单选题Woman: You came home just to lie on the couch and fix your eyes on the box.
Man: Yon said it. For years it"s been everyone"s little dirty secret about TV watching. But I"ll "come out of the closet" , and claim it loud that I am a "tuber and proud".
Question: What can we learn from this conversation?
单选题On the road motorists should be aware of cyclists and be ______ towards them.
单选题Woman: I met Tom the other day. You know what, he has cut his long hair. It seems that he is a notably different person than he was three years ago.
Man: Yeah. He is now a conformist.
Question: What was Tom like three years ago?
单选题A: Prof. Kerry, I"d like to invite you to dinner at the Grand Hotel Restaurant this Friday evening.
B: ______
单选题Woman: I am trying to find out how this dishwasher works. The manual is in French. I can"t wait for Bill to translate it for me.
Man: Don"t worry, Mary. I can do the dishes before the machine starts to work.
Question, What does the man mean?
单选题Green plants take in carbon dioxide and
give off
oxygen in a food-making process called photosynthesis.
单选题A: I"d like to speak to the manager, please.
B: ______
单选题Woman: How was the lecture yesterday?
Man: Well... It was a complete drag.
Woman: How come? Many students seem to be interested in Johnson"s lecture.
Question: How does the man think about the lecture yesterday?
单选题Man: Did you speak to the famous star?
Woman: I wanted to, but I was dumb and deaf when I was face to face with him.
Question: What happened to the woman when she met the famous star?
单选题Traffic in India means a mixture of all kinds of vehicles on the road. About 700,000 new cars have been sold in India in the last twelve months, and about twice that
1
used cars have been traded.
The country"s 35 million motorcycles and scooters make it the world"s largest two-wheel market. But because there are still big differences
2
people"s incomes, the roads are full of a whole variety of
3
, lots of them not motorized.
A ride
4
a taxi driver in New Delhi gives a flavour of a typical Indian-style traffic with all kinds of vehicle held up in city streets or in long lines
5
narrow country lanes. Cars, lorries and buses back up behind a cart
6
by one animal or another. "India has everything on the roads," the taxi driver says. "You have to
7
for pedestrians, bicycles, carts, cows, donkeys and even elephants. Three things
8
to drive here, a horn, brakes and good luck." Just then we were stopped
9
a young boy and his cow.
Given the hazards, it"s not surprising
10
special ceremonies are held for new ear owners in which the steering wheel and the driver are both blessed.
单选题What contribution can industrial scientists make when they come to teach in a university?
单选题At the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) , a student loaded his class notes into a handheld e-mail device and tried to read them during an exam: a classmate turned him in. At the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) students photographed test questions with their cell phone cameras and transmitted them to classmates. The university put in place a new examination-supervision system. "If they"d spend as much time studying, they"d all be A students," says Ron Yasbin, dean of the College of Sciences of UNLV.
With a variety of electronic devices, American students find it easier to cheat. And college officials find themselves in a new game of eat and mouse. They are trying to fight would-he cheats in the exam season by cutting off Internet access from laptops(笔记本电脑), demanding the surrender of cell phones before tests or simply requiring that exams be taken with pens and paper.
"It is annoying. My hand-writing is so bad," said Ryan Dapremont, 21 who just finished his third year at Pepperdine University in California. He had to take his exams on paper. Dapremont said technology has made cheating easier, but plagiarism(剽窃) in writing papers was probably the biggest problem. Students can lift other people"s writings off the Internet without attributing them.
Still, some students said they thought cheating these days was more a product Of the mindset, not the tools at hand. "Some people put too much emphasis on where they"re going to go in the future, and all they"re thinking about is graduate school and the next step," said Lindsay Nicholas, a third-year student at UCLA. She added that pressure to succeed "sometimes clouds everything and makes people do things that they shouldn"t do. "
Some professors said they tried to write exams for which it was hard to cheat, posing questions that outside resources would not help answer. Many officials said that they rely on campus honor codes. They said the most important thing was to teach students not to cheat in the first place.
单选题A：Boston Hotel．May I help you?
B：______
单选题Last week 29 earnest American high school students were invited to an evening of receiving good words, small talk, warm toasts and fancy silverware.
"Find out something about the person sitting next to you," advised former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. "Eventually, you"ll discover they always have something interesting to say. And you should always use the proper silverware in the proper order. "
Albright was the guest of honor at the imitated Official Dinner, which was a lot like a real official dinner in Washington minus the soft money.
The evening was sponsored by the St. Albans School of Public Services to introduce its first class to the fine art of social survival.
More than 84 guests, including students, teachers, school donors and speakers, gathered to
replicate
the lifestyle of the rich and political.
The idea was to teach the social graces that will help students survive any social situation.
Anyway, the whole proper fork thing is overrated. Former White House official C. Boyden Gray shared his top tips for surviving dinner parties: "Drink as little as possible until you get to dinner. "
"Don"t be the first person there or the last person to leave. "
"Try to get more out of your dinner partners than they get out of you."
Every Official Dinner has a greater reason for being. State dinners, for example, are either an opportunity to reward emerging democracies or strengthen old friendships.
The Official Dinner was intended to show the students an elegant evening in Washington—part of the four-week intensive summer program to encourage public service. The students are from 13 states and two foreign countries.
The program includes classes on the presidency, the courts, the media and international affairs. The students also debated public policy issues. "They"re still at it at 10 o"clock at night," said director Mary Waikart. "That"s good practice for Washington, isn"t it?"
Since there was no band, Albright offered herself up as the night"s entertainer. No singing, but stories about her life in diplomacy. "Being secretary of state is the best job in the world," she said. " Better than being president, because you don"t have to deal with the elections."
单选题Woman: I don"t agree with Mr. Johnson on his views about social welfare. He seems to suggest that the poor are robbing the rich.
Man: He might have used better words to express his ideas. But I find what he said makes a lot of sense.
Question: What does the man mean?
单选题New Year"s Eve requires the ultimate party outfit. But what if your holiday spending has burned holes in your pockets?
The answer might be to rent a little luxury.
The renting business has begun to lose the image of an industry filled with designer tuxedos, Halloween costumes or out-of-date evening wear. Still largely an industry dedicated to special-event clothing (dinners, corporate parties, weddings), it has started to branch out into more casual clothing. And for those not afraid to shop around, it has become an option for
dressing up on a budget
.
For the price of rentals (￡150, or $260, for a four-day period) , the only things available in most department stores are dresses that look as if they are late for the party." Working women have sophisticated tastes, but buying an evening dress is a very expensive proposition, and most people don"t want to wear the same dress more than once," says Doniger.
But what has brought on this recent change in perception on renting luxury? Unexpectedly, the transformation has been helped along by a change in corporate policy by many top businesses. For years businessmen all over the world have gotten a clothing allowance from their companies to rent a tuxedo or other luxury items they need for an event. But while any company looking at the bottom line is not going to pay for a female employee to buy a new evening dress, they are now more willing to help pay for renting one. "In the last five years a lot of businesses have started to pay for some if not all of a rental. They will pay, say, ￡80 or ￡90 of the cost and let the women top off the rest themselves," says Doniger.
But renting luxury fashion is not limited to clothing. Having the latest must-have designer handbag is the fastest way for a woman to communicate her fashion savvy and display her luxury status. The rental stores can give the everyday woman a chance to wear the latest designer bag and feel like a million bucks without having to spend it.
单选题Perhaps all criminals should be required to carry cards which read: Fragile; Handle with Care. It will never do, these days, to go around referring to criminals as violent thugs. You must refer to them politely as "social misfits". The professional killer who wouldn"t think twice about using his club or knife to batter some harmless old lady to death in order to rob her of her meager life-savings must never be given a dose of his own medicine. He is in need of "hospital treatment". According to his misguided defenders, society is to blame. A wicked society breeds evil—or so the argument goes. When you listen to this kind of talk, it makes you wonder why we aren"t all criminals. We have done away with the absurdly harsh laws of the nineteenth century and this is only right. But surely enough is enough. The most senseless piece of criminal legislation in Britain and a number of other countries has been the suspension of capital punishment.
The violent criminal has become a kind of hero-figure in our time. He is glorified on the screen; he is pursued by the press and paid vast sums of money for his "memoirs". Newspapers which specialize in crime reporting enjoy enormous circulations and the publishers of trashy cops and robbers stories or "murder mysteries" have never had it so good. When you read about the achievements of the great train robbers, it makes you wonder whether you are reading about the some glorious resistance movement. The hardened criminal is cuddled and cosseted by the sociologists on the one hand and adored as a hero by the masses on the other. It"s no wonder he is a privileged person who expects and receives VIP treatment wherever he goes.
Capital punishment used to be a major deterrent. It made the violent robber think twice before pulling the trigger. It gave the cold-blooded prisoner something to ponder about while he was shaking up or serving his arsenic cocktail. It prevented unarmed policemen from being killed while pursuing their duty by killers armed with automatic weapons. Above all, it protected the most vulnerable members of society, young children, from brutal violence. It is horrifying to think that the criminal can literally get away with murder. We all know that "life sentence" does not mean what it says. After ten years or so of good conduct, the most desperate villain is free to return to society where he will live very comfortably, thank you, on the proceeds of his crime, or he will go on committing offences until he is caught again. People are always willing to hold liberal views at the expense of others. It"s always fashionable to pose as the defender of under-dog, so long as you, personally, remain unaffected. Did the defenders of crime, one wonders, in their desire for fair-play, consult the victims before they suspended capital punishment? Hardly. You see, they couldn"t, because all the victims were dead.
单选题A: It"s already 9 o"clock. I"m afraid I have to go. Thank you for the wonderful dinner.
B: ______
单选题A: May I play my computer game for an hour?
B: ______
单选题A: Front desk. Can I help you?
B: ______