单选题In what ways human beings are different from other animals?

单选题 Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. Olympic Games are held every four years at a different site, in which athletes {{U}}(21) {{/U}} different nations compete against each other in a {{U}}(22) {{/U}} of sports. There are two types of Olympics, the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. In order to {{U}}(23) {{/U}} the Olympics, a city must submit a proposal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). After all proposals have been {{U}}(24) {{/U}}, the IOC votes. If no city is successful in gaining a majority in the first vote, the city with the fewest votes is eliminated, and voting continues, with {{U}}(25) {{/U}} rounds, until a majority winner is determined. Typically the Games are awarded several years in advance, {{U}}(26) {{/U}} the winning city time to prepare for the Games. In selecting the {{U}}(27) {{/U}} of the Olympic Games, the IOC considers a number of factors, chief among them are which city has, or promises to build, the best facilities, and which organizing committee seems most likely to {{U}}(28) {{/U}} the Games effectively. The IOC also {{U}}(29) {{/U}} which parts of the world have not yet hosted the Games. {{U}}(30) {{/U}}, Tokyo, Japan, the host of the 1964 Summer Games, and Mexico City, Mexico, the host of the 1968 Summer Games, were chosen {{U}}(31) {{/U}} to popularize the Olympic movement in Asia and in Latin America. {{U}} (32) {{/U}} the growing importance of television worldwide, the IOC in recent years has also taken into {{U}}(33) {{/U}} the host city's time zone. {{U}} (34) {{/U}} the Games take place in the United States or Canada, for example, American television networks are willing to pay {{U}}(35) {{/U}} higher amounts for television rights because they can broadcast popular events {{U}}(36) {{/U}}, in prime viewing hours. {{U}} (37) {{/U}} the Games have been awarded, it is the responsibility of the local organizing committee to finance them. This is often done with a portion of the Olympic television {{U}}(38) {{/U}}and with corporate sponsorships, ticket sales, and other smaller revenue sources. In many {{U}}(39) {{/U}} there is also direct government support. Although many cities have achieved a financial profit by hosting the Games. the Olympics can be financially {{U}}(40) {{/U}}. When the revenues from the Games were less than expected, the city was left with large debts.

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单选题The main idea of the passage can best be described as ______.

单选题 In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decision makes for equality and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the "battle of the sexes". If the process goes too far and man's role is regarded as less important—and that has happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in reverse. It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of "Momism" — but we don't want to exchange it for a "neo-Popism". What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit—nor the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child. The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems. Excessive authoritarianism (命令主义) has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent (相关的，切题的) not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.

单选题What does the writer mainly talk about in this passage?

单选题 Directions : 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 once only. Questions 11—13 are based on the following dialogue about travel information. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11—13.

单选题Which of the following is NOT included in Dr. Eliot's reform program?

单选题Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training Ideally, therefore, the choice of an (21) should be made even before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, (22) , most people make several job choices during their working lives, (23) because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve (24) position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should (25) enter into a broad flexible training program that will (26) them for a field of work rather than for a single (27) Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans (28) benefit of help from a (29) vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing (30) about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a Mt-or-miss (31) . Some drift from job to job. Others (32) to work in which they are unhappy and (33) which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for its real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents for them—choose the professional field, (34) both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal (35) . The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "white-collar" job is (36) good reason for choosing it as life's work. (37) , these occupations are not always well paid. (38) a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the (39) of young people should give serious (40) to these fields.

单选题How many people in the front of the vehicles are killed or seriously injured every year?

单选题{{I}} You will hear four 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.{{/I}}