It was one of the most important discoveries ever made.(英译中)
第1题
According to this passage, to learn a foreign language would require one to ______.
A.do more activities
B.learn about a new culture
C.meet more people
D.need more names
第2题
How many children does Mary have?
A.One son and one daughter.
B.Two sons and one daughter.
C.One son and two daughters.
D.Two sons and mo daughters.
第3题
Starting from 22 ______.
A.one will obtain more basic rights
B.the older one becomes, the more basic rights he will have
C.one won't get more basic rights than when he is 21
D.one will enjoy more rights granted by society
第4题
Starting from 22,______.
A.one will obtain more basic rights
B.the older one becomes, the more basic rights he will have
C.one won't get more basic rights than when he is 21
D.one will enjoy more rights granted by society
第5题
In this passage, the word" fare" means ______.
A.the money Mark Twain's friend lost
B.the money needed to buy a ticket
C.something with which one can enter the train without a ticket
D.the money which Mark Twain borrowed from the friend
第6题
The purpose of paragraph 4 is to suggest that
A.politicians will need to learn to become more personal when meeting citizens.
B.politicians who are considered very attractive are favored by citizens over politicians who are less attractive.
C.citizens tend to favor a politician who analyzes the issues over one who does not.
D.citizens will need to learn how to evaluate visual political images in order to become better informed.
第7题
听力原文: Researching friendship,psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age,their sex,the results were completely clear. Women have more friendships than men,and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is“marked and unmistakable”.
More than two-thirds of the single men,Rubin interviewed,could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend,and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend,most trusted person,or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress. “Most women. ”says Rubin,“identified at least one,usually more,trusted friends to whom they could turn to in a troubled moment,and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives. ”
“In general,”Rubin writes in her new book,“women's friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support,but men's relationships are marked by shared activities. ”“Even when a man is said to be a best friend,”Rubin writes,“the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman's closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave fl failing marriage,it wasn't unusual to hear a man say he didn't know his friend's marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa. ”
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A.Men spend more nights in their friends'home than women.
B.Women are much more talkative than men.
C.Women enjoy more and better friendships than men.
D.Men have more difficulty remembering names than women.
第8题
&8226;Read the text below about the advantages of learning to keyboard quickly.
&8226;In most of the lines (34-45) there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct.
&8226;If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet.
&8226;If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.
Get better at keyboarding!
There is a simple way to work more efficiently: improve your keyboard skills by learning to touch keyboard them. If you are one of the vast majority
34 of some people who keyboard with two or four fingers, you may believe that
35 you are reasonably efficient. But the average person seldom achieves more
36 than twelve words by a minute when using this method, while touch keyboarding
37 can achieve up to 120 words, if enabling you to work almost as quickly
38 as you can think. Whatever position you hold in your company, you are
39 probably given responsible for answering emails or generating documents, and it
40 is quite likely that you spend too much time doing this. Stop and consider how
41 far much more you could do in a day as a result of touch keyboarding. You would
42 be able to create such a document faster than you can write and as
43 quickly as you can think and free up time to be more than creative. Moreover,
44 you would save up the cost of a full-time secretary, and no longer have to
45 wait for your documents to be created and either then have to return them for correction.
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第9题
Excite's Universal Inbox: A Mixed Bag
If information is coming at you from mo many directions, Excite @ Home's Excite Inbox promises a solution. This Web site gives you one Inbox for e-mail, voice mail, and faxes, and, perhaps best of all, you get it all for free. It's not a particularly good inbox.
The service is pretty much your standard Web-based e-mail system, not much different from Hotmail or any other, you can visit it from any Web-enabled computer. It supports attachments, displays formatted messages properly, and can read messages from your standard POP e-mail accounts in addition to any other account you set up with Excite. And, just like the other e-mail services on the Web, it's much slower than non-Web-based e-mail. You do get one unique feature: you can personalize the Excite Inbox with your choice of nine unread-mail icons and 15 color schemes, including Lavender, Techno, and Mint Julep. It's a nice feature, but not an earth-shattering one.
For voice mail, then Excite Inbox offers great conveniences for you and annoying hassles for your callers. If your friends call when you're not at home, they must hang up and call another number (at least it's toll-free). Then, they must dial or say a ten-digit extension (there are ten billion ten-digit numbers; how many subscribers does Excite hope to get?). They have to wait through a short commercial, then leave their message. And they'd better be brief, because no message can exceed 90 seconds.
Things can get worse for anyone sending you a fax. They must dial the toll-free number and then the extension, wait through file commercial, and finally press the fax machine's Start button on cue. While only a minor annoyance for anyone standing over a fax machine, this can be a major challenge for some poor soul sending you a fax from a computer. On the other hand, should anyone leave you a message or send you a fax, it is conveniently listed in your inbox alongside your e-mail messages. Listening to messages and viewing faxes are both simple and easy. You cannot currently send faxes from the Excite Inbox, but Excite @ Home is working in this feature for a future version.
The service offers some nice ways to stay connected—you can synchronize your inbox data with Microsoft Outlook or Palm Desktop, and if you have a Palm VII, you'll get wireless access to your messages. If you need free voicemail, the Excite Inbox could be worthwhile. If you want to receive faxes in your e-mail, Excite Inbox is just one choice of many.
Which of the following statement is Not correct according to the passage?
A.Excite Inbox is a mailbox which is not much different from the ordinary mailboxes.
B.You can visit Excite Inbox from any Web-enabled computer.
C.The Excite Inbox supports attachment, displays formatted messages properly and can read messages from your standard POP e-mail.
D.The Excite Inbox e-mail services are much slower than non-Web-based e-mail.
第10题
An Observation and an Explanation
It is worth looking at one or two aspects of the way a mother behaves towards her baby. The usual fondling, cuddling and cleaning require little comment, but the position in which she holds the baby against her body when resting is rather revealing. Careful studies have shown the fact that 80 percent of mothers hold their infants in their left arms, holding them against the left side of their bodies. If asked to explain the significance of this preference most people reply that it is obviously the result of the predominance of right-handedness in the population. By holding the babies in their left arms, the mothers keep their dominant arm free for manipulations. But a detailed analysis shows that this is not the case. True, there is a slight difference between right-handed and left-handed females; but not enough to provide adequate explanation. It emerges that 83 percent of right-handed mothers hold the baby on the left side, but so do 78 percent of left-handed mothers. In other words, only 22 percent of the left-handed mothers have their dominant hands free for actions. Clearly there must be some other, less obvious explanation.
The only other clue comes from the fact that the heart is on the side of the mother's body. Could it be that the sound of her heart beat is the vital factor? And in What way? Thinking along these lines it was argued that perhaps during its existence inside the body of the mother the unborn baby get used to the sound of the heart beat. If this is so, then the re-discovery of this familiar sound after birth might have a claiming effect on the infant, especially as it has just been born into a strange and frighteningly new world, if this is so then the mother would, somehow, soon arrive at the discovery that her baby is more at peace if held on the left against her heart than on the right.
We can learn a lot by observing the position in which a mother holds her baby against her body.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
第11题
听力原文: In this lesson, I want to talk about the history of The White House. At first, most Americans didn't think there was anything particularly special about the White House. Few had ever seen it or had any idea what it looked like, and even the families who lived there found it completely inadequate. When it was built, the White House was the largest house in the country and it remained so until after the Civil War. But it served so many different purposes that little of it was available for the First Family to actually live in. The first floor, or "State Floor" was made up entirely of public rooms; and the president's offices, which where staffed by as many as 30 employees, took half of the second floor up. The First Family had to get by with the eight or fewer second-floor rooms that were left. By Lincoln's time, the situation was intolerable. The White House was open to visitors; office seekers, and the merely curious had no difficulty making their way upstairs from the official rooms on the first floor. Lincoln was so uncomfortable with the situation that he had a private corridor constructed. He also received a $ 20, 000 appropriation to improve the furnishings of the White House. The new furnishings did not last for more than a few years. When Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, the White House fell into disarray. No one really supervised the White House during' the first five weeks.
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A.They didn't care.
B.They hated it.
C.They loved it.
D.They have mixed feelings.