Could you change a room facing south fo rme的中文意思是()。
A.请你们现在就清扫房间
B.能否给我换一间朝阳的房间
C.你们只有一间套房了
D.你们有空房吗
A.请你们现在就清扫房间
B.能否给我换一间朝阳的房间
C.你们只有一间套房了
D.你们有空房吗
Why are so many【37】? Susan George affirms with conviction, and with solid【38】, that it is not because there【39】too many passengers on" Spaceship Earth ", not because【40】bad weather or changing climates, but because of food【41】by the rich.【42】the poor go hungry.
The multinational agribusiness corporations,【43】governments with their food "aid" policies and supposedly neural multilateral development organizations【44】responsibility for their【45】.
They all work in corporation【46】local elites, themselves nurtured and protected by the powerful in the【47】world. The United States【48】the way, leads the pack and is【49】imposing its control over the whole planet.
Only those【50】people who can become consumers will eat in the Brave New World being shaped【51】the well-fed. The standard liberal solution to【52】the world-population control or the Green Revolution are just【53】the hungry poor don't need. All the need is social change, otherwise known as【54】. With that, they could, and would, resolve most of their problems【55】.
(41)
A.spend
B.read
C.finish
D.overtake
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
On the ground floor of the Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, there is an electronic game which tests a visitor's skill at setting interest rates. You have to decide how to respond to events such as rising inflation or a stockmarket crash. If you get all the answers right, the machine declares you the next Fed chairman. In real life, because of huge uncertainties about data and how the economy works, there is no obviously right answer to the question of when to change interest rates. Nor is there any easy test of who will make the best Fed chairman. So who would The Economist select for the job?
Alan Greenspan will retire as Fed chairman on January 31st, after a mere 181/2 years in the job. So George Bush needs to nominate a successor soon. Mr. Bush has a penchant for picking his pals to fill top jobs: last week he nominated his personal lawyer Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. But his personal bank manager really would not cut the mustard as Fed chairman. This is the most important economic-policy job in America—indeed in the whole world. The Fed chairman sets interest rates with the aim of controlling inflation, which in turn helps determine the value of the dollar, the world's main reserve currency. It is hardly surprising that financial markets worldwide can rise or fall on his every word.
Financial markets are typically more volatile during the first year after the handover to a new chairman than during the rest of his tenure. In October 1987,barely two months after Mr. Greenspan took office, the stock market crashed. Current conditions for a handover are hardly ideal. America's economy has never looked so unbalanced, with a negative household savings rate, a housing bubble, a hefty budget deficit, a record current-account deficit and rising inflation. Figures due on October 14th are expected to show that the 12-monthrate of inflation has risen above 4% —its highest since 1991.
Which of the following questions does the text discuss?
A.What is the content of the electronic game?
B.Who could fill Alan Greenspan's shoes?
C.How to respond to events such as rising inflation?
D.Who could change interest rates?
Peter: Excuse me, are you Mr. Henry Smith?
Henry: Oh, you must be Peter.
Peter: () Mr. Smith.
Henry: Nice to meet you, too.
Peter: How was your journey?
Henry: ()
Peter: Our car is in the parking lot. Shall we go to the hotel first?
Henry: Yes. I really need a good rest. And, Peter, could you do me a favor?
Peter: Yes, of course.
Henry: I wonder if you could help me take my suitcase and box to the car. ()
Peter: My pleasure, sir. (Trying to lift the box) You've put the whole of America into your box. They are really very heavy, ha-ha! Please stay here while I get a cart.
Henry: By the way, do you know where I can get mints here? It seems there's no store around.
Peter: I know where the store is. Would you like me to get some mints for you?
Henry: ()
Peter comes back, and they walk out of the gate.
Henry: Oh, it's good to see the sun! I'm always worried about Beijing's haze.
Peter: Yes, () That'll be a nice change, won't it? A big improvement on what we've been having.
Henry: That's great! I think all this sunshine is just too good to be true!
选择合适的单词或短语完成句子。
A. Pretty good, but a little tiring.
B. It seems to be clearing up.
C. They are too heavy for me to carry.
D. That's very kind of you.
E. Nice to meet you.
You can' t entirely blame men for this change in manners. The days are gone when women could be treated as the weaker sex. A whole generation of women has grown up demanding equality with men; not just equality in jobs or education, but in social attitudes. Hold a door open for some women and you're likely to get an angry lecture on treating women as inferiors, unable to open doors for themselves. Take a girl out for a meal and she'll probably insist on paying her share of the bill.
It' s no wonder, then, that men have given up some of the gestures of politeness and consideration which they used to show towards women. On the other hand, man' s politeness is perhaps slowly being replaced by true consideration for the needs and feelings of women, so that men can see women as equal human beings.
What do gentlemen now do when a lady gets on a crowded bus or train?
A.They will stand up reluctantly.
B.They will offer her their seats after a while.
C.They will pretend not to see her.
D.They will get off the bus.
By then we'll be wrestling with another question: how we control all the electronic (6)_____ connected to the internet: trillions of PCs, laptops, cell phones and other gadgets. In Cambridge, we're already working (7)_____ millimetre-square computing and sensing devices that can be linked to the internet through the radio network. This sort of (8)_____ will expand dramatically (9)_____ microscopic communications devices become dirt-cheap and multiply. Just imagine (10)_____ the paint on the wall could do if it had this sort of communications dust in it: change colour, play music, show movies or even speak to you.
(11)_____ costs raise other possibilities too. (12)_____ launching space vehicles is about to become very much cheaper, the number of satellites is likely to go up exponentially. There's lots of (13)_____ up there so we could have millions of them. And if you have millions of loworbit satellites, you can establish a (14)_____ communications network that completely does away with towers and masts. If the satellites worked on the cellular principle so you got spatial reuse of frequencies, system (15)_____ would be amazing. Speech is so (16)_____ that I expect voice communication to become almost free eventually: you' 11 pay just a monthly fixed (17)_____ and be able to make as many calls as you want. By then people will also have fixed links with business (18)_____, friends and relatives. One day I (19)_____ being able to keep in touch with my family in Poland on a fibreoptic audio-video (20)_____; we'll be able to have a little ceremony at supper-time, open the curtains and sit down "together" to eat.
A.electrically
B.electronically
C.automatically
D.technically
One area of change id television.When I started school, most people didn’t have a television; TV was just beginning get__3__.My father__4__to go all out(尽全力)and buy a 16-inch black and white set.Still remember__5__the Disney cartoon films.That was exciting!
Now, televisions have larger pictures in full color.The pictures are clearer and the sound is much more__6__.The new high definition(高清晰度)sets are as clear as__7__screens.
The type and number of programs have__8__greatly.There are hundreds of channels(频道)and more shows than one person could ever watch.There are many fine entertainment and educational shows.There’s also a lot of garbage that most parents don’t want their kids to watch.__9__, we have more choices(选择),and that is good.
I wonder what__10__will be like when today’s kids are my age.
(1)A.forget
B.remember
C.compare
D.miss
(2)A.today’s
B.yesterday’s
C.tomorrow’s
D.future’s
(3)A.gone
B.new
C.expensive
D.popular
(4)A.made
B.decided
C.hoped
D.tried
(5)A.making
B.watching
C.preparing
D.buying
(6)A.untrue
B.loud
C.high
D.realistic
(7)A.movie
B.television
C.radio
D.telephone
(8)A.lost
B.increased
C.watched
D.played
(9)A.As usual
B.Above all
C.Besides
D.Especially
(10)A.movies
B.food
C.cars
D.televisions
The passage implies that the SQ3R method______.
A.needs to be proven
B.leaves much to he desired
C.turns out to be practicable
D.cannot be used by every reader
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
A new era is upon us. Call it what you will: the service economy, the information age, the knowledge society. It is all translated to a fundamental change in the way we work. Already we've partly been there. The percentage of people who earn their living by making things has fallen dramatically in the Western World. Today the majority of jobs in America, Europe and Japan (two thirds or more in many of these countries) are in the service industry, and the number is on the rise. More women are in the work force than ever before. There are more part time jobs. More people are self-employed. But the breadth of the economic transformation can't be measured by numbers alone, because it is also giving rise to a radical new way of thinking about the nature of work itself. Long-held notions about jobs and careers, the skills needed to succeed, even the relation between individuals and employers—all these are being changed.
We have only to look behind us to get some sense of what may lie ahead No one looking ahead 20 years possibly could have foreseen the ways in which d single invention, the chip(芯片), would transform. our world thanks to its applications in personal computers, digital communications and factory robots. Tomorrow's achievements in biotechnology, artificial Intelligence or even some still unimagined technology could produce a similar wave of dramatic changes. But one thing is certain: information and knowledge will become even more vital, and the people who possess it, whether they work in manufacturing or services, will have the advantage and produce the wealth. Computer knowledge will become as basic a requirement as the ability to read and write. The ability to solve problems by applying information instead of performing routine tasks will be above all else. If you cast your mind ahead 10 years, information services will be predominant. It will be the way you do your job.
A characteristic of the information age is that______
A.the service industry is relying more and more on the female work force
B.manufacturing industries are steadily increasing
C.people find it harder to earn a living by working in factories
D.most of the job opportunities can now be found in service industry
Which of the followings could be the title of text?
A.The Stuff of Science Fiction
B.The History of Artificial Hearts
C.The Change of Human Donor
D.A Promising New Artificial Heart