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I wish（）to Stockholm when I was in Sweden. I hear it’s a beautiful city.

I didn’t send out my application form last week, but I（）.

Fewer and fewer of today’s workers expect to spend their working lives in the same field,（）the same company.

NASA is casting a net in the space shuttle investigation as to what caused the spacecraft to swing out of control and（）moments before it was to land.

We have has a marvelous holiday. Only the last two days were slightly（）by weather.

He was（）when he heard the unexpected news, but I finally convinced him.

I’d （）his reputation with other farmers and business people in the community, and then make a decision about whether or not to approve a loan.

According to government statistics, men of all social classes in Britain visit pubs（1）regularly,（2）the kind of pub they go to（3）be different and their reasons（4）going there（5）, too. Nowadays they often take their wives or girlfriends, which used（6）.The fact is that the typical English pub is changing,（7）because of the licensing laws（8）so strict（9）they were, but also because publicans are trying to（10）with the old Victorian（11）of the pub and provide couples with an atmosphere where they（12）enjoy themselves. Pub used not to open except（13）certain times. The result was that they were usually coupled with men who seemed（14）as much as possible in the time（15）. But that kind of pub is quickly becoming a thing of（16）.Opening hours are still limited to eight hours（17）day, but the publican can now choose which hours（18）him best. And these days you can（19）get a cup of coffee if you prefer it to beer. But in spite of this the Puritans would never dream（20）that a pub could become a repeatable place.

I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room — a women’s group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes, while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands don't talk to them. This man quickly nodded in agreement. He gestured toward his wife and said “She’s the talker in our family.” The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. “It’s true,” he explained. “When I come home from work I have nothing to say. If she didn’t keep the conversation going, we’d spend the whole evening in silence.”This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home. And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late 1970s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book Divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed — but only a few of the men — gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces. Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year — a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities, such as, having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking, social arrangements and errands. Instead, they focused on communication: “He doesn’t listen to me” “He doesn’t talk to me.” I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.In short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk.1.What is most wives main expectation of their husbands?2.Judging from the context, the phrase “wreaking havoc” (Line 3, Para.2) most probably means（）.3.All of the following are true EXCEPT（）.4.Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text?5.In the following part immediately after this text, the author will most probably focus on（）.

Will the European Union make it? The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a“Bermuda triangle”of debt, population decline and lower growth.As well as those chronic problems, the EU face an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency. Markets have lost faith that the euro zone’s economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.Yet the debate about how to save Europe’s single currency from disintegration is stuck. It is stuck because the euro zone’s dominant powers, France and Germany, agree on the need for greater harmonization within the euro zone, but disagree about what to harmonies.Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrow spending and competitiveness, barked by quasi-automatic sanctions for governments that do not obey. These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects and even the suspension of a country’s voting rights in EU ministerial councils. It insists that economic co-ordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club, among whom there is a small majority for free-market liberalism and economic rigour; in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French interference.A “southern” camp headed by French wants something different: “European economic government” within an inner core of euro-zone members. Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers. Finally, figures close to the France government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization: e.g., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.It is too soon to write off the EU. It remains the world’s largest trading block. At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area. It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.1.The EU is faced with so many problems that（）.2.The debate over the EU’s single currency is stuck because the dominant powers（）.3.To solve the euro problem, Germany proposed that（）.4.The French proposal of handling the crisis implies that（）.5.Regarding the future of the EU, the author seems to feel（）.

We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G. I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools. These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture, but none more so that Mies.Mies’s signature phrase means that less decoration, properly organized, has more impact that a lot. Elegance, he believed, did not derive from abundance. Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood-materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future. Mies’s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller-two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet-than those in their older neighbors along the city’s Gold Coast. But they were popular because of their airy glass walls, the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings’ details and proportions, the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward “less” was not entirely foreign. In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses-usually around 1,200 square feet-than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The “Case Study Houses” commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts & Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the “less is more” trend. Aesthetic effect came from the landscape, new materials and forthright detailing. In his Case Study House, Ralph everyday life — few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers — but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.1.The postwar American housing style largely reflected the Americans（）.2.Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about Bauhaus?3.Mies held that elegance of architectural design（）.4.What is true about the apartments Mies building Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive?5.What can we learn about the design of the“Case Study House”?

When the government talks about infrastructure contributing to the economy the focus is usually on roads, railways, broadband and energy. Housing is seldom mentioned.Why is that? To some extent the housing sector must shoulder the blame. We have not been good at communicating the real value that housing can contribute to economic growth. Then there is the scale of the typical housing project. It is hard to shove for attention among multibillion-pound infrastructure project, so it is inevitable that the attention is focused elsewhere. But perhaps the most significant reason is that the issue has always been so politically charged.Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate. Waiting lists increase all the time and we are simply not building enough new homes.The comprehensive spending review offers an opportunity for the government to help rectify this. It needs to put historical prejudices to one side and take some steps to address our urgent housing need.There are some indications that it is preparing to do just that. The communities minister, Don Foster, has hinted that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, may introduce more flexibility to the current cap on the amount that local authorities can borrow against their housing stock debt. Evidence shows that 60, 000 extra new homes could be built over the next five years if the cap were lifted, increasing GDP by 0.6%.Ministers should also look at creating greater certainty in the rental environment, which would have a significant impact on the ability of registered providers to fund new developments from revenues.But it is not just down to the government. While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing £ 4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2015, is unlikely to be extended beyond then. The Labour party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition’s spending plans if returns to power. The housing sector needs to accept that we are very unlikely to ever return to era of large-scale public grants. We need to adjust to this changing climate.1.The author believes that the housing sector（）.2.It can be learned that affordable housing has（）.3.According to Paragraph 5, George Osborne may（）.4.It can be inferred that a stable rental environment would（）.5.The author believes that after 2015, the government may（）.

Choose one of the two topics to develop an essay of about 300 words.1. China relaxes one-child policy by allowing couples a second child if both parents are only children. Many experts say this is a move to counter the rapid ageing of the population. But there are concerns over how to support a baby boom amid limited resources. What is your opinion? Give reasons to clarify their opinions.2. Experts suggest postponing retirement age to ease labor shortage in future, though some said not feasible at present. What is your opinion Give reasons to clarify their pinions.

Translate the following sentences into English.这一点，加上这里的多元化社会、不拘礼仪的生活方式和宜人的气候，使得国外英才近悦远来。一般来说，人可以分为三类：累死的人，愁死的人和烦死的人。爱情是人类不变的追求，改变的只是人们对爱情的阐释。人类历史发展长河中，人们主要关心的是能源有利的一面。仅仅知道什么是对，什么是错是不够的，还必须能把这一知识运用到具体情况中。

Read the following passage and then translate the underlined parts into Chinese.Specialization can be seen as a response to the problem of an increasing accumulation of scientific knowledge. By splitting up the subject matter into smaller units, one man could continue to handle the information and use it as the basis for further research. But specialization was only one of a series of related developments in science affecting the process of communication. Another was the growing professionalization of scientific activity. No clear cut distinction can be drawn between professionals and amateurs science: exceptions can be found to any rule. (Nevertheless, the word 'amateur’ does carry a connotation that the person concerned is not fully integrated into the scientific community, and in particular, may not fully share its values. The urowth of specialization in the nineteenth century, with its consequent requirement of a longer, more complex training implied greater problems for amateur participation in science. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based especially on a mathematical or laboratory training, and can be illustrated in terms of the development of geology in the United Kingdom.A comparison of British geological publications over the last century and a half reveals not simply an increasing emphasis on the primacy of research, but also a changing definition of what constitutes an acceptable research paper. Thus, in the nineteenth century, local geological studies represented worthwhile research in their own right; but, in the twentieth century, local studies have increasingly become acceptable to professionals only if they incorporate, and reflect on, the wider geological picture. Amateurs, on the other hand, have continued to pursue local studies in the old way. The overall result has been to make entrance to professional geological journals harder for amateurs, a result that has been reinforced by the widespread introduction of refereeing, first by national journals in the nineteenth century and then by several local geological journals in the twentieth century. As a logical consequence of this development, separate journals have now appeared aimed mainly towards either professional or amateur readership. A rather similar process of differentiation has led to professional geologists coming together nationally within one or two specific societies, whereas the amateurs have tended either to remain in local societies or to come together nationally in a different way.Although the process of professionalization and specialization was already well under way in British geology during the nineteenth century, its full consequences were thus delayed until the twentieth century. In science generally, however, the nineteenth century must be reckoned as the crucial period for this change in the structure of science.

When the lawyer asked him his reason for the divorcee he replied that he could no longer bear her carping（）him about his drinking too much.

When the governor of the province arrived in the town hall he was immediately surrounded by local officials who tried every way to ingratiate themselves （）the governor.

The fate of ancient mansion is sealed since the mayor has decided: “ （）this house will be pulled down by the First of October.”

The consequences of this ill-advised policy are already known to all of us here, （）to say that we have suffered more losses in this month than in the three previous years.

He （） be the person who killed Mary because he was with me last night the whole night and（） it.

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