填空题I was (on the verge) of (incurring) Mr. Rochester's wrath by not listening to his prohibitions, (while) a ray once more shone almost (imperceptibly) on the hallway wall and I heard his muffled step on the carpet. A. on the verge B. incurring C. while D. imperceptibly

填空题In June 2006, in Minato, Tokyo, a 16-year old high school student was killed by a Schindler elevator. He was backing out of it with his bicycle when the elevator suddenly rose with the doors still open, crushing his skull. Investigations began related to this fatality. In the process of this investigation, the safety of elevators in Japan came under question. 1 The Japan Elevator Association disclosed that 9200 entrapments happened in Japan in 2004 in elevators of the big four Japanese elevator manufacturers (Mitsubishi Electric, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Fujitec). Results from a recent investigation in Hiroshima showed that 34% of Schindler elevators in the city have had problems. 2 As of June 14, 2006, the precise cause of the accident had still not been confirmed. 3 The International Herald Tribune reported on June 14 that "Loose bolts and worn brake pads, evidence of poor maintenance, likely played a central role in the elevator accident. " 4 The Asia Times Online reports that in response to a flood of inquiries from customers, the third-largest domestic elevator company, Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corp is offering free inspections of their elevators, while Mitsubishi Electric Corp, the leading firm, and Hitachi Ltd, which is the second-largest, are responding to requests on a case-by-case basis. In Hong Kong, many news agencies are finding similarities between the Minato case and the 2002 Fanling Hong Kong case. Thus, Hong Kong"s Public Housing Authority has been questioned about the 33 public estates with Schindler elevators. 5 In comparison, Hong Kong law requires a full annual examination every year, load testing every 5 years, and an inspection every month. Some buildings have inspections every 2 weeks. A. There is a reported competition among elevator operators in Hong Kong, with some buildings opting to contract elevator maintenance to firms that offer low rates. B. The Housing Authority has said that all of its elevators are maintained by the original manufacturer (in Hong Kong"s case, by "Schindler Lifts Hong Kong Limited") and all elevators are inspected fully once every week. C. It should be noted that elevator maintenance had been carried out by a Japanese maintenance company and not by Schindler since 2005. D. That elevators are not infallible came as a surprise to many people, especially when it was discovered that of the 8,800 Schindler elevators installed in Japan, 85 have trapped people. E. Japan has already ordered full inspections of the country"s entire set of Schindler elevators, with elevators of all manufacturers being inspected in government buildings. F. Public concern over the Minato case has not been limited merely to Schindler elevators.

填空题(No wonder) that (man's) great dream has been someday to control the weather. The first step toward control is, of course, knowledge, and scientists have been (hard at work) for years trying to (keep track for) the weather. A. No wonder B. man's C. hard at work D. keep track

填空题 Information about Sudeley Castle opening hour a.m. 6 closing hour 5 p.m. cost for adults ￡ 7 cost for children ￡3.00 Information about Snowshill Manor collection that children like 8 payment for visit ￡ 9 close from (month) 10

填空题From 1948 to 1961, the proportion of American blacks earning less than $3000 a year declined from 78 to 47 percent; at the same time, blacks earning more than $10,000 increased______ from less than 1 to 17 percent,(proportion)

填空题 To understand better the forces that control human aging and longevity, we have tried to determine whether the longer lifespan of females might be part of some grand Darwinian scheme. Gender differences in longevity have been{{U}} (51) {{/U}}in other members of the animal kingdom: in fact, in almost all species that have been observed in the wild, females{{U}} (52) {{/U}}to live longer than males. Female macaques live an{{U}} (53) {{/U}}of eight years longer than males, for example, and female sperm whales outlive their male{{U}} (54) {{/U}}by an average of 30 years. It seems that a species' lifespan is roughly correlated{{U}} (55) {{/U}}the length of time that its young remain{{U}} (56) {{/U}}on adults. We have come to believe that{{U}} (57) {{/U}}a significant, long-term investment of energy is required to ensure the survival of offspring, evolution favors longevity—in{{U}} (58) {{/U}}, female longevity. Indeed, we believe that the necessity for female{{U}} (59) {{/U}}in the human reproductive cycle has{{U}} (60) {{/U}}the length of the human lifespan. We start with the assumption{{U}} (61) {{/U}}the longer a woman lives and the more slowly she ages, the{{U}} (62) {{/U}}offspring she can produce and rear to adulthood. Long-lived women{{U}} (63) {{/U}}have a selective advantage over women who die young. Long-lived men would{{U}} (64) {{/U}}have an evolutionary advantage over their shorter-lived{{U}} (65) {{/U}}.But primary studies suggest that men's{{U}} (66) {{/U}}capacity is actually limited more by their access{{U}} (67) {{/U}}females than by lifespan. Hence, the advantage of longevity for men would{{U}} (68) {{/U}}be nearly as significant as it is for women. And because males historically are not as{{U}} (69) {{/U}}in child care as females, in the not so distant evolutionary past the survival of a man's offspring depended not so{{U}} (70) {{/U}}on how long he lived as on how long the children's mother lived.

填空题Barbie Dolls Flashy clothes, the perfect boyfriend, a Corvette, Ferrari, full size apartment with beautiful furniture and boat. She's the woman who has everything and every year receives more. Since her introduction in 1959, the Barbie doll may be the most influential icon of American culture in the late twentieth century. (1) She attracted little girls because of her adult-like features. Before this, children looked at toys like Yogi Bear, Howdy Doody, and baby dolls for inspiration. With the creation of Barbie, girls now had a new toy to stimulate their imaginations. In the 1950s most women stayed at home, cooking, cleaning and caring for their children; they didn't parade around in tight little skirts and high heels. The Barbie doll represented independence and glamour: she could sing solos in the spotlight one minute and pilot an airplane the next. She was exciting and completely different from the clinging Betsy Westsys and Chatty Cathys that little girls were used to. In Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, M. G. Lord tells the story of Barbie's creators. Ruth Handler, the youngest of ten siblings (同胞), worked as a stenographer for Paramount Pictures as a young woman. Her husband Elliott designed light fixtures and studied art. (2) The Handlers began the factory in their garage but quickly expanded until they had hired a hundred workers who made jewelry and decorative items. World War II shortages of labor soon put them out of business. Despite their first failure, the Handlers didn't give up and, in 1945, they joined with Harold Matson, a former worker, and together the three started "Mattel Creations" . Matson's last name along with Elliot's was fused together to form the name Mattel. In 1946, Matson sold out his share. The Handlers were not discouraged, though, because of their strong belief in futuristic materials such as Plexiglas, Lucite and plastic. They continued looking for the perfect item to make their company a success. Little did they know that their persistence would lead them to establish a multi-million company initiated by the revolutionary Barbie doll. Ruth Handler first encountered the model for Barbie in 1955 while vacationing in Switzerland with her family. The Lilli doll, a comic character from Germany, was usually found in tobacco stores as a three dimensional (三维的) pinup (挂在墙上的照片，玩偶等). Ruth brought back two dolls, one for her daughter Barbara, and one for herself. (3) Handler recalls: "Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people. I thought if only we could take this play pattern and three dimensionalize it, we would have something very special. " Barbie debuted at the American Toy Fair in New York City in the winter of 1959. But in her unseasonable black-and-white striped swimsuit, the doll did not impress toy buyers. Even Sears, Mattel's biggest customer, refused to put the sexy doll on their shelves. Lord says it was Mattel's advertising strategy aimed at the children that finally paved the way for Barbie's success. The 1950s was a big decade for child culture. Disneyland had opened in July of 1955, and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club television series was a hit for children under the age of 12. Manufacturers and retailers had aimed toy advertising at parents in the past with the focus during Christmas season. But once children actually saw toys advertised on television, toys became a big business. Television advertisements with the child-as-a-consumer revolutionized the toy industry in the twentieth century. Barbie was a fantasy. In a border city it was rare to encounter a white, blue-eyed person. "Maybe that's why I was so attracted to her." Most little girls couldn't wait to get their hands on Barbie because they had never encountered a doll with such an enormous wardrobe. Angela Loya, an engineer and Barbie collector from Houston, idolized Barbie because of her independence. She said in an interview, "Barbie was designed for women by women. It taught us what was expected from us by society. She had it all.., the clothes, the boyfriend and whatever career she wanted. She was the symbol of post-war female independence. " (4) Lord quotes Ruth Handler as saying, "Pregnancy(怀孕) would never be part of Barbie's physique, because Barbie would not compromise her freedom. Just as she did not depend on parents, she would not have offspring dependent on her. " Barbie's sexy image also raised questions among both children and parents. Many parents still did not talk about sex to their children and naked baby dolls usually did not spark great interest. Barbie dolls changed this. Some 700 million Barbie dolls have been sold since 1959 in over 140 countries. Yearly sales exceeded the $1 billion mark in 1995. Retail experts estimate that the typical American girl owns an average of eight Barbie dolls. And the doll has her own Hall of Fame in Palo Alto, California, where a collection of over 20, 000 Barbies awaits visitors. (5) A child's imagination can take Barbie anywhere. She easily can be a doctor by simply converting her hot pink kitchen into an operating room. Tissue boxes and packing cartons make great furniture and apartment complexes. A child really doesn't need the fancy cars or doll houses to make her dreams come alive: all that is really needed is an imagination. A. Barbie's biographer reminds us that she was not defined through relationships of responsibility to men or family. B. Barbie, named after the Handlers' daughter, has become the quintessential (典型的) American doll. C. Barbie's success may be attributed to the focus on children as consumers for the first time. D. A second contributing factor to the realization of this doll evolved from Ruth watching her daughter and friends play with paper dolls. E. In 1937, they had moved from Colorado to California where they gambled their life savings on a plan to build Plexiglas furniture.

填空题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 20 mistakes, one in each underlined sentence or part of a sentence. Yon may have to change s word, add a word or just delete a word. If you change a word, cross it out with a slash (—) and write the correct word. If you add a word, write the missing word between the words (in bracket) immediately before and after it. If you delete a word, cross it out with a slash (—). Put your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (51){{U}}"Humanism" has used to mean too many thing to be a very satisfactory term.{{/U}} (52) {{U}}Nevertheless, and in the lack of a better word,{{/U}} (53) {{U}}I shall use it here to explain for the complex of attitudes which this discussion has undertaken to defend.{{/U}} (54) {{U}}In this sense a humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account of man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry, and animal behavior.{{/U}} (55) {{U}}He is anyone who believes that will, reason, and purpose are real and significant: that value and justice are aspects of a reality called good and evil and rests upon some foundation other than custom;{{/U}} (56) {{U}}that consciousness is so far from a mere epiphenomenon that it is the most tremendous of actualities.{{/U}} (57) {{U}}that the unmeasure, may be significant; or to sum it all up;{{/U}} (58) {{U}}that those human realities which sometimes seem to exist only in human mind are the perceptions of the mind.{{/U}} (59) {{U}}He is, in other words, anyone who says that there are more things in heaven and earth than those dreamed of in the positivist philosophy.{{/U}} (60) {{U}}Originally, to be sure, the term humanist meant simply anyone who thonght the study of ancient literature his chief concern. Obviously it means, as I use it, very much more.{{/U}} (61) {{U}}But there remains nevertheless a certain connection between the aboriginal meaning and that I am attempting to give it,{{/U}} (62) {{U}}because those whom I describe as humanists usually recognize that literature and the arts have been pretty consistently "on its side" and{{/U}} (63){{U}}because it is often to literature that they turn to renew their faith in the whole class of truths which the modem world has so consistently tended, to dismiss as the mere figments of a wishful thinking imagination.{{/U}} (64) {{U}}Insofar as this modern world gives less and less attention to its literary past, insofar as it dismisses that past as something outgrow and{{/U}} (65) {{U}}to be discarded as much as the imperfect technology contemporary with it has been discarded,{{/U}} (66) {{U}}just to that extent it facilitate the surrender of humanism to technology.{{/U}} (67) {{U}}The literature is to be found, directly expressed or{{/U}} (68) {{U}}more often, indirectly implied, the most effective correction to the views now most prevalent among the thinking and unthinking.{{/U}} (69) {{U}}The great imaginative writers present a picture of human nature and of human life which carries conviction and thus giving the lie to all attempts to reduce man to a mechanism. Novels and poems, and dramas are so persistently concerned with the values which relativism rejects that one might even define literature as the attempt to pass value judgments upon representations of human life,{{/U}} (70) {{U}}More often than not those of its imaginative persons who fail to achieve power and wealth are more successful than those who do not--by standards which the imaginative writer persuades us to accept as valid.{{/U}}