Until recently most historians spoke very critically of the Industrial Revolution. They【C1
【C1】
A.admitted
B.believed
C.claimed
D.predicted
【C1】
A.admitted
B.believed
C.claimed
D.predicted
第1题
A.daring
B.demanding
C.thought-provoking
D.fascinating
第2题
A) Before
B) Until
C) From
D) Since
第3题
It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A.the human nose is the most important organ
B.man's nose has been the source of human imagination
C.a perfect individual would seldom feel proud, lose temper or envy others
D.not until recently did man link his nose with the expression of his emotions
第4题
听力原文: The majority of people, about nine out of ten, are fight-handed. Up until recently, people who were left-handed were considered old, and once children showed this tendency they were forced to use their right hands. Today, left-hand- edness is generally accepted but it is still a disadvantage in a world where most people are fight-handed. For example, most tools are still designed for right-handed people.
In sports, by contrast, doing things with the left hand or foot is often an advantage. Throwing, kicking or hitting from the "wrong" side may confuse opponents, who are accustomed to dealing with the majority of players who are right-handed.
In the past, in most Western societies, children were often forced to use their right hands, especially to write. In some cases, the left hand was tied behind the child's back so that it could not be used. If, in the future, they are allowed to choose, there will certainly be more left handed people, and probably fewer depressed people as a result of being forced to use their right hands.
(30)
A.They thought them strange.
B.They considered they were funny.
C.They thought them clever.
D.They considered they were creative.
第5题
Time management
Until recently, books on how to manage your time at work were seen as a bit of a joke in the business world. Many were enjoyable to read (29) weren't taken seriously. (30) told their readers to dress well, be positive, decide (31) they were going and then use (32) valuable minute to make sure they got there. One very successful book, first published twenty years (33) and still available in bookshops, is The One-Minute Manager. It tells the story of a keen young man who wants to learn (34) about how to be a top-performing executive. The authors believe that most people (35) the day putting (36) problems, or when they do try to solve (37) don't do enough. According (38) the authors, having achievable targets should be a manager's aim. Managers everywhere should read (39) book carefully, in order to benefit from (40) sensible advice.
(29)
A.but
B.or
C.even
第6题
选出应填入下面一段英语中______内的正确答案。
As the name implies, CTI (Computer-Telephone-Integration)is the fusing of telephone operations with those performed by a computer. CTI has actually been around for a good two decades. Until recently, it required users to(1)a good deal of knowledge about telephone interconnect processes as well as networking and database programming to(2)even the most rudimentary tasks. These two skill sets are rarely possessed by the same individual.
But today CTI has gone client/server. Microsoft corp. has included its client-side Telephony API (TAPI) with every copy of windows 95. The company's service-side TAPI is now available for Windows NT. There are many telephony(3)that turn the interconnect portion of a CTI(4)into standard data programming, and low-cost, easy-to- create telephony is born. Better yet, many ofthese(3)are Visual Basic add-ons. CTIis also subject to all the cost benefits of cheaper, PC-based hardware.
The two portions ofCTI are(5).
第7题
Manned submersibles.(潜水器), like spaceships, must maintain living conditions in an unnatural environment. But while a spaceship must simply be sealed against the vacuum of space, a submersible must be able to bear extreme pressure if it is not to break up in deep water.
In exploring space, unmanned vehicles were employed before astronauts. In undersea exploration, on the other haled, men paved (铺路) the way, and only recently have unmanned remote-operated vehicles (ROVs) been put to use.
One reason for this is that communicating with vehicles in orbit is much easier than talking to those underwater. A vacuum is an ideal medium for radio communications, but underwater communications are limited to much slower sound waves. Thus, most undersea vehicles—particularly ROVs—operate. at the end of long process.
For a similar reason, knowing where you are undersea is much more difficult than in space. A spaceship's position can be located by following its radio signal, or by using telescopes and radar. For an undersea vehicle, however, a special network of sonar (声纳) devices most be laid out in advance on the ocean floor in the area of a dive to locate the vehicle's position.
Though undersea exploration is more challenging than outer space in a number of respects, it has a distinct advantage: Going to the ocean doesn't require the power necessary to escape Earth's gravity. Thus, it remains far less expensive.
People did not begin to use unmanned vehicles in undersea exploration until recently because of ______.
A.the ocean depths
B.the communication problem
C.the movement of waves
D.the problem of vacuum
第8题
Pain
All of US have felt pain. We have headaches. Some of US suffer pain rarely cut ourselves. We have been burned. Or we have had headaches. Some of us suffer pain rarely.(1).
Pain can take complete control of our body and mind, making it impossible to move and even to think. Yet we need pain. Without it, we would not know, if we have hurt ourselves. It is our body's warning system.(2).
Pain is the most common reason we go to a doctor. It is the most common reason we take medicines. Until recently, however, most doctors knew of only a few drugs that stopped some pains(3)But new knowledge about the process of pain is helping them to control pain better.
Scientists have signals learned that the sense of pain is made up of both chemical and electrical signals.(4)Scientists also have learned that the nervous system sends two different kinds of pain messages to the brain: one very fast, the other slow. The first message is the warning signal. It moves at a speed of 30 meters a second. In less than a second, the brain understands that part of the body is hurt and how badly it is injured.(5)It tells us not to use the injured part until it heals.
A. And others have painful attacks all the time.
B. These signals travel from nerve cells in the injured area, up the spinal cord (脊髓) to the brain, and back down again.
C. It tells us that we are injured and should do something about it.
D. They knew little about the process of pain itself.
E. The other message moves at a speed of only one meter a second.
F. And they send the second, slower message of pain to the brain.