I realize the library is having budget problems, but many students rely on it for a place to study in the evening. It would be pity if the library hours were cut.
A.is having budget problems B.rely on it for a place to study C.would be pity D.hours were cut. E.没有问题
It’s nice to have close friends and family you can （ ）， but it lifts a huge weight off your shoulders when you know that you could survive on your own if you had to.
A.cope with B.count on C.conform to D.commit to
His time at university was the most （ ）period of her life.
A.eventual B.enduring C.eventually D.eventful
2.The reason some children are backward in speaking is most likely that （ ）.3.What is particularly remarkable about a child is that（ ） .4.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?5.If a child starts to speak later than others, he will in future（ ）.
'>Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly.If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1, 000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.Recent evidence suggests that an infant is bom with the capacity to speak. What is special about man's brain, compared with that of the monkey, if the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern ’’toy-bear”. And even more incredible is the young brain's ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.But speech has to be induced, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child , where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling （呼呀学语）, grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language.1.The purpose of Frederick II’s experiment was（ ） .
2.The reason some children are backward in speaking is most likely that （ ）.3.What is particularly remarkable about a child is that（ ） .4.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage
Huangshan Mountain is eminent for its natural scenery and deserves a visit.
A.renowned B.notorious C.popular D.mysterious
If not （ ）with the respect be feels due to him, Jack gets very ill-tempered andgrumbles all the time.
A.being treated B.be treated C.treated D.having been treated
Americans began to search for some moral principles and justification for their increasingly interventionist conduct of international affairs. Psychologically, it was impossible for them to perceive a role without “good” aims and ideals. Politically, the stone had already been reached in which American was involved in international affairs simply because of the reality of its increasing power politics base and expanding economic system. Subsequently, the net effect of Theodore Roosevelt’s interventionist and aggressive diplomacy around the world was the maintenance of ii strung United States position in Latin America and its monitoring of the continuance of the precarious balance of power among the nations in the Far East and East and Europe. But Americans maintained that all such foreign policies were conducted in the cause of peace and democracy.The rapid changes in the international environment, however, presented a paradox. Along with the pursuit of peace and democracy, for example, went peripheral involvement in war and power politics and the paradox of a growing peace movement in the midst of mounting appropriations for armaments and battleship. For virtually the first time in its history, except in war, the United States began to take very seriously the establishment of a strong military force.But the moral rhetoric of American foreign policy continued (o be the underlying basis of its aims. Exercising its new-found powers, America moved toward world leadership, intervening in the cause of peace and democracy and urging the view that peace must be enforced, if necessary ---through what was certainly the ultimate paradox--- by war. Without yielding their faith in the goals of peace and democracy as mainsprings of that policy, the American people became more willing lo accept new means lo accomplish the ends. The methods of peace through power, and of democracy by intervention and force rather than by example, though not without precedent in American history, came to achieve nevertheless a new degree of official sanction and popular support.Therefore, peace and democracy were linked as related goals in American foreign policy - and the hint of America’s need lo intervene in the international affairs of other nations became a latent tenet of U.S foreign policy.1.According to Paragraph 1, what justifies the American foreign policy?2.Theodore Roosevelt’s diplomatic policies were mainly intended to（ ）. 3.The result of the paradox as discussed in Paragraph 2 is that （ ） .4.Which of the following could replace “appropriations” in Paragraph 2?5.The last two paragraphs seem to suggest that （ ）.6.The tone of the writing is mostly （ ）.
A.Maintenance of an internationally leading position B.The cause of peace and democracy C.The desire lo get involved in international affairs D.The wish lo keep balance among nation
问题2：
A.impose the US influence on much of the world Normal 0 7.8 磅 0 2 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE B.achieve friendship with other nations C.solve the European problems D.promote regional democracy
问题3：
A.the conflicts between nations became more intense B.every nation was taking part in the military armaments C.the United States was involved in several major wars D.developing military power became clearly important to the US
问题4：
A.Scisures B.Allocations C.Supports D.Possessions
问题5：
A.the warlike nature of the United Stales is reflected adequately in its foreign policy B.the intention was good but it ends up with the all-round intervention of international affairs C.both the US government and the public feel the need for intervention in the international affairs D.The United Slates has drifted away from its original goals and are deeply involved in power politics
问题6：
A.factual B.humorous C.hostile D.contemptuous
New research by Hillary Pennell and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz at the University of Missouri suggests that, at least for women, the influence of superheroes is not always positive. Although women play a variety of roles in the superhero genre, including helpless maiden and powerful heroine, the female characters all tend to be hypersexualized, from their perfect, seducing figures to their sexy, revealing costumes. Exposure to this, they show, can impact beliefs about gender roles, body esteem, and self-objectification.Consider, for example, superhero movies like Spider-man or Superman. These action-packed films typically feature a strong, capable, intelligent man fighting a villainous force. The goal of course is to save humanity, but more often than not there is also an immediate need to rescue a fair lady in distress. The female victim is typically delicate, naive, and defenseless, but at the same time sexy and beautiful. What she lacks in strength and cunning she makes up for in kindness and curves. It is not surprising (or insignificant) that she is often the object of the hero’s affections.Pennell and Behm-Morawitz argued that exposure to these stereotypic female victims, whose primary appeal is sexual, may lower women’s body esteem, heighten the value they place on body image, and result in less equal gender role beliefs and expectations. However, female characters have come a long way in the superhero genre, and it’s possible that the antidote to the helpless fair maiden is the competent, commanding superheroine.The X-Men films, for example, feature a number of empowering female characters like Storm, Jean Gray, and Dazzler, each of whom wields a unique special ability and displays impressive cognitive and physical competence. Perhaps exposure to this new generation of female heroines will result in more equal gender beliefs, higher body esteem, and greater prioritization of physical competence over appearance.Still, today’s superheroines, like their female victim counterparts, are often unrealistic, sexualized representations of female figures, with large chests, curvy backsides and unattainable hourglass dimensions. Their skin-tight outfits underline their sexuality with plunging necklines and bare skin, and many of their names (e. g. , Risque, Mystique, Ruby Summers) connote, shall we say, a slightly less respectable profession than superheroine.Pennell and Behm-Morawitz thus speculated that while today’s powerful superheroines might elevate equal beliefs about gender roles, their sexualized nature might simultaneously have destructive effects on body image and self-objectification.1.What’s the implied meaning of the first paragraph?2.Female victims in superhero movies tend to be（ ）.3.According to the author, the image of stereotypic female victims can be improved by （ ）.4.The film audience in Paragraph 4 will most probably support the idea that （ ）.5.What is the main idea of the fifth paragraph?6.What is Hilary Pennell and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz attitude towards today’s superheroines?
A.Women are either helpless or powerful in superhero movies. B.Superhero movies definitely inspire women to become stronger. C.Female characters are extremely sexy and appealing in superhero movies. D.Superhero movies make women objectify themselves and question their body shapes.
问题2：
A.formidable and quick-witted B.sophisticated and intimidating C.pretentious and loathsome D.amiable and seductively-shaped
问题3：
A.showing more competent and heroic female characters B.distinguishing them from the superheroines C.turning them into capable and powerful superheroines D.strengthening their image as innocent and alluring maidens
问题4：
A.men and women are equal B.special abilities are unrealistic for females C.women should always be on a diet to stay in good shape D.the importance of a strong body should be downplayed compared with that of appearance
问题5：
A.Female roles are dressed in revealing and inviting costumes. B.Leading female roles are still stereotyped by alluring bodies. C.Many of the superheroines’ names are related
Among all societies legal marriage is usually accompanied by some kind of ceremony that express group（ ）of the union.
A.opinion B.consistency C.insistence D.approval
My parents have been（1） me to （2）married for the last two years, but I still haven’t made up my （3）.句意: 在过去的两年里，我的父母一直让我结婚，但是我仍旧没有做好决定。
Mark Kelly is originally from Lancashire in England. He has been living in Japan for six years and, at the weekend, he is a fake priest. “I was living in Sapporo, studying Japanese, and I needed the money. It’s far better paid than teaching in a language school,” he said. “Being a fake priest is big business in Japan—I’ve done a TV commercial for one company,” he added. “In Sapporo, there are five agencies employing about 20 fake priests. In a city like Tokyo, there must be hundreds. ”The fake Western priests are employed at Western-style wedding to give a performance and add to the atmosphere. These are not legal ceremonies—the couples also have to make a trip to the local registrar. “ In the past almost all weddings in Japan were Shinto, but in the last few years Western-style wedding have appeared and become very popular，” said one Japanese priest. “ Most couples are trying to re-create a European wedding, so they overwhelmingly ask for a foreign priest instead of a Japanese one，” he added.The fake priests in Japan sometimes have to deal with difficult situations. Mr. Kelly has often presided over ceremonies where the bride is pregnant. “It is common. Once, the bride vomited on me and then fainted. It wasn’t very romantic，” he said. “Another difficulty is meeting genuine Japanese priests to meet the demand，” he said.One Japanese Christian priest spoke out. “ It is a real problem for us. They are not genuine and they give us a bad name,’’ he said. “It is important for the bride and groom to have a proper wedding, and they are not getting it from these foreign priests. I have even heard of hotels using staff when they can’t find anyone else. ”But Mr. Kelly argues that the ceremony is not about religion, but about image. “I give a good performance. I use an Apache wedding prayer in my ceremony. It works very well, although I had to take out the part about the bear god in the sky，” he said. “If people are crying by the end of the wedding, I think I have done a good job.”1.What do we know about Mark Kelly?2.The fake Western priests are in great demand in Japan because of （ ）.3.Using a foreign priest at a wedding in Japan is（ ）.4.According to the passage, Mr. Kelly considers his job rather （ ）. 5.Japanese priest at a wedding in Japan is （ ）. 6.According to Mr. Kelly, what mostly interests a Japanese couple at the wedding is （ ）.
A.He’s a profession priest. B.He’s a language student. C.He’s working for a TV station. D.He’s earning a living in Japan.
问题2：
A.the popularity of Western-style weddings B.the bad reputation of Japanese priests C.the decline of the traditional religion, Shinto D.the low prices at which they are hired
问题3：
A.forbidden according to criminal law B.meant for having a Western atmosphere C.aimed to save a trip to a registrar D.deemed necessary to add to the solemnity
问题4：
A.demanding B.amusing C.sacred D.creative
问题5：
A.bringing an end to the occupation B.misleading the bride and groom C.damaging the image of the former D.corrupting the morals of weddings
问题6：
A.how well the priest can perform his role B.what religious rituals are being followed C.whether other participants can be moved D.who can make them burst into tears
If sustainable competitive advantage depends on work force skills, American firms have a problem. Human management is not traditionally seen as a central to the competitive survival of the firm in the United States. Skill acquisition is considered as individual responsibility. Labor is simply another force of production to be hired/rented at the lowest possible cost, which is a must as one buys raw material or equipment.The lack of importance attached to human resource management can be seen in the corporate pecking order. In an American firm the chief financial officer is almost always second in command. The post of head of human resource management is usually a specialized job, off at the edge of the corporate hierarchy. The executive who holds it is never consulted on major strategic decisions and has no chance to move up to Chief Executive Officer. By way of contrast, in Japan the head of human resource management is central-usually the second most important executive, after the CEO, in the firm’s hierarchy.While American firms often talk about the vast amounts spent on training their work force, in fact, they invest less in the skills of their employees than do either Japanese or German firms. The money they do invest is also more highly concentrated on professional or managerial employees. And the limited investments that made in training workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies.As a result, problems emerge when new breakthrough technologies arrive. If American workers, for example take much longer to learn how to operate new flexible manufacturing stations than workers in German (as they do), the effective cost of those stations is lower in German than it is in United States. More time is required before equipment is up and running at the speed with which new equipment is up and running at capacity, and the need for extensive retaining generates costs and creates bottlenecks that limit the speed with which new equipment can be employed. The result is a slower pace of technological change. And in the end the skills of the bottom half of the population affect the wages of the top half. If the bottom half can’t effectively staff the processes that have to be operated, the management and professional jobs that go with these processes will disappear.1.Which of the following applies to the human resource management of American companies?2.What is the position of the executive of human-resource management in American firms?3.The money most American firms put in work force training mainly goeson （ ）.4.Why is there a slow pace of technological change in American firms?5.What is the main idea of the passage?
A.They hire people with the least possible money regardless of their skills. B.They see skills gain as their employees’ own business. C.They refer to hire self-trained workers. D.They only hire skilled workers because of keen employment competition.
问题2：
A.He is one of the most important executives of the firm. B.His position is likely to disappear when new technologies have been introduced. C.He has no saying in making important decisions of the firm. D.He is directly under the chief financial executive.
问题3：
A.technological and managerial staff B.workers who will run new equipment C.workers who lack of basic background skills D.top executive
问题4：
A.New equipment is more expensive in America. B.American firms don’t pay enough attention to on-the -job training their workers. C.The decision making process in American firms makes them less responsive to technological changes. D.The professional staffs of American firms are less paid and so less creative.
问题5：
A.American firm’ human resource management strategies affect their competitive capacity. B.Human resource management is a key factor in a firm’s survival. C.The cost of work training in America is higher than that in Japan and Germany. D.American firms are different from Japanese and German firms in human resou
He attends to the （ ）of important business himself.
A.transaction B.transition C.transmission D.transformation
One could neither trifle with a terror of this kind, nor compromise with it.
A.belittle B.exaggerate C.ponder D.eliminate
The familiar sounds of an early English summer are with us once again. Millions of children sit down to SATs, GCSEs, AS-levels, A-levels and a host of lesser exams, and the argument over educational standards starts. Depending on whom you listen to, we should either be letting up on over-examined pupils by abolishing SATs, and even GCSEs, or else making exams far more rigorous.The chorus will reach a peak when GCSE and A-level results are published in August. If pass rates rise again, commentators will say that standards are falling because exams are getting easier. If pass rates drop, they will say that standards are falling because children are getting lower marks. Parents like myself try to ignore this and base our judgments on what our children are learning. But it’s not easy given how much education has changed since we were at school.Some trends are encouraging — education has been made more relevant and enthuses many children that it would have previously bored. My sons’ A-level French revision involved listening to radio debates on current affairs, whereas mine involved rereading Moliere. And among their peers, a far greater proportion stayed in education for longer.On the other hand, some aspects of schooling today are incomprehensible to my generation, such as gaps in general knowledge and the hand-holding that goes with ensuring that students leave with good grades. Even when we parents resist the temptation to help with GCSE or A-level coursework, a teacher with the child’s interests at heart may send a draft piece of work back several times with pointers to how it can be improved before the examiners see it.The debate about standards persists because there is no single objective answer to the question: “Are standards better or worse than they were a generation ago?” Each side points to indicators that favor them, in the knowledge that there is no authoritative definition, let alone a measure that has been consistently applied over the decades. But the annual soul-searching over exams is about more than student assessment. It reveals a national insecurity about whether our education system is teaching the right things. It is also fed by an anxiety about whether, in a country with a history of upholding standards by ensuring that plenty of students fail, we can attain the more modern objective of ensuring that every child leaves school with something to show for it.1.It can be concluded from Paragraph 1 that （ ）.2.Parents try to judge the educational standards by（ ）.3.To the author, the rereading of Moliere was（ ）.4.To the author’s generation, it is beyond understanding today why（ ）.5.According to the passage, with respect to educational standards in Britain, （ ）.6.In the author’s opinion, the school education in Britain has been（ ）.
A.SATs is one of the most rigorous exams mentioned B.it has been debated if children should be given exams C.few parents approve of the exam systems in England D.each year children have to face up to some new exams
问题2：
A.whether their children have passed the exams B.what knowledge their children have acquired C.what educators say about curriculum planning D.whether their children’s school scores are stable
问题3：
A.dreary B.routine C.outmoded D.arduous
问题4：
A.teachers lay great stress on helping students obtain good grades B.teachers show much concern for students’ future C.parents help little with their children’s coursework D.parents focus on their children’s general knowledge
问题5：
A.no authorities have ever made a comment B.no one has ever tried to give them a definition C.no effective ways have been taken to apply them D.no consistent yardstick has ever been used
问题6：
A.inflexible B.irresponsible C.unsuccessful D.unforgivable
If a guest wants to tip the housekeeping staff，it’ s best to leave a little something in an envelope each night instead of a larger amount（ ）checkout.
A.due to B.owing to C.prior to D.as to
（ ） inflation, driven by rising food and oil costs，is striking hardest at the world’ s poorest，who are forced to spend 60 to 80 percent of their income on food.
A.Sprouting B.Surging C.Spilling D.Spinning
If you see that the street is wet in the morning, you would（ ） that it must have rained during the night.
A.reduce B.seduce C.deduce D.induce
I have no（1） who lives in that grey three-story house（2） the road. I see lights on in the windows most evenings, but I have never see （3）going in or out.
The “standard of living” of any country means the average person’s share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country’s standard of living, therefore, depends first and foremost on its capacity to produce wealth. “Wealth” in this sense is not money, for we do not live on money but on things that money can buy: “goods” such as food and clothing, and “services” such as transport and entertainment.A country’s capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of which have an effect on one another. Wealth depends to a great extent upon a country’s natural resources, such as coal, gold, and other minerals, water supply and so on. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a favorable climate; other regions possess perhaps only one of these things, and some regions possess none of them. The U.S.A is one of the wealthiest regions of the world because she has vast natural resources within her borders, her soil is fertile, and her climate is varied. The Sahara Desert, on the other hand, is one of the least wealthy.Next to natural resources comes the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well off as the U.S.
A. in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and external wars, and for this and other reasons was unable to develop her resources. Sound and stable political conditions, and freedom from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well served by nature but less well ordered. Another important factor is the technical efficiency of a country’s people. Old countries that have, through many centuries, trained up numerous skilled craftsmen and technicians are better placed to produce wealth than countries whose workers are largely unskilled. Wealth also produces wealth. As a country becomes wealthier, its people have a large margin for saving, and can put their savings into factories and machines which will help workers to turn out more goods in their working day.