单选题Public ______ for the usually low-budget, high-quality films has enabled the independent film industry to grow and thrive. A. appreciation B. recognition C. gratitude D. tolerance

单选题Nobody can help but be Ufascinated/U by the world into which he is taken by the science fiction.

单选题The teacher was busy ______ sums upon the blackboard. She was too busy ______ the students' questions.

单选题According to a survey, which was based on the responses of over 188,000 students, today's traditional-age college freshmen are "more materialistic and less altruistic (利他主义的)" than at any time in the 17 years of the poll. Not surprising in these hard times, the student's major objective "is to be financially well off. Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life". It follows then that today the most popular course is not literature or history but accounting. Interest in teaching, social service and the "altruistic" fields is at a low. On the other hand, enrollment in business programs, engineering and computer science is way up. That's no surprise either. A friend of mine (a sales representative for a chemical company) was making twice the salary of her college instructors her first year on the job-- even before she completed her two-year associate degree. While it's true that we all need a career, it is equally true that our civilization has accumulated an incredible amount of knowledge in fields far removed from our own and that we are better for our understanding of these other contributions--be they scientific or artistic. It is equally true that, in studying the diverse wisdom of others, we learn how to think. More important, perhaps, education teaches us to see the connections between things, as well as to see beyond our immediate needs. Weekly we read of unions who went on strike for higher wages, only to drive their employer out of business. No company; no job. How shortsighted in the long run! But the most important argument for a broad education is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages, we improve our moral sense. I saw a cartoon recently which shows a group of businessmen looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table; one of them is talking on the intercom (对讲机): "Miss Baxter," he says, "could you please send in someone who can distinguish right from wrong?" From the long-term point of view, that's what education really ought to be about.

单选题You never told us why you were absent from the party, ______.

单选题They have left New York______good; they"ll never go back and live there again.

单选题All the major cities of the United States, ______the cities of the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, began as centers of the trade.

单选题In an effort to plan out expenses, the Roberts family is representing its annual budget as a circle graph. Each sector of the graph is proportional to the amount of the budget it represents. If "clothes and shoes" takes up 54° of the chart, how much of the Roberts's $20,000 annual budget is dedicated to clothes and shoes? A. $1,500 B. $3,000 C. $4,500 D. $5,000 E. $5,400

单选题George Bush, once U.S.______ to China, became President in 1988.

单选题In addition to the Mandarin dialects, there are six other Chinese dialect groups, spoken mainly in southern and southeastern China. This linguistic______, particularly in southeastern China, has provided the basis for strong regional identity and some ethnic variation within the larger Han community.

单选题The American economy is growing, according to the most recent statistics, at the sizzling rate of 7%, and is in the middle of the largest peacetime expansion in American history. We read in the newspapers that practically everyone who wants a job can get one. Microsoft is running advertisements in the New York Times practically begging Congress to issue more visas for foreign computer and information technology workers. In this environment, it is shocking that one group of Americans, people with disabilities, have such a high level of unemployment: 30% are not employed the same percentage as when the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. Not only did their employment and labor earnings fall during the recession of the early 1990s, but employment and earnings continued to fall during the long economic expansion that followed. Many of these people are skilled professionals who are highly marketable in today's economy. Part of the problem is discrimination, and part recent court rulings favoring employers in ADA lawsuits. Discrimination against people with disabilities is, unfortunately, alive and well, despite the legal prohibitions against discrimination in hiring people with disabilities. 79% of disabled people who are unemployed cite discrimination in the workplace and lack of transportation as major factors that prevent them from working. Studies have also shown that people with disabilities who find jobs earn less than their co-workers, and are less likely to be promoted. Unfavorable court rulings have not been helpful, either. Research by law professor Ruth Colker of Ohio State University has shown that in the eight years after the ADA went into effect, employer-defendants prevailed in more than 93% of the eases decided by trial. Of the cases appealed, employers prevailed 84% of the time. Robert Burgdorf, Ir., who helped draft the ADA, has written, "legal analysis has proceeded quite a way down the wrong road." Disability activists and other legal scholars point out that Congress intended the ADA as a national mandate for the ending of discrimination against people-with disabilities. Instead, what has occurred, in the words of one writer, is that the courts "have narrowed the scope of the law, redefined 'disability,' raised the price of access to justice and generally deemed disability discrimination as not worthy of serious remedy." But perhaps the greatest single problem is the federal government itself, where laws and regulations designed to help disabled people actually provide an economic disincentive to work. As Sen. Edward Kennedy wrote, "the high unemployment rate among people receiving federal disability benefits is not because their federal benefits programs have 'front doors that are too big', but because they have 'back doors that are too small'./

单选题It's about time he ______ himself a wife and settled down. A. finds B. found C. should find D. had found

单选题This expansion of rights has led to both a paralysis of the public service and to a rapid and terrible ______ in the character of the population.

单选题 A few common misconceptions. Beauty is only skin-deep. One's physical assets and liabilities don't count all that much in a managerial career. A woman should always try to look her best. Over the last 30 years, social scientists have conducted more than 1,000 studies of how we react to beautiful and not-so-beautiful people. The virtually unanimous conclusion: Looks do matter, more than most of us realize. The data suggest, for example, that physically attractive individuals are more likely to be treated well by their parents, sought out as friends, and pursued romantically. With the possible exception of women seeking managerial jobs, they are also more likely to be hired, paid well, and promoted. Un-American, you say, unfair and extremely unbelievable? Once again, the scientists have caught us mouthing pieties (虔诚) while acting just the contrary. Their typical experiment works something like this. They give each member of a group-college students, perhaps, or teachers or corporate personnel managers a piece of paper relating an individual's accomplishments. Attached to the paper is a photograph. While the papers all say exactly the same thing the pictures are different. Some show a strikingly attractive person, some an average-looking character, and some an unusually unattractive human being. Group members are asked to rate the individual on certain attributes, anything from personal warmth to the likelihood that he or she will be promoted. Almost invariably, the better looking the person in the picture, the higher the person is rated. In the phrase, borrowed from Sappho, that the social scientists use to sum up the common perception, what is beautiful is good. In business, however, good looks cut both ways for women, and deeper than for men. A Utah State University professor, who is an authority on the subject, explains: In terms of their careers, the impact of physical attractiveness on males is only modest. But its potential impact on females can be tremendous, making its easier, for example, for the more attractive to get jobs where they are in the public eye. On another note, though, there is enough literature now for us to conclude that attractive women who aspire to managerial positions do not get on as well as women who may be less attractive.

单选题Mary Anning (1799—1847) was a British fossil hunter who began finding. 1 as a child, and soon supported herself and her very 2 family by finding and selling fossils. Very 3 is known about her life, but her father was a cabinet maker and he also 4 local fossils. Mary 5 on the southern coast of England, in a town called Lyme Regis. Its famous 6 by the sea contain 7 fossil layers that 8 from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (the 9 of the dinosaurs, other bizarre reptiles, large insects, sea creatures, 10 mammals, and 11 life forms). Mary Anning 12 and prepared the first fossilized plesiosaur (an ocean-dwelling reptile) and the first Ichthyosaurus (an ocean-dwelling reptile that 13 like a dolphin). She found many other important fossils, including Pterodactylus (a flying reptile), sharks (and other fish), and so on. 14 with her brother Joseph, Mary supplied prepared fossil specimens to 15 museums, scientists, and private collections.

单选题Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs that are now done by human beings. They point out that at a circus, for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing quite skillful things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may notice that the trainer always gives the animal a piece of candy or a piece of fruit as a reward. The scientists say that many different animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs if they know they will get a reward for doing them. Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house, and soldiers in both old and modem times have used geese to give warning by making a lot of noise when a stranger or an enemy comes near. But it may be possible to train animals to work in factories. In Russia, for example, pigeons which are birds with good eyesight, are being used to watch out for faults in small steel balls that are being made in one factory. When the pigeon sees a ball which looks different from others, it touches a steel plate with its beak. This turns on a light to warn people in the factory. At the same time a few seeds are given as a reward. It takes three to five weeks to train a pigeon to do this and one pigeon can inspect 3 000 to 4 000 balls an hour. Apes have been used in America in helping to make cars, and scientists believe that these large monkeys may be one day gather crops and even drive trains.

单选题 Foreign financiers complaining about the legal wars they will launch to recover bad debts in Russia rarely mean much. The expense of a lawsuit{{U}} (1) {{/U}}the satisfaction; the chances of getting any money are{{U}} (2) {{/U}}. Yet Noga, a company owned by Nessim Gaon, a 78-year-old businessman{{U}} (3) {{/U}}in Geneva, has been suing the Russian government since 1993, attempting to{{U}} (4) {{/U}}Russian assets abroad. At Mr. Gaon's request, bailiffs last week very nearly{{U}} (5) {{/U}}two of Russia's most advanced warplanes at the Paris air{{U}} (6) {{/U}}. The organisers{{U}} (7) {{/U}}off the Russian authorities, and the planes flew home, just{{U}} (8) {{/U}}time.{{U}} (9) {{/U}}near-misses include a sail-training ship, the Sedov, nuclear-waste shipments, and the president's plane. Mr. Gaon. whose previous business partners include regimes in Nigeria and Sudan, put an{{U}} (10) {{/U}}clause in his original export deals: Russia must abandon its sovereign immunity. An arbitration court in Stockholm has found in his{{U}} (11) {{/U}}, so far, to the{{U}} (12) {{/U}}of $110 million, out of a total{{U}} (13) {{/U}}of $420 million. Other courts{{U}} (14) {{/U}}the world have let him have a{{U}} (15) {{/U}}at any Russian assets{{U}} (16) {{/U}}reach. The odd thing is{{U}} (17) {{/U}}Russia. now awash with cash, does not simply pay up. Mr. Gaon says he was told at one point that a 10%{{U}} (18) {{/U}}on the debt to someone high up in the finance ministry would solve things.{{U}} (19) {{/U}}off Mr. Gaon costs much in legal fees. Not accepting international judgments sits ill with the current Kremlin line{{U}} (20) {{/U}}the rule of law. Mr. Gaon says his next move will be to seize Russia's embassy in Paris.