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单选题The author believes that, behind the wheel of an automobile, some people act ______.

单选题I am busy ______ my homework these days after three day's away. [A] do [B] doing [C] in doing

单选题Questions 11—13 are based on the following news about oil spill at Seaview Beach. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11—13.

单选题According to the passage, why primitive people "dressed up" ?

单选题That boys suffer more from air pollution can possibly be justified by the fact that

单选题Excite is eager to join such powerful companies as AT&T and TCI because ______.

单选题Queues are long. Life is short. So why waste time waiting when you can pay someone to do it for you? In Washington D.C. —a city that struggles with more than its share of bureaucratic practices — a small industry is emerging that will queue for you to get everything from a driver's license to a seat in a congressional hearing. Michael Dorsey, one of the pioneering "service expediters", began going to traffic courts for other people back in 1988. Today his fees start at $ 20 and can go into the thousands to plead individual cases at the Bureau of Traffic Adjudication (his former employer). Mr Dorsey knows what a properly written parking ticket looks like, and often gets fines invalidated on its failures in formality. His clients include congressmen and diplomats, as well as firms for which tickets are an occupational hazard, such as taxi operators and television broadcasters. Service expediters are not universally loved. Non-tax income, like fines and fees, makes up about 7% of local-government revenue in Washington. Mr Dorsey alone relieves that fund of $150000 a year. Meanwhile, citizen advocacy groups keep complaining about expediters such as the Congressional Services Company and CVK Group that specialize in saving places for congressional hearings. Committees hearing hot topics such as energy regulation often do not have enough seats. Why should a well-heeled lobbyist who has paid $ 30 an hour to a professional place-holder grab the place? Critics say this perpetuates a two-layered system: the rich get good government service, but the poor still have to wait. This seems a little harsh. Service expediters can hardly be blamed for creating the unfair system they profit from. Anyway, it's not only rich corporate types who benefit from their services. Poor foreigners with little English hire expediters to navigate the ticket-fighting process; so do elderly and disabled people who want to save time on errands that require long hours standing in line. And, who knows, the service expediters might even shame the bureaucrats into pulling their socks up. Back in 1999, Washington's mayor Tony Williams, promised to liberate citizens from the tyranny of the government queue. Things have gotten a bit better, but the 20-minute task of renewing a driver's license can still take days. Hiring an expert to confront the bureaucratic beast on your behalf takes care of that.

单选题The reception normally takes place in the bride' s home if ______.

单选题Shakespeare's plays ______.

单选题Read the following text. Answer the questions below the text by choosing A, B, C or D. According to the most recent American Freshman survey, conducted annually by the University of California, Los Angeles, undergraduates' chief objective in life is to be financially well-off. For this new crop of college students, attaining wealth ranks higher than raising a family and becoming an authority in their chosen field. Moreover, they listed their primary factor in choosing a school program as whether the graduates get good jobs. Long gone are the days of attending college to develop a "meaningful philosophy of life," which was the top concern for freshmen in 1971. Now, students focus on employability and potential earnings, both reflected in the undergraduate majors they pursue. But are men and women's choice of college majors equally stacked in terms of job openings and future salary? Close, but not quite. The most popular college major for both men and women, according to the U.S. Department of Education's latest figures, is business. In 2008 business degrees were awarded to 21% of the 1.6 million graduates who received a bachelor's. And women received nearly half (49%) of those practical business degrees. As an undergraduate major, business is broad enough to offer several career possibilities. It equips students to work in finance, sales, consulting, marketing and management positions. It's also impressive enough to help graduates land a job. "Business ranks high in terms of employability," says researcher Laurence Shatkin, author of Best Jobs for the 21st Century. "It has consistently been a good investment for students." However, men still dominate many of the majors with the highest earning potential. Engineering ranks at No. 3 on the list of men's most popular majors, and 83.2% of students in the major are men. Meanwhile, it is absent from women's top-10 list. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) expects the field of engineering to grow 11% by 2018 and estimates it pays an average $132000 to the top 10% of workers. Similarly, men make up the vast majority (82.4%) of computer and information science majors. This is another field that will be in demand and well-paid. The BLS projects job openings for computer and information scientists will increase 24% in the next decade. Top talent earns an average of $155000. As may be expected, women do still dominate many of the traditionally "soft" majors. On the list of women's most popular majors, education (No. 4), English (No. 9) and liberal arts (No. 10) rank far above their positions on men's list. These fields of study lend themselves to careers like teaching, writing and editing, public relations or sales. While there are well-paid positions in these fields, median salaries range between $35000 and $55000. Interestingly, the appeal of studying education seems to be slipping. Over the last decade education degrees have decreased 3%, though women still dominate the major and receive 85.4% of education degrees. For women it seems that education is being supplanted by health, which could be a market advantage. Shatkin says the health care industry is growing rapidly, and women are the majority of its workers. According to the BLS, the 14-million-strong industry will add another 3 million jobs by 2018. In fact, many of the positions on our list of the Fastest-Growing Jobs For Women are in health care; pharmacists, doctors and occupational therapists consistently make our list of the Best-Paying Jobs For Women.

单选题The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the market place for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of business men to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important factor in a maket-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers wil be eliminated from the market. If, on other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by sellers. Price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system. The important actor in a private-enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own poductive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.

单选题Read the following text. Answer the questions below the text by choosing A, B, C or D. Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-80, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time? The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term. Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude oil have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past. Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP (in constant prices) rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25%—0.5% of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies—to which heavy industry has shifted—have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed. One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The economist's commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.