单选题Which word completes the sentence? Controversy is to quarrel as agreement is to...

单选题{{B}}Section D{{/B}} This section consists of one passage followed by a summary. Read the passage carefully and complete the summary below by choosing no more than two words from the passage for each blank. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage. Because Atlas courses start every Monday of the year, there's bound to be one that fits in with your academic, personal or professional commitments. Whatever your level of language ability, from beginner to advanced, you can choose to study for any length of time, from two weeks to a full year. Courses match a range of individual requirements, from intensive examination preparation to short summer programmes. Most courses commence at 9 am and run till 3 pm. If you take an intensive full-time course, we will help you select the Special Interest Options which best suit your goals. From then on, our teacher will discuss your work with you on a weekly basis. This means that you should develop the language skills you need--and that you ate helped to study at your own pace. The popularity and success of any language school depend greatly on the quality of the teachers and the methods they employ. All Atlas teachers have specialist qualifications in the teaching of English to foreign students and are all native speakers. We employ only experienced professionals with a proven record of success in the classroom. Atlas's teaching methodology is constantly revised as more is discovered about the process of learning a new language. Our teachers have access to an extensive range of materials, including the very latest in language teaching technology. On your first day at school, you will take a test which enables our Director of Studies to place you at the appropriate study level. Your progress will be continuously assessed and, once you have achieved specific linguistic goals, you will move up to a higher level of study. Every Atlas course fee includes accommodation in carefully selected homestay families. Breakfast and dinner each day are also included, so you need have no concerns about having to look for somewhere to live once you get to the school. On completion of any Intensive, Examination or Summer course, you will receive the Atlas Course Certificate of Attendance. On completion of a four-week course or longer you will also receive the Atlas Academic Record that reflects your ability in every aspect of the language from conversation to writing. Such a record will allow you to present your linguistic credentials to academic institution or potential employers around the world. Summary : Atlas courses are bound to fit in with your various {{U}}(61) {{/U}}. If you take intensive full-time courses teachers there will discuss your work with you weekly. Due to wide acquaintance with progress in concerning field, Atlas is quick at {{U}}(62) {{/U}} its teaching methodology. On your arrival at the school, a {{U}}(63) {{/U}} will be taken to determine your appropriate starting level. As to accommodation, Atlas will arrange {{U}}(64) {{/U}} families for you, where breakfast and dinner will be prepared for you. On your completion in Atlas, academic records will be offered to present your {{U}}(65) {{/U}}.

单选题Our boss enjoys swimming, but ________ he avoids a crowded pool.

单选题The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a masterpiece by Mark Twain from which, as noted by ______, "all modern American literature comes. "

单选题{{B}}Section C{{/B}} In this section, there is one passage followed by five questions. Read the passage carefully, and then answer each of the questions in a maximum of 10 words. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. Girls Are as Competitive as Boys—Just more Subtle Girls are no less competitive than boys, they simply employ more subtle tactics, a study of preschoolers suggests. While boys use head-on aggression to get what they want, girls rely on the pain of social exclusion. To test the apparent differences in how very young children compete, Joyce Benenson at Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts, and her colleagues divided 87 four-year-olds into same-sex groups of three. In successive trials, each trio received either one, two or three highly prized animal puppets. The sexes behaved similarly when there were two or three puppets to go around. The differences became clear, though, when there was just one puppet for each group. Boys tended to ask for the puppet, grab at it, or even chase the child who had it. In contrast, girls punished the puppet-holder by excluding her from their clique, whispering behind her back or even hiding from her. Avoiding Risks Benenson says that these socially aggressive tactics may explain why girls exhibit greater jealousy over same-sex friendships than boys. They could be trying to protect themselves against exclusive coalitions. Melissa Emery Thompson at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, praises the study for creating "organic yet controlled situations in which the children' s natural behaviour emerges spontaneously". She says the results help to dispel the myth that females are the less competitive sex. Even at an early age, they avoid risky direct aggression in favour of subtler forms of competition, such as small shifts in tone and expression, or spreading turnouts. Emery Thompson says that these differences also explain why human males tend to cooperate more effectively in groups while many females "work well in pairs and tend to maintain only a few close relationships. " QUESTIONS:

单选题He can only blame himself for failing the exam. He ______ harder during the year, but he seemed to go out with a different gift every weekend.

单选题{{B}}Section C{{/B}} This section consists of one passage followed by five questions. Read the passage carefully, and then answer each of the questions in a maximum of 10 words. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. As the world's urban population gets bigger, cities are struggling to provide the basic services that their residents need. One of the most pressing problems is public transport. Now let's look at the crisis facing the city of London. In no time in history has there been such a mass migration of people from countryside to city as is happening now. By the year 2030, it's estimated that more than two thirds of the world's population will be living in cities, twice as many as today. This means that the problems faced by cities today--overcrowding, poor housing, unemployment, poverty, and lack of food and water will be twice as bad in the this century, unless we find solutions soon. Another crucial issue facing cities today is how to provide good transport links to service the commercial, cultural and leisure needs of their inhabitants. Today, many of the world's major cities are already struggling to cope with out-of-date transport infrastructures. How they will cope with the additional demands placed on them has not yet been addressed. London is a good example of the problems facing many major urban centres. It was the world's first megacity and the first with a population of a million people. Its expansion was made possible by the invention of the steam engine, which, among other things, powered the world's first underground railway. Today, London has one of the world's most extensive transport systems. But, because it was the first city to build a railway network, much of the infrastructure--the trains and buses, the tracks and tunnels--is now hopelessly out-of-date, and needs urgent modernization. London's future success depends very much on transport. The city lies at the heart of Britain's road and rail networks and problems in London can rapidly affect other areas of the country. On an average morning, over ground trains bring passengers to stations on the outskirts of the city, and they then continue their journeys by underground, bus or taxi. Over a million people travel into central London every clay from outside the city. They, and the people who live in London, want a public transport system that is frequent, safe, reliable, affordable and environmentally friendly. What they often get, however, falls far short of that ideal. Commuters complain about delays, unreliability, cost and pollution, while businesses worry about the problems their staff have getting to work on time. Companies also face high costs for delivering goods and services in a city where congestion means that cars today travel at the same speed as horse-drawn carriages did in the last century. Yet car ownership continues to grow. The proportion of London households that own a car grew from just over 10 per cent in the early 1950s to over 60 per cent today. 20 per cent of house-holds now own two or more cars. As the city has become increasingly congested and polluted, there has been a growing realization that action is needed. However, precisely what should be clone is hotly debated. Some people have called for cleaner fuels and strict controls on exhaust emissions. Others say more effort must be put into persuading people not to use their cars, perhaps by charging people to drive into London. There does seem to be agreement on one thing, though--that until London's public transport system is improved, people will continue to use their cars. This raises the all important questions of where the money is going to come from. Until about 10 years ago, most public transport in Britain was owned and paid for by the government. But in the last decade, most train and bus networks have been privatized. The government says that the private sector should take most, but not all, of the responsibility for public transport. In London, the underground railway system known as the "Tube" is likely to be where this policy is first put into practice. The government admits that it cannot afford to modernize the Tube system alone. Instead, it wants to form a partnership with private companies, so that they provide some of the money. Questions :

单选题______ street features such as fountains, steps and even cobbled roadways, are being excluded from our streets because of the risk of accidents.

单选题—Here I am. I got lost in the gift shop. There was so much to look at. —______ —I was going to, but I thought I would see if things were cheaper in the old part of town first. A. Did you buy anything? B. How much did you spend? C. What did you buy? D. Well, are they on sale?

单选题Bob: ______ Jane: My first book was Trapped in a Cave, a true story about two boys who got trapped in an underground cave for five days without food, water or light. Next I wrote the current twelve volumes of Real Kids, Real Adventures. Right now I'm working on the next two Real Kids, Real Adventures books. Bob: ______ Jane: If I'm looking for a specific kind of story—for instance a child who survived being struck by lightning---I'll go to the library and use Newsbank, keying in on words like "lightning" and "child". Mostly, though, I get tips from kids who read the Real Kids, Real Adventures books and send notes or newspaper clippings.

单选题There was a power cut this morning. ____, I couldn’t do anything with my computer.

单选题Which of the following is not in New York City?

单选题When confronted with such question, my mind goes ______, and I can hardly remember my own birthday.

单选题Rearrange the following letters to make a single word and then choose the category in which it belongs. FARE FIG

单选题{{B}}SectionD{{/B}}Thissectionconsistsofonepassagefollowedbyasummary.Readthepassagecarefullyandcompletethesummarybelowbychoosingnomorethantwowordsfromthepassageforeachblank.Remembertowritetheanswersontheanswersheet.Questions61to65arebasedonthefollowingpassage.Thegiantpanda,thecreaturethathasbecomeasymbolofconservation,isfacingextinction.Themajorreasonislossofhabitat,whichhascontinueddespitetheestablishment,since1963,of14pandareserves.Deforestation,mainlycarriedoutbyfarmersclearinglandtomakewayforfieldsastheymovehigherintothemountains,hasdrasticallycontractedthemammal'srange.ThepandahasdisappearedfrommuchofcentralandeasternChina,andisnowrestrictedtotheeasternflankoftheHimalayasinSichuanandGansuprovinces,andtheQinlingMountainsinShanxiprovince.Fewerthan1,400oftheanimalsarebelievedtoremaininthewild.Satelliteimageryhasshowntheseriousnessofthesituation;almosthalfofthepanda'shabitathasbeendestroyedordegradedsince1975.Worse,thesurvivingpandapopulationhasalsobecomefragmented;acombinationofsatelliteimageryandgroundsurveysrevealspanda"islands"inpatchesofforestseparatedbyclearedland.Thepopulationoftheseislands,rangingfromfewerthantentomorethan50pandas,hasbecomeisolatedbecausetheanimalsareunwillingtocrossopenareas.Justputtingaroadthroughapandahabitatmaybeenoughtosplitapopulationintwo.Theminusculesizeofthepandapopulationsworriesconservationists.Thesmallestgroupshavetoofewanimalstobeviable,andwillinevitablydieout.Thelargerpopulationsmaybeviableintheshortterm,butwillbesusceptibletogeneticdefectsasaresultofinbreeding.Inthesecircumstances,amoretraditionalthreattopandas--thecycleoffloweringandsubsequentwitheringofthebamboothatistheirstaplefood--canbecomeliterallyspecies-threatening.Thefloweringspromptpandastomovefromoneareatoanother,thuspreventinginbreedinginwhatwouldotherwisebesedentarypopulations.Inpandaislands,however,bamboofloweringcouldprovecatastrophicbecausethepandasareunabletoemigrate.Thelatestconservationmanagementplanforthepanda,preparedbyChina'sMinistryofForestryandtheWorldWideFundforNature,aimsprimarilytomaintainpandahabitatsandtoensurethatpopulationsarelinkedwhereverpossible.Theplanwillchangesomeexistingreserveboundaries,establish14newreservesandprotectorreplantcorridorsofforestbetweenpandaislands.Othermeasuresinclude:bettercontrolofpoaching,whichremainsaproblemdespitestrictlaws,aspandaskinsfetchhighprices;reducingthedegradationofhabitatsoutsidereserves;andreforestation.Theplanisambitious.Implementationwillbeexpensive--56.6millionyuan(US12.5million)willbeneededforthedevelopmentofthepandareserves--andwillrequireparticipationbyindividualsrangingfromvillagerstogovernmentofficials.SummaryThesurvivalofthegiantpandaisbeingseriouslythreatened.Pandanumbershavealreadyseriouslydecreased.Thisislargelybecausetheoverallsizeoftheir{{U}}(61){{/U}}hasbeenreduced,andhabitableareasarenowdisconnectedfromeachother.Tworesultsarethatpandasaremoreproneto{{U}}(62){{/U}}problemsandareunabletomovearoundfreelytofollowthegrowthcyclesofthebamboothattheyeat.Anewplanaimsto{{U}}(63){{/U}}existingpandahabitatsandtojoinmanyofthemtogether.Thisplanalsoincludesreforestationandthecreationof{{U}}(64){{/U}}Tosucceed,everyone,includingboththegovernmentand{{U}}(65){{/U}},willhavetocooperate.

单选题What is the missing number?

单选题I had been a university student for three years, but not until this afternoon had I felt the thrill of ______. A. confusion B. disappointment C. sensation D. fulfillment

单选题The goalkeeper is the weak point of the team. Which idiom can be used to describe the goalkeeper?

单选题ff I were in the movie, then it would be about time that I ______ my face in my hand for a cry.