单选题 If only I ______ my car!

单选题 When a New Yorker was hiking in Europe, his Swiss friends kept saying 'Listen to that!' But he didn't hear anything. His ears were accustomed to loud city noises and it was days before he was able to notice the sound of a bird. For most of us, silence has become a rare experience. There is background music in restaurants, bars, stores, rest rooms, elevators, and when you are waiting on the telephone. Russell Baker blames 'society's determination to entertain you whether you like it or not.' People may say they yearn for quiet, but in practice they avoid it. They drive with the car radio turned up, switch on the television when they get home, and exercise while listening to music on headphones. The noise suggests that people have a spiritual problem. They can buy things in stores, but they do not have enough human contact. So they fill their lives with sound. Sometimes the reason for the noise is primitive. Young men play their car stereos loudly in order to create a personal environment around them. Like animals, they are marking a territory to warn rivals away and to attract a mate. It may also be true that the brain itself wants excitement just as the stomach insists on food. Unlike in the past, we now have modem technology to supply a constant flood of sounds. This seems extreme. Perhaps we would be better off if we sought periods of silence to provide balance.

单选题 A. Where have you been? B. What do you do there? C. An interesting place! D. Where do you work? E. And what do you do? F. What kinds of job? G. That sounds interesting! H. Which restaurant? Jason: Where do you work, Andrea? Andrea: I work for Thomas Cook Travel. Jason: Oh, really? 56 Andrea: I'm a guide. I take people on tours to countries in South America, like Peru. Jason: 57 Andrea: Yes, it's a great job. I love it. 58 Jason: I'm a student, and I have a part-time job, too. Andrea: Oh? 59 Jason: In a fast-food restaurant. Andrea: 60 Jason: Hamburger Heaven.

单选题 'How long has this shoes shop been in business?'' ______1996.'

单选题 Mrs. Peters stopped playing the piano when she began to work. She had lived in a very small flat, and there had been no room for a piano. But when she married, she had a new flat which was big enough for one. So she decided to get one and her husband agreed and helped her. She saved some money, and her parents gave her a generous amount of money for her birthday. Then she went to a shop and said, 'I'll choose whichever piano does not cost too much and fits into my living room.' When she had paid for the piano, the shop assistant asked her if she would like him to get it tuned (调音) every few months. Mrs. Peters agreed. A few months later she heard from the shop that a man was coming to tune the piano at ten that morning. Now she had not cleaned the house yet, so it was dusty and untidy. Mrs. Peters hated having even the least amount of dirt, and felt ashamed whenever strange people saw her house like that. So she had to hurry to clean everything carefully. It meant a lot of effort, and it made her hot and tired. But anyhow, by the time the man arrived, everything was finished. She opened the door, and the man was standing there with a big dog. 'Good morning,' the man said politely, 'Will it disturb you if I bring my dog in, please? I'm blind, and he leads me wherever I go.'

单选题 Last week he promised that he ______ today, but he had not arrived yet.

单选题Had he worked harder,he__the exams.

单选题 As soon as you sat down, you fell asleep. I realized how ______.

单选题 Would you eat a bacon, lettuce and love apple sandwich? You probably have eaten many of them. Love apple was the name used many years ago for the tomato. The tomato is originally an American plant. It was found in South America by early Spanish explorers. The word tomato comes from the native Nahuatl word tomatl. But when it moved north, the plant earned a different name. Remarkably, the settlers in North America thought it was poisonous. They believed that to eat it was surely to die. It was said that deserted suitors would threaten to eat a tomato to cause their coldhearted lovers regret. Because of this legend, the settlers called the tomato a 'love apple.' While people enjoyed other native plants such as corn and sweet potatoes, everyone avoided the tomato. No one knows who first dared to eat a tomato. Perhaps someone was brave enough, or lovesick enough, to try out the truth of the rumors. Of course, whoever ate this fruit was perfectly safe. No one died from eating a love apple. Still, it was many years before the people fully believed that the tomato was a safe, and even good food. But its use did become common, and the plant was sent across the ocean to become part of many traditional European dishes.

单选题 With out the help of people from every corner of the country, people in Wenchuan County, ______ recovered very quickly from the May Twelfth Earthquake.

单选题 I remember______ him once when I was staying with my aunt.

单选题 The streets are all wet. It ______ during the night.

单选题 He is only a boy of three, but he can learn the poem ______ heart.

单选题 They were at work when they received ______ SOS from ______ school, and they immediately started their police cars.

单选题 Amnesty (大赦) International is a world-wide volunteer organization funded entirely by subscriptions and donations. It is totally independent of any government, political faction, ideology, economic interest or religious creed. The organization works for the release of 'Prisoners of Conscience' -men, women and children imprisoned anywhere for their beliefs, color, sex, ethnic origin, language or religion. It also seeks fair and immediate trial for all political prisoners detained (拘留) without charge, and opposes torture and the degrading treatment of prisoners. It is also against the death penalty for all types of crime. Amnesty works by collecting information. When it has proof that a person is a 'Prisoner of Conscience', that person's case is handed over to a local group. The local groups are ordinary individuals who believe in Amnesty's work. They send letters to governments, embassies, leading newspapers and the prisoner's family and friends. They also collect signatures and raise money to send medicine, food and clothing to the prisoners and their families. These volunteers use their freedom of speech to win the same freedom for their adopted prisoner. Paradoxically, Amnesty International is an organization that will only be satisfied when it has become redundant (多余的).

单选题Thenumber of speakers of English in Shakespeare′s time is estimated to have beenabout five million.Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak itas aan21language,mainlyin the United State

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单选题 Some young soldiers who had recently joined the army were being trained in modern ways of fighting, and one of the things they were shown was how an unarmed man could trick an armed enemy and take his weapon away from him. First one of their two instructors took a knife away from the other, using only his bare hands; and then he took a rifle away from him in the same way. After the lesson, and before they went on to train the young soldiers to do these things themselves, the two instructors asked them a number of questions to see how well they had understood what they had been shown. One of the questions was this: 'Well, you now know what an unarmed man can do against a man with a rifle, imagine that you are guarding a bridge at night, and that you have a rifle. Suddenly you see an unarmed enemy soldier coming towards you. What will you do? ' The young soldier who had to answer this question thought carefully for a few seconds before he answered, and then said, 'Well, after what I have just seen, I think that the first thing I would do would be to get rid of my rifle as quickly as I could, so that the unarmed enemy couldn't take it from me and kill me with it!'

单选题A. I'm leaving B. Thank youC. I'll do my best D. and sit hereE. Please sit down F. But I worry aboutG. Take it easy H. Don't forgetBoss: Come in, please. Oh, Mary, come over 56 Your annual report is well done.Mary: 57 Boss: I know you're a capable person.Mary: Thank you for saying that. 58 the wrong figures I gave you last time.Boss: 59 Everyone makes mistakes.Mary: Thank you so much for your forgiveness. 60

单选题Scientists who study the brain have found out a great deal about how we learn.They have_____21_____that babies learn much more from the sights and sounds around them than we_____22_____before.You can?