A:Thisvaseis200yearsold.Beverycarefulinc
A: This vase is 200 years old. Be very careful in carrying it. B: ______. A．Take it easy, professor.
B．Just a piece of cake, professor.
C．No problem.
D．You can depend on me, professor; I'll be as careful as I can.
Althoughinteriordesignhasexistedsincethe
Although interior design has existed since the beginning of architecture, its development into a specialized field is really quite recent. Interior designers have become important partly because of the many functions that might be (56) in a single large building.
The importance of interior design becomes (57) when we realize how much time we (58) surrounded by four walls. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be (59) attractive and comfortable as possible. We also expect (60) place to be appropriate to its use. You would be (61) if the inside of your bedroom were suddenly changed to look (62) the inside of a restaurant.And you wouldn’t feel (63) in a business office that has the appearance of a school.
It soon becomes clear that the interior designer’s most important (64) is the function of the particular (65) . For example, a theater with poor sight lines, poor sound-shaping qualities, and (66) few entries and exits will not work for (67) purpose, no matter how beautifully it might be (68) . Nevertheless, it is not easy to make suitable (69) for different kinds of space, lighting and decoration of everything from ceiling to floor. (70) addition, the designer must usually select furniture or design built-in furniture according to the functions that need to be serveD、
A、like
B．for
C．at
D．into{{B}}PassageFive{{/B}}Itwasabout2p.m.onM
{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}}The statement of "The achievement makes him more than a worthy successor to Iverson" in the last paragraph may imply that ______.A．DiMicco bears the hope of Iverson to carry on the close-knit culture
No supervisor had asked them to make the trip, and no one had to. They went on their own. There wasn’t any direct financial incentive for them to blow their weekends, no extra money in their next paycheck, but for the company their, contribution was huge.
What’s most amazing about this story is that at Nucor it’s not considered particularly remarkable. "It could have easily been a Hickman operator going to help theCrawfordsville [InD、] mill," saysExecutive Vice-President John J. Ferriola "It happens daily." Nucor has nurtured one of the most dynamic and engaged workforces arounD、The 11 300 nonunion employees at theCharlotte (N.C、) company don’t see themselves as worker bees waiting for instructions from above. Nucor’s flattened hierarchy and emphasis on pushing power to the front line lead its employees to adopt the mindset of owner-operators.
Nucor gained renown in the late 1980s for its radical pay practices, which base the vast majority of most workers’ income on their performance.An upstart nipping at the heels of the integrated steel giants, Nucor had a close-knit culture that was the natural outgrowth of its underdog identity. Legendary leader F. Kenneth Iverson’s radical insight: that employees, even hourly clock-punchers, will make an extraordinary effort if you reward them richly,treat them with respect ,and give them real power.
Nucor is an upstart no more, and the untold story of how it has clung to that core philosophy even as it has grown into the largest steel company in the U, S. is in many ways as compelling as the celebrated tale of its brash youth. Iverson retired in 1999.
UnderCEODaniel R.DiMicco, a 23-year veteran, Nucor has snapped up 13 plants over the past five years while managing to instill its unique culture in all of the facilities it has bought, an achievement that makes him a more than worthy successor to Iverson.
B．the newly bought plant and facilities are considered as achievement
C．the experience Nucor accumulated is not merely valuable for his own plant
D．the work Nucor has done turns to be the unique culture for the steel-making companiesIamnotinapositioneithertocontradictor___
I am not in a position either to contradict or ______ this statement.A．affirm
B．affiliate
C．affect
D．affixTheplanethat______inthestormwascarryinga
The plane that ______in the storm was carrying a group of entertainers on the way to the International Fine-Art Works Exposition.A．crushed
B．crashed
C．cracked
D．craftedThereisacontroversyevenamongdoctorsastow
There is a controversy even among doctors as to whether this disease is contagious or not.A．incisive
B．infertile
C．allergic
D．communicable{{B}}PartⅣCloze{{/B}}{{B}}{{I}}Direction
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{{B}}{{I}}Directions{{/B}}: In this part, there is a passage with twenty blanks. For each blank there are four choices markedA,B,
C、andD、Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter on your {{B}}ANSWER SHEET{{/B}} with a single line through the center.{{/I}}A．expecting
So in considering voluntary or {{U}} (77) {{/U}} community service there are more opportunities than there {{U}} (78) {{/U}} were when one first began work. Most voluntary organizations have only a small fulltime {{U}} (79) {{/U}} ,And depend very much on volunteers and part-timers. This means that working relationships are different from those in commercial organizations, and values may be different. {{U}} (80) {{/U}} some ways they may seem more casual and less efficient, but one should not {{U}} (81) {{/U}} them by commercial criteriA、The people who work with them do so for different reasons and with different {{U}} (82) {{/U}} , both personal and {{U}} (83) {{/U}} . One should not join them {{U}} (84) {{/U}} to arm them with professional expertise; they must be joined with commitment to the {{U}} (85) {{/U}} , not business efficiency.Because salaries are {{U}} (86) {{/U}} or non-existent many voluntary bodies offer modest expenses.But many retired people take part in community service for {{U}} (87) {{/U}} , simply because they enjoy the work.
Many community activities possible {{U}} (88) {{/U}} retirement were also possible during one’s working life but they are to be undertaken {{U}} (89) {{/U}} seriously for that. Retired people who are just looking for something different or unusual to do should not consider {{U}} (90) {{/U}} community service.
B．to expect
C、being expected
D．expectedGardeningisthecultivationofplants,usuall
Gardening is the cultivation of plants, usually in or near the home, as a hobby. A．germination
B．growing
C．classification
D．sowing
Singletons,referringtothosewholivealone,
Singletons, referring to those who live alone, are being comforted by well-meaning friends and family and told that not having a partner is not the end of the worlD、So, it would seem that they can say, yes, it is not.But no, in fact, it is the enD、
A、gloomy study has just been released that says that the international trend towards living alone is putting an unprecedented strain on our ecosystem.
For a number of reasons--relationship breakdown, career choice, longer life spans, smaller families—the number of individual households is growing.And this is putting intolerable pressure on natural resources, and accelerating the extinction of endangered plant and animal species.And there is worse news. Running a refrigerator, television, cooker, plumbing system just for selfish little you is a disastrous waste of resources on our over-populated planet. "The efficiency of resource consumption" is a lot higher in households of two people or more, simply because they share everything. Well imagine that. Just when you thought living alone was OK, you would find that all the time you were the enemy of mankinD、Every time you put the kettle on the stove for a cup of coffee you were destroying MotherEarth. Indeed, it is not just your mother who is a bit worried by your continuing single status—you are letting down the entire human race by not having a boyfriend or girlfrienD、The trouble is that society has a group instinct and people panic and hit out when they see other people quietly rebelling and straying away from the "standard" of family and coupledom.
The suggestion is that singledom should be at best a temporary state. Unless you are assimilated into a larger unit, you can never be fully functional.
Try "communal living." There are all these illustrations of young attractive people having a "great time," laughingly bumping into each other. It looks like an episode of the TV series "Friends. "
And the message is clear: Togetherness is good, solitude is bad, and being single on your own is not alloweD、
Which of the following may NOT be the reason for the increasing number of households as mentioned in the passage
A、Many people get divorced because of unhappy marriage.
B、Now people can afford to support a household individually.
C、Some people have to sacrifice family life for their careers.
D、Many people live much longer than before.Thebiggestsafetythreatfacingairlinestoda
The biggest safety threat facing airlines today may not be a terrorist with a gun, but the man with the portable computer in business class. In the last 15 years, pilots have reported well over 100 incidents that could have been caused by electromagnetic interference. The source of this interference remains unconfirmed, but increasingly, experts are pointing the blame at portable electronic devices such as portable computers, radio and cassette players and mobile telephones.
RTCA, an organization which advises the aviation (航空) industry, has recommended that all airlines ban (禁止) such devices from being used during "critical" stages of flight, particularly take-off and landing. Some experts have gone further, calling for a total ban during all flights.Currently, rules on using these devices are left up to individual airlines.And although some airlines prohibit passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant to enforce a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during flights.
The difficulty is predicting how electromagnetic fields might affect an aircraft’s computers.Experts know that portable devices emit radiation which affects those wavelengths which aircraft use for navigation and communication.But, because they have not been able to reproduce these effects in a laboratory, they have no way of knowing whether the interference might be dangerous or not.
The fact that aircraft may be vulnerable (易受损的) to interference raises the risk that terrorists may use radio system in order to damage navigation equipment.As worrying, though, is the passenger who can’t hear the instructions to turn off his radio because the music’s too louD、
The passage is mainly about______.A．a new regulation for all airlines
B．the defects of electronic devices
C．a possible cause of aircraft crashes
D．effective safety measures for air flightOurculturehascausedmostAmericanstoassume
Our culture has caused mostAmericans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one’s side, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell.
Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War II and marked the items GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm’s length away from others. Latins and MiddleEasterners like to come closer and touch, which makesAmericans uncomfortable.
Our linguistic (语言上的) and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the worlD、
Even here in the United States, we make few concessions to the needs of foreign visitors. There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildings or monuments; we do not have multilingual (多语的) guided tours. Very few restaurant menus have translations, and multilingual waiters, bank clerks and policemen are rare. Our transportation systems have maps inEnglish only and often we ourselves have difficulty understanding them.
When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants whereEnglish is spoken. The attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those natives--usually the richer --who speakEnglish. Our business deals, as well as the nation’s diplomacy, are conducted through interpreters.
For many years,America andAmericans could get by with cultural blindness and linguistic ignorance.After all,America was the most powerful country of the free world, the distributor of needed funds and goods.
But all that is past.American dollars no longer buy all good things, and we are slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing.
A、1979 Harris poll reported that 55 percent ofAmericans want this country to play a more significant role in world affairs, we want to have a hand in the important decisions of the next century, even though it may not always be the upper hanD、
The author gives many examples to criticizeAmericans for their ______
A、casual manners
B．cultural self-centeredness
C．awareness of other cultures
D．indifference towards foreign visitorsDoyoubelievethatseverepunishmentwoulddet
Do you believe that severe punishment would deter potential criminals from evildoing Is death penalty (死刑) indispensable component of the criminal lawDo you believe the arch criminals deserve another chance to turn over a new leaf Should capital punishment be abolished (废除的)
In the USA, 85% of the population over the age of 21 approve of the death penalty. Many U.S. states still have the death penalty. Some use the electric chair, which can take up to 20 minutes to kill, while others use gas or lethal injection. The first execution was the case of RuthEllis who was hanged for shooting her lover in what was generally regarded as a crime of passion. The second, a man was hanged for murders which, it was later proved, had been committed by someone else.
The death penalty advocates listed several points to support capital punishment. First there is the deterrence theory, which argues that potential murders would think twice before committing the act if they knew that they might die if they were caught. The armed bank robber might, likewise, go back to being unarmeD、
The other argument is more suspectful. The idea of retribution demands that criminals should get what they deserve: if a murderer intentionally sets out to commit a crime, he should accept the consequences. Retribution, which is just another word for revenge, is supported by the delicious doctrine of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
The arguments against the death penalty are largely humanitarian.But there are also statistical reasons for opposing it: inBritain, 1903 was the record year for executions and yet in 1904, the number of murders actually rose. There was a similar occurrence in 1946 and 1947. If the deterrence theory were correct, the rate would have fallen.
The other reasons to oppose the death penalty are largely a matter of individual conscience and belief. One is that murder is murder and that the state has no more right to take a life than the individual. The other is thatChristianity advises forgiveness, not revenge.
The people who are in favor of death penalty believe in the following except ______A．The intentional murderer should eat his own bitter fruit
B．Stricter punishments stop crime
C．The punishment must fit the crime
D．To err is human; to forgive, divineTheoldscientistdecidedtomovetohiscountry
The old scientist decided to move to his country home ______ his advanced age and poor health.A．in the interest of
B．as a result of
C．on account of
D．in support ofLeoTolstoywasaRussianwriterandmoralphilo
A．gave up
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born {{U}} (4) {{/U}} a family of noble landowners at his family {{U}} (5) {{/U}} south of Moscow. His early education came from tutors at home, but after the deaths of his parents in the 1830s, he was {{U}} (6) {{/U}} by relatives. He entered Kazan’ University when he was 16 but preferred to educate himself independently, and in 1847 he {{U}} (7) {{/U}} his studies without finishing his degree. His next 15 years were very {{U}} (8) {{/U}}. Tolstoy returned to manage the family estate, with the determination to improve himself {{U}} (9) {{/U}} and physically.Alter less than two years, however, he abandoned rural life {{U}} (10) {{/U}} the pleasures of Moscow. In 1851 Tolstoy traveled to theCaucasus, a region then part of southern Russia, {{U}} (11) {{/U}} his brother was serving in the army. He was {{U}} (12) {{/U}} as a volunteer, serving with distinction in theCrimean War from 1853 to 1856.
Tolstoy began his literary career during his army service, and his first work, the semiautobiographical short novelChildhood {{U}} (13) {{/U}} was published in 1852, brought him fame.A、series of other stories {{U}} (14) {{/U}} , and when he left the army in 1856 he was acknowledged as a rising new talent in literature.
Tolstoy achieved great literary fame during his lifetime, both in Russia and abroaD、Thirty-one translations of his works {{U}} (15) {{/U}} in the year 1887 alone.
The most significant part of Tolstoy’s legacy may be his defense of the individual personality.
B．gave in
C．gave out
D．gave off
TheEnglishword"veto"means"Iwillnotpermit
TheEnglish word "veto" means "I will not permit". It is a way for one member of a group or government to (61) action by other members.
For example, the United Nations SecurityCouncil (62) five permanent members, the United States,China,Britain, France and RussiA、 (63) can use the veto to block action by the whole group.Britain and France did this in 1956. They vetoed a resolution (64) Israel to withdraw its forces fromEgyptian territory.
The most (65) use of the veto is by an executive over the legislative in a government with a president. The United StatesConstitution (66) such a veto. The (67) also says a president’s veto can be changed by a second vote ofCongress. This is called overriding the president’s veto. For a bill to become law, (68) of the members of both houses ofCongress (69) vote to override the president’s veto. ThroughoutAmerican history, presidents (70) more than 2 500 congressional bills.Congress has been able to override the president’s veto (71) 104 times. Presidents in the late 1800s and early 1700s did not use the veto frequently.
In the 1940s,President Franklin Roosevelt vetoed more than 600 bills.But he was president for 12 years, much longer than anyone else. More recently, President Ronald Reagan vetoed (72) in his eight years in office.And GeorgeBush vetoed 44 bills in four years.
Today,Congress is approving bills designed to (73) the size and cost of the federal government. PresidentClinton does not (74) all the congressional plans. He has different ideas about (75) parts of government should be cut and by how much. He already vetoed at least one of these bills.
A．agree upon
B．agree on
C．agree to
D．agree withThecurrentemergencyinMexicoCitythathasta
The current emergency in MexicoCity that has taken over our lives is nothing I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of unprecedented severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health.
As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves Our pediatrician’s (儿科医师的) medical recommendation was simple: abandon the city permanently.
We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband’s work. We are fascinated by Mexico--its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from breathing.
But for millions, there is no choice. Their lives, their jobs, their futures depend on being here. Thousands of Mexicans arrive each day in this city, desperate for economic opportunities. Thousands more are born here each day.Entire families work in the streets and practically live there. It is a familiar sight: as parents hawk goods at stoplights, their children play in the grassy highway dividers, breathing exhaust fumes. I feel guilty complaining about my personal situation; we won’t be here long enough for our children to form the impression that skies are colored only gray.
And yet the government cannot do what it must to end this problem. For any country, especially a developing Third World economy like Mexico’s, the idea of barring from the capital city enough cars, closing enough factories and spending the necessary billions on public transportation is simply not an option. So when things get bad, as in the current emergency, Mexico takes half measures--prohibiting some more cars from circulating, stopping some factories from producing--that even its own officials concede aren’t adequate.
The word "emergency" implies the unusual.But when daffy life itself is an emergency, the concept loses its meaning. It is human nature to try to adapt to that which we cannot change, or to mislead ourselves into believing we can adapt.
According to the passage, the current emergency in MexicoCity refers to ______A．serious air-pollution
B．economic crisis
C．unemployment
D．natural disasterFactorsleadingtothecrisisincludedpoorreg
Factors leading to the crisis included poor regulation, mismanagement and deception in the industry, and competition from other types of financial firms. A．cheating
B．pollution
C．depression
D．abuse
Writtenatleast100yearsago,thehandwriting
Written at least 100 years ago, the handwriting faded and certainly became______. A．infinite
B．illegible
C．infectious
D．immune
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{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}}According to paragraph 2, which .of the following statement is NOT trueA．Pre-nups was once employed solely by the rich, second-timers and the old industrialist.
This is a prenuptial (婚前的)agreement—one more indication of the strange pass of marriage in this most transactional decade. You are welcome to marriage, contractual style, where increasingly detailed legal documents spell out everything from who’s going to do the dishes to who’s going to get the house when you split.
This is family planning taken to extreme. Once employed solely by the rich, second-timers and the old industrialist carrying off the latest young cookie, the prenuptial agreement—a written pact between a couple outlining the financial obligations in the event of divorce—is becoming commonplace in a litigious (爱打官司的),disillusioned and materialistic age in which one in every two marriages is projected to end in divorce.
The only question is: What about love When asked whether anyone believes inCupid (爱神)anymore,Dr. Michael Vincent Miller says, "Given a century that is full of sexual liberation, computer-dating services and so on, one feels tempted to reply,’ only in a mood of desperate nostalgia (怀旧 )’. ""Pre-nups" (prenuptial agreements)do assume negativity. Founded on disillusionment, they cannot be separated from the high divorce rate in the United States. The result, argues Miller, is a kind of defending mentality. "We’ve gotten good at managing finiteness, failure and trouble with a sort of ’What’ s yours is yours and what’s mine is mine’s realism’. We’ve seen it isn’t all about love. We’ve seen there’s power politics in there—a fight for control, and when you’ve got those things, you’re halfway to lawyers and money."
In other ways, however, the compacts embody positive, even idealistic thinking about marriage, love and relations, a law scholar Isabel Marcus believes. Marcus says , "Contracts could spell the end of romantic love as salvation. They say love exists, but that it’s best accompanied by good, hard thinking about equitability (平等).
By writing a contract, the couple gains control of its marriage. "What’s good is it contributes to honesty; what’s unfortunate is the idea that any contract can govern your emotions," says the author of the book "The Nature of Love."
B．The prenuptial agreement is written just in case the couple may divorce one day.
C．The divorce rates are high today.
D．It is a romantic and fantastic age in which people still believing in marriage and love.