I have two pencils.One is green, and _____is red.

A . corn's ear B . corn ears C . ear of corns D . ears of cor

A . either B . neither C . none D . no

A . none B . either C . neither D . both

in turn with the aid of at rest back and forth

A. one B. other C. the other

A．Is it still available B．Is it still empty C．Is it still free D．Is it still blank

(26) A．I spent an hour each on psychology and mathematics. B．I studied mathematics twice as long as psychology. C．I worked for four hours last night. D．I studied for all but two hours last night.

A．me B．both C．others D．either

是 否

A.the cheapest to run B.the cheaper to run C.cheaper D.more cheaper

A．A.others B．B.another C．C.other D．D.the others

The strikes are serious protests about serious issues, but I'm struck, as so often on these occasions, by something much more mundane. People are once again talking to people; strangers are going out of their way to befriend strangers, allies for a week or two in their shared frustration. Parisian motorists, even, normally the most competitive of individualists, have been seen leaving notes in their parked cars saying where they are going and when they expect to leave in case anymore wants a lift. Remove the technology of modem life, it seems, and we often start to be nice to one another again. Technology can isolate us, for all its benefits. It started, I guess, with the chimney. Before there were chimneys, we all had to huddle together in one room Just to keep warm, master and maid, cowman and son of the house. Then some unknown genius came up with the idea of the chimney, and the social stratification of society increased dramatically as all withdrew into their own quarters. Central heating, which is, more truthfully, decentralized heating, made it worse, and now we have our walkmans, our microwaves, or, if we' re really trendy, the Internet and e-mail. You can get by, these days, without actually speaking to anyone at all. Just the odd grunt to show that you' re alive ! I liked the survey which asked teenagers how they laid a table for a meal. Did they put the knife on the fight and the fork on the left, or did they put them both together？ And 40 percent said one and 20 percent the other, but 40 percent didn't know! They had never sat down at a table together but had always, as they say, been grazers, helping themselves from the fridge and carrying the food off to their own comer to munch on their own. If progress means that we don' t need to talk to each other anymore, then I'm getting worried. You can' t begin to love and befriend your neighbors if you never talk to them, and vice versa, they can't love you. It becomes a recipe for a world of solitaries. But most of us weren't destined to be hermits. People need people to be truly people, as the Parisians, in spite of all their frustrations, are discovering again this week. "Try walking instead" was my motto for this morning, but perhaps the motto for us all this festive month might be "Turn it off, whatever it is, and try talking instead!" According to the author, the advent of modem technology may NOT______. A．isolate us from the test of the society. B．enable us to enjoy a much more convenient life. C．leave people alone so that they may become truly people. D．help people become grazers who are used to helping themselves from the fridge and carrying the food off to their own comer to munch on their own.

W: Well, let's settle up. What do I owe you for the meal？ Q: What does the woman mean？ (13) A．She will pay for the meal. B．She doesn't know what to do. C．She offers to pay her part. D．She doesn't know what she owes him.

Businessmen can travel from London to New York in three hours and lots of people exceed the seventy-mile-per-hour speed limit on motorways. A person of 75 is not old these days. A serious illness does not mean certain death because there have been so many advances in medical science. We no longer need to be afraid of contracting diseases like polio or smallpox. I can speak to my son in Australia from my own sitting room here in Manchester, watch athletes running a race on the other side of the world without moving from my own home and I can even do my shopping while I sit here in an armchair. I never need to worry about food going bad in the warm weather and, at the flick of a switch, I can have a hot meal in a couple of minutes. So, it seems, the quality of life has greatly improved since my own childhood. I'm not convinced, however, that people are happier today than they were 50 years ago. We are certainly materially better off than we were but most people still seem to be weighed down by problems. My daughter and her family are a good illustration. They have a spacious, comfortable home with every labor-saving device you can think of. There's a washing machine, a clothes dryer, a food processor, a vacuum cleaner and all sorts of other household items which are designed to save time but it seems to me that my daughter and her husband just spend all that "saved" time working! They never relax and are always complaining of being tired and "stressed". What is the passage mainly about？ A．How life has improved. B．How life has become worse. C．A comparison of life now and that in the past. D．Memory of life in the past.

IamLisa.Ihaveabigfamily.Thisoldmanismygrandpa.Thatoldladyismygrandma.Sheisoneyearolderthanmygrandpa.Theyhavetwokids.TheyareSamandAmy.Amyismymother.TomisSam’sson.Tomissixyearsold.Iamtenyearsold.Welikeplayingtogether. (1)(判断题)GrandmaisolderthanGrandpa. (1)(判断题)SamisAmy’sbrother. (1)(判断题)TomisAmy’sson. (1)(判断题)IamSam’sniece. (1)(判断题)TomisfouryearsolderthanIam.

A．spots,round B．character,round C．chracteristics, round D．spots,together

A．the other B．anther C．others

A．less than the weighted average of the two individual variances B．greater than the weighted average of the two individual variances C．equal to the weighted average of the two individual variances D．less than or equal to average variance of the two weighted variances, depending on other information