The female driver usually focuses her attention to the talking inside the car because she
A.collect petrol for the car
B.get an item of gossip to remember
C.form. her own opinion
D.collect something on the journey
A.collect petrol for the car
B.get an item of gossip to remember
C.form. her own opinion
D.collect something on the journey
第1题
What is the purpose of this conversation?
A.The man wants to obtain an international driver"s license that he can use both in the US and in his country.
B.The man wants to take a driver"s test to get an Arizona driver"s license.
C.The man wants to know whether he can use his international driver"s license in Arizona.
D.The man wants to fill out an application for an Arizona driver"s license.
第2题
The author quotes the example of LVMH in the fifth paragraph to______.
A.show that Delphine Arnault is a successful female chief executive
B.illustrate that a company with a few women can still be very successful
C.convince us that the company should list more female directors to get more success
D.prove that a comparatively high number of females will produce good result
第3题
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A.Greater percentage of women are advancing professionally in the US than previously.
B.Professional men refuse to accompany their female colleagues on business trips.
C.Each year there are more female tourists in the United States.
D.Business women become successful by showing a willingness to travel alone.
第4题
A.make us believe how complex the highway computer network is.
B.let us know how in-car computers are linked to road signs.
C.show us how helpful a navigation computer can be.
D.tell us that NAVSTAR has come into use.
第5题
What conclusion can you make about the elite universities in the US?
A.Prospects for female faculty in these institutions are dim.
B.Some less talented female doctorates feel their prospects as staff in these institutions are dim.
C.None of these institutions like female doctorates to join them.
D.Female doctorates will be the lowest in status in these institutions.
第6题
听力原文:M: When you saw the accident, did you ring us immediately?
M: Yes, the first thing which struck me was to call the police.
From the conversation what is the probable relationship between the two speaker?
A.Policeman and policewoman.
B.Policeman and witness of an accident.
C.Bus driver and victim.
D.Policeman and thief.
第7题
What can you do if you are not satisfied with its service?
A.You can refuse to pay the money.
B.You can accuse the taxi driver later.
C.You can make a complaint to others.
D.You can do nothing to them in US
第8题
Will Hillary Be the Next American President?
Back in 1969,US President Richard Nixon confidently predicted:“In the next 50 years,we shall see a woman president,perhaps sooner than you think.”
Today,not too far off Nixon’s deadline,America is looking at that possibility.Over the weekend,Hillary Rodham Clinton.wife of former president Bill Clinton,announced her run for 2008 presidency.
US polls indicate that Americans feel comfortable with a female president.A New York Times survey found nearly all Americans saying they would vote for president if she were qualified.
However,accepting the theoretical notion of a female leader is quite different from voting an actual woman.
In fact.there is still widespread distrust of a woman in the top position.
This is partly due to the biased thinking that women are weak on national security,though they might be strong on education and health care.This damages their prospects as a presidential contender.
“There’s still an inherent nervousness on the part of voters putting a woman in as the ultimate decision—maker.Control of the army and border security are sons of traditionally male jobs,”conmented Amy Walter,an Ametican campaign analyst.“That’s where I think Voters consciously or unconsciously have difficulties with women candidates.”
women have held the top job in other major Western countries.In 1979,Britain elected Margaret Thatcher prime minister.Last year,Germany made Angela Merkel its first female chancellor.
In the US,no woman has succeeded in being nominated as a presidential candidate.One woman did make the attempt:Elizabeth Dole.In 1999,she tried to get the Republican Party nomination.But Dole could only raise $5 million for her bid—compared with the $56 million George W.Bush raised.
So Barriers lie ahead for Hillary if she wants to make history by becoming the first female US president.With the Iraqi war underway,she’ll find it even harder.
“I don’t feel that our society is ready for a woman president.The enemy we face does not respect females the same way we have come to see them as equals.If we were not in this war,I would support a woman president,”sai Chris Dildy,a computer engineering student.
第 22 题 Up to the present,no woman has been elected president in the US.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
第9题
Marie Curie was the first female professor at Sevres, a college for girls who wanted to teach higher education. These twenty-year-olds would【C3】______ become professors. Marie was not liked by her pupils during her first year as a professor.【C4】______ her second year, the students loved her. One student reported that the courses taught by Marie were "the【C5】______ reference during the entire length of my【C6】______ . She didn't dazzle us, she【C7】______ us, attracted us, held us with her simplicity, her【C8】______ to be useful to us, the sense she had of both our ignorance and our【C9】______ " She was the first to take her students into the laboratory to【C10】______ manipulate their newly-learned theories. She also taught by example, and invited the physics class to hear the【C11】 of her dissertation. Marie argued for the【C12】______ of additional, difficult tests given only to the female students. She also【C13】______ the dean to provide calculus classes to the female students. Marie wanted the girls to have the【C14】______ to succeed in academia and fought tooth and nail to provide every【C15】______ .
This woman is known for her scientific discoveries and the progress【C16】______ from them. Of course her scientific discoveries are【C17】______ and useful. It is also important to understand the kind of woman that she was. She was stubborn,【C18】______ she hated to lose, but it was her goal to use science to help the world in whatever way possible. Her stubbornness led to persistence and【C19】______ . These qualities promoted the use of her brilliance. The love and support of her family taught Marie to never question the possibilities that stood【C20】______ her.
【C1】
A.Then
B.Instead
C.Likewise
D.Moreover
第10题
听力原文: The human brain processes male and female voices differently, according to a recent study, which explains why most of us hear female voices more clearly. The study also explains how we form. mental images of people based only on the sound of their voices. The findings, published in the journal NeuroImage, might also give insight into why many men tire of hearing women speak. It seems the complexity of female voices requires a lot of brain activity.
"'It is females' increased use of prosody, or the natural 'melody' of speech, that makes their voices more complex," says author Professor Michael Hunter. Hunter, professor of medicine and biomedical sciences at the University of Sheffield's Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratory, says these qualities are not related to pitch, but rather to the vibration and number of sound waves.
For the study Hunter and his colleagues played recordings of male and female voices to 12 men while they underwent MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, brain scans. Test subjects assigned a gender to the voices they heard while the scans took place, and were 98% to 99% accurate. Researchers monitored the areas of the brain that showed activity during the scans.
The scientists found that female voices activated the brain's auditory section. But male voices activated the area at the back of the brain called the mind's eye, where people compare other individuals and things to themselves. While the researchers only analysed how a male brain works, they theorized that female voices are always processed in the brain's auditory region, even when women are listening to other women.
But Hunter thinks female voices may also activate the mind's eye in females, since a woman would compare her voice to that of the other female speaker. Since humans process female voices in an area of the brain that's geared for sound, we tend to hear female voices more clearly. While Hunter believes female voices are complex, he says that once they are interpreted in the auditory part of the brain, they are more fully and readily decoded.
Why most of us hear women voices more clearly?
A.Because their voices are more pleasant to listen to.
B.Because the place possessing voices in the brain is different.
C.Because listening to women requires more brain activities.
D.Because women's voices are full of melodies.