[单项选择]The ______ has become extremely tense. A war could break out any time between the two sides.


A. pollution
B. friendship
C. situation
D. condition

[单项选择]The______ has become extremely tense. A war could break out any time between the two sides.


A. pollution
B. friendship
C. situation
D. condition

[单项选择]According to a war correspondent, one could sense nothing but flashes and bangs during the ______ of the war.


A. climax
B. summit
C. pitch
D. maximum

[单项选择]Telecommuting has become main style of working.

[单项选择]The curriculum vitae has become such an important document because______.


A. there has been an increase in the number of jobs advertised
B. there has been an increase in the number of applicants with degrees
C. jobs are becoming much more complicated nowadays
D. the other processes of applying for jobs are more complicated

[单项选择]In recent years American society has become increasingly dependent on its universities to find solutions to its major problems. It is the universities that have been charged with the principal responsibility for developing the expertise to place men on the moon; for dealing with our urban problems, and with our deteriorating environment; for developing the means to feed the world"s rapidly increasing population. The effort involved in meeting these demands presents its own problems. In addition, this concentration on the creation of new knowledge significantly impinges on the universities" efforts to perform their other principal functions, the transmission and interpretation of knowledge—the imparting of the heritage of the past and the preparing of the next generation to carry it forward. With regard to this, perhaps their most traditionally sanctioned task, colleges and universities today find themselves in a serious bind generally. On the one hand, there is the American commitment, entered into especially since World War II, to provide higher education for all young people who can profit from it. The result of the commitment has been a dramatic rise in enrollments in our universities, coupled with a radical shift from the private to the public sector of higher education. On the other hand, there are serious and continuing limitations on the resources available for higher education. While higher education has become a great "growth industry", it is also simultaneously a tremendous drain on the resources of the nation. With the vast increase in enrollment and the shift in priorities away from education in state and federal budgets, there is in most of our public institutions a significant decrease in per capita outlay for their students. One crucial aspect of this drain on resources lies in the persistent shortage of trained faculty, which has led, in turn, to a declining standard of competence in instruction. Intensifying these difficulties is, as indicated above, the concern with research, with its competing claims on resources and the attention of the faculty. In addition, there is a strong tendency for the institutions" organization and functioning to conform to the demands of research rather thorn those of teaching.According to the author, ______ is the most important function of institutions of higher education.
A. creating new knowledge
B. providing solutions to social problems
C. making experts on sophisticated industries out of their students
D. preparing their students to transmit inherited knowledge

[多项选择]Nowadays it has become fashionable for college students to take a part-time job in their spare time.
the Advantages and Disadvantages of College Students Taking a Part-time Job
You are to write in three parts: In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement. In the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy.

[单项选择]Shopping has become a very secret and mysterious affair. Conspicuous consumption does not look good during a recession, which explains why so many of us are embracing e-commerce. Online shopping on these shores is projected to grow from sales of ￡8.9bn to around ￡21.3bn by the end next year.
Often people proclaim they’ve embraced e-commerce because it’s "green". This is understandable. If many shopping bags in a recession look bad, bricks and mortar retail--huge out-oftown shopping centres, retail emporia (大百货店) that insist on leaving their doors open even in winter and grocery stores full of the most inefficient freezers--look terrible during an ecological emergency.
Should we buy the idea that e-commerce is any better Several studies have tried to answer this with cold, hard data. A 2000 study on Webvan, a US online grocer that does not exist any more, concluded that a wider adoption of e-commerce would not give us environmental gains, while a 2002 study of US book retailin
A. conspicuous
B. economical
C. secret
D. safe

[简答题]Population ageing has become a world-wide phenomenon. Moreover, it has not only come to stay but, especially in the developing countries, it will become more felt and acute with the passage of time. Its repercussions are so wide-ranging and manifold that they can only be ignored at a tremendous cost to society.
The growing rate of population ageing poses many challenges which have to be faced realistically. A number of decisions have to he taken with the cooperation of every social institution, he it the State, Non-Governmental Organizations, the community, the family members and last but not least, the older persons themselves. Each has a very important role to play in ensuring a sustainable development for the elderly population.
Governments and civil society including organizations of older persons, academia, community-based organizations and the private sector need to help in capacity building on ageing issues. As the Shanghai Implementation Strategy points out, "A life-c

[单项选择]It has been argued that where schools become bureaucratized, they become bound up with the techniques and implementation of the managerial process, and may concentrate on concem with position and self-advancement．In so doing, they may neglect the purpose for which they were set up．
Thus, they do not facilitate the development of those who are part of the school community, and tend to neglect the desires of children, parents and society at large．
It is because of such criticisms that there has been an increasing influence in political rhetoric and legislation of free-market theories of organization and society．Such theories suggest that a much more market-oriented, competitive approach is required so that schools reorient themselves towards their"clients"．By so doing, it is claimed, not only do they once again address the needs of those with whom they should be primarily concemed, but such an approach also unleashes the benefits of individual responsibility,freedom of choice,
A. schools have no real clients
B. thev concentrate only on the consumer and do not include teachers
C. schools are totally different from the free market
D. they have no solid purpose in their aims