单选题What is the purpose of the talk?

单选题Which of the following is seen as the cause of class differences in the past?

单选题Even though we had been to her house several times before we did not remember ______.

单选题The screaming of a woman ______ our attention back ______ the TV program. A. paid; at B. got; on C. called; to D. drew; over

单选题The ______ he is filled with about his son's wondering alone into the forest at night has almost driven him mad.

单选题Have you ever been in a situation ______ you know the other person is right yet you cannot agree with him?A. by whichB. thatC. in whereD. where

单选题What can we learn from the findings of the study?

单选题{{B}}SECTION A CONVERSATIONS{{/B}}{{I}}In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.{{/I}} {{I}}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.{{/I}}

单选题They work long hours but do not earn enough to ensure a ______ living for themselves and their families. A. reticent B. decent C. innocent D. descended

单选题His ambition led him to ______ the career of Edmund Burke.[A] rival[B] compete[C] vie[D] emulate

单选题Which of the following sentences contains an adverbial clause of concession?

单选题The three biggest lies in America are: (1) "The check is in the mail." (2) "Of course I"ll respect you in the morning." (3) "It was a computer error." Of these three little white lies, the worst of the lot by far is the third. It"s the only one that can never be true. Today, if a bank statement cheats you out of $900 that way, you know what the clerk is sure to say. "It was a computer error." Nonsense. The computer is reporting nothing more than what the clerk typed into it. The most irritating case of all is when the computerized cash register in the grocery store shows that an item costs more than it actually does. If the innocent buyer points out the mistake, the checker, bagger, and manager all come together and offer the familiar explanation. "It was a computer error." It wasn"t, of course. That high-tech cash register is really nothing more than an electric eye. The eye reads the Universal Product Code—that ribbon of black and white lines on the package—and then checks the code against a price list stored in memory. If the price list is right, you"ll be charged accurately. Grocery stores update the price list each day—that is, somebody sits at a keyboard and types in the prices. If the price they type in is too high, there are only two explanations, carelessness or dishonesty. But somehow "a computer error" is supposed to excuse everything. One reason we let people hide behind a computer is the common misperception that huge, modern computers are "electric brains" with "artificial intelligence." At some point there might be a machine with intelligence, but none exists today. The smartest computer on Earth right now is no more "intelligent" than your average screwdriver. At this point in the development of computers, the only thing any machine can do is what a human has instructed it to do.

单选题 I still remember—my hands and my fingertips still remember!—what used to lie in store for us on our return to school from the holidays. The trees in the schoolyard would be in full leaves again, and the old leaves would be lying around in scattered heaps like a muddy sea of leaves. "Get that all swept up!" the headmaster would tell us. "I want the whole place cleaned up, at once!" There was enough work there, to last for over a week. Especially since the only tools with which we were provided were our hands, our fingers, our nails. "Now see that it's done properly, and be quick about it," the headmaster would say to the older pupils, "or you'll have to answer for it!" So at an order from the older boys we would all line up like peasants about to cut and gather in crops. If the work was not going as quickly as the headmaster expected, the big boys, instead of giving us a helping hand, used to find it simpler to whip us with branches pulled from the trees. In order to avoid these blows, we used to bribe our tyrants with the juicy cakes we used to bring for our midday meal. And if we happened to have any money on us the coins changed hands at once. If we did not do this, if we were afraid of going home with an empty stomach or an empty purse, the blows were re-doubled. They hit us so violently and with such devilish enjoyment that even a deaf and dumb person would have realized that we were being flogged not so much to make us work harder, but rather to beat us into a state of obedience in which we would be only too glad to give up our food and money. Occasionally one of us, worn out by such calculated cruelty, would have the courage to complain to the headmaster. He would of course be angry, but the punishment he gave the older boys was always very small—nothing compared to what they had done to us. And the fact is that however much we complained our situation did not improve in the slightest, Perhaps we should have let our parents know what was going on, but somehow we never dreamed of doing so; I don't know whether it was loyalty or pride that kept us silent, but I can see now that we were foolish to keep quiet about it, for such beatings were completely foreign to our nature.

单选题Questions 24 and 25 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.

单选题Honsewives who do not go out to work often feel they are not working to their full ______.A. capacityB. facultyC. strengthD. content

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