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[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
During parties, the speaker used to
A. enjoy the wine and delicious foods.
B. pretend to be lonely.
C. sit alone and wait someone to talk to him.
D. talk to the interesting looking peopl
[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
With the global economy now taking more executives to far-away places like Beijing and Mumbai, jet lag is becoming a bigger problem, leading sleep researchers to work harder than ever to find suitable remedies.
Trips to the other side of the globe make adjusting a traveler’s body clock a more lasting process. Jet lag experts say they believe it takes one day for each time zone away from home, up to a maximum of six or seven days, to get fully in sync (同步) with local time.
There is no easy remedy. One problem in developing solutions is all the variation in travelers’ ability to handle jet lag. Sleep researchers have found that people who have dealt with sleep loss over long periods—on night shifts, for example can tolerate jet lag better than most. And older travelers also tend to get harder hit than the young by jet lag. About eight million corporate travelers made overseas trips last year, most of whom were
[单项选择] Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.
It can be concluded that Mr. Nelson’s former wife
A. was often ill.
B. seldom got ill.
C. had married another man.
D. had undergone an operation two years before.
[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Picasso’s art was not just a pleasant distraction. The artist believed that art helps to penetrate further into the world and into men for understanding. With his unusually acute senses, with his intense, black eyes, Picasso saw every subject as no one else did. He tried to express the essence of his subject. He showed people how to grasp a new concept of beauty. He made them realize that beauty can have a diversity of forms. "Now is the time in this period of change and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before." That was Picasso’s idea. Believing it is the artist’s function to discover new forms of expression, he liberated art and made our feelings about it more acute.
Picasso keeps all of art alive. His work encompasses ’all of the past and foretells the future of art. His early paintings were sober and sensible, in the academic style. But Picasso was among the first
A. They arouse much imagination.
B. They are enjoyable amusements.
C. They show a new concept of beauty.
D. They express the essence of the subject.
[单项选择] Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.
The proper title for this passage would be
A. Rat the Cleverest.
B. The Largest Grain Eater.
C. Our Most Dangerous Enemy--the Rat.
D. The Dangerous Diseases Carrier.
[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
A soccer referee suspended (吊销执照) for scoring a goal while taking charge of a game has resigned after being found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by the Essex County Football Association. The Essex County Football Association said that they were disappointed by the decision of Savill, who hit the headlines last year when his sympathy for a team getting beaten 18- 1 went too far. "It is a pretty unique case and hopefully it won’t happen again," said Essex County FA chief executive Phil Sammons.
Brian Savill was taking charge of a Great Bromley Cup game in the south of England between Earls Colne Reserves and Wimpole 2000. With 10 minutes remaining and Wimple getting beaten 18- 1, Savill found the ball at his feet in front of the Earls Colne goal and immediately banged it into the net, before signaling a goal.
The laws of the game state that the referee is part of the playing ar
A. A sense of humor.
B. The football game.
C. The referee’s goal.
D. The score of the game.
[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
There is progress toward a possible treatment for lung diseases such as SARS ( severe acute respiratory syndrome ). Researchers have learned more about how the SARS virus works: it (47) with a system in the body that uses enzymes (酶) to control blood pressure and fluid balance. Scientists say the virus (48) to an enzyme known as ACE-two. The virus blocks the enzyme, permitting fluid to enter the lungs.
A team from Europe and Asia reported the (49) in Nature Medicine. Doctor Josef Penninger of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in the Austrian Academy of Sciences was the (50) writer of the report. The discovery could lead to a new (51) of treating not just SARS but also other diseases that can cause lung failure. These include avian flu (禽流感) and influenza in humans.
The first (52) of SARS were discovered in Guangdong provi
[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
A Census Bureau (人口调查局) survey released Thursday shows a college graduate can expect to earn $2.1 million working full-time between 25 and 54, which demographers (人口学家) call a typical work-life period. A master’s degree-holder is projected to earn 2.5 million, while someone with a professional degree, such as a doctor or lawyer, could make even more-- $4.4 million. In contrast, a high school graduate can expect to make $1.2 million during the working years, according to the bureau report that tracked the influence of education on lifetime earnings.
Not all students look at college as an Investment," but I am sure parents do," said Jacqueline King, policy analyst with the American Education Council, a higher education advocacy (拥护) group. "The college is to convince those high school students on the margins that it is really worth their time to go to college. " Kevin Malecek, a graduate student in Am
A. spend as much money as possible as college students
B. get the most rewards from the money they have paid
C. understand the influence of higher education on their lifetime earnings
D. make as much money as possible before they graduate from the college
[单项选择]Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.
Why does the speaker mention cigarette smoke
A. It bothers people with asthma.
B. Cigarettes aren’t allowed at the camp.
C. It pollutes the air in the tents.
D. People who smoke don’t come to the camp.
