[单项选择]Fragments of charred antelope bone have recently been found at a million-year-old settlement of Homo erectus, an early human species. This discovery demonstrates that humans were making controlled use of fire to cook meat at a very early stage of their development.
The argument above makes which of the following assumptions
A. Every human species since Homo erectus has made controlled use of fire.
B. Homo erectus could not have eaten antelope meat unless the meat had been cooked.
C. Early human settlements can be identified by the presence of charred antelope bones.
D. The diet of Homo erectus consisted in large part of antelope meat.
E. (E) The antelope bones were charred in a fire controlled by humans.

[简答题]Question 4
·Recently your payments have always been delayed by your customers. The Financial Director of the company you work for has asked you to write a proposal suggesting ways to ensure timely payment of your sales.
·Write your proposal for the financial director, including the following information:
·a brief description of the present situation
·masons of delaying payment by customers
·measures to ensure timely payment
·any disadvantages there might be.

[填空题]Recently, researchers have found that it is something in our brain that causes our anxiety.

[多项选择]Recently newspapers have reported that officials in a little-known mountainous area near Guiyang, Guizhou Province wanted to turn the area into a “central business district” for Guiyang and invited a foreign design company to give it a n entirely new look. The design company came up with a blueprint for unconventional, super-futuristic buildings. Tis triggered off different responses. Some appreciated the bold innovation of the design, but others held that it failed to reflect regional characteristics or local cultural heritage. What is your view on this Write an essay of about 400 words. You should supply an appropriate title for your essay. In the first part of your writing you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failu

[单项选择]Recently archaeologists have strived (to develop) theories, (based on) archaeological (evident), that (explain) societal changes such as the development of farming.（）
A. to develop
B. based on
C. evident
D. explain

[多项选择]· Recently you have become unhappy with a service that has been provided to your company for a number of years. You have decided to write a letter of complaint to the service provider.
· Write your letter to the company that provides the service, including the following information:
· which service you are complaining about
· why you are dissatisfied with the service
· what action you want the service provider to take
· what you will do if there is no improvement in the service.

[简答题]Recently all sales clerks have been awarded other than John. _________________________.

[单项选择]Recently a number of cases have been reported of young children ______ a violent act previously seen on television.
A. modifying
B. duplicating
C. accelerating
D. stimulating

[单项选择] Researchers have recently found a connection between diseases and stressful situations. To test this theory, psychologists are trying to find a link between the brain and the immune system.
Our bodies are likely to get various diseases and it depends on how well our immune system works. Biologists used to think that the immune system was a separate, independent part of our bodies. Recently, however, they have found that our brain can affect our immune system. This discovery indicates that there may be a connection between emotional factors, such as stress or depression, and illness.
Although many doctors in the past suspected a connection between emotional factor and disease, they had no proof. Scientists have only recently discovered how the brain and the immune system function. Before this, no one could see a link between them. As a result, medical science never seriously considered the idea that psychological factors could cause disease.
Several recent
A. stress is directly linked with illness.
B. bereaved people should control their emotions properly
C. white blood cells are an important part of the immune system
D. there is obvious connection between immune system and psychological factors

[单项选择]Two techniques have recently been developed to simplify research and reduce the number of nonhuman primates needed in studies of certain complex hormonal reactions. One technique involves the culturing of primate pituitary cells and the cells of certain human turnouts. In the other, animal oviduct tissue is transplanted under the skin of laboratory primates. Both culturing techniques complement existing methods of studying intact animals.
With an in vitro culturing technique, researchers are deciphering how biochemical agents regulate the secretion of prolactin, the pituitary hormone that promotes milk production. The cultured cells survive for as long as a month, and they do not require serum, a commonly used culture ingredient that can influence cellular function and confound study results. One primate pituitary gland may yield enough cells for as many as 72 culture dishes, which otherwise would require as many animals.
The other technique allows scientists to monitor cellu
A. currently available but prohibitively expensive
B. currently available and widely used
C. theoretically possible but of no real scientific value
D. theoretically possible but as yet technically impossible

[填空题] Some managers have noticed recently that the employees in the company are taking advantage of the policy of having breaks. The workers have two 15-minute breaks per (11) However, the two breaks are lasting (12) as 25 to 30 minutes each. The workers complain that the factory work is so (13) that they need longer breaks. Also the dining hall is so (14) that it takes too long to walk there and back. But the company is losing hundreds of work hours each year. Should employees be paid for the time they are not working The general manager has to call a meeting to (15) this matter.

[简答题](46) Many journalism critics have recently argued that American journalism is undergoing a profound change because it now regularly mixes entertainment with the news. Critics typically argue that this entertainment is in the form of sensationalistic celebrity-scandal. In fact, there is a long history of sensationalism in American journalism, a fact documented by several journalism historians. (47) But the main point of contemporary critics is that sensationalism and tabloid-style techniques, which were always present on the fringes of journalism, are now becoming the norm in American journalism, and are being adopted by so-called "mainstream" media as part of economic survival strategies in the cutthroat business climate of American mass media. These contemporary critics typically argue that there should be a rigid boundary between mainstream journalism and other kinds of mass communication such as tabloid journalism. (48) The critics imply that one kind of communicati