单选题That Africa and South America were once joined can be deduced front the fact that ______.

单选题The husband and wife in the story A. wished to buy a TV B. went to the sales the year before C. often went to the sales to buy clothes D. were usually not short of money after Christmas

单选题Having gone through all kinds of hardships in life, he became a man with a strong______ A. philosophy B idealism C. morality D. personality

单选题 On an average of six times a day, a doctor in Holland practices " active" euthanasia:intentionally administering a lethal (致死的) drug to a terminally ill patient who has asked to berelieved of suffering. Twenty times a day, life-prolonging treatment is withheld or withdrawn whenthere is no hope that it can effect an ultimate cure. "Active" euthanasia remains a crime on theDutch statute books, punishable by 12 years in prison. But a series of court cases over the past 15years has macle it clear that a competent physician who carries it out will not be prosecuted. Euthanasia, often called "mercy killing", is a crime everywhere in Western Europe. Butmore and more doctors and nurses readily admit to practicing it, most often in the "passive"form of withholding or withdrawing treatment. The long simmering euthanasia issue has latelyboiled over into a sometimes fierce public debate, with both sides claiming the mantle of ultimaterighteousness. Those opposed to the practice see themselves upholding sacred principles of respectfor life, while those in favor raise the banner of humane treatment. After years on the defensive,the advocates now seem to be gaining ground. Recent polls in Britain show that 72 percent ofBritish subjects favor euthanasia in some circumstances. An astonishing 76 percent of respondentsto a poll taken last year in France said they would like the law changed to decriminalize mercykillings. Euthanasia has been a topic of controversy in Europe since at least 1936, when a bill wasintroduced in the House of Lords that would have legalized mercy killing under very tightlysupervised conditions. That bill failed, as have three others introduced in the House of Lords sincethen. Reasons for the latest surge of interest in euthanasia are not hard to find. Europeans, likeAmericans, are now living longer. Therefore, lingering chronic diseases have replaced criticalillnesses as the primary cause of death. And the euthanasists argue that every human being shouldhave the right to "die with dignity", by which they usually mean the right to escape the horrors ofa painful or degrading hospitalization (住院治疗) . Most experts believe that euthanasia will continue to be practiced no matter what the law says.

单选题According to psychologists, a person's attention is attracted ______ by the intensity of different signals as by their context: significance and information content. A. much not so B. not so much C. so not much D. so much not

单选题He said he'd phone you ______ he got home. A．for a while B．after a while C．at moment D．the moment

单选题Walt Disney's board is stepping up plans to find a new ruler to save the Magic Kingdom and fight off a $54 billion hostile ______ from Comcast, the US cable giant.

单选题There were some consistent patterns among the heavier readers: For the younger children— ages 6 to 11—being read aloud to regularly and having restricted online time were correlated with frequent reading; for the older children—ages 12 to 17—one of the largest predictors was whether they had time to read on their own during the school day. The finding about reading aloud to children long after toddlerhood may come as a surprise to some parents who read books to children at bedtime when they were very young but then tapered off. Last summer, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced a new policy recommending that all parents read to their children from birth. "A lot of parents assume that once kids begin to read independently, that now that is the best thing for them to do," said Maggie McGuire, the vice president for a website for parents operated by Scholastic. But reading aloud through elementary school seemed to be connected to a love of reading generally. According to the report, 41 percent of frequent readers ages 6 to 10 were read aloud to at home, while only 13 percent of infrequent readers were being read to. Of course, children who love to read are generally immersed in households with lots of books and parents who like to read. So while parents who read to their children later in elementary school may encourage those children to become frequent readers on their own, such behavior can also result from "a whole constellation of other things that goes on in those families," said Timothy Shanahan, a past president of the International Reading Association. There is not yet strong research that connects reading aloud at older ages to improved reading comprehension. But some literacy experts said that when parents or teachers read aloud to children even after they can read themselves, the children can hear more complex words or stories than they might tackle themselves. "It"s this idea of marinating children in higher-level vocabulary," said Pare Allyn, founder of LitWorld.Org, a nonprofit group that works to increase literacy among young people. "The read-aloud can really lift the child." Other literacy experts say the real value of reading to children is helping to develop background knowledge in all kinds of topics as well as exposure to sophisticated language.

单选题The Americans and the British not only speak the same language but also ______ many social customs.

单选题Advertisement can be thought of "as the means of making known in order to buy or sell goods or services". Advertisement aims to increase people's awareness and arouse interest. It tries to inform and to persuade. The media are all used to spread the message. The press offers a fairly cheap method, and magazines are used to reach special sections of the market. The cinema and commercial radio are useful for local market. Television, although more expensive, can be very effective. Public notices are fairly cheap and more permanent in their power of attraction. Other ways of increasing consumers' interest are through exhibitions and trade fairs as well as direct mail advertisement. There can be no doubt that the growth in advertisement is one of the most striking features of the Western World in this century. Many businesses such as those handling frozen foods, liquor, tobacco and medicines have been built up largely by advertisement. We might ask whether the cost of advertisement is paid for by the producers or by the customers. Since every advertisement forms part of the cost of production, which has to be covered by the selling price, it is the customers who pay for advertisement. However, if large scale advertisement leads to increased demand, production costs are reduced, and the customers pay less. It is difficult to measure exactly the influence of advertisement on increasing demand. When the market is shrinking, advertisement may prevent a bigger fall in sales than would occur without its support. What is clear is that businessmen would not pay large sums for advertisement if they were not convinced of its value to them.

单选题Her ankle caught on a stone, and she almost lost her ______ .

单选题By "glass ceiling...remain low for women", the author intends to show that in most corporations

单选题Man: Anne, it"s good to see you back. Do you remember when we were kids, we used to go swimming together? Woman: Yeah. I sure do. I really love this town and I have a lot good memories from here. Man: I want to tell you that we take a lot of pride in the gold medal you won and we are behind you one hundred percent. Question: What does the man think of the woman?

单选题A man and his wife had a small bar near a station. The bar often stayed open until after midnight, because people came to drink there while they were waiting for trains. At two o'clock one morning, one man was still sitting at a table in the small bar. He was asleep. The barman's wife wanted to go to bed. She looked into the bar several times, and each time the man was still there. Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, "You've waken that man six times now, George, but he isn't drinking anything. Why haven't you sent him away? It is very late." "Oh, no, I don't want to send him away, "answered her husband with a smile: "You see, whenever I wake him up, he asks for his bill, and when I bring it to him. He pays it. Then he goes to sleep again./

单选题In a provocative new book The Beauty Bias , Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor who proposes a legal regime in which discrimination on the basis of looks is as serious as discrimination based on gender or race, lays out the case for an American in which appearance discrimination is no longer allowed. Rhode is at her most persuasive when arguing that in America, discrimination against unattractive women and short men is as pernicious and widespread as bias based on race, sex, age, ethnicity, religion, and disability. Rhode cites research to prove her point: 11 percent of surveyed couples say they would abort a fetus predisposed toward obesity. College students tell surveyors they"d rather have a spouse who is an embezzler, drug user, or a shoplifter than one who is obese. The less attractive you are in America, the more likely you are to receive a longer prison sentence, a lower damage award, a lower salary, and poorer performance reviews. You are less likely to be married and more likely to be poor. And all of this is compounded by a virtually unregulated beauty and diet industry and soaring rates of elective cosmetic surgery. Rhode reminds us how Hillary Clinton and Sonia Sotomayor were savaged by the media for their looks, and says it"s no surprise that Sarah Palin paid her makeup artist more than any member of her staff in her run for the vice presidency. Critics such as Andrew Sullivan claim that if we legally ban appearance discrimination, the next step will be legal protection of "the short, the skinny, the bald, the knobbly kneed, the flat-chested and the stupid." But Rhode points out that there are already laws against appearance discrimination on the books in Michigan and six other locales. This hasn"t resulted in an explosion of frivolous suits, she notes. In each jurisdiction the new laws have generated between zero and nine cases annually. Of course the problem with making appearance discrimination illegal is that Americans just really, really like hot girls. And so long as being a hot girl is deemed a bona fide occupational qualification, there will be cocktail waitresses fired for gaining three pounds. It"s not just American men who like things this way. In the most troubling chapter in her book, Rhode explores the feminist movement"s complicated relationship to eternal youth. The truth is that women feel good about competing in beauty pageants. They love six-inch heels. They feel beautiful after cosmetic surgery. You can"t succeed in public life if you look old in America. This doesn"t mean we shouldn"t work toward eradicating discrimination based on appearance. But it may mean recognizing that the law won"t stop us from discriminating against the overweight, the aging, and the imperfect, so long as it"s the quality we all hate most in ourselves.

单选题A: How annoying! I can't come up with an answer to that problem. Can you give me a hand?B: ______