Though having been living in the States for more than 10 years, she still has a () British accent when she talks.
A.sensitive
B.narrative
C.distinctive
D.representative
A.sensitive
B.narrative
C.distinctive
D.representative
第1题
听力原文:W: Hello, Steve?
M: Hi, Veronica. What's going on?
W: Oh, my car's having problems again, but I don't have the time or the money to get it fixed.
M: Is it really bad?
W: It's starting to overheat whenever I'm idling or in heavy traffic, and two days ago I had to pull off the expressway and wait until the engine cooled down.
M: Have you taken it into a shop?
W: Well, I went to two different places yesterday; one mechanic said he'd check the coolant level and look for fluid leaks; the other guy said he thought it was the thermostat. I didn't leave the car with either of them, though, because I didn't have a ride back.
M: What are you going to do?
W: I really don't know. I'll have to figure out something; the bus service is terrible around where I five. Anyway, could I ask you for a favor?
M: Of course, what is it?
W: You know, tomorrow's Monday and we're supposed to turn in our homework in English, but I've only gotten halfway through it — I've just been too busy. If I came over, would you help me finish it?
M: Sure, I'll be here all evening. And actually I haven't finished the homework either; I've just been putting it off, so it's good you're coming over — I need someone to motivate me.
W: Thank you so much, Steve. It's so nice of you. See you later.
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A.She didn't take it to the repair shop at all.
B.She decided to throw it away and buy a new one.
C.She took it to the repair shop but refused to have it repaired.
D.She turned to mechanics for help but they could do nothing with it.
第2题
A.They refused to apologize for having followed her though the town.
B.They regretted having wrongly accused her of stealing.
C.They still suspected that she was a thief.
D.They agreed to pay her $ 3,000 damages.
第3题
Dr Davies (para.4) implies that______.
A.cosmetic surgery, though expensive, is worth having
B.cosmetic surgery is too expensive
C.for a women, cosmetic surgery is the most important thing to do
D.cosmetic surgery is not expensive at all
第4题
King was born on January 15, 1929. in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of non-violent resistance. Having received a Ph. D (Doctor of Philosophy) from Boston University, he became a political and religious leader of the non-violent civil rights movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington D.C. to fight for the Civil Rights Law and delivered his best known speech “I Have a Dream”. The “dream” is a dream of brotherly love and equality for the Black and White. As a result, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1964, but he was murdered four years later.
Though he died, he was greatly respected and loved by the Americans, both the white and the black. By vote of Congress in 1968, the third Tuesday of every January is now a holiday in Luther King’s honour. He lives in people’s hearts forever.
Martin Luther King was murdered when he was 39 years old.
A.T B.F
Martin Luther King was a black minister only.
A.T B.F
Martin Luther King's Day has been a federal holiday for more than 40 years.
A.T B.F
The underlined word "delivered" in the second paragraph could be replaced by "gave
A.T B.F
The best title for this passage is "Civil Rights Law
A.T B.F
第5题
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.
Handsome male executive were perceived as having more integrity than plainer men; effort and ability we thought to account for their success.
Attractive female executive were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones; their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executive were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than was that of attractive overnight successes.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is perceived to be more feminine and an attractive man more masculine than the less attractive ones. Thus, an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally masculine position appears to lack the "masculine" qualities required.
This is true even in politics. "When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently," says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males utterly defeated unattractive men, but the women who had been ranked most attractive invariably received the fewest votes.
The word "liability" (Line 4, Para. i) most probably means"
A.misfortune
B.disadvantage
C.instability
D.burden
第6题
A.as soon as
B.as many as
C.as if
D.as though
第7题
听力原文: After a generation of no-fault divorce in America, law-makers in some states are being asked to make it harder to end a marriage when one spouse does not want to call it off. Proposals in several states to make contested divorces harder to obtain are supported by conservative groups seeking to promote their concept of family values. These proposals would go back to, in contested cases, the old requirement that one spouse should show the other was "at fault", such as being unfaithful, abusive, a drug user or someone who deserts the marriage. That would be a big shift from current divorce laws.
The no-fault divorce law has been enacted throughout America since California put the first one on the books in 1970. Under such laws, someone can get a divorce on grounds that the marriage has broken down without having to claim wrongdoing by the other spouse. No-fault divorces can be obtained even if one spouse does not agree to dissolve the marriage.
However, many lawyers who specialize in divorce think returning to a fault requirement is a bad idea even though such a change might boost business for them. They think it would only intensify the bitterness of lawsuits and fighting and tearing apart of children that no-fault was initially designed to ease.
So far limits on no-fault have been proposed in several states. Proposals in these states would let couples sign contracts making their marriages harder to dissolve and allow no-fault divorces for couples who agree to split up. Couples with children would have to go through counseling on the impact that divorce might have on a child.
(30)
A.A divorce in which both husband and wife want to call the marriage off.
B.A divorce in which the couple have got children,
C.A divorce in which the couple cannot agree on the guardianship.
D.A divorce in which only one spouse agrees to dissolve the marriage.
第8题
A.being built
B.built
C.had been built
D.having been built
第9题
A.before adolescence
B.during institutional treatment
C.during adolescence
D.when the problem becomes acute
第10题
A.imposed
B.exposed
C.composed
D.opposed