单选题Speaker A: I need to make a hotel reservation for my father. Speaker B: ______. A. Why doe's your father want to stay in a hotel? B. Is your father going abroad? C. But do you know how to make a reservation? D. How about calling the travel agency?

单选题A good modem newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features (特定) as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modem newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality (时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient (短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day"s paper, his own selection and sequence, his own news paper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.

单选题Speaker A: Oh, doesn't your daughter look lovely?Speaker B: ______

单选题After thinking hard about why I did not have enough time for my schoolwork, I became ______ that I watched too much TV.

单选题______, he always tries his best to complete it on time. A. However the task is hard B. However hard the task is C. Though hard the task is D. Though hard is the task

单选题Apart from personal preferences, social context also affects both directly and indirectly the media and the media content to which you become exposed. For example, other members of the family often select media content that you ______ , and you become exposed to it.

单选题Nearly two weeks passed_____the old man was able to explain what had happened to him.

单选题The microscope opened up to man another strange new world: a world of things too near and small for anyone ______ the scientist to know much about or do much about.

单选题A: Would you cash these traveler's checks, please?B: ______. A. No. I have got it. B. I'm sorry I can't. C. Do you want small bills or large? D. Where is your account?

单选题Those areas rely on agriculture almost ______, having few mineral resources and a minimum of industrial development.'

单选题Man: Thank you for your helpful assistance. Otherwise, I'd surely have missed it. The place is so out of the way. Woman: It was a pleasure meeting you. Good-bye. Question: Why does the man thank the woman? A. She promised to help the man. B. She came a long way to meet the man. C. She took the man to where he wanted to go. D. She suggested a way out of the difficulty for the man.

单选题Bob: She is a great teacher! John: You can say that again! Question: What does John mean? A. He doubts what Bob says. B. He entirely agrees with Bob. C. He totally disagrees with Bob. D. He fails to understand Bob.

单选题Speaker A: This sofa looks quite comfortable. What do you think about? Speaker B: ______ If I were you, I'd buy that one.

单选题Asian economic crisis has only a ______ effect on the lives of Chinese people. A. discrete B. massive C. marginal D. subordinate

单选题______ that many animals seem to be highly sensitive to various signals associated with earthquakes, the basic question remains of how this behavior can be put to use in earthquake prediction.

单选题A: I noticed a copy of Scientific American on your desk. May I borrow it? B: __________________ A. Yes, you can. B. Yes, you could. C. Yes, go on. D. Yes, help yourself.

单选题Man: I'm told that Alice is trying to find a job in an electronics company.Woman: As far as I know, she is good at anything but electronics.Question: What does the woman mean? A. Alice doesn't know much about electronics. B. Alice is unlikely to find a job anywhere. C. Alice is not interested in anything but electronics. D. Alice is likely to find a job in an electronics company.

单选题People become homeless for all the following reasons EXCEPT ______.

单选题Man: Peter was a great guy. He was drowned while rescuing a child from icy water of the fiver yesterday. Woman: Well, as far as I know, that was not the first dangerous situation he was in. Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题New research suggests that animals have a much higher level of brainpower than previously thought. If animals do have intelligence, how do scientists measure it? Before defining animals" intelligence, scientists defined what is not intelligence. Instinct is not intelligence. It is a skill programmed into an animal"s brain. Rote (机械记忆) conditioning is also not intelligence. Tricks can be learned by repetition, but no real thinking is involved. Scientists believe that insight (顿悟), the ability to use tools, and communication using human language are all effective measures of the mental ability of animals. Scientists define insight as a flash of sudden understanding. When a young gorilla could not reach fruit from a tree, she noticed some boxes scattered about the lawn near the tree. She piled up the boxes, and then climbed on them to reach her reward. The gorilla"s insight allowed her to solve a new problem without trial and error. The ability to use tools is also an important sign of intelligence. Grows use sticks to get nuts out of cracks. The crow exhibits intelligence by showing it has learned what a stick can do. Likewise, seals use rocks to crack open shells in order to get the meat. Many animals have learned to communicate using human language. One chimp can recognize and correctly use more than 250 abstract symbols on a keyboard. These symbols represent human words. An amazing parrot can distinguish five objects of two different types. He can understand the difference between the number, color, and kind of object. The ability to classify is a basic thinking skill. He seems to use language to express his needs and emotions. When ill and taken to the animal hospital for his first overnight stay, this parrot turned to go. "Come here!" he cried to a scientist who works with him. "I love you. I"m sorry. Wanna go back?" The research on animal intelligence raises important questions. If animals are smarter than once thought, would that change the way humans interact with them? Would humans stop hunting them for sport or survival? Would animals still be used for food, clothing, or medical experimentation? Finding the answer to these tough questions takes a difficult puzzle even for a large-brained, problem-solving species like our own.