问题:单选题The expression “fared best” in the sentence “During the 1960s and 1970s, and again after 1992, the poorest groups fared best.” in para. 8 can be paraphrased by which of the following?A obtained higher incomeB lived a better lifeC enjoyed more equalityD paid lower income tax
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问题:问答题◆Topic 2: Does blacklisting student loan defaulters help repayments to banks? News report: Between 2005 and 2007, the China Development Bank offered 1.66 billion yuan worth of loans to 243,000 students from poor families in central China’s Henan Province. Last May, the Bank and the Henan Provincial Education Department jointly issued an ultimatum requiring 223 college graduates to pay off the interest on their student loan within 30 days. Nevertheless, the students failed to repay the debts as required. Now the colleges and banks cannot contact these students after their graduation as they have not notified banks of their changes of address. It is in this situation that the China Development Bank and the Education Department decided to publish the personal information of these students in accordance with relevant regulations concerning student loans. Questions for reference: 1. Should the personal information of these students be published or not? Give your reasons. 2. How should the student loan system be improved and perfected? 3. What are the possible consequences that might follow if the personal information of such students are published?
问题:单选题According to the passage, the “fatwa” diaries (para.7) ______.A were not included in the archive sold to the Emory UniversityB will not be open to the public in the near futureC were all about the writing of The Satanic VersesD will soon be published to expose the persecution of Islamic extremists
问题:单选题What is NOT the result brought by this attack?A It proves Pakistan’s vulnerability to militant attacks.B It shows some Pakistan officials’ indifference to strike the Taleban militant group.C It is another blow to the government’s credibility.D It has brought an end to South Asian cricket.
问题:单选题Hiper is being planned ______.A to compete with NIFB because NIF experiment, even successful, would not produce enough energy to run a nuclear fusion plantC to use the same laser technology but on a larger scaleD to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion
问题:问答题Practice 4 京剧中的“生、旦、净、丑”其实不过是角色分类。“生”是男性正面角色,“旦”是女性正面角色,“净”是性格鲜明的男性配角,“丑”是幽默滑稽或反面角色。每种角色又有表明身份的脸谱、扮相等,只要演员一上场,你一望便知。 在人的脸上涂上某种颜色以象征这个人的性格和品质、角色和命运,是京剧的一大特点,也是理解剧情的关键。简单地讲,红脸含有褒义,代表忠勇;黑脸为中性,代表猛智;蓝脸和绿脸也为中性,代表草莽英雄;黄脸和白脸含贬义,代表凶诈;金脸和银脸代表神秘、神妖。
问题:问答题Practice 1 Our feverish planet badly needs a cure. It was probably always too much to believe that human beings would be responsible stewards of the planet. Yet make a mess we have. If droughts and wildfires, floods and crop failures, collapsing climate-sensitive species and the images of drowning polar bears didn’t quiet most of the remaining global-warming doubters, the hurricane-driven destruction of New Orleans did. This past year was the hottest on record in the US. The deceptively normal average temperature this winter masked record-breaking highs in December and record-breaking lows in February. That’s the sign not of a planet keeping an even strain but of one thrashing through the alternating chills and night sweats of a serious illness. A crisis of this magnitude clearly calls for action that is both bottom-up and top-down. Though there is some debate about how much difference individuals can make, there is little question that the most powerful players— government and industry—have to take the lead. Still, individuals too can move the carbon needle. Cleaning up the wreckage left by our 250-year industrial bacchanal will require fundamental changes in a society hooked on its fossil fuels. Beneath the grass-roots action, larger tectonic plates are shifting. Science is attacking the problem more aggressively than ever. So is industry. So are architects and lawmakers and urban planners. The world is awakened to the problem in a way it never has been before.
问题:问答题Passage 2 A new form of cloning to provide every baby with an embryonic “twin”, from which spare body parts could be grown and life threatening diseases treated is expected to be approved within weeks by senior government advisers on medical ethics. If their report is accepted by ministers, it would mean that Britain—which 20 years ago pioneered the test tube baby and last year produced Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal—could be the first to clone a human embryo. A working party from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and the Human Genetics Advisory Commission is expected to come down firmly against reproductive cloning, the process of replicating a living human being. It is expected to recommend government support of so called stem ceils. Stem cells are extracted and used to grow spare parts, treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s or address the debilitating effects of cancer, strokes and heart attacks. Dr Austin Smith, the scientist likely to be granted the first licence for the work, said that within the next 12 years it would be routine for every baby to have an embryonic clone. “All it takes now is financial investment,” said Smith, director of Edinburgh University’s centre for genome research. The crucial discovery of embryonic stem cells, from which skin, bone, muscles, nerves and vital organs grow, was made earlier this month by scientists in America. In a submission to the HFEA, Smith said that in order to isolate these cells it is only necessary for the embryo to develop in the laboratory for six days, well within the 14-day limit of current regulation. The cells would then be grown and manipulated to make anything from blood or brain cells to tissue for repairing damaged organs and, ultimately, parts that could be transplanted without fear of the host body rejecting them. The development is likely to meet strong opposition from the church. Dr Donald Bruce, Director of the Society, Religion and Technology Project of the church of Scotland Said that creating an embryo in the knowledge that it would then be destroyed was “very disturbing” to most people. Father Paul Murray, secretary to the Catholic bishops joint bio-ethics committee, said that whatever the potential benefits, it should be regarded as “intrinsically evil” because the research depended on the use of foetal material. However, Professor Christine Gosden, professor of genetic medicine at Liverpool University, one of the four senior government advisers on the cloning sub-committee, said there would be no opportunity for abuse. For many years, patients with Parkinson’s disease who did not respond to drugs have been treated with brain cells extracted from aborted foetuses, a practice approved by a committee led by the Rev Dr John Polkinghorne, the prominent ethicist. Gosden said the arguments for the use of aborted foetal cells and therapeutic cloning were similar: “Before you have a disease, it is easy to say, ‘I would not use cells derived from a foetus’, but if you suffer from that disease, and that is your only hope, your approach can be quite different.” 1. What is the new form of cloning discussed in the passage? What is the purpose of such cloning? 2. Summarise the different views on embryo cloning discussed in the passage. 3. Explain the statement “All it takes now is financial investment.” in para. 6. 4. What is the significance of the discovery of embryonic stem cells?
问题:单选题The expression “separate the wheat from the chaff in the teaching profession” is closest in meaning to ______.A distinguish better teachers from less capable onesB differentiate young teachers from old onesC tell the essential qualities of good teachingD reevaluate the role of senior teachers
问题:问答题Practice 7 从火车上遥望泰山,几十年来有好些次了,每次想起“孔子登东山而小鲁,登泰山而小天下”那句话来,就觉得过而不登,像是欠下悠久的文化传统一笔债似的。杜甫的愿望:“会当凌绝顶,一览众山小”,我也一样有,惜乎来去匆匆,每次都当面错过了。而今确实要登泰山了,偏偏天公不作美,下起雨来,淅淅沥沥,不像落在地上,倒像落在心里。天是灰的,心是沉的。我们约好了清晨出发,人齐了,雨却越下越大。等天晴吗?想着这渺茫的“等”字,先是憋闷。盼到十一点半钟,天色转白,我不由喊了一句:“走吧!”带动年轻人,挎起背包,兴致勃勃,朝岱宗坊出发了。(李健吾——《雨中登泰山》)
问题:单选题Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A Politicians are obsessed with inputs and outputs, targets and controls.B short-termism leads to the pursuit of immediate and quantifiable measurements.C Center-right political parties have long focused on the increase of GDP.D The cause of building GWB can be led by the center-left political parties.
问题:单选题According to the author, seniority pay favors ______.A good teachers’ with master’s degreesB young and effective teachersC experienced and effective teachersD mediocre teachers of average quality
问题:单选题What has happened to the SUV as to the third paragraph?A It has more advantages when the gas price is rising.B There is a selling dropping of all sizes of it.C Its place is replacing by more economical cars.D Its best-selling time is coming.
问题:单选题According to the passage, why is the happiness of the general public a difficult subject for the government?A It can not be adequately explained by statistical data.B It is not related to a culture of short-termism.C People need to cope with inflation and unemployment first.D People place too much value on happiness and well-being.
问题:单选题Wherever you are in the U. S., the most important factor in surviving cardiac arrest is ______.A to keep tracking outcomes of the cases.B to have very well-organized EMS system.C to make people well-informed before an emergency.D to have rapid treatment with as little delay as possible.
问题:单选题Which of the following is NOT included in the mission?A Switch on gradiometer.B Develop delicate technologies so the very fragile mechanisms could also survive the intense shaking.C Fire up the T5 that will help maintain orbit.D Forecast climate change.
问题:问答题Practice 4 I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realised; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, “come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.” (Sir Winston Churchill)
问题:问答题Practice 4 For much of the past year, Europe has been divided over America and its war in Iraq. Now it is divided against itself. The chief culprits: France and Germany. The worm has turned. France and Germany assailed the United States for riding roughshod over other countries in the war on Iraq. Now they stand accused of being the America of Europe—a two-headed superpower that has the rest of the European Union lunging at its throat. Their supposed crimes: flouting EU economic rules, scripting to their design a constitution that was meant to be a Magna Carta for all of Europe and generally hijacking the great European project. Will the power of the Franco-German axis ebb? Only a year ago, the pair were at odds, largely for reasons of poor personal chemistry between Schroder and Chirac. Moreover, some European politicians expect their influence to wane as Europe expands and alliances begin to reknit in new configurations, often around specific issues—Iraq, say, or matters of trade and commerce. But that may be wishful thinking on the part of rivals. If anything, many Europeans believe, the changes in Europe will drive France and Germany closer together—precisely because their traditional nexus of power is threatened.
问题:问答题Practice 3 :宣传介绍