The third annual Student Invention Fair will______place in Oxford, England.A.beB.seeC.take
The third annual Student Invention Fair will______place in Oxford, England.
A.be
B.see
C.take
D.locate
The third annual Student Invention Fair will______place in Oxford, England.
A.be
B.see
C.take
D.locate
第1题
听力原文: The Allentown Food Bank will hold its third annual fundraiser on Monday at Beaver Brook Country Club in Clinton Township, from 5 to 8 p.m. It is being held in honor of food bank director Patty Apgar, who retired in September after 14 years of service. During those 14 years, the bank went from 1 volunteer, 1 full-time staffer and 3 part-time staffers, to nearly 800 volunteers, as of last year, with 7 full-time and 10 part-time employees. Music and food will be provided, and all proceeds from the event will benefit the food bank.
For how many years was Patty Apgar the food bank's director?
A.13
B.14
C.15
D.16
第2题
From: Samantha Appleby (sam@vestitur8.com)
To: Vestiture Employees (employees?vestiture,com>
Subject: Information Technology Conference
Sent: April 10,10:20 a.m.
Vestiture Employees.
This is a reminder for all employees that the Third Annual Information Technology Conference registration deadline is approaching. The conference will feature prominent speakers from the industry and will introduce new products and developments. Attached is the brochure for the conference. To register, e-mail me with your name, title, and department. The deadline for registration is April 15.
Samantha Appleby
Conference Organizer
第3题
Auto Design Competition By Harper Lewis West Lake Town, Jackson City(February 7)- The International Convention of Auto Design(ICAD)held its annual conference and an awards banquet in West Lake Town at the Lakeview Hotel. ICAD, a global organization whose membership includes critically renowned designers as well as newly emerging talents, recently announced the winners of its tenth annual design awards. A committee, composed of auto-design professionals, advertising executives and artists, selected nominees in ten areas of design. The committee chosed three nominees in each category. Then the entire ICAD group, composed of nearly 250 auto-design professionals, voted for the winners. Noteworthy among the awards announcements was the prize won by H&J Partners. This firm was established only three years ago and has attracted a great deal of attention. This was the third award for H&J Partners in the past year and commentators anticipate more in years to come.
Which group was NOT involved in choosing nominees for the competition?
A.Auto design professionals.
B.Magazine publishers.
C.Artists.
D.Advertising executives.
第4题
听力原文: In the past few years, millions of Americans have become suddenly enthusiastic about the bicycle as if it were a great new invention. Annual bicycle sales doubled between 1960 and 1970, and there are nearly 70 million bicycles in the United States today.
Of course, the bicycle has been around for more than 160 years and this isn't America's first bicycle passion. A wave of bicycle enthusiasm swept the land in the late 1800s and bicycle production was up to two million in 18917. Then with the coming of the automobile, bicycle declined, and for decades remained popular only with children and a few adults.
Now, a national concern with air pollution and physical fitness has brought the bicycle back to the forefront, particularly with adults. More than eight million bikes were sold in the United States last year, a third of which bought by adults. But the year before, only 15 percent of new bicycle sales were for adults.
(33)
A.Nearly 7 million.
B.Nearly 17 million.
C.Nearly 70 million.
D.Nearly 77 million.
第5题
In which month was production highest?
A.June
B.July
C.August
D.September
第6题
听力原文: In the past two years, millions of Americans have suddenly embraced the bicycle as if it were a startling new invention. Annual bike sales doubled between 1960 and 1970, and there are nearly 70 million bikes in the United States today. That's more than two for every three automobiles.
Of course, the bike has been around for more than 150 years, and this isn't America's first bicycle boom. A wave of bike enthusiasm swept the land in the late 1800s and bicycle production hit two million units in 1897. Then with the coming of the auto, bicycling declined, and for decades remained popular only with children and a few adult faddists.
Now, national preoccupation with air pollution and physical fitness has brought the bike back to the forefront—particularly with adults. More than eight million bikes were sold in the United States last year and a third of them went to adults. The year before, only 15 percent of new bike sales were for adults.
(30)
A.The use of bikes is a new invention in the U.S.
B.Annual bike sales doubled in the 60s in the U.S.
C.The producers made 70 million bikes every year.
D.The number of bikes is two times that of cars in the U.S.
第7题
Approximately how many submissions were received for the contest?
A.3
B.10
C.33
D.150
第8题
Who is the richest among the list of people according to the data?
A.Wisconsin senator Herb Kohl, elected to the Senate in 1988 and heir to the Kohl's depart- ment store fortune.
B.Representative Jane Herman from California.
C.Treasury secretary Hank Paulson, reporting a net worth of at least 190 million bucks.
D.George W. Bush, president of the U.S.A.
第9题
The Fourth "21 th Century Cup" National English Speaking Competition is to be held in
Shanghai.
Organizers: China Daily and Shanghai Broadcasting Network.
Co-ordinater: China University English Speaking Association(CUESA).
Co-sponsors (联办单位): English Speaking Union(ESU), Lotus Software(China) Co. Ltd., Times Publishing Group of Singapore, Hilton Shanghai, Pearson Education, Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press.
Date: March 26 (Friday), 1999.
Place: Hilton Shanghai.
Competition Format (形式): Each student will present a prepared speech on the given topic, followed by a three-minute off-hand speech and a three-minute question and answer period with the judges.
Prepared speech period: six minutes.
Q & A period: three minutes.
Speech topic: People and Nature: In search of harmony (和谐)in a new age & your personal opinion. (Topic for the off-hand speech will be given on the' day of competition).
Prizes: Besides books and certificates (证书), the top two winners will be offered scholarships (奖学金) to travel to the annual international English-speaking competition which will be held by the English Speaking Union in London in May, 1999. The third and fourth place winners will be offered a study trip to Singapore, sponsored by the Times Publishing Group. The fifth through tenth place winners will be offered cash prizes. All the competitors will receive certificates from the English Speaking Union and book prizes provided by Pearson Education and Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press. The teachers of the top winners will also receive a one-year membership to the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).
The main purpose of this passage is______.
A.to invite you to take part in the competition
B.to tell you some information of the competition
C.to help to improve your spoken English
D.to show you how to win the competition
第10题
A study of 192 third and fourth graders, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds(0.91kg)less over a one-year period than those who did not change their television diet.
"The findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television viewing and not any other activity," said Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician(儿科专家) at Stanford University.
"American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos or playing video games, and rates of childhood being very fat have doubled over the past 20 years." Robinson said.
In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce their television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.
Children watching fewer hours of television showed a significantly smaller increase in waist size and had less body fat than other students who continued their normal television viewing, even though neither group ate a special diet nor took part in any extra exercise.
"One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unstuck to the television may simply have been moving around more and burning off calories," Robinson said.
"Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more," Robinson said.
The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that ________.
A.children will get fatter if they eat too much
B.children will get thinner if they eat less
C.children will get fatter if they spend less time watching TV
D.children will get fatter if they spend more time watching TV