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In the last sentence, the clause "the episode was...point of view" suggests thatBongo Marie was ______.A．quite content with its own performance
B．believed to have a sense of humor
C．trying to win its host’s favor
D．successful, in getting a human response
【单选题】： A     B     C     D  

第2题：JimAyers had investigated all manner of felonies in his fourteen-year career with the Oregon State Police. Like most officers who had hired on as troopers, he was tall and well-muscleD、He had thick, wavy hair, and a rumbling deep voice. He had worked the road for eight years, investigating accidents. He had seen much tragedy, but he had also learned what was "normal" tragedy—if there could be such a thing—and what was "abnormal" tragedy. Ayers had become an expert in both arson investigation and psychosexual crimes, and he had investigated innumerable homicides. Jerry Finch had a few years on him, both in age and experience. Together the two men drove to the scene at 79th and the Sunset, not knowing what to expect. The best detectives are not tough. If they were, they would not have the special intuitive sense that enables them to see what laymen cannot.But JimAyers, like his peers, usually managed to hide his own pain over what one human being can do to another behind a veneer of black humor and professional distance. After arriving at the scene, Finch andAyers gazed down at the slender woman who lay on the freeway shoulder, her face and head disfigured by some tremendous force. They walked around the Toyota van and saw the scratch—like dents in its right front end and where a mm signal lens was broken out. RandyBlighton was still on the scene and he told Finch andAyers how he had found the van butting against the median barrier of the freeway. That would have broken the signal light. They found the signal lens itself lying on the freeway in the fast lane. They also saw the beige purse that had been forcing the accelerator down beforeBhghton kicked it away. It would have been enough to keep her engine running while the car was in gear. With flashlights Finch andAyers looked into the van, playing light over the child’s carseat, the blood splatter on the interior roof, the splash of blood on the interior hump over the transmission, and the pools of blood on the floor behind the front seats. A、white plastic produce bag fluttered on the passenger-side floor. It too bore bloodstains. JimAyers had come to a bleak conclusion. The purpose of sending the van onto the highway was to cause it to be hit by other vehicles. Had that happened, had vehicles approaching at fifty-five to sixty-five miles an hour rounded the curve, they would have ineluctably smashed into the driver’s side of the van, and even though a fire might not have resulted, the evidence of the woman’s body and from the vehicle itself would have been obliterateD、 Further, in all likelihood, a chain reaction of accidents would have ensued, vehicle after vehicle piling up on this foggy night.Clearly, all whoever had perpetrated this crime cared about was that the crime he covered by a grinding collision of jagged steel, flying glass shards, and a proliferation of bodies. "The scene at 79th and the Sunset" refers to A、the beauty of the natural setting. B．what was going on at that location. C．something that cannot be determained by the text. D．none of the abov

【单选题】： A     B     C     D

第3题： The Export-Import Bank extends long-term ______ at favorable rate to foreign buyers, thus financing the purchase of U. S. goods and services. A．mortgages B．securities C．insurances D．loans

【单选题】： A     B     C     D

第4题：Many critics of the current welfare system argue that existing welfare regulations foster family instability. They maintain that those regulations, which exclude most poor husband and wife families fromAid to Families withDependentChildren assistance grants, contribute to the problem of family dissolution. Thus, they conclude that expanding the set of families eligible for family assistance plans or guaranteed income measures would result in a marked strengthening of the low income family structure. If all poor families could receive welfare, would the incidence of instability change markedly The unhappily married couple, in most cases, remain together out of a sense of economic responsibility for their children, because of the high costs of separation, or because of the consumption benefits of marriage. The formation, maintenance, and dissolution of the family is in large part a function of the relative balance between the benefits and costs of marriage as seen by the individual members of the marriage. The major benefit generated by the creation of a family is the expansion of the set of consumption possibilities. The benefits from such a partnership depend largely on the relative dissimilarity of the resources or basic endowments each partner brings to the marriage. Persons with similar productive capacities have less economic "cement" holding their marriage together. Since the family performs certain function society regards as vital, a complex network of social and legal buttresses has evolved to reinforce marriage. Much of the variation in marital stability across income classes can be explained by the variation in costs of dissolution imposed by society, e. g. division of property, alimony, child support, and the social stigma attached to divorce. Marital stability is related to the costs of achieving an acceptable agreement on family consumption and production and to the prevailing social price of instability in the marriage partners social economic group.ExpectedAFDC、income exerts pressures on family instability by reducing the cost of dissolution. To the extent that welfare is a form of government subsidized alimony payments, it reduces the institutional costs of separation and guarantees a minimal standard of living for wife and children. So welfare opportunities are a significant determinant of family instability in poor neighborhoods, but this is not the result ofAFDC、regulations that exclude most intact families from coverage. Rather, welfare instability occurs because public assistance lowers both the benefits of marriage and the costs of its disruption by providing a system of government subsidized alimony payments. The tone of the passage can best be described as ______. A、confident and optimistic B．scientific and detached C．discouraged and alarmed D．polite and sensitive

【单选题】： A     B     C     D

第5题：The writer believes thatAmericans will still consider cars as an essential part in their life because A. cars provide them with freedom, which is invaluable toAmericans B．the motor industry employ one in seven workers in their manufacturing plants C．the ownership of cars will signify one's social status D．shopping bags have annoyingly lost their carrying handles and shoppers ceased to be pedestrian

【单选题】： A     B     C     D