders, are also involved in projects all over the world. Because such trade is good for exports, Western governments encourage it. In 1979, a firm in Bangladesh called Phoenix Poultry received a grant to set up a unit of 6,000 chickens and 18,000 laying hens. This almost doubled the number of poultry kept in the country all at once. But Bangladesh lacks capital, energy and food and has large numbers of unemployed. Such chicken-raising demands capital for building and machinery, extensive use of energy resources for automation, and involves feeding chickens with potential famine-relief protein food. At present, one of Bangladesh" s main imports is food grains, because the country is unable to grow enough food to feed its population. On what then can they possibly feed the chicken?

单选题What is the meaning of the word disegno, in Paragraph 2?

单选题Today you are poor, ______ , and disheartened, and tomorrow the world may be tinging with your name.

单选题Question 23 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 5 seconds to answer the question.　　Now, listen to the news.

单选题More than a year later he arrived back in America ______.A. ill, tired and unhappyB. with ill, tired and unhappyC. felt ill, tired and unhappyD. he felt ill, tired and unhappy

单选题The doctor recommends me ______ on a strict diet.

单选题What factor can best illustrate that green economy is welcomed by consumers?

单选题She is a competent leader and has always been regarded ______ by her colleagues. A. as such B. such as C. as so D. so as

单选题What has been achieved in the meeting held in Bangkok?

单选题Aesthetic thought of a distinctively modem bent emerged during the 18th century. The western philosophers of this time devoted much attention to such matters (31) natural beauty and representation. (32) that time, however, the philosophy of art has become ever more (33) and has begun to (34) the philosophy of nature. Various issues (35) to the philosophy of art have had a (36) impact (37) the orientation of 20th century aesthetics. (38) among these are problems relating to the theory of art as form and (39) the distinction between representation end expression. Still another question has to do with the value of art. Two opposing theoretical positions (40) on this issue: one holds that art and its appreciation are a means to some recognized moral good, (41) the other maintains that art is intrinsically valuable end is an end in itself. Underlying this whole issue is the concept of taste. In recent years there has also been an increasing (42) with art as the prime object of critical judgment. Corresponding to the trend in contemporary aesthetic thought, (43) have followed (44) of two approaches. In one, criticism is restricted to the analysis end interpretation of the work of art. (45) , it is devoted to articulating the response to the aesthetic object and to (46) a particular way of perceiving it. Over the years, aesthetics has developed into a broad field of knowledge end inquiry. The concerns of contemporary aesthetics include such (47) problems as the nature of style and its aesthetic significance; the relation of aesthetic judgment to culture; the (48) of a history of art; the (49) of Freudian psychology and other forms of psychological study to criticism; and the place of aesthetic judgment in practical (50) in the conduct of everyday affairs.

单选题Writing is not exactly a team sport. (26) a writer you spend most of your time chugging away by your lonesome, with only your words for (27) . But all the same, writing isn't a one way street: (28) we're not talking about diaries, all writing is meant to have an audience. You're not talking to yourself, you are having a (29) . Many writers are only (30) aware of their audience as they draft their stories. Some believe the reader doesn't come into play at all until the story is finished, or the article on the editor's desk. But since we write to be read, readers are an essential part of the writing (31) itself. Your audience is an implicit part of your writing, as much as plot and characters. Your implicit audience helps (32) your story; it sets your tone and defines your style; it determines in part your choice of protagonist; it is the "ear" to your "voice". If we know how to write and what to write about, (33) we also know who it is we're writing for? You are not writing fur your writers' circle, or your editor, or your mother-in-law who reads all your (34) drafts. No matter how important these people may be, they are not the "reader" I am talking about here, or (35) , they shouldn't be. Writers tend to become hopelessly blocked when they try to please specific readers. Especially when those readers are themselves writers. Or mothers-in-law. Knowing your (36) audience will help you avoid that particular trap. The simplest way to start getting a handle on your audience is to form a mental (37) of your ideal reader. What kind of person is he/she? Where does he live, what kind of job, what kind of hobbies does he have? What books does he read (and when, and how many)? Chances are, your ideal reader is a lot like you. We write (38) when we write for an audience with whom we can (39) . Sticking with that audience is more important than you think. Too-harsh criticism from fellow writers or editors can undermine your confidence to the point (40) you write just to suit their tastes. Uncritical admiration of relatives and friends can make you sloppy and lax.

单选题{{B}}TEXT E{{/B}} The generation of Americans who are now (in 1989) young adults has been, as odd as it sounds, deprived of the adversity that has been so valuable in shaping the American character. The First and Second World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, the depression, the civil rights movement, and the assassinations during the 1960s were traumatic experiences that tested the nation's mettle and proved that we as a people, joined together, could meet the stiffest of challenges. Those tests, which ultimately gave us such great confidence, have been crucial to shaping every American generation this century. Until now, Americans in their late teens to early thirties--a group that accounts for a hefty 25 percent of the American population--are the first of this century to mature in a world where the elusive American ideal of simultaneous peace and prosperity is, for very many of them, at long last a reality. These young men and women were spared the brunt of the Cold War, of Vietnam, and of the domestic chaos and bitter discord of the 1960s. They have grown up in a world without the megachanges of previous decades such as the women's movement, for example, or the sexual revolution that the Pill brought about. They are the post-Vietnam generation, the 60. 3 million Americans born from 1957 to 1971. The oldest of them, now thirty-two, remember Watergate, but they were preteens during the most turbulent parts of the late sixties. The youngest of them, now eighteen, were not even born when Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy were killed. The older ones come from the final years of the baby boom, the younger ones from the years when American birth rates were declining--now called the baby burst. But what makes this group fascinating is their lack of a common, bonding experience and their failure--so far--to challenge and push the nation as their predecessors did twenty years ago. In a sense they are a generation caught in the middle--not products of Vietnam, but not Nintendo (日本电子游戏机名) kids, either.

单选题The surrounding shores were beautiful, almost uniformly clothed by ______ forest.[A] elementary[B] primeval[C] primary[D] prime

单选题What do Mark and Jacqueline think about cricket and baseball?