单选题In order to increase the number of female representatives, the selection committee decided to ______ in favor of women for three years.

单选题To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too______: any effective intellectual leader depends on the ability of other people to______ thought processes that did not originate with them.

单选题Had Julie been more careful on the maths exam, she ______ much better results now.

单选题Add to this the information and Internet revolutions, and you have a series of historical changes that have produced a single global system, far more integrated and faster-moving than ever before.

单选题The speaker had to______in the middle of his speech because of shouts of protest from the audience.

单选题When she handed in her term paper late, Diane ______ a story that her computer had crashed. The truth is that she doesn't even use a computer.

单选题Disagreement continued on ways to meet the undertaking to reduce carbon dioxide emissions given in the UN Convention on Climate Change.

单选题Although Julia Roberts has had much professional success. In spite of her trouble with several failed relationships.

单选题The twin brothers slipped out of the room and headed for the swimming pool without their parents' ______.

单选题The pope upset two large sections of Turkish society with a lecture on September 12th in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor who suggested that Islam had engendedred nothing hut violence.

单选题Before being able to sojourn to Europe, many preparations such as vaccinations and visas are required.

单选题Passage One Men cannot manufacture blood as efficiently as women can. This makes surgery riskier for men. Men also need more oxygen because they do not breathe as often as women. But men breathe more deeply and this exposes them to another risk. When the air is polluted, they draw more of it into their lungs. A more recent and chilling finding is the effect of automobile and truck exhaust fumes on children's intelligence. These exhaust fumes are the greatest source of lead pollution in cities. Researchers have found thatthe children with the highest concentration of lead in their bodies have the lower scores on intelligence tests and that boys' score lower than girls. It is possible that these low scores are connected to the deeper breathing that is typical of the male. Men's bones are larger than women's and they are arranged somewhat differently. The feminine walk that evokes so many whistles is a matter of bone structure. Men have broader shoulders and a narrower pelvis, which enables them to stride out with no waste motion. A woman's wider pelvis, designed for childbearing, forces her to put more movement into each step she takes with the result that she displays a bit of a jiggle and sway as she walks. If you think a man is brave because he climbs a ladder to clean out the roof gutters, don't forget that it is easier for him than for a woman. The angle at which a woman's thigh is joined to her knees makes climbing awkward for her, no matter whether it is a ladder or stairs or a mountain that she is tackling. A man's skin is thicker than a woman's and not nearly as soft. The thickness prevents the sun's radiation from getting through, which is why men wrinkle less than women do. Women also stay cooler in summer. The fat layer helps insulate them against heat. Men's fat is distributed differently. And they do not have that layer of it underneath their skin. In fact, they have considerably less fat than women and more lean mass. Forty-one percent of a man's body is muscle compared to thirty-five percent for women, which means men have more muscle power. When it comes to strength, almost 90 percent of a man's weight is strength compared to about 50 percent of woman's weight. The higher proportion of muscle to fat makes it easier for men to lose weight. Muscle burns up five more calories a pound that fat does just to maintain itself. So when a man goes on a diet. the pounds roll off much faster. For all men's muscularity they do not have the energy reserves women do. They have more start-up energy, but the fat tucked away in women's nooks and crannies provides a rich energy reserve that men lack. Cardiologists at the University of Alabama who tested healthy women in treadmills discovered that over years the female capacity for exercise far exceeds the male capacity. A woman of sixty who is in good health can exercise up to 90 percent of what she could do when she was twenty. A man of sixty has 60 percent left of his capacity as a twenty-year-old.

单选题Fool______Jane is, she could not have done such a thing.

单选题Galena, the chief ore of lead, is a {{U}}brittle{{/U}} mineral with a metallic luster. A. hazel B. dense C. breakable D. sparking

单选题The following passage has 6 paragraphs NUMBERED 1-6. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list below. Note there are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all. Write the correct number A-H on your ANSWER SHEET. List of Headings A. The effect of government"s intervene remains a doubt B. The government took measures to interfere with the market C. The government made policies out of the overall economic consideration D. The reason for the rise of the stockmarket E. How meddling has helped investors F. Government adopted ways depends on different situations G. China"s stockmarket saw red again H. Stamp duty plays an important role in share price 16. Paragraph 2 ______ 17. Paragraph 3 ______ 18. Paragraph 4 ______ 19. Paragraph 5 ______ 20. Paragraph 6 ______ 1. Useful indicator of the febrile state of China"s stockmarkets for much of last year was the crowd that often packed the Shenyin & Wanguo broker in Shanghai"s People"s Square watching an electronic bulletin board lit up by the flashes of rapidly rising share prices. Appropriately in China, rising prices are signaled by the colour red, not black, and on April 24th the crowds were back again, alter an absence of many months, watching a screen that was gloriously drenched in the colour of the revolution. 2. The immediate cause of the rally was put down to a minor reduction in a tax on trading, or stamp duty, from 0.3% to 0.1%. But many believed the euphoria stemmed more from a belief that the authorities were finally prepared to prop up share prices. Since the autumn, the benchmark Shanghai-A-share index had fallen by half before the tax was changed. 3. It is not the first time the government has meddled with stamp duty, but after a relatively long period of official inactivity, it came as a welcome surprise. A rise in the tax last May was intended to temper the animal spirits that were turning brokers like Shenyin & Wanguo into heaving gambling dens. At that point, it worked only briefly, and over the summer the authorities introduced several other cooling measures, such as limits on foreign investment and curbs on the introduction of new investment funds, before the market finally peaked. 4. Recently, these measures have been reversed. New mutual funds are being approved, and the quota of shares that foreign investors are allowed to buy has risen to $30 billion from $10 billion. Meanwhile, the supply of shares has been restricted. Large investors in recent public offerings have been told that when lock-ups end on selling the shares, blocks of shares must be privately sold rather than be dumped onto the market. Secondary offerings by companies have been delayed, as have the listings of foreign companies on the Shanghai bourse. 5. It is easy to see why the government may be tempted to intervene. Although the stockmarket"s drop has not been economically disastrous, it has undermined the country"s efforts to improve efficiency through privatisations. It has also affected the bit of wealth that many poor investors had. 6. Slowly, however, questions are emerging within China about whether the government should be interfering with the markets at all. Caijing , a Beijing-based magazine, has argued that intervention is antithetical to building an efficient market and, given the forces involved, will ultimately be ineffective. The comment, which was hardly radical, provoked a blizzard of news coverage and plenty of angry letters. On the other hand, for many of the unsophisticated and drably dressed punters in Shenyin & Wanguo, a sense that the government still cares about their lot could not have come too soon.

单选题Gloves have been worn since prehistoric time for protection. for ornamentation, ______ social status.

单选题Choose the best from the following sentences marked A to E to complete the article below. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. A Bad Time for Britain to Say "Auf Wiedersehen" History records that the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher scoffed at British diplomats" self-interested realism. Waving a map delineating past German expansionism, she embarked on a doomed effort to thwart unification. Francois Mitterrand was enlisted but the French president soon changed sides in the face of Helmut Kohl"s resolve. Britain found itself marginalised in Washington, where George H. W. Bush backed Mr. Kohl, and unwelcome in Bonn. 11. ______ This is not to say they are good. The relationship between Angela Merkel and David Cameron has turned from lukewarm to distinctly cool. Asked when the two leaders will next meet, one German official remarks: "What"s the point?" The eurozone crisis has bred a more assertive Germany—witness its willingness this week to scupper the proposed takeover of BAE Systems by EADS. 12. ______. The rot set in last December when Mr. Cameron tried to veto deeper economic and political eurozone integration. His pitch for special privileges and protections for the City of London was viewed in Berlin as an attempt to unpick the essential fabric of the single market—the EU"s cherished "acquis". 13. ______ What"s the point of Ms Merkel striking deals in Downing Street if they are cast aside when he feels a need to play to the eurosceptic gallery? Germany recently signed up to a British initiative to freeze the EU budget. Now it finds Mr. Cameron waving a unilateral veto. British ministers are also questioning some of the union"s fundamental pillars, including free movement of people. 14. ______ British disengagement from "core" Europe is inevitable. The government has already said it will not join a new banking union. Mr. Cameron is now suggesting a two-tier EU budget so that Westminster can pay less. Were Britain planning to leave the union—and on its present trajectory it is heading in that direction, such complacency might just make sense. But Mr. Cameron insists that EU membership remains vital to the nation"s prosperity. Any serious business leader would agree. Britain, albeit mostly by choice, is sliding fast into Europe"s second division. Whether a new relationship can be made to work will depend on how many friends it has. 15. ______ The breakdown of the EADS-BAE deal was another reminder, if one were needed, that Britain cannot escape the consequences of decisions taken on the continent. Mr. Cameron has Chosen the wrong moment to bid auf Wiedersehen to a natural ally. Questions A. But the real argument with Britain is about Europe. B. Relations between Britain and Germany are not as bad now as they were then. C. The answer at the moment is precious few. D. Mr. Cameron"s indulgence of hardline Tory eurosceptics has cast him as an unreliable partner. E. What does it matter if the Germans are cross?

单选题It was ______ we had hoped. A. more a success than B. a success more than C. as much of a succes as D. a success as much as

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单选题 That summer an army of crickets started a war with my father. They picked a fight the minute they invaded our cellar. Dad didn't care for bugs much more than Mamma, and he could tolerate a few spiders and assorted creepy crawlers living in the basement Every farm house had them. A part of rustic living and something you needed to put up with ff you wanted the simple life. He told Mamma: now that were living out here, you can't be jerking your head and swallowing your gum over what's plain natural, Ellen. But she was a city girl through and through and had no ears when it came to defending vermin. She said a cricket was just a noisy cockroach, just a dumb horny bug that wouldn't shut up. She said in the city there were blocks of buildings overrun with cockroaches with no way for people to get rid of them. No sir, no way could she sleep with all that chirping going on; then to prove her point she wouldn't go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father's cigarettes and she paced between the couch and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the hardware store and hurried back. He squirted poison from a jug with a spray nozzle. He sprayed the basement and all around the foundation of the house. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it. But what he should have said was: this is the beginning, the beginning of our war, the beginning of our destruction. I often think back to that summer and try to imagine him delivering a speech with words like that, because for the next fourteen days Mamma kept find dead crickets in the clean laundry. She'd shake out a towel or a sheet and a dead black cricket would roll across the linoleum. Sometimes the cat would corner one, and swat it around like he was playing hockey, then carry it away in his mouth. Dad said swallowing a few dead crickets wouldn't hurt as long as the cat didn't eat too many. Each time Mamma complained he told her it was only natural that we'd be fending a couple of dead ones for a while. Soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma freaked because she thought they were the dead crickets come back to haunt, but Dad said these was definitely a new batch, probably coming up on the pipes. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed beneath the sink and behind the toilet and all along the baseboard until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the cellar again, and then he went outside and sprayed all around the foundation leaving a foot-wide moat of poison. For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. Dad told us to keep a sharp look out. He suggested that we'd all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn't like because he scratched and bit for no reason. I hoped the poison might kill him too so we could get a puppy. A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, he emptied the cellar of junk. Then he burned a lot of bundled newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests. He stood over that fire with a rake in one hand and a garden hose in the other. He wouldn't leave it even when Mamma sent me out to fetch him for supper. He wouldn't leave the fire, and she wouldn't put supper on the table. Both my brothers were crying. Finally she went out and got him herself. And while we ate, the wind lifted some embers onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mowers fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn't much anyone could do.