单选题He thought it a shame to live on his inheritance______making a living by himself.

单选题When the tramp was arrested, he ______.

单选题Fifty applicants for a job were given scores from 1 to 5 on their interview performance. Their scores are shown in the table above. What was the average score for the group? Score Number of Applicants 5 2 4 12 3 21 2 7 1 8 A. 2.79 B. 2.86 C. 2.91 D. 2.99 E. 3.03

单选题Most people do not realize that______

单选题The Smithsonian houses Ua miscellaneous/U collection of aircraft, artifacts, butterflies, stones [both precious and common], and so on.

单选题Being unemployed in the wake of the worst recession since the" 1930s is enough to tax anyone's faith. So a growing number of churches, particularly the large evangelical kind, are ministering to the jobless through programmes offering spiritual as well as professional help. "Being out of work can be a time of faith renewal," says Jay Litton, leader of the Job Networking Ministry at Roswell United Methodist Church in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, which attracts more than 400 unemployed people of all faiths to its weekly two-hour gatherings. "We believe God should be a part of the job search. " Like other faith-based programmes for the unemployed that have sprung up across the country, the one in Roswell has all the passion of an evangelical service. Meetings start with time for networking (or "fellowship") followed by prayer, a meal and a sermon. The names of people in the group who have recently found jobs, or "landed", are flashed on video screens overhead. Participants then disperse to attend workshops run by volunteers on such topics as writing a résumé and making an "elevator pitch" (explaining why you should be hired in the time it takes to ride a few floors in a lift). Petrol and food gift-cards are given out to those who have been unemployed the longest. Mark Godshall is a pastor at Bayside Covenant Church in Granite Bay, a suburb of Sacramento in California. Last year his church, which has a congregation of 11,000, started four-day workshops and weekly programmes for the growing number of jobless in its flock, as well as others from the surrounding area where unemployment exceeds 12%. "It's in these moments when you don't have work when you can grow and make the changes that need to he made in your life," Mr Godshall insists gamely. Although gaining new members would he an obvious benefit for the churches, those involved say it is not the primary goal. "We're here to provide spiritual support and encouragement at a time when people can experience feelings of" hopelessness and worthlessness," says Cindy Hall, a minister at the 1,000-member First Baptist Church in Sanford, North Carolina, which started a support group for its jobless congregants last July. Employers often post job openings with her first rather than in the local newspaper, she says. "I guess they know the kind of people our programme attracts tend to be principled and hard workers," she says. When the temptation is to stay in bed and watch the soaps, "these are people who regularly come to meetings and listen to devotionals. " Amen to that.

单选题His natural______ saved him from being spoilt by fame and success.

单选题 Passage 3 I don't believe that men have deliberately turned us into slaves, as one of your correspondents writes. {{U}}(1) {{/U}} I do know that many women are exploited at work. There must be equal pay {{U}}(2) {{/U}} equal work, and where this is not the case, the abuse must be resisted at all costs. I don't believe that men {{U}}(3) {{/U}} us their mental inferiors. But I do know that there's still a great {{U}}(4) {{/U}} of prejudice against women. Certain jobs are still considered to be for men {{U}}(5) {{/U}}, for example top jobs in industry, in the government and the law. This sort of {{U}}(6) {{/U}} must be resisted at all costs. We are born with brains just as good as men's, and {{U}}(7) {{/U}} we are not expected to use them. It all begins in the home and at school, {{U}}(8) {{/U}} girls are expected to play a smaller {{U}}(9) {{/U}} than boys, and to be less {{U}}(10) {{/U}} I was lucky. I was brought up with the idea of {{U}}(11) {{/U}} something to society--not just to sit at home waiting for {{U}}(12) {{/U}}. As a result, I {{U}}(13) {{/U}} some people would call me a successful 'career girl', but let me {{U}}(14) {{/U}} you, I enjoy it, and my family doesn't {{U}}(15) {{/U}}

单选题The Sino-American relationship is of great importance because______.

单选题The procedure ______ is written step by step in the manual.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} The idea of humanoid robots is not new. They have been part of the imaginative landscape ever since Karl Capek, a Czech writer, first dreamed them up for his 1921 play "Rossum's Universal Robots." (The word "robot" comes from the Czech word for drudgery, robota.) Since then, Hollywood has produced countless variations on the theme, from the sultry False Maria in Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece "Metropolis" to the withering C-3PO in "Star Wars" and the ruthless assassin of "Terminator." Humanoid robots have walked into our collective subconscious, coloring our views of the future. But now Japan's industrial giants are spending billions of yen to make such robots a reality. Their new humanoids represent impressive feats of engineering: when Honda introduced Asimo, a four-foot robot that had been in development for some 15 years, it walked so fluidly that its white, articulated exterior seemed to conceal a human. Honda continues to make the machine faster, friendlier and more agile. Last October, when Asimo was inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in Pittsburgh, it walked onto the stage and accepted its own plaque. At two and a half feet tall, Sony's QRIO is smaller and more toy-like than Asimo. It walks, understands a small number of voice commands, and can navigate on its own. If it falls over, it gets up and resumes where it leaves off. It can even connect wirelessly to the internet and broadcast what its camera eyes can see. In 2003, Sony demonstrated an upgraded QRIO that could run. Honda responded last December with a version of Asimo that runs at twice the speed. In 2004, Toyota joined the fray with its own family of robots, called Partner, one of which is a four-foot humanoid that plays the trumpet. Its fingers work the instrument's valves, and it has mechanical lungs and artificial lips. Toyota hopes to offer a commercial version of the robot by 2010. This month, 50 Partner robots will act as guides at Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. Despite their sudden proliferation, however, humanoids are still a mechanical minority. Most of the world's robots are faceless, footless and mute. They are bolted to the floors of factories, stamping out car parts or welding pieces of metal, making more machines. According to the United Nations, business orders for industrial robots jumped 18% in the first half of 2004. They may soon be outnumbered by domestic robots, such as self-navigating vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers and window washers, which are selling fast. But neither industrial nor domestic robots are humanoid.

单选题As suppliers of most of the food we eat and of raw materials for many of industrial processes, agriculture is clearly an important area of the economy. But the industrial performance of agriculture is even more important than this. For in nations where the productivity of farmers is low, most of the working population is needed to raise food and few people are available for production of investment goods or for other activities required for economic growth. Indeed, one of the factors related most closely to the per capital income (人均收入) of a nation is the fraction of its population engaged in farming. In the poorest nations of the world more than half of the population lives on farms. This compares sharply with less than 10 percent in Western Europe and less than 4 percent in the United States. In short, the course of economic development in general depends in a fundamental way on the performance of farmers. This performance, in turn, depends on how agriculture is organized and on the economic environment or market structure, within which it functions. In the following pages the performance of American agriculture is examined. It is appropriate to begin with a consideration of its market structure.

单选题He attempted _______ to set up a company of his own.

单选题Louis Herman, at the University of Hawaii, has ______ a series of new experiments in which some animals have learned to understand sentences. A. installed B. devised C. formatted D. equipped

单选题If sustainable competitive advantage depends on work-force skills, American firms have a problem. Human-resource management is not traditionally seen as central to the competitive survival of the firm in the United States. Skill acquisition is considered an individual responsibility. Labor is simply another factor of production to be hired—rented at the lowest possible cost—much as one buys raw materials or equipment. The lack of importance attached to human-resource management can be seen in the corporate hierarchy. In an American firm the chief financial officer is almost always second in command. The post of head of human resource management is usually a specialized job, off at the edge of corporate hierarchy. The executive who holds it is never consulted on major strategic decisions and has no chance to move up to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). By way of contrast, in Japan the head of human-resource management is central—usually the second most important executive, after the CEO, in the firm's hierarchy. While American firms often talk about the vast amounts spent on training their work forces, in fact they invest less in the skills of their employees than do either Japanese or German firms. The money they do invest is also more highly concentrated on professional and managerial employees. And the limited investments that are made in training workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies. As a result, problems emerge when new breakthrough technologies arrive. If American workers, for example, take much longer to learn how to operate new flexible manufacturing stations than workers in Germany (as they do), the effective cost of those stations is lower in Germany than it is in the United States. More time is required before equipment is up and running at capacity, and the need for extensive retraining generates costs and creates bottlenecks that limit the speed with which new equipment can be employed. The result is a slower pace of technological change. And in the end the skills of the bottom half of the population affect the wages of the top half. If the bottom half can' t effectively staff the processes that have to be operated, the management and professional jobs that go with these processes will disappear.

单选题The first and essential step in the study of any language is observing and ______ pre cisely what happens when native speakers speak it.

单选题One afternoon I went to______Miss White again.

单选题Yeats was beginning to use a vocabulary freshly minted from the treasury of Gaelic literature, and many of the shorter poems in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) deal with a mythology Ireland had well nigh forgotten and England never known. For Arthur and his Round Table Yeats substituted the very different Conchubar and his Red Branch Warriors, and Finn and his Fenians. The Red Branch cycle of legends included Fergus, whom Ness had tricked out of his kingdom so that her son Conchubar could rule over Ulster in his stead, and in Fergus and the Druid Yeats makes him avid for dreaming wisdom. Fergus was the unwitting agent of the doom of the Sons of Usna, Naoise the lover of Deirdre and his brothers Ardan and Ainle, who had accompanied the lovers to Scotland when they fled from Conchubar's wrath, for Deirdre was Conchubar's intended bride. Fergus had persuaded them to return against the wishes of Deirdre and had been tricked out of acting as their safe conduct. He joined with Maeve, Queen of Connaught, after this, in her raid on Ulster, in which Cuehulain achieved his great fame as Ulster's champion. Cuehulain is the Achilles of the Irish Saga, and he appears throughout Yeats's plays and poems, as warrior, as husband of Emer, as lover of Eithne Inguba, and of Aoife, as the unknowing killer of his own son and finally as victim of the sea.