单选题This auditorium can seat 2,000 people.A. sitB. holdC. hideD. stock

单选题The government is debating the education laws.

单选题The manager {{U}}allocate{{/U}} duties to the clerks.

单选题The Social Insurance Number(SIN) card is the primary mode of identification for Canadians.

单选题Sleepless at Night It was a normal summer night. Humidity (湿气) hung in the thick air. I couldn't go to sleep, partly because of my cold and partly because of my expectations for the next day. My mum had said that tomorrow was going to be a surprise. Sweat stuck to my aching body. Finally, I gathered enough strength to sit up. I looked out of my small window into the night. There was a big bright moon hanging in the sky, giving off a magic light. I couldn't stand the pressure anymore, so I did what I always do to make myself feel better. I went to the bathroom and picked up my toothbrush and toothpaste. I cleaned my teeth as if there was no tomorrow. Back and forth, up and down. Then I walked downstairs to look for some signs of movement, some life. Gladiator, my cat frightened me as he meowed (喵喵地唱出) his sad song. He was on the old orange couch (长沙发), sitting up on his front legs, waiting for something to happen. He looked at me as if to show "I'm lonely, pet me. I need a good hug (紧抱) ." Even the couch begged me to sit on it. In one movement I settled down onto the soft couch. This couch represented my parents' marriage, my birth, and hundreds of other little events. As I held Gladiator, my heart started beating heavily. My mind was flooded with questions: What's life? Am I really alive? Are you listening to me? Every time I moved my hand down Gladiator's body, I had a new thought; each touch sang a different song. I forgot all about the heat and the next day's surprise. The atmosphere was so full of warmth and silence that I sank into its arms. Falling asleep with the big cat in my arms, I felt all my worries slowly move away.

单选题She's one of the smartest students in the whole school.A. most beautifulB. cleverestC. cunningD. hardest

单选题The road was covered with snow and ice. So I {{U}}slithered{{/U}} very often.

单选题Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of 1 so that customers can reduce the heart disease dangers of fatty food, researchers at Imperial College London (帝国理工大学) 2 in a new study. Statins reduce the 3 of unhealthy "LDL" cholesterol in the blood. A wealth of trial data has proven them to be highly effective at lowering a person"s heart attack 4 . In a paper published in the American Journal of Cardiology, Dr. Darrel Francis and colleagues calculate that the reduction in heart attack risk offered by a statin is 5 to offset the increase in heart attack risk from 6 a cheeseburger and drinking a milkshake. Dr. Francis, from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who is the senior author of the study, said : "Statins don"t cut out all of the 7 effects of cheeseburgers and French fries. It"s better to avoid fatty 1hod altogether. But we"ve worked out that in terms of your 8 of having a heart attack, taking a statin can reduce your risk to more or less the same 9 as a fast food meal increases it." "It"s ironic that people are free to take as many unhealthy condiments in fast food outlets as they 10 , but statins, which are beneficial to heart health, have to be prescribed. It makes sense to make risk-reducing statins available just as easily as the unhealthy condiments that are 11 free of charge. It would cost less than five pence per 12 —not much different to a sachet of sugar." Dr. Francis said. When people are engaged in risky behaviors like driving or smoking, they"re encouraged to take 13 that lower their risk, like 14 a seatbelt or choosing cigarettes with filters. Taking a statin is a rational way of 15 some of the risks of eating a fatty meal.

单选题The Empire State Building was conceived on a grander scale than previous skyscrapers.A. executedB. designedC. financedD. applauded

单选题A Miracle Cancer Cure Unless you have gone through the experience yourself, or watched a loved one"s struggle, you really have no idea just how desperate cancer can make you. You pray, you rage, you bargain with God, but most of all you clutch at any hope, no matter how remote, of a second chance at life. For a few excited days last week, however, it seemed as if the whole world was a cancer patient and that all humankind had been granted a reprieve. Triggered by a front- page medical news story in the usually reserved The New York Times , all anybody was talking about on the radio, on television, on the Internet, in phone calls to friends and relatives—was the report that a combination of two new drugs could, as The New York Times put it, cure cancer in two years. In a matter of hours patients had jammed their doctors" phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle cancer cure. Cancer scientists raced to the phones and fax lines to make sure everyone knew about their research too, generating a new round of headlines. The time certainly seemed ripe for a breakthrough in cancer. Only last month scientists at the National Cancer Institute announced that they were halting a clinical trial of a drug called tamoxifen—and offering it to patients getting the placebo—because it had proved so effective at preventing breast cancer (although it also seemed to increase the risk of uterine cancer). Two weeks later came The New York Times" report that two new drugs can shrink tumors of every variety without any side effects whatsoever. It all seemed too good to be true, and of course it was. There are no miracle cancer drugs, at least not yet. At this stage all the drug manufacturer can offer is some very interesting molecules, and the only cancers they have cures so far have been in mice. By the middle of last week, even the most breathless TV talk-show hosts had learned what every scientist already knew: that curing a disease in lab animals is not the same as doing it in humans. "The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancers in the mouse," Dr. Richard Klausner, head of the National Cancer Institute, told the Los Angles Times. "We have cured mice of cancer for decades--and it simply didn"t work in people."

单选题At that time，we did not fullyU grasp/U the significance of what had happened．

单选题However bad the situation is, the majority is unwilling to risk change.A. eagerB. reluctantC. pleasedD. angry

单选题Nothing would (induce) me to vote for him again.

单选题People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the (51) and have made up their minds to (52) the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest against heavy trucks which run (53) through thenarrow High Street. "They not only make it (54) to sleep at night, but they are (55) damage to our houses and shops of historical (56) , "said John Norris, one of the protesters. " (57) we must have these noisy trucks on the roads," said Jean Lacey, a biology student. "why don' t they build a new road that goes round the town? Burlington isn' t much more than a (58) village. Its streets were never (59) for heavy traffic. " Harry Fields also studying (60) said they wanted to make as much (61) possible to force the govemment officials to realize what everybody was having to (62) . "Most of them don' t (63) here anyway, "he said," they come in for meetings and that, and the Town Hall is soundproof, so they probably don' t (64) . It' s high time they realized the problem. "The fourth student, Liza Vemum, said she thought the public were (65) on their side, and even if they weren't they soon would be.

单选题In 1845 Sarah Mather invented a submarine telescope that could be used to locate and study underwater objects. A. illuminate B. raise C. find D. examine

单选题That guy is intelligent but a bit Udull/U.

单选题The plane's departure time was two in tie afternoon.

单选题The air is polluted. The earth is poisoned. Water is unsafe to drink and garbage is burying the civilization that produced it. Our environment is being polluted faster than nature and man's efforts can prevent it, Time is bringing us more people, and more people will bring us more industry. More people and more industry will bring us more motorcars, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials. This is happening not only in advanced societies but also among the developing nations as they become industrialized. Now many scientists are worrying about the possibility of world pollution. Some experts declare that the balance of nature is being so upset that the very survival of human beings in danger. What can solve this problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by man--by his greed and his modern way of life. We make "increasing industrialization(工业化)" our chief aim. For its sake we are willing to sacrifice everything: clean air, pure water, good food, our health, and the future of our children. There is a constant flow of people from the country into the cities, eager for the benefits of modern society. But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, so in that time pollution has became a serious problem. Isn't it the time we should stop and ask ourselves where we are going--and why? It reminds one of the stories about the airline pilot who told his passengers over the loud speakers: "I've some good news and some bad news. The good new is that we're making rapid progress at 530 miles per hour. The bad news is that we're lost and don't know where we're going." The sad fact is that this becomes a true story when applied to our modern society.

单选题Have you talked to her {{U}}lately{{/U}}? A. lastly B. shortly C. recently D. immediately

单选题Common-cold Sense You can"t beat it, but you don"t have to join it. Maybe it got the name "common cold" because it"s more common in winter. The fact is, though, being cold doesn"t have anything to do with getting one. Colds are caused by the spread of rhinoviruses, and, at least so far, medical science is better at telling you how to avoid getting one than how to get rid of one. Children are the most common way cold viruses are spread to adults, because they have more colds than adults—an average of about eight per year. Why do kids seem so much more easily to get colds than their parents? Simple. They haven"t had the opportunity to become immune to many cold viruses. There are more than 150 different cold viruses, and you never have the same one twice. Being infected by one makes you immune to it—but only it. Colds are usually spread by direct contact, not sneezing or coughing. From another person"s hand to your hand and then to your nose or eyes is the most common route. The highest concentration of cold viruses anywhere is found under the thumbnails of a boy, although the viruses can survive for hours on skin or other smooth surfaces. Hygiene is your best defense. Wash your hands frequently, preferably with a disinfectant soap, especially when children in your household have colds. But even careful hygiene won"t ward off every cold. So, what works when a coughing, sneezing, runny nose strikes? The old prescription of two aspirins, lots of water, and bed rest is a good place to start. But you"ll also find some of the folk remedies worth trying. Hot mixtures of sugar (or honey), lemon, and water have real benefits.