单选题Woman: Kate always stays in her own world and lives in a dream.Man: I don't think she can find a peaceful mind this way. She'll have to face the reality sooner or later.Question: What's wrong with Kate?

单选题Teachers of elementary schools are giving more weight to Unurturing/U a student's talent in China.

单选题A: Do you like to go hiking with us to the West Mountain this afternoon? B: ______

单选题Dialogue and cooperation between the North and the South on the urgent economic problems in the world should be ______ and strengthened at all levels.

单选题What can be learned about the relationship between the author and his daughter?

单选题In job sharing the partners should ______.

单选题The rapid rise in college costs has caught the attention of Congress, which is taking steps to at least give the public reason to hope for a break on tuition bills. New legislation, expected to clear the House and Senate after press time on July 31, includes provisions designed to put pressure on colleges, universities, and states to rein in the escalating price of a college education. The best potential for doing so, some experts say, lies in the searchable college data that the US Department of Education will post online to bring transparency (透明度) to tuition rates and the "net price" students pay after receiving aid. One set of lists would spotlight the 5 percent of institutions with the largest percentage tuition increase over the past three years—in categories such as public, private, four-year, and two-year. They would have to report to the Ed Department the reasons for the tuition hikes . "There are lists that no college or university wants to be on. They don"t want to be on The Princeton Review"s Top 10 party school list...and they"re not going to or want to be on the list...saying they have raised their tuition faster than others," says Terry Hartle, a senior vice president at the American Council on Education, a higher education advocacy and research group in Washington. But it"s difficult to predict the level of impact such supervision will have, given the variety of factors that affect college pricing, he adds. Within a year of the bill"s passage, students and parents should be able to use online calculators to estimate what any given college would cost based on their income level and family situation. Since most students receive financial aid, it"s important for families to see this net price, experts say, rather than simply compare based on the full-charge "sticker price." There"s little agreement about how effective these new requirements of the Higher Education Opportunity Act will be, but many experts say they can"t hurt.

单选题Man: One good thing about it is the higher salary. It's perfect for me. Woman: I'm sure you'll be better off. But I guess you might have to work for longer hours. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题This legislation is {{U}}critical to{{/U}} sustaining the business upturn.

单选题UBy and by/U he discovered that the black night had changed to gray, bringing new hope to him.

单选题Friction between America's military and its civilian overseers is nothing new. America's 220-year experiment in civilian control of the military is a recipe for friction. The nation's history has seen a series of shifts in decision-making power among the White House, the civilian secretaries and the uniformed elite (精英). However, what may seem on the outside an unstable and special system of power sharing has, without a doubt, been a key to two centuries of military success. In the infighting dates to the revolution, George Washington waged a continual struggle not just for money, but to control the actual battle plan. The framers of the Constitution sought to clarify things by making the president the "commander in chief." Not since Washington wore his uniform and led the troops across the Alleghenies to quell(镇压)the Whiskey Rebellion has a sitting president taken command in the field. Yet the absolute authority of the president ensures his direct command. The president was boss, and everyone in uniform knew it. In the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln dealt directly with his generals, and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton handled administrative details. Lincoln, inexperienced in military matters, initially deferred (顺从)to his generals. But when their caution proved disastrous, he issued his General War Order No.1—explicitly commanding a general advance of all Union forces. Some generals, George B. McClellan in particular, bridled at his hands-on direction. But in constitutional terms, Lincoln was in the right. His most important decision was to put Ulysses S. Grant in charge of the Union Army in 1864. Left to its own timetable, the military establishment would never have touched Grant. The relationship between the president and his general provides a textbook lesson in civilian control and power sharing. Grant was a general who would take the fight to the enemy, and not second-guess the president's political decisions. Unlike McClellan, for example, Grant cooperated wholeheartedly in recruiting black soldiers. For his part, Lincoln did not meddle in operations and did not visit the headquarters in the field unless invited. The balance set up by Grant and Lincoln stayed more or less in place through World War Ⅰ Not until World War Ⅱ did the pendulum finally swing back toward the White House. Franklin Roosevelt, who had been assistant Navy secretary during World War I, was as well prepared to be commander in chief as any wartime president since George Washington.

单选题Meg did not say this ______, and when she had finished, she turned to Ethel with a smile.

单选题The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her {{U}}hostile {{/U}} attitude toward customers.

单选题Man: Would you like to go with me to the airport to pick up Frank?Woman: I'd like to, but I have class till 2:00. And I know Frank's decided to take the early flight.Question: What does the woman imply?

单选题Man: Not every woman could do the thing like her. She is extraordinary.Woman: Yeah, she is. But I'll have my moments.Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} For over 30 years, Donald Kroodsma has worked to disclose such mysteries of bird communication. Through field studies and laboratory experiments, he's studied the ecological and social forces that may have contributed to the evolution of vocal learning. Kroodsma has paid particular attention to local variation in song types, known as dialects. The Black-capped Chickadees (Parus atricapillus)on Martha's Vineyard, for example, have an entirely different song than their counterparts on the Massachusetts mainland, he says. Birds that live on the boundary between two dialects or that spend time in different areas can become "bilingual," learning the; songs of more than one group of neighbors. Recently, Kroodsma discovered that the Three-wattled Bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata) is constantly changing its song, creating what he calls a "rapid cultural evolution within each generation. "This kind of song evolution is found in whales but, up until now, rarely in birds.A professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Kroodsma is also co-editor of the book Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds (Cornell University Press, 1996). Though he plans to continue his field studies, he says that one of his most important goals now is to help people understand how to listen to birdsong. "Many people can identify a Wood Thrush(Hylocichla mustelina)when they hear it. It's one of the most beautiful songs in the world, "he says. "Little do they realize they could hear the things that Wood Thrush is communicating if they just knew how to listen." Next is an interview made between an amateur of bird songs(SA)and Donald Kroodsma.SA: Can you make any comparison between how a baby bird learns to sing and how a young human learns to speak?DK: On the surface, it's remarkably similar. I often play a tape of my daughter, recorded when she was about a year and a half old. She is taking all the sounds she knows, "bow-wow, kitty, no, down” and randomly piecing them together in a nonsensical babbling sequence. Then I play a tape of a young bird and dissect what it's doing in what we call its "subsong," and it's exactly the same thing.It's taking all the sounds it has memorized, all the sounds it has been exposed to, and singing them in a random sequence. It looks like what the baby human and the baby bird are doing is identical. Some might say that's a crass comparison, but it's very intriguing. SA: Why do the song repertoires(全部技能)and dialects of some birds vary from place to place?DK: For the species of birds that do not learn their songs, I like to think of it simplistically as the song being encoded right in their DNA. With these birds, if we find differences in their songs from place to place, it means that the DNA has changed too, that the populations are genetically different.But there are species in which the songs are not encoded in the DNA. Then we have something very similar to humans, in which speech is learned and varies from place to place. If you were raised in Germany, for example, you'd be speaking German rather than English with no change in your genes. So with the birds that learn their songs, you get these striking differences from place to place because the birds have learned the local dialect.SA: How is this affected by whether a bird is nomadic? DK: If you know the rest of your life you're going to be speaking English, you work hard at learning English. But what if you know that you'll be repeatedly thrown in with people speaking different languages from all over the world? You start to see the enormous challenge it would be to learn the language or dialect of all these different locations. So I think for nomadic birds like Sedge Wrens [Cistothorus platensis], because they are thrown together with different birds every few months from all over the geographic range, they don't bother to imitate the songs of their immediate neighbors. They make up some kind of generalized song, or rather the instructions in their DNA allow them to improvise this very Sedge Wren-y song. Why should they imitate each other and all have the same songs? I wish I knew the answer to that.

单选题 With 950 million people, India ranks second to China among the most populous countries. But since China {{U}}(71) {{/U}} a family planning program in 1971, India has been closing the {{U}}(72) {{/U}}. Indians have reduced their birth rate but not nearly {{U}}(73) {{/U}} the Chinese have. If current growth rates continue, India's population will {{U}}(74) {{/U}} China's around the year 2028 {{U}}(75) {{/U}} about 1.7 billion. Should that happen, it won't be the {{U}}(76) {{/U}} of the enlightened women of Kerala, a state in southern India. {{U}}(77) {{/U}} India as a whole adds almost 20 million people a year, Kerala's population is virtually {{U}}(78) {{/U}}. The reason is no mystery: nearly two-thirds of Kerala women practice birth control, {{U}}(79) {{/U}} about 40% in the entire nation. The difference {{U}}(80) {{/U}} the emphasis put on health programs, {{U}}(81) {{/U}} birth control, by the state authorities, {{U}}(82) {{/U}} in 1957 became India's first elected Communist {{U}}(83) {{/U}}. And an educational tradition and matrilineal (母系的) customs in parts of Kerala help girls and boys get {{U}}(84) {{/U}} good schooling. While one in three Indian women is {{U}}(85) {{/U}}, 90%of those in Kerala can read and write. Higher literacy rates {{U}}(86) {{/U}} Family planning. "Unlike our Parents, we know that we can do more for our children if we have {{U}}(87) {{/U}} of them," says Laila Cherian, 33, who lives in the Village of Kudamaloor. She has limited herself {{U}}(88) {{/U}} three children--one below the national {{U}}(89) {{/U}} of four. That kind of restraint (抑制, 克制) will keep Kerala from putting added {{U}}(90) {{/U}} on world food supplies.

单选题This incident ______ me in my belief that loving-mother force alone is incomplete, with out father's discipline.

单选题The decline in moral standards—which has long concerned social analysts—has at last captured the attention of average Americans. And Jean Bethke Elshtain, for one, is glad. The fact that ordinary citizens are now starting to think seriously about the nation's moral climate, says this ethics (伦理学) professor at the University of Chicago, is reason to hope that new ideas wilt come forward to improve it. But the challenge is not to be underestimated. Materialism and individualism in American society are the biggest obstacles. "The thought that I'm in it for me has become deeply rooted in the national consciousness," Ms. Elshtain says. Some of this can be attributed to the disintegration of traditional communities, in which neighbors looked out for one another, she says. With today's greater mobility and with so many couples working, those bonds have been weakened, replaced by a greater emphasis on self. In a 1996 poll of Americans, loss of morality topped the list of the biggest problems facing the U. S. And Elshtain says the public is correct to sense that: Data show that Americans are struggling with problems unheard of in the 1940s, such as classroom violence and a high rate of births to unmarried mothers. The desire for a higher moral standard is not a lament (挽歌) for some nonexistent "golden age", Elshtain says, nor is it a wishful (一厢情愿的) longing for a time that denied opportunities to women and minorities. Most people, in fact, favor the lessening of prejudice. Moral decline will not be reversed until people find ways to counter the materialism in society, she says. "Slowly, you recognize that the things that matter are those that can't be bought. /