单选题American literary historians are perhaps ______ to viewing their own national scene too narrowly, mistaking prominence for uniqueness. A. prone B. legible C incompatible D. prior

单选题The president of the college, together with the deans, ______ a conference for the purpose of laying down certain regulations.

单选题The narration of the European model in the second Paragraph implies that

单选题Because of its potential for cutting costs, the distribution step in the marketing process is receiving more attention. Distribution involves warehousing, transporting and keeping inventory of manufactured products. Take an everyday product like fabric softener. After it comes off the assembly line, it's packed in cartons and trucked to warehouses around the country. When orders come in from retailers, the fabric softener is delivered to supermarket shelves. This is distribution. Probably the most crucial area for controlling costs is inventory. Companies don't want to overproduce and have unsold stock of their product piled up in warehouses. Wholesale companies and large retail chains employ several techniques for inventory control. This is where the computer revolution really had an impact. Computerized information systems give precise and up-to-date accounts of inventory on hand. And the field of distribution offers good entry-level jobs for persons with training in computer programming or data processing. Overseeing the whole area of distribution is the distribution manager. This job is becoming increasingly important and can lead to an executive position.

单选题If the Europeans thought a drought—a long period of dry weather—was something that happened only in Africa, they know better now. After four years of below-normal rainfall (in some cases only 10 percent of the annual average), vast areas of France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Britain and Ireland are dry and barren(贫瘠). Water is so low in the canals of northern France that waterway traffic is forbidden except on weekends. Oyster (牡蛎) grows in Brittany report a 30 percent drop in production because of the loss of fresh water in local rivers necessary for oyster breeding. In southeastern England, the rolling green hills of Kent have turned so brown that officials have been weighing plans to pipe in water from Wales. In Portugal, farmers in the southern Alentejo region have held prayer meeting for rain—so far, in vain. Governments in drought-spread countries are taking severe measures. Authorities in hard-hit areas of France have banned washing cars and watering lawns. In Britain, water will soon be metered, like gas and electricity. "The English have always taken water for granted," says Graham Warren, a spokesman of Britain"s National Rivers Authority. "Now they"re putting a price on it." Even a sudden end to the drought would not end the misery in some areas. It will take several years of unusually heavy winter rain, the experts say, just to bring existing water reserves up to their normal levels.

单选题______ was known to them all that William had broken his promise ______ he would give each of them a gift. A) As; Which B) What; that C) It; that D) it; which

单选题When she was invited to the party, she readily accepted.

单选题What he told us about the accident does not ______. A. make any sense B. mean any point C. mean any importance D. take anything

单选题Time, as we know it, is a very recent invention. The modern time-sense is hardly older than the United States. It is a by-product of industrialism--a sort of psychological analogue of synthetic perfumes and aniline dyes. Time is our tyrant. We are chronically aware of the moving minute hand, even of the moving second hand. We have to be. There are trains to be caught, clocks to be punched, tasks to be done in specified periods, records to be broken by fractions of a second, machines that set the pace and have to be kept up with. Another time-emphasizing entity is the factory and its dependent, the office. Factories exist for the purpose of getting certain quantities of goods made in a certain time. The old artisan worked as it suited him with the result that consumers generally had to wait for the goods they had ordered from him. The factory is a device for making workmen hurry. The machine revolves so often each minute; so many movements have to be made, so many pieces produced each hour. Result: the factory worker (and the same is true of the office worker) is compelled to know time in its smallest fractions. In the hand-work age there was no such compulsion to be aware of minutes and seconds. Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-times and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with resignation, even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine art of doing nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, is wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes. This brings us to a seeming paradox. Acutely aware of the smallest constituent particles of time--of time, as measured by clock-work and train arrivals and the revolutions of machines--industrialized man has to a great extent lost the old awareness of time in its larger divisions. The time of which we have knowledge is artificial, machine-made time. Of natural, cosmic time, as it is measured out by sun and moon, we are for the most part almost wholly unconscious. Pre-industrial people know time in its daily, monthly and seasonal rhythms. They are aware of sunrise, noon and sunset; of the full moon and the new; of equinox and solstice; of spring and summer, autumn and winter. Industrialism and urbanism have changed all this. One can live and work in a town without being aware of the daily march of the sun across the sky; without ever seeing the moon and stars. Even changes of season affect the townsman very little. He is the inhabitant of an artificial universe that is, to a great extent, walled off from the world of nature. Outside the walls, time is cosmic and moves with the motion of sun and stars. Within, it is an affair of revolving wheels and is measured in seconds and minutes--at its longest, in eight-hour days and five-day weeks. We have a new consciousness; but it has been purchased at the expense of the old consciousness.

单选题I'd like to go with you; ______, my hands are full at the moment. A. whenever B. however C. wherever D. whatever

单选题—Do I have to get up very early tomorrow? —No, you______. A．dont need B．shouldnt C．neednt D．dont have

单选题The Nicaragua Sign Language is__________.

单选题What do you think is the water's purpose in writing this passage?

单选题He gave up ______ on medical advice. A. drinking B. to drink C. drink D. to being drink

单选题Richard doesn't think he could ever______what is called "free-style" poetry.

单选题It is economically essential to make sure that this entire shipment of new ears ______ to the port on time.

单选题It is universally known that microscopes make small things appear larger than______.

单选题Because the rooms ______ ,we have not moved in yet.

单选题 Colleges in the US have added a new subject, “great chemistry”, to their curriculum today. “Green chemistry __51__ how we can develop products that won’t __52__ the environment,” explains Paul Anastas, director of Yale University’s Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, opened at the beginning of this year. The American Chemical Society, __53__ approves more than 600 college chemistry programs, only lists about a dozen that teach green chemistry. But that __54__ is growing.Cambridge College in Massachusetts is offering “ an introduction to green chemistry” course this gall and is offering the nation’s first bachelor’s and master’s __55__ in green chemistry. The program will have classes in environmental science and even environmental __56 __and policy. These subjects are not __57__ taught to chemistry major.Employers __58__ the introduction of green chemistry. Businesses are increasing seeking graduates __59__ backgrounds in the subject because it can help them make or save money in he development and manufacturing of products. “We need people who can not only understand their place __60__, but also understand the worldwide perspective,” said Adam Peterson, a chemical division manager at Dow Corning Corp.