We have fully () smoke alarms on all staircases.
A.function
B.functional
C.functionally
A.function
B.functional
C.functionally
We have received your letter informing us of our not having settled the payment of July 2.
We fully aware that the remittance should be made before July 2according to the S/C, but our remittance arrangements with our bank have not been finalized up to now, so we ask you to accept our requesting the extension of the payment date to 20th July.
Since the contract involves considerable amount of money, we would appreciate your understanding and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by our delay in remittance.
We look forward to receiving your favorable reply.
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听力原文: During the past decade, there has been a big increase in violence crimes throughout the world. (29)Not only has there been a frightening increase in murders and rapes, but chances of being attacked and robbed have grown so that the elderly avoid leaving their apartments. The exact cause of this horrifying development has not been found. (30)Some sociologists feel that the growth of crime on TV is related with the growth of violence on going to be blown up, why not enjoy yourself fully! Regardless of the cause or causes, a fundamental change in about their fellow human beings. (31) Today, people have become "I-centered." They are more interested in tragic changes in our morality and social ways. Until people once more learn to replace "I" with "we". We shall continue to move toward destructive self-centeredness.
(30)
A.It is not convenient to walk outside.
B.They must take charge of the house.
C.The chances of being attacked have grown.
D.They will do the housework.
【C9】______ believe that bilingual education could damage society. They argue that 【C10】______ students hear and use their native languages in 【C11】______ , it is unavoidable that they will have less 【C12】______ to learn English. The more they keepusing their native language, the less 【C13】______ it becomes that these students will become fully 【C14】______ members for U.S. economic and social life. Moreover, we will 【C15】______ additional problems if we 【C16】______ to spend taxpayers' money on programs, 【C17】______ bilingual education, that discourage the learning of English. 【C18】______ , taxpayers will begin to feel 【C19】______ and unfairly treated because their money is being used to educate people who have little interest in changing to 【C20】______ into American society.
【C1】
A.which
B.that
C.what
D.whom
If the process goes too far and man's role is regarded as less important—and that has happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.
It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of "Momism" — but we don't want to exchange it for a "neo-Popism". What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit—nor the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man's place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.
The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.
Excessive authoritarianism (命令主义) has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent (相关的,切题的) not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.
The ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is______.
A.fundamental to a sound democracy
B.not pertinent to healthy family life
C.responsible for Momism
D.what we have almost given up
The first two experiments show that______.
A.children have better understanding than grown-ups
B.children have special natural ability for map reading
C.children are more interested in toys than in maps
D.children can start to learn map-reading early
Questions are based on the following passage.
The housing market exited the trauma ward (急救室) in 2013. Prices rose as muchas 30 percent in some areas, bidding wars broke out and the foreclosure rate (丧失赎取权率 ) halved from its peak. But the patient is by no means fully recovered. In fact, fiveyears after the housing bubble collapsed, one in five mortgage holders still owe more thantheir home is worth.
At its worst in early 2012, almost 16 million Americans were under water on theirmortgage. In some of the hardest hit neighborhoods, such as Las Vegas, Phoenix, andDetroit,70 percent of homeowners owed more than the value of their home. Since then,rising home prices have pushed 5 million homeowners back into the black, but 11 millionout of a total of 50 million mortgage holders remain in what financial folks call a negativeequity (负资产) position. "This is the new normal in the housing market," said SvenjaGudell, director of economic research at Zillow, an online real estate database, "We willhave high levels of negative equity for some time."
With mortgage rates rising and expected to hit 5 percent late next year, manyeconomists predict a more subdued (萧条的 ) housing market in 2014. That means pricegains should moderate and it could take a while longer for homeowners who are underwater to recover. Out of the 75 million homeowners in America, about one in seven staytrapped in their homes, unable to move or sell.
Housing prices have gone up and down over the decades, but until the financial crisisof 2008, it was rare to owe a bank more than a home is worth. For all of the 19th centuryand even during the Great Depression, this was virtually unheard of.
Until all the negative equity disappears, the housing market won"t be back to normal.It looks like we still have years to go.
Why doesn‘t the author think the housing market is fully recovered? 查看材料
A.In some places, housing prices rose as much as 30%.
B.There were bidding wars broke out frequently.
C.The foreclosure rate halved from its peak.
D.Some homeowners owe more than the value of their home.
听力原文: Before World War II, we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the dim memory of the house we lived in, of my room and my toys. Nor do I recall clearly the large family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who gathered next door. But I do have a clear memory of the dogs, the farm animals, the local birds, and above all, the nature.
I'm a naturalist, not a scientist. I have a strong love of the natural world and my enthusiasm has led me into varied investigations. I love discussing my favorite topics and enjoy burning the midnight oil while reading about other people's observations and discoveries. Then something happens that brings these observations together in my conscious mind. Suddenly you fancy you see the answer to the riddle, because it all seems to fit together. This has resulted in my publishing 300 papers and books, which some might honor with the title of scientific research.
But curiosity, a keen eye, a good memory and enjoyment of the animal and plant world do riot make a scientist: one of the outstanding and essential qualities required is self-discipline, a quality I lack. A scientist requires not only self-discipline but hard training, determination and a goal. A scientist, up to a point, can be made. A naturalist is born. If you can combine the two, you get the best of both worlds.
(30)
A.Because the family was extremely large.
B.Because he didn't live very long with them.
C.Because he was too young when he lived with them.
D.Because he was fully occupied with observing nature.
We are fully prepared()more hard work.
A.on
B.in
C.for
D.\
A.To exercise their muscles.
B.To show that they understand the music.
C.To fully enjoy the music.
D.To experience the feeling of being a conductor.
A scientist is apt to think that all the problems of philosophy will ultimately be solved by science. I think this is true for a great many of the questions on which philosophers still argue. For example, Plato thought that when we saw something, one ray of light came to it from the sun, and another from our eyes and that seeing was something like feeling with a stick. We now know that the light comes from the sun, and is reflected into our eyes. We don't know in much detail how the changes in our eyes give rise to sensation. But there is every reason to think that as we learn more about the physiology of the brain, we shall do so, and that the great philosophical problems about knowledge are going to be pretty fully cleared up.
But if our descendants know the answers to these questions and others that perplex us today, there will still be one field of which they do not know, namely the future. However exact our science; we cannot know it as we know the past. Philosophy may be described as argument about things of which we are ignorant. And where science gives us a hope of knowledge it is often reasonable to suspend judgment. That is one reason why Marx and Engels quite rightly wrote to many philosophical problems that interested their contemporaries.
But we have got to prepare for the future, and we cannot do so rationally without some philosophy. Some people say we have only got to do the duties revealed in the past and laid down by religion, and god will look after the future. Others say that the world is a machine and the course of future events is certain, whatever efforts we may make. Marxists say that the future depends on ourselves, even though we are part of the historical process. This philosophical view certainly does inspire people to very great achievements. Whether it is true or not, it is powerful guide to action.
We need a philosophy, then, to help us to tackle the future. Agnosticism easily becomes an excuse for laziness and conservatism. Whether we adopt Marxism or any other philosophy, we cannot understand it without knowing something of how it developed. That is why knowledge of the history of philosophy is important to Marxists, even during the present critical days.
What is the main idea of this passage?
A.The argument whether philosophy will ultimately be solved by science or not.
B.The importance of learning philosophies, especially the history of philosophy.
C.The difference between philosophy and science.
D.A discuss about how to set a proper attitude towards future.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG