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【单选题】
If you ask an American how far it is from the next village, he will().
A．tell you the exact distance if he knows it
B．tell you it is close although he knows it isn’t
C．say that he doesn’t know and encourage you to go on
D．decide whether you are tired or not and then give you an answer
A.
"How far is it to the next village" the American asks a man sitting by the side of the road. In some countries, because the man realizes that the traveler is tired and eager to get to his destination (目的地), he will politely say "Just down the road." He thinks this is more encouraging, gentler, and therefore the wanted answer. So the American drives through the night, getting more and more angry, feeling "tricked". He thinks the man deliberately (故意地) cheated him, for obviously he must have known the distance quite well.
B.
Had conditions been reversed (颠倒过来), the American would have felt he was "cheating" the driver if he had said the next town was close when he knew it was really 15 miles further on. Though, he, too, would be sympathetic (同情的) to the weary driver, he would say "You have a good way to go yet; it is at least 15 miles." The driver might be disappointed, but he would know what to expect.
C.
Whether to be accurate (准确的) or polite leads to many misunderstandings between people of different cultures. If you are aware of the situation in advance, it is sometimes easier to recognize the problem.
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【单选题】44(). A．moved B．set C．started D．pushed
A.
Bringing Art into Hospitals
B.
The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the (36) in hospitals may play an important (37) to help patients to get better.
C.
As (38) of nationwide effort in Britain to bring (39) out (40) the museums and into (41) places, some of the country’s best artists have (42) in to change older hospital and to soften the (43) edges of modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.
D.
These recent movements first (44) by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital on northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and (45) he should be enjoyed by a wider audience.
E.
A common hospital waiting room might have (46) 5 000 visitors each week, what a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out-patients waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to lie Britain’s first hospital artist, Senior was so much (47) that he was soon joined (48) a team of six young art school graduates.
F.
The effect is (49) , now in file (50) and waiting rooms the visitors (51) a full view of fresh colors, playful images and restful countyards.
G.
The quality of the environment may (52) the used for expensive drugs when a patient is (53) from all illness. A study has shown that (54) who halt a view onto garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared (55) patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.
【单选题】Change, or the ability to (31) oneself to a changing environment is essential (32) evolution. The farmer whose land is required for housing or industry must adapt himself: he can transfer to anoth...
A.
backward
B.
aside
C.
forward
D.
amidst
【单选题】What advice did the woman give to the man(). A．She told him to go by bus. B．She told him to walk there. C．She told him to wait for a bus.
A.
M: Excuse me. Is this road to Turner’s Street
B.
W: Yes.
C.
M: Is it very far from here
D.
W: No, not very far. About an hour’s walk.
E.
M: Are there any buses going there
F.
W: Oh, yes, but the buses don’t come very often. Only about 4 times a day.
G.
M: When does the next bus come along
H.
W: Not until haft past seven. You will arrive there if you walk.
I.
M: Well, thank you. I’d better walk. I can’t wait all hour and a half for a bus.
【单选题】The Xinhua bookstore chain, China’s largest official publishing enterprise, has become a surprising flash point for interest among foreign venture capital investors. "We are actively promoting the pro...
A.
Largest.
B.
Official.
C.
Private.
D.
Prosperous.
【单选题】We can infer that the author’s opinion of accidents is that（） A、safety precautions are of little use in accidents B、many accidents can and should be avoided C、factory accidents, unlike road accidents,...
A.
Accidents was caused; they don’t just happen. The reason may be easy to see: a shelf out of reach, a patch of ice on the road, an overloaded truck. But merely often than not there is a chain of events leading up to the misfortune—frustration, tiredness or just bad temper—that show what the accident really is, a sort of attack on oneself.
B.
Road accidents, for example, happen frequently after a family quarrel, and we all know people who are accidents-prone, so often at odds with themselves and the world that they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others.
C.
By definition, an accident is something you can not predict or avoid, and the idea which used to be current, that the majority of road accidents are caused by a minority of criminally careless drivers, is not supported by insurance statistics. These show that most accidents involve ordinary motorists in a moment of carelessness or thoughtlessness.
D.
It is not always clear, either, what sort of conditions makes people more likely to have an accident. For instance, the law requires all factories to take safety precautions and most companies have safety committees to make sure the regulations are observed, but still, every day in Britain, some fifty thousand men and women are injured from work due to accidents. These accidents are largely the result of human error or misjudgment—noise and fatigue, boredom or worry are possible factors which contribute to this. Doctors who work in factories have found that those who drink too much, usually people who have a high anxiety level, run three times the normal risk of accidents at work.