The phrase "giant retailer" in Paragraph 4 refers most possibly to ______ .A.Wal-MartB.a d
The phrase "giant retailer" in Paragraph 4 refers most possibly to ______ .
A.Wal-Mart
B.a dry county
C.Arkansas
D.corporate headquarters
The phrase "giant retailer" in Paragraph 4 refers most possibly to ______ .
A.Wal-Mart
B.a dry county
C.Arkansas
D.corporate headquarters
第1题
Which phrase best expresses the main idea of this passage?
A.The importance of bilingual reading books.
B.Language problems confronting the American Indian.
C.Historical backgrounds of American-Indian English.
D.The importance of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
第2题
&8226;Read the memo below.
&8226;Complete the Expenses Claim Form.
&8226;Write a word, phrase or number in spaces 41-45 on your Answer Sheet.
Memorandum
From Arthur Bowyer, Head of Marketing
To Secretary
Date 30.11.97
Re Expenses claim from
Could you fill out the rest of this Expenses Claim Form. for me for my trip to Liverpool last week to attend the VIS conference? I enclose a couple of receipts.
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第3题
第三篇 Small But Wise
On December 14, NASA1 blasted a smallbut mighty telescope into space. The telescope is called WISE and is about aswide around as a trashcan. Don't let its small size fool you: WISE has apowerful digital camera, and it will be taking pictures of some the wildestobjects2 in the known universe,including asteroids, faint stars, blazing galaxies3 and giant clouds of dustwhere planets and stars are born.“I'mvery excited because we're going to be seeing parts of the universe that wehaven't seen before, ” said Ned Wright, a scientist who directs the WISEproject.
Since arriving in space, the WISEtelescope has been circling the Earth, held by gravity in a polar orbit4(thismeans it crosses close to the north and south poles with each lap5). Its camerais pointed outward, away from the Earth, and WISE will snap a picture of adifferent part of the sky every 11 minutes. After six months it will have takenpictures across the entire sky.
The pictures taken by WISE won't be likeeveryday digital photographs, however. WISE stands for “Wide-field InfraredSurvey Explorer. ” As its name suggests, the WISE camera takes pictures offeatures that give off infrared radiation6.
Radiation is energy that travels as awave. Visible light, including the familiar spectrum of light7 that becomesvisible in a rainbow, is an example of radiation. When an ordinary digitalcamera takes a picture of a tree, for example, it receives the waves of visiblelight that are reflected off the tree. When these waves enter the camerathrough the lens, they're processed by the camera, which then puts the imagetogether.
Waves of infrared radiation are longerthan waves of visible light, so ordinary digital cameras don't see them, andneither do the eyes of human beings. Although invisible to the eye, longerinfrared radiation can be detected as warmth by the skin.
That's a key idea to why WISE will beable to see things other telescopes can't.
Not everything in the universe showsup in visible light. Asteroids, for example, are giant rocks that float throughspace — but they absorb most of the light that reaches them. They don't reflectlight, so they're difficult to see. But they do give off infrared radiation, soan infrared telescope like WISE will be able to produce images of them. Duringits mission WISE will take pictures of hundreds of thousands of asteroids.
Brown dwarfs8 are another kind ofdeep-space object that will show up in WISE's pictures. These objects are“failed”stars — which means they are not massive enough to jump start9 thesame kind of reactions that power stars such as the sun. Instead, brown dwarfssimply shrink and cool down. They're so dim that they're almost impossible tosee with visible light, but in the infrared spectrum they glow.
What is sospecial about WISE?
A It is as small as a trashcan.
B It is small in size but carries a large camera.
C Its digital camera can helpastronomers to see the unknown space.
D Never before has a telescope carried a digital camera in space.
第4题
&8226;Read the memo below.
&8226;Complete the Travel Requisition Form. in the following.
&8226;Write a word, phrase or number in spaces 41-45 on your Answer Sheet.
Memorandum
To Rosemary Wimpole
From Dr Kittle, Research and Development
Date 3 February, 1998
Re My April visit to Los Angeles
Please check the following and complete a Travel Requisition Form. for me.
Thanks
Travel Requisition Form
Traveller details
Name of traveller ……………… Dr C J Kittle
Department …………………………………………………………………………………………… (41)
Purpose of visit travel ……………………………………………………… Attending H O briefing
Travel details
Airport in UK ……………………… (42)
Departure dates ……………………… (43)
Airline ………………………………………………………………………………… American Airlines
Class ……………………… (44)
Cost, if known ……………………… £ 420
visa requirements ……………………… (45)
Health requirements …………………………………
…………………………………………………… Tetanus and Polio vaccinations recommended
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第5题
听力原文:W: Wow, what a beautiful sunset.
M: Enjoy it while it lasts. The sun won't be around forever, you know.
W: You mean one day the sun will disappear?
M: Not exactly disappear, but the sun will eventually burn out and die.
W: Won't that make things really cold down here?
M: Actually, there won't be any here. When the sun dies, the earth will be destroyed too.
W: Whoa, hold on. Start from the beginning.
M: Ok. Like all stars the sun is basically a giant nuclear reactor that burns hydrogen to create energy. But like any reactor, the sun needs fuel to keep going. It's been going strong for around 4. 5 billion years, and will probably keep burning for about five billion more.
W: But then the fuel will run out.
M: Exactly. And when it does, gravity will cause the sun's core to contract. When it contracts, the core will get hotter, which will heat up the sun's upper layers and make them expand. The sun will then become what's called a red giant, and its radius will reach just past the orbit of Venus.
W: Which is bad for us.
M: We'll be burned to a crisp.
W: Sounds painful.
M: After a few billion years, the core will begin to cool and expand. The sun's upper layers will expand and lose material, and eventually the core will cool enough to become a white dwarf star, and finally a black dwarf.
W: So we're pretty much doomed.
M: Yes, but not for billions of years. Who knows? By then humans might be living on another planet. Or we'll have been enslaved by a bunch of dirty apes!
W: I think someone's been watching too much cable TV.
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A.Late in the afternoon.
B.Early in the morning.
C.At midnight.
D.At noon.
第6题
Much of eye behavior. is so 【27】______ that we react to it only on the intuitive level. The next time you have a 【28】______ with someone who makes you feel liked, notice what he does with his eyes. 【29】______ are he looks at you more often than is usual with 【30】______ a little longer than the normal. You interpret this as a sign of a polite one 【31】______ he is interested in you as a person 【32】______ just in the topic of conversation. Probably you also feel that he is both 【33】______ and sincere.
All this has been demonstrated in elaborate 【34】______ . Subjects sit and talk in the psychologist's laboratory, 【35】______ of the fact that their eye behavior. is being 【36】______ from a one-way vision screen. In one fairly typical experiment, 【37】______ were induced to cheat while performing a task, then were 【38】______ and observed. It was found that those who had 【39】______ met the interviewer's eyes less often than was 【40】______ , an indication that "shifty eyes" to use the mystery writers' stock phrase can actually be a tip-off to an attempt to deceive or to feelings of guilt.
【21】
A.friend
B.foreigner
C.passerby
D.stranger
第7题
M: Well, when learning a foreign language, I would surround myself in the language, the target language, that I wanted to learn.
W: Surround oneself in the language? I think it is difficult to do that. Can you explain how you do it?
M: Uh, for example, I would watch a movie in that language, uh, which would help me keep motivated to learn vocabulary and phrases.
W: That sounds interesting.
M: Yeah, you'll have a lot of fun by doing so.
W: I see. A little hit of practice every day is very important to language learning.
M: Yes. Regular practice is also better than practicing a lot in one day. Learning a language well needs patience and perseverance.
W: Then what else did you do to learn a foreign language?
M: Well, I would keep a situational notebook.
W: What is that used for?
M: Ur, for example, in a restaurant, you use a certain phrase over and over again, and so if you can remember just one particular phrase in each setting, then you can immediately speak that language and have more confidence and you get more out of learning the language, I think.
W: Really? I'll try that. Thank you for your advice.
M: You're welcome.
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A.He's offering some suggestions about learning foreign languages.
B.He's asking the woman for help to improve his English.
C.He's discussing with the woman how to listen to a language regularly.
D.He's talking about the importance of taking notes in foreign languages learning.
第8题
?Read the memo and the advertisement below.
?Complete the form. on the opposite page.
?Write a word or phrase (in CAPITAL LETTERS) or a number on lines 41-45 on your Answer Sheet.
King's Human Resources Consultancy
MEMO
To: Jim White/PA
From: Marjory King/Director
Date: 22/5/04
Subject: Conference
We're taking part in the HR conference again. Gillian Rolland has agreed to give a talk on international recruitment, and she'll take three colleagues along with her. Except for Mark Hughes, they'll require single rooms for the evening before. Gillian would rather attend the earlier conference - she's busy the week after. She's giving a Powerpoint presentation and just needs a screen - she'll take her laptop with her. Please make the booking asap.
HUMAN RESOURCES CONFERENCE 2004
There will be two one-day conferences this year - one in Edinburgh on September 2 and one in London on September 12.
The booking fee is £400 per company, payable four weeks in advance. For groups of five or more, the fee (with a 20% reduction) is £320. Please complete the attached form. and send to Simon Winters.
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第9题
请根据短文内容,回答题。
Citizen Scientists
Understanding how nature responds to climate change will require monitoring key life cycle events- flowering, the appearance of leaves, the first frog calls of the spring--all around the world. But ecologists can&39;t be __________(51) so they&39;re turning to non-scientists, sometimes called citizen scientists, for help.<br>
Climate scientists are not present everywhere. __________ (52) there are so many places in the world and not enough scientists to observe all of them, they&39;re asking your help in __________ (53)signs of climate change across the world. The citizen scientist movement encourages __________ (54)people to observe a very specific research interest--birds, trees, flowers budding, etc.- and send their observations__________ (55) a giant database to be observed by professional scientists. This helps a small number of scientists track a__________ (56) amount of data that they would never be able to gather on their own. __________(57) like citizen journalists helping large publications cover a hyper-local beat, citizen scientists are ready for the condition- where they live. __________ . (58) that&39;s needed to become one is a few minutes each day or each week to gather data and __________(59)it in.<br>
A group of scientists and educators launched an organization last year __________(60) the National Phenology (生物气候学) Network. "Phenology" is what scientists call the study of the timing of events in nature.<br>
One of the group&39;s first efforts relies on scientists and non-scientists__________ (61) to collect data about plant flowering and leafing every year. The program, called Project Bud Burst, collects cycle __________ (62) on a variety of common plants from across the United States. People participating in the project--which is__________ (63) to everyone--record their observations on the Project Bud Burst website.<br>
"People don&39;t__________ (64) to be plant experts- they just have to look around and see what&39;s in their neighborhood," says Jennifer Schwartz, an education consultant with the project.<br>
"As we collect this data, we&39;ll be able to make an estimate of__________(65) plants and communities of plants and animals will respond as the climate changes."
_________ 查看材料
A.everywhere
B.anywhere
C.somewhere
D.nowhere
第10题
听力原文: That's how Shown O'Neill looks back on the heart attack he experienced shortly after his 31st birthday.
"I thought I was in perfect health," Shown says. "I was never sick. I woke up feeling good every morning."
Then on that fateful day in April 2002, he received a giant eye opener. He was working in his yard in Hixson and started having pain in his chest and arms. "I wag pretty sure what it was, but I couldn't believe it could be happening to roe." The good news is that because Shawn recognized the symptoms and went immediately to Memorial Noah Park Hospital, he received the treatment he needed and the damage to his heart muscle was minimal.
"Advances in medicine make it possible for us to stop many heart attacks and keep people alive if they get to the hospital in time," says Dr: Kinsman Wright, medical director of Cardiac Services at Memorial. "We have technology to pinpoint blockage in the cardiac, arteries and several options to open the vessels. And lifestyle. changes and medications are helping people reduce their risk factors."
But Dr. Wright doesn't see any decrease in heart disease. "With people living longer, we're seeing different types of heart disease. We need to keep studying and fighting it on all fronts."
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A.Yes. Because he is never sick.
B.Yes. Because he wakes up feeling good every morning
C.No. Because his heart muscle was severely, damaged.
D.No. Because he suffered a heart attack.