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There are signs restaurants are becoming more popular with families.
A.that
B.which
C.in which
D.whose
There are signs restaurants are becoming more popular with families.
A.that
B.which
C.in which
D.whose
The word "adjacent" in the passage is closest in meaning to
61. THE SUBJECTS OF THE PAINTINGS ARE MOSTLY ANIMALS. THE PAINTINGS REST ON BARE WALLS, WITH NO BACKDROPS OR ENVIRONMENTAL TRAPPINGS. PERHAPS, LIKE MANY CONTEMPORARY PEOPLES, UPPER PALEOLITHIC MEN AND WOMEN BELIEVED THAT THE DRAWING OF A HUMAN IMAGE COULD CAUSE DEATH OR INJURY, AND IF THAT WERE INDEED THEIR BELIEF, IT MIGHT EXPLAIN WHY HUMAN FIGURES ARE RARELY DEPICTED IN CAVE ART. ANOTHER EXPLANATION FOR THE FOCUS ON ANIMALS MIGHT BE THAT THESE PEOPLE SOUGHT TO IMPROVE THEIR LUCK AT HUNTING.THIS THEORY IS SUGGESTED BY EVIDENCE OF CHIPS IN THE PAINTED FIGURES, PERHAPS MADE BY SPEARS THROWN AT THE DRAWINGS.BUT IF IMPROVING THEIR HUNTING LUCK WAS THE CHIEF MOTIVATION FOR THE PAINTINGS, IT IS DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN WHY ONLY A FEW SHOW SIGNS OF HAVING BEEN SPEARED.PERHAPS THE PAINTINGS WERE INSPIRED BY THE NEED TO INCREASE THE SUPPLY OF ANIMALS. CAVE ART SEEMS TO HAVE REACHED A PEAK TOWARD THE END OF THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC PERIOD, WHEN THE HERDS OF GAME WERE DECREASING.LOOK AT THE FOUR SQUARES[]THAT INDICATE WHERE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE CAN BE ADDED TO THE PASSAGE. THEREFORE, IF THE PAINTINGS WERE CONNECTED WITH HUNTING, SOME OTHER EXPLANATION IS NEEDED. WHERE WOULD THE SENTENCE BEST FIT?
Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about gushers?
61. THE SUBJECTS OF THE PAINTINGS ARE MOSTLY ANIMALS. THE PAINTINGS REST ON BARE WALLS, WITH NO BACKDROPS OR ENVIRONMENTAL TRAPPINGS. PERHAPS, LIKE MANY CONTEMPORARY PEOPLES, UPPER PALEOLITHIC MEN AND WOMEN BELIEVED THAT THE DRAWING OF A HUMAN IMAGE COULD CAUSE DEATH OR INJURY, AND IF THAT WERE INDEED THEIR BELIEF, IT MIGHT EXPLAIN WHY HUMAN FIGURES ARE RARELY DEPICTED IN CAVE ART. ANOTHER EXPLANATION FOR THE FOCUS ON ANIMALS MIGHT BE THAT THESE PEOPLE SOUGHT TO IMPROVE THEIR LUCK AT HUNTING.THIS THEORY IS SUGGESTED BY EVIDENCE OF CHIPS IN THE PAINTED FIGURES, PERHAPS MADE BY SPEARS THROWN AT THE DRAWINGS.BUT IF IMPROVING THEIR HUNTING LUCK WAS THE CHIEF MOTIVATION FOR THE PAINTINGS, IT IS DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN WHY ONLY A FEW SHOW SIGNS OF HAVING BEEN SPEARED.PERHAPS THE PAINTINGS WERE INSPIRED BY THE NEED TO INCREASE THE SUPPLY OF ANIMALS. CAVE ART SEEMS TO HAVE REACHED A PEAK TOWARD THE END OF THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC PERIOD, WHEN THE HERDS OF GAME WERE DECREASING.LOOK AT THE FOUR SQUARES[]THAT INDICATE WHERE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE CAN BE ADDED TO THE PASSAGE. THEREFORE, IF THE PAINTINGS WERE CONNECTED WITH HUNTING, SOME OTHER EXPLANATION IS NEEDED. WHERE WOULD THE SENTENCE BEST FIT?
Green came to rest on U. S. 401 alongside a trash-strewn ditch, where he was examined by paramedics and declared dead. Over the next 2 hours, the bloody body with a gaping head wound was zipped into a black vinyl bag, taken to the morgue and slid into a stainless -steel refrigerated drawer. There was just one problem: Green was alive. Two weeks after that shocking discovery, the 29-year-old Green clings to life in a hospital intensive care unit, paralyzed. No pulse or signs of breathing. Anguished family members have listened in horror as officials described the many missed signs and miscues that led to the error. They and others in this rural tobacco community northeast of Raleigh are left to wonder how something like this could have happened-and whether it has happened before. "Something ain't right with that," said T.J. Henderson, a high school classmate of Green's. "I thought they were supposed to try to give mouth to mouth or the shock at least till they got to the emergency room. That's where I thought you were pronounced dead 'at, not on the scene .... Not on the street."
On the chilly night of Jan. 24, Green and a pair of friends showed up at the Ingleside Grocery about 8:45 p.m. to pick up a few tall-boy cans of Natural Ice to take back to his trailer down the road. Green never made it. According to reports from state troopers and the Franklin County attorney's office, 36-year-old Tamuel Jackson did not have time to stop her car before it slammed into Green as he tried to cross the highway in front of his trailer.
Randy Kearney, an off-duty paramedic, was on the scene at 8:54 p.m. and found no pulse or sign of breathing. Blood had formed a foot-wide corona around Green's skull. When county paramedics Paul Kilmer and Katherine Lamell arrived moments later, Kearney told them Green was dead, but asked Kilmer to double-check. Kilmer replied that his determination was "good enough for me," according to Kearney and two firefighters. Kilmer told officials he could not remember saying that, but doesn't deny it.
By the time paramedic Pamela Hayes arrived at 9 p. m. , Green was covered by a white sheet.
According to the passage, Larry Green was a _________.
A.trailer
B.paramedic
C.trunk driver
D.government official
Part B
Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.
听力原文: Nick, an Italian-American who lived in San Francisco, flew from America to Italy to visit relatives. On the way, the plane made an hour stop to refuel at New York Airport.
Thinking that he had arrived, Nick got out and spent two days in New York believing he was in Rome. When his relatives were not there to meet him, Nick thought they had been caught in the heavy Roman traffic mentioned in their letters. While looking for their address, Nick could not help noticing that modernization had changed most, if net all, of the ancient city's landmarks.
He also noticed that many people spoke English with strong American accent. However, he just thought that Americans got everywhere. He also believed that so many street signs were written in English especially for the Americans.
Nick did not believe it when he was told that he was in New York. In order to get him on a plane back to San Francisco, the policeman raced him to the airport in a police car with sirens screaming. "See, " said Nick to his interpreter, "I know I'm in Italy. That's how they drive. "
The plane makes a stop on its way to Italy ______.
A.to refuel
B.to take some passengers aboard
C.to have a rest
D.to solve a mechanical problem
Although residential real estate activity makes up less than 8% of total U. S. GDP, a housing market like this one can make the difference between positive and negative growth. Most significantly, consumer spending is 66% of GDP, and the purchase of a new home tends to have an "umbrella effect" on the homeowner's spending as he has to stock it with a washer/dryer, a new big-screen TV, and maybe a swing set for the yard.
The main factor in housing's continued strength is a classic economic example of zero-sum boom: the persistent weakness everywhere else. As the 2003 recovery continues to be more forecast than reality. Falling stock prices raised investor appeal for U. S. Treasury Bonds, which in turn, allowed most interest rates to drift even lower. But there are not many signs that there's a bubble ready to burst.
December's new record in housing starts, for example, was nicely matched by the new record in new home sales. If you build it, they will buy and even if an economic pickup starts to reduce housing's relative attractiveness, there's no reason why modest economic growth and improved consumer mood can't help sustaining housing's strength. "The momentum gained from low mortgage interest rates will carry strong home sales into 2003, with an improving economy offsetting modestly higher mortgage interest rates as the year progresses," said David Lereah, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors.
Just as housing has taken up much of the economic slack for the past two years, both as a comforting investment for fretting consumers and a driver of consumer spending itself, a big bump elsewhere in the economy in 2003 could be housing's downfall. If stocks roar back this spring, capital inflows could steal from the bond market, pushing up long-term interest rates. or Alan Greenspan and the Fed could do the same to short-term rates, as a way to hit the brakes on a recovery that is heating up too fast. In other words, if everything possible goes wrong for housing, homeowners should have plenty to compensate them in terms of job security and income hikes.
The author draws a contrast between the housing market and the rest of the economy to show______
A.the role of real estate activity.
B.the statistics on home prices.
C.the boom of housing market.
D.the degree of consumer spirits.
Part B
Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.
听力原文: Nick, an Italian-American who lived in San Francisco, flew from America to Italy to visit relatives. On the way, the plane made a one-hour stop to refuel at New York Airport.
Thinking that he had arrived, Nick got out and spent two days in New York believing he was in Rome. When his relatives were not there to meet him, Nick thought they had been caught in the heavy Roman traffic mentioned in their letters. While looking for their address, Nick could not help noticing that modernization had changed most, if not all, of the ancient city' s landmarks.
He also noticed that many people spoke English with strong American accent. However, he just thought that Americans got everywhere. He also believed that so many street signs were written in English especially for the Americans.
Nick did not believe it when he was told that he was in New
York. In order to get him on a plane back to San Francisco, the policeman raced him to the airport in a police car with sirens screaming. "See," said Nick to his interpreter, "I know I' m in Italy. That' s how they drive."
The plane make a stop on its way to Italy ______.
A.to refuel
B.to take some passengers aboard
C.to have a rest
D.to solve a mechanical problem
APEC was founded in 1989, when Asia was a place of miracles, but much has changed in the decade since. Japan's stock market is still worth less than half its peak at the end of 1989, and much of the rest of the region is still trying to recover from the financial turmoil that began in the summer of 1997. Even now, with the South Korean and Thai economies expected to grow this year and Japan's economy showing signs of life, the International Monetary Fund warns that Asia's recovery is "precarious".
You'd think that the Asian crisis might have given APEC a sense of mission. But think again. The leaders are likely to avoid ideological lectures redevelopment that have stirred East-West tensions at previous meetings. MIT economist Paul Krugman recently declared APEC "an empty shell", and even APEC's own Business Advisory Council delivered a harsh assessment just last month. "APEC has at times lost sight of its own goals," the business executives charged, noting that member countries had been sluggish in pursuing free trade and investment.
On specific, substantive issues--like liberalization of sectors including food and autos--APEC has foisted responsibility on the WTO. That's partly because the WTO makes binding decisions on trade issues, while APEC "is not an organization really structured for action, says Charles E. Morrison, president of the East-West Center in Hawaii. Unlike the European Union, which makes majority decisions, APEC is a much looser grouping that adopts nonbinding measures.
The need for consensus makes it even harder to expect anything dazzling from Auckland. APEC leaders might endorse financial transparency and more efficient investment, and they'll try to agree on priorities for the upcoming WTO ministerial talks. But if those talks fizzle, what then? Bored officials can always turn their attention to New Zealand's 36,000 flocks of sheep--and rest up for the meatier WTO conference in November.
From the passage we can see, the author is quite ______ with the prospect of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
A.optimistic
B.pessimistic
C.excited
D.puzzled
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
It might take only the touch of peach fuzz to make an autistic child howl in pain. The odour of the fruit could be so overpowering that he gags. For reasons that are not well understood, people with autism do not integrate all of their senses in ways that help them understand properly what they are experiencing. By the age of three, the signs of autism—infrequent eye contact, over-sensitivity or under-sensitivity to the environment, difficulty mixing with others are in full force. There is no cure; intense behavioural therapies serve only to lessen the symptoms.
The origins of autism are obscure. But a paper in Brain, a specialist journal, casts some light. A team headed by Marcel Just, of Carnegie Mellon University, and Nancy Minshew, of the University of Pittsburgh, has found evidence of how the brains of people with autism function differently from those without the disorder.
Using a brain-scanning technique called functional magnetic-resonance imaging(FMRI), Dr. Just, Dr. Minshew and their team compared the brain activity of young adults who had "high functioning" autism (in which an autist's IQ score is normal) with that of non-autistic participants. The experiment was designed to examine two regions of the brain known to be associated with language—Broca's area and Wernicke's area—when the participants were reading.
Three differences emerged. First, Wernicke's area, the part responsible for understanding individual words, was more active in autists than non-autists. Second, Broca's area—where the components of language are integrated to produce meaning—was less active. Third, the activity of the two areas was less synchronised.
This research has led Dr. Just to offer an explanation for autism, lie calls it "underconnectivity theory". It depends on a recent body of work which suggests that the brain's white matter (the wiring that connects the main Bodies of the nerve ceils, or grey matter, together) is less dense and less abundant in the brain of an autistic person than in that of a non-autist. Dr. Just suggests that abnormal white matter causes the grey matter to adapt to the resulting lack of communication. This hones some regions to levels of superior ability, while others fall by the wayside.
The team chose to examine Broca's and Wernieke's areas because language-based experiments are easy to conduct. But if the underconnectivity theory applies to the rest of the brain, too, it would be less of a mystery why some people with autism are hypersensitive to their environments, and others are able to do certain tasks, such as arithmetic, so well. And if it is true that underconnectivity is indeed the main problem, then treatments might be developed to stimulate the growth of the white-matter wiring.
Which of the following is true according to the first paragraph?
A.The smell of a peach can make an autistic person feel painful.
B.Autistic persons have difficulty understanding their environment.
C.The signs of autism begin to appear after the age of three.
D.Behavioural therapies can be used to cure people of autism.
There are three main types of the influenza virus. The most important of these are type A and B, each of them having several subgroups. With the instruments at the hospital, the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus in group A, but he did not know the subgroup. Then he reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. WHO published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong Kong, where about 15-20 percent of the population had become ill.
As soon as the London doctors received the package of throat samples, doctors began the standard tests. They found that by reproducing itself with very high speed, the virus had grown more than a million times within two days. Continuing their careful tests, the doctors checked the effect of drugs against all the known subgroups of virus type A. None of them have any protection. This, then, was something new, a new influenza virus, against which the people of the world had no help whatever.
Having found the virus they were working with, the two doctors now dropped it into the noses of some specially selected animals, which get influenza much as human beings do. In a short time the usual signs of the disease appeared. These experiments proved that the new virus was easy to catch, but that it was not a killer. Scientists, like the general public, call it simply Asian flu.
The first discovery of the virus, however, was made in China before the disease had appeared in other countries. Various reports showed that the influenza outbreak started in China, probably in February 1957. By the middle March it had spread all over China. The virus was found by Chinese doctors early in March. But China is not a member of the WHO and therefore does not report outbreaks of disease to it. Not until two months later, when travelers carded the virus into Hong Kong, from where it spread to Singapore, did the news of the outbreak reach the rest of the world. By this time it was well on its way around the world.
The influenza outbreak in this story began in ______.
A.Singapore
B.China
C.Hong Kong
D.India
Heat Is Killer
Extremely hot weather is common in many parts of the world. Although hot weather just makes most people feel hot, it can cause serious medical problems- even death. Floods, storms, volcano eruptions and other natural disasters kill thousands of people every year. __________ (46) Experts say heat may be nature&39;s deadliest killer. Recently, extreme heat was blamed for killing more than one hundred people in India. It is reported that the total heat of a hot day or several days can affect health.
__________(47) Experts say heat waves often become dangerous when the nighttime temperature does not drop much from the highest daytime temperature. This causes great stress on the human body.
__________ (48) stay out of the sun, if possible. Drink lots of cool water. Wear light colored clothing made of natural materials; avoid wearing synthetic clothing. Make sure the clothing is loose, permitting freedom of movement. And learn the danger signs of the medical problems, such as headache and vomiting that are linked to heat. __________ (49) The pain is a warning that the body is becoming too hot. Doctors say those suffering headache or muscle pain should stop all activity and rest in a cool place and drink cool liquids. Do not return to physical activity for a few hours because more serious conditions could develop.
Doctors say some people face an increased danger from heat stress. __________ (50) Hot weather also increases dangers for people who must take medicine for high blood pressure, poor blood flow, nervousness or depression.$amp;第46题__________ 查看材料;$br>
A.Such persons have a weak or damaged heart, high blood pressure, or other problems of the blood system
B.Several of these conditions are present at the same time
C.Most people suffer only muscle pain as a result of heat stress
D.Several hot days are considered a heat wave
E.So does extreme heat
F.Doctors say people can do many things to protect themselves from the dangers of extreme beat
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