单选题Examination papers of the class were marked without bias .

单选题Success often depends on temperament .______

单选题She moves from one Uexotic/U location to another.

单选题If headaches only occur at night, lack of fresh air is often the cause. A. deliver B. fall C. happen D. arrive

单选题 阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句了作出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A项；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B项；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请选择C项。 {{B}}TV Games Shows{{/B}} One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the "best sellers" list with a sale of fewer than 100,000 copies, but a popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers. TV can make anything or anyone well known overnight. This is the principle behind "quiz" or "game" shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for the prize and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands of dollars just for fun. But all of this money can create problems. For instance, in the 1950s, quiz shows were very popular in the US and almost everyone watched them. Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career as a television personality. But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating. It turned out that the show's producers, who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand. Why? Because if the audience didn't like the person who won the game, they turned the show off. Based on his story, a movie under the title "Quiz Show" is on 40 years later. Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV. But game shows are still here, though they aren't taken as seriously. In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible. There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together, or that try to cause newly-married couples to fight on TV, or that punish losers by humiliating them. The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV. People still win money, but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.

单选题The city has decided to do away with all the old buildings in its center.

单选题He always did well at school in spite of taking a part - time job.A. despiteB. regardless ofC. on account ofD. in case of

单选题Steep stairs can present a particular hazard to older people.

单选题It is the movement, not the color, of objects that excites the bull A．frightens B．scares C．arouses D．confuses

单选题Although South Carolina's mineral resources are abundant, not all of them can be mined lucratively.

单选题The trumpet was part of the opera orchestra long before it became a standard orchestral instrument.

单选题Pushbike Peril Low speed bicycle crashes can badly injure —or even kill —children if they fall onto the ends of the handlebars so a team of engineers is redesigning the humble handlebar in a bid to make it safer. Kristy Arbogast, a bioengineer at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, began the project with her colleagues after a study of serious abdominal injuries in children in the past 30 years showed that more than a third were caused by bicycle accidents. "The task was to identify how the injuries occurred and came up with some countermeasures," she says. By interviewing the children and their parents, Arbogast and her team were able to reconstruct many of the accidents and identified a common mechanism responsible for serious injures. They discovered that most occur when children hit an obstacle at a slow speed, causing them to topple over. To maintain their balance they turn the handlebars through 90 degrees — but their momentum forces them into the end of the handlebars. The bike then falls over and the other end of the handlebars hits the ground, ramming it into their abdomen. The solution the group came up with is a handgrip fitted with a spring and damping system. The spring absorbs up to 50 per cent of the forces transmitted through the handlebars in an impact. The group hopes to commercialize the device, which should add only a few dollars to the cost of a bike. "But our task has been one of education because up until now, bicycle manufacturer were unaware of the problem," says Arbogast. The team has also approached the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to try to persuade manufacturers to adopt the new design. A decision is expected later this year. handlebar n (常用复数) (自行车等的) 车把 abdominal adj. 腹部的 redesign v. 重新设计 bioengineer n. 生物工程师 reconstruct vt. 重建；重构 countermeasure n. 对策 abdomen n. 膜，腹部 momentum n.冲力 handgrip n. 握柄 damping adj. 制动的，减速的，缓冲的 commercialize vt. 使商品化

单选题Even Intelligent People Can Fail 1 The striking thing about the innovators who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed．Turn on a light，take a photograph，watch TV，search the web，jet across the Pacific Ocean，talk on a cellphone(手机)．The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze(错综复杂)of wrong tarns． 2 we have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s success in heating a thin line to white．hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey，US．He did mat on October 22．1879．and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight(点亮着的)in an airless space for 45 hours．Three years later he went on t0 light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan，even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he tamed it on，on September 4，1882． 3 “Many of 1ife’s failures．”the supreme innovator said．“are people who did not realize how close they were to Success when they gave up”Before that magical moment in October 1879．Edison had worked out no fewer than 3，000 theories about electric light，but in only two cases did his experiments work． 4 No one likes failure．but the smart innovators 1earn from it Mark Gumz,the head of the camera maker Olympus America Inc，attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to understanding failure．His popular phrase is：“Y0n only fail when you quit．” 5 Over two centuries．the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep up what they were doing．Walt Disney,the founder of Disneyland，was so broke after a succession of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the US$1．50 to get his shoes from me repair shop Pioneering car maker Henry F0rd failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T car． 6 Failure is harder to bear in today’s open．accelerated world．Hardly any innovation works the first time．But an impatient society and the media want instant success．When American music and movie master David Geffen had a difficult time．a critic said nastily that the only difference between Geffen Records(Geffen’s company)and the Titanic(the ship that went down) was that the Titanic had better music Actually，it wasn’t．After four years of losses，Geffen had 80 many hits(成功的作品)he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic an to himself．

单选题This passage mentions all of the following causes for the extinction of many species EXCEPT

单选题The recession may have spread across the global economy, but recovery efforts haven't taken the edge off the mortgage meltdown (熔毁) that helped start it all. In fact, many American real estate markets may be at risk of even worse declines. What does the author say about the present recession?A. It has affected the global economy.B. Recovery efforts have functioned.C. It was triggered by mortgage crash.D. It is similar to the one in 2001.

单选题He was said to have been removed from the position of manager for a recent conflict wil an important customer. A. dismissed B. released C. picked D. exposed

单选题From my standpoint, you know, this thing is just funny.A. positionB. point of viewC. knowledgeD. opinion

单选题He would not give up though he realized that people would not regard him as a lawful king.

单选题Fields neighboring the nuclear plant are higher than regular levels of radioactivity.

单选题 Teaching Poetry No poem should ever be discussed or "analyzed", until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it. All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling "interpretation" of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting (背诵) it. I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than "analyzing" it, if there isn't time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is "a criticism of life", and "a heightening (提升) of life". It is "an approach to the truth of feeling", and it "can save your life". It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies. I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don't like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.