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Don't take too long at the coffee shop. It's 14:15.（）
A . I‘ll think your advice over.
B . I see. We have 30 minutes left.
C . That‘s no problem.
D . I‘m afraid so
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I don't know the park, but it's（）to be quite beautiful.
A . said
B . told
C . spoken
D . talked
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62.If we do not receive payment by the end of this month, we will have no alternative but to take legal action.
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But many students don't quite understand that money in the accounts is limited.
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I don't like to take the subway.
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Why don't you take this afternoon off? 你为什么不下午请假呢？
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Friends play an important partin our life, and although we may take the friendship for granted, we often don't clearly understand how we make friends.
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5. Darlene brought up a lot of new stuff at the meeting, but I don't know what we should do.
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以下表达是否正确：It's very kind of you, but we don't take tips.非常感谢你，但是我们是不收小费的。
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Sophie: Why don't you take your friends to the football game？ Keith: ______.
A．I don't think it's a clever idea.
B．Can't you think of anything better？
C．Well, they are not really football fans.
D．Nothing is worse than this. They hate football.
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听力原文：A： The rain is going to continue till tomorrow. I wanted to take you to see the park. But it's too wet for that. And it's obvious that we cannot walk around the sights you suggested, Jack. Too bad!
B：Yes, it's a shame.
The man's purpose in visiting was to______.
A．take a course.
B．see the city.
C．go to the park.
D．take a rest.
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While we don't agree, we continue to befriends.
A．Because
B．Where
C．Although
D．Whatever
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A meager diet may give you health and long life, but it's not much fun—and it might not even be necessary. We may be able to hang on to most of that youthful vigor even if we don't start to diet until old age.
Stephen Spindler and his colleagues from the University of California at Riverside have found that some of an elderly mouse's liver genes can be made to behave as they did when the mouse was young simply by limiting its food for four weeks. The genetic rejuvenation won't reverse other damage caused by time for the mouse, but could help its liver metabolize drugs or get rid of toxins.
Spindler's team fed three mice a normal diet for their whole lives, and fed another three on half-rations. Three more mice were switched from the normal diet to half-feed for a month when they were 34 months old—equivalent to about 70 human years.
The researchers checked the activity of 11,000 genes from the mouse livers, and found that 46 changed with age in the normally fed mice. The changes were associated with things like inflammation and free radical production—probably bad news for mouse health. In the mice that had dieted all their lives, 27 of those 46 genes continued to behave like young genes. But the most surprising finding was that the mice that only started dieting in old age also benefited from 70 percent of these gene changes.
"This is the first indication that these effects kick in pretty quickly," says Huber Warner from the National Institute on Aging near Washington, D.C..
No one yet knows if calorie restriction works in people as it does in mice, but Spindler is hopeful. "There's attracting and tempting evidence out there that it will work," he says.
If it does work in people, there might be good reasons for rejuvenating the liver. As we get older, our bodies are less efficient at metabolizing drugs, for example. A brief period of time of dieting, says Spindler, could be enough to make sure a drug is effective.
But Spindler isn't sure the trade-off is worth it. "The mice get less disease, they live longer, but they're hungry," he says. "Even seeing what a diet does, it's still hard to go to a restaurant and say: 'I can only eat half of that'."
Spindler hopes we soon won't need to diet at all. His company, Life Span Genetics in California, is looking for drugs that have the effects of calorie restriction.
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true？
A．Eating less than usual might make us live longer.
B．If we go on a diet when old, we may keep healthy.
C．Dieting might not be needed. ~
D．We have to begin dieting from childhood.
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Don't take him for a friend; he's ___a bully.
A.everything to
B.nothing but
C.anything like
D.something of
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听力原文：Man: Eleven hours on the road is long enough for anyone, especially in this hot weather. I'm anxious to get back to the family house. But I don't think we should overdo it. Let's rest for a while, shall we？
(21)
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We don't think we can put the business through（)you revise your terms and conditi
We don't think we can put the business through()you revise your terms and conditions.
A.unless
B.expect
C.only if
D.in addition
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There doesn‘t seem to be anything serious， but we’11 take an x－ray just to be certain.（翻译)
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We don't know if the story is true, but we'll try our best to it
A．verify
B．justify
C．amplify
D．rectify
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听力原文：Hello, Mr. Jones. This is Marty White calling to let you know that we have cancelled your order for building supplies. Unfortunately, you have not paid for the last three shipments. Therefore, we see no alternative other than suspending our products and services to you. Also, if you do not pay what you owe us, we will be forced to take you to court to recover the money. We regret having to take such strong action, but we see no better way to deal with this situation.
What is the subject of this message？
A．To inform. of an order cancellation
B．To notify of an order being shipped
C．To offer a discount on parts
D．To inform. that an order has been delayed
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听力原文：M: Well, a business Angel sounds like someone who is unselfish, but in fact it expects to make a good return on their money. We usually invest in start-ups and small businesses looking to expand. When the company does well we expect our capital back with a substantial return. These investments are different from bank loans in the way that I don't charge interest, so I'm taking a risk with my money.But within five years I expect to get a good return on this investment——about fifty or sixty percent.Earlier this year I got back ten times the amount I'd invested in one company.
？You will hear another five recordings.
？For each recording, decide what the speaker is doing.
？Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the recording
？Do not use any letter more than once.
？You will hear the five recordings twice.
A giving advice
B．requesting advice
C．making an apology
D．giving instructions
E．making a complaint asking for a pay rise
G．describing a job routine
H．describing an investment form
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Many science reports discuss medical studies that test the effect of a new drug. Usually, a large number of people is divided into two groups. Each group takes a different substance. But no one knows which group is getting which substance. One group takes the medicine being tested. Another group takes what we call an inactive substance. Medical researchers call this substance a "placebo." The word "placebo" is Latin for "I shall please." Placebo pills(宽心丸)usually are made of sugar.
Using placebos to test drugs sometimes has a surprising result. Researchers say people taking the placebo often report improvements in their health. This is known as "the placebo effect"--pain that is eased or stopped by an inactive substance. In such testing, the drug must perform. better than the placebo to prove that it is effective.
Doctors have reported that the placebo effect can be used in treatment. For example, a doctor tells a patient that a new drug will stop the pain in his leg. The pill is only sugar. But the patient does not know that. He takes the pill and says his pain is gone.
Scientists are beginning to discover some physical reasons for this reaction in some people. They are learning that much of what people believe to be true comes from what the brain expects is going to happen. If the brain believes a drug will ease pain, the brain may begin physical changes in the body that can cause the expected effect. A recent examination of studies on drugs for depression found that placebos eased the depression about as well as the active drugs.
Other studies have explored the power of placebos. A study in Japan involved thirteen
people who reacted to the poison ivy (常青藤)plant. Poison-ivy causes red itchy sores(伤痕)on some people who touch it. Each person was rubbed on one arm with a harmless leaf, but was told it was poison ivy. Each person was then touched on the other arm with poison ivy, but was told it was a harmless leaf. All thirteen people developed a reaction on the arm where the harmless leaf touched their skin. Only two reacted to the poison ivy leaves.
Doctors and scientists worry that the use of placebos may not always be harmless. They say people can become victims of false doctors and others who use placebos to claim they can cure disease.
What do medical researchers usually use to make placebo pills？
A．Ivy leaves.
B．Harmless leaves.
C．Medicine being tested.
D．sugar.
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In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fighters. We're pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparatory courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. We say our motives are selfless and sensible. A degree from Stanford or Princeton is the ticket for life. If Aaron and Nicole don't get in, they're forever doomed. Gosh, we're delusional.
I've twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield, something different is happening. It's the one-upmanship among parents. We see our kids' college rating as medals proving how well or how poorly we've raised them. But we can't acknowledge that our obsession is more about us than them. So we've contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn't matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford.
Admissions anxiety afflicts only a minority of parents. It's true that getting into college has generally become tougher because the number of high-school graduates has grown. From 1994 to 2006, the increase is 28 percent. Still, 64 percent of freshmen attend schools where acceptance rates exceed 70 percent, and the application surge at elite schools dwarfs population growth. Take Yale. In 1994, it accepted 18.9 percent of 12,991 applicants; this year it admitted only 8.6 percent of 21,000.
We have a full-blown prestige panic; we worry that there won't be enough medals to go around. Fearful parents prod their children to apply to more schools than ever. "The epicenters (of parental anxiety) used to be on the coasts, Boston, New York, Washington, Los Angeles", says Tom Parker, Amherst's admissions dean. "But it's radiated throughout the country".
Underlying the hysteria is the belief that scarce elite degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduates must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All that's plausible and mostly wrong. "We haven't found any convincing evidence that selectivity or prestige matters", says Ernest T. Pascarella of the University of Iowa, co author of "How College Affects Students", an 827-page evaluation of hundreds of studies of the college experience. Selective schools don't systematically employ better instructional approaches than less-selective schools, according to a study by Pascarella and George Kuh of Indiana University. Some do; some don't. On two measures professors' feedback and the number of essay exams selective schools do slightly worse.
In the author's eyes, parents pushing their kids to an elite degree are ______.
A．aggressive
B．misguided
C．reasonable
D．failing
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- Why don't we go get coffee somewhere？-（).
A.That's a good idea.
B.I've lost a lot of weight.
C.We used to go there very often.
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We've offered her the job, but I don't know whether she'll __ it.
A.receive
B.accept
C.get
