单选题She is Uslender/U, with delicate wrists and ankles.

单选题In a bullfight, it is the movement, not the color, of objects that arouses the bull.A. confusesB. excitesC. scaresD. satisfies

单选题He ceaselessly interrupted me by asking many irrelevant questions.

单选题What can be inferred from the passage about the route to long life?

单选题The Soviet Union was a capitalist country.

单选题This kind of animals is on the verge of dying out.A. drying upB. extinctionC. dying offD. distinction

单选题The Klondike was the scene of one of the biggest gold rushes the world has ever known.A. locationB. viewC. eventD. landscape

单选题Sports Star Yao Ming If Yao Ming is not the biggest sports star in the world, he is almost certainly the tallest. At 2.26m, he is the tallest player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and holds the record as the most towering Olympian ever to compete in the Games. But what really stands out about the giant center is his celebrity (名气). Few, if any, Chinese athletes are as well-known as Yao around the world. People across the globe are fascinated with Yao, not only for his basketball prowess (杰出的才能) but also for being a symbol of international commerce. When Yao joined the Houston Rockets as the No. 1 pick in the 2002 NBA draft (选拔), he was the first international player ever to be selected first. His assets on the court are clear enough—no NBA player of his size has ever possessed his mobility, so he is a handful (难对付的人) for opponents on either end of the court. But what makes Yao invaluable to the Rockets organization is his role as a global citizen and as a bridge to millions of potential basketball fans in China. When it was announced in February that Yao would miss the rest of the NBA season and possibly the Olympics with a stress fracture (骨折) in his left foot, a collective shudder (震动) spread across China. After considerable debate and discussion, Yao opted to get his foot surgically treated in an operation that placed several tiny screws across the bone, to offer his overburdened foot more support. The surgery was a success, and though the estimated four-month recovery period will leave him little time to prepare with Team China, Yao has vowed to be ready for the Beijing Olympics. Yao wrapped up a 10-day trip to China, where he underwent a series of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatments, hoping to accelerate his recovery process. Western experts are generally skeptical of TCM"s benefits, although new research from the University of Rochester suggests that a certain compound derived from shellfish may indeed stimulate bone repair. "There is no reason to dismiss TCM," Yao told a press conference in Beijing. "It"s been used in our country for thousands of years. I don"t think that it"s short on science."

单选题Weather Map A weather map is an important tool for geographers. A succession of three or four maps presents a continuous picture of weather changes. Weather forecasts are able to determine the speed of air masses and fronts; to determine whether an individual Pressure area is deepening or becoming shallow and whether a front is increasing or decreasing in intensity. They are also able to determine whether an air mass is retaining its original characteristics or taking on those of the surface over which it is moving. Thus, a most significant function of the map is to reveal a synoptic picture of conditions in the atmosphere at a given time. All students of geography should be able to interpret a weather map accurately. Weather maps contain an enormous amount of information about weather conditions existing at the time of observation over a large geographical area. They reveal in a few minutes what otherwise would take hours to describe. The United States Weather Bureau issues information about approaching storms, floods, frosts, droughts, and all climatic conditions in general. Twice a month it issues a 30-day "outlook" which is a rough guide to weather conditions likely to occur over broad areas of the United States. These 30-day outlooks are based upon an analysis of the upper air levels which often set the stage for the development of air masses, fronts, and storms. Considerable effort is being exerted today to achieve more accurate weather predictions. With the use of electronic instruments and earth satellites, enormous gains have taken place recently in identifying and tracking storms over regions which have but few meteorological stations. Extensive experiments are also in progress for weather modification studies. But the limitations of weather modification have prevented meteorological results except in the seeding of super-cooled, upslope mountainous winds which have produced additional orographical precipitation on the windward side of mountain ranges. Nevertheless, they have provided a clearer understanding of the fundamentals of weather elements.

单选题Our aim was to update the health service, and we succeeded.

单选题Animals' "Sixth Sense" A tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in December, 2004. It killed tens of thousands of people in Asia and East Africa. Wild animals, (51) seem to have escaped that terrible tsunami. This phenomenon adds weight to notions that they possess a "sixth sense" for (52) , experts said. Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24, 000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast clearly (53) wild beasts, with no dead animals found. "No elephants are dead, not (54) a dead rabbit. I think animals can (55) disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening," H. D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka's Wildlife Department, said about one month after the tsunami attack. The (56) washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife (57) and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. "There has been a lot of (58) evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven," said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behavior (59) at Johannesburg Zoo. "There have been no (60) studies because you can't really test it in a lab or field setting," he told Reuters. Other authorities concurred with this (61) . "Wildlife seem to be able to pick up certain (62) , especially birds... there are many reports of birds detecting impending disasters," said Clive Walker, who has written several books on African wildlife. Animals (63) rely on the known senses such as smell or hearing to avoid danger such as predators. The notion of an animal "sixth sense" — or (64) other mythical power is an enduring one which the evidence on Sri Lanka's ravaged coast is likely to add to. The Romans saw owls (65) omens of impending disaster and many ancient cultures viewed elephants as sacred animals endowed with special power or attributes.

单选题Please put up your hands if you can answer this question. A. raise B. reach C. wave D. shake

单选题The mother Ucounselled/U her daughter on how to behave at the ball.

单选题The climate and soil as far north as the Arctic Circle permit farmers to raise livestock and grow barley, potatoes and other crops.A. helpB. allowC. requireD. expect

单选题{{B}}第二篇{{/B}} {{B}} Star Quality{{/B}} A new anti-cheating system for counting the judges' scores in ice skating is flawed, according to leading sports specialists. Ice skating's governing body announced the new rules last week after concerns that a judge at the Winter Olympics may have been unfairly influenced. Initially the judges in the pairs figure-skating event at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City voted 5 to 4 to give the gold medal to a Russian pair, even though they had a fall during their routine. But the International Skating Union suspended the French judge for failing to reveal that she had been put under pressure to vote for the Russians. The International Olympics Committee then decided to give a second gold to the Canadian runners-up (亚军). The ISU, skating's governing body, now says it intends to change the rules. In future 14 judges will judge each event, but only 7 of their scores—selected at random—will count. The ISU won't finally approve the new system until it meets in June but already UK Sport, the British Government's sports body, has expressed reservations. "1 remain to be convinced that the random selection system would offer the guarantees that everyone concerned with ethical sport is looking for", says Jerry Bingham, UK Sport's head of ethics (伦理). A random system can still be manipulated, says Mark Dixon, a specialist on sports statistics from the Royal Statistical Society in London. "The score of one or two judges who have been hobbled (受到贿赂) may still be in the seven selected." Many ether sports that have judges, including diving, gymnastics, and synchronized swimming, have a system that discards the highest and lowest scores; If a judge was under pressure to favour a particular team, they would tend to give it very high scores and mark down the opposition team, so their scores wouldn't count. It works for diving, says Jeff Cook, a member of the international government body's technical committee. "If you remove those at the top and bottom you're left with those in the middle, so you're getting a reasonable average." Since the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, diving has tightened up in its system still further. Two separate panels of judges score different rounds of diving during top competitions. Neither panel knows the scores given by the other. "We have clone this to head off any suggestion of bias," says Cook. Bingham urged the ISU to consider other options. "This should involve examining the way in which other sports deal with the problem of adjudicating (裁定) on matter of style and presentation," he says.

单选题{{U}}Recently{{/U}} scientists have observed increased pollution in the water supply. A. Late B. Later C. Latter D. Lately

单选题Our English teacher is {{U}}sick{{/U}}. A. fat B. weak C. ill D. mad

单选题The Uoutlook/U from the top of the mountain is breathtaking.

单选题People in town have forgotten their argument.

单选题The government is debating the education laws. ______