简答题Coastal regions are mentioned as cases where _____. A、sea water is less salty because fresh water joins in B、rivers carry industrial exhaust into sea C、sea ice tends to melt more quickly than in the center of oceans D、heavy water sinks to the deeper portions of the oceans简答题Which is one of the feature of the Kolibree toothbrush? A、It can sense how users brush their teeth. B、It can track users’ chool performance. C、It can detect users’ fear of seeing a dentist. D、It can help users find their phones.简答题What does the word“forewarn”(Line 2, Para)4) mean? A、A. Deal with. B、B. Argue with. C、C. Advise beforehand. D、D. Give instructions to.简答题According to the passage, which of the following is CORRECT? A、The author set goals for himself but only invited failure most of the time. B、The author suggested not trying something beyond one's ability at the beginning. C、The bitterness of failure prevented the author from trying something out of reach. D、Because of his limitations, the author tried to reach one goal at a time.简答题What is the best title for the passage? A、Tourism in Athens. B、Athens: Then & Now. C、Historic Interests in Athens. D、The Magic of Ancient Athens.简答题The best title for this passage may be __________. A、A. Words and Feelings B、B. Words, Gestures and Feelings C、C. Gestures and Feelings D、D. Culture and Understanding简答题According to the passage, privacy is like health in that_______. A、people will make every effort to keep it B、 its importance is rarely understood C、it is something that can easily be lost D、people don't cherish it until they lose it简答题The labor market experiment in Boston shows that A、younger male applicants are more likely to be hired than their female counterparts. B、age discrimination is quite common in hiring process. C、the author collected information by interviewing female applicants. D、female applicants who are 50 years old will never have a chance to get a job.简答题According to the passage what is the best for both parents and children? A、They should adjust themselves to sharing the family expenses. B、 Children should leave their parents when they are grown-up. C、Adult children should visit their parents from time to time. D、Parents should support their adult children when they are in trouble.简答题What does the underlined word "consume" in paragraph 2 mean? A、make B、rely on C、drink D、ignore简答题According to the author's understanding, what is A1 Gore's view on global warming? A、It is a reality both people and politicians are unaware of. B、It is a phenomenon that causes us many inconveniences. C、 It is a problem that can be solved once it is recognized. D、It is an area we actually have little knowledge about.简答题Passage Three Television has opened windows in everybody's life. Young men will never again go to war as they did in 1914. Millions of people now have seen the effects of a battle. And the result has been a general dislike of war, and perhaps more interest in helping those who suffer from all the terrible things that have been shown on the sc-Teen. Television has also changed politics. The most distant areas can now follow state affairs, see and hear the politicians before an election. Better informed, people are more likely to vote, and so to make their opinion count. Unfortunately, television's influence has been extremely harnfful to the young. (79) Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world; that TV advertisements lie to sell products that are sometimes bad or useless. They believe that the violence they see is normal and acceptable. All educators agree that the "television generations" are more violent than their parents and grandparents. Also, the young are less patient. (80) Used to TV shows, where everything is quick and interesting, they do not have the patience to read an article without pictures; to read a book that requires thinking; to listen to a teacher who doesn't do funny things like the people on children's programs. And they expect all problems to be solved happily in ten, fifteen, or thirty minutes. That's the time it takes on the screen. 11. In the past, many young people__________. A、A. knew the effects of war B、 B. went in for politics C、C. liked to save the wounded in wars D、D. were willing to be soldiers简答题The purpose of the new research is__. A、to survey how much caffeine people consume a day B、to write the paper"Nature Neuroscience" C、to prove caffeine has cognitive-enhancing effects D、to examine caffeine's memory-strengthening effects in detail简答题Passage Three I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left. Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which I didn't see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was mocking me and I was hurt. "I can't use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around! " By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball. All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress. We can learn from the beginning of the passage that A、the author lost his sight because of a car crash. B、the author wouldn't love life if the disaster didn't happen. C、the disaster made the author appreciate what he had. D、the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see.简答题The author’s attitude toward European historians who have studied the Saint-Simonians is primarily one of _____. A、approval of the specific focus of their research. B、disapproval of their lack of attention to the issue that absorbed most of the Saint-Simonians’energy after 1832. C、approval of their general focus on social conditions. D、disapproval of their lack of attention to links between the Saint-Simonians and their American counterparts.简答题The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by _______. A、a famous scholar in the study of the human brain B、a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts C、an English teacher in a university for the deaf D、some senior experts in American Sign Language简答题Passage Two Recently, Congressional Democrats introduced legislation to make it easier for older workers to win age discrimination lawsuits. Age discrimination remains a significant workplace issue. In recent ten years, 15.79 percent of cases brought to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were described as successful claims. While this number is small given the number of workers covered by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, many, if not most, instances of age discrimination are never sued, and cases hiring discrimination often go undetected. Most of those who do sue are white, male middle-managers who are likely to have lost a sizeable salary and pension. For the most part, other groups do not sue because the costs of a lawsuit outweigh the potential benefits. Age discrimination remains a significant workplace issue. There is strong experimental evidence for age discrimination in hiring, at least for entry-level jobs. Recently, I performed a labor market experiment in Boston in which I sent out thousands of resumes for fictitious (虚构的) entry-level female candidates and measured response rate based on date of high school graduation. Among this group, younger applicants, whose date of high school graduation indicated that they were less than 50 years old, were 40 percent more likely to be called back for an interview than were older applicants. It is difficult to tell whether employment problems are worse for older workers than for other workers when times are bad. The number of discrimination lawsuits increases during times of high unemployment, but this finding by itself does not indicate an increased level of age discrimination. In times of higher unemployment, the opportunity cost to a lawsuit is lower than it is when times are good. From the employer's perspective, mass layoffs may seem like a good chance to remove a higher proportion of generally more expensive older workers without the worry of being sued. On the other hand, employers may be less likely to remove protected older workers because' they still fear lawsuits. One thing we do know is that once an older worker loses a job, he or she is much less likely to find a new job than a younger worker is. Unfortunately, the effect of legislation prohibiting age discrimination is not easy to see and may actually be part of the reason it is so difficult for older workers to find employment. If it is more difficult to fire an older worker than a younger worker, a firm will be less likely to want to hire older workers. Indeed, my research finds that in states where workers have longer time to bring a lawsuit claim, older men work fewer weeks per year, are less likely to be hired, and less likely to be fired than men in states where they do not have as much. Not many people would suggest that we go back to a world prior to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, in which advertisements specify the specific ages of people they are willing to hire. However, legislation prohibiting discrimination is no panacea (万灵药). The recent proposed congressional legislation could have both positive and negative effects on potential older workers. A lot of cases of age discrimination are not found because A、age discrimination law was just introduced recently. B、other discriminated groups don't sue except the whites. C、age discrimination cases are in large quantity and it is difficult to detect all of them. D、many discriminated people don't sue and costs of a lawsuit outweigh potential benefits.简答题Passage Two For a long time, researchers have tried to nail down just what shapes us — or what, at least, shapes us most. And over the years, they've had a lot of exclamation moments. First it was our parents, particularly our mothers. Then it was our genes. Next it was our peers, who show up last but hold great sway. And all those ideas were good ones — but only as far as they went. Somewhere, there was a sort of temperamental dark matter exerting an invisible gravitational pull of its own. More and more, scientists are concluding that this unexplained force is our siblings. From the time we are born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and co-conspirators, our role models and cautionary tales. They are our scolds, protectors, goads, tormentors, playmates, counselors, sources of envy, objects of pride. They teach us how to resolve conflicts and how not to; how to conduct friendships and when to walk away from them. Sisters teach brothers about the mysteries of girls; brothers teach sisters about the puzzle of boys. Our spouses arrive comparatively late in our lives; our parents eventually leave us. Our siblings may be the only people we'll ever know who truly qualify as partners for life. "Siblings," says family sociologist Katherine Conger, "are with us for the whole journey." Within the scientific community, siblings have not been wholly ignored, but research has been limited mostly to discussions of birth order．Older sibs were said to be strivers；younger ones rebels；middle kids the lost souls．The stereotypes were broad，if not entirely untrue，and there the discussion mostly ended． But all that's changin9．At research centers in the U．S．，Canada，Europe and elsewhere，investigators are launching a wealth of new studies into the sibling dynamic，looking at ways brothers and sisters steer one another int0—or away from—risky behavior how they form a protective buffer(减震器)against family upheaval；how they educate one another about the opposite sex；how all siblings compete for family recognition and come to terms—or blows—over such impossibly charged issues as parental favoritism． From that research，scientists are gaining intriguing insights into the people we become as adults．Does the manager who runs a harmonious office call on the peacemaking skills learned in the family playroom? Does the student struggling with a professor who plays favorites summon up the coping skills acquired from dealing with a sister who was Daddy's girl? Do husbands and wives benefit from the inter—gender negotiations they waged when their most important partners were their sisters and brothers? All that is under investigation．“Siblings have just been off the radar screen until now，”says Conger．But today serious work is revealing exactly how our brothers and sisters influence us． The beginning of the passage indicates that A、researchers have found out what shapes us． B、our peer is the last factor influencing us． C、what researchers found contributes in a limited way． D、what researchers found is good and trustworthy．简答题When is the price going down? A、 The quality of the foods and market condition are not very well. B、The quality of goods and market condition vary. C、Unbalance between supply and demand. D、The price of other goods fluctuates.简答题What does the author intend to tell us in Paragraph 1? A、Human civilization has a long history. B、Some old traditions should be carried on. C、Human civilization develops very fast. D、Some old traditions have disappeared.