单选题The factory has ______ workers because of the drop in sales.

单选题Taiwan police cannot decide whether to treat it as an extremely clever act of stealing or an even cleverer cheat (诈骗). Either way, it could be the perfect crime (犯罪), because the criminals are birds—homing pigeons! The crime begins with a telephone message to the owner of a stolen car. if you want the car back, pay up then. The car owner is directed to a park, told where to find a bird cage and how to attach money to the neck of the pigeon inside. Carrying the money in a tiny bag, the pigeon flies off. There have been at least four such pigeon pick-ups in Changwa. What at first seemed like the work of a clever stay at-home car thief, however, may in fact be the work of an even lazier and more inventive criminal mind one that avoids (避免) not only collecting money but going out to steal the car in the first place. Police officer Chen says that the criminal probably has played a double trick, he gets money for things he cannot possibly return. Instead of stealing cars, he lets someone else do it and then waits for the car-owner to place an ad (启示) in the newspaper asking for help. The theory is supported by the fact that, so far, none of the stolen cars have been returned. Also, the amount of money demanded—under 3,000 Taiwanese dollars—seems too little for a car worth many times more. Demands for pigeon-delivered money stopped as soon as the press reported the story. And even if they start again, Chen holds little hope of catching the criminal. "We have more important things to do," he said.

单选题Nearly half of Americans aged 25 and old take part in some form of continuing education. 　　　　　A　　　　　　　　　　B　　　　　C　　　　　　　　　D

单选题Another thing an astronaut has to learn about is eating in space. Food is weightless, just as men are. Food for space has to be packed in special ways. Some of it goes into tubes that a man can squeeze into his mouth. Bite-sized cookies are packed in plastic. There is a good reason for covering each bite. The plastic keeps pieces of food from traveling in the spaceship. On the earth very small pieces of food would simply fall to the floor. But gravity doesn"t pull them to the floor when they are out of the plastic in a spaceship. They move here and there and can get into a man"s eyes or into the spaceship"s instruments. If any of the instruments is blocked, the astronauts may have trouble getting safely home. As astronauts travel on longer space trips, he must take time to sleep. An astronaut can fit himself to his seat with a kind of seat belt. Or, if he wants to, he can sleep in a sleeping bag which is fixed in place under his seat. But be careful he must put his hands under the belt when he goes to sleep. This is because he is really afraid that he might touch one of controls that isn"t supposed to be touched until later.

单选题Hard work has ______ the waste hill into green field.

单选题Yvonne: You have a nice big room. Frank: ________ .

单选题Sarah, hurry up. I'm afraid you wouldn't have time to ______ before the party.

单选题Americans eat ______ vegetables per person today as they did in 1910.

单选题He is an honest official and never ______ any gifts from people who sought his help.

单选题(Had) they had enough cash (on) hand, they (would buy) this fancy (furniture).

单选题I wish you (　　)to me before you went and bought that car.

单选题At the end of one month, the boys (looked forward to) their mother's (return) most earnestly, (as) they were really (tired with) their father's boiled eggs.

单选题I can't go to the New Year's concert; ______, 100 dollars is just too much for me to spend in one evening.

单选题You screamed in your sleep last night. You ______ a terrible dream.

单选题I like ______ in the autumn when the weather is clear and bright.

单选题The Anti-Japanese War ______ in 1937 and it ______ eight years.A. was broken out… lastedB. broke out… lastedC. broke… remainedD. had been broken out… kept

单选题The sound was so ______ that only those with excellent hearing were aware of it.

单选题When we"re learning a foreign language, making sense of what we hear is the first step toward fluency. It sounds obvious, but until recently, we didn"t know much about how listening works. New research demonstrates that effective listening involves more than simply hearing the words that float past our ears. Rather, it"s an active process of receiving information and making meaning. This kind of engaged listening is a skill that"s as critical for learning a range of subjects at schools and work as it is for learning to understand a foreign tongue. Studies of skilled language learners have identified specific listening strategies that lead to superior comprehension. Last year, for example, University of Ottawa researcher Larry Vandergrift published his study of 106 undergraduates who were learning French as second language. Half of the students were taught in a conventional fashion, listening to and practicing texts spoken aloud. The other half, possessing the same initial (最初的) skill level and taught by the same teacher, were given detailed instruction on how to listen. It turned out that the second group "significantly outperformed" (胜过) the first one on a test of comprehension. So what are these listening strategies? Skilled learners go into a listening class with a sense of what they want to get out of it. They set a goal for their listening, and they generate predictions about what the speaker will say. Before the talking begins, they mentally review what the already know about the subject, and form an intention to "listen out for" what"s important or relevant. Once they begin listening, these learners maintain their focus; if their attention wanders, they bring it back to the works being spoken. They don"t allow themselves to be thrown off by confusing or unfamiliar details. Instead, they take note of what they don"t understand and make inferences about what those things might mean, based on other clues available to them: their previous knowledge of the subject, the context (语境) of the talk, the identity of the speaker, and so on.

单选题Television has opened windows in everybody"s life. Young men will never again go to war as they did in 1914. Millions of people now have seen the effects of a battle. And the result has been a general dislike of war, and perhaps more interest in helping those who suffer from all the terrible things that have been shown on the screen. Television has also changed politics. The most distant areas can now follow state affairs, see and hear the politicians before an election. Better informed, people are more likely to vote, and so to make their opinion count. Unfortunately, television"s influence has been extremely harmful to the young. (76) Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world; that TV advertisements lie to sell products that are sometimes bad or useless. They believe that the violence they see is normal and acceptable. All educators agree that the "television generations" are more violent than their parents and grandparents. Also, the young are less patient. (77) Used to TV shows, where everything is quick and interesting, they do not have the patience to read an article without pictures; to read a book that requires thinking; to listen to a teacher who doesn"t do funny things like the people on children"s programs . And they expect all problems to be solved happily in ten, fifteen, or thirty minutes. That"s the time it takes on the screen.