单选题Questions 14--16 are based on the following talk about how to save money. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14--16.

单选题What do Saudis think of democracy in their country?

单选题It is an astonishing fact that there are laws of nature, rules that summarize conveniently - (21) qualitatively but quantitatively - how the world works. We might (22) a universe in which there are no such laws, in which the 108 elementary particles that (23) a universe like our own behave with utter and uncompromising abandon. To understand such a universe we would need a brain (24) as massive as the universe. It seems (25) that such a universe could have life and intelligence, because being and brains (26) some degree of internal stability and order. But (27) in a much more random universe there were such beings with an intelligence much (28) than our own, there could not be much knowledge, passion or joy. (29) for us, we live in a universe that has at least important parts that are knowable. Our common-sense experience and our evolutionary history have (30) us to understand something of the workaday world. When we go into other realms, however, common sense and ordinary intuition (31) highly unreliable guides. It is stunning that as we go close to the speed of light our mass (32) indefinitely, we shrink toward zero thickness (33) the direction of motion, and time for us comes as near to stopping as we would like. Many people think that this is silly, and every week (34) I get a letter from someone who complains to me about it. But it is virtually certain consequence not just of experiment but also of Albert Einstein's (35) analysis of space and time called the Special Theory of Relativity. It does not matter that these effects seem unreasonable to us. We are not (36) the habit of traveling close to the speed of light. The testimony of our common sense is suspect at high velocities. The idea that the world places restrictions on (37) humans might do is frustrating. Why shouldn't we be able to have intermediate rotational positions? Why can't we (38) faster than the speed of light? But (39) we can tell, this is the way the universe is constructed. Such prohibitions not only (40) us toward a little humility; they also make the world more knowable.

单选题Questions 17--20 are based on the passage talking about sign language. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17--20.

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单选题 Questions 14 ～ 16 are based on the following talk. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 ～ 16.

单选题 The cost of plant and equipment includes all expenditures reasonable and necessary in acquring the asset and placing it in a position and condition for use in the operations of the business. Only reasonable and necessary expenditures should be{{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}For example, if the company' truck driver receives a traffic ticket while hauling a new machine to the plant, the traffic{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}is not part of the cost of the new machine. If the machine is dropped and{{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}while being uploaded, the cost of repairing the damage should be{{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}as expense in the current period and should not be added{{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}the cost of the machine. Cost is most easily determined{{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}an asset is purchased for cash. The cost of the as set is then{{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}to the cash outlay necessary in acquiring the asset{{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}any expenditure for freight, insurance while in transit, installation, trial runs, and any other{{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}necessary to make the asset ready for use. If plant assets are{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}on the installment plan or by issuance of notes payable, the interest element or carrying charge should be{{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}as interest expense and not as part of the cost of the plant assets. Why should all the incidental charges{{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}to the acquisition of a machine{{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}included in its cost? Why{{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}treat these incidental charges as expenses of the period in which the machine is acquired? The answer is to be found in the basic accounting{{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}of matching costs and revenue. The benefits of{{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}the machine will be received over a span of years, 10 years, for example. During those 10 years the{{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}of the machine will contribute to revenue.{{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}, the total costs of the machine should be recorded in the accounts as a(n){{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}and allocated against the revenue of the 10 years. All costs incurred in acquiring the machine are costs for services to be{{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}from using the machine.

单选题 When the vote was finally taken, it was 3:45 in the morning, After six months of arguing and the final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia's Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wished to die. The measure was passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost at the same time word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on through the group's on-line service, Death Net. Hofsess said: "We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn't just something that happened in Australia. It's world history." The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief; others, including churches, right-to, live groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia—where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part—other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In America and Canada, where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start failing. Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death—probably by a deadly injection or pill—to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a "cooling off" period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. 48 hours later, the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. "I'm not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I am afraid of is how I'd go, because I've watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks." he says.

单选题Predictions of many robots in industry have yet come true. For ten years or more, manufacturers of big robots have explained how their machines can make industry more competitive and productive. The maker for (21) robots is oversupplied now, and the driving force of the robotics(机器人学) revolution is (22) to be with makers of machines that handle a few kilos at most. "Heavy-robot manufacturers are in some difficulty (23) finding customer. They are offering big (24) just to get in the door. There has been a (23) growth everywhere in the numbers of robots, so we admit we are either deceiving (26) or that the market is slowly growing. "said John Reekie, chairman of Colen Robotics. "The following things must happen (27) the robotics revolution to occur. We must achieve widespread robot literacy, (28) there has been a computer (29) program, there must be a robot prices. (30) , some kind of artificial intelligence needs to be (31) ." Colen makes educational robots and machine tools. It is small (32) with companies like ASEA or Fujitsu Fanuc. But Colen with others and departments in universities such as Surrey, Manchester, and Durham possess an advantage (33) . the giants. The big companies sell very expensive (34) to businesses with expert knowledge in automation. The (35) companies make robots for teaching people, and now they have realized that there is a need for small, (36) robots that they can meet. The little companies either bring their educational machines (37) an industrial standard or design from the start. One technique that they all adopt is to choose (38) components where possible. The major cost of making (39) their models is the electronics, which will fall in price. There is (40) scope for reductions in mechanical costs. The sue of standard parts, which are easily replaced, should give these robots a mechanical life of something in the order of five years.

单选题In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and "human relations" experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management. The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings. Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From that moment on they are tested again and again -- by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one's fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness. Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to 19th century "free enterprise" capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities -- those of love and of reason -- are the aims of all social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.

单选题Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. In the past, the Park Service focused on making the big scenic parks more {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}and comfort able for tourists. Roads were paved to allow "windshield visitors" to experience the grandeur of nature without leaving their cars, and a {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}number of hotels and grocery stores were permitted to open {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}the park boundaries. Now this trend is changing. Plans have been made to {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}the parks to their natural condition as much as possible. The objective of such a move would be to secure the preservation of the parks for future generations, {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}allowing present-day visitors to experience pure wilderness, {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}from any obvious signs of civilization—an opportunity which is quickly disappearing in the twentieth century. {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}plans call only {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}a reduction in the number of cars {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}into the parks each day, but {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}, tourists may have to leave their cars at the gates and then either visit the park on foot {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}use park {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}. {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}, stores and hotels may no longer be allowed within park boundaries and even the number of campgrounds may be restricted. Denali National Park in Alaska serves as an excellent {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}for this new type of park, one which has been changed only slightly from its {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}state. There is only one road, unpaved in {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}, which cross {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}Denali. As car traffic is strictly limited, many visitors experience the magnificent {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}and wildlife from a park bus. There are no hotels or stores and only seven campgrounds within Denali's 3000 square miles. This {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}isolation offers backpackers, canoeists, and other sport enthusiasts a {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}physical and psychological challenge.

单选题Although the size of the workforce depends a great deal on the size of the total population, there are several other influences which also affect it. The age distribution of the total population has a very (21) effect on the available workforce. If the population has a high (22) of very young people or of (23) too old to work, then the available workforce would be lower than (24) there were an (25) spread age distribution. If the population grows raidly (26) natural increase, i.e., the number of births greatly (27) the number of deaths, then as a total population increases the proportion of the workforce (28) . Sometimes a population is described as aging, (29) means that the birth rate is either falling or growing very slowly, and as people retire (30) the workforce there are insufficient numbers of young people entering it to (31) those who are leaving it. The population is top heavy with older people. So the (32) of the population in the workforce declines when there is (33) a rapid increase in births or a falling birth rate. The age distribution of the population has several important effects on the economy. If the population is aging and there is an increase in the number of people retiring (34) a corresponding increase in the number entering the workforce, this raises the problem of the ability of the economy to provide a (35) level of social services to the retired group. If the (36) are to be cared (37) in special homes or hotels, finance must be (38) for that purpose. If the size of the workforce is small relative (39) the total population, then the government tax receipts are relatively low and either the government has less money available to it or the workforce members have to be (40) more heavily.

单选题Questions 14—16 are based on the following monologue of a pickpocket. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14—16.