单选题Widely credited as the founder of haute tech (时装科技), British designer Hussein Chalayan—twice named British designer of the year—is the subject of a fun and fascinating new exhibit at the London Design Museum called "From Fashion and Back" (through May 17), which highlights his 15-year career. Among the items on display: a garment made of crystals and 200 moving lasers to create a living light show, and two LED-screen video dresses that illuminate underwater sea life. Chalayan believes that integrating technology with fashion is" the only way in the world to create something new," he says. "These are the prototypes for things to come. They need this investment." What does" these" in bold refer to?A. Haute tech products.B. Chalayan's haute tech designs on display.C. Crystals and lasers on his design.D. Technology and fashion.

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单选题There is always excitement at the olympic Games when an athlete breaks a record. A. beats B. maintains C. matches D. tries

单选题Singing Alarms Could Save the Blind If you cannot see, you may not be able to find your way out of a burning building-and that could be fatal, A．company in Leeds could (51) all that with directional (定向的) sound alarms capable of guiding you to the exit, Sound Alert, a company run (52) the University of Leeds, is installing the alarms in a residential home for (53) people in Sommerset and a resource centre for the blind in Cumbria. The alarms produce a (54) range of frequencies that enable the brain to (55) where the sound is coming from. Deborah Withington of Sound Alert says that the alarms use most of the frequencies that can be (56) by humans. "It is a burst of white noise that people say sounds like static (静电噪声) on the radio," she says. "Its life-saving potential is (57) . " She conducted an experiment in which people were filmed by thermal-imaging (热效应成像) cameras trying to find their (58) out of a large smoke-filled room. It (59) them nearly four minutes to find the door without a sound alarm, (60) only 15 seconds with one. Withington studies how the brain (61) sounds at the university. She says that the (62) of a wide band of frequencies can be pinpointed (精确地确定) more easily than the source of a narrow band. Alarms (63) on the same concept have already been installed on emergency vehicles. The alarms will also include rising or falling frequencies to (64) whether people should go up or down stairs. They were (65) with the aid of a large grant from British Nuclear Fuels.

单选题American Marriage and Family More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving. As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce rate need to be taken in this pro-marriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus marriage remains, by far, the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society. What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the typical American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife"s previous marriages, of the husband"s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses Thus, one can find every type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriage; marriages with "full-time" children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with "full-time" children from the present marriage and "part-time" children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half-brothers, and half-sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant, most Americans spend most of their adult life married.

单选题阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请选择C。 Experiments have been carried out on volunteers to see what happens when all sensations are stopped. This can be done in several ways. One method is to put a man inside a completely isolated room. This room is heavily sound-proofed and absolutely dark. There is no light or sound and the person is instructed just to lie motionless in a bed. People have stayed in rooms such as this for as long as four days. The results of sensory deprivation (SD) vary with the individual. Soon after entering the confinement cell most subjects went to sleep and slept almost without interruption for ten to twenty-four hours. These are gross estimates for there was nothing by which the subjects could determine the time which had elapsed. We know for certain that one subject slept for nineteen hours but insisted that he had had a nap of less than one hour. According to the monitoring microphone, which was capable of picking up the deep breathing of sleep, it seems more likely that most subjects slept all of the first twenty-four hours. We felt that so much sleeping in the first day wasted the effects of confinement, so we started placing subjects in SD early in the morning. We reasoned that after a night' s sleep our confined subject would be unable to dissipate(驱散) the effects of SD by sleeping. Such was not the case. As far as we could determine they went to sleep just as quickly and slept just as long as the previous subjects. We then started entering the subjects at midmorning, midday, and midafternoon. As it turned out, it made no difference when during the day and, presumably, during the night we started the confinement; the initial sleep period was always about the same. We had not expected this extended period of initial sleep. In fact, it had seemed reasonable to expect something of the opposite. SD was a very novel situation for our subjects, and as such, we reasoned, it should have occupied them for some time. I had a similar expectation for astronauts during space flight and was greatly surprised to learn that the Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin had been able to sleep during his space flight around the earth. Other effects were also noted. With no real sensations to work on, the brain makes up all sorts of false information. Many people experience vivid dreams and hallucinations (幻觉). When they are finally taken out of the room into the real changing world of light and sound, they are in a very strange state of mind, ready to believe anything and not really able to make decisions.

单选题The shoot system of perennials can help the plants absorb less of the sun's ray.

单选题Parents who lack the finance to send their children to a private school have to tolerate the state system. A. put up with B. stand with C. stand up to D. put themselves to

单选题Dumped waste might contaminate water supplies.

单选题Motoring Technology 1.2 million road deaths worldwide occur each year, plus a further 50 million injuries. To reduce car crash rate, much research now is focused on safety and new fuels—though some electric vehicle and biofuel research aims at going faster. Travelling at speed has always been dangerous. One advanced area of research in motoring safety is the use of digital in-car assistants. They can ensure you don't miss important road signs or fall asleep. Most crashes result from human and not mechanical faults. Some safety developments aim to improve your vision. Radar can spot obstacles in fog, while other technology "sees through" big vehicles blocking your view. And improvements to seat belts, pedal (脚踏) controls and tyres are making driving smoother and safer. The colour of a car has been found to be linked with safety, as have, less surprisingly, size and shape. But whatever is in the fuel tank, you don't want a thief in the driving seat and there have been many innovations (创新). Satellite tracking and remote communications can also come into play if you crash, automatically calling for help. Accidents cause many traffic jams, but there are more subtle interplays between vehicles that can cause jams even on a clear but busy road. Such jams can be analyzed using statistical tools. Robotic drivers could be programmed to make traffic flow smoothly and will perhaps one day be everyone's personal chauffeur (司机), but their latest efforts suggest that won't be soon.

单选题The river widens considerably as it begins to turn west.A. twistsB. stretchesC. broadensD. bends

单选题Please let me know if any problems arise. A. become B. occur C. raise D. arouse

单选题Transportation For many years in the desert, camels used to be the only form of transportation (运输). Before the age of modern trains, camel trains were used to carry all the goods for trading between Central Africa and Europe. Traders sometimes put together camel trains with 10,000 to 15,000 animals. Each animal often carried as much as 400 pounds and could travel twenty miles a day. This form of transportation used to be so important that camels were called "ships of the desert". Now modern trains travel across the desert in a very short time. One engine can pull as much weight as 135,000 camels. In addition, trains use special cars (车厢) for their load. Refrigerator cars carry food; boxcars (棚车) carry heavy goods; stock cars carry animals; and tank cars carry oil. Air travel is also a modern means of transportation, but it has changed since the early 20th century. The earliest planes were biplanes (双翼飞机), with two sets of wings. The top speed of this plane was 60 miles per hour. The pilots used to sit or lie on the wings in the open air. The plane engines sometimes stopped in the middle of a trip. It used to be impossible to fly in bad weather. In snow or in rain, the wings frequently became icy. Then the plane might go down. Mechanical improvements during the First World War changed airplanes. Monoplanes (单翼飞机) took the place of biplanes. Pilots flew inside of covered cabins. Still, even these planes were small and expensive. Only rich people used to be able to travel in airplanes. Now modern jets make air travel possible for all people. No place in the world is more than 24 hours away by jet. Further improvements have lowered the cost of flying, and they have made air travel much safer than it used to be. A modern 707 can carry 170 people and can fly at 600 miles per hour. People never used to eat, sleep, or watch movies on airplanes. Now these things are a normal part of air travel.

单选题 The Function of Adverts Most people would protably agree that many individual consumer adverts function on the level of the daydream. By picturing quite unusually happy and glamorous people whose success in either career or sexual terms, or both, is obvious, adverts construct an imaginary world in which the reader is able to make come true those desires which remain unsatisfied in his or her everyday life. An advert for a science fiction magazine is unusually explicit about this. In addition to the primary use value of the magazine, the reader is promised access to a wonderful universe through the product-access to other mysterious and tantalizing worlds and epochs, the realms of the imagination. When studying advertising, it is therefore unreasonable to expect readers to decipher adverts as factual statements about reality. Most adverts are just too meager in informative content and too rich in emotional suggestive detail to be read literally. If people read them literally, they would soon be forced to realize their error when the glamorous promises held out by the adverts didn't materialize. The average consumer is not surprised that his purchase of the commodity does not redeem the promise of the advertisement, for this is what he is used to in life: the individual's pursuit of happiness and success is usually in vain. But the fantasy is his to keep; in his dream world he enjoys a "future endlessly deferred". The Estivalia advert company is quite explicit about the fact that advertising shows us not reality, but a fantasy; it does so by openly admitting the daydream but in a way which insists on the existence of a bridge linking daydream to reality-Estivalia, which is "for daydream believers", those who refuse to give up trying to make the hazy ideal of natural beauty and harmony come true. If adverts function on the daydream level, it clearly becomes inadequate to merely condemn advertising for channeling readers' attention and desires towards unrealistic, paradisiacal (天堂似的) nowhere land. Advertising certainly does that, but in order for people to find it relevant, the Utopia (乌托邦) visualized in adverts must be linked to our surrounding reality by a causal connection.

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单选题{{B}}第二篇{{/B}} Night of the Living Ants When an ant dies，other ants move the dead insect out of the nest．This behavior is interesting to scientists，who wonder how ants know for sure-and so soon-that another ant is dead． Dong-Hwan Choe，a scientist at the University of California，found that Argentine ants have a chemical on the outside of their bodies that signals to other ants，“I’m dead-take me away．” But there's a twist to Choe's discovery．Choe says that the living ants-not just the dead ones -have this death chemical．In other words，while an ant crawls around，perhaps in a picnic or home，it's telling other ants that it's dead． What keeps ants from hauling away the living dead?Choe found that Argentine ants have two additional chemicals on their bodies，and these tell nearby ants something like，“Wait-I'm not dead yet．” So Choe's research turned up two sets of chemical signals in ants：one says，“I'm dead，”the other set says，“I'm not dead yet．” Other scientists have tried to figure out how ants know when another ant is dead．If an ant is knocked unconscious，other ants leave it alone until it wakes up．That means ants know that unmoving ants can still be alive． Choe suspects that when an Argentine ant dies．the chemical that says“Wait-I'm not dead yet” quickly goes away．Once that chemical is gone，only the one that says“I'm dead”is left．“It's because the dead ant no longer smells like a living ant that it gets carried to the graveyard(墓地)，not because its body releases new，unique chemicals after death，”said Choe．When other ants detect the“dead”chemical without the“not dead yet”chemical，they haul away the body．This was Choe's hypothesis(假设)． To test his hypothesis，Choe and his team put different chemicals on Argentine ant pupae(蛹)． When the scientists used the“I'm dead”chemical，other ants quickly hauled the treated pupae away． When the scientists used the“Wait-I'm not dead yet”chemical，other ants left the treated pupae alone． Choe believes this behavior shows that the“not dead yet”chemical overrides(优胜于)the“dead”chemical when picked up by adult ants．And that when an ant dies，the“not dead yet”chemical fades away． Other nearby ants then detect the remaining“dead”chemical and remove the body from the nest．

单选题Karen Rusa was a 30-year-old woman and the mother of four children. For the past several months Karen had been experiencing repetitive thoughts that centered around her children's safety. She frequently found herself imagining that a serious accident had occurred; she was unable to put these thoughts out of her mind. On one such occasion she imagined that her son, Alan, had broken his leg playing football at school. There was no reason to believe that an accident had occurred, but she kept thinking about the possibility until she finally called the school to see if Alan was all right. Even after receiving their assurance that he had not been hurt, she described herself as being some- what surprised when he later arrived home unharmed. Karen also noted that her daily routine was seriously hampered by an extensive series of counting work that she performed throughout each day. Specific numbers come to have a special meaning to her; she found that her preoccupation with these numbers was interfering with her ability to perform everyday activities. One example was grocery shopping. Karen believed that if she selected the first item, some dreadful thing would happen to her first child, if she selected the second item, some unknown disaster wonld fall on her seconol child, and so on for the four children. Karen's preoccupation with numbers extended to other activities, most notable the pattern in which she smoked cigarettes and drank coffee. If she had one cigarette, she believed that she had to smoke at least four in a row or one of her children would be harmed in some way. If she drank one cup of coffee, she felt compelled to drink four. Karen acknowledged the unreasonableness of these rules, but, nevertheless, maintained that she felt more comfortable, when she observed them earnestly. When she was occasionally in too great a hurry to observe these rules, she experienced considerable anxiety in the form of a subjective feeling of dread and fear. She de- scribed herself as tense, uneasy and unable to relax during these periods.

单选题Importance of the Public Image Public image refers to how a company is viewed by its customers, suppliers, and stockholders (股东), by the financial community, by the communities in which it operates, and by the federal and 1 governments. Public image is controllable to a 2 extent, just as the product, price, place, and promotional efforts are. A firm"s public image 3 a vital role in the attractiveness of the firm and its products to employees, customers, 4 to such outsiders as stockholders, suppliers, creditors (债权人), government officials, as well as 5 special groups. With some things, it is impossible to satisfy all the diverse publics: for example, high quality products and service standards should bring almost complete approval, 6 low quality products and service would receive wide 7 . A firm"s public image, 8 it is good, should be treasured and protected. It is a 9 asset that usually is built up over a long and satisfying relationship of a firm with its publics. If a firm has 10 a quality image, this is not easily countered or imitated by competitors. 11 an image may enable a firm to charge higher prices, to woo (追求) the best distributors and dealers, to attract the best employees, to 12 the most favorable creditor relationships and lowest borrowing costs. It should also allow the firm"s stock to command a higher price-earnings ratio than other firms in the same industry 13 such a good reputation and public image. A number of factors affect the public image of a corporation, 14 physical facilities, contacts of outsiders with company employees, product quality and dependability, prices 15 , customer service, the kind of advertising and the media and programs used, and the use of public relations and publicity.

单选题For some animals, locomotion is accomplished by changes in body shape.