单选题 {{I}} Questions 17--20 are based on the following news story. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17--20.{{/I}}

单选题Social scientists do NOT study ______.

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单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}} Read the following text, choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A,B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.{{/I}} The tango has probably traveled further and gone through more changes than almost {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}African slaves brought the tango to Haiti and Cuba in the 18th century; in Cuba, the tango was influenced by the local Cuban dance, {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}"the Havana". From there {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}took the tango to Argentina in the 19th century, {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}it was changed once again and became popular in the {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}. It was an erotic dance of working-class people by this time, {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}made it difficult for middle-class Europeans to accept. {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}at the beginning of this century, the tango was refined, so that it {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}its erotic features. It was performed in {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}casino ballrooms. The tango, in its sophisticated European {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}, became popular in England and in the USA. Once {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}, the tango became the rage in London and Paris. People began to {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}the Viennese waltz custom of dancing in restaurants between the {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}of a meal. Proprietors {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}this, "for the pleasure of the customers and for the benefit of their digestion!" and afternoon "tango teas" {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}everywhere. Even in private houses, Latin American music was played for the tango, {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}more and more people owned gramophones. The tango returned in {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}in a freer, more exotic form than {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood film star, began his {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}as a professional tango partner in American tea-rooms. Valentino {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}immortalized the dance on film.

单选题It is one of America's most enduring images: a little girl named Dorothy Gale standing in the doorway of her Kansas farmhouse and gazing out at the great, open prairie, its flatness unbroken by so much as a house or tree. In the century since L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, "the story has become America's most beloved home-grown fairy tale. Never out of print, the story about the little Kansas girl swept up by a tornado to the magical land of Oz has inspired 39 sequels, 13 by Baum himself. It has been retold in five silent movies, countless stage productions and radio broadcasts, and the classic 1939 movie musical starring Judy Garland. What the people of Kansas could not have imagined, when "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" hit their bookstores a century ago, was that it would saddle them with a stereotype known around the world: Kansas is not a good place. Even as Oz fans prepared to celebrate the centenary of the May 17, 1900 publication of "Oz,' Kansans seemed unsure whether to thank Baum or to wish he'd picked another state to set his story in. "Dorothy's greatest desire is to find a home and to be at home. This is a great American desire in a nation of immigrants and people who move a lot, "said Thomas Fox Averill, an English professor at Washburn University in Topeka who has con- ducted extensive research into Oz's impact on Kansas culture. "Finding a home is a very American desire." That is a positive thing, even if that home is rural rather than urban, innocent rather than sophisticated. "That is something Kansans could teach other Americans, "Averill said. But the unqualified love so many Kansans have for their state is often ac-companied by an inferiority complex about being from Kansas--an image Averill said is fed by the movie. Claudia Larkin, a director at the Kansas tourism department, said that when she talks to outsiders, the top three things they associate with Kansas are wide-open spaces, friendly people, and Oz.

单选题The reason why colonists will probably live longer is that ________.

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

单选题The author maintains that in discussing______.

单选题We can infer from the text that the author believes the success of the right-to-die movement is

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单选题 Questions 14--16 are based on the following dialogue between a doctor and a patient. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14--16.

单选题Thedifferenceintimebetweenzonesis______.A.sevendaysB.twenty-fourhoursC.onehourD.morethansevendays

单选题Karen Rusa was a 30-year-old woman and the mother of four children. For the past several months Karen had been experiencing repetitive thoughts that centered around her children's safety. She frequently found herself imagining that a serious accident had occurred; she was unable to put these thoughts out of her mind. On one such occasion she imagined that her son, Alan, had broken his leg playing football at school. There was no reason to believe that an accident had occurred, but she kept thinking about the possibility until she finally called the school to see if Alan was all right. Even after receiving their assurance that he had not been hurt, she described herself as being somewhat surprised when he later arrived home unharmed. Karen also noted that her daily routine was seriously hampered by an extensive series of counting work that she performed throughout each day. Specific numbers had come to have a special meaning to her; she found that her preoccupation with these numbers was hampering her ability to perform everyday activities. One example was grocery shopping. Karen believed that if she selected the first item on the shelf, something terrible would happen to her oldest child. If she selected the second item, some unknown disaster would fall on her second child, and so on for the four children. Karen's preoccupation with numbers extended to other activities, most notable the pattern in which she smoked cigarettes and drank coffee. If she had one cigarette; she believed that she had to smoke at least tour in a row, or one of her children would be harmed in some way. If she drank one cup of coffee, she felt compelled to drink tour. Karen acknowledged the unreasonableness of these rules, but, nevertheless, maintained that she felt more comfortable. When she observed them earnestly, when she was occasionally in too great a hurry to observe these rules, she experienced considerable anxiety, in the form of a subjective feeling of dread and fear. She described herself as tense, uneasy, and unable to relax during these periods. The occurrence of rarely minor accidents does not reduce her belief that she had been directly responsible because of her inability to observe the rules about number.