The sign above means__________?A. baggageB. baggage carC. luggage carD. baggage cart

8. Fignon said in a statement that he had asked for a second test at a different laboratory but his request had been ________.A. turned up B. looked up C. looked on D. turned down

If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the appearance of the industrial city in the second quarter of the 19th century. Before that period, the city was a small highly compact zone in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1840s were located along rivers and near rail stations at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. In time, the factories were surrounded byrapidly increasingmill towns of apartments and row houses that were close to the older, main cities. As a defense against this new drive and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors. In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphiaintegrated most of Philadelphia County. Similar urban movements took place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved such status only by unifying the communities along their borders.In 1888, the first commercially successful electric traction line was developed. Within a few years thecarts drawn by horses were retired and electric streetcar networks crossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanization that transformed the compact industrial city into a really great one.Glossary：suburbanization: 市郊化traction: 牵引力1.When did the process of suburbanization begin?A) During the appearance of city in the beginning of the 19th century.B) During the developed stage of the industrial city in the early 20th century.C) During the appearance of the industrial city in the second quarter of the 19th century.D) During the development of rural areas in the second quarter of the 19th century.2.How did most great cities of the United States achieve their status?A) By building more factories along the line.B) By unifying the communities along their borders.C) By absorbing more people from far and near.D) By enlarging their tax basis.3.In which year was the first commercially successful electric traction line developed?A) 1840.B) 1854.C) 1878.D) 1888.

For some years the big drugmakers have been worrying about an approaching "patent cliff"—a fall in sales as the patents on their most popular pills expire or are struck down by legal challenges, with few new potential blockbusters to take their place. This week the patent on the best-selling drug in history expired—Lipitor, an anti-cholesterol pill which earned Pfizer nearly 11 billion in revenues last year.In all, pill like Lipitor with a combined 170 billion in annual sales will go off-patent by the end of 2015. What is supposed to happen now is that lots of copycat firms rush in with "generic" (ie, chemically identical) versions of Lipitor at perhaps one-fifth of its price. Patients and health-care payers should reap the benefit. Pfizer's revenues should suffer. The same story will be repeated many times, as other best-selling drugs march over the patent cliff. But generics makers may face delays getting their cheaper versions to market. Ranbaxy, a Japanese-owned drugmaker, struggled to get regulators' approval for its generic version of Lipitor, and only won it on the day the patent expired. More importantly, research-based drug firms are using a variety of tactics to make the patent cliff slope more gently. Jon Leibowitz, chairman of America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC), is concerned by drugmakers filing additional patents on their products to put off the day when their protection expires. Another tactic(策略) is "pay-for-delay", in which a drugmaker facing a legal challenge to its patent pays its would-be competitor to put off introducing its cheaper copy. In the year to October the FTC identified what it believes to be 28 such settlements. American and European regulators are looking into these deals. However, legal challenges against them have been delayed, and a bill to ban them is stuck in Congress. To encourage generics makers to challenge patents on drugs, and introduce cheaper copies, an American law passed in 1984 says that the first one to do so will get a 180-day exclusivity period,in which no other generics maker can sell versions of the drug in question, as Ranbaxy supposedly won with Lipitor. However, Pfizer is exploiting a loophole(空子) in the 1984 law, which lets it appoint a second, authorised copycat—in this case, Watson, another American firm. According to Bernstein Research, under the deal between the two drugmakers Pfizer will receive about 70% of Watson's revenues from its approved copy of Lipitor. More unusual, Pfizer has cut the price of its original version, and will keep marketing it vigorously. So Ranbaxy faces not one, but two competitors. All this may raise Pfizer's sales by nearly 500m in the last half of 2015 compared with what they would otherwise have been, says Tim Anderson of Bernstein Research, with revenues then falling after the 180 days are over. Others fear that Pfizer's tactics , if copied, will make the 180-day exclusivity period worth far less, and thus discourage generic firms from challenging patents in the first place. 67. What is the tactic mentioned in Paragraph 4? A. Legal challenges against expired patents have been paid for putting off the cheaper copy. B. Bills to prohibit generic makers have been stuck in Congress. C. Drugmakers try to spend money delaying filing additional patents on popular pills D. Patent-holders give possible competitors money to prevent more losses. 68. Pfizer exploit a loophole in the 1984 law mainly by ________. A. marketing Lipitor more actively B. making the price of Lipitor go up C. cooperating with Watson to beat Ranbaxy D. encouraging Watson to produce cheaper copies 69. How many tactics are adopted by patent-holders in the passage? A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five 70. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? A. Drugmakers’ struggle B. Generic makers’ dilemma C. Laws concerning patent protection D. Popular pills of Pfizer

For parents, one of the problems _____ by rising prices is the continual demand for more pocket money.A. givenB. posedC. providedD. forced

What happens when one enters a dream state?A. The body continues to act as if the sleeper were awake.B. The neural activity of the brain will become intensified.C. The brain behaves as if it were playing a virtual reality video game.D. The brain once again experiences the learning activities of the day.

(E) By now you’ve probably heard about the “you’re not special” speech, when English teacher David McCullough told graduating seniors at Wellesley High School: “Do not get the idea you’re anything special, because you’re not.” Mothers and fathers present at the ceremony — and a whole lot of other parents across the Internet — took issue with McCullough’s ego-puncturing words. But lost in the uproar was something we really should be taking to heart: our young people actually have no idea whether they’re particularly talented or accomplished or not. In our eagerness to elevate their self-esteem, we forgot to teach them how to realistically assess their own abilities, a crucial requirement for getting better at anything from math to music to sports. In fact, it’s not just privileged high-school students: we all tend to view ourselves as above average. Such inflated self-judgments have been found in study after study, and it’s often exactly when we’re least competent at a given task that we rate our performance most generously. In a 2006 study published in the journal Medical Education, for example, medical students who scored the lowest on an essay test were the most charitable in their self-evaluations, while high-scoring students judged themselves much more stringently. Poor students, the authors note, “lack insight” into their own inadequacy. Why should this be? Another study, led by Cornell University psychologist David Dunning, offers an enlightening explanation. People who are incompetent, he writes with coauthor Justin Kruger, suffer from a “dual burden”: they’re not good at what they do, and their very ineptness prevents them from recognizing how bad they are. In Dunning and Kruger’s study, subjects scoring at the bottom of the heap on tests of logic, grammar and humor “extremely overestimated” their talents. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they guessed they were in the 62nd. What these individuals lacked (in addition to clear logic, proper grammar and a sense of humor) was “metacognitive skill”: the capacity to monitor how well they’re performing. In the absence of that capacity, the subjects arrived at an overly hopeful view of their own abilities. There’s a paradox here, the authors note: “The skills that engender competence in a particular domain are often the very same skills necessary to evaluate competence in that domain.” In other words, to get better at judging how well we’re doing at an activity, we have to get better at the activity itself. There are a couple of ways out of this double bind. First, we can learn to make honest comparisons with others. Train yourself to recognize excellence, even when you yourself don’t possess it, and compare what you can do against what truly excellent individuals are able to accomplish. Second, seek out feedback that is frequent, accurate and specific. Find a critic who will tell you not only how poorly you’re doing, but just what it is that you’re doing wrong. As Dunning and Kruger note, success indicates to us that everything went right, but failure is more ambiguous: any number of things could have gone wrong. Use this external feedback to figure out exactly where and when you screwed up. If we adopt these strategies — and most importantly, teach them to our children — they won’t need parents, or a commencement(毕业典礼) speaker, to tell them that they’re special. They’ll already know that they are, or have a plan to get that way.1. Which can be the best title of this passage?A: Special or Not? Teach Kids To Figure It OutB: Let's Admit That We Are Not That SpecialC: Tips On Making Ourselves More SpecialD: Tell The Truth: Kids Overestimate their Talents2. The author thinks the real problem is that ______.A: we don't know whether our young people are talented or notB: young people don't know how to assess their abilities realisticallyC: no requirement is set up for young people to get betterD: we always tend to consider ourselves to be privileged3. Which is NOT mentioned about poor students according to the passage?A: They usually give themselves high scores in self-evaluations.B: They tend to be unable to know exactly how bad they are.C: They are intelligently inadequate in tests and exams.D: They lack the capacity to monitor how well they are performing.4. We can infer from the passage that those high-scoring students ______.A: know how to cultivate clear logic and proper grammarB: don't know how well they perform due to their stringent self-judgementC: don't view themselves as competent because they know their limitsD: tend to be very competent in their high-scoring fields.5. The strategies of becoming special suggest that ______.A: we need internal honesty with ourselves and external honesty from othersB: the best way to get better is to carefully study past success and failureC: through comparison with others, one will know where and when he failsD: neither parents nor a commencement speaker can tell whether one is special

What is scientists' finding about dreaming?A. It involves disconnected, weird images.B. It resembles fragments of science fiction.C. Dreaming about a learned task better its performance.D. Dreaming about things being learned disturbs one's sleep.

If that idea was wrong, the project is bound to fail, good all the other ideas might be.A. whateverB. thoughC. whatsoeverD. however

According to my granny, the ________ are that it will rain today, although it is sunny right now.A. resultsB. opportunitiesC. plansD. odds