单选题She always handles the problems ______ her own experience and principles.

单选题The attitude of the writer toward that billionaires don't pass their wealth to their children is ______.

单选题I was (so interested in) the video that I (watched) it (for) two hours before I (realized) it.A. so interested inB. watchedC. forD. realized

单选题Mr Tunick filed suit against the New York police department after city officials ______ his request.

单选题Man: I am worried about those classes I missed when I was sick. Woman: I will try to bring you up today on what we’ve done. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题Dating from around A. D. 1000,the largest mound surviving from the Mississippian {{U}}culture{{/U}}was one hundred feet high and had a base of nearly fifteen acres.

单选题Man: Would you like to go to the movies with Anne and me on Friday?Woman: I wish I could, but I am having dinner at my brother's.Question: What will the woman do on Friday?

单选题Different ______ of linguistics have led to the popularity of different teaching methods.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one's side, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell. Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked the items GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm's length away from others. Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable. Our linguistic (语言上的) and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world. Even here in the United States, we make few concessions to the needs of foreign visitors. There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildings or monuments; we do not have multilingual (多语的) guided tours. Very few restaurant menus have translations, and multilingual waiters, bank clerks and policemen are rare. Our transportation systems have maps in English only and often we ourselves have difficulty understanding them. When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is spoken. The attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those natives--usually the richer --who speak English. Our business deals, as well as the nation's diplomacy, are conducted through interpreters. For many years, America and Americans could get by with cultural blindness and linguistic ignorance. After all, America was the most powerful country of the free world, the distributor of needed funds and goods. But all that is past. American dollars no longer buy all good things, and we are slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing. A 1979 Harris poll reported that 55 percent of Americans want this country to play a more significant role in world affairs, we want to have a hand in the important decisions of the next century, even though it may not always be the upper hand.

单选题To Usuppress/U this uprising completely seemed to be too difficult a mission to these officials.

单选题People in Europe are shivering, while people in North Asia and parts of Australia are feeling uncomfortably hot. Scientists say these weather extremes are to be expected and neither 21 can be used as a case for or against global warming. Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Michel Jarraud, says people should not confuse 22 weather variability with climate change. Just because people in Geneva and elsewhere in Europe are 23 does not mean global warming has stopped. He says the 24 toward global warming is still there. "I think we have to be careful not to interpret any single event 25 a proof of either warming or the fact that warming has stopped. When scientists look at the global warming, they take into 26 much old possible available evidence. 27 , we cannot explain any single phenomenon by one single cause." He says average global surface temperatures have climbed 28 since 1850, when historical weather statistics were first recorded. "Global warming will mean that heat waves like the one we got in Western Europe in 2003 will become more 29 . But, it does not mean that the 2003 heat wave was produced by global warming..." he says. Scientists say human activity 30 to climate change, but they do not agree on the pace at which climate change may be unfolding.

单选题A scorching sun, an endless sea of sand and a waterless, forbiddingly lonely land—that is the image most people have of deserts. But how true is this picture? Deserts are dry lands where rainfall is low. This is not to say rain never falls in deserts: it may fall once or twice a year in a fierce torrent that fades almost as soon as it has begun, or which evaporates in the hot air long before it has got anywhere near the earth. It may fall in a sudden sweeping flood that carries everything in its path. Rains may only come once in five or six years or not fall for a decade or more. The Mojave desert in the United States remained dry for twenty-five years. Without water no living thing can survive, and one feature of the true desert land-scape is the absence of vegetation. With little rain and hardly any vegetation the land suffers under the sun. There are virtually no clouds or trees to protect the earth's surface and it can be burning hot. Under the sun, soils break up and crack. Wind and torrential rain sweep away and erode the surface further. Eight million square kilometers of the world's land surface is desert. Throughout history deserts have been expanding and retreating again. Cave paintings show that parts of the Sahara Desert were green and fertile about 10,000 years ago, and even animals like elephants and giraffes roamed the land. Fossil and dunes found in fertile and damp parts of the world show that these areas were once deserts. But now the creation of new desert areas is happening on a colossal scale. Twenty million square kilometers, an area twice the size of Canada, is at a high to very high risk of becoming desert. With a further 1.25 million square kilometers under moderate risk, an area covering 30% of the earth's land surface is desert, becoming desert, or in danger of becoming desert. The rate of growth of deserts is alarming. The world's dry lands which are under threat include some of the most important stock-rearing and wheat-growing areas and are the homes of 600～700 million people. These regions are becoming deserts at the rate of more than 58,000 square kilometers a year or 44 hectares a minute. In North Africa at least 100,000 hectares of cropland are lost each year. At this rate there is a high risk that we will be confined to living on only 50% of this planet's land surface within one more century unless we are able to do something about it.

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} Most people would agree that, although our age exceeds all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no corresponding increase in wisdom. But agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define "wisdom" and consider means of promoting it. There are several factors that contribute to wisdom. Of these I should put first a sense of proportion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the special knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research in scientific medicine. The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your mind. You have no time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say) asmodern medicine has succeeded, in enormously lowering the infant death-rate, not only in Europe and America, but also in Asia and Africa. This has the entirely unintended result of making the food supply inadequate and lowing the standard of life in the parts of the world that have the greatest populations. To take an even more dramatic example, which is in everybody's mind at the present time, you study the makeup of the atom from a disinterested (无利害关系的) desire for knowledge, and by chance place in the hands of a powerful mad man the means of destroying the human race. Therefore, with every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom becomes more necessary, for every such increase augments (增强) our capacity for realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity for evil, if our purposes are unwise.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} The National Education Association claims. "The school bus is a mirror of the community." They further add that, unfortunately, what appears on the exterior does not always reflect the reality of a chosen community. They are right--sometimes it reflects more! Just ask Liesl Denson. Riding the school bus has been more than a ride to school for Liesl. Bruce Hardy, school bus driver for Althouse BUS Company, has been Liesl's bus driver since kindergarten. Last year when Liesl's family moved to Parkesburg, knowing her bus went by her new residence, she requested to ride the same bus. This year Liesl is a senior and will enjoy her last year, riding the bus. She says, "It's been a great ride so far ! My bus driver is so cool and has always been a good friend and a good listener. Sometimes when you're a child adults do not think that what you have to say is important. Mr. Hardy always listens to what you have to say and makes you feel important." Her friends Ashley Batista and Amanda Wolfe agree. Bruce Hardy has been making Octorara students feel special since 1975. This year he will celebrate 30 years working for Althouse Bus Company, Larry Althouso, president of the company, acknowledges Bruce Hardy's outstanding record . "You do not come by employees like Bruce these days. He has never missed a day of work and has a perfect driving record. He was recognized in 2000 by the Pennsylvania School Bus Association for driving 350 000 accident free miles. Hardy's reputation is made further evident through the relationships he has made with the students that ride his bus." Althouse further adds, "Althouse Bus Company was established 70 years ago and has been providing quality transportation ever since. My grandfather started the business with one bus. Althouse Bus Company is delighted to have the opportunity to bring distinctive and safe service to our local school and community and looks forward to continuing to provide quality service for many more years to come." Three generations of business is not all the company has enjoyed. Thanks to drivers like Bruce Hardy, they have been building relationships through generations, Liesl's mother Carol also enjoys fond memories of riding Bruce Hardy's bus to the Octorara School District.

单选题The temperature in this area is low enough to allow falling snow to ______ and slowly transform into ice.

单选题 Ironically, in the United States, a country of immigrants, prejudice and discrimination continue to be serious problems. There was often {{U}}(1) {{/U}} between each established group of {{U}}(2) {{/U}} and each succeeding group. As each group became {{U}}(3) {{/U}} financially successful, and more powerful, they {{U}}(4) {{/U}} newcomers from full participation in the society. Prejudice and discrimination are {{U}}(5) {{/U}} U.S. history, {{U}}(6) {{/U}}, this prejudicial treatment of different groups is {{U}}(7) {{/U}} more unjust than with black Americans. Blacks had distinct {{U}}(8) {{/U}}. For the most part, they came to the "land of opportunity" as slaves and were not free to keep their {{U}}(9) {{/U}} and cultural traditions. {{U}}(10) {{/U}} most European immigrants, blacks did not have the protection of a support group; sometimes slave owners separated members of {{U}}(11) {{/U}} family. They could not mix easily with the {{U}}(12) {{/U}} society either because of their skin color. It was difficult for them to {{U}}(13) {{/U}} the American culture. Even after they became flee people, they were still discriminated {{U}}(14) {{/U}} in employment, housing, education, and even in public {{U}}(15) {{/U}}, such as restrooms.

单选题An international treaty signed several years ago bans trade in plants and animal of endangered species.

单选题The Chinese palace lanterns are famous for their ______.