单选题It is a valuable work. I do not think anyone writes so well that he ______ learn much from it.

单选题After the guests left, she spent as much time as she could ______ the room. A. tidy up B. to clear away C. clear away D. tidying up

单选题Speaker A: Don't you smoke?Speaker B: ______. A. No. Nothing interests me less than smoking. B. Yes. I have never smoked in my life. C. No. Only once in a while. D. Yes. And I hate others smoking in my face.

单选题You could become a good musician, but your lack of practice is ______ you ______.

单选题Even though he has lived in China for many years, Mark still can not ______ himself to the Chinese customs.

单选题I should be the ______ man to think highly of those who wake up to persons of influence.

单选题I'll contact my office in London straight away and ______ to you. A. have been faxing the contract B. have the contract fax C. have faxed the contract D. have the contract faxed

单选题Man: My father can do cooling carpentry, and a bit of gardening.Woman: He’s a Jack of all trades, really.Question: What does the woman mean? A．The man’s father has talent in trade. B．The man’s father works for Jack. C．The man’s father has many different skills. D．The man’s father does many jobs at the same time.

单选题He had a clear ______ of what was wrong with the machine and fixed it in a short time. A. debris B. deficiency C. perception D. persecution

单选题In his lecture, the education expert emphasized the fact that nowadays, children are exposed to many influences ____ that of their families.

单选题Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D.{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} 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 250kin 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______ where the foreign-born Americans make peace with their new culture, they will likely watch their children turn into Americans.

单选题 For any export-oriented American business, an invitation to join the U.S. Commerce Secretary on one of his trade missions abroad is like a World Series ticket—the hottest seat in town, and something you might pay top dollar to get. In 1992, Bill Clinton promised that his Administration would fight hard to help American companies win foreign business. That's a worthy goal of trade missions, which provide selected chief executives with priceless connections to the corporate heads and government officials of other nations. But under the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown were the Democrats "selling" seats, using those missions to reward party donors? And did the trips serve the dual purpose of drumming up (招徕) more donations abroad? Those are the questions at the heart of the lawsuit filed by the non-profit conservative group Judicial Watch Inc. Last week, thousands of pages of Commerce Department documents have been turned over to the group. The Commerce Department papers clearly indicate many corporate contributors expected their money to earn them special consideration when seats were being handed out on the secretary's plane. In a letter addressed to Deputy Assistant Commerce Secretary Jude Kearney, C. Payne Lucas, a development-organization executive suggests he should be added to a mission headed for South Africa president Nelson Mandela. In another, Philip Verveer, a Washington attorney, recommends a place on 1994 mission to India for William Ginsberg, chief executive of Cellular Communications International. "Ginsberg was an early financial supporter of Clinton/ Gore campaign," Verveer writes. These missives occasionally show federal officials urging their superiors to favor donor executives. In one letter, Reta Lewis, a political affair official at the White House, urges that a spot be found for Gerald McGowan, a partner in a Washington law firm, on a trade mission to Indonesia or India. For one thing, Lewis points out, McGowan qualifies as D. N.C. "managing trustee (托管人，理事)," someone who gives $100,000 a year to the Democratic National Committee. But did the White House always give its funders the heavy preference they expected? That is another story.

单选题Speaker A: Hey, it's beautiful out today, isn't it? Speaker B: ______. A. Tomorrow will be the same as today B. Yeah. I wish it would be like this everyday C. At least not as good as I expected D. Really? It's different from the weather forecast

单选题Woman: Can I go skiing with you and your friends this weekend? Man: The more, the merrier. Question: What does the man mean?

单选题Man: Excuse me, I was told I could find Dr. Adkins here. Woman: And you have. Question: What does the woman mean? A. She's Dr. Adkins. B. She has to find the doctor. C. The doctor has been expecting the man. D. The doctor will be with the man shortly.

单选题Speaker A: It's been lovely seeing you again, Bill. You and Mandy have to come over and see the baby sometime.Speaker B: ______ A. Congratulations. How old is your baby? B. It's lovely to see you again, George. C. Yeah, Mandy would love that. D. All right. Let me see you off downstairs.

单选题Mobile phones are proved to ______ with flight instruments and have a negative effect on flight safety.

单选题Some people hold that, since we live in a money-oriented society, the average individual cares little about solving ______ problems. A. anyone elses' B. anyone's else C. anyone else's D. any one else's

单选题"May I speak to your manager Mr. Williams at five o'clock tonight? I'm sorry. Mr. Williams ______ to a conference long before then. " A. will have gone B. had gone C. would have gone D. has gone