[单选题]She can speak French and German，let alone English.

正确答案 ：A

to say nothing of

解析：A 句意：她会说法语和德语，更不用说英语了。本题考察的是固定词组用法，to say nothing of，更不用说，没有B、C、D这三种说法。

[单选题]My father has been on the salary schedule in this factory for nearly 20 years.

正确答案 ：C

payroll

解析：【答案】C【解析】pay packet“工资袋”；payoff“还清债”；payroll“工资表”；payment“支付”。

[单选题]阅读材料，回答{TSE}题。Satiric LiteraturePerhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective.Satire rarely offers original ideas.Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form.Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies.What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected.Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false.Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism.None of these ideas is original.Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldoua Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swirl.It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular.It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive.They are stimulating and refreshing because with common sense briskness they brush away illusions and second-hand opinions.With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude. Satire exists because there is need for it.It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus,an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into all awareness of truth, though rarely to any active on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media issanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true.Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold die ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity.Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.{TS}What does the passage mainly discuss?

正确答案 ：D

Reasons for the popularity of satire.

解析：【答案】D【解析】文章连用多个because来解释说明讽刺得以存在和得到大家喜欢的理由。

[单选题]Since 1959 more and more people are in the market for the Barbie doll.

回答下面的题目:When Ruth and Eliiot Handler was young, they had a strong desire to be highly successful.

正确答案 ：C

Not mentioned

[单选题]Since the birth of the Barbie doll it has served as a sign to show the tendency of the fashion.

回答下面的题目:When Ruth and Eliiot Handler was young, they had a strong desire to be highly successful.

正确答案 ：B

Wrong

[单选题]The volunteers found the test more difficult when they did it the second time.

根据材料，完成下面的题目。Kicking the Habit       What is a bad habit? The most definition is that it is something that we do regularly, almost without thinking about it. and which has some sort of negative consequence. This consequence could affect those around us, or it could affect us personally. Those who deny having bad habits are probably lying. Bad habits are part of what makes us human.       Many early habits, like sucking out thumb, are broken when we are very young. We are either told to stop doing it by our parents, or we consciously or subconsciously observe that others do not have the same habit, and we gradually grow out of it. It is when we intentionally or unintentionally pick up new habits in our later childhood or early adulthood that it becomes a problem. Unless we can break that habit early on, it becomes a part of our life, and becomes "programmed" into our brain.       A recent study of human memory suggests that no matter how hard we try to change out habits, it is the old ways that tend to win, especially in situations where we are rushed, stressed or overworked. Habits that we thought we had got rid of can suddenly come back. During the study program, the researchers showed a group of volunteers several pictures, and gave them words to associate with them. They then showed the volunteers the same picture again, and gave them new words to associate with them.       A few days later, the volunteers were given a test. The researchers showed them the pictures, and told them to respond with one of the words they had been given for each one. It came as no surprise that their answers were split between the first set of words and second. Two weeks later, they were given the same test again. This time, most of them only gave the first set of words. They appeared to have completely forgotten the second set.The study confirms that the responses we learn first are those that remain strongest over time. We may try to change out ways, but after a while, the response that comes to mind first is usually the first one we learned. The more that response is used, the more automatic it becomes and the harder it becomes to respond in any other way.       The study therefore suggests that over time, our bad habits also become automatic, learned behavior. This is not good news for people who pick up bad habits early in life and now want tochange or break them. Even when we try to put new, good intentions into practice, those previous learned habits remain stronger in more automatic, unconscious forms of memory.Boys usually develop bad habits when they are very young.

正确答案 ：C

Not mentioned

解析：【题 干】志愿者们发现第二次测试更加困难。 【解 析】文章没有提及志愿者是否发现更难。因此答案为C未提及。 【考点延伸】find+名词+形容词的结构中，形容词为补语。

[单选题]doing

回答下面的题目：Traffic in Uur CitiesTile volume of traffic in many cities in the world today continuesto expand．This causes many problems，including serious air pollution，lengthydelays，and the greater risk__________ (51)accidents．Clearly，something must be done，but it is often difficult to persuade people to__________ (52)theirhabits and leave their cars at home．One possible__________ (53)is to make it more expensive for peopleto use their cars by__________ (54)charges for parking and__________ (55)tougherfines for anyone who__________ (56)the law．In addition，drivers could be required to pay for using particular routes atdifferent times of the day．This system，__________ (57)as“road pricin9”，is alreadybeing introduced in a__________ (58)of cities，using aspecial electronic card__________ (59)to the windscreen of the car．Another way of__________ (60)with the problem is to provide cheapparking on the__________ (61)of the city，and strictly control the number ofvehicles allowed into the centre．Drivers and their passengersthen use a special bus__________ (62)for the final stage of their journey,Ofcourse．the most important__________ (63)is to providegood public transport．However，toget people to__________ (64)the comfort of their cars，publictransport must be felt to be reliable，convenient andcomfortable，with fares__________ (65)at an acceptablelevel．

正确答案 ：

解析：根据句意，要求表达另一种处理这个问题的方法，deal with problem表示“处理问题”，为正确答案，A项do with表示“处理，对待”时，多用于具体的事物，且一般与what连用，如what should I do with this oldcomputer?(这台旧电脑我怎么处理呢?B项handle和C项solve都为及物动词，表示处理解决问题时，直接加宾语problem，故选D。．

[单选题]The majority of people around here are decent.

正确答案 ：D

wealthy

解析：【解析】句意为：这里大多数人在是体面的。decent“体面的”，四个选项A．real，真实的：B．honest，诚实的；C．normal，正常的；D．wealthy，富裕的。

[单选题]The three vowels mentioned in this article are all Finnish sounds.

回答下面的题目：Easy LearningStudents should be jealous．Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but they’ve also mastered the fine art of learning in their sleep.By the time babies are a year old they can recognise a lot of sounds and even simple words．Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake.To test the theory, Cheour and her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives．They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds—one that sounds like “oo”, another like “ee” and a third boundary vowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like something in between．EEG recordings of the infants brains before and after the session showed that the newborns could not distinguish the sounds.Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep-study groups．One group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies who’d heard the tricky boundary vowel all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognise this new sound．They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all.Cheour doesn’t know how babies accomplish this night-time learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babies don’t “turn off” their cerebral cortex while they sleep．The skill probably fades in the course of the first year of life, she adds—so forget the idea that you can pick up tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow．But while it may not help grown-ups, Cheour is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give remedial help to babies who are genetically at risk of language disorders.Babies can learn language even in their sleep.

正确答案 ：A

Right

[单选题]请在第_______处填上正确答案。

根据以下资料，回答下面的题目。Chicken Soup for the Soul：Comfort Food Fights Loneliness 请在第_______处填上正确答案。

正确答案 ：B

looked at   

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