单选题Tennis star Chris Evert, who retired from the game after eighteen years, perhaps ______ more than anyone to make women's professional tennis a widely respected career.

单选题He has been ill with a strange disease lately, ______ I"ve never heard of before.

单选题Mother: You"re watching too much TV, Emily. Emily: Oh, come on, Morn. Mother: ______ And you"re eating too many snacks. Emily: I only had some popcorn and some potato chips.

单选题More and more people are becoming aware of the dangers facing our planet. ______, we still have a lot of work to do before our environment is safe again.

单选题Individuals can and should make their own legal decisions ______ who their employer is.

单选题Which news agency votes for the top ten news stories?

单选题______is this piece of equipment to be removed from the building.

单选题The school board listened quietly as John read the demands that his followers ______ for.

单选题{{B}}Section A{{/B}} Instructions: There is one passage in this section with 5 questions. For each question, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Questions 46-50 are based on the following passage. Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction room to make offers, or "bids", for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called "knocking down" the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on a table at which he stands. This is often set on a raised platform called a rostrum. The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auctio, meaning "increase". The Romans usually sold in this way the spoils taken in war; these sales were called sub hasta, meaning "under the spear", a spear being stuck in the ground as a signal for a crowd to gather. In England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goods were often sold "by the candle": a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight. Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, hides, skins, wool, tea, cocoa, furs, spices, fruit and vegetables and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, antique furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art. The auction rooms at Christie's and Sotheby's in London and New York are world-famous. An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by prospective buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a "lot", is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in numerical order; he may wait until he registers the fact that certain dealers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. The auctioneer's services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible. The auctioneer must know fairly accurately the current market values of the goods he is selling, and he should be acquainted with regular buyers of such goods. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the rivalries among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other. It is largely on his advice that a seller will fix a "reserve" price, that is, a price below which the goods cannot be sold. Even the best auctioneers, however, find it difficult to stop a "knock-out", whereby dealers illegally arrange beforehand not to bid against each other, but nominate one of themselves as the only bidder, in the hope of buying goods at extremely low prices. If such a "knock-out" comes off, the real auction sale takes place privately afterwards among the dealers.

单选题Will you please stop saying that? Do you think I"ll be ______ to believe what you say?

单选题Over the past few years, first radio, and now television, have shown the ______ public, who are after all the electorate, what in fact ______ when government bills are discussed and questions are asked.

单选题When Columbus reached the New World, corn was the ______ in the America.

单选题______ with a torch, he went up into the tower to see what was going on. A. To arm B. Arming C. Having armed D. Armed

单选题I think my problems at work ____the fact that I never really wanted to go into accountancy as a career.

单选题Sam: Hello, I'd like to make a reservation for July 30.Lucia: ______?Sam: I'd like a suite with a king-size bed.Lucia: A suite with a king-size bed. Let me see. Yes, we ______. It's $146 a night.Sam: All right. That sounds good.A. What type of room; have no room availableB. What type of room; have a room availableC. Which room do you like; have one available roomD. Your name, please; have one room available

单选题The pilot spoke to the passengers to ______ their fears when the plane was hit by a storm.

单选题The outbreak is spreading ______ usual for want of transport to take victims to hospital, and basic medicines for those who do manage to get there. A. as four times faster as B. four times faster than C. as fast as four times D. four times more faster than

单选题—I think there may be other options that we haven't considered yet. —So what you mean is ______. —No, I just think that we shouldn't make too quick a decision. A. that I shouldn't get angry with you B. you don't like my idea C. that you want to break up with me D. that it makes me look stupid

单选题______ is an ode written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819. It was published in 1820 by Charles and James Ollier in London as part of the collection Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems.