单选题Whatdowelearnfromthisconversation?[A]Themanwantstoattendtomorrow'sshow.[B]Therearen'tanyticketsleftfortonight'sshow.[C]Therearen'tanyticketsleftfortomorrow'sshow.[D]Themandoesn'twanttoattendtomorrow'sshow.

单选题According to the passage, successful people concentrate on ______.

单选题 Whenever I see anyone buying a National Lottery ticket, I want to stop them and ask if they know just where their money is going. The lottery money is supposed to go to charity--but it makes me angry to see some of the so called "good causes" it's being used to support. Also, Camelot, the organizers, have made a profit of ~ 10.8 million in five months. We hear now that a lot of that money is boosting the pay packets of the company's bosses. For the past 10 years I've been helping to raise funds for a cancer research charity called Tenovus. My husband, Sam, died from cancer 11 years ago—he was only 51. There's been a long line of deaths in our family through cancer and it's been devastating. I've also lost two sisters-in-law, my brother, Michael, my father-in-law and my father. That's apart from several close friends. The charity is 50 years old now and raises money mainly for breast cancer research. It also runs a support line for the families of cancer sufferers. Our local group raises money through dances, sales and coffee mornings, and all the funds go directly to cancer research. In 1993 Tenovus raised ￡3 million and half of that money came from sales of our own lottery tickets at supermarkets. But our in- come has dropped by half since the National Lottery was introduced. I'm not against people playing the National Lottery, but they should think about what they're doing. The chances of winning the jackpot (赌注)are so small; they might as well throw their money away. The Government tells us that the proceeds(收入) are going to things like the arts and sport, but what about the National Health Service? They should give some cash to that, too. How can they justify spending ridiculous amounts of cash on so called works of art—like displays of potatoes or buying up Winston Churchill's papers at a cost of ￡12 million? So who really are the winners in the National Lottery? When I think of all that money people could be donating to cancer research, I could weep. It's time people realized how charities across the country are suffering because of the National Lottery. It's disheartening and so infuriating(令人发怒的).

单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}}{{I}} You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.{{/I}}

单选题WhatdowelearnfromtheconversationaboutMissRowling'sfirstbook?

单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}} {{I}} You will hear 10 short dialoguese. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer or [A], [B],[C]or [D], and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE. Now look at question 1.{{/I}}

单选题 IQuestions 11 ～13 are based on the following dialogue between an employer and an employee./I

单选题The word "liability" (Line 4, Para. 1 ) most probably, means," ______".

单选题Increasingly, over the past ten years, people—especially young people—have become aware of the need to change their eating habit, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed foods, is not good for health. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in natural foods: foods which do not contain chemical additives and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers, widely used in farming today. Natural foods, for example, are vegetable, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil and are rich in organic matter. In simple terms, this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the amount— but not the quality—of foods grown in commercial fanning areas. Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy pastures. Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry: there are battery farm, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food; they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins. There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually a nonessential food ! Although a natural alternative, such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if it is necessary, we can in fact do without it. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But it does seem to be addictive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all it does is to provide us with energy, in the form of calories. There are no vitamins in it ,no minerals ,and no fibre. It is significant that nowadays fibre is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet. In white bread, for example, the fibre has been removed. But it is present in unrefined flour and of course in vegetables. It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively rare. Hence the emphasis is placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by modem experts in "healthy eating".

单选题When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly two months later the girl was still sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention. Hundreds of suggestions, ranging from "put a clothes pin on her nose" to "have her stand on her head" poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally, she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where Dr. Leo Kanner, one of the world's top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (难以理解的) problem with great speed. He used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in an ancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in her mind, he said, a view which Aristotle, some 3,000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily. Dr. Kanner simply gave a modem psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too much sneezing was an indication that the spirit was troubled; and he began to treat the girl accordingly. "Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational adjustment, and reassurance about her unreasonable fear of tuberculosis quickly changed her from a sneezer to an ex-sneezer," he reported. Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr. Kanner has collected thousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for the blessing of God when a person sneezes—a practice Dr. Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that a sneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Strangely, people over the world still continue the custom with the traditional, "God bless you" or its equivalent. When scientists look at the sneeze, they see a remarkable mechanism which, without any conscious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, this being nature's clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be just some dust in the nose which nature is striving to remove.

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单选题The job as an interpreter has the following characteristics EXCEPT

单选题Fatal highway crashes are due to ______.

单选题According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because he ______.

单选题 {{B}} Text{{/B}} There is no denying that students should learn something about how computers work, just as we expect them at least to understand that the internal-combustion engine has something to do with burning fuel, expanding gases and pistons being driven, {{U}}(26) {{/U}} people should have some basic idea of how the things that they use {{U}}(27) {{/U}} what they do. Further, students might be helped by a course {{U}}(28) {{/U}} considers the computer's impact {{U}}(29) {{/U}} society. But that is not {{U}}(30) {{/U}} is meant by computer literacy. For computer literacy is not a form of literacy; it is a trade skill that should not be {{U}}(31) {{/U}} as a liberal art. {{U}} (32) {{/U}} how to use a computer and learning how to program one are two distinct activities. A {{U}}(33) {{/U}} might be made {{U}}(34) {{/U}} the competent citizens of tomorrow should {{U}}(35) {{/U}} themselves from their fear of computers. But this is quite different {{U}}(36) {{/U}} saying that all ought to know how to program one. {{U}}(37) {{/U}} that to people who have chosen programming as a career. While programming can be lots of fun, {{U}}(38) {{/U}} while our society needs some people who are experts at it, the same is {{U}}(39) {{/U}} of auto repair and violin-making. Learning how to use a computer is not {{U}}(40) {{/U}} difficult, and it gets {{U}}(41) {{/U}} all the time as programs become more "user-friendly'. Let us {{U}}(42) {{/U}} that in the future everyone is going to have to know how to use a computer to be a {{U}}(43) {{/U}} citizen. What does the phrase "learning to use a computer" mean? It sounds like "learning to drive a car"; that is, it sounds as if there is {{U}}(44) {{/U}} set of definite skills that, {{U}}(45) {{/U}} acquired, enable one to use a computer.

单选题Suppose a teacher can not tell teaching from learning, he or she will probably just do the thing for the students which can be done by the students themselves. To teach reading does not simply mean to distribute reading material to the students. Nor it indicates spending a lot of efforts on doing reading excises. Douglas holds that it is impossible to teach reading directly. The two processes of teaching and learning are different in their kind and purpose. For teaching, the main purpose is to create the conditions, which will help students to design the most efficient way for themselves to read. Teaching is a kind of public activity, which can be observed and judged. For learning, it is a job of the mind. Learning to read means that the students need to understand the world from printed language. The process is not open for public scrutiny. So it is important for the teacher and learner to interchange their roles, which will help the students to quest for knowledge. Douglas has pointed out that one of the main rule of teaching instructions, "Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful ,enjoyable and frequent experience for children. " Learning to read will become easier when teachers create an environment where the students are given the opportunity to deal with the problem of learning to read through reading. The teacher and learner should play their different roles properly, in this way much of the stress for both can be removed.

单选题Questions 14-17 are based on an introduction of housing available for students.