单选题To the growing Uperturbation/U of the unions, the Ministry of Labour has been pressing for a stringent income policy.

单选题Recent research from animal behaviorists suggests that "as the crow flies" should no longer be taken to mean "the shortest distance between two points. " Zoologists at Oxford University,【C1】______conducted an eighteen-month【C2】______of homing pigeons, have concluded that under some circumstances, pigeons follow【C3】______visual landmarks to find their way home【C4】______than taking the shortest, most direct route.【C5】______for their ability to navigate long distances, homing pigeons use the【C6】______of the sun and stars, their inbuilt compasses, and perhaps also their sense of smell to direct their flight over long【C7】______or on a journey for the first time.【C8】______, different factors appear to affect a pigeon's navigation【C9】______it is released close to its【C10】______. Animal behaviorists reached this【C11】______after attaching small global positioning devices to the backs of pigeons and releasing them a few miles from their home. These devices enabled the scientists to【C12】______the precise location of each pigeon every second of【C13】______flight. Each pigeon was tracked for approximately twenty flights from the【C14】______point. For the first several flights, each bird's path【C15】______significantly from the paths it had taken【C16】______Subsequently, 【C17】______, the bird would tend to follow the same path, 【C18】______after flight, even though that path was not always the most direct route home. The scientists concluded that pigeons use a【C19】______of familiar visual landmarks to find their way when they are near their home rather than relying primarily on compass navigation. Major highways are one【C20】______landmark. Almost comically, some of the pigeons followed the path of a major highway they could see below them, turning where the road turned, and even following the circular path of the exit ramps.

单选题Do you have an afternoon ______ this week to meet the President? A. obtainable B. available C. visible D. reliable

单选题When you drive, you should ______ to traffic regulations.

单选题One of the most interesting {{U}}inhabitants{{/U}} of our world is the bee, an insect which is indigenous to all parts of the globe except the polar regions.

单选题While we need to show young women how to protect themselves, these findings also demonstrate strongly that we need to help young men reject a culture that tells them relationships are based on showing power______others and that, as males, they need to prove their masculinity, ______exercising this type of power.

单选题In certain types of quartz, bands of color form an irregular pattern. A. shades B. cautioned C. motivated D. requested

单选题His book was marred by the many remarks, which made us forget his main theme.

单选题Early exponents of science fiction such as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells explored with Uzest/U the future possibilities opened up to the optimistic imagination by modern technology.

单选题We ask for ______ from others, yet we are never merciful ourselves.

单选题Most of the soldiers considered the guerilla force to be a formidable ______.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} Modern technology and science have produced a wealth of new materials and new ways of using old materials. For the artist this means wider opportunities. There is no doubt that the limitations of materials and nature of tools both restrict and shape a man's work. Observe how the development of plastics and light metals along with new methods of welding has changed the direction of sculpture. Transparent plastic materials allow one to look through an object, to see its various sides superimposed on each other (as in Cubism or in an X-ray). Today, welding is as prevalent as casting was in the past. This new method encourages open designs, where surrounding and intervening space becomes as important as form itself. More ambiguous than other scientific inventions familiar to modern artists, but no less influential, are the psychoanalytic studies of Freud and his followers, discoveries that have infiltrated recent art, especially Surrealism. The Surrealists, in their struggle to escape the monotony and frustrations of everyday life, claimed that dreams were the only hope. Turning to the irrational world of their unconscious, they banished all dine barriers and moral judgments to combine disconnected dream experiences from the past, present and intervening psychological states. The Surrealists were concerned with overlapping emotions more than with overlapping forms. Their paintings often become segmented capsules of associative experiences. For them, obsessive and often unrelated images replaced the direct emotional message of expressionism. They did not need to smash paint and canvas; they went beyond this to smash the whole continuity of logical thought. There is little doubt that contemporary art has taken much from contemporary life. In a period when science has made revolutionary strides, artists in their studios have not been unaware of scientists in their laboratories. But this has rarely been a one-way street. Painters and sculptors though admittedly influenced by modern science, have also molded and changed our world. If breakup has been a vital part of their expression, it has not always been a symbol of destruction. Quite the contrary, it has been used to examine more fully, to penetrate more deeply, to analyze more thoroughly, to enlarge, isolate and make more familiar certain aspects of life that earlier we were apt to neglect. In addition, it sometimes provides rich multiple experiences so organized as not merely to reflect our world, but in fact to interpret it.

单选题Historians share one fundamental ______ that we can learn from the mistakes of our past.

单选题Questions 24—26 are based on the passage about human intelligence. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 24—26.

单选题It doesn't make a bit of______ if you are late to my party. I just want you to come.

单选题The company made profit in that one month than it made in the whole of the______ year.

单选题His parents gave many expensive toys as a kind of______for his lameness and inability to play active games. A. remedy B. compensation C. treatment D. comfort