单选题 {{B}}Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} Beijing's top hotels are fielding scores of calls from foreigners and Chinese people eager to book rooms during the 2008 Olympic Games in the Chinese capital. The luxurious and recently-renovated Beijing Hotel said it had received nearly 100 telephone inquiries from people wanting to book rooms during the Games since Beijing won its bid to host the event. "Out of these people, foreigners make up 30 to 40 per cent, including people calling from the United States and Europe," a hotel sales manager surnamed Song said. Minutes before the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was announced in Moscow, the hotel had already received 50 to 60 such phone calls from would-be game-goers gambling on the result. Domestic callers have mainly come from the southern provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. Song said the hotel was not taking reservations, but only noting down names of callers, because seven years was too far in advance. The hotel also may be used by the IOC and would then need to set aside rooms for IOC members, he said. Beijing will have more than 800 hotels with star ratings before the Olympic Games in 2008. The city currently has 20 five-star hotels, 34 four-star hotels and 338 other hotels with lower ratings. About 70 hotels will be designated to accommodate athletes and Olympic officials during the Games.

Successful innovations have driven many older technologies to extinction and have resulted in higher productivity, greater consumption of energy, increased demand for raw materials, accelerated flow of materials through the economy and increased quantities of metals and other substances in use per person. The history of industrial development is full of examples. In 1870, horses and mules were the prime source of power on U. S. farms. One horse or mule was required to support four human beings--a ratio that remained almost constant for many decades. At that time, had a national commission been asked to forecast the horse and mule population for 1970, its answer probably would have depended on whether its consultants were of an economic mm of mind. Had they been "economists", they would have recognized that the power of steam had already been harnessed to industry and to land and ocean transport. They would have recognized further that would be only a matter of time before steam would be the prime source of power on the farm. It would have been difficult for them to avoid the conclusion that the horse and mule population would decline rapidly.

单选题 {{B}}Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:{{/B}} In Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport resumed its international flights to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian nations and regions early this month, said an airport official yesterday. And the airport's flow of international passengers for July has reached 80 per cent of the figure for the corresponding month of the previous year. Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport had to cancel some international services to Southeast Asian nations and regions because of the outbreak of SARS beginning in April, the official said. The official predicted his airport's international service would return to normal operation and handle even more international passengers in August. Currently, the Guangzhou airport is operating 22 international flights to 20 foreign metropolises. And nine foreign airlines have resumed their international flights to the airport.

单选题A: May I use your phone for a local call? B: ______ sir ! A. Ask me another, B. Certainly, by no means, C. It's out of the question, D. As you wish,

单选题{{B}}Passage 7{{/B}} Late next century, when scholars are scripting the definitive history of the PC, these last few years of high-octane growth may actually be {{U}}(1) {{/U}} as the Dark Ages. Historians will marvel at {{U}}(2) {{/U}} we toiled in front of monolithic, beige BUBs (big ugly boxes), suffering under the oppressive glare of cathode-ray tubes {{U}}(3) {{/U}} our legs scraped against the 10-pound towers beneath our desks. They may also mark 1999 {{U}}(4) {{/U}} the start of the PC renaissance, {{U}}(5) {{/U}} manufacturers finally started to get it: design matters. In this holiday season, computer shoppers will {{U}}(6) {{/U}} unprecedented variety in shapes, sizes and colors—and {{U}}(7) {{/U}} in Apple's groundbreaking line of translucent iMacs and iBooks. {{U}}(8) {{/U}} every major PC maker now has innovative desktop designs {{U}}(9) {{/U}} the way to market, from hourglass-sculpted towers to flat-panel displays with all the processing innards {{U}}(10) {{/U}} into the base. {{U}}(11) {{/U}} industrial designers, who still think the PC has a long way {{U}}(12) {{/U}} you'll want to display it on your mantle, the only question is, what took {{U}}(13) {{/U}} ? "The PC industry has ridiculed design for a long time," says Hartmut Esslinger, founder of Frog Design. "They {{U}}(14) {{/U}}their customers and have underestimated their desires." PC makers are finally catching on-and it's partly {{U}}(15) {{/U}} desperation. Manufacturers {{U}}(16) {{/U}} to sell computers by trumpeting their techno bells and whistles, {{U}}(17) {{/U}} processor speed and memory. But since ever-faster chips have given us more power on the desktop {{U}}(18) {{/U}} we could ever possibly use, computer makers {{U}}(19) {{/U}} on price——a strategy that has dropped most units below ＄1,000 and slashed profits. Last week IBM limped from the battlefield, {{U}}(20) {{/U}} it would pull its lagging Aptiva line from store shelves and sell it only on the Web. Competing only on price "made an industry shakeout inevitable," says Nick Donatiello, president of the marketing-research firm Odyssey.

单选题So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. Douglas insists that "reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible." Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. They differ in kind and function. The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also a public activity: It can be seen and observed. Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language. Almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process is not open to public scrutiny. If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable, what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest(探索)for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions. "Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful, enjoyable and frequent experience for children." When the roles of teacher and learner are seen for what they are, and when both teacher and learner fulfill them appropriately, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminated. Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of learning to read by reading.

单选题A: Don't you think the concert is terrific? B: ______ A. I want to hear other opinions. B. It certainly is. And I really like the band. C. Yes, the concert is terrible. D. No, everything went on perfectly.

单选题 Directions: In this part there are four passages, each followed with five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.{{B}}11-15{{/B}} For an increasing number of students at American universities, Old is suddenly in. The reason is obvious: the graying of America means jobs. Coupled with the aging of the baby-boom (生育高峰) generation, a longer life span means that the nation's elderly population is bound to expand significantly over the next 40 years. By 2040, 25 percent of all Americans will be older than 65, up from 14 percent in 1995. The change poses profound questions for government and society, of course. But it also creates career opportunities in medicine and health professions, and in law and business as well. "In addition to the doctors, we're going to need more sociologists, biologists, urban planners and specialized lawyers," says Professor Edward Schneider of the University of Southern California's (USC) School of Gerontology (老年学). Lawyers can specialize in "elder law", which covers everything from trusts and estates to nursing-home abuse and age discrimination (歧视). Businessmen see huge opportunities in the elder market because the baby boomers, 74 million strong, are likely to be the wealthiest group of retirees in human history. "Any student who combines an expert knowledge in gerontology with, say, an MBA or law degree, will have a license to print money," one professor says. Margarite Santos is a 21-year-old senior at USC. She began college as a biology major but found she was "really bored with bacteria". So she took a class in gerontology and discovered that she liked it. She says, "I did volunteer work in retirement homes and it was very satisfying."

单选题She had said little so far, responding only briefly when ______. A. speaking B. spoken to C. spoken D. speaking to

The bird flew upward and dropped the shellfish onto the rock to ______ it open.