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公共英语四级-243
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W: It’s well-known science fiction plot to freeze a body and bring it back to life years later.
However, this may no longer be so far from the truth. Joining us from our Cardiff studio is Professor Andrew Morgan, who’s been doing some research into this subject. Professor Morgan.
M: Yes, well, I’ve been looking into the ability of certain animals to freeze themselves for a certain amount of time, and then to come back to life when the circumstances around them change. And, what I’ve been working on over the past two years is the particular process that enables them to do this.
W: What have you actually discovered
M: I think it’s a particular chemical in the animals’ bodies which begins to work under certain circumstances. And I’m now experimenting with this chemical to see if I can get other animals that wouldn’t normally be able to freeze themselves to be able to do this.
W: Have you had any
A. He is a film director of Science Fiction.
B. He is a writer of Science Fiction.
C. He is a scientist who researches on how to freeze a body and bring it back to life later.
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Malls are popular places for Americans to go. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called "mall rats". Mall rats shop until they drop in the hundreds of stores under one rood.
People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations of private security guards. Parking is usually free, and the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest areas with waterfalls and large green trees.
The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 mil- lion square feet. It has 350 stores, eight night clubs, and a seven-acre park! There are park- ing spaces for 2,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop there every week.
The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina, Minnesota. People like doing all their shopping in one place. More malls were built around the country. Now, malls are like town centers where people come to do many things, th
A. One spends so much time at malls.
B. One steals at malls.
C. One sees dentists at malls.
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The United States economy made progress in reducing unemployment and moderating inflation. On the international side, this year was much calmer than last. Nevertheless, continuing imbalances in the pattern of world trade contributed to intermittent strains in the foreign exchange markets. These strains intensified to crisis proportions, precipitating a further devaluation of the dollar.
The domestic economy expanded in a remarkably vigorous and steady fashion. The resurgence in consumer confidence was reflected in the higher proportion of incomes spent for goods and services and the marked increase in consumer willingness to take on installment debt. A parallel strengthening in business psychology was manifested in stepped-up rate of plant and equipment spending and a gradual pickup in outlays for inventory. Confidence in the economy was also reflected in the strength of the stock market and in the stability of the bond market. For the year as a whole, consumer and busine
A. price and wage controls.
B. stimulative monetary and fiscal policies.
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Working parents and teachers see after-school programs no longer as optional, but as an essential support for children as they grow and develop, according to a new national study of after-school programs, released by Reader’s Digest Funds. Nearly 80 percent of parents surveyed in the study said that after-school programs helped their children cope with behavioral problems and helped them obtain new skills to meet increased demands in school.
At a time when states and the federal government are pressing harder than ever for improved academic achievement by all children, a three-year study shows that after-school programs, particularly in low-income communities, are an effective and affordable way not only to keep children safe and out of trouble, but also to keep them engaged in school. The report concludes that children in school-based after-school programs benefit both academically and socially in programs that offer a diverse set of activities. The report findings
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What is it about Paris For the last two centuries it has been the single most visited city in the world. Tourists still go for the art and the food, even if they have to brave the disdain of ticket-takers and waiters. Revolutionaries on the run, artists in search of the galleries and writers looking for the license to explore their inner selves went looking for people like themselves and created their own fields filled with experimentation and constant arguments. Would worldwide communist revolution have been conceivable without the Paris that was home to Marx, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh Would Impressionism or Cubism have become "isms" without Paris as a place to work and as a subject to paint How Paris came to be, for such a long time, "capital of the world"
The answer lies in the city’s "myths" according to the distinguished Harvard historian Patrice Higonnet in "Paris: Capital of the World. " In his book, Paris came to stand for
A. Stanford University
B. Harvard University
C. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Who won the World Cup 2006 football game What happened at the United Nations How did the critics like the new play (21) an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets (22) the detail. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spots to (23) the news.
Newspapers have one basic (24) , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (25) it.
Radio, telegraph, television, and (26) inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (27) , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the (28) and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are (29) and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Bes
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When I was 18, I had my first job as a waitress. I worked in a very nice hotel in a small town in Scotland where there were a lot of tourists in the summer so they were taking on extra staff. I lived in a little house opposite the hotel. I had to be at work in the dining room at 7:30 in the morning to start serving breakfast. After serving the breakfast, at about ten o’clock, I had my own breakfast. After that, we started getting the dining room ready for lunch-cleaning the silver, setting the tables, hoovering the floor. I didn’t make too bad a job of serving lunch—one of the waiters looked after me and showed me how to do things. I would on the first day have been quite happy, but I had a problem which was that I’d got up in such a hurry and I just put on my shoes with really high heels. After a few hours on my feet I was in agony and there was nothing I could do about it, there was certainly no time to go and change them. I can tell you I never wore tho
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In 1963 an American physiotherapist (理疗家) Glenn Doman wrote a best-selling book called "How to Teach Your Baby to Read". Now translated into 17 languages, this book arose from his work with brain-damaged children in Pennsylvania. Doman and his team of specialists had wondered why brain-injured children didn’t improve with medical treatment. Then they realized that conventional methods of treatment only relieved the symptoms, not the problem, which of course was the brain itself. So they developed a new approach.
"All we do for all children here is to give them visual, auditory and touchable stimulation with increased frequency, intensity and duration, in recognition of the orderly way in which the brain grows," says Doman. "The result was that by 1960 we had hundreds of severely brain-injured two olds who could read and understand." The team had discovered that even children who had half their brains removed could, by stimulation, achie
A. most normal two-year-old children can read.
B. brain-damaged children can overcome their disability.
C. brain-damaged children generally have high IQs.
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[简答题]Natural resources are limited on earth. Recycling the waste is one of the solution to this problem. Write an essay including the following points:
1) The background of recycling the waste.
2) The significance and the necessity of recycling the waste.
3) Your comments.
You should write 160-200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
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Miss White is talking to a travel agent in Washington.
Travel Agent: Good morning. Can I help you
Miss White: Hello. My name’s Miss White and I’m intending to go to a conference in Shanghai, China.
Travel Agent: I see. And if you pay the full return fare, then you can have unlimited stopovers.
Miss White: Sounds good. You see, the thing is that I’ve got two weeks’ holiday after the conference and I’ve never been out that way before, and I wanted to go shopping or see Hong Kong or somewhere round there.
Travel Agent: Oh, you’ve got quite a lot of choice.
Miss White: How much is the full fare
Travel Agent: Well, it’s $1240.
Miss White: Well, it’s once in a lifetime. I’ve never been.
Travel Agent: Mm.
Miss White: The thing is that I’m terrified of flying.
Travel Agent: Oh, dear!
Miss White: Mm, yes. I can persuade my friends to s -
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Lie detectors are widely used in the United States to find out whether a person is telling the truth or not. 61) Polygraphers, the people who operate them, claim that they can establish guilt b v detecting physiological changes that accompany emotional stress. The technique adopted is to ask leading questions such as: "Did you take the money" or "Where did you hide the money", mixed in with neutral questions, and measure the subject’s electrical resistance in the palm or changes in his breathing and heart rate.
Whether lie detectors will ever be adopted on a similar scale in Britain is still a matter of opinion. 62) At first sight, it appears obvious that any simple, reliable method of convicting guilty people is valuable, but recent research not only raises doubts about how lie detectors should be used but also makes it questionable whether they should be employed at all.
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Excite’s Universal Inbox: A Mixed Bag
If information is coming at you from mo many directions, Excite @ Home’s Excite Inbox promises a solution. This Web site gives you one Inbox for e-mail, voice mail, and faxes, and, perhaps best of all, you get it all for free. It’s not a particularly good inbox.
The service is pretty much your standard Web-based e-mail system, not much different from Hotmail or any other, you can visit it from any Web-enabled computer. It supports attachments, displays formatted messages properly, and can read messages from your standard POP e-mail accounts in addition to any other account you set up with Excite. And, just like the other e-mail services on the Web, it’s much slower than non-Web-based e-mail. You do get one unique feature: you can personalize the Excite Inbox with your choice of nine unread-mail icons and 15 color schemes, including Lavender, Techno, and Mint Julep. It’s a nice feature, but not an
A. You can personalize the Excite Inbox with your choice of nine unread-mail icons and 15 color schemes, including Lavender, Techno, Mint Julep.
B. You can get this Inbox for e-mail, voice mail, and faxes all for free.
C. You can get information from many directions.
D. Listening to messages and viewing faxes are both simple and easy,