We can’t have the signature of the singer since she has gone. What a _____ !

You cant imagine______.

A．what did we have awful weather

B．what weather awful did we have

C．what awful weather we did have

D．what awful weather had we

Why cant man prevent the world from being polluted？

A．It"s because there are many developing nations.

B．It"s because people use too many man-made materials.

C．It"s because we have more and more industry.

D．It"s because we are building more vehicles.

can I. Question: What do we learn from the conversation？

A．Frank doesn"t have time to look at his grade.

B．They already know what Frank will say.

C．They are anxious to see Frank"s reaction to the grade.

D．They can imagine what grade Frank has got.

le who take pictures have【C1】______remembering what actually happened. This phenomenon has been named "photo-taking impairment effect". From childrens birthdays to that long-awaited family holiday, we all want to remember those【C2】______moments with a photograph.【C3】______if youre one of those people who cant stop【C4】______beware then—you could【C5】______forgetting it all in a flash. A study has found that taking too many photos may prevent us from forming detailed memories. Researchers from Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia University in the U.S. recently found that many people now use the Internet【C6】______a memory. They claimed that when someone wants to know something they now use the Internet【C7】______an "external memory" just as computers use an external hard【C8】______. The study continued that we are now so【C9】______on smartphones and laptops, we go into "withdrawal when we cant find out something【C10】______". Far from helping us to【C11】______the moment, it could mean we miss whats going on right in front of our noses. Researchers led a group of students around a museum and asked them to either photograph or try to remember certain works of art and historical【C12】______. The next day, their memory was tested. It showed they were【C13】______at recognizing objects they had photographed than those they had only looked at. They were also poorer at【C14】______details of the objects they had taken pictures of. Dr Linda Henkel, who conducted the study at Fair field University in Connecticut, said: "People so often【C15】______out their cameras almost mindlessly. When people rely on technology to remember for them, it can have a【C16】______impact on how well they remember their【C17】______." Previous studies have suggested that【C18】______old photos can help us remember, but only if we spend long enough doing it. "In order to remember, we have to【C19】______and interact with the photos, rather than just【C20】______them," said Dr Henkel.

【C1】

A．puzzle

B．trouble

C．difficulty

D．fuss

Productive, that when you feel real or imagined concerns piling on, share them with a friend, and theres a better chance that aimless anxiety will change into problem-solving. He believes that worrying alone is one of the major reasons that people cant focus, both at work and elsewhere in their lives. Worrying alone does not have to be toxic, but it tends to become toxic because in isolation we lose perspective. We tend to globalize, catastrophize, when no one is there to act as a reality check. Our imaginations run wild. Indeed, Samuel Johnson, a severe worrier himself, called worry a "disease of the imagination". When we worry alone we risk losing touch with reality, becoming paralyzed in worry, making bad decisions, and even getting sick, as toxic worry depresses immune function.

ching in Xiamen Universitys MBA center for over five years, Ive come to realize that even if political and economic barriers are overcome, a major hurdle remains—culture! On occasion I have felt that some Chinese were rude or inconsiderate. Unfortunately, some Chinese have thought even worse of me. But most of the discord arises not from intent but from ignorance of cultural differences. Americas individualist culture springs from a 2 000 year tradition of Roman and Greek arts, philosophy and government, as well as the moral and legal traditions of Christianity. By contrast, Chinas culture, including its arts, philosophy, and government is rooted in the Confucian ethic, Taoism, Buddhism, and more recently, Chinese Socialism. Two weeks after I arrived in China, I told a cashier "Thank you. " She replied, "Dont use thanks. " Taken aback, I asked "Why shouldnt I use thanks？" She looked at me as if I were from another planet and I beat a hasty retreat. I reasoned that since China is socialist, maybe polite phrases denote feudalist class distinctions and are best avoided! But a leopard cant change its spots and an American cant easily stop saying "thank you" for everything. A week later a shop assistant told me "Dont use thanks. " I asked "Why not？" and she replied, "Dont be polite. " I thought, "Well, this is too much! We cant use any polite speech at all？" To my dismay, I eventually learned that "Dont use thanks" had the exact same meaning and usage as the English "Dont mention it". I had translated words instead of intent. My mistake was merely an embarrassment, but similar blunders(错误)by business and political leaders have destroyed potential business negotiations or diplomatic relationships. Questions:

Whats the best title of this passage？

A．Cultural Barriers to Sino-U. S. Friendship.

B．Possible Business Cooperation between China and America.

C．Political and Economic Hurdle between U. S. and China.

D．Different Languages Used by Chinese and Americans.

ween two, sometimes,【C2】______covers. People bought them, and people borrowed them, but,【C3】______people used to read them. And then came screens. Six years into the【C4】______rise of mobile, half of American adults own a smartphone; over a third owns a tablet. Now, Im joking about the end of books, but its easy and tempting to【C5】______that screens will continue their【C6】______on words and paper-bound books will be at the【C7】______of vanishing. But if you take a hard look at the data, its not the end of print. Not by a long shot. 【C8】______years, there hasnt been a more【C9】______technology for capturing the hopes and the fears of new parents than the tablet. Touchscreens are so easy to【C10】______that babies can use them and learn at younger ages than we thought possible—or babies can use them and use them and use them and lose out on other skills. We just dont know what this does【C11】______young brains. All we know is were【C12】______a generation that sometimes finds magazines more【C13】______than iPads. Parents, of course, cant not know. Or, if they really cant, then they dont want to take any【C14】______. And thats why its not at all【C15】______that the vast, vast【C16】______of parents prefer reading printed books to their young children. Pew Research found that 94 percent of parents think its important to read print books to their children. Print【C17】______isnt going away soon.【C18】______more people prefer e-readers, some would still rather read print. Books will become "luxuries". But, of course, the real test will come in the next few years when we see what kids who have been using tablets since before they could walk prefer to read. Print is in a long, slow【C19】______that feels like a death spiral, but isnt quite so. For now, at least, the end of print is a long way off, even if kids these days cant【C20】______how to turn the page.

【C1】

A．sealed

B．contained

C．packed

D．installed

ms from a fundamental disagreement over how jobs are created in the first place. We are now in the third year of policies predicated on the assumption that government spending creates jobs. We have been【M1】______ squandered three years and trillions of dollars of the nation s wealth on such policies, and they have not worked so they cannot【M2】______ work. Government cannot inject a single dollar into the economy if【M3】______ it has first taken that same dollar out of the economy. True, we can see the job that is saved or created when the government puts that dollar back into the economy. That we cant【M4】______ see clearly are the jobs that are destroyed or prevented from forming because government has first taken that dollar out of the economy. We see those millions of lost jobs in a chronic unemployment rate and a stagnating economy. Government can transfer jobs from the production sector to【M5】______ the government sector by taking money from one and giving it to the other. Thats the heart of the presidents plan to spend billions【M6】______ of dollars to hire more teachers and firefighters than police【M7】______ officers. But these temporal government jobs come at a steep【M8】______ price: every dollar spent on sustaining one of these jobs is a dollar【M9】______ taken from the same capital pool that would otherwise have been available to productive businesses to invest creating permanent【M10】______ jobs.

【M1】

lude the world ends on 21 December 2012. The question is why so many people are drawn by these tales 【M1】______ of impending destruction？ Theres more reason to think it will 【M2】______ immediately lead to a planet-wide liquidation sale than if your desk calendar reaches the end of the year before youve bought a new one. Why are we so determined to think our days are numbered, and so willing to bend the facts to fit our delusions？ My whole 【M3】______ unscientific theory is what stems from our understandable difficulty 【M4】______ grasping the walk-on part we all hold amid the sprawling enormity 【M5】______ of deep time. It is not easy to get our head round the Earth having 【M6】______ existed for billions of years, and with our own life in comparison 【M7】______ being an almost insignificant instant in the middle of it all. Thus 【M8】______ fleeting and so far from either end of the story that many of us behave like individual black holes, mentally warping time to write ourselves into the grand finale. Sooner or later, those who are convinced of our imminent doom will inevitably be proved right. The planet cant last forever — astronomers predict the planet only has around another 7.5 billion years when it is engulfed by the Sun and humans will likely have 【M9】______ disappeared much earlier. If we do have only the briefest lines in a seemingly interminable epic, shouldnt we make most of it while we 【M10】______ are on stage？

【M1】

he astronauts carry important supplies with them on the spaceship — food, water and air. Sometimes there are problems on the spaceship, and the astronauts have to understand how the spaceship works in order to repair the problems. In a way, all of us are really on a spaceship, the planet Earth. We move around the Sun at 18 miles per second and never stop. On our spaceship we have four billion people and a limited supply of air, water and land. These supplies, just like the limited supplies on the astronauts spaceship, have to be used carefully because we cant buy new air, water or land from anywhere else. Everyone needs air, water and land to live — this is our environment. The environment on our planet is a closed system; nothing new is ever added. Nature recycles its resources. Water, for example, evaporates and rises to form. clouds. This same water returns to the earth as rain or snow. The rain that falls today is actually the same water that fell on the dinosaurs 70 million years ago. Over the years, people have changed the environment. We have poured back into the land, air, and water more wastes than nature can clean. So we have pollution today. To continue to survive, we must learn how to use the Earths resources wisely, without destroying them. To save the spaceship Earth, we must cooperate with nature and learn better ways to use, not to abuse our environment. Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 20. Which would be the best title for the passage？ 21. Which is true according to the passage？ 22. What can we conclude from the passage？20．

A．The present population on earth is fourteen billion.

B．Water is recycled every seventy million years.

C．The planet earth travels around the sun at 18 miles per second.

D．The earth is compared to a spaceship because they both travel around the sun.

A.outside

B.looking

C.identification

D.appearance