单选题Speaker A: Fairly mild for the time of year. Speaker B:______

单选题If you ______ your demand, then maybe you will have more chance of getting what you want. A. lessen B. overcome C. moderate D. dismiss

单选题The teacher is happy that his students ______ and bright.

单选题In the desert, even a small cup of water may be a ______ of life or death. A. business B. matter C. fact D. thing

单选题W: I'm so sorry, sir. And you'll let me pay to have your jacket cleaned, won't you?M: That's all right. It could happen to anyone. And I'm sure that coffee doesn't leave lasting marks on clothing.Q: What can we infer from the conversation? A. The man blamed the woman for being careless. B. The man misunderstood the woman's apology. C. The woman offered to pay for the man's coffee. D. The woman spilt coffee on the man's jacket.

单选题A: I"m sorry for being late this morning. My alarm clock didn"t ring. B: ______

单选题Speaker A: Mr. Carson, Dr. Brown will have to change your appointment to tomorrow at the same time. He's still waiting for a flight out of New York. Speaker B: ______ A. Oh, well, thank you for calling. I'll see him in his office then. B. I'm sorry to hear that his flight is delayed. C. But are you sure he will be in his office at that time? D. Yes. That's quite understandable.

单选题The secretary can use and control ______ all sorts of the office software.

单选题Not until recent years ______ a popular means of communication.

单选题Man: The teacher is always getting at us because we often make the classroom messy. Woman: You should keep it clean. Question: What do we know from this talk?

单选题Women have long been neglected, or else they_____a lot more achievements to the country in all fields.

单选题The journalist feels he has a responsibility to ensure ______ the customers are not misled.

单选题Speaker A: The native American Craft Exhibit closed this afternoon. Speaker B: ______ A. Oh, no! I've wanted to see that for months. B. Well, why didn't you take me to see the exhibit before it closed? C. Thank you. When will there be such an exhibit again? D. If I were you, I would have gone to see it.

单选题The salesman's ______ annoyed the old lady, but finally she gave in. A. endurance B. assistance C. persistence D. resistance

单选题Man: Excuse me, Madam? Is the air-conditioning on? This room is getting as hot as a furnace.Woman: Sorry, sir, a new epidemic called SARS is threatening us right now. As a preventative measure, we are told to let in fresh air by Opening the windows and not using air-conditioners.Question: What does the woman mean? A. The temperature is not as high as the man claims. B. The room will get cool if the man opens the windows. C. She is following instructions not to use the air-conditioning. D. She is afraid the new epidemic SARS will soon spread all over town.

单选题Today the average worker is paid less than $4 an hour in Portugal and $9 an hour in Spain, compared with $13 in Germany and almost $16 in Denmark. Taking accounts of non-wage costs, such as employer"s social-security contributions, the gap is wider still: from $6 in Portugal to $24 in Germany. With the EC"s single market knocking down barriers in intra-European trade, no wonder German companies now seem keener on sunnier climes. But how long will southern Europe"s cost advantage last? Conventional wisdom argues that greater economic integration within the single market, and later under a single currency, will cause wages to converge. Increased labor mobility, for example, should allow worker to move from low-wage to high-wage economics. Increased trade and cross-border investment should also push labor costs closer. The experience of the past 20 years seems to confirm this: Spanish wages rose from 29% of German wages in 1970 to 68% in 1991. Italy"s rose from 42% to 74%. If convergence continued at this pace, the gap would vanish within the next 20 years. But a study concludes that the pace of convergence will slow, and that low-wage economics will stay that way for some time. Because of Europe"s linguistic and cultural barriers, labor migration and so pressures for wage convergence—will remain modest. The study estimates that two-thirds of the existing wage gap between EC countries will remain in 2010. But total labor cost may converge much faster. Non-wage costs will remain about the same. This could be wrong. Non-wage costs now range from 22% of total labor costs in Denmark to 102% in Italy. As more and more companies employ people across Europe, and as 11 of the EC"s 12 govemments move to standardize worker"s right and benefits, such wide disparities are unlikely to survive.

单选题The author's attitude toward karaoke is ______.

单选题There is no question that some "greenwashing" is going on in the corporate world. Bayernwerk, a Bavarian utility, began selling "Aqua Power " last year when Germany began to let customers choose their electricity supplier. Bayernwerk markets Aqua Power as 100 percent green, renewable, hydroelectric energy. But any customer who signs up gets power from the same mix of sources as before, hydro, gas, coal and nuclear. Nothing changes except some accounting, and there is no net benefit to the environment. There is a benefit, though, to Bayernwerk, which charges more for Aqua Power and has been swamped with orders for it. Greenwashing takes many forms. "Companies often advertise themselves as environmentally friendly even though they might have some pretty hideous environment records," says Jill Johnson of the group Earth Day 2002. California's PG＆E, the utility that settled out of court after the real Erin Brockovich accused it of polluting groundwater, runs pro-environmental ads. But PG＆E is due in court in November on charges of polluting wells in a second California town. "PG＆E has a very good environmental track record," says spokesman Greg Pruett, citing recycling and waste reduction. Weyerhaeuser, the timber company, cuts old-growth trees in Canada but trumpets the 100 million tree seedlings it will plant this year. Overall, the greening of corporate America is real and has not been as hard to achieve as some environmental activists imagined. That is especially true for greenhouse gases and climate change, the focus of Earth Day 2000. "Now there is more recognition by companies that there may be an economic advantage to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases," says Paul Portney, president of the think tank Resources for the Future. More and more companies are changing the way they heat and light their buildings and design their factories to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as their energy bills. (Energy-efficiency upgrades can save a company roughly $1 per square foot of office or factory space every year.) The reductions often exceed those called for in the 1997 international agreement on greenhouse warming called Kyoto Treaty, whose goal of reducing greenhouse emissions 7 percent from their 2000 levels is deemed so threatening to the economy by many oil, coal and chemical companies that the White House does not dare to submit to the Senate for ratification.

单选题Many of the successful men, had they been able to choose for themselves, would have selected some quite different professions ______ they have made fortunes. A. from that in which B. from which C. in which D. from what

单选题Across the court from the Manhattan apartment ______ I have occupied for the past few years is a dog that often hurls insults into the darkness, a few of ______ my dog refuses to accept and makes a tart reply.