A.The young people nowadays require more from marriage but they seem not to be willing to make necessary commitments.
B.This generation expects too much from their spouses and they can not keep to be faithful to their husbands or wives.
C.The young people at present pay more attention to look for soul mates than the past generations when they search for partners.
D.Now some young people usually marry for the same reasons as the older generations such as financial ones and children.
To most of us, money is 【C2】______ but the currency of a country. But to some people, money is either the best friend or the worst demon. To 【C3】______ ,however, money is a subject for study and for something to be money, it must at 【C4】______ have the following characteristics: portability, divisibility, stability, durability and acceptability.
【C5】______ , nowadays, money has got a lot of 【C6】______ : credit cards, debit cards, access cards, IC cards, etc, but they are usually 【C7】______ plastic money or electronic money, because they are used like money. 【C8】______ a credit card, for example, you can buy books and ties, pay your restaurant bills and taxi fares. You can 【C9】______ make a small overdraft if you cannot make your 【C10】______ meet this month. "Don't 【C11】______ home without it," American Express, one of the leading credit card issuers once 【C12】______ us. For many, 【C13】______ a reminder is no 【C14】______ necessary, because the plastic money is so safe and so convenient that many people 【C15】______ leave home without cash but never without a credit card.
【C1】______
A.that
B.which
C.it
D.what
People nowadays can no longer achieve IQ scores as high as vos Savant's because ______ .
A.the scores are obtained through different computational procedures.
B.creativity rather than analytical skills is emphasized now.
C.vos Savant's case is an extreme one that will not repeat.
D.the defining characteristic of IQ tests has changed.
Nowadays two thirds of all liver-transplant can live__________
A.not long enough to get out the hospital.
B.about one year.
C.at least one year.
D.less than one year.
Unpopular Subjects?
Is there a place in today's society for the study of useless subjects in our universities? Just over 100 years ago Fitzgerald argued in a well-written letter(51)Nature that "Universities must be allowed to study useless subjects—(52)they don't, who will?" He went on to use the(53)of Maxwell's electrodynamics (电动力学) as one case where a "useless subject" has been transformed to a useful subject.
Nowadays this argument is again very much(54)in many universities. Indeed one suspects that it is one of those arguments that must be(55)anew (重新) by each generation. But now there is an added twist (歪曲)—subjects must not only be useful, they must also be(56)enough that students will flock (蜂拥) to do them, and even flock to pay to do them.
As universities become commercial operations, the pressure to(57)subjects or departments that are less popular will become stronger and stronger. Perhaps this is most strongly(58)at the moment by physics. There has been much(59)in the press of universities that are closing down physics departments and incorporate them with mathematics or engineering departments.
Many scientists think otherwise. They see physics as a(60)science, which must be kept alive if only to(61)a base for other sciences and engineering. It is of their great personal concern that physics teaching and research is under(62)in many universities. How can it be preserved in the rush towards commercial competition? A major turnaround (转变) in student popularity may have to(63)until the industrial world discovers that it needs physicists and starts paying them well. Physics is now not only unpopular; it is also "hard". We can do more about the latter by(64)teaching in our schools and universities. We can also(65)cooperative arrangements to ensure that physicists keep their research and teaching up to date.
A.about
B.of
C.to
D.on
Over 60 million persons in the United States own a credit card. For these millions of Americans a credit card is "coined freedom". It has had effect of increasing consumption possibilities for households by allowing them to purchase thousands of dollars of merchandise. ranging from autos. clothing, to electrical appliances. The widespread use of creditcard nowadays staggers the imagination to the point where one wonders whether the total amount of consumption spending each year would be the same if this "plastic money" were not around, Credit cards have also been of significant importance to the national economy.Businessmen have been encournged to expand plant and equipment and hire additionat personnel to meet the heavy demand for their products, The tendency of employment and income would rise significantly. Unfortunately the ease with which buyers can increase their purchase with credit cards have caused them to overlook the additional costs.Purchase on credit cards are postponed payments. Buy-now pay later encourages buyers to use credit cards ,extencively.Since the buyer is in effect borrowing money for a special purposer he must expect to pay an interest charge. Interest is the price of using money over a long period of time. A close analysis of the use for credit cards for heavy purchases will show that the buyer has added to the cost of making these purchases. It must also be kept in mind that unpaid monthly balances means added interest charges. Furthermore. the use of credit cards will add to the most purpose of the product since the shopkeeper does not receive the money at the time of the purchase, Shopkeepers might add on the cost of handing credit cards to the bill. One of the arguments against the use of credit cards has been that those who do pay cash at the time if purchase finance the use of a credit card by another person.This is so, the argument runs, because the price of a product will include the cost of another persons use of a credit card.
Which of the following is NOT true about credit cards?
A.It can encourage great sums of consumption
B.Shopkeepers, among others object to the use of credis cards because they add on the cost of the merchandise
C.Credit card holders actually pay for their shopping goods afer the purchase has been completed
D.The national economy enjoys extensive growth because of the use of credit cards
What is the main topic of the passage?A.Advantages and disadvantages of credit cards
B.Economic growth hacked up by the use of credit cards
C.Arguments against the use of ecredit cards
D.Credit cards make life easier
What are the arguments against the use of credit cards?A.It may lead to the overgrowth of the national economy.
B.The delay in the payment of shopping goods may bring damage to shopkeeprers’profits.
C.Some people may intentionally purchase goods that they cannot possbly aford
D.Those who pay by cash at the purehase will have to pay for the cost added to the product as the interest charge of credit cards
The writers purpose in this passage is to____.A.argue against credit card
B.deseribe a phenomenon
C.introduce us the disadvantage and advantage of credit card
D.propose an original viewpoint
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
At current online-ad rates, it is almost impossible for web publishers that create their own content to make money—just ask any of the two dozen, from Z.com to eCountries that have gone bust in the past month alone. The mason for the bloodbath is simple: advertisers are not willing m pay enough for web ads to support the cost of displaying them.
To see why, consider a credit-card firm that wants to find customers online. Say it runs a campaign to display its banner ad to 2 million viewers. Using industry averages, one out of every 200 viewers can be expected to click on the ad: one out of every 100 of those will actually sign up for a credit card. Thus, the campaign would yield 100 new customers. Offline, the firm pays about $150 for each customer it acquires, through anything from direct mail to television ads. Using the same rate, it would therefore be willing to pay $15,000 for those 2 million online-ad views, or a cost-per-thousand-views (CPM) rate of $7.50.
Now consider the economics of the website that is running those ads. It probably does not have its own ad sales team, so it is getting those credit-card ads from an advertising network such as DoubleClick. The network takes half the revenues, leaving the site with a CPM of $3.75. Imagine that the site is very successful, say among the top few hundred on the web. If so, it may be able to generate 10m page views 'a month. At $3.75 per thousand views, that means revenue of $37,500 a month. Take out hardware, software and bandwidth costs, and enough might be left to support two employees or so.
This grim picture can be improved by selling more than one ad per page, but such clutter often comes at the cost of a lower rate of "click-throughs" and, eventually, even lower CPMs. The site can try to charge higher CPMs by providing more information about viewer demographics, to help advertisers target their ads, or by claiming that it has a sign that may justify a fee for brand-building advertisers. But advertisers are skeptical.
The biggest web portals get their content almost for free—a mixture of material from other-sites and content created by viewers—and attract so much traffic that they can support huge organizations on low CPMs. But for most smaller websites, there is no way out. Those that cannot find revenue sources beyond advertising will either go bust or be forced to admit that their site is a non-profit enterprise. If truth-in-advertising rules were enforced, most dotcoms would be dotorgs.
In nowadays, earning money from the web is rather______.
A.difficult
B.unimaginative
C.easy
D.impossible
I want to translate the Web into every major language: every webpage, every video, and,yes, even Justin Bieber' s tweets.
Nowadays, most of the Web is inaccessible(不能接触的)to most people in the world because its content splits up into hundreds of languages with over 50% of it in English.This problem is pressing, now more than ever, with millions of people from China, Russia,Latin America and other quickly developing regions entering the Web.
There are certainly systems (like Google translate) that are improving every day at translating the gist of things written in other languages than English. Unfortunately, they are not yet accurate enough: even when what they spit out is intelligible(智能的),it’s so badly written that people can't read more than a few lines before getting a headache.
This is why a new project called Duo lingo is introduced here. Duo lingo aims at breaking the language barrier, and thus making the Web truly”world wide.”
The idea behind Duo lingo is to kill two birds with one stone by solving both of these problems simultaneously. It is accomplished by transforming language translation into something that anyone can do一not just bilinguals一and that millions of people want to do: learning a foreign language. It is estimated that over one billion people worldwide are learning a foreign language, with millions doing so using computer programs.
With Duo lingo, people learn and translate a foreign language at the same time. When you learn on Duo lingo, the website gives you exercises set specifically for you that teach you every aspect of the new language. You may be asked to translate a sentence, to pronounce or listen to a phrase, or to describe what you see in an image. In this way, Duo lingo produces translations that are as accurate as those from professional language translators.
26. What does the author want to do?().
A. Business communication.
B. Online Translation.
C. Door-to-door sales.
27. According to the article, most people in the world can’t receive most of the information on the Web due to the problem of().
A. different languages
B. social conflicts
C. governmental disagreement
28. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a problem of many translating systems?().
A. They are not accurate enough.
B. They don’t work every day.
C. The translations are badly written.
29. to kill two birds with one stone means to().
A. Spend time and moneymaking success
B. Do things without conside1ing its results
C. Solve both problems with only one move
30. What can you be asked to do to while using Duo lingo?().
A. To the product with others
B. To pay for the exercises you learn
C. To describe the image that you see
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