单选题
单选题
After winning a big game, athletes are often asked how they feel. Usually athletes say how (1) it is to win this big game. On the contrary, the fact is that losing a big game, or in my case, all the games, can be even harder.
From the spectators’ point of view, last year’s basketball (2) for my high school team was nothing (3) of an embarrassment. And (4) 0 and 20 is certainly nothing to be proud of, that season had a bigger impact on me than any other. As a team captain, I knew it probably wouldn’t be the (5) year, but did I ever think we would lose every game Of course not. Since six of our top players had graduated, it was clear that we were a (n) (6) team who would struggle. The struggle began earlier than expected, (7) , as our team center was suspended (禁赛) for the season, and two key members decided to (8) for some reason. At this point, dropping out probably passed through every player’s mind, but in the end, we all stuck if out, (9) to work still harder.
Then there came a time when even our (10) and given up on us. Personally, I felt like it was (11) worthwhile giving my all. I thought, if even the coach doesn’t believe in us, why should I But just as my hope began to (12) , a teammate called a meeting. He said," Nobody thinks we are going to win, but, as teammates and friends, we (13) it to each other to go all out every game. "
It was that moment that (14) me how to be a leader. It hit me that I certainly didn’t (15) the role. As a leader you can never quit (16) the team who looks up to you. It is one (17) to be named captain, feel great and go through the motions, but it is quite another to be a real captain and make sure everyone realizes their full (18) all the time.
I am sure it is great to go through without losing and bringing home awards. But in all honesty, I (19) the fact that my team lost every game last year. It may not help me to become a better basketball player, but it already has made me a better leader, and (20)
A:meanwhile B:though C:instead D:somehow
The American idea that hard work was to be esteemed distinguishes us from Europeans who (1) their gentlemen of leisure. For us, hard work (2) idleness was the way (3) distinction.
Now, (4) , like many other traditional values, hard work is coming under (5) . In academic journals, conferences and classrooms, the idea of hard work is considered to be another of those notions that the dominant forces of our society (6) on the rest of Us. It (7) advances white-male interests (8) any woman or minority foolish enough to buy into the dominant value system will find out.
In a recent survey, high-school students in the United States and Japan were asked to (9) factors that (10) to success in the classroom. Of the Japanese, 72 percent listed hard work first (11) only 27 percent of Americans agreed.
Many factors contribute to the devaluing of hard work. Thinking that self-esteem is crucial, many parents and teachers (12) to point out the student’s failing, even laziness. To make matters (13) , Americans place an unusually high value on the idea of innate ability. And (14) inevitably deemphasizes the role that hard work plays in success. (15) if our students fail to see that hard work (16) , it is because we are telling them time and again, that it (17) . If we want young people to esteem hard work, it is UP to us to show them its worth, its strength and its significance in everyday life.
And while we are at it, we should make sure they know there are many ideas to which we can all (18) . The notion that these values cannot (19) class, race more than the idea of hard work. It can call into question (20) there can be an American creed—a public philosophy for us all.
A:anyway B:somehow C:somewhat D:however
Air is (1) , and like all matter, it has weight. Weight is the measure of the (2) of gravity (3) matter. If a scale registers 10 kilograms when a stone is placed on it, this means that gravity pulls the stone with that (4) force. (5) , earth’ s gravity pulls on each (6) of gas and dust on the atmosphere. Because our atmosphere is a. vast (7) of air, it has (8) . If it could (9) be compressed and put on a (10) of scales, it would weigh about 5,700,000,000,000,000 (quadrillion) metric tons.
The air pressed down on us and against us (11) all sides. Something (12) a ton of air is pressing against you at this moment. You are not (13) of this because air pressure within your body (14) the pressure of the air outside.
Air pressure is 1. 036 kilograms per square centimeter (14.7 pounds per square inch) at sea (15) . It is greatest there because that is the (16) of the atmosphere. (17) higher altitudes the pressure is (18) . That is why the (19) of highflying planes are pressurized. They are designed to (20) the air pressure our bodies must have.
A:surely B:somehow C:constantly D:carefully
There has arisen during this twentieth century (as it arose before, in ages which we like to call dark) a pronounced anti intellectualism, a feeling that both studies and literature are not merely vain, but also (1) untrustworthy. With people swayed by this wrong (2) that there is little use in arguing, either for history or literature, or for poetry or music, or for the arts (3) .
With others, there is still faith that any civilization worthy of the name must be (4) in a ceaseless pursuit of truth. Whether truth is (5) through study or through the arts makes no difference. Any pursuit of truth is not only (6) ; it is the foundation stone of civilization.
The (7) for and reading of history is one of those approaches to truth. It is only ones all the arts and sciences are such (8) . All have their place; all are good; and each (9) with the other. They are not airtight compartments. It is only in a few institutions, subjected to (10) misinformation, that events like the Industrial Revolution are (11) entirely to the historians, the social scientists, or the physical scientists. Only within the past hundred years have historians (12) that what people have done in literature and art is a part of their history. Books like Uncle Tom’s Cabin have themselves helped to (13) history.
Even at the moment, when scientific (14) becomes more and more specialized and the historian concentrates more and more fiercely on periods and (15) , it is becoming more (16) to the layman that all this is part of one whole. Even on a (n) (17) when textbooks are being written to introduce to the theoretical physicist his colleagues who are working as chemists or engineers on perhaps the same problem, the layman is far enough (18) from all this specialization to see the whole, possibly even more clearly than do the (19) . Between history, biography, the arts and sciences, and even journalism, who could draw airtight (20) Not laymen. Is not yesterday’s newspaper history, and may it not become literature
A:anyway B:somehow C:little D:sometimes
In October 2002, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank (1) a new electronic market (www. gs. com/econderivs) for economic indices that (2) substantial economic risks, such as nonfarm payroll (a measure of job availability) and retail sales. This new market was made possible by a (3) trading technology, developed by Longitude, a New York company providing software for financial markets, (4) the Parimutuel Digital Call Auction. This is "digital" (5) of a digital option: ie, it pays out only if an underlying index lies in a narrow, discrete range. In effect, Longitude has created a horse race, where each "horse" wins if and (6) the specified index falls in a specified range. By creating horses for every possible (7) of the index, and allowing people to bet (8) any number of runners, the company has produced a liquid integrated electronic market for a wide array of options on economic indices.
Ten years ago it was (9) impossible to make use of electronic information about home values. Now, mortgage lenders have online automated valuation models that allow them to estimate values and to (10) the risk in their portfolios. This has led to a proliferation of types of home loan, some of (11) have improved risk-management characteristics.
We are also beginning to see new kinds of (12) for homes, which will make it possible to protect the value of (13) , for most people, is the single most important (14) of their wealth. The Yale University-Neighbourhood Reinvestment Corporation programme, (15) last year in the city of Syracuse, in New York State, may be a model for home-equity insurance policies that (16) sophisticated economic indices of house prices to define the (17) of the policy. Electronic futures markets that are based on econometric indices of house prices by city, already begun by City Index and IG Index in Britain and now (18) developed in the United States, will enable home-equity insurers to hedge the risks that they acquire by writing these policies.
These examples are not impressive successes yet. But they (19) as early precursors of a technology that should one day help us to deal with the massive risks of inequality that (20) will beset us in coming years.
A:somehow B:anyway C:otherwise D:thereby
All Sumerian cities recognized a number of gods in common, including the sky god, the lord of storms, and the morning and evening star. (1) the Sumerian worshipped the goddess of fertility, love, and war, she was evidently lower (2) status than the male gods, indicating that in a more urbanized society the (3) that the peoples of previous times had paid to the earth mother goddess had (4) . The gods seemed hopelessly violent and (5) , and one’s life a period of slavery at their easy will. The epic poem The Creation emphasizes that (6) were created to enable the gods to (7) up working. Each city moreover had its own god, who was considered to (8) the temple literally and who was in theory the owner of all property within the city. (9) the priests who interpreted the will of the god and controlled the (10) of the economic produce of the city were favored (11) their supernatural and material functions (12) . When, after 3000 B. C. , growing warfare among the cities made military leadership (13) , the head of the army who became king assumed a(n) (14) position between the god, whose agent he was, and the priestly class, whom he had both to use and to (15) Thus king and priests represented the upper class in a hierarchical society. (16) them were the scribes, the secular attendants of the temple, who (17) every aspect of the city’s economic life and who developed a rough judicial system. (18) the temple officials, society was divided among an elite or (19) group of large landowners and military leaders; a mixed group of merchants, artisans, and craftsmen, free peasants who (20) the majority of the population; and slaves.
Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.9（）A:Hence B:Thereafter C:Somehow D:Incidentally
Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) You hear a great many complaints today about the excessive security consciousness of our young people. My complaint is the (1) :in the large organizations especially, there are not enough job opportunities for those young people who need challenge and risk. Jobs in which there is greater emphasis on (2) performance of well-organized duties (3) on imagination especially for the beginner—are to be found, for instance, in the inside jobs (4) banking or insurance, (5) normally offer great job security but not rapid promotion or large pay. The same is (6) most government work, of the railroad industry, particularly in the clerical and engineering branches, and (7) most public (8) . The book keeping and accounting areas, especially in the larger companies, are generally of this type, too (9) a successful comptroller is an accountant (10) great management and business imagination. At the other extreme are (11) areas as buying, selling, and advertising, in which the (12) is on adaptability, on imagination, and on a desire to do new and different things. In those areas, (13) , there is little security, either personal or economic. The rewards, (14) , are high and come more rapidly. Major premium on imagination—though of a different kind and coupled (15) dogged persistence on details (16) in most research and engineering work. Jobs in production, as supervisor or executive, also demand much adaptability and imagination. (17) to popular belief, a very small business requires, above all, close attention to daily routine. Running a neighborhood drugstore or a small grocery, or being a toy jobber, is largely attention to details. But in very small business there is also (18) for quite a few people of the other type of personality--the innovator or imaginer. If successful, a man of this type soon ceases to be in a very small business. (19) the real innovator (20) is, still, no more promising opportunity in this country than that of building a large out of a very small business.
Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.17（）A:though B:somehow C:somewhat D:anyhow
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Mysterious Nazca Drawings{{/B}} ? ?One of the most mysterious archaeological spectacles in the world is the immense complex of geometrical symbols, giant ground-drawings of birds and animals, and hundreds of long, ruler-straight lines, some right across mountains, which stretch over 1,200 square miles of the Peruvian tablelands, at Nazca. ? ?Nazca was first revealed to modern eyes in 1926 when three explorers looked down on the desert from a hillside at dusk and briefly saw a Nazca line highlighted by the rays of the sun. But it was not until the Peruvian airforce took aerial photographs in the 1940s that the full magnificence of the panorama was apparent. Hundreds of what looked like landing strips for aircraft were revealed. There were eighteen bird-like drawings, up to 400 feet long, four-sided figures with two lines parallel; and long needle-like triangles which ran for miles. Among the many abstract patterns were a giant spider, a monkey, a shark, all drawn on the ground on a huge scale. ? ?The scale is monumental, but from the ground almost invisible and totally incomprehensible. The amazing fact about Nazca, created more than 1,500 years ago, is that it can only be appreciated if seen from the air. Many, therefore, regarded it as a prehistoric landing ground for visitors from outer space, but Jim Woodman, an American explorer, who was long fascinated by the mystery of Nazea, had a different opinion. He believed that Nazca only made sense if the people who had designed and made these vast drawings on the ground could actually see them, and that led him to the theory that the ancient Peruvians had somehow learned to fly, as only from above could they really see the extent of their handiwork. With this theory in mind, he researched into ancient Peruvian legends about flight and came to the conclusion that the only feasible answer was a hot-air balloon. ? ?To prove his theory, Woodman would have to make such a thing using the same fabrics and fibers that would have been available to the men of Nazca at the time. He started by gathering information from ancient paintings, legends, books and archaeological sites. After many attempts, Woodman built a balloon-type airship. It took him into the air, letting him have the sensation he had never had from viewing the same ground that he had seen many times. His flight was a modern demonstration of an ancient possibility. |
A:Nazca could be seen from a balloon B:the ancient Peruvians somehow managed to see the drawings from above C:the ancient Peruvians flew in balloons D:Nazca was a magnificent sight from the air
Smoking is considered dangerous to the health. Our tobacco--seller, Mr. Johnson, therefore, always asks his customers, if they are very young, whom the cigarettes are bought (51) . One day, a little girl whom he had never seen before walked (52) into his shop and demanded twenty cigarettes. She had the (53) amount of money in her hand and seemed very sure of herself. Mr. Johnson was so (54) by her confident manner that he (55) to ask his usual question. (56) , he asked her what kind of cigarettes she wanted. The girl replied (57) and handed him the money. While he was giving her the change, Mr. Johnson said laughingly that (58) she was so young she should (59) the packet in her pocket in case a policeman saw it. (60) , the little girl did not seem to find this very funny. Without (61) smiling she took the (62) and walked towards the door. Suddenly she stopped, turned (63) , and looked steadily at Mr. Johnson. There was a moment of silence and the tobacco-seller (64) what was going to say. All at once, in a clear, (65) voice, the girl declared, " My dad is a policeman," and with that she walked quickly out of the shop.
56（）A:Therefore B:Instead C:Anyway D:Somehow
I wasn’t qualified for the job really, but I got it anyhow.
A:somehow B:anyway C:anywhere D:somewhere
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