语法
请从以下四个选项中选出符合题意的一个选项：
He is quite worn out from years of hard work. He is not the man ____ he was twenty years ago.
A. which
B. that
C. who
D. whom
参考答案：B. that
词汇
请从以下四个选项里挑出最符合题意的选项：
He wasn't asked to take on the chairmanship of the society, _____ insufficiently popular with all members.
A. being considered
B. considering
C. to be considered
D. having considered
参考答案：B. considering
语法
请从以下四个选项中选出符合题意的一个选项：
I'm sure your suggestion will _____ the problem.
A. contribution to solving
B. be contributed to solve
C. contribute to solve
D. be contributed to solving
参考答案：D. be contributed to solving
词汇
请从以下四个选项中选出符合题意的一个选项：
Over centuries the deposits grew into strange formations and huge columns, sometimes _______ up whole passageways.
A. dripping
B. sealing
C. dropping
D. blocking
参考答案：D. blocking
题干：1.[单选题] The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic( )by the World Health Organization in 41 years.
选项：A. criticized
B. appointed
C. commented
D. designated
【答案】D。
题干：2.[单选题]The homeless make up a growing percentage of America’s population. Indeed, homelessness has reached such proportions that local government can’t possibly ( ).
选项：A. stand
B. cope
C. approve
D. retain
【答案】B。
题干：3. [单选题]Research on animal intelligence always makes us wonder just how smart humans are ( ) the fruit-fly experiments described by Carl Zimmer in the Science Times.
选项：A. Suppose
B. Consider
C. Observe
D. Imagine
【答案】B。
题干：4.[单选题] One of the federal government’s studies ( ) that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade.
选项：A. predicts
B. displays
C. proves
D. discovers
【答案】A。
题干：5.[单选题]It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the ( ) within which we now live.
选项：A. context
B. range
C. scope
D. territory
【答案】A。
英译中
Governments need to choose from the menu of options by comparing the costs of each measure with the benefits it brings—and the calculus will differ in different countries.
参考译文：各国政府需要作出取舍，权衡利弊得失——而盘算因各国国情不同而有差异。
英译中
The problem with America’s strategy is that it is trying to win today’s “tech cold war”, as some call it, with yesterday’s arsenal.
参考译文：美国战略的问题在于：想要用昔日(过时)的策略赢得如今所谓的“科技冷战”。
