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单选题Earlier this year, 13-year-old Shannon Sullivan was socializing in the same way as dozens of her classmates. She maintained a personalized page on a website that contained her photograph and details about what makes her unique. But then her mother found out. And now her site and those of her friends—once lovingly adorned with everything from sound bites to video clips—are fast disappearing at the insistence of their safety-minded parents. " They're not aware how easily something predatory can happen over the Internet, " says Shannon's mother, Margaret, " Maybe when they're older, in college or something, but it's just not safe before that. " Internet stalkers have killed at least four minors in the past three years, and law enforcement authorities count about 5,000 reports of attempted sexual predation over the Internet in the past year, according to Parry Arab, executive director of an Internet safety organization. Given such statistics, parents need to get over the feeling that they're invading their children's privacy by reading their blogs, Ms. Aftab says. She believes that parents must bring their judgment to bear on the content of what's posted. Others fear, however, that certain precautions could amount to swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, and could take a hefty toll on family life. The likelihood of tragedy is far greater whenever a child rides in a car or goes swimming than when he or she posts his or her name, photograph, and other personal information on the Internet, says Laurence Steinberg, an expert in adolescent psychology at Temple University. " The downside of prohibiting it is worse than the downside of allowing it, " he says. " A good parent-child relationship is based on trust. I think people do get especially worked up for some reason over the Internet. But snooping on what your child does on the Internet, to me in some ways, is no different from reading your child's diary. " Though the value of pursuing a reasonable level of safety goes undisputed in this discussion, adults differ on the value of increasing a child's freedom and privacy over time, especially in cyberspace. Aftab supports adolescent privacy with pen-and-paper diaries, for instance, because the content there is " between the child and the page, " whereas website content is " for the whole world to see. " Posting private Web content before age 16 only invites trouble, she says, yet many teens do it in a highly public bid for " attention, recognition, and affection. " Still, Steinberg says, while parents need to monitor Web usage by teens, they also should accept that they won't always know everything about a child's life, especially as children become older teens. " There are going to be lots of things that I don't know about in my child's life, and that's OK, " Steinberg says. " It's part of the development process. /
单选题The toys most boys play with are different from those that girls play with because ______.
单选题The structural approach to the analysis of language is connected with ______. A. THEME and RHEME B. GOVERNMENT and BINDING C. IMMEDIATE CONSTITUENT ANALYSIS
单选题According to scientists, if the energy in the atmosphere were put under our control, what would happen?
单选题Man: How did you like the new exhibit at the art gallery? Woman: I still haven't been able to take any time off from studying. Question: What does the woman mean? A. She prefers the artists she has studied. B. She hopes they will take some of the paintings away. C. She hasn't gone to see the exhibit yet. D. She doesn't want to describe the exhibit.
单选题Supermarkets promise to provide all we need in a low-price, one-stop shop, but they sell mediocre food, kill town centers and______our souls.
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What is time? Is it a thing to be saved
or spent or wasted, like money? Or is it something we have no control over, like
the weather? Is time the same all over the world? That's an easy question, you
say. Wherever you go, a minute is 60 seconds, an hour is 60 minutes, a day is 24
hours, and so forth. Well, maybe. But in America, time is more than that.
Americans see time as a very valuable resource. Maybe that's why they are fond
of the expression, "Time is money." Because Americans believe
time is a limited resource, they try to conserve and manage it. People in the
U.S. often attend seminars or read books on time management. It seems they all
want to organize their time better. Professionals carry around pocket
planners-some in electronic form-to keep track of appointments and deadlines.
People do all they can to squeeze more life out of their time. The early
American hero Benjamin Franklin expressed this view best: "Do you love life.'?
Then do not waste time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
To Americans, punctuality is a way of showing respect for other people's
time. Being more than 10 minutes late to an appointment usually calls for an
apology, and maybe an explanation. People who are running late often call ahead
to let others know of the delay. Of course, the less formal the situation, the
less important it is to be exactly on time. At informal get-togethers, for
example, people often arrive as much as 30 minutes past the appointed time. But
they usually don't try that at work. To outsiders, Americans
seem tied to the clock, People in other cultures value relationships more than
schedules. In these societies, people don't try to control time, but to
experience it. Many Eastern cultures, for example, view time as a cycle. The
rhythm of nature-from the passing of the seasons to the monthly cycle of the
moon- shapes their view of events. People learn to respond to their environment.
As a result, they find it easier to "go with the flow" than Americans, who like
plans to be fixed and unchangeable. Even Americans would admit
that no one can master time. Time-like money- slips all too easily through our
fingers. And time-like the weather-is very haut to predict. Nevertheless, time
is one of life's most precious gifts. And unwrapping it is half the
fun.
单选题It is rather______that we still do not know how many species there are in the world today.
单选题Countries within the European Economic Community grant certain commercial ______ to each other.
单选题By the end of this month we surely ______a satisfactory solution to the problem. A. have found B. will have found C. will be binding D. are binding
单选题{{B}}Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four
choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your
answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.{{/B}}
Mary Anning (1799-1847) was a British
fossil hunter who began finding{{U}} (21) {{/U}}as a child, and soon
supported herself and her very{{U}} (22) {{/U}}family by finding and
selling fossils. Very{{U}} (23) {{/U}}is known about her life, but her
father was a cabinet maker and he also{{U}} (24) {{/U}}local
fossils. Mary{{U}} (25) {{/U}}on the southern coast of
England, in a town called Lyme Regis. Its famous{{U}} (26) {{/U}}by the
sea contain{{U}} (27) {{/U}}fossil layers that{{U}} (28)
{{/U}}from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (the{{U}} (29)
{{/U}}of the dinosaurs, other bizarre reptiles, large insects, sea
creatures, {{U}}(30) {{/U}}mammals, and{{U}} (31) {{/U}}life
forms). Mary Anning{{U}} (32) {{/U}}and prepared the
first fossilized plesiosaur (an ocean-dwelling reptile) and the first
Ichthyosaurus (an ocean-dwelling reptile that{{U}} (33) {{/U}}like a
dolphin). She found many other important fossils, including Pterodactylus (a
flying reptile), sharks (and other fish), and so on. {{U}}(34)
{{/U}}with her brother Joseph, Mary supplied prepared fossil specimens to{{U}}
(35) {{/U}}museums, scientists, and private
collections.
单选题Critical thinkers are (able) to identify (main) issues, recognize (underlying) assumptions, and (evaluating) evidence.A. ableB. mainC. underlyingD. evaluating
单选题Author Katherine Sherwood McDowell had a knack for converting almost every experience into marketable prose.
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单选题The government ______ best to boost production.
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单选题According to James Groves, ______.
单选题______ in a recent science competition, the three students were awarded scholarships totaling 21,000 dollars. A) Judged the best B) Judging the best C) To be judged the best D) Having judged the best
单选题All Americans are at least vaguely (1) with the (2) of the American Indian. Cutbacks in federal programs for Indians have made their problems (3) more severe in recent years. Josephy reports," (4) 1981 it was estimated that cut, backs in federal programs for Indians totaled about $ 500 million" (5) mole than ten times the cuts affecting their (6) fellow Americans. This reduced funding is affecting almost all aspects of reservation life, (7) education. If the Indians could solve their (8) problems, solutions to many of their other problems might not be far behind. In, this paper the current status of Indian education will be described and (9) and some ways of improving this education will be proposed. Whether to (10) with the dominant American culture or to (11) Indian culture has been a longstanding issue in Indian education. The next fifty years became a period of (12) assimilation in all areas of Indian culture, but especially in religion and education (Jacoby 83r84). John Collier, a reformer who agitated . (13) Indians and their culture from the early 1920s until his death in 1968, had a different i dea. He believed that instead of effacing native culture, Indian schools (14) encourage and (15) it ( Dippie'276, 325 ). Pressure to assimilate remains a potent force today, (16) . More and more Indians are graduating from high school and college and becoming (17) for jobs in the non - Indian society." When Indians obtain the requisite skills, many of them enter the broader American society and succeed." (18) approximately 90 percent of all Indian children are educated in state public school systems (Taylor 136, 155). (19) these children compete with the members of the dominant society, however, is another (20) .
单选题Modern artists often need financial support but they have difficulty in finding wealthy______.
单选题Most patients respond to the awareness that they have a terminal illness with the statement, "Oh no, this can"t happen to me." After the first shock, numbness, and need to deny the reality of the situation, the patient begins to send out cues that he is ready to "talk about it". If we, at that point, need to deny the reality of the situation, the patient will often feel deserted, isolated, and lonely and unable to communicate with another human being what he needs so desperately to share.
Most patients who have passed the stage will become angry as they ask the question, "Why me?" Many look at others in their environment and express envy, jealousy, anger, and rage toward those who are young, healthy, and full of life. These are the patients who make life difficult for nurses, physicians, social workers, clergymen, and members of their families. Without justification they criticize everyone.
What we have to learn is that the stage in terminal illness is a blessing, not a cure. These patients are not angry at their families or at the members of the helping professions. Rather, they are angry at what these people represent: health and energy.
Without being judgmental, we must allow these patients to express their anger and dismay. We must try to understand that the patients have to ask, "Why me?" and that there is no need on our part to answer this question concretely. Once a patient has ventilated his rage and his envy, then he can arrive at the bargaining stage. During this time, he"s usually able to say, "Yes, it is happening to me—but". The "but" usually includes a prayer to God: "If you give me one more year to live, I will be a good Christian."
单选题There is growing interest m East Japan Railway Co. , one of the six companies, created out of the (1) national railway system. In an industry lacking exciting growth (2) , its plan to use real-estate assets in and around train stations (3) is drawing interest. In a plan dubbed "Station Renaissance" that it (4) in November, JR East said that it would (5) . using its commercial spaces for shops and restaurants, extending them to (6) more suitable for the information age. It wants train stations as pick-up (7) for such goods as books, flowers and groceries purchased (8) the Internet. In a country (9) urbanites depend heavily on trains (10) commuting, about 16 million people a day go to its train stations anyway, the company (11) . So, picking up purchases at train stations spare (12) extra travel and missed home deliveries. JR East already has been using its station (13) stores for this purpose, but it plans to create (14) spaces for the delivery of Internet goods. The company also plans to introduce (15) cards—known in Japan as IC cards because they use integrated (16) for hold information— (17) train tickets and commuter passes (18) the magnetic ones used today, integrating them into a single pass. This will save the company money, because (19) for IC cards are much less expensive than magnetic systems. Increased use of IC cards should also (20) the space needed for ticket vending.
单选题In a ______ of inspiration, I decided to paint the whole house white. A. flame B. flight C. flavor D. flash
单选题I don't like him because he always______when other people are talking.
单选题The quotation of Skinner's words(Lines 7—8, Paragraph 3) is used to show that
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单选题I'd like to go with you. ______, I have to finish the report now.A. HoweverB. ButC. AndD. So
单选题Although the end of the term was close______, Jim had not completed all of the projects he had hoped to finish. A. on hand B.b.y hand C. at hand D. in hand
单选题The Prime Minister explained the new policy of his government {{U}}in great detail{{/U}} so as to win the support of his people.
单选题By the end of the nineteenth century, cities were reimbursing private hospitals for their care of ______ patients and the public hospitals remained dependent on the tax dollars.
单选题Bystanders,______,______as they walked past lines of ambulances.(北京大学2006年试题)
单选题In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child's acquisition (学会) of each new skill the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself. Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters. Others are sever over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child's own happiness. As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality (道德). Also, parents should realize that "example is better than precept". If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach (说教), their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled. A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents' principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
单选题A student of English______limited exercise finds it hard to get good mark in an English exam.
单选题The truly incompetent may never know the depths of their own incompetence, a pair of social psychologists said on Thursday. "We found again and again that people who perform poorly relative to their peers tended to think that they did rather well," Justin Kruger, co-author of a study on the subject, said in a telephone interview.
Kruger and co-author David Dunning found that when it came to a variety of skills—logical reasoning, grammar, even sense of humor—people who essentially were inept never realized it, while those who had some ability were self-critical.
"It had little to do with innate modesty," Kruger said, "but rather with a central paradox: Incompetents lack the basic skills to evaluate their performance realistically. Once they get those skills, they know where they stand，even if that is at the bottom."
"Americans and Western Europeans especially had an unrealistically sunny assessment of their own capabilities," Dunning said by telephone in a separate interview, "while Japanese and Koreans tended to give a reasonable assessment of their performance. In certain areas, such as athletic performance, which can be easily quantified, there is less self-delusion, the researchers said. But even in some cases in which the failure should seem obvious, the perpetrator is blithely unaware of the problem."
This was especially true in the areas of logical reasoning, where research subjects—students at Cornell University, where the two researchers were based—often rated themselves highly even when they flubbed all questions in a reasoning test.
Later, when the students were instructed in logical reasoning, they scored better on a test but rate themselves lower, having learned what constituted competence in this area.
Grammar was another area in which objective knowledge was helpful in determining competence, but the more subjective area of humor posed different challenges, the researchers said.
Participants were asked to rate how funny certain jokes were, and compare their responses with what an expert panel of comedians thought. On average, participants overestimated their sense of humor by about 16 percentage points.
This might be thought of as the "above-average effect", the notion that most Americans would rate themselves as above average, a statistical impossibility.
The researchers also conducted pilot studies of doctors and gun enthusiasts. The doctors overestimated how well they had performed on a test of medical diagnoses and the gun fanciers thought they knew more than they actually did about gun safety.
So who should be trusted: The person who admits incompetence or the one who shows confidence? Neither, according to Dunning.
"You can"t take them at their word. You"ve got to take a look at their performance," Dunning added.
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单选题All cultures have some system of measuring duration, or keeping time, but in Western industrialized societies, we keep track of time in what seems to other peoples almost an obsessive fashion. We view time as motion on a space, a kind of linear progression measured by the clock and the calendar. This perception contributes to our sense of history and the keeping of records, which are typical aspects of Western cultures.
Although our perceptions of time seem natural to us, we must not assume that other cultures operate on the same time system. For instance, why should we assume that a Hopi raised in the Hopi culture would have the same intuitions about time that we have? In Hopi history, if records had been written, we would find a different set of cultural and environmental influences working together. The Hopi people are a peaceful agricultural society isolated by geographic feature and nomad enemies in a land of little rainfall. Their agriculture is successful only by the greatest perseverance. Extensive preparations are needed to ensure crop growth. Thus the Hopi value persistence and repetition in activity. They have a sense of the cumulative value of numerous, small, repeated movements, for to them such movements are not wasted but are stored up to make changes in later events. The Hopi have no intuition of time as motion, as a smooth flowing line on which everything in the universe proceeds at an equal rate away from a past, through a present, into a foreseeable future.
Long and careful study of the Hopi language has revealed that it contains no words, grammatical forms, constructions, or expressions that refer to what we call time-the past, present, or future-or to the duration or lasting aspect of time. To the Hopi, "time" is a "getting later" of everything that has been done, so that past and present merge together. The Hopi do not speak, as we do in English, of a "new day" or "another day" coming every twenty-four hours; among the Hopi, the return of the day is like the return of a person, a little older but with all the characteristics of yesterday. This Hopi conception, with its emphasis on the repetitive aspect of time rather than its onward flow, may be clearly seen in their ritual dances for rain and good crops, in which the basic step is a short, quick stamping of the foot repeated thousands of times, hour after hour.
Of course, the American conception of time is significantly different from that of the Hopi. Americans" understanding of time is typical of Western cultures in general and industrialized societies in particular. Americans view time as a commodity, as a "thing" that can be saved, spent, or wasted. We budget our time as we budget our money. We even say, "Time is money", We are concerned in America with being "on time"; We don"t like to "waste" time by waiting for someone who is late or by repeating information; and we like to "spend" time wisely by keeping busy. These statements all sound natural to a North American. In fact, we think, how could it be otherwise? It is difficult for us not to be irritated by the apparent carelessness about time in other cultures. For example, individuals in other countries frequently turn up an hour or more late for an appointment-although "being late" is at least within our cultural framework. For instance, how can we begin to enter the cultural world of the Sioux, in which there is no word for "late" or "waiting". Of course, the fact is that we have not had to enter the Sioux culture; the Sioux have had to enter ours. It is only when we participate in other cultures on their terms that we can begin to see the cultural patterning of time.
单选题According to recent psychological studies, many children develop fears of ______ dangers.
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单选题The government has launched several campaigns to crack ______on pirating.
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单选题It is necessary that a person( )exercises every day if he wishes to he healthy.
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单选题He speaks the language so well he could easily______ a German.
单选题I remember the accident well, as if it ______ yesterday.
单选题Only since they gave up that good chance ______ to show their invention again.A. have they had no chanceB. they have had no chanceC. they have no chanceD. have they no chance
单选题If you spill hot liquid on your skin it will ______ you.
A. scale
B. scald
C. shun
D. shunt
单选题Dr. White, who is ______ to be one of the best surgeons in London, performed the operation and successfully removed the tumor in her lungs.
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单选题You must always be ready to sacrifice ______ to duty.
单选题Man: Bob and Sue seem never discipline their daughter. She's real nuts. Woman: They are kept in the dark about their daughter's behavior at school. Question: What can we learn about Bob and Sue's daughter?
单选题USoaring/U rates of interest have recently made it difficult for young couples to buy their own homes.
单选题(While) schools developing online curricula try to strike (a balance) between profits and prestige, many educators (are confusing) about their role in this (digital world).
单选题Sophisticated edit facilities allow complicated musical forms to be created.
单选题If you go to the USA, you'll be able to make friends with those ______.
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It is all very well to blame traffic
jams, the cost of petrol and the quick pace of modern life, but manners on the
roads are becoming horrible. You might tolerate the rude and{{U}} (21)
{{/U}}driver, but nowadays the well-mannered motorist is the{{U}} (22)
{{/U}}to the rule. Perhaps the situation{{U}} (23) {{/U}}a "Be Kind
to Other Drivers" campaign,{{U}} (24) {{/U}}, it may get completely out
of hand. Road politeness is not only good manners, but good{{U}}
(25) {{/U}}too. It takes the most cool-headed and good-tempered
drivers to resist the temptation to revenge when{{U}} (26)
{{/U}}uncivilized behaviors.On the other hand, a little politeness goes
a long way towards{{U}} (27) {{/U}}the tensions of motoring. A friendly
nod or a wave of acknowledgement{{U}} (28) {{/U}}an act of politeness
helps to create an atmosphere of goodwill and tolerance so{{U}} (29)
{{/U}}in modern traffic conditions. But such acknowledgements of politeness
are{{U}} (30) {{/U}}rare today. Many drivers nowadays aren't even able
to recognize politeness when they see it. However, improper
politeness can also be{{U}} (31) {{/U}}A typical example is the driver
who waves a child across a crossing into the path of oncoming vehicles{{U}}
(32) {{/U}}may be unable to stop in time. The same{{U}} (33)
{{/U}}encouraging old ladies to cross the road wherever and{{U}} (34)
{{/U}}they care to. Years ago the experts warned us that the car-ownership
explosion would demand a lot more give-and-take from all road users. It is high
time that we{{U}} (35) {{/U}}this message to
heart.
单选题If I ______ you, I wouldn't miss the chance tomorrow morning. A．be B．will be C．am D．were
单选题the places I've been to, I enjoyed the restaurant here the most.A. From allB. All ofC. Of allD. All
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单选题Since the energy crisis, these big cars have become a real
liability
.Thev cost too much to run.(2004年秋季电子科技大学考博试题)
单选题As far back as he could remember, Larry had longed to go to Hollywood and become a film star. The young man’s hopes for success were broken again and again, however. Hollywood just did not seem interested. When he first came to California Larry had decided never to give up and return home without success. Therefore, he kept on trying. Someday, he told himself, his big opportunity would come. Larry found a job parking cars for one of Hollywood’s big restaurants. His pay was basic, but since the guests were kind enough to give him more money, he managed to make a living. One day he recognized an important film director driving into the parking lot and getting out of his car. Larry had recently heard that the man was ready to make a new picture. Larry got into the car and prepared to drive it on into the lot and park it. Then he stopped, jumped out, and ran over to the director. "Excuse me, sir, but I think it’s only fair to tell you that it’s now or never if you want me in Your next picture. A lot of big companies are after me." Instead of pushing away the boy, the director got interested in Larry’s words and stopped. "Yes? Which companies?" he asked. "Well," replied the boy, "there’s the telephone company, the gas company, and the electric company, to tell you only a few." The director laughed, then wrote something on a card and handed it to the young man. "Come and see me tomorrow." Larry got a small part in the director’s next film. He was on his way!
单选题What will man be like in the future—in 5,000 or 50,000 years from now? We can only make a guess, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from【C1】______he is today. For man is slowly changing all the time. Let us【C2】______an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years【C3】______, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is relatively a short period of time, so we are sure that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 10% of the brain's capacity. As time goes on, 【C4】______, we shall have to use our brains more and more— and【C5】______we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a【C6】______change to the head; in particular the forehead will grow larger. On the other hand, we【C7】______to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more【C8】______, because they are used a great deal in modern life. But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether because it does not serve a useful purpose【C9】______In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald. Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature【C10】______! This may well be true.
单选题A field is simply a social system of relations between individuals or institutions who are competing for the same stake. An example of a field may be higher education, colleges, and universities. Habitus is a set of potential dispositions, an internalized set of taken-for-granted rules that govern strategies, and social practices that individuals in some respects carry with them into any field. There is a system of unspoken rules and generally unspeakable rules. They are unspeakable because it is understood that it would be rude or socially punishable to try to talk about those rules. Or, in some cases individuals within a habitus cannot even articulate those arbitrary rules because they are unaware of them. That is, these rules may feel so natural and normalized that they seem as though they are the way things should be and always have been. An example of an unspeakable rule might be that a person should never discuss class privilege, as opposed to hard work, as contributing to the success of an individual when talking about the accomplishments of the middle class within a middle-class field. However, within a working-class field of manual laborers, this may not be a forbidden topic of discussion. Judith Butler outlined a feminist theory of embodied practice in identity formation. She stated that our sense of identities is formed through repeated daily and everyday constrained and emancipatory performative practices through our bodies. Through the process of repeated performances, ways of being in the world become sedimented, that is layered and accumulated to the extent that these practices become a part of who we are and how we perceive ourselves to be in the world. Butler's insights about performativity, the body, and identity are particularly informative of working-class identity formations that are literally embodied within the physical capacity to do manual labor. Butler's notion of performative identity gives me insight into my own identity development and the discomforts and constraints I have felt within academia, where the mind is privileged over the body in ways that almost obliterate the body. At the same time, the ideology of mind over body seems hypocritical when one examines the class distinctions made through the embedded middle-class practices, in short, the habitus, of the majority of university professors. Many first-generation college students in my classes, especially those who are from working-class backgrounds, report shock, dismay, and anger at the level of classism and racism that exists among faculty, whom they assumed to be educated and to value egalitarian principles. Many students express their frustration at not knowing the habitus of the middle class, yet feel its exclusionary, embodied power. They express even more frustration that the middle class also seems unaware of its own unspoken rules and habitus. Though they can start a conversation about race, they don't know how to talk about class in a meaningful way, one that helps their fellow students to understand the naturalized class distinctions within our culture. Class is America's dirty little secret.
单选题Before treating the injuries, the victim's feet should be Uelevated/U, otherwise it might make the abdominal injuries more serious.
单选题Despite Denmark's manifest virtues, Danes never talk about how proud they are to be Danes. This would sound weird in Danish. When Danes talk to foreigners about Denmark, they always begin by commenting on its tininess, its unimportance, the difficulty of its language, the general small-mindedness and self-indulgence of their countrymen and the high taxes. No Dane would look you in the eye and say, "Denmark is a great country. " You're supposed to figure this out for yourself. It is the land of the silk safety net, where almost half the national budget goes toward smoothing out life's inequalities, and there is plenty of money for schools, day care, retraining programmers, job seminars—Danes love seminars: three days at a study centre hearing about waste management is almost as good as a ski trip. It is a culture bombarded by English, in advertising, pop music, the Internet, and despite all the English that Danish absorbs — there is no Danish Academy to defend against it — old dialects persist in Jutland that can barely be understood by Copenhageners. It is land where, as the saying goes, "Few have too much and fewer have too little, "and a foreigner is struck by the sweet egalitarianism that prevails, where the lowliest clerk gives you a level gaze, where Sir and Madame have disappeared from common usage, even Mr. and Mrs. It's a nation of recyclers—about 55% of Danish garbage gets made into something new—and no nuclear power plants. It's a nation of tireless planners. Trains run on time. Things operate well in general. Nonetheless, it is an orderly land. You drive through a Danish town, it comes to an end at a stone wall, and on the other side is a field of barley, a nice clean line, town here, country there. It is not a nation of jay-walkers. People stand on the curb and wait for the red light to change, even if it's 2 a. m. and there's not a car in sight. However, Danes don't think of themselves as a waiting-at-2. a. m. -for-the-green-light people—that's how they see Swedes and Germans. Danes see themselves as jazzy people, improvisers, more free spirited than Swedes, but the truth is (though one should not say it) that Danes are very much like Germans and Swedes. Orderliness is a main selling point. Denmark has few natural resources, limited manufacturing capability; its future in Europe will be as a broker, banker, and distributor of goods. You send your goods by container ship to Copenhagen, and these bright, young, English-speaking, utterly honest, highly disciplined people will get your goods around to Scandinavia, the Baltic Stares, and Russia. Airports, seaports, highways, and rail lines are ultramodern and well-maintained. The orderliness of the society doesn't mean that Danish lives are less messy or lonely than yours or mine, and no Dane would tell you so. You can hear plenty about bitter family feuds and the sorrows of alcoholism and about perfectly sensible people who went off one day and killed themselves. An orderly society cannot exempt its members from the hazards of life. But there is a sense of entitlement and security that Danes grow up with. Certain things are yours by virtue of citizenship, and you shouldn't feel bad for taking what you're entitled to, you're as good as anyone else. The rules of the welfare system are clear to everyone, the benefits you get if you lose your job, the steps you take to get a new one; and the orderliness of the system makes it possible for the country to weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis.
单选题I don't know why he has been given______. It wasn't his accomplishment but his wife's.(2002年中国社会科学院考博试题)
单选题Even though the evidence is overwhelming, if one juror is still {{U}}skeptical{{/U}}, the case must be retried.
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单选题Since you've repaired my TV set, ______ is no need for me to buy a new one.A. thereB. itC. thisD. that
单选题Like many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we aU to question our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero? Despite immense differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics that instruct and inspire people. A hero does something worth talking about. A hero has a story of adventure to tell and community who will listen. But a few heroes beyond mere fame. Heroes serve powers or principles larger than themselves. Like high-voltage transformers, heroes take the energy of higher powers and step it down so that it can be used by ordinary The hero lives a life worthy of imitation. Those who imitate a genuine, hero experience life with new depth, enthusiasm, and meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom do they serve? What are they willing to live and die for? If the answer or evidence suggests they serve only their own fame, they may be famous persons but not heroes. Madonna and Michael Jackson are famous, but who would claim that their fans find life more abundant? Heroes are catalysts (催化剂) for change. They have a vision from the mountaintop. They have the skill and the charm to move the masses. They create new possibilities. Without Gandhi, India might still be part of the British Empire. Without Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., we might still have segregated (隔离的) buses, restaurants, and parks: It may be possible for largescale change to occur without leaders with magnetic personalities, but the pace of change would be slow, the vision uncertain, and the committee meetings endless.
单选题Arrogance and pride are similar in meaning, but there is a(n)______difference between them. A. submerged B. indecisive C. indistinct D. subtle
单选题Each year, millions of people in Bangladesh drink ground water that has been polluted by naturally high levels of arsenic poison. Finding safe drinking water in that country can be a problem. However, International Development Enterprises has a low-cost answer. This non-governmental organization has developed technology to harvest rainwater. People around the world have been harvesting rainwater for centuries. It is a safe, dependable source of drinking water. Unlike ground water, rainwater contains no minerals or salts and is free of chemical treatments. Best of all, it is free. The rainwater harvesting system created by International Development Enterprises uses pipes to collect water from the tops of buildings. The pipes stretch from the tops of buildings to a two-meter tall storage tank made of metal. At the top of the tank is a so called "first-flush" device made of wire screen. This barrier prevents dirt and leaves in the water from falling inside the tank. A fitted cover sits over the "first-flush" device. It protects the water inside the tank from evaporating. The cover also prevents mosquito insects from laying eggs in the water. Inside the tank is a low coat plastic bag that collects the water. The bag sits inside another plastic bag similar to those used to hold grains. The two bags are supported inside the metal tank. All total, the water storage system can hold up to 3,500 liters of water. International Development Enterprises says the inner bags may need to be replaced every two to three years. However, if the bags are not damaged by sunlight, they could last even longer. International Development Enterprises says the water harvesting system should be built on a raised structure to prevent insects from eating into it at the bottom. The total cost to build this rainwater harvesting system is about forty dollars. However, International Development Enterprises expects the price to drop over time. The group says one tank can provide a family of five with enough rainwater to survive a five-month dry season.
单选题Very soon a computer will be able to teach you English. It will also be able to translate any language for you too. It"s just one more incredible result of the development of microprocessors-those tiny parts of a computer commonly known as "silicon chips". So give up going to classes, stop buying more textbooks and relax. In a couple of years you won"t need the international language of English.
Already Texas instruments in the United States are developing an electronic translation machine. Imagine a Spanish secretary, for example, who wants to type a letter from the boss to a business man in Sweden. All he or she will have to do is this: first type the letter will appear on another television screen in Stockholm in perfect Swedish.
And that"s not all. Soon a computer will be able to teach you English, if you really want to learn the language. You"ll sit in front of a television screen and practice endless structures. The computer will tell you when you are correct and when you are wrong. It will even talk to you because the silicon chips can change electrical impulses into sounds. And clever programmers can predict the responses you, the learner, are likely to make.
So think of it. You will be able to teach yourself at your own pace. You will waste very little time, and you can work at home. And if after all that, you still can"t speak English you can always use the translating machine. In a few years, therefore, perhaps there will be no need for BBC Modern English, or BBC English by Radio programs—no more textbooks or teachers of English. Instead of buying an exciting new textbook, the computer will ask you to replace it with microprocessor one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four. Fast, reliable and efficient language learning and translating facilities will be available to you. Think of that no more tears or embarrassing moments. One little problem is that a computer can"t laugh yet-but the scientists are working on it. Happy learning!
单选题A hat company ships its hats, individually wrapped, in 8-inch by 10-inch by 12-inch boxes. Each hat is valued at $7.50. If the company's latest order required a truck with at least 288,000 cubic inches of storage space in which to ship the hats in their boxes, what was the minimum value of the order? A. $960 B. $1,350 C. $1,725 D. $2,050 E. $2,250
单选题Recently I stood in front of my class, observing an all-too-familiar scene. Most of my students were secretly—or so they thought—looking at their smart phones under their desks.
As I called their attention, students" heads slowly lifted, their eyes reluctantly glancing forward. I then cheerfully explained that their next project would practice a skill they all desperately needed: holding a conversation. Several students looked confused. Others moved uneasily in their seats, waiting for me to stop watching the class so they could return to their phones.
Even with plenty of practice, most kids were unable to converse effectively. They looked down at their hands. Some even reached for their phone—the last thing they should be doing.
As I watched my class struggle, I came to realize that conversational competence might be the single-most overlooked skill we fail to teach students. Kids spend hours each day engaging with ideas and one another through screens--but rarely do they have an opportunity to truly practice their interpersonal communication skills. Admittedly, teenage awkwardness and nerves play a role in difficult conversations. But students, reliance on screens for communication is affecting their engagement in real-time talk.
It might sound like a funny question, but we need to ask ourselves: Is there any 21st century skill more important than being able to hold a confident, coherent (连贯的) conversation? When students apply for colleges and jobs, they won"t conduct interviews through their smart phones. When they negotiate pay raises and discuss projects with employers, they should demonstrate a thoughtful presence and the ability to think on their feet.
But in our rush to meet 21st—century demands，we aren’t asking students to think and communicate in real time. Online discussion boards and Twitter are useful tools for exchanging ideas. But they often encourage a "read, reflect, forget about it" response that doesn"t truly engage students in extended critical thinking or conversation.
As Sherry Turkle writes, "We are tempted to think that our little "sips" of online connection add up to a big gulp (大口) of real conversation. But they don"t."
单选题My husband and children feel very happy to live here. They can't see that we live on a dirty street in a dirty house among people who aren't good. They can't see that our neighbors have to make happiness out of all this dirt. I decided that my children must get out of this. The money that we've saved isn't nearly enough. The McGaritys have money but they are so proud. They look down upon the poor The McGarity girl just yesterday stood out there in the street eating from a bag of candy while a ring of hungry children watched her. I saw those children looking at her and crying in their hearts; and when she couldn't eat any more she threw the rest down the sewer (下水道). Why? Is it only because they have money? There is more to happiness than money in the world, isn't there? Miss Jackson who teaches at the Settlement House isn't rich, but she knows things. She understands people. Her eyes look straight into yours when she talks with you. She can read your mind. I'd like to see the children will be like Miss Jackson when they grow up.
单选题 I've heard many students and professionals express a
desire to take a speed reading course so they can increase their knowledge at a
faster rate. But the information I've {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}}
{{/U}}over the last few years {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}me to
believe that "speed reading" may be less useful than most people
think. Don't push yourself to read at a(n){{U}} {{U}}
3 {{/U}} {{/U}}pace. The claim that you can read and fully {{U}}
{{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}2,000 or 3,000 words per minute is
a(n){{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}exaggeration. One researcher
proved this in a study in which irrelevant and {{U}} {{U}} 6
{{/U}} {{/U}} sentences were added to a passage of writing. The "speed
readers" who were tested didn't notice the irrelevant lines-the non-speed
readers {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}them immediately.
It was said that President Kennedy read three or four major daffy
newspapers each morning in just a few minutes. But he {{U}} {{U}}
8 {{/U}} {{/U}}obtained all the information he needed from the headlines
and topic paragraphs. I wish I could have {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}}
{{/U}}him after he completed his daily newspaper reading. I'm willing to {{U}}
{{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}he would not have known most details revealed
in the body of the articles-{{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}those in
stories he read completely. I suspect that's also true {{U}} {{U}}
12 {{/U}} {{/U}}most persons who make {{U}} {{U}} 13
{{/U}} {{/U}}to great reading speeds. I've never taken one of
the reading courses that {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}to increase
your reading pace astronomically, but I've spoken {{U}} {{U}} 15
{{/U}} {{/U}}to many persons who have. Virtually all of them felt the courses
had been helpful but, {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}, didn't make
them faster readers. My secretary used to teach a speed reading
course for the personnel department of a large utility company. She told me the
follow-up {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}indicated that employees
who attended all 12 classes showed no {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}}
{{/U}}long-term improvement in their reading speed. She did add, {{U}}
{{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}, that many company employees took the course
to enhance their promotion opportunities, and it may well have {{U}}
{{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}that purpose.
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单选题Many theories concerning the causes of juvenile delinquency (crimes committed by young people) focus either on the individual or on society as the major contributing influence. Theories (51) on the individual suggest that children engage in criminal behavior (52) they were not sufficiently penalized for previous misdeeds or that they have learned criminal behavior through (53) with others. Theories focusing on the role of society suggest that children commit crimes in response to their failure to rise above their socioeconomic status, (54) as a rejection of middle-class values. Most theories of juvenile delinquency have focused on children from disadvantaged families, ignoring the fact that children from wealthy homes also commit crimes. The latter may commit crimes (55) lack of adequate parental control. All theories, however, are tentative and are (56) to criticism. Changes in the social structure may indirectly (57) juvenile crime rates. For example, changes in the economy that lead to fewer job opportunities for youth and rising unemployment (58) make gainful employment increasingly difficult to obtain. The resulting discontent may in turn lead more youths into criminal behavior. Families have also (59) changes these years. More families consist of one-parent households or two working parents; consequently, children are likely to have less supervision at home (60) was common in the traditional family structure. This lack of parental supervision is thought to be an influence on juvenile crime rates.
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Experts predict that China's healthcare
market will have an annual growth of 6 to 8 per cent in the next few years,
making it one of the potentially most prosperous. In Shanghai, annual medical
expenditure is estimated to be 16 billion yuan (U. S. 93 billion). With an
increasingly{{U}} (31) {{/U}}population, the growing consumption power
and longer life{{U}} (32) {{/U}}of local residents, the medical market
has great opportunities. However, limited medical resources
cannot meet people's needs{{U}} (33) {{/U}}financial deficits in
State-owned hospitals. {{U}}(34) {{/U}}, there is room for a range of
different medical organizations. As is the case with many
State-owned enterprises, public hospitals in the past half century have learned
a lot of bad habits: {{U}}(35) {{/U}}management, over-staffing and
bureaucratic operating procedures. Being a member of World Trade
Organization (WTO), China has to{{U}} (36) {{/U}}its promise to open the
health industry to foreign capital in coming years. By then, public hospitals
will be facing fierce competition from Western giants they have never prepared
for. So it's quite urgent{{U}} (37) {{/U}}them to learn
how to operate as an enterprise and how to survive in the competitive market
economy of the future. As a{{U}} (38) {{/U}}, the
healthcare sector was first opened to domestic private investors. Since the
first private hospital opened in 1999, private investors from Shenzhen, Sichuan
and Zhejiang provinces have been scrambling to enter Shanghai. {{U}}(39)
{{/U}}show that about 20 private hospitals have been set up in the city,
although this number, {{U}}(40) {{/U}}with more than 500 public
hospitals, is still quite low.
单选题What's the chance______five heads when you toss a coin five times?
单选题Sally (must have called) her sister last night, but she (arrived) home (too late) to call (her).
单选题The house was very quiet,______as it was on the side of a mountain.(中国矿业大学2010年试题)
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单选题Half the profits are______in a corporate account that can be drawn on only with stockholder consent.
单选题He took her hand and felt the scar on her thumb, ______of an accident with a kitchen knife in the early days of their marriage.
单选题It seems that the author of the passage ______ what Dr. Cotes says in the book "The Privileged Ones".
单选题Wealthy nations have fallen far behind on their aid ______ to the world's poor. A. commitments B. engagements C. responsibilities D. applications
单选题The sign reads "in case of ______ fire, break the glass and push red
button."
A. /, a
B. /, the
C. the, the
D. a, a
单选题We all know that every culture has its own ideal of behavior, and the
United States is no ______.
A. expectation
B. exclusion
C. expectancy
D. exception
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单选题Samantha is just as rich ______ David.
单选题Famed singerSteve Wonder can't see his fans dancing at his concerts. He can't see the hands of his audience as they applaud wildly at the end of his Superstition. Blind from birth, Wonder has waited his whole life for a chance to see. Recently, Wonder visited Mark Humayan, a vision specialist. He thought that a new device currently being studied by Humayan might offer him that chance. The device, a retinal prosthesis, is a tiny computer chip implanted inside a patient's eye. The chip sends images to the brain and allows some sightless people to see shapes and colors. Wonder hoped the retinal prosthesis might work for him. "I've always said that if ever there's possibility of my seeing," said Wonder, "then I would take the challenge." Unfortunately for Wonder, that challenge will have to wait. Humayan explained that the device isn't ready for people who have been blind since birth. Their brains may not be able to handle signals from a retinal prosthesis because their brains have never handled signals from a healthy eye. However the retinal prosthesis and other devices show great promise in helping many other sightless people who once had vision see again. Perhaps one day soon, some formerly sightless people may be in Wonder's audience looking up—and seeing him—for the very first time. Wonder's willingness to take part in retinal prosthesis studies and the results of those studies are giving new hope to people who thought they would be blind for the rest of their lives. More than one million people in the United States are considered legally blind, meaning that their eye- sight is severely impaired. Another one million are totally blind. Two types of specialized cells in the retina—rods and cones—are critical for proper vision. Light enters the eye and falls on the rods and cones in the retina. Those cells convert the light to electrical signals, which travel through the optic nerve to the brain. The brain interprets those signals as visual images. Rods detect light at low levels of illumination. For instance, rods allow you to see faint shadows in dim moonlight. Cones, on the other hand, are most sensitive to color. Some diseases can damage cells in the retina. For instance, macular degeneration causes blind ness and other vision problems in 700,000 people in the United States each year. The condition i caused by a lack of adequate blood supply to the central part of the retina. Without blood, the rods, cones, and other cells in the retina die. Devices such as the retinal prosthesis won't prevent or cure our eye diseases, but they ma help patients who have eye disorders regain some of their vision. Different forms of retinal presto sis are currently being developed. On one type, a tiny computer chip is embedded in the eye The chip has a grid of about 2,500 light-sensing elements called pixels. Light entering the eye strikes the pixels, which convert the light into electrical signals. The pixels then send the electrical signals to nerve cells, behind the retina. Those cells send signals vi the optic nerve to the brain for interpretation. Many people who have had a retinal prosthesis implanted say they can see shapes, colors and movements that they couldn't see before. "It was great," said Harold Churchey, who n ceived his retinal prosthesis 15 years after he became totally blind. "To see light after so long—was just wonderful. It was just like switching a light on./
单选题______, I seated him in an armchair.
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单选题I don't know him very well，______I have met him socially on a couple of occasions． A．so that B．when C．although D．since
单选题Never laugh at a snow covered mountain! Laughter and yelling, during the avalanche season, can cause a deadly pile of snow. Huge snow slides are most common in mountains where there are steep slopes that are well buried in snow and ice. The snow builds up slowly and lands very softly. This can create a very touchy, unstable situation. Tons of snow may be held up by only the friction between snowflakes. The deep snow is like a house of cards. The slightest movement can cause it to fall. As soon as something slips, this great mass of snow will come crashing down the mountainside. Slides may be started by sound vibrations. They may also be started by the weight of wet, melting snow. Once an avalanche has been triggered, the cause no longer matters. Moving down a steep slope, it picks up great speed and added snow. Some avalanches travel as fast as two hundred miles per hour. The force of an avalanche will mow down anything in its path. Whole houses have been swallowed up by these fast-paced piles of snow. The wind that is caused by an avalanche is almost as destructive as the snow itself. Winds from an avalanche have been known to travel as fast as those of a tornado. So, when approaching a thickly snow covered mountain, speak softly!
单选题Jim was ______ asking his mother to buy him a new bike, so she finally
gave in.
A. hesitant about
B. concerned with
C. eager for
D. persistent in
单选题We have known for a long time that the organization of any particular society is influenced by the definition of the sexes and the distinction drawn between them. But we have realized only recently that the identity of each sex is not so easy to pin down, and that definitions evolve in accordance with different types of culture known to us, that is, scientific discoveries and ideological revolutions. Our nature is not considered as immutable, either socially or biologically. As we approach the beginning of the 21st century, the substantial progress made in biology and genetics is radically challenging the roles, responsibilities and specific characteristics attributed to each sex, and yet, scarcely twenty years ago, these were thought to be "beyond dispute". We can safely say, with a few minor exceptions, that the definition of the sexes and their respective functions remained unchanged in the West from the beginning of the 19tb century to the 1960s. The role distinction, raised in some cases to the status of uncompromising dualism on a strongly hierarchical model, lasted throughout this period, appealing for its justification to nature, religion and customs alleged to have existed since the dawn of time. The woman bore children and took care of the home. The man set out tc conquer the world and was responsible for the survival of his family, by satisfying their needs in peacetime and going to war when necessary. The entire world order rested on the divergence of the sexes. Any overlapping or confusion between the roles was seen as a threat to the time-honored order of things. It was felt to be against nature, a deviation from the norm. Sex roles were determined according to the "place" appropriate to each. Women's place was, first and foremost, in the home. The outside world, i.e. workshops, factories and business firms, belonged to men. This sex-based division of the world (private and public) gave rise to a strict dichotomy between the attitudes, which conferred on each its special identity. The woman, sequestered at home, "cared, nurtured and conserved". To do this, she had no need to be daring, ambitious, tough or competitive. The man, on the other hand, competing with his fellow men, was caught up every day in the struggle for survival, and hence developed those characteristics which were thought natural in a man. Today, many women go out to work, and their reasons for doing so have changed considerably. Besides, the traditional financial incentives, we find ambition and personal fulfillment motivating those in the most favorable circumstances, and the wish to have a social life and to get out of their domestic isolation influencing others. Above all, for all women, work is invariably connected with the desire for independence.
单选题One of V. S. Naipaul" s best-known nonfictional works is______.
单选题______ you are at home alone, please don't leave the door open.
A. While
B. As
C. Before
D. How
单选题Your writing is good ______ some spell errors.
单选题I am firmly______that this plan would do much good to our company.
单选题He became aware that he had lost his audience since he had not been able to talk ______around one topic.(2004年武汉大学考博试题)
单选题Identify the Rhetorical Devices(20%) Each of the following sentences contains a rhetorical device. Identify this device and write the letter of your choice on your ANSWER SHEET. Example: My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, (Shakespeare, Sonnet 147) A. simile B. metaphor C. assonance D. oxymoron You write; AHitting that telephone pole certainly didn"t do your car any good.
单选题You ______ be driven out of the school if you dare to cheat in the
exam.
A. should
B. would
C. will
D. shall
单选题He said he ______ the next day.
单选题The two men in the van _____.
单选题I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into ______ when judging
nay examination.
A. regard
B. account
C. thought
D. observation
单选题In short, every time the issue of family structure has been raised, the response has been first
controversy
, then retreat, and finally silence.
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单选题In the 1850's Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin became the best seller of the generation, ______ a host of imitators.
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单选题As used in the third sentence of the second paragraph, "daily bread" refers to ______.
单选题Persons who are overweight should watch their diet carefully in order to lose pounds. The best way to do this is to start a weight control program. At first it is wise to talk with your doctor. He can advise you of the number of calories (卡路里) you should have in your meals each day. He can tell you about exercising while on your diet. A good rule is to lose slowly. A loss of a pound or two is plenty.
Plan meals around foods you know. This means that it is wise to include foods that you are used to and that are part of your regular eating habits. When you have lost the weight you wish, simple items can be added to your diet so that you can maintain the weight you want. While you are dieting, try to build a pattern of eating that you can follow later to maintain your desired weight.
When dieting, choose low-calorie foods. Avoid such items as fats, fried food, sweets, cakes, cream and soft drinks. Try to take coffee and tea without sugar or cream. Snacks can be part of your diet. For example, a piece of fruit or a simple dessert saved from mealtime can be eaten between meals.
Keep busy! This way you will not be tempted to go off the diet. Make full use of opportunities to exercise. Try walking instead of riding whenever possible. Happy dieting!
单选题While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success m many states at least in getting people off welfare. It's estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994. In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens County have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $ 6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent— twice the national average. For advocates (代言人) for the poor, that's an indication much more needs to be done. "More people are getting jobs, but it's not making their lives any better," says Kathy Lain, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington. A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down. But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory. "Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin(毒素) that was poisoning the family," says Robert Rector, a welfare reform policy analyst. "The reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It's beginning to rebuild the work ethic (道德观), which is much more important. " Mr. Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked", then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.
单选题Come on, my fellow white folks, we have something to confess. Out with it, friends, the biggest secret known to whites since the invention of powdered rouge: welfare is a white program. The numbers go like this: 61% of the population receiving welfare, listed as "means-tested cash assistance" by the Census Bureau, is identified as white, while only 33% is identified as black. These numbers notwithstanding, the Republican version of "political correctness" has given us "welfare cheat" as a new term for African American since the early days of Ronald Reagan. Our confession surely stands: white folks have been gobbling up the welfare budget while blaming someone else. But it's worse than that. If we look at Social Security, which is another form of welfare, although it is often mistaken for an individual insurance program, then whites are the ones who are crowding the trough. We receive almost twice as much per capita, for an aggregate advantage to our race of $10 billion a year--much more than the $3. 9 billion advantage African American gain from their disproportionate share of welfare. One sad reason: whites live an average of six years longer than African Americans, meaning that young black workers help subsidize a huge and growing "over-class" of white retirees. I do not see our confession bringing much relief. There's a reason for resentment, though it has more to do with class than with race. White people are poor too, and in numbers far exceeding any of our more generously pigmented social groups. And poverty as defined by the government is a vast underestimation of the economic terror that persists at incomes--such as $ 20,000 or even $ 40,000 and above--that we like to think of as middle class. The problem is not that welfare is too generous to blacks but that social welfare in general is too stingy to all concerned. Naturally, whites in the swelling "near poor" category resent the notion of whole races supposedly frolicking at their expense. Whites, near poor and middle class, need help too--as do the many African Americans. So we white folks have a choice. We can keep pretending that welfare is black program and a scheme for transferring our earnings to the pockets of shiftless, dark-skinned people. Or we can clear our throats, blush prettily and admit that we are hurting too--for cash assistance when we're down and out, for health insurance, for college aid and all the rest. Racial scapegoating has its charms, I will admit: the surge of righteous anger, even the fun--for those inclined--of wearing sheets and burning crosses. But there are better, nobler sources of white pride, it seems to me. Remember this: only we can truly, deeply blush.
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单选题 Every morning, kids from a local high school are
working hard. They are making and selling special coffee at a coffee cafe. They
are also making a lot of money. These students can make up to
twelve hundred dollars a day. They are selling their special coffee to airplane
passengers. After the students get paid, the rest of the money goes to helping a
local youth project. These high school students use a space in
the Oakland airport. It is usually very crowded. Many people who fly on the
planes like to drink the special coffee. One customer thinks
that the coffee costs a lot but it is good and worth it. Most customers are
pleasant but some are unhappy. They do not like it if the cafe is not open for
business. The students earn $6.10 an hour plus tips. They also
get school credit whiel they learn how to run a business. Many of the students
enjoy the work although it took some time to learn how to do it.
They have to learn how to steam milk, load the pots, and add flavor. It
takes some skill and sometimes mistakes are made. The most common mistake is
forgetting to add the coffee.
单选题Someone has calculated that by the time an American reaches the age of 40, he or she has been exposed to one million ads. Another estimate is that we have encountered more than 600, 000 ads by the time we reach the age of only 18. Now, of course, we don't remember what exactly they said or even what the product was, but a composite message gets through: that you deserve the best, that you should have it now, and that it's okay to indulge yourself, because you deserve the compliments, sex appeal, or adventure you are going to get as a result of buying this car or those cigarettes. Our consumer-based economy makes two absolutely reciprocal psychological demands on its members. On the one hand, you need the "discipline" values to ensure that people will be good workers and lead orderly, law-abiding lives. On the other hand, you need the "enjoy yourself" messages to get people to be good consumers. One author was disturbed about the "enjoy yourself" side, but acknowledged that "without a means of stimulating mass consumption, the very structure of our business enterprise would collapse." The interesting question has to do with the psychological consequences of the discrepancy between the dual messages. The "discipline" or "traditional values" theme demands that one compartment of the personality have a will strong enough to keep the individual doing unpleasant work at low wages, or to stay in an unhappy marriage, and, in general, to do things for the good of the commonwealth. The "enjoy yourself" message, on the other hand, tends to encourage a very different kind of personality-one that is self-centered, based on impulse, and is unwilling to delay rewards. As an illustration, I can't. resist reciting one of my favorite ads of all time, an ad from a psychology magazine: "I love me. I'm just a good friend to myself. And I like to do what makes me feel good. I used to sit around, putting things off till tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll drink champagne, and buy a set of pearls, and pick up that new stereo. But now I live my dreams today, not tomorrow." So what happens to us as we take in these opposing messages, as we are, in fact, torn between the opposite personality types that our society seems to require of us? Tile result is anxiety, fear, and a mysterious dread. The fear of being sucked in and dragged down by our consumer culture is real: the credit card company is not friendly when you default on your bills. And we all know that the path of pleasure-seeking and blind acquisition is a recipe for financial ruin-for most of us, anyway-and that, in American society, there isn't much of a safety net to catch you if you fall.
单选题Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a very complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the "system" of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else. If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define "price", many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words, that price is the money value of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer anti the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that apply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that comprise the total "package" being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.
单选题You ______ all those clothes by hand! You have a washing-machine to that kind of thing. A. mustn't have washed B. cannot have washed C. needn't have washed D. shouldn't wash
单选题Children need many things, but ______ they need love. A. after all B. above all C. at all D. at best
单选题Speaker A: Excuse me, could you tell me how to get to the railway station?Speaker B: ______
单选题—I enjoyed the food very much.—Im glad you like it. Please drop in any time you like.—______ A．Is it all right? B．Im afraid I wont be free. C．Yes. I will. D．Thats great.
单选题Text 4 When we worry about who might be spying on our private lives, we usually think about the Federal agents. But the private sector outdoes the government every time. It's Linda Tripp, not the FBI, who is facing charges under Maryland's laws against secret telephone taping. It's our banks, not the Internal Revenue Service(IRS), that pass our private financial data to telemarketing firms. Consumer activists are pressing Congress for better privacy laws without much result so far. The legislators lean toward letting business people track our financial habits virtually at will. As an example of what's going on, consider U.S. Bancorp, which was recently sued for deceptive practices by the state of Minnesota. According to the lawsuit, the bank supplied a telemarketer called Member Works with sensitive customer data such as names, phone numbers, bank account and credit-card numbers, Social Security numbers, account balances and credit limits. With these customer lists in hand, Member Works started dialing for dollars—selling dental plans, videogames, computer software and other products and services. Customers who accepted a "free trial offer" had, 30 days to cancel. If the deadline passed, they were charged automatically through their bank or credit card accounts. U.S. Bancorp collected a share of the revenues. Customers were doubly deceived, the lawsuit claims. They didn't know that the bank was giving account numbers to Member Works. And if customers asked, they were led to think the answer was no. The state sued Member Works separately for deceptive selling. The company defends that it did anything wrong. For its part, U.S. Bancorp settled without admit ting any mistakes. But it agreed to stop exposing its customers to nonfinancial products sold by outside firms. A few top banks decided to do the same. Many other banks will still do business with Member Works and similar firms. And banks will still be mining data from your account in order to sell you financial products, including things of little value, such as credit insurance and credit card protection plans. You have almost no protection from businesses that use your personal accounts for profit. For example, no federal law shields "transaction and experience" information—mainly the details of your bank and credit card accounts. Social Security numbers are for sale by private firms. They've generally agreed not to sell to the public. But to businesses, the numbers are an open book. Self-regulation doesn't work. A firm might publish a privacy-protection policy, but who enforces it? Take U.S. Bancorp again. Customers were told, in writing, that "all personal information you supply to us will be considered confidential." Then it sold your data to Member Works. The bank even claims that it doesn't "sell" your data at all. It merely "shares" it and reaps a profit. Now you know.
单选题The following questions present a sentence, part of which or all of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence, you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others. These questions test correctness and effectiveness of expression. In choosing your answer, follow the requirements of standard written English; that is, pay attention to grammar, choice of words, and sentence construction. Choose the answer that produces the most effective sentence; this answer should be clear and exact, without awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, or grammatical error.
单选题The old folk song is well worth______A. listening B. listening to C. to listen D. to listen to
单选题Richard Satava, program manager for advanced medical technologies, has been a driving force in bringing virtual reality to medicine, where computers create a "virtual" or simulated environment for surgeons and other medical practitioners. "With virtual reality we'll be able to put a surgeon in every trench," said Satava. He envisaged a time when soldiers who are wounded fighting overseas are put in mobile surgical units equipped with computers. The computers would transmit images of the soldiers to surgeons back in the U. S.. The surgeons would look at the soldiers through virtual reality helmets that contain a small screen displaying the image of the wound. The doctors would guide robotic instruments in the battlefield mobile surgical unit that operate on the soldier. Although Satava's vision may be years away from standard operating procedure, scientists are progressing toward virtual reality surgery. Engineers at an international organization in California are developing a tele-operating device. As surgeons watch a three-dimensional image of the surgery, they move instruments that are connected to a computer, which passes their movements to the robotic instruments that perform the surgery. The computer provides feedback to the surgeon on force, textures, and sound. These technological wonders may not yet be part of the community hospital setting but increasingly some of the machinery is finding its way into civilian medicine. At Wayne State University Medical School, surgeon Lucia Zamorano takes images of the brain from computerized scans and uses a computer program to produce a 3D image. She can then maneuver the 3D image on the computer screen to map the shortest, least invasive surgical path to the tumor. Zamorano is also using technology that attaches a probe to surgical instruments so that she can track their positions. While cutting away a tumor deep in the brain, she watches the movement of her surgical tools in a computer graphics image of the patient's brain taken before surgery. During these procedures—operations that are done through small cuts in the body in which a miniature camera and surgical tools are maneuvered—surgeons are wearing 3D glasses for a better view. And they are commanding robot surgeons to cut away tissues more accurately than human surgeons can. Satava says, "We are in the midst of a fundamental change in the field of medicine."
单选题You are exposed to obtrusive ads that ______ seemingly from nowhere even when you are disconnected from the Net, and your personal information is gathered and sent off without you being aware of it. A. size up B. dwindle away C. conjure up D. pop up
单选题To Journalists, three of anything makes a trend. So after three school shootings in six days, speculation about an epidemic of violence in American classrooms was inevitable, and wrong. Violence in schools has fallen by half since the mid-1990s; children are more than 100 times more likely to be murdered outside the school walls than within them. On September 27th a 53-year-old petty criminal, Duane Morrison, walked into a school in Bailey, Colorado, with two guns. He took six girls hostage, molested some of them, and killed one before committing suicide as police stormed the room. And on September 29th a boy brought two guns into his school in Cazenovia, Wisconsin. Prosecutors say that 15-year-old Eric Hainstock may have planned to kill several people. But staff acted quickly when they saw him with a shotgun, calling the police and putting the school into "lock-down". The head teacher, who confronted him in a corridor, was the only one killed. October 2nd a 32-year-old milk-truck driver, Charles Roberts, entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He lined the girls up, tied their feet and, after an hour, shot them, killing at least five. He killed himself as police broke into the classroom. What to make of such horrors? Some experts see the Colorado and Pennsylvania cases as an extreme manifestation of a culture of violence against women. Both killers appeared to have a sexual motive, and both let all the boys in the classroom go free. But it is hard to infer from such unusual examples, and one must note that violence against women is less than half what it was in 1995. Other experts see all three cases as symptomatic of a change in the way men commit suicide. Helen Smith, a forensic psychologist, told a radio audience "men are deciding to take their lives, "and they're not going alone anymore. They're taking people down with them." True, but not very often. Gun-control enthusiasts think school massacres show the need for tighter restrictions. It is too easy, they say, for criminals such as Mr. Morrison and juveniles such as Mr. Hainstock to obtain guns. Gun enthusiasts draw the opposite conclusion: that if more teachers carried concealed handguns, they could shoot potential child-killers before they kill. George Bush has now called for a conference on school violence. Will it unearth anything new, or valuable? After the Columbine massacre in 1999, the FBI produced a report on school shooters. It concluded that it was impossible to draw up a useful profile of a potential shooter because "a great many adolescents who will never commit violent acts will show some of the behaviours on any checklist of warning signs./
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单选题 通读下面的短文，掌握其大意。然后从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
Two travelers were riding on horseback
through the south of Italy. Towards evening they{{U}} (21) {{/U}}they
has lost their way. They began to look for a house where they could rest for the
night and perhaps they could find a guide to{{U}} (22) {{/U}}them the
right way in the morning. After{{U}} (23) {{/U}}for some
time, they saw a farm house. When they{{U}} (24) {{/U}}the house, they
found a farmer and his wife having supper. They were asked to sit down and{{U}}
(25) {{/U}}too. As they were very hungry, they did so with{{U}}
(26) {{/U}} While eating his supper the farmer kept
his eyes on the plate without saying{{U}} (27) {{/U}}. This made the
travelers a little afraid. After supper the farmer's wife{{U}} (28)
{{/U}}them up to a store room, and showed them a{{U}} (29)
{{/U}}where they could sleep. Being{{U}} (30) {{/U}}, they soon book
off their clothes and went to bed. But the younger traveler was too{{U}}
(31) {{/U}}to go to sleep. He heard the farmer and his wife talking in
the room in a{{U}} (32) {{/U}}voice. At first he couldn't hear any
words, but then he{{U}} (33) {{/U}}heard the husband say, "Must we kill
them both?" and the wife replied, "Yes, of course we must." A moment later, he
again heard the farmer{{U}} (34) i{{/U}}nto the room, so he quickly{{U}}
(35) {{/U}}behind the door. The door slowly{{U}} (36) {{/U}},
and the farmer came in with a light in one hand and a long knife in the other.
He went to the{{U}} (37) {{/U}}hanging on the wall, cut off a piece, and
returned as{{U}} (38) {{/U}}as he had come. The two travelers didn't
dare to go to{{U}} (39) {{/U}}. Early in the morning they began to{{U}}
(40) {{/U}}in the dark through the kitchen, finding on the table a
piece of meat cleaned and two chicks killed.
单选题Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates recently told the nation"s governors that American high school education is "obsolete." He said, "When I compare our high schools to what I see when I"m traveling abroad, I am terrified for our workforce of tomorrow. In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the United States did. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor"s degrees as the U. S. and has six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. America is falling behind."
Gates was describing a global economy in which the chance to move up into a better economic life is slipping overseas, along with jobs that can be performed anywhere—manufacturing in China, technology support in India, online order fulfillment across borders. The Internet brings Bhutan and Bangalore just as close to our offices and living rooms as Boise. Maybe closer.
Our children"s competitors are not the other schools in the district or the state or even the nation. They are the technologically literate young people in Taiwan, India, Korea, and other developing nations. For today"s American students, learning and retraining will be a lifelong experience.
In
The World is Flat
, a recent book analyzing the shift in the global economy, Thomas Friedman points out that the dot. com bubble inspired a massive outlay of capital to connect the continents. Undersea cable, universal software, high-tech imagery, and Google have erased geography. College graduates in Latin America, Central Asia, India, China, and Russia can do the information work Americans used to count on—in many cases better and in all cases cheaper.
We are burning through reliable careers for our young people at high speed as technology relieves us of the tedium of repetitive work. The robots that vacuum our floors today will be filling our teeth tomorrow. Even jobs at Wal-Mart are endangered. Have you seen the self-check-out lanes? No cashiers required.
To be competitive now, U. S. students must develop sophisticated critical thinking and analytical skills to manage the conceptual nature of the work they will do. They will need to be able to recognize patterns, create narrative, and imagine solutions to problems we have yet to discover. They will have to see the big picture and ask the big questions. How many high schools do you know that are nurturing minds like that?
Are we supplying the conditions in our schools to create a new crop of original thinkers? Are we making sure our curricula and instructional programs are not relegated for repetitive practice, gathering and organizing information, remediation, and test preparation? Are we requiring all students to use their learning?
单选题It can be learned from the text that soon after the Second World War
单选题The______to the contract must be signed by two witnesses.
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单选题My father was always very strict about how I talked to mother, but he
was more ______ if I yelled at my brother.
A. tolerable
B. understandable
C. harsh
D. favorable
单选题{{B}}Passage 2{{/B}}
To get from Kathmandu to the tiny
village in Nepal, Dave Irvine-Halliday spent more than two days. When he
arrived, he found villagers working and reading around battery-powered lamps
equipped with light-emitting diodes, or LEDs--the same lamps he had left there
in 2000. Irvine-Halliday, an American photonics engineer, was
not surprised. He chose to use LED bulbs because they are rugged, portable,
long-lived, and, extremely efficient. Each of his lamps produces a useful amount
of illumination from just one watt of power. Villagers use them about four
hours each night, then top off the battery by pedaling a generator for half an
hour. The cool, steady beam is a huge improvement over lamps still common in
developing countries. In fact, LEDs have big advantages over familiar
incandescent (白炽的) lights as well--so much so that Irvine-Halliday expects
LEDs will eventually take over from Thomas Edison's old lightbulb as the
world's main source of artificial illumination. The dawn
of LEDs began about 40 years ago, but early LEDs produced red or green glows
suitable mainly for displays in digital clocks and calculators. A decade ago,
engineers invented a semiconductor crystal made of an aluminum compound that
produced a much brighter red light. Around the same time, a Japanese engineer
developed the first practical blue LED. This small advance had a huge impact
because blue, green, and red LEDs can be combined to create most of the colors
of the rainbow, just as that in a color television picture.
These days, high-intensity color LEDs are showing up everywhere such as
the traffic lights. The reasons for the rapid switchover are simple.
Incandescent bulbs have to be replaced annually, but LED traffic lights should
last five to yen years. LEDs also use 80 to 90 percent less electricity than the
conventional signals they replace. Collectively, the new traffic lights save at
least 400 million kilowatt-hours a year in the United States.
Much bigger savings await if LEDs can supplant Mr. Edison's bulb at the
office and in the living room. Creating a white-light LED that is energy-saving,
cheap and appealing has proved a tough engineering challenge. But all the major
lightbulb makers--including General Electric, Philips, and Osram-Sylvania--are
teaming up with semiconductor manufacturers to make it
happen.
单选题The comparison between distance education and traditional face-to-face education indicates that ______. A．traditional education has been out of date B．distance education has more advantages than traditional education C．distance education can be as effective as traditional education D．distance education has replaced traditional education
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单选题Which of the following can be best described as"voiceless alveolar fricative"?
单选题The advancement of science and technology has demonstrated that a fact appearing to contradict to certain theory may actually be ______ a more advanced formulation of that theory.
单选题The study of the relationship between productivity and living standards is significant in that ______.
单选题During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself--(to which of us I do not recollect)--that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to he, in part at least, supernatural. And the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life. The characters and incidents were lo be such as will be found in every village and its vicinity, where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them, when they present themselves. In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic. Yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention to the. lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us. And inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
单选题 When it comes to the slowing economy, Ellen Spero isn't
biting her nails just yet. But the 47-year-old manicurist isn't cutting, filling
or polishing as many nails as she'd like to, either. Most of her clients spend
$12 to $50 weekly, hut last month two longtime customers suddenly stopped
showing up. Spero blames the softening economy. "I'm a good economic indicator,"
she says. "I provide a service that people can do without when they're concerned
about saving some dollars. " So Spero is downscaling, shopping at middle-brow
Dillard's department store near her suburban Cleveland home, instead of Neiman
Marcus. "I don't know if other clients are going to abandon me, too" , she
says. Even before Alan Greenspan's admission that America's
red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already seen signs of the
slowdown themselves. From car dealerships to Gap outlets, sales have been
lagging for months as shoppers temper their spending. For retailers, who last
year took in 24 percent of their revenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the
cautious approach is coming at a crucial time. Already, experts say, holiday
sales are off 7 percent from last year's pace. But don't sound any alarms just
yet. Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain
optimistic about the economy's long-term prospects, even as they do some modest
belt-tightening. Consumers say they're not in despair because,
despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good. Home
prices are holding steady in most regions. In Manhattan, "there's a new gold
rush happening in the $4 million to $10 million range, predominantly fed by Wall
Street bonuses, " says broker Barbara Corcoran. In San Francisco, prices are
still rising even as frenzied overbidding quiets. "Instead of 20 to 30 offers,
now maybe you only get two or three," says john Deadly, a Bay Area real-estate
broker. And most folks still feel pretty comfortable about their ability to find
and keep a job. Many folks see silver linings to this slowdown.
Potential home buyers would cheer for lower interest rates. Employers wouldn't
mind a little fewer bubbles in the job market. Many consumers seem to have been
influenced by stock-market swings, which investors now view as a necessary
ingredient to a sustained boom. Diners might see an upside, too. Getting a table
at Manhattan's hot new Alain Ducasse restaurant need to be impossible. Not
anymore. For that, Greenspan & Co. may still be worth toasting.
单选题Rebecca ______ home, for I saw her just now at the canteen.
A. mustn't have gone
B. shouldn't have gone
C. can't have gone
D. couldn't have gone
单选题It is difficult to {{U}}discern{{/U}} the sample that is on the slide unless the microscope is adjusted.
单选题Also of concern was the fact that many consumers lacked sufficient information and awareness to protect themselves in the marketplace and to make
knowledgeable
buying choices.
单选题The tower of Pisa has been leaning so long—nearly 840 years—that it"s natural to assume it will
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gravity forever. But the famous structure has been in danger of collapsing almost since its first brick was
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.
It began leaning shortly after construction began in 1173. Builders had only reached the third of the tower"s
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eight stories when its foundation began to settle unevenly on soft soil composed
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mud, sand and clay. As a result, the structure leaned
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to the north. Laborers tried to
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it by making the columns and arches of the third story on the sinking northern side slightly taller. Then political unrest halted construction.
The tower sat
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for nearly 100 years, but it wasn"t done moving. By the time work restarted in 1272, the tower tilted to the south—the
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it still leans today. Engineers tried to make another
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, only to have their work interrupted once again in 1278 with just seven stories completed.
Unfortunately, the building continued to settle, sometimes at an
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rate. Finally, between 1360 and 1370, workers finished the project, once again trying to correct the lean
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angling the eighth story, with its bell room, northward.
In 1989, a similarly constructed bell tower in Pavia, Italy, collapsed suddenly. Officials became
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worried the tower of Pisa would suffer a similar fate that they closed the monument to the
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. A year later, they rallied together an international team to see
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the tower could be brought back from the brink.
By 2001, the team had decreased the tower"s lean by 44 centimeters, enough to make officials
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that they could reopen the monument. The actions taken by Burland and his team could,
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, stabilize the structure forever. The real threat now comes from the masonry itself, especially the material in the
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stories, where most of the forces caused by the centuries-long leaning have been directed. If any of this masonry crush, the tower could collapse. And even a
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earthquake in the region could have devastating consequences.
After 200 years, another intervention may be required, but the
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available to make improvements could be far more advanced and
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the tower for another 800 years.
单选题In recent years, more and more foreigners are involved in the teaching programs of the United States. Both the advantages and the disadvantages【C1】______using faculty(教师)from foreign countries【C2】______teaching positions have to be【C3】______, of course. It can be said that foreign【C4】______that makes the faculty member from abroad an asset(财富)also【C5】______problems of adjustment, both for the university and for the individual. The foreign research scholar usually isolates【C6】______in the laboratory as a means of protection; 【C7】______, what he needs is to be fitted【C8】______a highly organized university system quite different from【C9】______at home. He is faced in his daily work【C10】______differences in philosophy, arrangements of courses and methods of teaching. Both the visiting professor and his students【C11】______a common ground in each other' s cultures. Some【C12】______of what is already in the minds of American students is【C13】______by the foreign professor. While helping him to【C14】______himself to his new environment, the university must also【C15】______certain adjustments in order to【C16】______full advantage of what the newcomer can【C17】______. It isn ' t always known how to make【C18】______use of foreign faculty , especially at smaller colleges. This is thought to be a【C19】______where further study is called【C20】______. The findings of such a study will be of value to colleges and universities with foreign faculty.
单选题If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, ______ by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.
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Publication of this survey had
originally been intended to coincide with the annual meetings of the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund, scheduled for September 29th-30th in
Washington, D.C. Those meetings, and the big anti-globalization pro- tests that
had been planned to accompany them, were among the least significant casualties
of the terrorist atrocities of September 11th. You might have
thought that the anti-capitalist protesters, after contemplating those horrors
and their aftermath, would be regretting more than just the loss of a venue for
their marches. Many are, no doubt. But judging by the response of some of their
leaders and many of the activists (if Internet chat rooms are any guide), grief
is not always the prevailing mood. Some anti-globalists have found a kind of
consolation even a cause of satisfaction, in these terrible events--that of
having been as they see it, proved right. To its fiercest
critics, globalization, the march of international capitalism, is a force for
oppression, exploitation and injustice. The rage that drove the terrorists to
commit their obscene crime was in part, it is argued, a response to that. At the
very least, it is suggested, terrorism thrives on poverty and international
capitalism, the protesters say, thrives on poverty too. These
may be extreme positions, but the minority that holds them is not tiny, by any
means. Far more important, the anti-globalists have lately drawn tacit support
if nothing else, reluctance to condemn--from a broad range of public opinion. As
a result, they have been, and are likely to remain, politically influential. At
a time such as this, sorting through issues of political economy may seem very
far removed from what matters. In one sense, it is. But when many in the West
are contemplating their future, with new foreboding, it is important to
understand why the skeptics are wrong; why economic integration is a force for
good; and why globalization, far from being the greatest cause of poverty, is
its only feasible cure. Undeniably, popular support for that
view is lacking. In the developed economies, support for further trade
liberalization is uncertain; in some countries, voters are down- right hostile
to it. Starting a new round of global trade talks this year will be struggle,
and seeing it through to a useful conclusion will be. The institutions that in
most people's eyes represent the global economy--the IMF, the World Bank and the
World Trade Organization are reviled far more widely than they are admired; the
best they can expect from opinion at large is grudging acceptance. Governments,
meanwhile, are accused of bowing down to business, globalization leaves them no
choice. Private capital moves across the planet unchecked. Wherever it goes, it
bleeds democracy of content and puts "profits before
people".
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单选题The scandal at the zoo was exposed by
disgruntled
staff on March 10 when they went on strike over unpaid wages. According to the staff, this was not the first time that the zoo has been mired in scandal.
单选题The men ______ in a Viking armored vehicle when it hit an IED, or improvised explosive device. A．are travelling B．travelled C．were travelling D．travel
单选题 After their 20-year-old son hanged himself during
his winter break from the University of Arizona five years ago, Donna and Phil
Satow wondered what signs they had overlooked, and started asking other students
for answers. What grew from this soul searching was Ulifeline
(www. ulifeline, org), a website where students can get
answers to questions about depression by
logging on through their universities. The site has been
adopted as a resource by over 120 colleges, which can customize it with local
information, and over 1.3 million students have logged on with their college
ID's. "It's a very, solid website that raises awareness of
suicide, de-stigmatizes mental illness and encourages people to seek the help
they need," said Paul Grayson, the director of counseling services at New
York University, which started using the service nearly a year ago.
The main component of the website is the Self-E-Valuator, a
self-screening program developed by Duke University Medical Center that tests
students to determine whether they areat risk for depression, suicide
and disorders like anorexia and drug dependence. Besides helping students,
the service compiles anonymous student data, offering administrators an
important window onto the mental health of its campus. The site
provides university users with links to local mental health services, a catalog
of information on prescription drugs and side effects, and access to Go Ask
Alice, a vast archive developed by Columbia University with hundreds of
responses to anonymously posted inquiries from college students worldwide. For
students concerned about their friends, there is a section that describes
warning signs for suicidal behavior and depression. Yet it is
hard to determine how effective the service is. The anonymity of the
online service can even play out as a negative. "There is no substitute for
personal interaction(个人互动才能解决)", said Dr. Lanny Berman, executive director
of the American Association of Suicidology, based in Washington.
Ulifeline would be the first to say that its service is no replacement
for an actual therapist. "The purpose is to find out if there are signs of
depression and then direct people to the right places," said Ron Gibori,
executive director of Ulifeline. Mrs. Satow, who is still
involved with Ulifeline, called it "a knowledge base" that might have prevented
the death of her son, Jed. "If Jed's friends had known the signs of depression,
they might have seen something," she said.
单选题Influenced by his teacher, he decided to take politics as his ______.
单选题He ______ taking part in a plot to free the prisoner.
单选题The ______ of his speech was good, but the form was not.
单选题We decided not to climb the mountains because it was raining ______. A) badly B) hardly C) strongly D) heavily
单选题Internet is a vast network ofcomputers that connects many of the world's businesses, institutions, and individuals．The internt, which means interconnected network of networks, links tens of thousands of smaller computer networks．These networks transmit huge amounts of infermation in the form of words, images, and sounds． The Internet was information on virtually every topic．Network users can search through sources ranging from vast databases to small electronic"bulletin boards"．where users form discussion groups around common interests．Much of the Internet's traffic consists of messages sent from one computer user to another．These messages are called electronic mail or e-mail． Internet users have electronic addresses that allow them to send and receive e-mail．Other uses of the network include obtaining news, joining electronic debates, and playing electronic games．One feature of the Internet, known as the World Wide Web, provides graphics, audio, and video to enhance the information in its documents．These documents cover a vast number of topics． People usually access the internt with a device called a modem．Modems connect computers to the network through telephone lines．Much of the Internet operates through worldwide telephone networks of fiber optic cables．These cables contain hair thin strands of glass that carry data as pulses of light．They can transmit thousands of times more data than local phone lines, most of which consist of copper wires． The history of the Internet began in the 1960s．At that time．the Advanced Research Projects Agency(ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense developed a network of computers called ARPAnet．Originally,ARPAnet connected only military and govemment computer systems． Its purpose was to make these systems secure in the event of a disaster or war．Soon after the creation of ARPAnet, universities and other institutions developed their own computer neavorks． These networks eventually were merged with ARPAnet to form the Internet．By the 1990s, anyone with a computer,modem, and Internet software could link up to the Internet． In the future, the Internet will probably grow more sophisticated as computer technology becomes more powerful．Many expels believe the Internet may become part of a larger network called the information superhighway．This network, still under development, would link computers with telephone companies, cable television stations, and other communication systems．People could bank, shop, watch TV,and perform many other activities through the network．
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单选题When language is used to get information from others, it serves an______function. (北二外2003研)
单选题Theoldwomanwasworriedbecauseher30—year—oldsonwassonwassolazythathedidn’tfeellike __________ towork.
单选题The chairman asked the members to______their votes for or against the proposal.
单选题Put on more clothes. You ______ be feeling cold with only a shirt on． A．must B．can C．could D．would
单选题In the drawing and cartoons of Uncle Sam ______.