单选题It's a bird. But I don't know ______ name. [A] it [B] his [C] its

单选题You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. Questions 11—13 are based on the following news on teeth protection.

单选题Distinctive sound refers to ______. A. allomorph B. phoneme C. phone D.minimal pairs

单选题According to the writer, why "in our over-sixty population there are ten widows for every man" ?

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单选题{{I}} Questions 11-13 are based on the following passage. You now have 15 seconds to read questions 11-13.{{/I}}

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单选题 China's corruption crackdown is helping fuel a second-hand luxury market. As fur coats and Swiss watches {{U}}fall out of vogue{{/U}} among China's elites, another luxury sector is quietly thriving. The second-hand luxury market has seen a jump this year, according to a survey of stores by Fortune Character Institute, a Chinese luxury lifestyle publication. China's second-hand luxury stores range from independent boutiques to chains like Hong Kong's Milan Station or Japan's Brand Off, both of which have stores on the mainland. Online operations have sprung up too, such as Secoo.com, which has around 600,000 registered users. Second-hand designer goods can cost as little as a third of their original price. On Secco, a Louis Vuitton bag sells for 2,750 yuan or ＄450, compared to a retail price of 8,350 RMB. Rare or limited-edition items can even fetch more second-hand than the original price. According to the FCI survey of about 200 second-hand luxury shops in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, sales totalled about 3 billion yuan (＄490 million) in the first half of 2013. That's pretty small compared to China's overall luxury market, worth about ＄13 billion in 2012 according to Bain & Company. But it's a 30% jump from the year before. FCI posits that the second-hand luxury market could grow 20% this year, which is about how much sales in China's traditional luxury sector grew in 2012. (Analysts are expecting the traditional luxury sector to grow a measly 5% to 7% this year.) The number of second-hand stores has grown too, to a little over 800, from just over 500 last year. "Stores have been setting up in smaller cities like Changsha, Hangzhou and Chengdu as well as in larger, wealthier urban centers," the publication said. While China's austerity campaign and the increasing check of officials' behavior by Chinese bloggers are likely helping, second-hand stores have been around for a while, as a way for wealthy Chinese to sell off unwanted goods. Pawn shops began appearing in the country in the 1990s and copycat stores of Milan Station, the second-hand luxury chain from Hong Kong, were all over the country by 2011. Today, second-hand stores always see extra business after the holidays when the most "gifting" occurs. Another explanation is that as more Chinese travel abroad—especially in Asia where second-hand luxury stores have been popular for years, such as in Japan and South Korea—they've become more accepting of the idea of wearing someone else's expensive hand-me-downs.

单选题WhatkindoftourisSamleading?A.abustourB.atraintourC.awalkingtourD.abusinesstour

单选题The passage warns of which of the following dangers?

单选题Questions 18～20 are based on a talk introducing American adult education programs. You now have 15seconds to read Questions 18～20.

单选题Whydoesthespeakersaythatradiationissimilartoradiowaves?A.Becausebothofthemcanbedetectedbyhumansenses.B.Becausebothofthemcanbesensedbyaradioreceiver.C.Becausebothofthemareharmful.D.Becausebothofthemcanonlybedetectedbydevices.

单选题Which one of the following statements about cultural code is TRUE?

单选题Opinion polls are now beginning to show an unwilling general agreement that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighbourhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centres of production and work? The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people"s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought about may have to be reversed. This seems a discouraging thought. Bat, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work: Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom. Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people"s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people travelled longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people"s work lost all connection with their home lives and places in which they lived. Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. It became customary for the husband to go out paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the impractical goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.