The light, Awhich otherwise Bdisturbed the patient, was Cexcluded from his room Dby means

In the fifth sentence of first paragraph, the word "pose" can be best replace with_____.

A．Bring about

B．Result

C．Lead to

D．Offer

lacement of Taxi TVs?

A．Excerpt 1 and Excerpt 5

B．Excerpt 3 and Excerpt 4

C．Excerpt 2 and Excerpt 6

D．Excerpt 3 and Excerpt 5

What is said about Apple Inc. with its tablet devices like iPad?

A．It doubled its sale of e-readers during the Christmas season.

B．It controls 73 percent of the tablet device market.

C．It charges customers less in credit card transaction fees.

D．It has long been selling its traditional personal computers

NO LONGER DIFFERS ISSUING A. GOOD MONEY (62)______FROM BAD MONEY

B. MAKE A PROFIT IN COINAGE BY (63)______COINS

C. SILVER COINS ARE (64)______IN CIRCULATION LESS THAN 40 YEARS AGO IN THE UNITED STATES, IT WAS COMMON TO CHANGE A ONE-DOLLAR BILL FOR A DOLLAR"S WORTH OF SILVER. THAT IS BECAUSE THE COINS WERE ACTUALLY MADE OF SILVER. BUT THOSE DAYS ARE GON

E. THERE IS NO SILVER IN TODAY" S COINS. WHEN THE PRICE OF THE PRECIOUS METAL RISES ABOVE ITS FACE VALUE AS MONEY, THE METAL WILL BECOME MORE VALUABLE IN OTHER USES. (65)______BECAUSE THE SILVER IN COINS IS WORTH MUCH MORE THAN THEIR FACE VALU

E. A SILVER FIRM COULD FIND THAT IT IS CHEAPER TO OBTAIN SILVER BY MELTING DOWN COINS THAN BY BUYING IT ON THE COMMODITY MARKETS. COINS TODAY ARE MADE OF AN ALLOY OF CHEAPER METALS. GRESHAM" S LAW, NAMED AFTER SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, ARGUES THAT "GOOD MONEY" IS DRIVEN OUT OF CIRCULATION BY "BAD MONEY" . (66)______BECAUSE IT HAS HIGHER COMMODITY VALU

E. GRESHAM LIVED IN THE 16TH CENTURY IN ENGLAND WHERE IT WAS COMMON FOR GOLD AND SILVER COINS TO BE DEBASE

D. GOVERNMENTS DID THIS BY MIXING CHEAPER METALS WITH GOLD AND SILVER. THE GOVERNMENTS COULD THUS (67)______THAT HAD LESS PRECIOUS METAL THAN THE FACE VALUE INDICATE

D. BECAUSE DIFFERENT MIXINGS OF COINS HAD DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF GOLD AND SILVER, EVEN THOUGH THEY BORE THE SAME FACE VALUE, SOME COINS WERE WORTH MORE THAN OTHERS AS COMMODITIES. PEOPLE WHO DEALT WITH GOLD AND SILVER COULD EASILY SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE " GOOD" AND THE " BAD MONEY. GRESHAM OBSERVED THAT COINS WITH A HIGHER CONTENT OF GOLD AND SILVER WERE KEPT RATHER THAN BEING USED IN EXCHANGE, OR WERE MELTED DOWN FOR THEIR PRECIOUS METAL. IN THE MID-1960S WHEN THE U.S. ISSUED NEW COINS TO REPLACE SILVER COINS, GRESHAM" S LAW WENT RIGHT IN ACTIO

N.

ND POPULAR IMAGES TO THE QUIET ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS A. ENCOURAGING COMPANIES TO (68)______IN ORDER TO REDUCE RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC AND IMPROVE AIR QUALITY

B. A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER FROM NEW YORK CITY MOVES (69)______

C. AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN (70)______

D. TELECOMMUTING HELPS KEEP HIGH PERFORMERS ON BOARD, (71)______BY ELIMINATING COMMUTERS, ALLOWS PERIODS OF SOLITUDE FOR HIGH-CONCENTRATION TASKS TELECOMMUTING-SUBSTITUTING THE COMPUTER FOR THE TRIP TO THE JOB-HAS BEEN HAILED AS A SOLUTION TO ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS RELATED TO OFFICE WOR

K. FOR WORKERS IT PROMISES FREEDOM FROM THE OFFICE, LESS TIME WASTED IN TRAFFIC, AND HELP WITH CHILD-CARE CONFLICTS. FOR MANAGEMENT, (72)______, AND PROVIDES SCHEDULING FLEXIBILITY. IN SOME AREAS, SUCH AS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE (73)______. BUT THESE BENEFITS DO NOT COME EASILY. MAKING A TELECOMMUTING PROGRAM WORK REQUIRES CAREFUL PLANNING AND (74)______. MANY WORKERS ARE SEDUCED BY ROSY ILLUSIONS OF LIFE AS A TELECOMMUTER. (75)______AND STAYS IN CONTACT WITH HER OFFICE VIA COMPUTER. A MANAGER COMES IN TO HIS OFFICE THREE DAYS A WEEK AND WORKS AT HOME THE OTHER TWO. AN ACCOUNTANT STAYS HOME TO CARE FOR HER SICK CHILD; SHE HOOKS UP HER TELEPHONE MODEM CONNECTIONS AND DOES OFFICE WORK BETWEEN CALLS TO THE DOCTOR.

DISAPPROVAL THAT NOR A. INFLUENCE CHOICES BY VOICING (56)______OF SOMEONE

B. INTERCLASS MARRIAGES ARE NEITHER RARE (57)______SHOCKING

C. THE FACT (58)______THEY ARE RESTRICTED BY FEWER PREJUDICES THAN THEIR PARENTS THIS IS DUE IN PART TO PARENTAL GUIDANC

E. PARENTS CANNOT SELECT SPOUSES FOR THEIR CHILDREN, BUT THEY CAN USUALLY (59)______THEY CONSIDER UNSUITABL

E. HOWEVER , MARRIAGES BETWEEN MEMBERS OF DIFFERENT GROUPS (INTERCLASS, INTERFAITH, AND INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES) ARE INCREASING, PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE GREATER MOBILITY OF TODAY"S YOUTH AND (60)______. MANY YOUNG PEOPLE LEAVE THEIR HOME TOWNS TO ATTEND COLLEGE, SERVE IN THE ARMED FORCES, OR PURSUE A CAREER IN A BIGGER CITY. ONCE AWAY FROM HOME AND FAMILY, THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO DATE AND MARRY OUTSIDE THEIR OWN SOCIAL GROUP. IN MOBILE AMERICAN SOCIETY, (61)______. INTERFAITH MARRIAGES ARE ON THE RISE PARTICULARLY BETWEEN PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS. ON THE OTHER HAND, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE IS STILL VERY UNCOMMO

N. IT CAN BE DIFFICULT FOR INTERRACIAL COUPLES TO FIND A PLACE TO LIVE, MAINTAIN FRIENDSHIPS, AND RAISE A FAMILY. MARRIAGES BETWEEN PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT NATIONAL ORIGIN (BUT THE SAME RACE AND RELIGION) HAVE BEEN COMMONPLACE HERE SINCE COLONIAL TIMES.

收音机、电视机—当然还有核武器和计算机。而近50年来，只有为数不多的发明。难道发明的源泉已经枯竭了吗?答案并非如此。事实上，发明的新时代刚刚开始。

Bus 59. But as fuel prices rose, the school district needed to find a way to cut its transportation costs. So the schools busing company redrew its route map, eliminating Nias bus altogether. Now Nia and her neighbors travel the half mile to school via a "walking school bus" —a group of kids, supervised by an adult or two, who make the walk together. Like the rest of us, school districts are feeling pinched by rising fuel costs—and finding new way to adapt. The price of diesel fuel has gone up 34 percent in the past two years. For the typical American school district, bus bills total 5 percent of the budget. As administrators look to trim, busing is an inviting target, since it doesnt affect classroom instruction (or test scores). More than one third of American school administrators have eliminated bus stops or routes in order to stay within budget. Many parents are delighted to see their kids walking to school, partly because many did so themselves: according to a 1969 survey, nearly half of school kids walked or biked to school, compared with only 16 percent in 2001. Modern parents have been unwilling to let kids walk to school for fear of traffic, crime or simple bullying, but with organized adult supervision, those concerns have diminished. Schools and busing companies are finding other ways to save. In rural areas where busing is a must, some schools have even chosen four-day school weeks. Busing companies instruct drivers to eliminate extra stops from routes and to turn off the engine while idling. They are also using computer software to determine the most fuel-efficient routes, which arent always the shortest ones. There could be downsides, however, to the busing cutbacks. If every formerly bused student begins walking to school, its an environmental win—but if too many of their parents decide to drive them instead, the overall carbon footprint can grow. Replacing buses with many more parent-driven cars can also increase safety risks. A 2002 report concluded students are 13 times safer on a school bus than in a passenger car, since buses have fewer accidents and withstand them better due to their size. And some students complain about the long morning hikes, particularly when the route contains a really big hill.

The "walking school bus" ______.

A．does not consume fuel

B．aims to keep children fit

C．seldom causes traffic jams

D．is popular with school kids

ate-change plan spells out in detail how much pain each of its 27 members will have to beat if the EU is to meet ambitious targets set by national leaders last March. The aim is to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 by at least a fifth, and more than double to 20% the amount of energy produced from renewable sources such as wind or wave power. If fuel from plants proves green enough, 10% of the fuel used in transport must come from biofuels by the same date. The new plan turns these goals into national targets. This will surely start much grumbling and months of horse-trading, as the European Commissions recommendations are turned into binding law by national governments and the European Parliament. Countries with greenery in their veins are being asked to take more of the burden uian newer members. Sweden, for example, is being invited to meet 49% of its energy from renewables. At the other end, Malta gets a renewables target of just 10%. It is a similar story when it comes to cutting greenhouse gases; by 2020, Denmark must cut emissions by 20% from 2005 levels; Bulgaria and Romania, the newest members, may let their emissions rise by 20%. EU leadership on climate change will not come cheap. The direct costs alone may be 60 billion ($ 87 billion) , or about 0.5% of total EU GDP, by 2020, said the commissions president, Jose Manuel Barroso. But this is still presented as a bargain compared with the cost of inaction , which Mr. Barroso put at ten times as high. "Oh, leading the world in the fight against climate change need not cost jobs. Even in the most heavily polluting branches of heavy industry. We want to keep out industry in Europe," insisted Mr. Barroso. The trick to achieve the seemingly impossible targets is the EU s emissions-trading scheme (ETS). This obliges big polluters such as power companies or manufacturing giants to trade permits that allow them to emit CO2 and other climate-change nasties, within a steadily tightening overall cap. If countries such as the US do not sign binding international agreements by 2001, then the heaviest greenhouse-gas emitters inside the EU may be given these allowances free, the commission suggests. Or, it threatens, firms to buy ETS permits.

To its member nations, the EU s plan means_____.

A．a fierce competition

B．an ideal goal

C．a good opportunity

D．a difficult task