Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. Psychiatrists (精神病专家) who work with older parents say that maturity can be an asset in child rearing-older parents ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is in for an unwelcome surprise. The ca ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Two Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage. Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (保护区) (ANWR) to help secure America’s energy future? ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are ...
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. If you want to teach your children how to say sorry, you must be good at saying it yourself, especially to your own chil ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. “Humans should not try to avoid stress any more than they would shun food, love or exercise.” Said Dr. Hans Selye, th ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. In communities north of Denver, residents are pitching in to help teachers and administrators as the Vrain school Distric ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four ...
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. Two hours from the tall buildings of Manhattan and Philadelphia live some of the world’s largest black bears. They are ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. Consumers are being confused and misled by the hodge-podge (大杂烩) of environmental claims made by household products, ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. “Tear ‘em apart!” “Kill the fool!” “Murder the referee (裁判)!” These are common remarks one may hear at vario ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Four Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Exercise is one of the few factors with a positive role in long-term maintenance of body weight. Unfortunately, that mes ...
Passage Three Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. Lead deposits, which accumulated in soil and snow during the 1960’s and 70’s, were primarily the result of leaded gas ...
Passage Two Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. In a time of low academic achievement by children in the United States, many Americans are turning to Japan, a country of ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Four Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in 1997, to support the Red Cros ...
Passage Three Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that sig ...
Passage Two Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. As soon as it was revealed that a reporter for Progressive magazine had discovered how to make a hydrogen bomb, a group o ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. Some houses are designed to be smart. Others have smart designs. An example of the second type of house won an Award of ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. When families gather for Christmas dinner, some will stick to formal traditions dating back to Grandma’s generation. T ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. It is easier to negotiate initial salary requirement because once you are inside, the organizational constraints (约束) i ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) irections: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fou ...
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. It’s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that natur ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Henry Ford, the famous U.S. inventor and car manufacturer, once said, “The business of America is business.” By this he ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Four Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. In recent years, Israeli consumers have grown more demanding as they’ve become wealthier and more worldly-wise. Foreign ...
Passage Three Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It’s now a “global village” where countries a ...
Passage Two Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. According to a survey, which was based on the responses of over 188,000 students, today’s traditional-age college freshm ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Most episodes of absent-mindedness—forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room—are cau ...
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. The fitness movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s centered around aerobic exercise (有氧操). Millions of ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whali ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. The decline in moral standards—which has long concerned social analysts—has at last captured the attention of average ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. For an increasing number of students at American universities, Old is suddenly in. The reason is obvious: the graying o ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Foxes and farmers have never got on well. These small dog-like animals have long been accused of killing farm animals. Th ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Four Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. We can see how the product life cycle works by looking at the introduction of instant coffee. When it was introduced, mo ...
Passage Three Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts (干旱) a ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. In 1993. New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage (饮料) containers. Within a year. Consumers had r ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. Priscilla Ouchida’s “energy-efficient” house turned out to be a horrible dream. When she and her engineer husband ma ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality, but when it comes to my college educati ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. Since we are social beings, the quality of our lives depends in large measure on our interpersonal relationships. One st ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. Americans are pound of their variety and individuality, yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, wheth ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states—at least in getti ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four ...
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. Why does cram go bad faster than butter? Some researchers think they have the answer, and it comes down to the structure ...
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage. Amtrak (美国铁路客运公司) was experiencing a downswing in ridership (客运量) along the lines comprising its rail system ...
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Believe it or not, optical illusion (错觉) can cut highway crashes. Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobi ...
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fo ...
A few common misconceptions. Beauty is only skin-deep. One's physical assets and liabilities don't count all that much in a managerial career. A woman should always try to look her best. Over th ...
Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable, that they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact. During the first two months of a baby's life, the stimulus th ...
The biographer has to dance between two shaky positions with respect to the subject (研究对象) . Too close a relation, and the writer may lose objectivity. Not close enough, and the writer may lac ...
One silly question I simply cannot tolerate is "How do you feel?" Usually the question is asked of a man in action—a man walking along the street, or busily working at his desk. So what do you ex ...
If sustainable competitive advantage depends on workforce skills, American firms have a problem. Human-resource management is not traditionally seen as central to the competitive survival of the fir ...
Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has resulted in robotic ...
It is said that the public and Congressional concern about deceptive (欺骗性的) packaging rumpus (喧嚣) started because Senator Hart discovered that the boxes of cereals consumed by him, Mrs. Hart ...
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them ...
Early in the age of affluence (富裕) that followed World War II, an American retailing analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed, "Our enormously productive economy...demands that we make consumption ...
It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional Small wonder. Americans' life expectancy has nearly doubled over the past century. Failing hips can be ...
The United States is a country made up of many different races. Usually they are mixed together and can't be told from one another. But many of them still talk about where their ancestors came fro ...
When school officials in Kalkaska, Michigan, closed classes last week, the media flocked to the story, portraying the town's 2,305 students as victims of stingy (吝啬的) taxpayers. There is some tru ...
In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, mergingintosuper systems, causing heightened concerns about monopoly. As recently as 1995, the top four railroads accounted for unde ...
For all the fevered work being done, however, science is still far away from the Brave New World vision of engineering a perfect human—or even a perfect tomato. Much more research is needed before ...
For all the fevered work being done, however, science is still far away from the Brave New World vision of engineering a perfect human—or even a perfect tomato. Much more research is needed befor ...
For all the fevered work being done, however, science is still far away from the Brave New World vision of engineering a perfect human—or even a perfect tomato. Much more research is needed before ...
New global estimates, based on improved data, show about 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS, including an estimated 2.5 million children under 15 years old. About 5 million peopl ...
When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get good scores on certain kinds of tests or even the ability to do well in school. By intelligence we mean a way of living and behav ...
New global estimates, based on improved data, show about 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS, including an estimated 2.5 million children under 15 years old. About 5 million people ...
In ancient times the most important examinations were spoken, not written. In the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually consisted of saying poetry aloud or giving speeches. In th ...
When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get good scores on certain kinds of tests or even the ability to do well in school. By intelligence we mean a way of living and behav ...
The market investigation is indispensable to sales promotion. They are as closely related as the lips and teeth, so to speak. What you produce is for sale on the market. It would be impossible to ...
We use both words and gestures to express our feelings, but the problem is that these words and gestures can be understood in different ways. It is true that a smile means the same thing in an ...
