一 Which direction were you heading?-().
A.No direction.
B.I was heading from east to west.
C.I won't answer you.
A.No direction.
B.I was heading from east to west.
C.I won't answer you.
第1题
Dear Mr. Lane,
Thank you very much for joining the interview with me for the position of Personnel Manager at our company. (141) your background and qualifications are remarkable and you fill many of the qualifications we are looking for, we have decided to pursue another direction and therefore cannot (142) you employment at this time.
We will, however, keep your resume in our active file for a period of one year. If we have a position within that time which we feel (143) you, we will surely contact you.
Thank you again for your interest in our company.
(41)
A.Because
B.Owing to
C.In spite of
D.Even though
第2题
The environmental lobby has had a huge impact on car manufacturers and emission control has improved a lot. But there's still some way to go on the air pollution front, particularly for lorries which run on diesel fuel, which is bad because of its particulate emission when it is burnt.
Cars and lorries could be driven by electric motors if fuel-cells, which convert fuel into electricity without burning it, can be made more efficient. However, they've been advertised for a generation and have never really met expectations. American domination of the automotive industry makes rapid progress unlikely. Because the cost of gasoline is so low in the States, there's not much incentive to develop fuel cells and electric vehicles for widespread use.
When it comes to communication, we already have Trafficmaster, which operates from transducers on motorway bridges to gauge the speed of the traffic and warn of blockages ahead. We also have global navigation satellites that can pinpoint your position. The challenge is to provide a full driver guidance system that can tell you the best direction to go in a way you can absorb at the wheel.
The next big step in transport technology will be automated roads: regulating vehicles in convoys on motorways so that they're safer and can be packed closer together. Sensors would establish what is around each vehicle and electronic control systems would keep them moving in the right direction, at the right safe speed, with maximum comfort and economy. The technology is massively expensive now, but eventually it will become a reality. You would just pay a toll, couple your car into an electronic convoy and sit back to enjoy the journey.
Motorways will gradually become more like railways, with freight vehicles electronically coupled in trains running at relatively high speeds. At suitable intervals, they would uncouple to travel the remainder of the journey with their own driver. That's almost certainly going to happen. In Adelaide there are already buses that run on an automated route for part of their journey.
That sort of combination if personal and centralized control is the direction we're going in road transport, probably first of all for freight. Any rail system has in the end to be inflexible, it doesn't go where you want, especially in rural communities, where the nearest station can be 30 miles away. We're wedded to private cars, because of their flexibility and the pride people take in ownership -- not to mention the huge sums we've spent on the road network.
So cars aren't going to go away. But under electronic control 'they will become greener and safer. In 50 years driving your own car on a fast motorway, mixed up with lorries, and passing at a closing speed of 150 mph within a few metres of people driving other vehicles in the opposite direction will seem. completely insanity.
The word "absorb" in Paragraph 4 means ______.
A.drive
B.suck in
C.acquire
D.run
第3题
Woman: But I can't turn left there. It's one way going to the right. Don't you see the sign?
Man: Well, now what are we going to do? We don't have time to be driving around in circles. It's already 6:45, and the concert starts in 15 minutes. I told you we should've left home earlier.
Woman: Well, look, there's an open space right here on the corner. Let's just park here and walk. It's not far. We can walk it in ten minutes easily.
In which direction does the man want to go?
A.Left.
B.Right.
C.Forward.
D.Backward.
第4题
As I climbed down into the valley a bird flew off a rock on which I had put my hand. On looking at the spot where the bird had risen I saw two eggs. They were a kind that I did not have in my collection, so I placed them carefully in my bag, wrapped in a little dry grass.
As we went further down the valley the sides became steeper and not far from where I had entered it. I came to a drop of about twelve to fourteen feet. The water that rushed down all these small valleys in the rainy season had made the rock as glass. As it was too deep to climb down, I handed my gun to one of the men and slid down it. My feet had hardly touched the sandy bottom when the two men jumped down, one on each side of me. They quickly gave me the gun and asked me if I had heard the tiger. Actually, I had heard nothing, perhaps because of the noise I made sliding down the rock. The men said they had heard a tiger growling somewhere nearby, but they did not know from which direction the noise had come.
According to the passage we know that ______.
A.the writer decided to push through the thick bushes
B.the writer decided to walk along the valley
C.the writer wanted to stop climbing
D.the writer tried to find two eggs
第5题
Science seems to be getting closer to answering a very old mystery (奥秘). Homing pigeons (信鸽) can be taken hundreds of miles from their homes. When they are let to go to fly again, they find their way home. Because of this special ability to find home, pigeons have been used as messengers for hundreds of years.
Today people even breed homing pigeons for racing as a sport. The birds are shipped to some chosen place a few hundred miles away. Then all of them are let to go together. The winner is the bird that gets home first. A good racer can make it home from 500 miles away in a single day.
The mystery of the homing pigeon is how it tells direction and how it finds home.
The first part seems to be pretty well answered, and we know of two ways that pigeons tell directions. First, they use the sun. Experiments show that homing pigeons can tell directions by the sun. What happens when the sky is darkly overcast by clouds and no one can see where the sun is? Then the pigeons still find their way home.
Naturally, people have wondered whether pigeons might have a built-in compass—something that would tell them about the direction of the earth’s magnetic (磁的) field. Many different kinds of experiments were done. Here’s what the scientists decided after they had made experiments many times. When pigeons can see the sun, they use it as their main means(手段)of direction-finding. When they cannot see the sun, they use some special way to sense direction from the earth’s magnetic field.
But how do pigeons know which direction is toward home? What do they use that we would call a map? These are other questions to be answered.
Pigeons have been used as messengers because ______.
A.they have a built-in compass
B.they can cover 500 miles in a single day
C.they have special ability to tell directions
D.they can find their way home
第6题
This passage deals mainly with______.
A.the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Moon
B.the factors involved in firing a rocket into the outer-space
C.the gravitational fields of the Earth and the Moon
D.the speed and direction of a rocket traveling in the outer-space
第7题
【29】for us, we live in a universe that has at least important parts that are knowable. Our common-sense experience and our evolutionary history have【30】us to understand something of the workaday world. When we go into other realms, however, common sense and ordinary intuition【31】highly unreliable guides. It is stunning that as we go close to the speed of light our mass【32】indefinitely, we shrink toward zero thickness【33】the direction of motion, and time for us comes as near to stopping as we would like. Many people think that this is silly, and every week【34】I get a letter from someone who complains to me about it. But it is virtually certain consequence not just of experiment but also of Albert Einstein's【35】analysis of space and time called the Special Theory of Relativity. It does not matter that these effects seem unreasonable to us. We are not【36】the habit of traveling close to the speed of light. The testimony of our common sense is suspect at high velocities.
The idea that the world places restrictions on【37】humans might do is frustrating. Why shouldn't we be able to have intermediate rotational positions? Why can't we【38】faster than the speed of light? But【39】we can tell, this is the way the universe is constructed. Such prohibitions not only【40】us toward a little humility; they also make the world more knowable.
(1)
A.just
B.very
C.just not
D.not just
第8题
Moods appear to be 【B16】______ influenced by marketing techniques. For example, the rhythm, pitch, and 【B17】______ of music has been shown to influence behavior. such as the 【B18】______ of time spent in supermarkets or 【B19】______ to purchase products. In addition, advertising can influence consumers' moods which, in 【B20】______ , are capable of influencing consumers' reactions to products.
【B1】
A.as
B.about
C.by
D.with
第9题
SUSCEPTIBLE FROM WHICH A. WHEN REMOVED (62)______A HALF FINISHED HOME
B. DURING A PERIOD OF INFANCY IN (63)______VAGUER INSTINCTS THAN THOSE OF THE INSECTS WERE MOLDED
C. IT IS IN BEING THUS (64)______TO THE ENVIRONMENT BY EDUCATION, I MEAN THE INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT UPON THE INDIVIDUAL TO PRODUCE A PERMANENT CHANGE IN THE HABITS OF BEHAVIOR, OF THOUGHT AND OF ATTITUD
E. (65)______THAT MAN DIFFERS FROM THE ANIMALS, AND THE HIGHER ANIMALS FROM THE LOWER. THE LOWER ANIMALS ARE INFLUENCED BY THE ENVIRONMENT BUT NOT IN THE DIRECTION OF CHANGING THEIR HABITS. THEIR INSTINCTIVE RESPONSES ARE FEW AND FIXED BY HEREDITY. WHEN TRANSFERRED TO AN UNNATURAL SITUATION, SUCH AN ANIMAL IS LED ASTRAY BY ITS INSTINCTS. THUS THE "ANT-LION" WHOSE INSTINCT IMPLIES IT TO BORE INTO LOOSE SAND BY PUSHING BACKWARDS WITH ABDOMEN, GOES BACKWARDS ON A PLATE OF GLASS AS SOON AS DANGER THREATENS, AND ENDEAVORS, WITH THE UTMOST EXERTIONS TO BORE INTO IT. IT KNOWS NO OTHER MODE OF FLIGHT, "OR IF SUCH A LONELY ANIMAL IS ENGAGED UPON A CHAIN OF ACTIONS AND IS INTERRUPTED, IT EITHER GOES ON VAINLY WITH THE REMAINING ACTIONS (AS USELESS AS CULTIVATING AN UNSOWN FIELD) OR DIES IN HELPLESS INACTIVITY" . THUS A NET-MAKING SPIDER WHICH DIGS A BURROW AND RIMS IT WITH A BASTION OF GRAVEL AND BITS OF WOOD, (66)______, WILL NOT BEGIN AGAIN, THOUGH IT WILL CONTINUE ANOTHER BURROW, EVEN ONE MADE WITH A PENCIL. ADVANCE IN THE SCALE OF EVOLUTION ALONG SUCH LINES AS THESE COULD ONLY BE MADE BY THE EMERGENCE OF CREATURES WITH MORE AND MORE COMPLICATED INSTINCTS. SUCH BEINGS WE KNOW IN THE ANTS AND SPIDERS. BUT ANOTHER LINE OF ADVANCE WAS DESTINED TO OPEN OUT A MUCH MORE FAR-REACHING POSSIBILITY OF WHICH WE DO NOT SEE THE END PERHAPS EVEN IN MA
N. HABITS, INSTEAD OF BEING BORN READY-MADE (WHEN THEY ARE CALLED INSTINCTS AND NOT HABITS AT ALL), WERE LEFT MORE AND MORE TO THE FORMATIVE INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT, OF WHICH THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR WAS THE PARENT WHO NOW CARED FOR THE YOUNG ANIMAL (67)______TO SUIT SURROUNDINGS WHICH MIGHT BE CONSIDERABLY CHANGED WITHOUT HAR
M.
第10题
What is the purpose of the e-mail?
A.To notify employees of a successful merger.
B.To report the company"s record sales.
C.To announce a change in business plans.
D.To introduce a new company lawyer to board members.
第11题
What is the discussion mainly about?
A.The metric unit of forces.
B.The magnitude and direction of various forces.
C.The two kinds of forces and their features.
D.The diagrams of forces.