[简答题]It’s hard to think of a business that had a more positive effect for customers than the PC business. The rate of product improvement, the kind of empowerment it provides, this ability to create and stay in touch. You know the closest comparison is when publishing came along and people had books. Of cause books created a problem.

[单项选择]More and more persons who use the Internet had created a （） or web based diary.
A. blog
B. DBMS
C. profile
D. photo-set

[单项选择]Passage Three 　　Suzan Fellman had a hard time with Laura Bush’s redo of the famed guest quarters named for President Lincoln: “Looking at it , I thought I was in a Radisson lobby somewhere in the Midwest long ago. I could not imagine spending a night in that space. ” 　　Done up with Victorian furnishings, the Lincoln Bedroom is one of the residence’s least-changed spaces, said Betty Monkman, formerly chief curator of the White House for nearly 40 years. “It’s a quasi-museum room, ”she said, “with a lot of objects, such as the bed , that have symbolic importance. ” 　　The elaborately carved bed bought for Lincoln is the centerpiece of the room. 　　According to historian William Seale, the president was furious that his wife, Mary, spent so much money redecorating the White House during a time of war. He never slept in the bed , and the ornate piece eventually was moved to a spare room. 　　Los Angeles designer Fellman saw parallels, calling the Obama era a period of“pulling
A. evaluated
B. imagined
C. understood
D. praised

[填空题](Hard) （） had I left when the quarrel restarted.

[单项选择]It was raining very hard （）we had to cancel the scheduled picnic
A. and   
B. so
C. but   
D. for

[填空题]Environmental awareness had become much more commonplace by ______.

[单项选择]Factory workers had to work very hard before, so had farmers. 　　　　　　　　　　 　 A　　　 　 B　　　　 　 C　 D

[单项选择]He（）the maths examination if he had worked hard enough, but he didn’t.
A. would pass
B. has passed
C. would have passed
D. passed

[单项选择]He had studied hard, he would have been able to pass the exam.


A. He had studied harder
B. if only he studied more
C. Had he studied harder
D. When he studied more

[单项选择]Though sometimes too lazy to work as hard as her sisters, Linda has a more avid fondness for the limelight.
A. mercurial
B. gallant
C. ardent
D. frugal

[单项选择]Business is improving but much more hard work and common sense will be （　） before any substantial profits can be realized.
A. put up with
B. called for
C. taken up
D. gone through

[单项选择]The bus was so crowded that he had a hard time（）
A. got off
B. getting off
C. to get off
D. get off

[单项选择]You were not listening to what the professor had said and your answer was totally______.
A. indirect
B. irrelevant
C. irresponsible
D. indefinite

[单项选择]Moving far more quickly than many had thought likely or possible, lawmakers in the 10-member House-Senate committee announced the agreement after less than 24 hours of negotiations.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "Like any negotiation, this involved give and take, and if you don’t mind my saying so that is an understatement."
The agreement drops the total to $789 billion, while both Senate and House-passed measures exceeded $800 billion.
A combination of low and middle income tax cuts, making up about 35 percent of the bill, and domestic spending, its supporters say it meets President Barack Obama’s goal of creating or saving as many as 4 million jobs.
Susan Collins of Maine was among only 3 moderate Senate Republicans who joined the Democratic majority there. She says money trimmed from the bill reflects an effort to focus it more sharply to help the economy.
"It is a fiscally-responsible number that reflects our efforts to truly f
A. some senators would become undetermined in the process of voting
B. the economic problems should be solved immediately
C. deficit and national debt shouldn’t have been neglected
D. the measures in the agreement would not be as effective as expected