单选题James sat outside the office waiting for the interview. He felt so 41 that he didn"t know what to do with himself. The person who had gone in 42 him had been there for nearly an hour. And she looked so confident when she went in. Not like James, she felt 43 that she had already got the job. The problem was that James wanted this job so much. It meant 44 to him. He had thought about it such a lot before the day of the interview. He had imagined himself 45 brilliantly at the interview and 46 the job immediately. But now here he was feeling terrible. He couldn"t 47 all those things he had planned to say. At that moment, he almost decided to get up and leave. But no—he had to do this. He had spent so much time considering it that he couldn"t 48 like that. His hands were hot and sticky and his mouth felt dry. At last, the door of the office opened. The woman who had gone in an hour earlier came out looking very 49 with herself. She smiled sympathetically at James. At that moment, James heated her. The managing director then appeared at the office door. "Would you like to come in now, Mr. Davis? I"m sorry to have kept you waiting." He got up, legs 50 and forehead sweating and wondered whether he looked as terrified as he felt.

单选题I have a vegetable garden and every summer I enjoy eating my own vegetables. One day last summer I picked a dozen carrots. Usually, as soon as I have picked the carrots, I clean the dirt off them by washing them in a bucket of water. But this day, as I was getting up from the ground with my twelve carrots, I tripped (绊) and fell over the bucket. The water spilled out of the bucket, so I decided to wash the carrots quickly in the kitchen sink. I put the carrots in the sink, washed them with water, and watched all the dirt washed away down the drain. The next day, when I was washing dishes, I noticed that the water drained out of the sink much more slowly than usual. It drained so slowly that I called a plumber(水管工)to come and fix my drain. The plumber tried a lot of different cleaners and equipment, but nothing worked. He had to cut a hole in the floor where the drain pipe was in order to try to find the problem. While he was cutting the small hole, he accidentally cut the hot-water pipe. Hot water sprayed over the plumber, onto the floor, under the refrigerator; water went everywhere. My refrigerator stopped working because the water had affected the electrical wires. I called an electrician to come and fix the refrigerator. The electrician had to move the refrigerator to work on the wires. As she was balancing it, she tripped over the plumber"s tools. She fell down and the refrigerator tipped over. It crashed into the wall, resulting in a huge hole in the wall. I called a carpenter to come and fix the wall. In order to repair the hole in the wall, the carpenter had to tear down half of the entire wall. Meanwhile, the plumber was still looking for the source of the drain problem. Since the kitchen was in a terrible mess anyway, the plumber decided to remove part of the floor to look at the pipe there. In the middle of the floor, he found the problem: the dirt from the carrots was stuck in the pipe and nothing could go through. Now I had a sink that did not drain, a refrigerator that did not work, a wall that was half gone, and part of a floor that was missing. I looked at this disaster and decided that what I really needed was a new kitchen. Finally, I called a house builder to come and fix my kitchen. Three weeks later I had a new sink, a new refrigerator, new cupboards on a new wall, new tiles on a new floor, and $10，000 less in my bank.

单选题Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. This is often done in the workplace, or 【1】 "continuing education" courses at secondary schools, or at a college or university. Educating adults differs from educating 【2】 in several ways. One of the most important 【3】 is that adults have gained knowledge and experience which can 【4】 add value to a learning experience or interfere with it. Another important difference is that adults frequently must apply their knowledge in some 【5】 fashion in order to learn effectively; there must be a 【6】 and a reasonable expectation that the new knowledge will help them further that goal. One example, 【7】 in the 1990s, was the spread of computer training courses in 【8】 adults, most of them office workers, could enroll. These courses would teach basic use of the operating system or specific application 【9】 . Because the skills 【10】 to interact with a PC were so new, many people who had been working white-collar jobs for ten years or more eventually took such training courses, either of their own will (to gain computer skills and thus can higher pay) or at the request of their managers.

单选题Girls often feel ______.

单选题Manufacturing is Canada's most important economic activity, ______17 percent of the workforce. A. to engage B. being engaged C. engaging D. engaged

单选题She did not come back home after midnight, ______ turned her parents very upset and angry. A. which B. that C. who D. what

单选题Woman: Henry, your article in the campus news was excellent.Man: I only wish they had published the entire thing.Question: What do we learn from Henry's response?

单选题The Warranty Holdings Group, a European leader in mechanical breakdown insurance and a researcher and commentator on trends in motoring, says that the motorists' world 20 years from now will be marked by more cars, more choice and more technology. Built-in safety features will increase and will include night-vision and collision-avoidance system, and monitoring devices to stop drivers falling asleep at the wheel. A growth in tele-working and home shopping should cut the numbers of trips in a car made by most motorists and "fun" sports cars will become popular as private motoring becomes more recreational in nature. The survey results show that despite years of research into alternative fuel sources for vehicles, no clear winner has emerged for a replacement for the conventional petrol-engined car. Gas and electricity are the best possibilities, with Toyota's design division in Japan claiming it already has an electric car that will drive up to 250km on a single charge. However, while electric and "hybrid" powered vehicles will be far more in evidence in the future, it will take a major technological breakthrough to steer the car industry away from its current path of gradual improvements to the petrol-driven internal combustion engine. Professor Garel Rhys, of the Cardiff Business School in Wales, says engine fuel injection systems of the future will be far more frugal than anything that exists at the moment. "It will be like putting a pipette of petrol into the cylinders, rather than just throwing it in by the bucket load, which is almost what we do at the moment when you compare it with what could be possible. " Some environmentalists point to the Twingo, the small car developed by France's Renault company, to show that what could be achieved by the world's car industry if it moved away from a trend towards bigger and more powerful cars and radically cut the fuel consumption of its products. Public opinion polls in many countries show motorists wanting access to this kind of environmentally-aware car. A prototype environmental car, the SmILE (smaller, intelligent, lighten. efficient) has been put together by the environmental group Greenpeace. The group hopes the concept will catch on. It depends heavily on supercharging or forcing fuel mixture into the cylinders at higher than normal pressure. Some experts say this is a good way to extract high performance and high fuel efficiency from small engines. Cutting the fuel consumption has had no negative effect on the handling or performance of the car, according to the designers. Top speed, flexibility and acceleration from the engine is as good or better than the original Twingo. They say the technology used to create the Twingo SmILE could just as easily be used on other brands of car. What remains to be seen is whether the enthusiasm of environmental designers catches on with the dollar-driven international car industry, and whether motorists back up with their chequebooks their desire for "greener" cars.

单选题Woman: I'm going to ask the neighbors to turn the music down. I can't hear myself think.Man: Do you really think it makes any difference to them?Question: What does the man imply?

单选题Woman: Your dormitory room isn't very large, is it? Man: I can hardly turn around in it. Question: What does the man mean? A. His room is quite small. B. He had to walk around the dormitory. C. It's hard to find a room in the dormitory. D. It's his turn to look at the dormitory room.

单选题The flower under the sun would ______ quickly without any protection. A. ink B. withhold C. wither D. widower

单选题Without computer network, it would be impossible to carry on ______ any business operation in the advanced countries.

单选题All of the plants now raised on farms have been developed from plants ______ in the wild.

单选题Speaker A: Very pleased to meet you.Speaker B: ______ A. How do you do? B. Oh, you must be John. I can hardly recognize you. C. The pleasure is mine. D. You're welcome.

单选题By the time he arrives in Beijing tomorrow, we ______ here for two days. A. have been staying B. have stayed C. shall stay D. will have stayed

单选题Forget Harry Potter. No matter that the film about this schoolboy with magic powers broke all box-office records on its opening weekend, taking $94 m in the United States and $23 m in Britain, the truly momentous phenomenon in the film industry is not a pre-pubescent wizard but a humble circular piece of plastic: the digital versatile disc (DVD). Next year, for the first time, sales of movies in DVD format are forecast to outsell those on video cassette in America, reaching a total of $9.5 billion, according to Morgan Stanley, an investment bank. Already, 80% of American households have DVD players. With a DVD recorder now in the shops as well, something that can record from the TV as well as play the discs, Christmas sales are expected to be strong. A technology considered a flop when it was launched in 1997 is now the basis for the fastest-growing consumer appliance ever. Some in the film business complain that people are simply buying DVDs instead of video cassettes: there is no net gain. Yet DVDs can do things that the cassette cannot. such as offer a choice of language in which to watch a movie, not to mention a clearer picture. And the studios have cleverly stuffed DVDs full of lively extra features, such as new clips or interviews with the director. Moreover, people appear to want to build up collections of DVDs, rather as they do of recorded music. The DVD is steadily gaining shelf space, even in the movie-rental store, and it should overtake (赶上，追上) the cassette even there within three years. And shops like DVDs, not least because they take up less space. The DVD could well boost the size of the overall home-video market. Already, recent releases on DVD, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Star Wars Episode One, have sold millions of copies each. At a time when any revenue growth in the media industry is startling, DVD sales at AOL Time Warner jumped by 44% in the third quarter this year, compared with the same period of 2000, to $279 m. But how lasting will the DVD effect be? Some 80% of a film's revenue comes from its distribution after the cinema release: to home video, pay-TV and the like. "The largest single portion of that revenue will be the DVD business, " says Christopher Dixon of UBS Warburg, an investment bank, which in turn will help to reduce the risk involved in making movies. "The DVD if the most exciting development in the film industry, " he adds, "but every eight years there has been a new distribution platform in the entertainment business. None of them lasts forever. /

单选题The material ______ the apparatus is made is a good nonconductor of heat. A. with which B. of which C. from what D. with what

单选题Despite a cooling of the economy, high technology companies are still crying out for skilled workers. The Information Technology Association of America projects that more than 800000 technology jobs will go unfilled next year. The lack of qualified workers poses a huge threat to the U. S. economy. The most commonly cited reason for this state of affairs is that the country's agrarian-age education system, separated from the needs of the business world, fails to prepare students in the primary and secondary grades for twenty-first-century work. Yet an inadequate and outmoded education system is only part of the problem. A less tangible but equally powerful cause is an antique classification system that divides the workforce into two camps: white-collar knowledge workers and blue-collar manual laborers. Blue-collar workers emerged in the United States during the Industrial Age as work migrated from farms to factories. White-collar office workers became a significant class in the twentieth century, outnumbering their blue-collar brethren by mid-century. But the white or blue paradigm has clearly outlived its utility. Corporations increasingly require a new layer of knowledge worker: a highly skilled multi-disciplinarian who combines the mind of the white-collar worker with the hands of the blue-collar employee. Armed with a solid grounding in mathematics and science (physics, chemistry and biology), these "gold-collar" workers—so named for their contributions to their companies and to the economy, as well as for their personal earning ability—apply that knowledge to technology. Of course, the gold-collar worker already exists in a wide range of jobs across a wide range of businesses: think of the maintenance technician who tests and repairs aircraft systems at American Airlines; the network administrator who manages systems and network operations at P＆G; the advanced-manufacturing technician at Intel. But until American business recognizes these people as a new class of worker, one whose collar is neither blue nor white, demands that schools do a better job of preparing employees for the twenty-first-century workforce will be futile. Certainly, polytechnic high schools, colleges, and universities have made heroic efforts to teach workers new skills. But because many people see these initiatives as primarily training blue-collar workers, adequate funds are not invested in such programs, leaving them short of state-of-the-art tools and experienced teachers. And because gold-collar workers need to constantly update their skills to stay current with emerging technology, learning must be a continuous process, one that is funded by companies as well as by taxpayers.

单选题M: What would you like for dessert? I think I"ll have apple pie and ice cream. W: The chocolate cake looks great, but I have to watch my weight. You go ahead and get yours. Question: What would the woman most probably do?

单选题It"s high time we ______ our attention to this problem.