[单项选择]The author chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university because he ______.
A. wanted to be an example of practicality and rationality
B. intended to be a combination of engineer and humanist
C. wanted to coordinate engineering with liberal-arts courses in college
D. intended to be a sensible student with noble ideals

[单项选择]The author chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university because he______.
A. wanted to be an example of practicality and rationality
B. intended to be a combination of engineer and humanist
C. wanted to coordinate engineering with liberal-arts courses in college
D. intended to be a sensible student with noble ideals

[单项选择]Why does the author mention genetic engineering and computer science
A. To compare them with the new materials.
B. To show the significance of the new materials on the future world.
C. To compare the new materials to them.
D. To explain his viewpoint.

[单项选择]The first and essential step in the study of any language is observing and ______ pre cisely what happens when native speakers speak it.
A. setting down
B. setting out
C. putting across
D. putting away

[单项选择]Which is not mentioned on borrowing from a small-loan company
A. These companies operate differently under state laws.
B. These companies charged lower than pawnbrokers.
C. Most of the loans made by these companies have no guarantee.
D. Customers must repay the loans in installment.

[单项选择]Meanwhile, a study by marketing professor Marsha L. Richins found that women, after viewing photos of ________fashion models in women' s magazines, felt worse about their own looks.
A. gorgeous
B. gracious
C. glorious
D. graceful

[单项选择]Crayfish, small freshwater crustacean similar to lobsters, are {{U}}consumed{{/U}} by inhabitants of the Mississippi River Basin.
A. bred
B. caught
C. eaten
D. supplied

[单项选择]______Japanese, she has to study another foreign language.
A. Except
B. Except for
C. In addition to
D. Beside

[多项选择]From small businesses to large-scale enterprises， which two best describe how the Cisco UnifiedWireless Network reduces overall operational expenses？（）
A.  extends networkQoS throughout the network
B.  simplifies management of central or remotely locates access points
C.  ensures implementation of the most recent security protocols
D.  streamlines wireless LAN management
E.  extends features for optical traffic network services

[单项选择]

The study of social science is more than the study of the individual social sciences. Although it is true that to be a good social scientist you must know each of those components, you must also know how they interrelate. By specializing too early, many social scientists can lose sight of the interrelationships that are so essential to understanding modern problems. That’s why it is necessary to have a course coveting all the social sciences. In fact, it would not surprise me if one day a news story such as the one above should appear.
The preceding passage placed you in the future. To understand how and when social science broke up, you must go into the past. Imagine for a moment that you’re a student in 1062, in the Italian city of Bologna, site of one of the first major universities in the Western world. The university has no buildings. It consists merely of a few professors and students. There is no tuition fee. At the end of a professor’s lecture, i
A. social science is a united science, and cannot be divided into subfields
B. social science may be further divided into smaller parts as the amount of knowledge and information expanding
C. there may be a Renaissance Man in the future
D. the best way to deal with the expansion of information is to know everything