单选题European leaders primarily fear that

单选题Speaker A: Dr. Smith, what"s wrong with my father? Speaker B: Well, ______ considering his advanced age.

单选题The______choice for a consumer, therefore, is the choice among the available ones that will enable him or her to maximize utility.(浙江大学2010年试题)

单选题Hunger is caused by ______.

单选题Jimmy was five years old and his brother, Billy, was only a baby. One morning his mother waited for an important telephone call for hours, but nobody called. There was no bread in the house and she had to go out to buy some. Jimmy stayed at home to look after the baby. When the mother was out, the telephone rang and Jimmy answered. Mr. Baker: Hello! May I speak to Mrs. White? Jimmy: Sorry, Mother is out. Mr. Baker: Well, when she comes back, say to her, "Mr. Baker called." Jimmy: What? Mr. Baker: Mr. Baker. Write it down. B-A-K-E-R. Jimmy: How do you write B? Mr. Baker: How do I write...? Listen, little boy, is there anybody else with you? Any brothers or sisters? Jimmy：Yes, my brother Billy is here. Mr. Baker: Good. I want to talk to him, please. Jimmy: All right. Jimmy took the telephone to the baby"s bed and put it beside its head. Not long after that his mother came back. Mother: Did anybody call? Jimmy: Yes, a man called. But he only wanted to talk to Billy.

单选题Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of a(n)【C1】______should be made even before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, 【C2】______, most persons make several job choices during their working live, partly 【C3】______economic and industrial changes and partly to improve their positions. The " one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should therefore【C4】______into a broad flexible training program that will fit them for a field of【C5】______rather than for a single job. Unfortunately many young people, knowing little about the occupational world or themselves for that matter, choose their lifework【C6】______a hit-or-miss basis. Some【C7】______from job to job. Others【C8】______to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for【C9】______real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents—choose the professional field, 【C10】______both the relatively small proportion of work vacancies in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal【C11】______. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "white-collar" job is 【C12】______good reason for choosing it as a life's wore. 【C13】______, these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the majority of young people should give serious consideration to these fields. Before making an "occupational choice" , a person should have a general idea of what he wants 【C14】______life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take 【C15】______for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.

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单选题 Color is very important to most animals for it helps them to get along in the world. Color {{U}}(21) {{/U}}to make an animal difficult for its enemies to {{U}}(22) {{/U}}. Many animals match their {{U}}(23) {{/U}} so well that as long as they do not move no one is {{U}}(24) {{/U}} to see them. You probably have often "jumped" a rabbit. If you {{U}}(25) {{/U}}, you know how the rabbit sits perfectly still {{U}}(26) {{/U}} you are just a few feet away. You {{U}}(27) {{/U}} see the rabbit till it runs for its {{U}}(28) {{/U}} matches very closely the place where it is {{U}}(29) {{/U}}. Many times you may have walked past a rabbit {{U}}(30) {{/U}} didn't run and you never knew it was there at all. One of the most usual color schemes that helps animals to keep {{U}}(31) {{/U}} being seen, is a dark back and light underpants. If an animal is the same color all {{U}}(32) {{/U}}, there is always a dark shadow along the animal's belly (腹部). {{U}}(33) {{/U}}an enemy couldn't see the animal he could see this dark shadow. The shadow makes the animal {{U}}(34) {{/U}} out to view. But if the belly is {{U}}(35) {{/U}} than the rest of the animal, the shadow will not be noticed.

单选题They can't rule______the possibility that he was dead.

单选题He refused to see anyone and remained a______all his life.

单选题The novel______launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.

单选题The development of Jamestown in Virginia during the second half of the seventeenth century was closely related to the making and using of bricks. There were several practical reasons why bricks became important to the colony. Although the forests could initially supply sufficient timber, the process of lumbering was extremely difficult, particularly because of the lack of roads. Later, when the timber on the peninsula had been depleted, wood had to be brought from some distance. Building stone were also in short supply. However, as clay was plentiful, it was inevitable that the colonists would turn to brick-making. In addition to practical reasons for using brick as the principal construction material, there was also an ideological reason. Brick represented durability and permanence. The Virginia Company of London instructed the colonists to build hospitals and new residences out of brick. In 1662, the Town Act of the Virginia Assembly provided for the construction of thirty-two brick buildings and prohibited the use of wood as a construction material. Had this law ever been successfully enforced, Jamestown would have been a model city. Instead, the residents failed to comply fully with the law. By 1699, Jamestown had collapsed into a pile of rubble with only three or four habitable houses.

单选题There are few electronic applications ______ to raise fear regarding future employment opportunities than robots. A. likely B. more likely C. most likely D. much likely

单选题Passage 3 The period of adolescence, i.e, the period between childhood and adulthood, maybe long or short, depending on social expectations and on society's definition as to what constitutes maturity and adulthood. In primitive societies adolescence is frequently a relatively short period of time, while in industrial societies with pattems of prolonged education coupled with laws against child labor, the period of adolescence is much longer and may include most of the second decade of one's life. Furthermore, the length of the adolescent period and the definition of adulthood status may change in a given society as social and economic conditions change. Examples of this type of change are the disappearance of the frontier in the latter part of the nineteenth century in the United States, and more universally, the industrialization of an agricultural society. In modern society, ceremonies of adolescence have lost their formal recognition and symbolic significance and there no longer is agreement as to what constitutes initiation ceremonies. Social ones have been replaced by a sequence of steps that lead to increased recognition and social status. For example, grade school graduation, high school graduation and college graduation constitute such a sequence, and while each step implies certain behavioral changes and social recognition. The significance of each depends on the social-economic status and the educational ambition of the individual. Ceremonies for adolescence have also been replaced by legal definitions of status roles, rights, privileges and responsibilities. It is during the nine years from the twelfth birthday to the twenty-first that the protective and restrictive aspects of childhood and minor status are removed and adult privileges and responsibilities are granted. The twelve-year-old is no longer considered a child and has to pay full fare for train, airplane, theater and movie tickets. Basically, the individual at this age loses childhood privileges without gaining significant adult rights. At the age of sixteen the adolescent is granted certain adult rights which increase his social status by providing him with more freedom and choices. He now can obtain a driver's license; he can leave public schools; and he can work without the restrictions of child labor laws. At the age of eighteen the law provides adult responsibilities as well as rights. The young man can now be a soldier, he also can marry without parental permission. At the age of twenty-one the individual obtains his full legal rights as an adult. He now can vote, he can buy liquor, he can enter into financial contracts, and he is entitled to run for public office. No additional basic rights are acquired as a function of age after majority status has been attained. None of these legal provisions determine at what point adulthood has been reached but they do point to the prolonged period of adolescence.

单选题I thought 1 was going to fail the exam, but I passed______.

单选题If we continue to destroy the countryside, more animals will become ______. A. distinct B. distinguished C. endangered D. extinct