单选题Why couldn't the man put on more weight?

单选题Two weeks ago, I placed an order on Amazon. com for a book titled Love and Consequences. The memoir's dust jacket promised a story of a young woman, named Margaret B. Jones, who survived Los Angeles gang life--and lived to tell about it. Problem is. The telling is a 300-page lie. Before the author's older sister notified the publisher that the book was made-up, New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani wrote glowingly, "She captures the brutal realities of a place where children learn to sleep on the floor to avoid the random bullets that might come smashing through the windows and walls at night... She conveys the extraordinary stoicism (坚忍克已) of women like Big Morn, her foster mother, who raised four grandchildren while working a day job and a night job." But in fact, the name Margaret B. Jones was a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, a young woman who, according to a subsequent story in The Times, "grew up with her biological family in the prosperous Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles." In that neighborhood, bullets don't often tear into walls, and moms don't often have to work two jobs to keep food on the table. Seltzer, 33 and now living in Oregon, reportedly got her inspiration for the book after working with LA organizations to fight gang violence. "I'm not saying, like, I did it right," Selzter said. "I did not do it right... Maybe it's an ego thing--I don't know. I just felt that there was good that I could do and there was no other way that someone would listen to it." This fabrication is just one of several that have recently managed to hit the bookshelves before publishers realize that they have been duped. At the beginning of March, a Holocaust (浩劫) memoir, Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years by Misha Defonseca, was exposed as a fake. Two years ago, a popular memoir about a man's recovery from drug addiction, A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, was also famously discredited. Besides embarrassing the publishers and no doubt, ruining the reputation of the writers, such books also pose problems (though much smaller in scale) to those of us who have bought and/or read them. After all, memoirs are supposed to carry an extra amount of authority. When readers pick them up, they expect to enter a reality as seen by someone who has participated in it. Readers believe the conversations, characters and experiences--along with the emotions they invoke to be genuine (if sometimes a bit embellished). So when that lie finally arrives in the mail, will I be able to read it? I doubt it. The book will probably end up getting an undeserved slot on my bookshelf, and I'll probably never crack it open. After all, while reading about gunfire in the streets and moms raising kids in fatherless homes, I'd be unable to get this image of a younger Seltzer out of my mind: Instead of ducking her head when bullets pound her living room wall, she's sleeping soundly in a bed covered with pillows. Instead of being cared for by a tired woman working two jobs, she's the daughter of two successful professionals, and a loyal viewer of a popular crime drama on TV.

单选题The prisoner has been ______of many privileges that average citizens enjoy.

单选题Many European Kings felt happier after Napoleon ______ from the scene. A. disappeared B. had disappeared C. was disappearing D. would disappear

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That a spider is able to finish an incomplete web of another proves that ______.

单选题From paragraph 2 we learn that the writer of the passage ______.

单选题{{B}}TEXT D{{/B}} As the editor of a science magazine--a fanny one--I was continually besieged by people who wanted ray help in winning a Nobel Prize. I always explained that I had no influence on these matters, but they invariably told me in great detail what they'd done and why they deserved a prize. In some cases, they were correct. They deserved a prize all right, but not a Nobel Prize. And so, with the help of some friends and colleagues, I started the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. The first was held in October 1991. Now each year the science humor magazine I currently edit, Annals of Improbable Research, awards ten Ig Nobel Prizes to people whose achievements, though not precisely ignoble, "cannot or should not be reproduced." Genuine Nobel Prize winners present the Ig Nobel Prizes to the winners at Harvard. A friendly, standing-room-only audience of 1,200 gives a warm welcome with wild applause and paper airplanes. Here are a few especially memorable Ig Nobel Prize winners: {{B}}In Computer Science{{/B}} Chris Niswander of Tucson, Ariz., was honored in 2002 for inventing PawSense, software that detects when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard. "Cats can enter random commands and data, damage your files and even crash your computer," explained Niswander, a computer scientist. When PawSense detects a cat on the keyboard, it emits a blast of loud harmonica music, or a recording of someone hissing. The inventor says that in addition to the sounds, once a cat has been recognized, PawSense blacks the cat's keyboard input. It puts up a giant message on the computer screen: "Catlike typing Detected." To unlock the screen, the program requests that you type the word human. A cat might beat the system through a lucky combination of paw blows, but its odds of doing so are low. {{B}}In Environmental protection{{/B}} When businessmen come home to their wives after a hard night of drinking and smoking for professional purposes, they can, though no fault of their own, smell bad. Hyuk-ho Kwon of Kolon Company in Seoul, South Korea, was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2003 for inventing the self-perfuming business suit. The fabric is soaked in micro-encapsulated peppermint scent; even a slight motion releases the flagrance. Kwon traveled from Seoul at his company's expense to attend the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The KolonCompany generously made serf-perfuming business suits for the five Nobel laureates who participated in the event, as well as for the master of ceremonies.

单选题In the United States the first day nursery was opened in 1854. Nurseries were established in various areas during the (31) half of the 19th century; most of (32) were charitable. Both in Europe and in the U.S., the day-nursery movement received great (33) during the First World War, when (34) of manpower caused the industrial employment of unprecedented numbers of women. In some European countries nurseries were established even in munitions plants, under direct government (35) . Although the number of nurseries in the U.S. also rose (36) , this rise was accomplished without government aid of any kind. During the years following the First World War, (37) , Federal, State, and local governments gradually began to (38) a measure of control in the day nurseries, chiefly by (39) them and by inspecting and regulating the conditions within the nurseries. The (40) of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries, as women were again (41) to replace men in the factories. On this (42) the U.S. government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools, (43) $6,000,000 in July, 1942, for a nursery-school program for the children of working mothers. Many states and local communities (44) this Federal aid. By the end of the War, in August, 1945, more than 100, 000 children were being cared (45) in daycare centers receiving Federal (46) . Soon afterward, the Federal government drastically (47) its expenditures for this purpose and later (48) them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation. However, the expectation (49) most employed mothers would leave their jobs at the end of the War was only partly (50) .

单选题Silk, printing, paper, the compass and powder originated in China, and ______ introduction in the west had far reaching effects.A. theseB. theirC. thoseD. its

单选题Which of the following is true, according to the tour guide?

单选题When Melissa Mahan and her husband visited the Netherlands, they felt imprisoned by their tour bus. It forced them to see the city according to a particular route and specific schedule—but going off on their own meant missing out on the information provided by the guide. On their return home to San Diego, California, they started a new company called Tour Coupes. Now, when tourists in San Diego rent one of their small, brightly coloured three-wheeled vehicles, they are treated to a narration over the stereo system about the places they pass, triggered by Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite technology. This is just one example of how GPS is being used to provide new services to tourists."What we really have here is a technology that allows people to forget about the technology," says Jim Carrier of IntelliTours, a GPS tourism firm which began offering a similar service over a year ago in Montgomery, Alabama. The city is packed with sites associated with two important chapters in American history, the civil war of the 1860s and the civil-rights movement a century later. Montgomery has a 120-year-old trolley system, called the Lightning Route, which circulates around the downtown area and is mainly used by tourists. On the Lightning Route trolleys, GPS-triggered audio clips point out historical hotspots. Another GPS-tourism firm is GoCar Rentals, based in San Francisco. It provides open-air vehicles, using a scooter engine with a fibreglass frame, similar to those used by Tour Coupes. Customers must follow a prescribed route to hear the GPS-triggered information. This limits the scope for exploration, but Nathan Withrington, the firm's founder, says that people tend to visit the same few sites. Other firms, such as CityShow in New York and GPS Tours Canada in Banff, Canada, offer hand-held GPS receivers that play audio clips for listening to while walking or driving. In South Africa, Europcar, a car-rental firm, offers a device called the Xplorer. As well as providing commentary on 2,000 points of interest, it can also warn drivers if they exceed the local speed limit. If such services prove popular, the use of dedicated audio-guide devices could give way to a different approach. A growing number of mobile phones have built-in GPS or can determine their locations using other technologies. Information for tourists delivered via phones could be updated in real time and could contain advertisements."Location-based services", such as the ability to call up a list of nearby banks or pizzerias, have been talked about for years but have never taken off. But aiming such services at tourists makes sense—since people are more likely to want information when in an unfamiliar place. It could give mobile roaming a whole new meaning.

单选题The new technological revolution in American newspaper has brought increased ______ of a wider range of publications and an expansion of newspaper jobs. A. manipulation B. reproduction C. circulation D. penetration

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Buses ______ very crowded, we had to go to the school by taxi.

单选题The speaker states that the Stone Age was so named because ______.

单选题There used to be a power station in the countryside, ______?

单选题{{I}}Question 26 and 27 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.{{/I}}