单选题______was the spokesman of the Lost Generation.[A] William Burroughs[B] Allen Ginsberg[C] Ernest Hemingway[D] Theodore Dreiser

单选题English people refers to ______.

单选题Which is the most important airport in Britain? A. Luton. B. Heathrow. C. Gatwick. D. London Airport.

单选题The ______ feature is considered central to human language, which means two levels of "structure" or "patterning".A. dualityB. arbitrarinessC. displacementD. ereativity

单选题{{B}}TEXT D{{/B}} The biggest problem facing Chile as it promotes itself as a tourist destination to be reckoned with, is that it is at the end of the earth. It is too far south to be a convenient stop on the way to anywhere else and is much farther than a relatively cheap half-day flight away from the big tourist markets, unlike Mexico, for example. Chile, therefore, is having to fight hard to attract tourists, to convince travelers that it is worth coming halfway round the world to visit. But it is succeeding, not only in existing markets like the USA and Western Europe but in new territories, in particular the Far East. Markets closer to home, however, are not being forgotten. More than 50% of visitors to Chile still come from its nearest neighbour, Argentina, where the cost of living is much higher. Like all South American countries, Chile sees tourism as a valuable earner of foreign currency, although it has been far more serious than most in promoting its image abroad. Relatively stable politically within the region, it has benefited from the problems suffered in other areas. In Peru, guerrilla warfare in recent years has dealt a heavy blow to the tourist industry and fear of street crime in Brazil has reduced the attraction of Rio de Janeior as a dream destination for foreigners. More than 150, 000 people are directly involved in Chile's tourist sector, an industry which earn the country more than US $ 950 million each year. The state-run National Tourism Service, in partnership with a number of private companies, is currently running a worldwide campaign, taking part in trade fairs and international events to attract visitors to Chile. Chile's great strength as a tourist destination is its geographical diversity. From the parched Atacama Deset in the north to the Antarctic snowfields of the south, it is more than 5,000 km long. With the Pacific on one side and the Andean mountains on the other, Chile boasts natural attractions. Its beaches are not up to Caribbean standards but resorts such as Vine del Mar are generally clean and unspoiled and have a high standard of services. But the trump card is the Andes mountain range. There are a number of excellent ski resorts within hour's drive of the capital, Santiago, and the national parks in the south are home to rare animal and plant species. The parks already attract specialist visitors, including mountaineers, who come to climb the technically difficult peaks, and fishermen, lured by the salmon and trout in the region's rivers. However, infrastructural development in these areas is limited. The ski resorts do not have as many lifts and pistes as their European counterparts and the poor quality of roads in the south means that only the most determined travellers see the best of the national parks. Air links between Chile and the rest of the world are, at present, relatively poor. While Chile's two largest airlines have extensive networks within South America, they operate only a small number of routes to the United States and Europe, while services to Asia are almost nonexistent. Internal transport links are being improved and luxury hotels are being built in one of its national parks. Nor is development being restricted to the Andes. Easter Island and Chile's Antarctic Territory are also on the list of areas where the Government believes it can create tourist markets. But the rush to open hitherto inaccessible areas to mass tourism is not being welcomed by everyone. Indigenous and environmental groups, including Greenpeace, say that many parts of the Andes will suffer if they become over-developed. There is a genuine fear that areas of Chile will suffer the cultural destruction witnessed in Mexico and European resort. The policy of opening up Antarctica to tourism is also politically sensitive. Chile already has permanent settlements on the ice and many people see the decision to allow tourists there as a political move, enhancing Santiago's territorial claim over part of Antarctica. The Chilean Government has promised to respect the environment as it seeks to bring tourism to these areas. But there are immense commercial pressures to exploit the country's tourism potential. The Government will have to monitor developments closely if it is genuinely concern in creating a balanced, controlled industry and if the price of an increasingly lucrative tourist market is not going to mean the loss of many of Chile's natural riches.

单选题The Wars of Roses are fought between ______.

单选题The aim of the article is to _____.

单选题{{B}}TEXT E{{/B}} This is the weather Scobie loves. Lying in bed he touches his telescope lovingly, turning a wistful eye on the blank wall of rotting mud-bricks which shuts off his view of the sea. Scobie is getting on for seventy and still afraid to die; his one fear is that he will awake one morning and find himself dead--Lieutenant-Commander Scobie, O. B. E. Consequently it gives him a seuere shock every morning when the water carriers shriek under his window before dawn, waking him up. For a moment, he says, he dares not open his eyes. Keeping them fast shut (for fear they might open on the heavenly host) he gropes along the cake stand beside his bed and grabs his pipe. It is always loaded from the night before and an open matchbox stands beside it. The first whiff of tobacco restores both his composure and his eyesight. He breathes deeply, grateful for reassurance. He smiles. He gloats. Then, drawing the heavy sheepskin, which serves him as a bed-cover up to his ears, he sings a little triumphal song to the morning. Taking stock of himself he discovers that he has the inevitable headache. His tongue is raw from last night' s brandy. But against these trifling discomforts the prospect of another day in life weighs heavily. He pauses to slip in his false teeth. He places his wrinkled fingers to his chest and is comforted by the sound of his heart at work. He is rather proud of his heart. If you ever visit him when he is in bed he is almost sure to grasp your hand in his and ask you to feel it. Swallowing a little, you shove your hand inside his cheap night-jacket to experience those sad, blunt, far-away bumps--like those of an unborn baby. He buttons up his pajamas with touching pride and gives his imitation roar of animal health--" Bounding from my bed like a lion" ---that is another of his phrases. You have not experienced the full charm of the man unless you have actually seen him, bent double with rheumatism, crawling out from between his coarse cotton sheets like a ruin. Only in the warmest months of the year do his bones thaw out sufficiently to enable him to stand erect. In the summer afternoons he walks in the park, his little head glowing like a minor sun, his jaw set in a violent expression of health. His tiny nautical pension is hardly enough to pay for one cockroach-infested room; he ekes it out with an equally small salary from the Egyptian government, which carries with it the proud title of Bimbashi in the Police Force. Origins he has none. His past spreads over a dozen continents like a true subject of myth. And his presence is so rich with imaginary health that he needs nothing more except perhaps an occasional trip to Cairo during Ramadhan, when his office is closed and presumably all crime comes to a standstill because of the past.

单选题Which of the following best describes sea otters' relationship with kelp forests according to the passage?

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单选题One thing that distinguishes the online world from the real one is that it is very easy to find things. To find a copy of The Economist in print, one has to go to a news-stand, which may or may not carry it. Finding it online, though, is a different proposition. Just go to Google, type in "economist" and you will be instantly directed to economist.com. Though it is difficult to remember now, this was not always the case. Indeed, until Google, now the world's most popular search engine, came on to the scene in September 1998, it was not the case at all. As in the physical world, searching online was a hit-or-miss affair. Google was vastly better than anything that had come before: so much better, in fact, that it changed the way many people use the web. Almost overnight, it made the web far more useful, particularly for nonspecialist users, many of whom now regard Google as the internet's front door. The recent fuss over Google's stock market flotation obscures its far wider social significance: few technologies, after all, are so influential that their names become used as verbs. Google began in 1998 as an academic research project by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, who were then graduate students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was not the first search engine, of course. Existing search engines were able to scan or "crawl" a large portion of the web, build an index, and then find pages that matched particular words. But they were less good at presenting those pages, which might number in the hundreds of thousands, in a useful way. Mr Brin's and Mr Page's accomplishment was to devise a way to sort the results by determining which pages were likely to be most relevant. They did so using a mathematical recipe, or algorithm, called PageRank. This algorithm is at the heart of Google's success, distinguishing it from all previous search engines and accounting for its apparently magical ability to find the most useful web pages. Untangling the web PageRank works by analysing the structure of the web itself. Each of its billions of pages can link to other pages, and can also, in turn, be linked to. Mr Brin and Mr Page reasoned that if a page was linked to many other pages, it was likely to be important. Furthermore, if the pages that linked to a page were important, then that page was even more likely to be important. There is, of course, an inherent circularity to this formula--the importance of one page depends on the importance of pages that link to it, the importance of which depends in turn on the importance of pages that link to them. But using some mathematical tricks, this circularity can be resolved, and each page can be given a score that reflects its importance. The simplest way to calculate the score for each page is to perform a repeating or "iterative" calculation (see article). To start with, all pages are given the same score. Then each link from one page to another is counted as a "vote" for the destination page. Each page's score is recalculated by adding up the contribution from each incoming link, which is simply the score of the linking page divided by the number of outgoing links on that page. (Each page's score is thus shared out among the pages it links to.) Once all the scores have been recalculated, the process is repeated using the new scores, until the scores settle down and stop changing (in mathematical jargon, the calculation "converges"). The final scores can then be used to rank search results: pages that match a particular-set of search terms are displayed in order of descending score, so that the page deemed most important appears at the top of the list.

单选题In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

单选题WhatarethetwinblowstotheWashingtonpolicyconcerningKosovo?

单选题"The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero's origin." The novel probably refers to ______.

单选题Accordingtothenews,thefiveChinesecrewmenlosttheirlives

单选题______ is often described as " father of modem linguistics"? A. Saussure B. Chomsky C. Bloomfield D. Halliday

单选题An appropriate title for this passage would be ______.

单选题 Although Chopin later attended the Lyceum where his father taught, his early training began at home. This included receiving piano lessons from his mother. By the age of six, Chopin was creating original pieces, showing innate prodigious musical ability. His parents arranged for the young Chopin to take piano instruction from Wojciech Zywny. When Chopin was sixteen, he attended the Warsaw Conservatory of Music, directed by composer Joseph Elsner, like Zywny, who insisted on the traditional training associated with Classical music but allowed his students to investigate the more original imaginations of the Romantic style as well. As often happened with the young musicians of both the Classical and Romantic Periods, Chopin was sent to Vienna, the unquestioned center of music for that day. He gave piano concerts and then arranged to have his pieces published by a Vienna publishing house there. While Chopin was in Austria, Poland and Russia faced off in the apparent beginnings of war. He returned him a silver goblet filled with Polish soil. He kept it always, as he was never able to return to his beloved Poland. French by heritage, and desirous of finding musical acceptance from a less traditional audience than that of Vienna, Chopin ventured to Paris. Interestingly, other young musicians had assembled in the city of fashion with the very same hope. Chopin joined Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Vincenzo Bellini, all proponents of the "new" Romantic style. Although Chopin did play in the large concert halls on occasion, he left most at home in private settings, enjoying the social milieu that accompanied concerts for the wealthy. He also enjoyed teaching, as this caused him less stress, than performing. Chopin did not feel that his delicate technique and intricate melodies were as suited to the grandiose hall as they were to smaller environments and audiences. News of the war in Poland inspired Chopin to write many sad musical pieces expressing his grief for "his" Poland. Among these was the famous "Revolutionary Etude." Plagued by poor health as well as his homesickness, Chopin found solace in summer visits to the country. Here, his most complex yet harmonic creations found their way to the brilliant composer's hand the "Fantasia in F Minor," the "Barcarolle," the "Polonaise Fantasia," "Ballade in A Flat Major, Ballade in F Minor" and "Sonata in B Minor" were all products of the relaxed time Chopin enjoyed in the country. As the war continued in Warsaw and then reached Paris, Chopin retired to Scotland with friends. Although he was far beyond the reach of the revolution, his melancholy attitude did not improve and he sank deeper into a depression. Likewise, his health did not rejuvenate either. A window in the fighting made it possible for Chopin to return to Paris as his health deteriorated further. Surrounded by those that he loved, Frederi Francois Chopin died at the age of 39. he was buried in Paris. Chopin's last request was that the Polish soil in the silver goblet be sprinkled over his grave.

单选题Inadecadeworkingasananny,AndreiaSoaresfinallyclambereduptheladderintoBrazil"smiddleclass.Withthemoneyshesaved,sheboughtatwo-bedroomapartmentwithgranitekitchencountertopsandasmallveranda,ahouseforhermother,aplotoflandforherbrotherandaLouisVuittonpursefromParisthatsheproudlypullsfromacloset.Whileshehasdonebetterthanmanyofhercounterparts,Ms.SoaresispartofanannyrevolutionthatisshatteringthecolonialstereotypeofinexpensivebutdedicateddomestichelpinLatinAmerica.Astheirexpectationsforabetterqualityofliferise,nanniesareincreasinglyseekingtoworkfortheverywealthyandbecominglessaffordableformanymiddle-classfamilies.Theshiftiscausingripplesofclasstension,posinganirritatingprobleminasocietyinwhichmorewomenareenteringtheworkforcewithoutthesortofelaboratesystemofdaycarethatexistsinsomeindustrializednations.Fadingfastarethedayswhenwhite-frockednanniesworkedforamenialsalary,withonlytwodaysoffevery15days.Better-qualifiednanniesarerefusingtoworkweekendsandaredemandingsalariesthataretwotofourtimeswhattheywerepaidjustfiveyearsago.Agrowingnumberarerefusingtosleepoverorareleavingthefield,choosingjobsthatallowmoretimeforaprivatelife,accordingtoparents,nanniesanddirectorsofnannyplacementagencies.Thesupplyofnannieshasthinnedassomehavesoughtotherworkintheexpandingjobmarket,drivingupsalariesforthosewhostayinthefield,economists,nanniesandnannyagencydirectorssaid.Manyremainingnanniesaretakingcoursestobecomebetterqualifiedandtohelpthemfindworkinwealthierhomes,wheretheycanchargemuchmore.WhilesomemothersembracethechangesasgoodforBrazil"sdevelopment,manyareupinarms.Onceisolated,nanniesnowtradeinformationaboutthemarketandworkingconditionsthroughe-mail,blogsandsocialnetworks.Sixyearsago,EvanicedosSantos,aformernannyturnedblogger,hadnoInternetaccessandcaughtupwithfellownanniesataSoPauloathleticclubwhereheremployersweremembers.Nowmarried,shehasdedicatedherselftohelpingnannyfriendsonline"findabetterpath"towardmoremoneyandbetterhours.Somewell-paidnanniesinSoPauloareemployingnanniesoftheirown.Ms.Soaressaidnannyfriendsearningmorethan$4,300amonthwerepayingless-qualifiednanniesalittleover$900amonthtobaby-sitfortheirownchildren.MariliaToledo,theowneroftheMasanannyagency,saidthemarketinSoPaulo,SouthAmerica"slargestcity,hadbecomea"war"betweendemandingnanniesandparentstryingtoholdbacknannyinflation."Thingsarechangingtooquicklyandabruptly,"saidMs.Toledo,whohasownedtheagencyfor20years."Noonewaspreparedforthis."Ms.Toledoandsomeeconomistsareskepticalabouthowlongtherevolutioncanlast.Dr.NerisaidBraziliansstillhadloweducationlevels:anaverageofsevenyearsofstudyforadultsolderthan25.RodrigoConstantino,aneconomistatGraphusCapital,saidalackofinvestmentineducationinBrazilwouldpreventmanydomesticworkersfromfindingother,better-payingwork,andincessantsalarydemandscouldigniteinflation."Brazilisridingthiswave,andeachclassismovinguptheladder,"Mr.Constantinosaid."TheproblemIseeishowthisisgoingtobesustainable."

单选题Which state ranks the first of all the states in America in the aspect of production?