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大学六级-1614
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[单项选择]We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War Ⅱ as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less truly could be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
Economic condition was only one stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War Ⅱ and took up posts at American architecture schools. These designers, including Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, came to exert enormous influe
A. efficiency and practicality
B. prosperity and growth
C. restraint and confidence
D. pride and faithfulness
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[单项选择]A. Her mom has approved without hesitation, while her dad hasn’t.
B. Her dad has approved of it, and her mom will probably do the same.
C. Her dad still needs time to think, while her mom has already agreed.
D. Her dad needs time to think, while her mom definitely won’t consider it.
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[单项选择]Despite the scandals over leaked e-mails, the scientific evidence for global warming remains strong. The question, then, is to what (62) have the controversies eroded (消弱) the public’s trust in climate science or, worse, in the scientists themselves
There has (63) been some decline. (64) , a closer look at the data across multiple polls shows that, broadly speaking, the public trusts scientists, believes in global warming and wants governments to do something about it. The public seems to have done what the mainstream media could not: it has kept the scandals in (65) . The harsh verbal attacks (66) climate science and scientists are actually coming from a (67) handful of critics, and they do not (68) a broader revival of skepticism.
Yet few climate scientists are likely to take (69) in this news. For them, the real (70) of public trust is the level of political (71) on global warming: if p
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[单项选择]Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.A. Frank. B. Modest.
C. Indirect. D. Confident.
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[单项选择]Dogs Make Employees More Productive At Work
Leib Lurie never intended for his company, message delivery service One Call Now, to be pet-friendly. But his dog, Ivy, had other ideas.
Five years ago, the German shepherd showed up unannounced at One Call Now’s Troy, Ohio-based office—a 1.5-mile trek from Lurie’s home. When he continued to make the trip each day he wasn’t brought to the office, Lurie realized it was time for a change in company policy. Today, four or five employee’s dogs, as well as a variety offish, birds, and other caged animals join Ivy in the office daily to make One Call Now a workingman’s menagerie (动物园).
"They’re not very good at sending voice messages," Lurie jokes of the pets in his office. "But we’ve gotten them down with using the computer, at least the point part."
One Call Now joins a growing force of companies across the United States to welcome pets in the workplace. While only 17 percent of U.S.
A. employees brought their pets to the office
B. his pet dog showed up in the office daily
C. he found dogs make employees more productive
D. his company moved to the office in the suburban
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[单项选择]A. He dislikes this job, so he will quit soon.
B. He likes the job, if not for those working hours.
C. He’s not decided, but he knows he shouldn’t quit.
D. He wants to change his job for all he likes about it.
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[单项选择]A. She feels very hot in the room. B. She doesn’t like the smell inside.
C. She wants to avoid meeting people. D. She wants to smoke a cigarette there.
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[单项选择]Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.A. One that is already extinct in some parts of the world.
B. One that is extremely dangerous to humans.
C. One that faces threats from humans in its natural surroundings.
D. One that is likely to extinct in its natural home.
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[简答题]According to Squires, people who don’t like dogs are not ______ for her company The Squires Group.
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[简答题]The American Human Association advises companies to make and highlight ______ in their transition to dog-friendly companies.
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[单项选择]Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.A. A little girl. B. A little boy. C. A secretary. D. A dog.
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[填空题]For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Why do so many people live to a healthy old age in certain parts of the world What is the (36) of their long lives Three things seem to (37) to it: fresh air, flesh food and a simple way of life. People work near their homes in the clean, mountain air instead of travelling long (38) to work by bus, car or train. They do not sit all day in (39) offices or factories, but work hard outdoors in the fields. They take more exercise and eat less food than people in the cities of the West. For years, the Hunaz of the Himalayas did not need policemen, lawyers or doctors. There was no crime, no (40) and not much illness in their society. They were a happy, peaceful people, famous all over India for their long, healthy l
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[填空题]It is amazing that so many people______(愿为社区的利益做义务工作).
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[单项选择]A. The results of her finals are ironic.
B. The man should have attended the lectures.
C. The result of the final is unbelievable, too.
D. The man should not have chosen urban planning.
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[单项选择]A. She wanted to please the man.
B. She bought the ticket on impulse.
C. She wanted to invite her professor to the concert.
D. She meant to ignore the appointment with her professor.
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[填空题]According to new research simple words such as ’be’, ’that’, ’will’, ’him’, ’and’ and even ’a’ could hold the key to a successful marriage. Experts say the style in which couples talk and how they use common words can predict whether a relationship will be successful or not.
It is already well known that people are attracted to potential partners who resemble themselves in personality, values and physical appearance. However, experts now claim these features only skim the surface of what makes a relationship work. The ways that people talk are also important according to the study which found that people who speak in a similar style are more compatible. The U.S. study focused on what it dubbed ’function words’.
These are not nouns or verbs, but everyday words such as a, be, anything, that, will, him and even and. Study coauthor Professor James Pennebaker, of Texas University, said how we use these words constitutes our writing and speaking style and couples who use them i
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[单项选择]A. He couldn’t make time for it. B. He had probably caught the flu.
C. He was not in the mood for it. D. He went floating with some other students.
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[填空题]I am writing to you to________(因让你失望而致歉).
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[填空题]She took a taxi to the station for fear that she______(错过去目的地城市的火车).
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[单项选择]Will the European Union make it The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a "Bermuda triangle" of debt, demographic decline and lower growth.
As well as those chronic problems, the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency. Markets have lost faith that the euro zone’s economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.
Yet the debate about how to save Europe’s single currency from disintegration is stuck. It is stuck because the euro zone’s dominant powers, France and Germany, agree on the need for greater harmonisation within the euro zone, but disagree about what to harmonise.
Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrowing, spending and competitiveness, backed by quasiautomatic (半自动的) sanction
A. it has more or less lost faith in markets
B. even its supporters begin to feel concerned
C. some of its member countries start to abandon euro
D. it intends to deny the possibility of devaluation
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[简答题]TRX is considering ______ its pet policy as it intends to increase the number of its employees.
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[多项选择]1.当今社会,社交网站很流行
2.人们对此看法不同
3.我的看法
Social Network Sites
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[填空题]Here we should mention ______(他是否辞职没有太大影响).
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[单项选择]A. He declined the bookstore job once.
B. He really wants to work in the bookstore.
C. He didn’t know where the bookstore was.
D. He wasn’t offered the job in the bookstore,
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[单项选择]Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.A. The unequal distribution of housework between men and women.
B. The change of women’s attitude towards housework.
C. The influence of men sharing housework in American families.
D. The change of the time spent on housework in American families.
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[填空题]No one in the conference is against the suggestion ______.(我们应该重视信息科技).
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[单项选择]A. The tailor’s. B. A dress-up party.
C. The theatre. D. A shopping mall.
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[单项选择]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.A. The climate there is too cold. B. The air-fare is quite expensive.
C. He has visited it twice before. D. He does not have the passport.