单选题When did Miss Wang move to her apartment?

单选题The writer' s tone can best be described as one of ______.

单选题Wherearethetwospeakers?A.Infrontofanotice.B.Intheclassroom.C.Intheoffice.D.Inthedepartment.

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} The idea of a fish being able to generate electricity strong enough to light lamp bulbs--or even to run a small electricmotor-is almost unbelievable, but several kinds of fish are able to do this. Even more strangely, this curious power has been acquired in different ways by fish belonging to very different families. Perhaps the best known are the electric rays, or torpedoes (电鳐), of which several kinds live in warm seas. They possess on each side of the head, behind the eyes, a large organ consisting of a number of hexagonal shaped cells rather like a honeycomb. The cells are filled with a jelly-like substance, and contain a series of flat electric plates. One side, the negative side, of each plate, is supplied with very fine nerves, connected with a main nerve coming from a special part of the brain. Current passes from the upper, positive side of the organ downwards to the negative, lower side. Generally it is necessary to touch the fish in two places, completing the circuit, in order to receive a shock. The strength of this shock depends on the size of the fish, but newly born ones only about 5 centimetres across can be made to light the bulb of a pocket flashlight for a few moments, while a fully grown torpedo gives a shock capable of knocking a man down, and, if suitable wires are connected, will operate a small electric motor for several minutes. Another famous example is the electric eel. This fish gives an even more powerful shock. The system is different from that of the torpedo in that the electric plates run longitudinally (纵向) and are supplied with nerves from the spinal (脊骨) cord. Consequently, the current passes along the fish from head to tail. The electric organs of these fish are really altered muscles and like all muscles are apt (likely) to tire, so they are not able to produce electricity for very long. The power of producing electricity may serve these fish both for defence and attack.

单选题According to the passage, which of the following is the mother owl's job?

单选题What'sthewoman?A.Aforeigner.B.Areporter.C.AnordinaryChinese.

单选题I don't know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony's Funeral Oration, Grey's Elegy, and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grow stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc, and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London. I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms -- a bedroom and a sitting room -- in a little square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.

单选题The long years of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing is virtually suspended, and overseas suppliers have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet instead of joy, there is widespread uneasiness and confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising, when there seems to be so much more food about7 Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay7 Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing more food at home? No one knows what to expect. The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britain's overseas suppliers of meat, too, are offering more this year and home production has also risen. But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has been made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shops are overstocked with food net only because there is more food available, but also because people, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it. Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world prices have begun to fall, with the result that imported food, with the exception of grain, is often cheaper than the home-produced variety. And now grain prices, too, are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit from this trend. The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generations have seen it all happen before. Despite the present price and market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food imports and a shrinking home market. Present production is running at 51 per cent above pre-war levels, and the government has called for an expansion to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated Ministerial advice is carrying little weight and the expansion program is not working very well.

单选题What did the man think of the food at the school restaurant?

单选题 Questions 18-21 are based on a conversation you are going to hear.

单选题The Japanese as a people are very polite. They are polite (1) each other and they are (2) polite toward foreigners. (3) . Japanese student was in the United States (4) at an American university. He did not know English (5) and wanted very much to learn the various expressions of politeness (6) in everyday conversation. He (7) been invited to a party at the (8) of one of his (9) . He bought a book with many expressions of politeness in it, (10) he studied the expressions carefully. That afternoon at the professor's home when the professor's wife served him coffee and sandwiches, he got up at once, smiled happily, and (11) : "Thank you, dear Sir or Madame, as the case may be." (12) story concerns an American who was (13) several months in Japan (14) business. He had a young Japanese servant who, (15) most Japanese, was extremely polite. The American had to get up very early one morning and told the servant to be sure to (16) him at six o'clock. At exactly six o'clock the next morning, the servant quietly (17) the American's room and left a (18) on the table alongside the (19) man's bed. At eleven o'clock the American woke up, (20) at his watch, and jumped out of bed. The message on the table said: "Dear Sir, it is now six o'clock. Please get up at once./

单选题Text The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases (26) the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant (27) of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a (28) bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (29) and will strictly control the amount of (30) that can be given to a case (31) a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons Media Select Committee, Lord Irvine said he (32) with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not (33) sufficient control. (34) of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (35) of media protest when he said the (36) of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges (37) to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which (38) the European Convention on Human Rights legally (39) in Britain, laid down that everybody was (40) to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. "Press freedoms Will be in safe hands (41) our British judges." he said. Witness payments became an (42) after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were (43) to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised (44) witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to (45) guilty verdicts.