单选题By advocating moderate change, they think that they can keep consumer costs low.

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单选题下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。 {{B}}第一篇{{/B}} Goal of American Education Education is all enormous and expensive part of American life. Its size is matched by its variety. Differences in American schools compared with those found in the majority of other countries lie in the fact that education here has long been intended for everyone — not just for a privileged(享有特权的) elite(精英). Schools are expected to meet the needs of every child, regardless of ability, and also the needs of society itself. This means that public schools offer more than academic subjects. It surprises many people when they come here to find high schools offering such courses as typing, sewing, radio repair, computer programming or driver training, along with traditional academic subjects such as mathematics, history, and languages. Students choose their curricula depending on their interests, future goals, and level of ability. The underlying goal of American education is to develop every child to the utmost of his or her own possibilities, and to give each one a sense of civic(公民的)and community consciousness. Schools have traditionally played an important role in creating national unity and "Americanizing" the millions of immigrants who have poured into this country from many different backgrounds and origins. Schools still play a large role in the community, especially in the small towns. The approach to teaching may seem unfamiliar to many, not only because it is informal, but also because there is not much emphasis on learning facts. Instead, Americans try to teach their children to think for themselves and to develop their own intellectual and creative abilities. Students spend much time, learning how to use resource materials, libraries, statistics and computers. Americans believe that if children are taught to reason well and to research wei1, they will be able to find whatever facts they need throughout the rest of their lives. Knowing how to solve problems is considered more important than the accumulation (积聚) of facts. This is America's answer to the searching question that thoughtful parents all over the world are asking themselves in the fast-moving time: "How can one prepare today's child for a tomorrow that one can neither predict nor understand?"

单选题Maria Chapman, abolitionist and close associate of William Lloyed Garrison, wrote many brochures condemning slavery.

单选题 Man of Few Words Everyone chases success, but not all of US want to be famous. South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}for keeping himself to himself. When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature, reporters were warned that they would find him "particularly difficult to {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}". Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago. He seemed {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}by the news he won the US $1.3 million prize. "It came as a complete surprise. I wasn't even aware they were due to make the announcement," he said. His {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend the prize, giving in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10. But despite being described as {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}to track down, the critics agree that his writing is easy to get to know. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to all English-speaking family, Coetzee {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}his breakthrough in 1980 with the novel Waiting for the Barbarians. He {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}his place among the world's leading writers with two Booker prize victories, Britain's highest honour for novels. He first {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}in 1983 for the Life and Times of Michael K ,and his second title came in 1999 for Disgrace. A major theme in his work is South Africa's former apartheid system, which divided whites from blacks. {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}with the problems of violence, crime and racial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}within. "I have always been more interested in the past than the future," he said in a rare interview. "The past {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}its shadow over the present. I hope I have made one or two people think {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}about whether they want to forget the past completely." In fact this purity in his writing seems to be {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}in his personal life. Coetzee is a vegetarian, a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesn't drink alcohol. But what he has {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}to literature, culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up. "In looking at weakness and failure in life," the Nobel Prize judging panel said, "Coetzee's work {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}the divine spark in man."

单选题{{B}}第三篇{{/B}} Barbie Dolls In the mid 1940's, the young ambitious duo Ruth and Elliot Handler, owned a company that made wooden pictures frames. It was in 1945 that Ruth and Elliot Handler joined with their close friend Harold Mattson to form a company would be named MATTEL, MATT for Mattson, and EL for Elliot. In the mid 1950's, while visiting Switzerland, Ruth Handler purchased a German Lilli doll. Lilli was a shapely, pretty fashion doll first made in 1955. She was originally fashioned after a famous cartoon character in the West German Newsletter, Build. Lilli is the doll that would inspire Ruth Handler to design the Barbie doll. With the help of her technicians and engineers at Mattel, Barbie was born. Ruth then hired Charlotte Johnson, a fashion designer, to create Barbie's wardrobe. It was in 1958 that the patent for Barbie was obtained. This would be a fashion doll unlike any of her time. She would be long limbed, shapely, beautiful, and only 11.5 inches tall. Ruth and Elliot would name their new fashion doll after their own daughter, Barbie. In 1959, the Barbie doll would make her way to the New York Toy Show and receive a cool reception from the toy buyers. Barbie has a universal appeal and collectors both young and old enjoy time spent and memories made with their dolls.

单选题Different Tastes For Vacation People like different kinds of vacations. Some go outside. Others like to stay at a hotel in an exciting city. They go shopping all day and go dancing all night. Or maybe they go sightseeing to places such as Disneyland, the Tai Mahan or the Louver. Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They don't want to be "tourists". They want to have an adventure, to learn something and maybe help people too. How can they do this? Some travel companies and environmental groups are planning special adventures. Sometimes these trips are difficult and full of hardships, but they're a lot of fun. One organization, Earth Watch, sends small groups of volunteers to different parts of the world. Some volunteers spend two weeks and study the environment. Others work with animals. Others learn about people of the past. Would you like an adventure in the Far North? A team of volunteers is leaving from Mormons, Russia. The leader of this trip is a professor from Alaska. He's worried about chemicals from factories. He and the volunteers will study this pollution in the environment. If you like exercise and cold weather, this is a good trip for you. Volunteers need ski sixteen kilometers every day. Do you enjoy ocean animals? You can spend two to four weeks in Hawaii. There, you can teach language to dolphins. Dolphins can follow orders such as "Bring me the large ball." They also understand opposites. How much more can they understand? It will be exciting to learn about these intelligent animals. Another study trip goes to Washington State and follows orcas. We call them "Killer Whale", but they're really dolphins-- the largest kind of dolphin. This beautiful animal travels together in family groups. They move through the ocean with their mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Ocean pollution is chasing their lives. Earth Watch is studying how this happens. Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the place for your adventure. Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcano exploded there, on Santorum. This explosion was more terrible than Karate or Mount Saint Helens. But today we know a lot about the way of life of the people from that time. There are houses, kitchens, and paintings as interesting as those in Pompeii. Today teams of volunteers are learning more about people from the past. Do you want a very different vacation? Do you want to travel far, work hard and learn a lot? Then an Earth Watch vacation is for you.

单选题It is virtually impossible to persuade him to apply for the job.

单选题He made a considerable sum of money in real estate. A. large B. positive C. powerful D. realistic

单选题Salesmanship is the ability to sway people to willingly buy products or support new ideas.

单选题I have several spare tickets.A. thinB. extraC. attachedD. prepared

单选题It seems highly unlikely that she will pass the exam, A. very B. completely C. usually D. mostly

单选题 阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 {{B}}Water{{/B}} From the beginning, water has furnished man with a source of food and a highway to travel upon. The first civilizations arose{{U}} (51) {{/U}}water was a dominant element in the environment, a challenge{{U}} (52) {{/U}}man's ingenuity. The Egyptians invented the 365-day calendar in response to the Nile's annual flooding. The Babylonians, {{U}}(53) {{/U}}were among the most famous law-makers in ancient times, invented laws{{U}} (54) {{/U}}water usage. Water inspired the Chinese to build a 1,000-{{U}} (55) {{/U}}canal, a complex system which, after nearly 2,500 years, remains still practically{{U}} (56) {{/U}}and still commands the astonishment of engineers. But{{U}} (57) {{/U}}never found complete solutions to their water problems. The Yellow River is also known as "China's Sorrow"; it is so unpredictable and dangerous{{U}} (58) {{/U}}in a single flood it has caused a million{{U}} (59) {{/U}}. Floods slowed the great{{U}} (60) {{/U}}of the Indus River Valley, and inadequate drainage ruined{{U}} (61) {{/U}}of its land. Today water dominates man{{U}} (62) {{/U}}it always has done. Its presence continues to{{U}} (63) {{/U}}the location of his homes and cities; its violent variability can{{U}} (64) {{/U}}man or his herds or his crops; its routes links him{{U}} (65) {{/U}}his fellows; its immense value may add to already dangerous political conflicts. There are many examples of this in our own time.

单选题What kinds of products were sold in this shop?A. goodsB. servicesC. machinesD. contents

单选题 Government Policies and Economy While he was off on his 1978 tour, Americans were becoming disgusted with their lot as all "emerging second-class nation", Wilson says. They began to see that incentives had to be restored to the economy. For instance, the capital gains tax was cut, an extraordinary turn-about. If it had been predicted before he went away in May, he would have said it was simply inconceivable as inconceivable as the prospect of Resorts going up 1,000 percent. This momentous transformation in the U.S. should soon bring about a huge bull market. In the 1940s and 19S0s, the last time price earning multiples were at these low levels, the investing public expected that there would be another great postwar depression. Instead, after the beginning of 1953 it became apparent that there would not be one, and price-earnings multiples got so low this time that investors felt that the country was drifting into socialism. That drift, however, may be reversing direction. Wilson believes that the bankruptcy of New York City means the discrediting of big government, that as a result there will be less government, and that things in general will go much better. From 1980's depressed levels the market could rise to twenty times doubled earnings or almost fivefold in five to seven years. Wilson believes that he'll be worth hundreds of millions of dollars before it's over.

单选题The field of international finance will affect the circulation of money in the world.A. appraisalB. conductionC. availabilityD. flow

单选题Talks on climate change resumed in the German city of Bonn on July 16 to combat global warming.

单选题Color changes in chameleons seem to be caused by environmental temperature as well as by other external stimuli.A. oughtB. haveC. appearD. used

单选题The latest census is encouraging.A. countB. statementC. agreementD. estimate

单选题The police contended that the difficulties they faced were too severe.