单选题The thief was finally captured two miles away from the village.

单选题Her comments about men are {{U}}utterly{{/U}} ridiculous. A. slightly B. partly C. faintly D. completely

单选题Afterwards there was just a feeling of Ulet-down/U.

单选题If no one objects , Mr. Ben will be the next chairman.

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

单选题 Car Thieves Could Be Stopped Remotely (遥远地) Speeding off (超速行驶) in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is in a nasty surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer (使车辆不能调动的装置), and a radio signal from a control center miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}, he will not be able to start it again. For now, such devices {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}only available for fleets of trucks and specialist vehicles used on construction sites. But remote immobilization technology could soon start to trickle (慢慢地移动) down to ordinary cars, and {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}be available to ordinary cars in the UK {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}two months. The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car incorporates {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}miniature cellphone (移动电话，手机), a microprocessor and memory, and a GPS satellite positioning receiver. {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the unit to block the vehicle's engine management system and prevent the engine {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}restarted. There are even plans for immobilizers {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}shut down vehicles on the move, though there are fears over the safety implications of such a system. In the UK, an array of technical fixes is already making {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}harder for car thieves. "The pattern of vehicles crime has changed", says Martyn Randall of Thatcham, a security research organization based in Berkshire that is funded in part {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}the motor insurance industry. He says it would only take him a few minutes to {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}a novice (初学者) how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools. But only if the car is more than 10 years old. Modern cars are a far tougher (艰苦的) proposition (任务), as their engine management computer will not {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition (点火) key. In the UK, technologies like this {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}achieve a 31 percent drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997. But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars. Often by getting hold of the owner's keys in a burglary (夜窃行为；盗窃). In 2000, 12 percent of vehicles stolen in the UK were taken using the owner's keys double the previous year's figure. Remote-controlled immobilization system would {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}a major new obstacle in the criminal's way by making such thefts pointless. A group that includes Thatcham, the police, insurance companies and security technology firms have developed standards for a system that could go on the market sooner than the {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}expects.

单选题 How to Spent His Extra Time Given the choice between spending an evening with friends and taking extra time for his schoolwork, Andy Klise admits he would probably {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}for the latter. It's not that he doesn't like to have fun; it's just that his desire to excel {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}drives his decision-making process. A 2001 graduate of Wooster High School and now a senior biology major at The College of Wooster, Klise acknowledges that he may someday have {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}thoughts about his decision to limit the time he has spent {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}, but for now, he is comfortable with the choices he has made. "If things had not {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}out as well as they have, I would have had some regrets," says Klise, who was a Phi Beta Kappa inductee as a junior. "But spending the extra time studying has been well worth the {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}. I realized early on that to be successful, I had to make certain {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}." {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}the origin of his intense motivation, Klise notes that it has been part of his makeup for as long as he can remember. "I've always been goal {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}," he says. "This internal drive has caused me to give my all {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}pretty much everything I do." Klise {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}Wooster's nationally recognized Independent Study (IS) program with preparing him for his next {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}in life: a research position with the National Institute of Health (NIH). "I am hoping that my IS experience will help me {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}a research position with NIH," says Klise. "The yearlong program gives students a chance to work with some of the nation's {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}scientists while making the {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}from undergraduate to graduate studies or a career in the medical field."

单选题During the office hours, you should {{U}}focus your mind on{{/U}} your work.

单选题Lower taxes would spur investment and help economic growth.

单选题What would happen if Finch tried to fly through the storms over the equator?

单选题{{B}}第三篇{{/B}} {{B}} Recycling Around the World{{/B}} Recycling is one of the best environmental success stories of the late 20th century. But we could do more. People must not see recycling as fashionable, but essential. The Japanese are very good at recycling because they live in a crowded country. They do not have much space. They do not want to share their limited space with rubbish. But even so, Tokyo area alone is estimated to have three million tons of leftover rubbish at present. In 1996, the United States recycled and composted (制成肥料) 57 million tons of waste (27% of the nation's solid waste). This is 57 million tons of waste which did not go into landfills and incinerators (焚化炉). In doing this, 7,000 rubbish collection programmes and recycling centres helped the authorities. In Rockford, a city in Illinois, US, its officials choose one house each week and check its garbage (废物). If the garbage does not contain any newspapers or aluminium (铝) cans, then the resident of the house gets a prize of at least $1,000. In Japan, certain cities give children weekly supplies of tissue paper and toilet paper in exchange for a weekly collection of newspapers. In one year Britain recycles: · 1 out of every 3 newspapers. · 1 out of every 4 glass bottles and jars (罐子). · 1 out of every 4 items of clothing. · 1 out of every 3 aluminium drink cans. In 1999, Hong Kong transported 1.3 million tons of waste to mainland China for recycling. Around 535,000 tons of waste were recycled in Hong Kong itself. Over half the things we throw away could be recycled. That means we could recycle 10 times as much as we do now. However, recycling needs a lot of organisation and special equipment. Also, there is not much use for some recycled material.

单选题Ancient Egypt Brought Down by Famine Even ancient Egypt"s mighty pyramid (金字塔) builders were powerless in the face of the famine (饥荒) that helped bring down their civilization around 2180 B. C. Now evidence collected from mud deposited by the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of kilometers to the south was ultimately to blame—and the same or worse could happen today. The ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile"s annual floods to irrigate their crops. But any change in climate that pushed the African monsoons (季风) southwards out of Ethiopia would have reduced these floods. Declining rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant fewer plants to stabilize the soil. When rain did fall it would have washed large amounts of soil into the Blue Nile and into Egypt, along with sediment (沉积) from the White Nile. Blue Nile mud has a different isotope (同位素) signature from that of the white Nile. So by analyzing isotope differences in mud deposited in the Nile Delta. Michael Krom of Leeds University worked out what proportion of sediment came from each branch of the river. Krom reasons that during periods of drought, the amount of Blue Nile mud in the river would be relatively high. He found that one of these periods, from 4,500 to 4,200 years ago, immediately came before the fall of the Egypt"s old Kingdom. The weakened waters would have been disaster for the Egyptians. "Changes that affect food supply don"t have to be very large to have a ripple (波浪) effect in societies," says Bill Ryan of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. Similar events today could be even more devastating, says team member Daniel Stanley. A scientist from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. "Anything humans do to shift the climate belts would have an even worse effect along the Nile system today because the populations have increased dramatically."

单选题He has become a celebrity because of his wonderful performance in the play.A. directorB. actorC. starD. film-maker

单选题We packed up the things we had accumulated (积累) over the last three years and left. A．late B．recent C．past D．final

单选题A Phone That Knows You're Busy It's a modem problem: you're too busy to be disturbed by incessant (连续不断的) phone calls so you turn your cellphone off. But if you don't remember to turn it back on when you're less busy, you could miss some important calls if only the phone knew when it was wise to interrupt you, you wouldn't have to turn it off at all. Instead, it could let calls through when you are not too busy. A bunch of behavior sensors and a clever piece of software could do just that, by analyzing your behavior to determine if it's a good time to interrupt you. If built into a phone, the system may decide you're too busy and ask the caller to leave a message or ring back later. James Fogarty and Scott Hudson at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania based their system oil tiny microphones, cameras and touch sensors that reveal body language and activity. First they had to study different behaviors to find out which ones strongly predict whether your mind is interrupted. The potential "busyness" signals they focused on included whether the office doors were left open or closed, the time of day, if other people were with the person in question, how close they were to each other, and whether or not the computer was in use. The sensors monitored these and many other factors while four subjects were at work. At random intervals, the subjects rated how interruptible they were on a scale ranging from "highly interruptible" to "highly not-interruptible". Their ratings were then correlated with the various behaviors. "It is a shotgun (随意的) approach: we used all the indicators we could think of and then let statistics find out which were important," says Hudson. The model showed that using the keyboard, and talking on a landline or to someone else in the office correlated most strongly with how interruptible the subjects judged themselves to be. Interestingly, the computer was actually better than people at predicting when someone was too busy to be interrupted. The computer got it right 82 percent of the time, humans 77 percent. Fogarty speculates that this might be because people doing the interrupting are inevitably biased towards delivering their message, whereas computers don't care. The first application for Hudson and Fogarty's system is likely to be in an instant messaging system, followed by office phones and cell phones. "There is no technological roadblock (障碍) to it being deployed in a couple of years, " says Hudson.

单选题Then the child has, as it were, private lessons all the year round, while an adult language student has each week a limited number of hours which he generally shares with others. The child has another advantage: he hears the language in all possible situations, always accompanied by the right kind of gestures and facial expressions. Here there is nothing "unnatural, such as is ofiten found in language lessons in schools, when one talks about ice and snow in June or scorching heat in January. And what a child hears is generally what immediately interests him. Again and again, when his attempts at speech are successful, his desires are understood and fulfilled. "Fulfilled" in the last sentence of the paragraph is closest in meaning toA. satisfied.B. rejected.C. neglected.D. praise

单选题They have given up the hope to save their friends from drowning.A. endedB. abandonedC. builtD. strengthened

单选题Obtaining Drinking Water from Air Humidity Not a plant to be seen，the desert ground is too dry．But the air contains water，and research scientists have found a (51) of obtaining drinking water from air humidity． “The process we have developed is based exclusively on renewable energy sources (52) thermal solar collectors and photovoltaic(光电的)cells， (53) makes this method completely energy autonomous．It will (54) function in regions where there is no electrical infrastructure(基础设施)，”says Siegfried Egner，head of the research team．The principle of the (55) is as follows：hygroscopic(吸湿的)brine(盐水)，-saline(含盐的)solution which absorbs moisture-runs down a tower shaped unit and absorbs water from the air．It is then sucked (56) a tank a few meters off the ground in which a vacuum prevails．Energy from solar collectors (57) up the brine，which is diluted by the water it has (58) ． Because of the vacuum，the boiling point of the liquid is lower than it would be under (59) atmospheric pressure．The evaporated(蒸发的)，non-saline water is condensed and runs down through a completely filled tube in a controlled manner．The gravity of this water column (60) produces the vacuum and SO a vacuum pump is not needed．The reconcentrated brine (61) down the tower surface again to absorb moisture from the air． “The concept is suitable for various water (62) ．Single-person units and plants supplying water to entire hotels are conceivable，”says Egner．Prototypes have been built for (63) system components-air moisture absorption and vacuum evaporation-and the research scientists have already (64) their interplay on a laboratory scale．In a further (65) the researchers intend to develop a demonstration facility．

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