单选题I hate to see papers ______ in pencil.

单选题 BMale advertisers/B BFemale advertisers/B 1 MALE, aged 25, WLTM female, n/s, 20-30 for friendship, possible romance. I like pubs, clubs, staying in, as well as going out. I live in the Windsor area and t get on well with kids. A FEMALE, 26, prof, fairly slim, WLTM a slim male, 26-33, for friendship and possible romance. 2 IF you are not separated or emotionally unstable but are a widow over 55 & looking for partner with view to long-term & meaningful relationship, then this 67 year old widower could be the one for you. B ACTIVE lady, living in Maidstone area, early 60s WLTM females or males for friendship and to shareinterests, mostly travel. 3 HL, I'm Andy, 32yo and divorced. Ahappy-go-lucky person looking for a lady between 25 and 40. Single parents welcome as I love children and a home life. C ARE you the romantic, friendly, articulate male with varied interests and a GSOH that this woman islooking for? If so and you're40ish-50ish but feeling 30ishthen we will have a lot in common. 4 MALE, 50s, caring, & sincere, with aGSOH, seeks an affectionate lady forfriendship, possible romance. D LADY, 40s, fairly slim, seeks a kind, generous, warm-hearted man, about same age, for friendship and outings. 5 I am an energetic man of 63, but don't look it. I have a good head of hair. I like country find western music and historical places, walking, a pint now and again. I'm stillworking part-time, but I don't drive. I have a GSOH. E HELLO. my name is Liz. I am 19 yrs old and live in the Cambridge area. I am seeking a male 20-25. enjoy pubs and clubs and I like nights in or out and I like children. I AM 5'5″ with red hair.

单选题The Foreign Ministry holds weekly press conferences to ______ reporters ______ the latest development in diplomacy.

单选题Jason made sharp comments on Mary"s idea, but he didn"t mean ______ her.

单选题Fashion is partly a search for a new language to discredit the old, a way in which each generation can______its immediate predecessor and distinguish itself.

单选题One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?" "You don't owe me anything," she replied. He said, "Then I thank you from my heart. ' Years later that young woman became critically iii. The local doctors sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, he rose immediately and 'went to her room. Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to the case. After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the edge. The bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words: "Paid in full with one glass of milk./

单选题Large lecture classes are frequently regarded as a necessary evil. Such classes have to be【56】in many colleges and universities to meet high student【57】with limited faculty resources, 【58】teaching a large lecture class can be a【59】task. Lecture halls are【60】large, barren, and foreboding. It is difficult to get to know students. Students may seem【61】in the impersonal environment and may【62】read newspapers or even leave class in the middle of a lecture. Written work by the students seems out of the【63】.Although the challenges of teaching a large lecture class are strong, they are possible to get over. The【64】is to develop innovative methods of classroom instruction that can【65】, if not eliminate, many of the difficulties【66】in the mass class. In fact, we have【67】at Kent State University teaching techniques which help make a large lecture class more like a small【68】. An【69】but important benefit of teaching the course【70】this manner has involved the activities of the teaching【71】who help us mark students' written work. The faculty instructor originally decided to ask the TAs for help【72】this was the only practical way to【73】that all the papers could be evaluated. Now those【74】report enjoying their new status as junior professors, "gaining a very different【75】on college education by being on" the other side of the desk, "learning a great deal about the subject matter, and improving their own writing as a direct result of grading other students" paper.

单选题Ausubel of Rockefeller University says the key renewable energy sources, including sun, wind and biofuels, would all require vast 1 of land if developed up to large scale production unlike nuclear power. That land would be far better left alone, he says. Renewables look attractive when they are quite 2 . But 3 we start producing renewable energy on a large scale, the fallout (结果) is going to be horrible. Instead, Ausubel argues 4 renewed development of nuclear. Ausubel 5 his conclusions by analyzing the amount of energy renewables, natural gas and nuclear that can produce in terms of power per square meter of land used. Moreover, he claims that as renewable energy use increases, this measure of efficiency will 6 as the best land for wind, biofuels, and solar power gets used up. Using biofuels to obtain the 7 amount of energy as a 1000 megawatt (兆瓦) nuclear power plant would require 2500 square kilometers of farm 8 , Ausubel says. "We should be sparing land for nature, not using it as pasture (牧场，草地) for cars and trucks," he adds. Solar power is 9 more efficient than biofuel in terms of the area of land 10 , but it would still require 150 square kilometers of photovoltaic (光电的) cells to 11 the energy production of the 1000 MW nuclear plant. In another example, he says meeting the 2005 US electricity demand 12 wind power alone would need 780, 000 square kilometers, an area the size of Texas. However, several experts are highly critical 13 Ausubel"s conclusions. John Turner of the US government"s National Renewable Energy Laboratory says that 14 the US got all of its power from solar energy, it would still need less than half the amount of land that has been paved over for highways. Further, it need not 15 additional land. The US could get a quarter of its energy just from covering rooftops of 16 buildings, he says. According to Turner, the same "dual use" also 17 to wind power. The footprint for wind is only 5% of the land that it 18 . Farmers can still farm the land that the turbines (涡轮机) are on. Turner says looking solely at land use is an oversimplification of the 19 "I"m not sure I"d want to build one of these nuclear plants in Afghanistan, but we could 19 put in wind and solar power," he adds.

单选题The fund is for ______ distress among the flood victims in the southern city.(2004年西南财经大学考博试题)

单选题Henry often helps look after Granny Wang, but ______.A. seldom is GeorgeB. seldom George doesC. seldom does GeorgeD. seldom looks George after Granny Wang

单选题By saying "Let's hope that this time it really will be the last one", the father meant that ______.

单选题Culture is activity of thought and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. 【C1】______of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless 【C2】______on God"s earth. What we should aim at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start【C3】______, and their culture will lead them as deep as philosophy and as high as 【C4】______. We have to remember that the valuable intellectual development is self-development, and that it【C5】______takes place between that ages of sixteen and thirty. As to training, the most important part is given by mothers before the age of twelve. In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "inert ideas"—that is to say, ideas that are merely【C6】______into the mind without being utilized, or tested , or thrown into fresh combinations. In the history of education, the most【C7】______phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a craze for genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. The reason is that they are overladen with inert ideas. Except at【C8】______intervals of intellectual motivation, education in the past has been radically【C9】______with inert ideas. That is the reason why uneducated clever women, who have seen much of the world, are in middle life so much the most cultured part of the community. They have been saved from this horrible burden of inert ideas. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity【C10】______greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas.

单选题It is appropriate on an anniversary of the founding of a university to remind ourselves of its purposes. It is equally appropriate at such riffle for students to (61) why they have been chosen to attend and to consider how they can best (62) the privilege of attending. At the least you as students can hope to become (63) in subject matter which may be useful to you in later life. There is, (64) , much more to be gained. It is now that you must learn to exercise your mind sufficiently (65) learning becomes a joy and you thereby become a student for life. (66) this may require an effort of will and a period of self-discipline. Certainly it is not (67) without hard work. Teachers can guide and encourage you, but learning is not done passively. To learn is your (68) . There is (69) the trained mind satisfaction to be derived from exploring the ideas of others, mastering them and evaluating them. But there is (70) level of inquiry which I hope that some of you will choose. If your study takes you to the (71) of understanding of a subject and, you have reached so far, you find that you can penetrate to (72) no one has been before, you research. Commitment to a life of scholarship or research is (73) many other laudable goals. It is edifying, and it is a source of inner satisfaction even (74) other facets of life prove disappointing. I strongly (75) it.

单选题Dinosaurs were reptiles which became extinct about 65 million years ago. The most intriguing question about dinosaurs has always been " (21) did they die out?" There is no simple answer to this question, (22) many hundreds of scientists are studying the problem. They are not studying the extinction of the dinosaurs (23) , but the whole question of extinction. Many other plants and animals have (24) in the past, and it is important to understand (25) this happened. Having this information could help save many species that are (26) in the modern world. Humans are causing extinctions now, because of pollution and other damage (27) the environment. Maybe the dinosaurs can tell us how to save the earth today, (28) their extinction 65 million years ago! Some of the early dinosaur scientists, 100 years ago, thought the dinosaurs died out because the (29) changed, and they could not breathe. Others thought that the dinosaurs disappeared simply because they became too big. They were (30) to move and could not find enough food (31) One theory is that a huge killer meteorite (32) the earth. Some scientists (33) that the extinction of dinosaurs was possibly due to rapid (34) of the planet's climate. Perhaps huge amounts of lava pours out of volcanoes in India. This sent up vast (35) of dust that blacked out the sun, and made the earth icy cold.

单选题The author's overall point is that ______.

单选题Despite his ______ as a trouble-maker, he was promoted to department manger.(2003年上海交通大学考博试题)

单选题Advances in computers and data networks inspire visions of a future "information economy" in which everyone will have (1) to gigabytes of all kinds of information anywhere and anytime, (2) information has always been a (3) difficult commodity to deal with, and, in some ways, computers and high-speed networks make the problems of buying, (4) , and distributing information goods worse (5) better. The evolution of the Internet itself (6) serious problems. (7) the Intemet has been privatized, several companies are (8) to provide the backbones that will carry traffic (9) local networks, but (10) business models for intereonnectinn—who pays how much for each packet (11) , for example—have (12) to be developed. (13) intereonnection standards are developed that make (14) cheap and easy to transmit information across independent networks, competition will (15) . If technical or economic (16) make interconnection difficult, (17) transmitting data across multiple networks is expensive or too slow, the (18) suppliers can offer a signfficant performance (19) ; they may be able to use this edge to drive out competitors and (20) the market.

单选题After spending some time on the island they became ______to the hardships. A. scathed B. sniggered C. inured D. outreached

单选题Dr. Brosnan and Dr. de Waal have eventually found in their study that the monkeys ______.

单选题 A happy life, according to the Scottish poet James Thomson, consists of "retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books," among other things. Alice Munro, perhaps the greatest short-story writer of our time, has elected to embrace this bliss, saying last week, "I'm probably not going to write anymore." An incredulous editor from the National Post had to follow up on whether she really meant it-that last year's sublimely devastating collection, Dear Life, was it for her. "Oh, yes," the 81-year-old Canadian said, telling disappointed fans to "read the old ones over again. There are lots of them." Yet if you have ever imagined a typical day in the life of an author, your vision probably resembles Thomson's. Writing seems like tender labor, and it's not hard to picture all those quarterly Munro stories— the ones that appear in The New Yorker as regularly as fresh interns—being created from a diet of easy grace, fertilized frequently with tea, long walks, dinners on the porch, and Chekhov readings. Why would anyone have to retire from writing, as if it's a job with regular hours? Except it is. John Updike used to rent a one-room office above a restaurant, where he would report to write six days a week. John Cheever famously put on his only suit and rode the elevator with the 9-to-5 crowd, only he would proceed down to the basement to write in a storage room. Robert Caro still puts on a jacket and tie every day and repairs to his 22nd-floor Manhattan office. Authors who corral their duties into daily routines help remind us of the industry of writing. A muse does not pour words into someone's skull. The drudgery has conquered some of our best wordsmiths. "When you decide 'to be a writer, ' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like," Philip Roth, another recent literary retiree, has said about the "stringent exigencies" of literature. "But working at it nearly every day for 50 years ... turns out to be an extremely taxing job and hardly the pleasantest of human activities." He even called it "just torture, awful." Munro has long been able to pensively observe someone and effortlessly penetrate the character's extraordinary private history. "Nobody bothers anymore to judge her goodness," the critic James Wood has said. "Her reputation is like a good address." It is as if she can look upon a person and always see the full span of a life. Now she has taken a measure of her years and judged that, at last, she can stop. Let us read the old ones over again. There are lots of them.