单选题It is our ______ policy that in no case will China be the first to use the nuclear weapon. A. continual B. continuing C. continuous D. consistent

单选题He cut the string and held up the two ______ to tie the box. A. segments B. sediments C. seizures D. secretes

单选题He wanted to read more, so he asked his friend if there was ______ to read.

单选题The drive from England to Scotland provides the tourist with many pleasant changes of

单选题He ______ the exam, but he failed for his carelessness.

单选题How beautifully she sings!I have never heard ______ voice.

单选题A hundred years ago it was assumed and scientifically "proved" by economists that the laws of society make it necessary to have a vast army of poor and jobless people in order to keep the economy going. Today, hardly anybody would dare to voice the principle. It is generally accepted that nobody should be excluded from the wealth of the nation, either by the law of nature or by those of society. The opinions are outdated, which were current a hundred years ago, that the poor owed their conditions to their ignorance, lack of responsibility. In all western industrialized countries, a system of insurance has been introduced which guarantees everyone a minimum of subsistence in case of unemployment, sickness and old age. I would go one step further and argue that, even if these conditions are not present, in other words, one can claim this substance minimum without having to have any "reason" . I would suggest, however, that it should be limited to a definite period of time, let's say two years, so as to avoid the encouragement of an abnormal attitude which refuses any kind of social obligation. This may sound like a fantastic proposal, but so, I think, our insurance system would have sounded to people a hundred years ago. The main objection to such a scheme would be that if each person were entitled to receive minimum support, people would not work. This assumption rests on the fallacy of the inherent laziness. In human nature, actually, aside from abnormally lazy people, there would be very few who would not want to earn more than the minimum, and who would prefer to do nothing rather than work. However, the suspicions against a system of guaranteed subsistence minimum are not groundless from the standpoint of those who want to use ownership capital for the purpose of forcing others to accept the work conditions they offer. If nobody were forced to accept work in order not to starve, work would be sufficiently interesting and attractive in order to induce one to accept it. Freedom of contract is possible only if both parties are free to accept and reject it; in the present capitalist system this is not the case. But such a system would not only be the beginning of real freedom of contract between employers and employees, its principal advantage would be the improvement of freedom in interpersonal relationships in every sphere of daily life.

单选题Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Historians tend to tell the same joke when they are describing history education in America. It's the one {{U}}(51) {{/U}} the teacher standing in the schoolroom door {{U}}(52) {{/U}} goodbye to students for the summer and calling after them. "By the way, we won World War II." The problem with the joke, of course, is that it's not funny. The recent surveys on {{U}}(53) {{/U}} illiteracy are beginning to numb. nearly one third of American 17-year-olds cannot even {{U}}(54) {{/U}} which countries the United States fought against in that war. One third have no idea when the Declaration of Independence was {{U}}(55) {{/U}}. One third thought Columbus reached the New World after 1750. Two thirds cannot correctly {{U}}(56) {{/U}} the Civil War between 1850 and 1900. Even when they get the answers right, some are just guessing. Unlike math or science, ignorance of history cannot be {{U}}(57) {{/U}} connected to toss of international competitiveness. But it does affect our future {{U}}(58) {{/U}} a democratic nation and as individuals. The good news is that there is growing agreement on what is wrong with the {{U}}(59) {{/U}} of history and what needs to be done to fix it. The steps are tentative (尝试性的) {{U}}(60) {{/U}} yet to be felt in most classrooms.

单选题The angry mother didn't know who ______ for the broken glass

单选题Speaker A: Where can I find a map of the university campus?Speaker B: ______

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Opinion polls are now beginning to show an unwilling general agreement that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work? The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a discouraging thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom. Employment became widespread when the enclosures (圈地运动) of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people traveled longer distances to their places employment until eventually, many people's work lost all connection with their home lives and places in which they lived. Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. It became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the impractical goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many-people to manage without full-time jobs.

单选题The Computer Revolution may well change society as ______ as did the Industrial Revolution.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} During the last thirty years, the international economy has experienced a basic change. Improvements in the Internet and other communications have had important effects on world markets. Faster methods of transport from one place to another have made the world seem smaller to the businessmen. As a result, the world no longer. consists of a number of separate economies under the control of different nations. Instead, the nations have been integrated into a single economy, and the integration is becoming more and more complete every year. For the first time in history, we can truly speak of a global economy. The most dramatic example of this integration was the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974. It came as a great surprise to the public in the industrial nations to discover that they depended so heavily on imported oil. However, the best evidence for the growing integration is the rapid expansion in the volume of world trade. It went up by about 7% a year during the decade from 1990 to 2000, and in several quasi-industrial (半工业的) countries the growth was even more rapid. As a result, some imported products have become as common as domestic commodity. Some of them are too common for the public to any more realize they are foreign. Production has also become international, which is manifested by the large corporations stepping across national borders and established branches and subsidiaries in several different countries. As an example, U.S. companies are building automobiles in Canada, Germany, Britain and Japan. In some cases, components of an automobile are produced abroad and shipped to the United States, where it is then finished with the imported parts. When even the United States has the largest number of such corporations, it is not the only. Other multinationals, for instance, are based in Japan, France, Germany, the UK and Italy. Labor, too, is much more mobile than in the past. Both skilled and unskilled workers can now readily migrate from one country to another. In Europe, for example, there are large numbers of Turkish workers employed in the Germany Economy. Doctors, lawyers, and other professionals are also finding it easier to work in foreign countries. The labor market has become international, and the number of expatriate workers is continuing to grow.

单选题Electronic computers, ______ the complicated mathematical operations, such as weather forecast and the control of satellites, can be done quickly and accurately. A. being used B. used C. having been used D. to be used

单选题I was speaking to Ann on the phone about our tour plan ______ suddenly we were cut off.

单选题The fire brigade arrived two hours later after the alarm was sounded,______it was too late to save much of the building.

单选题Woman: Excuse me, but could you tell me where I can change American dollars into British pounds?Man: There's a bank around the corner. But I am afraid it's already past its closing time. Why don't you try the one near the railway station?Question: What does the man mean?

单选题From his demeanor (举止) on entering the room I______that the interview had not gone well for him.

单选题Speaker A: Hello. May I speak to William? Speaker B: ______

单选题Speaker A: I'd like to exchange these jeans please. Speaker B: ______ A. What's wrong? Are they the wrong size? B. But how can you prove that you have bought them here? C. I'm afraid it's not our policy to exchange goods once they are sold out. D. Sorry, I don't like to exchange my jeans with yours.