单选题Woman: During the last thunderstorm, I noticed several leaks in my living room. Man: Maybe you have some broken tiles. I have the number of a good roofing company. Question: What can we conclude from this conversation?

单选题A： Are you going to your family reunion this Christmas holiday?B： ______. A. As a matter of fact, I don't mind it at all. B. I do. I've been excited about it for a long time. C. However, my parents and I are going to take a trip to Hawaii. D. You bet. All my uncles and aunts will take their children along, too.

单选题Speaker A: Could you go to the store nearby right away? I need a few things for painting. Speaker B: ______

单选题Retail sales volume in local urban and rural areas rose 57. 8 percent and 46.8 percent, ______, over February 1995. A. individually B. respectively C. correspondingly D. accordingly

单选题Speaker A: I'm terribly sorry, but something unexpected has come up and I won't be able to keep my appointment with you this afternoon. I wonder if we could change the time of Our meeting to sometime tomorrow morning.Speaker B: ______

单选题Can you ____ an insect having eight eyes and still having poor eyesight? A．imagine B．suppose C．think D．expect

单选题Because American parents believe that knowledge leads to a meaningful life, they try to give youngsters many opportunities to develop skills and ______ interests. A. worth B. worthy C. valuable D. worthwhile

单选题______ several hypotheses have been advanced for the disappearance of the dinosaur, no conclusive evidence supports any of them.

单选题Don't leave your car under No Parking sign; ______ your car may be towed away by the police. A. or else B. because C. if not D. or rather

单选题It's so difficult to follow the ups and downs of a 2-year-old. One moment he's beaming and friendly; the next he's sullen (愠怒的) and weepy, often for no apparent reason. These mood swings, however, are just part of growing up. They are signs of the emotional changes taking place as your child struggles to take control of actions, impulses, feelings and his body. At this age, your child wants to explore the world and seek adventure. As a result, he'll spend most of his time testing limits, his own, yours and his environment's. Unfortunately, he still lacks many of the skills required for the safe accomplishment of everything he needs to do, and he often will need you to protect him. When he oversteps a limit and is pulled back, he often reacts with anger and frustration, possibly with a temper tantrum (发脾气) or sullen rage. He may even strike back by hitting, biting or kicking. At this age, he doesn't have much control over his emotional impulses, so his anger and frustration tend to erupt suddenly in the form of crying, hitting or screaming. It's his only way of dealing with the difficult realities of life. He may even act out in ways that unintentionally harm himself or others. It's all part of being 2. It's not uncommon for toddlers to be angels when you're not around, because they don't trust other people enough to test their limits. But with you, your toddler will be willing to try things that may be dangerous or difficult, because he knows you'll rescue him if he gets into trouble. Whatever protest pattern he has developed around the end of his first year will probably persist for some time. For instance, when you're about to leave him with a sitter, he may become angry and throw a tantrum in anticipation of the separation. Or he may whimper, or whine and cling to you. Or he could simply become subdued and silent. Whatever his behavior, try not to overreact by scolding or punishing him. The best tactic is to reassure him before you leave that you will be back and, when you return, to praise him for being so patient while you were gone. Take solace in the fact that separations should be much easier by the time he's 3 years old.

单选题Speaker A: Hi. Excuse me, ...um ... do you need any help?Speaker B: ______

单选题The environmental group hopes ______ the forest to its original condition by the end of the decade. A. having restored B. to have restored C. to be restored D. to have been restored

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} The question of what children learn, and how they should learn it, is continually being debated and re-debated. Nobody dares any longer to defend the old system, the learning of lessons parrot-fashion, the grammar-with-a-whip system, which was good enough for our grandparents. The theories of modem psychology have stepped into argue that we must understand the needs of children. Children are not just small adults, they are children who must be respected as such. Well, you may say, this is as it should be a good idea. But think further, what happens? "Education" becomes the responsibility not of teachers but of psychologists. What happens then? Teachers worry too much about the psychological implications of their lessons, and forget about the subjects themselves. If a child dislikes a lesson, the teacher feels that it is his fault, not the child's. So teachers worry whether history is relevant to modem young children. And do they dare to recount stories about violent battles? Or will this make the children themselves violent? Can they tell their classes about children of different races, or will this encourage racial hatred? Why teaching children to write grammatical sentences? Verbal expression is better Sums? Arithmetic? No: real-life mathematical situations are more understandable. You see, you can go too far. Influenced by educational theories, who have nothing better to do than write book about their ideas, teachers leave their teacher-training colleges filled with grand, psychological ideas about children and their needs. They make elaborate, sophisticated preparations and try out their modem standard on the long-suffering children. Since one modem method rapidly replaces another, the floor kids will have had a good bellyful by the time they leave school. Frequently the modem methods are so sophisticated that they fail to be understood by the teachers, let alone the children.

单选题The “issues” reported were unthinkable. The physician who enrolled the most patients in the study, an Alabama weight-loss doctor, allegedly forged scores of signatures, enrolling “volunteers” every few minutes. By the time of the FDA review, she was under criminal investigation. (She's now in federal prison. ) Another key researcher had been put on probation by the California medical board for gross negligence. He was arrested shortly after the study ended, when police, called to his home on a domestic violence complaint, found him with a bag of cocaine and waving a loaded gun at imaginary people. The study was so riddled with fraud and error that FDA reviewers decided it was useless. Yet Dr. Ross says he was told to reveal nothing about those problems to the advisory board, which recommended that the drug be approved. Later, he says, he was pressured to soften his report about Ketek's liver toxicity to gain approval of higher-ups. Six million Americans have now used the drug, including hundreds of infants in a clinical trial designed to test Ketek's effectiveness against ear infections. "How does one justify balancing the risk of fatal liver failure against one day less of ear pain?" one FDA scientist, Rosemary Johann-Liang, protested—to no avail—in a memo to her superiors. Most ear infections clear up in a few days on their own, she says. The agency says the controversy is overblown. "There was enough good, solid scientific data to make that decision. " Says FDA spokeswoman Julie Zawisza, pointing to what appeared to be a history of safe use of Ketek in other countries. Ketek has now been linked to 18 deaths and at least 134 cases of liver damage, according to an independent analysis using FDA data. The real toll, some researchers say, may be far greater. Last October the FDA sent a warning letter to Sanofi-Aventis, Ketek's maker, accusing the company of knowingly presenting compromised data to the agency, a charge the company denies. "We were not aware of the fraud," says spokeswoman Melissa Feltmann. "It was not until the FDA's criminal investigators uncovered it that we became aware of it. " The question remains, what did the FDA and the drugmaker know about the fake safety data, and when? Congressmen John Dingell and Bart Stupak, both Michigan Democrats, are investigating that mystery right now in Congressional hearings. "Unfortunately. " Stupak says, "the truth comes too late for some victims. /

单选题A luxury express train jumped the tracks on a bridge in eastern India, killing at least 50 on the spot. According to the Northern Railway spokesman, the death ______ is expected to rise. A. figure B. toll C. span D. yield

单选题Although there are many predictions about the future, no one knows for sure ______ the world would be like in 50 years.

单选题Earth is believed to ______ by an object the size of Mars at some point in the distant past before its surface cooled. A. be hit B. have hit C. have been hit D. being hit

单选题Man: I am looking for an apartment with a monthly rent to around two hundred dollars in this neighborhood. Can you give me some advice on that? Woman: Well, it's rather hard to find anything for less than three hundred dollars around here. Rents are lower in suburbs, but you need transportation if you choose to live there. Question: What do we learn from the conversation? A. The man will probably have to find a roommate. B. The man is unlikely to live in the suburbs. C. The man will probably have to buy a car. D. The man is unlikely to find exactly what he desires.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} While fashion is thought of usually in relation to clothing, it is important to realize that it covers a much wider domain. It is to be found in manners, the arts, literature, and philosophy, and may even reach into certain areas of science. In fact, it may operate in any field of group life, apart from the technological and utilitarian area and the area of the sacred．Its operation requires a class society, for in its essential character it docs not occur either in a homogeneous society like a primitive group, or in a caste society. Fashion behaves as a movement, and on this basis it is different from custom which, by comparison, is static．This is due to the fact that fashion is based fundamentally on differentiation and emulation. In a class society, the upper classes or so-called social elite are not able to differentiate themselves by fixed symbols or badges. Hence the more external features of their life and behavior are likely to be imitated by classes immediately below them, who, in turn, are imitated by groups immediately below them in the social structure. This process gives to fashion a vertical descent. However, the elite class finds that it is no longer distinguishable, by reason of the imitation made by others, and hence is led to adopt new differentiating criteria, only to displacethese as they in turn are imitated．It is primarily this feature that makes fashion into a movement and which has led one writer to remark that a fashion, once launched, moves to its doom. As a movement, fashion show little resemblance to any of the other movements which we have considered．While it occurs spontaneously and moves along in a characteristic cycle, it in volves little in the way of crowd behavior and it is not dependent upon the discussion process and the resulting public opinion. It does not depend upon the mechanisms of which we have spoken. The participants are not recruited through agitation. No morale is built up among them. Nor does the fashion movement have, or required, an ideology. Further, since it does not have a leader- ship imparting conscious direction to the movement, it does not build up a set of tactics. People take part in the fashion movement voluntarily and in response to the interesting and powerful kind of control which fashion imposes on them.

单选题It has been estimated that the earth's surface temperature has increased ______ one quarter to three quarters of a degree since 1805. A. to B. by C. at D. with