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单选题______ period extended from the invasion of the Celtic England by German tribes in the first half of the 5 th century to the conquer of England in 1066 by the Norman French under the leadership of William the Conqueror.
单选题By the time I got home, my mother ____ to bed.
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Social psychologists arc used to
hearing that their experiments are a waste of time because they just prove the
obvious, and tell us what we always knew. But there is a very simple and
effective riposte to this accusation. The trouble with folk-wisdom (what we
always knew) is that it tends to come in pairs of statements, both of which are
obviously' true, but which—unfortunately—are mutually exclusive. For example,
birds of a feather flock together, but what about the attraction of opposites?
Experiments may not be as much fun as intuitions, but they sometimes tell us
which proverbs are actually true, or (moor often) in what circumstances which
apply. There is one other preconception to be removed before
tackling the question of whom we like and love, whom we find attractive and make
friends with: "Why bother to study an area in which we are all expert
practitioners?" Well, ff you believe that, have a word with a marriage guidance
counselor, a psychiatrist, or someone involved in industrial
relations. Research on friendship has established a number of
facts, some interesting, some even useful. Did you know that the average student
has 5-6 friends, or that a friend who was previously an enemy is liked more than
the one who has always been on the right side? Would you believe that physically
attractive individuals are preferred as friends to those less comely, and is it
fair that physically attractive defendants are less likely to be found guilty in
court? Unfortunately, such tidbits don't tell us much more than the nature or
the purpose of friendship. In fact, studies of friendship seem
to implicate more complex factors. For example, one function friendship
seems to fulfill is that it supports the image we have of ourselves, and
confirms the value of the attitudes we hold. Several studies have shown that we
judge them to be more like us than they (objectively) are. This suggests that we
ought to choose friends who are similar to us ('birds of a feather') rather than
those who would be complementary ('opposites attract'), a prediction which is
supported by empirical evidence, at least so far as attitudes and beliefs are
concerned. In one experiment, some developing friendships were monitored amongst
first-year students living in the same hostel. It was found that
similarity of attitudes (towards politics, religion, and ethics, pastimes and
aesthetics) was a good predictor of what friendships would be established by the
end of four months, though it had less to do with initial alliances.
The difficulty of linking friendship with similarity of personality
probably reflects the complexity of our personalities. This of course can
explain why we may have two close friends who have little in common and indeed
dislike each other. By and large, though, it looks as though we would do well to
choose friends ( and spouses) who resemble us. If this were not so, computer
dating agencies would have gone out of business years
ago.
单选题After scientists did some research ______ the health of workers, the government tried to find some way to meet their demand.A. intoB. offC. aboutD. for
单选题______ are activities a person does well.
单选题His Selected Poems ______ in 1955. A) was first published B) has been first published C) were first published D) had first been published
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单选题Under a microscope , muscle cells appear to be ______ .
单选题She's always the first guest______ and the last______.
单选题Scientists formerly assumed that coral populations remained stable, dead polyps being replaced by now ones that build on the "skeletons" left behind. Recent investigations, however, reveal more dynamic processes. Whole sections of a colony may die and not be replaced. This process, known as partial colony mortality, is evident in a series of photographs over time, but often impossible to detect in site because "skeletons" bared by the death of overlying tissue are readily overgrown by other organisms or abraded by grazers. Partial mortality can produce fission the process of a large colony splitting apart into two or more adjacent colonies that presumably have identical genetic makeup. Subsequent lateral growth may unite these colonies in a process called fusion. As a consequence of these three processes, estimates of coral ages based on size are Partial mortality and fission, which reduce colony size, occur more frequently than fusion, and thus estimates of coral age based on colony size are probably far too low.
单选题 Researchers are finding that boys and girls really are from
two different planets. Boys and girls have different "crisis points", experts
say, stages in their emotional and social development where things can go very
wrong. Until recently, girls got all the attention. But boys are much more
likely than girls to have discipline problems at school and to be diagnosed with
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Boys far outnumber girls in special-education
classes. They're also more likely to commit violent crimes and end up in
jail. Even normal boy behavior has come to be considered
pathological (病态的) in the wake of the feminist movement. An abundance of
physical energy and the urge to conquer — these are normal male characteristics,
and in an earlier age they were good things, even essential to survival. "If
Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today," says Michael Gurian, author of The
Wonder of Boys, "we'd say they had ADD." He says one of the new insights we're
gaining about boys is a very old one: boys will be boys. "They are who they
are," says Gurian, "and we need to love them for who they are. Let's not try to
{{U}}rewire{{/U}} them." But what exactly is the essential nature
of boys? Even as infants, boys and girls behave differently. A recent study at
Children's Hospital in Boston found that boy babies are more emotionally
expressive; girls are more reflective. (That means boy babies tend to cry when
they're unhappy; girl babies suck their thumbs) This could indicate that girls
are innately more able to control their emotions. Boys have higher levels of
testosterone and lower levels of neurotransmitter serotonin, which inhabits
aggression and impulsivity. That may help explain why more males than females
carry through with suicide or become alcoholics. There's
struggle — a desire and need for warmth on the one hand and a pull toward
independence on the other. Boys are going through what psychologists long ago
declared an integral part of growing up: individualization and disconnection
from parents, especially mothers. But now some researchers think that process is
too abrupt. When boys repress normal feelings like love because of social
pressure, says William Pollack, head of the Center for Men at Boston's McLean
Hospital, "they've lost contact with the genuine nature of whom they are and
what they feel. Boys are in a silent crisis. The only time we notice it is when
they pull the trigger."
单选题It is hard to box against a southpaw, as Apollo Creed found out when he fought Rocky Balboa in the first of an interminable series of movies. While "Rocky" is fiction, the strategic advantage of being left-handed in a fight is very real, simply because most right-handed people have little experience of fighting left-handers, but not vice versa. And the same competitive advantage is enjoyed by left-handers in other sports, such as tennis and cricket. The orthodox view of human handedness is that it is connected to the bilateral specialization of the brain that has concentrated language-processing functions on the left side of that organ. Because, long ago in the evolutionary past, an ancestor of humans ( and all other vertebrate animals ) underwent a contortion that twisted its head around 180~ relative to its body, the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa. In humans, the left brain (and thus the right body) is usually dominant. And on average, lefthanders are smaller and lighter than right-handers. That should put them at an evolutionary disadvantage. Sporting advantage notwithstanding, therefore, the existence of left-handedness poses a problem for biologists. But Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond, of the University of Montpellier Ⅱ , in France, think they know the answer. As they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, there is a clue in the advantage seen in boxing. As any schoolboy could tell you, winning fights enhances your status. If, in prehistory, this translated into increased reproductive success, it might have been enough to maintain a certain proportion of left-handers in the population, by balancing the costs of being left-handed with the advantages gained in fighting. If that is true, then there will be a higher proportion of left-handers in societies with higher levels of violence, since the advantages of being left-handed will be enhanced in such societies. Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond set out to test this hypothesis. Fighting in modem societies often involves the use of technology, notably firearms, that is unlikely to give any advantage to left-handers. So Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond decided to confine their investigation to the proportion of left-handers and the level of violence ( by number of homicides) in traditional societies. By trawling the literature, checking with police departments, and even going out into the field and asking people, the two researchers found that the proportion of left-handers in a traditional society is, indeed, correlated with its homicide rate. One of the highest proportions of left-handers, for example, was found among the Yanomamo of South America. Raiding and warfare are central to Yanomamo culture. The murder rate is 4 per 1 000 inhabitants per year (compared with, for example, 0.068 in New York). And, according to Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond, 22.6% of Yanomamo are left-handed. In contrast, Dioula-speaking people of Burkina Faso in West Africa are virtual pacifists. There are only 0. 013 murders per 1 000 inhabitants among them and only 3.4% of the population is left-handed. While there is no suggestion that left-handed people are more violent than the right-handed, it looks as though they are more successfully violent. Perhaps that helps to explain the double meaning of the word "sinister".
单选题The 20-year-old tennis player"s dream is to ______ China at 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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单选题A little learning is a dangerous thing, ______ the saying goes.
单选题The new appointment of our president ______ from the very beginning of next semester. A. takes effect B. takes part C. takes place D. takes turns
单选题______of the seven continents were placed in the Pacific Ocean, there would still be room left for another continent the size of Asia.
单选题I'm sure that she'll cope with the changes very well. She is very ______.
单选题Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. "Net choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd," William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word "habit" carries a negative implication. So it seems paradoxical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation. But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks. Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try—the more we step outside our comfort zone—the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives. But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they're there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old reads. "The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder," says Dawna Markova, author of The Open Mind. "But we are taught instead to 'decide', just as our president calls himself 'the Decider'." She adds, however, that "to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities." All of us work through problems in ways of which we're unaware, she says. Researchers in the late 1960a discovered that humans are born with the capacity to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, relationally (or collaboratively) and innovatively. At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life. The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought. "This breaks the major rule in the American belief system — that anyone can do anything," explains M. J. Ryan, author of the 2006 book This Year I Will... and Ms. Markova's business partner. "That's a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters commonness. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence." This is where developing new habits comes in.
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单选题The goal is to make higher education available to everyone who is willing and capable ______ his financial situation. A. with respect to B. in accord with C. regardless of D. in terms of
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China's employment and re-employment
situation remains tough with a surge this year in the number of graduates
hitting the job market and in unemployment in general, a senior official
said. The country's registered average unemployment rate in
urban areas reached 4 percent last year and is expected to go higher this year,
Labour and Social Security Minister Zheng Silin told Xinhua yesterday.
There are nearly 14 million laid-off workers in urban areas so far.
And more than 10 million new graduates are predicted to enter the work
force, Zheng said. To make things worse, the nation's
agricultural adjustment has forced more than 150 million rural workers to quit
farming. Many of them will head to the cities to seek employment, posing
uncertainties for the State, he said. Zheng, who was appointed
as the minister during the first session of the 10th National People's Congress
in March, has urged his departments nationwide to do more to assist laid-off
workers to restart their lives.
单选题It was not until he arrived at the station ______ he realized he had forgotten his ticket. A. before B. that C. when D. after
单选题The dean tried to retain control of the situation on campus, but his attempt was ______ by the board of trustees.
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A. a luggage
B. luggages
C. a piece of luggage
D. a piece of luggages
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单选题It was ______ that asked Maury for help in oceanographic studies. A. those who earned a living from the sea B. some early intercontinental travellers C. the American Navy D. the company which proposed to lay an undersea cable
单选题Overall, it is going to become much easier for people to communicate ______ the Net Communicating with others in real time will soon be the norm.
单选题An intelligent TV viewer may occasionally become enraged by the
argumentation in ______ commercials.
A. imperative
B. fallacious
C. persuasive
D. fabulous
单选题It is high time that we ______ all ready for this afternoon meeting, ______ it would be late. A. must get, or B. got, or C. should get, and D. get, and
单选题 In this age of ad clutter and junk mail, entrepreneurs are
finding that one of the easiest ways to connect with customers is to moonlight
(兼职) as a publisher. Newsletters remind clients you're still there, help spark
repeat business, and sometimes can be used to attract new clients.
Newsletters are certainly catching on. The Standard Periodical Directory
counts more than 4,000 of them and estimates the number grows 15% a year. Maybe
that's because it's not hard. All you need is a little cash and
creativity. First, obviously, decide what to say. Stick to
useful information, as opposed to self-promotion. Can you offer tips unavailable
elsewhere? How about new ways to use an old product? As for design, software
programs such as Adobe PageMaker provide templates (模板) for the do-it-yourself.
Or you can hire a professional out of the Yellow Pages or off the Web. They'll
do the design work, write the copy, and even do the mailing. Expect to spend
about $1 per copy, including postage, for a run of several thousand; unit costs
drop as the press run increases. Newsletters also can be
published on the Web or sent via e-mail, but beware. Experts say unsolicited
(未请求的，主动提供的) e-mail is far less effective than a physical publication. In either
case, aim for people who will find it genuinely useful and interesting. "If you
don't send it to the right people, it just gets thrown out," says Paul Swift,
editor of The Newsletter about Newsletters. A poorly
designed newsletter, or one rife with errors, is worse than no newsletter. A
newsletter should not be seen as a substitute for efforts to expand your
existing customer base. "You still need to try to get yourself mentioned in real
news media," advises Laura Ries, of the Roswell marketing firm Ries ＆ Ries
Inc. A well-executed newsletter can work wonders. Consider the
one Lisa Skriloff, owner of New York's Multicultural Marketing Resources Inc.,
puts out. Every two months, Skriloff spends several days—and several thousand
dollars—producing Multicultural Marketing News, a four-page newsletter
filled with tips on reaching minority consumers. "It helps position my company
as an expert in the field," Skriloff says. She also distributes the newsletter
at conferences and mails it to potential clients—outreach that generates 10…… of
her business. Perhaps it's time more entrepreneurs take a page from the
academics: publish or perish (毁灭，死亡).
单选题Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, (21) many tourists can (22) public places that are also enjoyed (23) the inhabitants(居住者) of a country: If tourists (24) too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and (25) . They begin to dislike tourists and to (26) them impolitely. They (27) how much tourism can help the country's economy. It is important to (28) about the people of a tourist attraction and how tourism affects it. Tourism should help a country (29) the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism (30) too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This (31) that other parts of the country's economy can suffer. On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can (32) jobs. Business can also lose money. It (33) a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminal, first class roads, and other support facilities(设施) (34) by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourism (35) can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money.
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单选题Melinda French designed Microsoft Bob which was to ease the misery of computer users by ______.
单选题5 America will never again have as a nation the spirit of adventure as it ______ before the west was settled. A. had B. did C. was D. would
单选题He entered the office hurriedly, ______ the door open.
A. leave
B. leaving
C. to leave
D. left
单选题Sunshine is as necessary for flowers ______ water for fish.
单选题What does Jastrow think of many scientists?
单选题He is doing an______course in physics.
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单选题To the old people, the changes in society are ______.
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单选题One of the world's (largest) salt mines (lie) directly (under) the (city) Detroit. A. largest B. lie C. under D. city
单选题He found learning to drive easy and _____ his driving test the very first time.
单选题If only I ______ not so nervous at the important interview.
单选题A couple were holding each other close to ______ the cold wind that had sprung up. A. ward off B. shake off C. turn off D. take off
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单选题If he ______ the doctor's advice, he would be quite all right now.
单选题A. bristleB. castleC. firstlyD. whistle
单选题The Court of Auditors of the EU is an ______ body and acts independently from all other institutions.
单选题The minister is too much of a______ in the world of politics to care much about what his opponents say.
单选题He became aware that he had lost his audience since he had not been able to talk {{U}}coherently{{/U}}.
单选题Woman: I know you like this restaurant. But I just don"t like the food here.
Man: Everyone is entitled to his own opinion.
Question: What does the man mean?
单选题Chinese translations which have been conveniently simplified and made easy are like wine diluted with water. "This famous remark about the quality of a translation is made by______.
单选题The teacher was______ of his duty.
单选题A phoneme is further analyzable because it consists of a set of simultaneous distinctive features.
单选题She has been______for five months and in another five months' time she will be mother.
单选题{{U}}Initially{{/U}} his book did not receive much attention, but two weeks after the critic's review appeared in the newspapers, it climbed to the best sellers' list.
单选题______ should one help each other, ______ he should learn from others.A. Both; andB. Neither; norC. Not only; butD. Either; or
单选题Under heavy gunfire, those cameramen risked their lives to give______battlefield reports.
单选题A plane can't fly to the moon because ______.
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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, but 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 mildly
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 Tealdi, 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 used to be impossible. Not
anymore. For that, Greenspan ~ Co. may still be worth
toasting.
单选题We don' t accept checks; you have to pay in______.
单选题Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the
passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them
there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your
answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.{{B}}Passage
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A useful definition of an air pollutant is a
compound added directly or indirectly by humans to the atmosphere in such
quantities as to affect humans, animals, vegetation, or materials adversely. Air
pollution requires a very flexible definition that permits continuous change.
When the first air pollution laws were established in England in the fourteenth
century, air pollutants were limited to compounds that could be seen or smelled
— a far cry from the extensive list of harmful substances known today. As
technology has developed and knowledge of the health aspects of various
chemicals has increased, the list of air pollutants has lengthened. In the
future, even water vapor might be considered an air pollutant under certain
conditions. Many of the more important air pollutants, such as
sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides, are found in nature.
As the Earth developed, the concentrations of these pollutants were
altered by various chemical reactions; they became components in biogeochemical
cycles. These serve as an air purification scheme by allowing the compounds to
move from the air to the water or soil. On a global basis nature's output of
these compounds dwarfs that resulting from human activities. However, human
production usually occurs in a localized area, such as a city.
In this localized region, human output may be dominant and may temporarily
overload the natural purification scheme of the cycles. The result is an
increased concentration of noxious (有毒的) chemicals in the air. The
concentrations at which the adverse effects appear will be greater than the
concentrations that the pollutants would have in the absence of human
activities. The actual concentration need not be large for a substance to be a
pollutant; in fact the numerical value tells us little until we know how much of
an increase this represents over the concentration that would occur naturally in
the area. For example, sulfur dioxide has detectable health effects at 0.08
parts per million (ppm), which is about 400 times its natural level. Carbon
monoxide, however, has natural level of 0.1 ppm and is not usually a pollutant
until its level reaches about 15 ppm.
单选题The news that the company is being taken over by foreign investors has severely ______ the stock markets. A. vibrated B. swung C. trembled D. jolted
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单选题Beyond the basic animal instincts to seek food and avoid pain, Freud identified two sources of psychic energy, which he called "drives": aggression and libido. The key to his theory is that these were unconscious drives, shaping our behavior without the mediation of our waking minds; they surface, heavily disguised, only in our dreams. The work of the past half-century in psychology and neuroscience has been to downplay the role of unconscious universal drives, focusing instead on rational processes in conscious life. But researchers have found evidence that Freud's drives really do exist, and they have their roots in the limbic system, a primitive part of the brain that operates mostly below the horizon of consciousness. Now more commonly referred to as emotions, the modern suite of drives comprises five: rage, panic, separation distress, lust and a variation on libido sometimes called seeking. The seeking drive is proving a particularly fruitful subject for researchers. Although like the others it originates in the limbic system, it also involves parts of the forebrain, the seat of higher mental functions. In the 1980s, Jaak Panksepp, a neurobiologist at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, became interested in a place near the cortex known as the ventral tegmental area, which in humans lies just above the hairline. When Panksepp stimulated the corresponding region in a mouse, the animal would sniff the air and walk around, as though it were looking for something. Was it hungry? No. The mouse would walk right by a plate of food, or for that matter any other object Panksepp could think of. This brain tissue seemed to cause a general desire for something new. "What I was seeing, " he says, "was the urge to do stuff. " Panksepp called this seeking. To neuropsychologist Mark Solms of University College in London, that sounds very much like libido. "Freud needed some sort of general, appetitive desire to seek pleasure in the world of objects, " says Solms. "Panksepp discovered as a neuroscientist what Freud discovered psychologically. " Solms studied the same region of the brain for his work on dreams. Since the 1970s, neurologists have known that dreaming takes place during a particular form of sleep known as REM — rapid eye movement — which is associated with a primitive part of the brain known as the pons. Accordingly, they regarded dreaming as a low-level phenomenon of no great psychological interest. When Solms looked into it, though, it turned out that the key structure involved in dreaming was actually the ventral tegmental, the same structure that Panksepp had identified as the seat of the "seeking" emotion. Dreams, it seemed, originate with the libido—which is just what Freud had believed. Freud's psychological map may have been flawed in many ways, but it also happens to be the most coherent and, from the standpoint of individual experience, meaningful theory of the mind. "Freud should be placed in the same category as Darwin, who lived before the discovery of genes, " says Panksepp. "Freud gave us a vision of a mental apparatus. We need to talk about it, develop it, test it. " Perhaps it's not a matter of proving Freud wrong or right, but of finishing the job.
单选题Through most city traffic is regulated by automatic traffic lights, the city's residents are Unotorious/U for ignoring them.
单选题Very few people understood his lecture, the subject of which was very______. (2013年北京航空航天大学考博试题)
单选题In his example the author tells his readers that ______. ( )
单选题Within decades, PAN-type research will transform the Internet into the Life Net, a comprehensive ______ environment for human habitation.
单选题With prices ______ so much, it is hard for the company to plan a budget. A. fluctuating B. waving C. swinging D. vibrating
单选题______ the large amount of time devoted to English listening every day, most college students feel it hard to understand English news broadcasting.
单选题She raised her face to the rain, to the dark sky, ______rather than frightened by this sudden wildness coming up from nothing around her.
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Rockets with men in them have reached ______.
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单选题Those who want guns—A
whether for
target shooting, hunting or potting rattlesnakes(get a hoe)— B
should be subjected to
the same restrictions placed on gun owners in England, a nation C
in which
liberty has survived nicely without D
an arm populace
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单选题Companies have embarked on what looks like the beginnings of a re-run of the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) wave that defined the second bubbly half of the 1990s. That period, readers might recall, was characterized by a collective splurge that saw the creation of some of the most indebted companies in history, many of which later went bankrupt or were themselves broken up. Wild bidding for telecoms, internet and media assets, not to mention the madness that was Daimler"s $40 billion motoring takeover in 1998-1999 of Chrysler or the Time- Warner/AOL mega-merger in 2000, helped to give mergers a thoroughly bad name. A consensus emerged that M&A was a great way for investment banks to reap rich fees, and a sure way for ambitious managers to betray investors by trashing the value of their shares.
Now M&A is back. Its return is a global phenomenon, but it is perhaps most striking in Europe, where so far this year there has been a stream of deals worth more than $600 billion in total, around 40% higher than in the same period of 2004. The latest effort came this week when France"s Saint-Gobain, a building-materials firm, unveiled the details of its ￡3.6 billion ($6.5 billion) hostile bid for BPB, a British rival. In the first half of the year, cross-border activity was up threefold over the same period last year. Even France Telecom, which was left almost bankrupt at the end of the last merger wave, recently bought Amena, a Spanish mobile operator.
Shareholder"s approval of all these deals raises an interesting question for companies everywhere: are investors right to think that these mergers are more likely to succeed than earlier ones? There are two answers. The first is that past mergers may have been judged too harshly. The second is that the present rash of European deals does look more rational, but—and the caveat is crucial—only so far. The pattern may not hold.
M&A"s poor reputation stems not only from the string of spectacular failures in the 1990s, but also from studies that showed value destruction for acquiring shareholders in 80% of deals. But more recent studies by economists have introduced a note of caution. Investors should look at the number of deals that succeed or fail (typically measured by the impact on the share price), rather than (as you might think) weighing them by size. For example, no one doubts that the Daimler-Chrysler merger destroyed value. The combined market value of the two firms is still below that of Daimler alone before the deal. This single deal accounted for half of all German M&A activity by value in 1998 and 1999, and probably dominated people"s thinking about mergers to the same degree. Throw in a few other such monsters and it is no wonder that broad studies have tended to find that mergers are a bad idea. The true picture is more complicated.
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单选题Such an ______ act of hostility can only lead to war. A. overt B. opportunistic C. occadional D. unequaled
单选题The first men to study the nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modern electrical technology, without which we can scarcely______contemporary life.
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单选题Difficult ______ the project was, I managed to finish it on schedule. A．no matter B．despite C．as if D．though
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B. ______
A. There, there.
B. There's no use crying over spilt milk.
C. You guys were superb.
D. I couldn't care less.
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单选题I remember ______ the piano beautifully when he was a child. A. playing B. him to play C. him to have played D. him playing
单选题This brand of products is ______ to that in quality. A. senior B. junior C. superior D. better
单选题These glass wares are too ______ to survive long transportation by land.
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Science is a dominant theme in our
culture. Since it touches almost every facet of our life, educated people need
at least some acquaintance with its structure and operation. They should also
have an understanding of the subculture in which scientists live and the kinds
of people they are. An understanding of general characteristics of science as
well as specific scientific concepts is easier to attain if one knows something
about the things that excite and frustrate the scientist. This
book is written for the intelligent student or lay person whose acquaintance
with science is superficial; for the person who has been presented with science
as a musty storehouse of dried facts; for the person who has been presented with
science as the production of gadgets; and for the person who views the
scientists as some sort of magician. The book can be used to supplement a course
in any science, to accompany any course that attempts to give an understanding
of the modern world, or--independently of any course-simply to provide a better
understanding of science. We hope this book will lead readers to a broader
perspective on scientific attitudes and a more realistic view of what science is
who scientists are, and what they do. It will give them an awareness and
understanding of the relationship between science and our culture and an
appreciation of the roles science may play in our culture. In addition,
readers may learn to appreciate the relationship between scientific views and
some of the values and philosophies that are pervasive in our culture.
We have tried to present in this book an accurate and up-to-date picture
of the scientific community and the people who populate it. That
population has in recent years come to comprise more and more women. This
increasing role of women in the scientific subculture is not a unique incident
but, rather, part of the trend evident in all segments of society as more women
enter traditionally male-dominated fields and make significant contributions. In
discussing these changes and contributions, however, we are faced with a
language that is implicitly sexist, one that uses male nouns or pronouns in
referring to unspecified individuals. To offset this built-in bias, we have
adopted the policy of using plural nouns and pronouns whenever possible and,
when absolutely necessary, alternating he and she. This policy is far from being
ideal, but it is at least an acknowledgment of the inadequacy of our language in
treating half of the human equally. We have also tried to make
the book entertaining as well as informative. Our approach is usually informal.
We feel, as do many other scientists, that we shouldn't take ourselves too
seriously. As the reader may observe, we see science as a delightful pastime
rather than as a grim and dreary way to earn a
living.
单选题I would gladly lend you the money, but I really ______. A. couldn't have it B. didn't have it C. shouldn't have it D. don't have it
单选题Come and have dinner with us this evening, ______?
单选题Import of the first three months this years is larger by 7 percent than that of the ______period last year.
单选题(No wonder) that (man's) great dream has been someday to control the weather. The first step toward control is knowledge, and scientists have been (hard at work) for years trying to (keep track for) the weather.A. No wonderB. man'sC. hard at workD. keep track for
单选题If you want to buy this house, the payment may be made in five ______.
A. installments
B. pieces
C. shares
D. parts
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单选题On entering the laboratory, Mr Abu was immediately suspicious because ______.
单选题It took a lot of imagination to come up with such an ______ plan. A. inherent B. ingenious C. infectious D. indulgent
单选题Speaker A: I wonder if Ann will come. It' s 8:30 now and she was supposed to come at 8: 00. Speaker B:______A. She assured me she would start at 7: 30. Maybe she had been held up by the traffic.B. You shouldn' t be wondering. I believe she won' t come.C. Don' t worry. Let ' s wait here until she comes.D. Yes. I do agree with you.
单选题Cancer is considered a modem disease, though it was not unknown in ancient times. (The condition was named by the Greeks from their word for crab, presumably because of its clawing, crablike growth). The incidence of cancer has risen dramatically in recent decades, primarily
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cigarette smoking, and cancer is probably our most dreaded disease today. As a cause of death in the United States, cancer has climbed from less than 6 percent of all deaths in 1900 to over 20 percent today,
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recent statistics. It is already the leading killer of women aged thirty to fifty-four. And add a killer of the overall population, it is second only to heart disease,
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close to 430,000 deaths per year. This figure has risen annually since 1949, and if percent trends continue, cancer may well overtake heart disease as the number one cause of death.
Can We Fight Cancer More Effectively Today?
Although there is still much to be learned about cancer, our knowledge of the disease has grown steadily in recent years. We have a better understanding of the disease and are finding ways to
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it. Early recognition of the signs of cancer, prompt diagnosis, and aggressive treatment by the appropriate means have made the word cancer less
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than it used to be. Even people with forms of cancer that are still difficult to treat know that current techniques may
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them to outwit the disease until improved treatment becomes available. Many cancer victims have hope where there was once despair.
Even more important is the fact that some kinds of cancer are
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caused by preventable factors—for example, 25 to 30 percent of all cancer deaths are related to cigarette smoking, and most skin cancer is caused by
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exposure to the sun. Not all forms of cancer have such obvious associations, but where risk factors have been
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, we can use this knowledge and attempt to reduce the odds of developing those particular forms of disease. You and the people you know can
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your cancer risk as individuals.
单选题If you are feeling so tired, perhaps a little sleep would ______.A. actB. helpC. serveD. last
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Joseph Rykwert entered his field when
post-war modernist architecture was coming under fire for its alienating
embodiment of outmoded social ideals. Think of the UN building in New York. the
city of Brasilia. the UNESCO building in Paris, the blocks of housing "projects"
throughout the world. These tall. uniform boxes are set back from the street,
isolated by windswept plazas. They look inward to their own functions,
presenting no "face" to the inhabitants of the city, no "place" for social
interaction. For Mr. Rykwert. who rejects the functionalist spirit of the Athens
Charter of 1933. a manifesto for much post-war building, such facelessness
destroys the human meaning of the city. Architectural form should not rigidly
follow function, but ought to reflect the needs of the social body it
represents. Like other forms of representation, architecture is
the embodiment of the decisions that go into its making, not the result of
impersonal forces, market or history. Therefore. says Mr. Rykwert, adapting
Joseph de Maistre's dictum that a nation has the government it deserves, our
cities have the faces they deserve. In this book. Mr. Rykwert. a
noted urban historian of anthropological love, offers a flaneur's approach to
the city's exterior surface rather than an urban history from the conceptual
inside out. He does not drive, so his interaction with the city affords him a
warts-and-all view with a sensual grasp of what it is to be a "place".
His story of urbanization begins, not surprisingly, with the industrial
revolution when populations shifted and increased, exacerbating problems of
housing and crime. In the 19th century many planning programs and utopias
(Ebenezer Howard's garden city and Charles Fourier's "phalansteries" among them)
were proposed as remedies. These have left their mark on 20th-century cities, as
did Baron Hausmann's boulevards in Paris, Eugene Viollet-le-Duc's and Owen
Jones's arguments for historical style, and Adolf Loos's fateful
turn-of-the-century call to abolish ornament which, in turn, inspired Le
Corbusier's bare functionalism. The reader will recognize all these ideas in the
surfaces of the cities that hosted them: New York. Paris. London, and
Vienna. Cities changed again after the Second World War as
populations grew. technology raced and prosperity spread. Like it or not,
today's cities are the muddled product, among other things, of speed. greed,
outmoded social agendas and ill-suited postmodern aesthetics. Some lament the
old city's death; others welcome its replacement by the electronically driven
"global village". Mr, Rykwert has his worries, to be sure. but he does not see
ruin or chaos everywhere. He defends the city as a human and social necessity.
In Chandigarh, Canberra and New York he sees overall success; in New Delhi,
Paris and Shanghai, large areas of falling. For Mr. Rykwert. a man on foot in
the age of speeding virtual, good architecture may still show us a face where
flaneurs can read the story of their urban setting in familiar
metaphors.
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单选题As researchers learn more about how children's intelligence develops, they are increasingly surprised by the power of parents. The power of the school has been replaced by the home . To begin with, all the factors which are part of intelligence — the child's understanding of language, learning patterns, curiosity — are established well before the child enters school at the age of six. Study after has shown that even after school begins, children's achievements have been far more influenced by parents than by teachers, This is particularly true about leaning that is language-related, The school rather than the home is given credit for variations in achievement in subjects such as science. In view of their power it's sad to see so many parents not making the most of their intelligence. Until recently parents had been by educators who asked them not to educate their children. Many teachers now realize that children cannot be educated only at school and being asked to contribute both before and after the child enters school. Parents have been particularly afraid to teach reading at home. Of course, children shouldn't be pushed to read by their parents, but educators have discovered that reading is best taught individually — and the easiest place to do this is at home. Many four and five-year-olds who have been shown a few letters and taught their sounds will compose single words of their own with them even before they have been taught to read.
单选题The girls in their sixth grade class in East Palo Alto, California, all have the same access to computers as boys. But researchers say, by the time they get to high school, they are victims of what the researchers call a major new gender (性别) gap in technology. Janice Weinman of the American Association of University Women says, "Girls tend to be less comfortable than boys with the computer. They use it more for word processing rather than for problem solving, rather than to discover new ways in which to understand information."
After re-examining a thousand studies, the American Association of University Women researchers found that girls make up only a small percentage of students in computer science classes. Girls consistently rate themselves significantly lower than boys in their ability and confidence in using computers. And they use computers less often than boys outside the classroom.
An instructor of a computer lab says he"s already noticed some differences. Charles Cheadle of Cesar Chavez School says, "Boys are not so afraid they might do something that will harm the computer, whereas girls are afraid they might break it somehow."
Six years ago, the software company Purple Moon noticed that girls" computer usage was falling behind boys. Karen Gould says, "The number one reason girls told us they don"t like computer games is not that they"re too violent, or too competitive. Girls just said they"re incredibly boring."
Purple Moon says it found what girls want, characters they can relate to and story lines relative to what"s going on in their own lives. Karen Gould of Purple Moon Software says, "What we definitely found from girls is that there is no intrinsic (固有的) reason why they wouldn"t want to play on a computer; it was just a content thing."
The sponsor of the study says it all boils down to this: the technology gender gap that separates the girls from the boys must be closed if women are to compete effectively with men in the 21st century.
单选题The heart is ______ intelligent than the stomach, for they are both controlled by the brain. A. not so B. not much C. no more D. much less
单选题The prevailing wind is the wind direction most often observed during a given time period. Wind speed is the rate at which the air moves past a
stationary
object.
单选题My bike is missing. I cant find ______ anywhere． A．one B．ones C．it D．that
单选题I don't think my eyes are as good as they used to be. I need to have them ______. A. tested B. cleaned C. serviced D. cared
单选题As a teenager,I was_____by a blind passion for a slim star I would never meet in my life.
单选题No other drug is available at present ______ can produce the same therapeutic effect with less risk. A. that B. than C. when D. as
单选题The main problem to the author was ______.
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单选题Robert is said ______ abroad, but I don't know country be studied in.A. to have studiedB. to studyC. to be studyD. to have been studying
单选题On the surface, AIDS appears to have barely touched Asia so far, and the few cases reported involve mainly foreigners, female and male prostitutes(妓女) and imported blood. But complacency could be a fatal error. Experts have no doubts that the reported cases represent only the tip of an epidemic iceberg; many more people are infected than cases reported, in part because the virus takes five to seven years from infection to develop into AIDS. Says Dr. Jonathan Mann, director of the Special Program on AIDS of the World Health Organization: "AIDS is knocking on the door of Asia."
Yet because AIDS is occurring later in Asia than in other continents, Asians can benefit from the knowledge gained at a heavy price elsewhere: AIDS can be transmitted through heterosexual as well as homosexual contact and prevention through education is the key—indeed the only—defense so far available. In the words of Dr. Mann, "the opportunity for protection of Asia against widespread dissemination of HIV"—the AIDS virus—"is obvious and may be vital to the future of the continent."
In contrast to Asia, Africa had no warning at all when the disease began to appear there. Today, several million men, women and children may already be affected. Here is a Reader"s Digest report on the African crisis, followed by detailed information on AIDS and how it can be prevented.
单选题Eco-tourism—travel that preserves the environment and promotes the welfare of local people— continues to gain force. Impressed by the success of countries like Costa Rica and Ecuador, which have lured flocks of travelers for mountain treks and jungle safaris, a growing number of regions across tile globe are turning to eco-tourism as a strategy' for economic growth. Omar Bongo, the president of Gabon, a developing country in west central Africa, bas set aside about 10 percent of the country's landmass for 13 national parks. Green Visions, a tourism and environment protection company, based in Sarajevo. Bosnia-Herzegovina, is pioneering an eco-tourism development plan in Central Europe with "green adventures" that promote environmental principles and support local businesses. Even Greece, better known for its pumping night life and archaeological monuments, devotes a section of its national tourism' Web site to "Greek nature" and eco-tourism. Over the last four years, at least 48 countries, from Puerto Rico to Portugal, have created or started to define a national strategy for eco-tourism development, according to a 2004 eco-tourism report by Mintel International Group, a market-research company based in Britain. Though eco-tourism has long conjured images of biodiversity hot spots in countries like Belize, parts of the United States are starting to embrace the trend too. For example, the Wisconsin Department of Tourism will begin testing a new certification program in March called Travel Green Wisconsin. Designed to encourage hotels and tour operators to reduce their environmental impact, the program is aimed at protecting the natural areas that play a significant role in defining the state as a tourist destination. If. successful, the program will be rolled out statewide next year. For businesses, eco-friendly initiatives not only offer marketing advantages but can help with the bottom line. Hotels can cut costs by doing everything from installing energy-saving light bulbs to asking travelers to reuse their towels. And some 58.5 million U.S. travelers, or 38 percent, would pay more to use travel companies that strive to protect and preserve the environment, according to a study by the Travel Industry Association of America sponsored by National Geographic Traveler. Of those travelers. 61 percent said they would pay 5 to 10 percent more to use such companies. However. selecting among the growing number of eco-friendly choices can be frightening, especially given the ever-broadening category, which now encompasses everything from basic campsites to high-end mountain lodges, lama trekking to motorcycle tours through the jungle. Enter the Sustainable Tourism Certification Network of the Americas—a partnership of certification programs, environmental groups, government organizations and others, led by the Rainforest. Alliance and the International Ecotourism Society—which aims to promote sustainability and higher environmental and social standards for tourism. In September, the network designed a series of baseline criteria for certification to help generate credibility among members and promote local conservation. This year, the document will be put up for public consultation before being fully ratified. "Certification is a way for us to avoid green washing," the practice of promoting something as ecotourism while behaving in an environmentally irresponsible way, said Ronald Sanabria. director of sustainable tourism at the Rainforest Alliance. "Certification for us is a tool to avoid that and to ensure third-party assessments of requirements and really prove the company./
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单选题I'm ______ about how you discovered my website, and am very glad if you enjoy it.
单选题I don't think Mr. Watson will come here again today. Please give the ticket to ______ comes here first.
单选题NOt only ______ but also ______ A．he heard it; he saw it B．did he hear it; did he see it C．he heard it; did he see it D．did he hear it; he saw it
单选题What does the sentence "The boom was off the rose" mean?
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The period of adolescence, i.e., the
period between childhood and adulthood, may be 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 patterns 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 for 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
socio-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 axe 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 increases 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, but 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The following were the welfare benefits granted in cash in the U. S. except______.
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单选题It's true that the old road is less direct and a bit bumpy. We won't take the new one ______ because we feel as safe on it. A. however B. though C. nevertheless D. whatsoever
单选题These figures are based on the______that the economy will continue to improve.
单选题Miss Black, all heir to a large fortune, is serving a life term. A. sentence B. conviction C. duty D. office
单选题Stelios' record is listed in order to show that
单选题Academic teaching hospitals are usually ______ medical schools.
单选题The most important reason wily the Bush administration support more new nuclear power plants is that ______.
单选题It seems difficult to ______ "hurt" from "injure" in meaning.A. judgeB. tellC. divideD. separate
单选题The author wants to prove with the example of Isaac Newton that ______.
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单选题It was because he wanted to draw money from the bank ______ he went downtown yesterday. A. when B. how C. why D. that
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单选题Of greatest interest to those concerned with the environmental aspects of solid waste management is the issue of—and the need for—resource recovery and recycling. To many Americans, there is perhaps no greater symbol of our imbalance with nature and our mal-adaptation to its realities than the fact that we discard millions of tons of wastes every year which do, in act, have value. The American people realize now that trash need not be mere junk. It has the potential of becoming a significant vein or resources, a mother lode of opportunity for men of vision who can see beyond the horizon. The American people are right. And those who serve them can no longer view solid waste management solely in terms of collection and disposal. However, something more than the magic of science and technology is required to convert all this waste back into useful resources. In fact, in proportion to consumption, resource: recovery has been steadily losing ground in recent years in virtually every materials sector. Approximately 200 million tons of paper, iron, steel, glass, nonferrous metals, textiles, rubber and plastics flow through the economy yearly--and materials weighing roughly the same leave the economy again as waste. In spite of neighbor hood recycling projects, container recovery depots, paper drives, anti-litter campaigns, local ordinances banning the non-returnable bottle, and file emergence of valuable new technological approaches, only a trickle of the "effluence of affluence" is today being diverted from the municipal waste stream. The principal obstacles are economic and institutional, not technological. The cost of recovering, processing and transporting wastes is so high that the resulting products simply cannot compete, economically, with virgin materials. Of course, it the true costs of such economic "externalities" as environmental impact associated with virgin materials use were reflected in production costs and if there were no subsidies to virgin materials in the form of depletion allowances and favorable freight rates, the use of secondary materials would become muck more attractive. But they are not now. There are no economic or technical events on the horizon, short of governmental intervention, that would indicate a reversal of this trend. If allowed to continue to operate as it does now, the economic system will continue to select virgin raw materials in preference to wastes. This fact should be etched into the awareness of those who look to recycling as a way out of the solid waste management dilemma.
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{{B}}Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following
passage.{{/B}} Most of us have seen a dog staring at, sometimes
snarling at, and approaching a reflection of itself. For most animals, seeing
their own image in a mirror acts as a social stimulus. But does the dog
recognize itself, or does the reflection simply signal a potential companion or
threat? This question is interest for a number of reasons. Apart
from curiosity about the level of animals' understanding, research on
self-recognition in animals has several benefits. It provides some insight into
the evolutionary significance of this skill of self-recognition and into the
level and kinds of cognitive competence that the skill requires. Such research
also indicates the kinds of learning experiences that determine the development
of self-recognition. In addition, work with animals fosters the use of
techniques that are not dependent on verbal responses and that may therefore be
suitable for use with preverbal children. The evidence indicates
that dogs and almost all other nonhumans do not recognize themselves. In a
series of clever experiments, however, Gallup has shown that the chimpanzee does
have this capacity. Gallup exposed chimpanzees in a small cage to a full-length
mirror for ten consecutive days. It was observed that over this period of time
the number of self-directed responses increased. These behaviors included
grooming parts of the body while watching the results, guiding fingers in the
mirror, and picking at teeth with the aid of the mirror. Describing one chimp,
Gallup said, "Marge used the mirror to play with and inspect the bottom of her
feet; she also looked at herself upside down in the mirror while suspended by
her feet from the top of the cage; she was also observed to stuff celery leaves
up her nose using the mirror for purposes of visually guiding the stems into
each nostril." Then the researchers devised a further test of
self-recognition. The chimps were anesthetized and marks were placed over
their eyebrows and behind their ears, areas the chimps could not directly
observe. The mirror was temporarily removed from the cage, and baseline data
regarding their attempts to touch these areas were recorded. The data clearly
suggest that chimps do recognize themselves, or are self-aware, for their
attempts to touch the marks increased when they viewed themselves. Citing
further evidence for this argument, Gallup noted that chimpanzees with no prior
mirror experience did not direct behavior to the marks when they were first
exposed to the mirror; that is, the other chimpanzees appeared to have
remembered what they looked like and do have responded to the marks because they
noticed changes in their appearance.
单选题Thank you for applying for a position with Our firm. We do not have any openings at this time, but we shall keep your application on ______ for two months.
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单选题In a car engine, more ______.means better acceleration. A. renown B. coronation C. gravy D. torque
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Every newborn baby is dealt a hand of
cards which helps to determine how long he or she will be allowed to play the
game of life. Good cards will help those who have them to have a long and
healthy existence, while bad cards will bring to those who have them terrible
diseases like high blood pressure and heart disease. Occasionally, cards are
dealt out that doom their holders to an early death. In the past, people never
knew exactly which cards they had been dealt. They could guess at the future
only by looking at the kind of health problems experienced by their parents or
grandparents. Genetic testing, which makes it possible to find
dangerous genes, has changed all this. But, until recently, if you were tested
positive for a bad gene you were not obliged to reveal this to anyone else
except in a few extreme circumstances. This month, however, Britain became the
first country in the world to allow life insurers to ask for test
results. So far, approval has been given only for a test for a
fatal brain disorder known as Huntington’s disease. But ten other tests (for
seven diseases) are already in use and are awaiting similar approval.
The independent body that gives approval, the Department of Health’s
genetics and insurance committee, does not have to decide whether the use of
genetic information in insurance is ethical. It must judge only whether the
tests are reliable to insurers. In the case of Huntington’s disease the answer
is clear-cut. People unlucky enough to have this gene will die early, and cost
life insurers dearly. This is only the start. Clear-cut genetic
answers, where a gene is simply and directly related to a person’s risk of
death, are uncommon. More usually, a group of genes is associated with the risk
of developing a common disease, dependent on the presence of other genetic or
environmental factors. But, as tests improve, it will become possible to predict
whether or not a particular individual is at risk. In the next few years
researchers will discover more and more about the functions of individual genes
and what health risks — or benefits — are associated with
them.
单选题As a famous leader of human rights movement, Martin Luther King {{U}}detested{{/U}} injustice.
单选题The old always assume that they know best for the simple reason ______ they have been around a bit longer.
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Germany's chimney sweeps—hallowed as
bringers of good luck, with their black top hats and coiled-wire brushes— are
under attack. Last week the European Commission's directorate for the internal
market revived proceedings against an antiquated German law that protects sweeps
against competition. The country's chimney sweeps enjoy a near-perfect monopoly.
Germany is divided into around 8000 districts, each ruled by its own master
sweep who usually employs two more sweeps. Although this is a private
enterprise, the maintenance and inspection service provided is compulsory and
prices are set by the local authority: sweeps cannot stray outside their
district, nor can householders change their sweep even if they loathe him. This
rule cuts both ways. "There are some customers I can't stand either," says one
Frankfurt sweep. The rationale is simple: chimney-sweeping and
related gas and heating maintenance in Germany are treated as a matter of public
safety. Annual or semi-annual visits are prescribed, keeping the sweeps busy all
year round. For centuries, chimney-sweeps in Europe were a wandering breed. But
in 1937 the chimney-sweep law was revised by Heinrich Himmler, then the acting
interior minister. His roles tied chimney sweeps to their districts and decreed
that they should be German, to enable him to use sweeps as local
spies. The law was updated in 1969, leaving the local monopolies
in place but opening up the profession, in theory at least, to non-Germ, ans.
But in practice few apply. Four years ago a brave Pole qualified as a master in
Kaiserslautern, according to a fellow student, and this year an Italian did so
in the Rhineland Palatinate. But he, like most newly qualified German masters,
will spend years on a waiting list before he gets his own district.
The European Commission would like to see a competitive market in which
people can choose their own sweeps, just as they choose builders or plumbers. It
first opened infringement proceedings in 2003, and the German government of the
time promised to change the law but failed to do so. And despite the huffing and
puffing from Brussels, tile government is still reluctant to dismantle its
antiquated system on safety grounds. The number of deaths from carbon-monoxide
poisoning in Germany is around one-tenth that in France or Belgium, claims the
Frankfurt sweep. So Germans are likely to be stock with their neighbourhood
Schornsteinfegers—whether they can stand each other or not—for some time to
come.
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单选题From good reading we can derive pleasure, companionship, experience, and instruction. A good book may absorb our attention so completely that for the time being we forget our surroundings and even our identity. Reading good books is one of the greatest pleasures in life. It increases our contentment when we are cheerful, and lessens our troubles when we are sad. Whatever may be our main purpose in reading, our contact with good books should never fail to give us enjoyment and satisfaction.
With a good book in hand we could never be lonely. Whether the characters portrayed are taken from real life or are purely imaginary, they may become our companions and friends. In the pages of books we can walk with the wise and the good of all lands and all times.
The people we meet in books may delight us either because they resemble human friends whom we hold dear or because they represent unfamiliar types whom we are glad to welcome as new acquaintances.
Our human friends sometimes may bore us, but friends we make in books could never weary us with their company. By turning the pages we can dismiss them without any fear of hurting their feelings. When human friends desert us, good books are always ready to give us friendship, sympathy and encouragement.
One of the most valuable gifts bestowed by books is experience. Few of us can travel far from home or have a wide range of experiences, but all of us can lead varied lives through the pages of books. Whether we wish to escape from the seemingly dull realities of everyday life or whether we long to visit some far-off place, a book will help us when nothing else can. To travel by book we need no bank account to pay for our way, no airship or ocean liner or streamlined train to transport us, no passport to enter the land of our heart's desire. Through books we may get the thrill of hazardous adventure without danger. We can climb lofty mountains or cross the scorching sands of the desert, all without hardship. Indeed, through books the whole world is ours for the asking. The possibilities of our literary experiences are almost unlimited. The beauties of nature, the enjoyment of music, the treasures of art, the triumphs of architecture, the marvels of engineering, are all open to the wonder and enjoyment of those who read.
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Money is a key element in economic and
business activities and has been the theme of many witty remarks. Benjamin
Franklin once wrote, "Money makes money, and the money{{U}} (61)
{{/U}}makes, makes more money." To most of us, money is
{{U}}(62) {{/U}}but the currency of a country. But to some people, money
is either the best friend or the worst demon. To{{U}} (63)
{{/U}},however, money is a subject for study and for something to be money,
it must at{{U}} (64) {{/U}}have the following characteristics:
portability, divisibility, stability, durability and acceptability.
{{U}} (65) {{/U}}, nowadays, money has got a lot of{{U}} (66)
{{/U}}: credit cards, debit cards, access cards, IC cards, etc, but they are
usually{{U}} (67) {{/U}}plastic money or electronic money, because they
are used like money.{{U}} (68) {{/U}}a credit card, for example, you can
buy books and ties, pay your restaurant bills and taxi fares. You can{{U}}
(69) {{/U}}make a small overdraft if you cannot make your{{U}}
(70) {{/U}}meet this month. "Don't{{U}} (71) {{/U}}home
without it," American Express, one of the leading credit card issuers once{{U}}
(72) {{/U}}us. For many,{{U}} (73) {{/U}}a reminder is no{{U}}
(74) {{/U}}necessary, because the plastic money is so safe and so
convenient that many people{{U}} (75) {{/U}}leave home without cash but
never without a credit card.
单选题Nowadays, the prescribed roles of the man as "breadwinner" and the woman as housewife are changing.
单选题On that trip, the loneliness was a little harder to handle, so I brought along our puppy to keep me ______. A. company B. partner C. attendant D. fellowship
单选题The American businessman had difficulty at times working with his local counterparts in Guangdong Province, for he could speak______Cantonese than Mandarin.
单选题The old couple wanted to see their daughter ______ the young manager. A. marry B. marrying C. to marry D. married
单选题The scientific and medical prizes have proved to be the least ______ , while those for literature and peace by their very nature have been the most exposed to critical differences.
单选题The idea is as audacious as it altruistic: provide a personal laptop computer to every schoolchild—particularly in the poorest parts of the world. The first step to making that happen is whittling the price down to $100. And that is the goal of a group of American techno-gurus led by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the fabled MIT Media Lab. When he unveiled the idea at the World Economic Forum in January it seemed wildly ambitious. But surprisingly, it is starting to become a reality. Mr. Negroponte plans to display the first prototype in November at a UN summit. Four countries—Brazil, Egypt, Thailand and South Africa—have said they will buy over 1 m units each. Production is due to start in late 2006. How is the group, called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), able to create a laptop so inexpensively? It is mainly a matter of cleverly combining existing technologies in new ways. The laptop will have a basic processor made by AMD, flash memory instead of a hard disk, will be powered by batteries or a hand- crank, and will run open-source software. The $100 laptop also puts all the components behind the screen, not under the keyboard, so there is no need for an expensive hinge. So far, OLPC has got the price down to around $130. But good news for the world's poor, may not be such great news for the world's computer manufacturers. The new machine is not simply of interest in the developing world. On September 22nd, Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, said the state should purchase one for every secondary-school student, when they become available. Sales to schools are just one way in which the $100 laptop could change the computer industry more broadly. By depressing prices and fuelling the trend for "good-enough computing", where customers upgrade less often, it could eventually put pressure on the world's biggest PC-makers.
单选题He is a very honest official and never ______ any gifts from the
people who sought his help.
A. accepted
B. received
C. carried
D. excepted
单选题As you are students of English, it"s very possible that you"ll be interested in England. That"s where the language was first spoken. But England is often called by other names. This often confuses people and I wonder if you know what these names mean. So, now I would like to tell you about this matter of names. I believe that you have heard people use the names—England, Britain or Great Britain. Let"s see what each of these names means.
If you look at a map of Europe, you"ll see a group of islands—one larger island off the northwest coast, one smaller and many tiny ones. These make up what is called the British Isles. The largest island of the British Isles is Britain. It is also called Great Britain. The smaller island is Ireland.
Britain is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England. But sometimes the word "England" is used instead of "Britain". Why so?
In ancient times, what is Britain now used to be three different countries. People in these different countries spoke different languages. Over many years the three countries became one. England is the largest and richest of the three and it has the most people. So the English people take it for granted that their own name stands for the whole island.
There"s another thing that confuses people: sometimes you may hear people say "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" That is the official name of the country. Northern Ireland is only one sixth of the island or Ireland. The rest of the island is an independent state, called the Republic of Ireland. So we have the names of "England", "Britain", "Great Britain", and "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Now do you know what each of them means?
单选题______ his fluent English, he must______ in America for a long time.
单选题{{B}}Section A{{/B}}{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Each of the passages is followed by
some questions. For each question four answers are given. Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Put your answer on the
ANSWER SHEET.
{{B}}Passage One
What Makes a "Millennial Mind"?{{/B}} (1)
Since 1000 AD, around 30 billion people have been born on our planet. The vast
majority have come and gone unknown to all but their friends and family. A few
have left some trace on history: a discovery made, perhaps, or a record broken.
Of those, fewer still are remembered long after their death. Yet of all the
people who have lived their lives during the last 1000 years, just 38 have
achieved the status of "Millennial Minds" that's barely one in a billion. Those
whose lives Focus has chronicled have thus become members of possibly the most
exclusive list of all time. And choosing who should be included was not
easy. (2) From the beginning, the single most important
criterion was that the "Millennial Minds" are those who did more than merely
achieve greatness in their own time, or in one field. Thus mere winners of Nobel
Prizes had no automatic right to inclusion, nor artists who gained fame in their
own era, but whose reputation has faded with changing fashion. The achievements
of the genuine "Millennial Mind" affect our lives even. now, often in ways so
fundamental that it is hard to imagine what the world was like before.
(3) Not even transcendent genius was enough to guarantee a place in the
Focus list. To rate as a "Millennial Mind", the life and achievements also had
to cast light on the complex nature of creativity: its origins, nature and its
personal cost.
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单选题Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage.
For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose
the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through
the center.
There is one fairly standard reason why some
thinkers regard the meaning-of-life question as being itself meaningless. They
argue {{U}}(51) {{/U}} meaning is a matter of language, not objects. It
is a {{U}}(52) {{/U}} of the way we talk about things, not a feature of
things themselves, {{U}}(53) {{/U}} shape, weight or colour. A cabbage
or a computer is not meaningful in itself; it becomes {{U}}(54) {{/U}}
only by being caught up in our conversation. On this theory, we can make life
{{U}}(55) {{/U}} by our talk about it; but it cannot have a meaning in
itself, {{U}}(56) {{/U}} than a cloud can. It would not {{U}}(57)
{{/U}} sense, for example, to speak of a cloud as being true or false.
{{U}}(58) {{/U}}, truth and falsehood are function of our human
judgments about clouds. However, there are problems with this argument,
{{U}}(59) {{/U}} there are with most philosophical arguments. We shall
be {{U}}(60) {{/U}} a few of them later
on.
单选题She insisted that the seats ______ in advance. A. booked B. be booked C. are booked D. were to book
单选题Which statement about Epeat is wrong? A．Its full name is Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool. B．It is an environmental certification evaluating computers. C．It includes 51 environmental criteria in total. D．To qualify for Epeat registration, a product must meet all 51 criteria.
单选题Woman: Professor White’s presentation seemed to go on forever. I was barely able to stay awake.
Man: How could you sleep through it? It is one of the best that I have ever heard on this topic.
Question: What does the man think of Professor White’s presentation?
单选题The Wrights bought a new house but will need painting before they can move in． A．they B．it C．one D．which
单选题—Who has been planning the dance? —Everyone in the class ______.
单选题Jack, the boss, asked Steven to leave — ____ , she was filed.
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单选题People in that area experienced a serious storm. It was so ______ that many buildings collapsed.
单选题______ fairly recently, ______ solved, at least partially. A. Until… that this problem was B. It was until… that this problem was C. Not until… was this problem D. It was not until… when this problem was
单选题MacFarlane gave some suggestions that ______.
单选题The shop assistant was fired as she was ______ of cheating customers.
单选题Your {{U}}analogy{{/U}} was not a good one because the two situations are not similar.
单选题You have been badly injured in a car accident. It is necessary to give you a blood transfusion because you lost a great deal of blood in the accident. However, special care must be taken in selecting new blood for you. If the blood is too different from your own, the transfusion could kill you.
There are four basic types of blood; A, B, AB and O. A simple test can indicate a person"s blood type. Everybody is born with one of these four types of blood. Blood type, like hair color and height, is inherited from parents.
Because of substances contained in each type, the four groups must be transfused carefully. Basically, A and B cannot be mixed. A and B cannot receive AB, but AB may receive A or B. O can give to any other group, hence it is often called the universal donor. For the opposite reason, AB sometimes called the universal recipient. However, because so many reactions can occur in transfusions, patients usually receive only salt or plasma until their blood can be matched as exactly as possible in the blood bank of a hospital. In this way, it is possible to avoid any bad reactions to the transfusion.
There is a relationship between your blood type and your nationality. Among Europeans and people of European ancestry, about 42 percent have type A while 45 percent have type O. The rarest is type AB. Other races have different percentages. For example, some American Indian groups have nearly 100 percent type O.
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单选题The population rose fast in the places which had the most ______ soils such as on the flood plains of great rivers.
单选题Studying in the boarding school, the students will become ______.
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单选题Eye contact is important in relationship because it ______to show attention and interest.
单选题Women sometimes fired cannons in battle because ______.
单选题A. squareB. fareC. areD. rare
单选题Father advised me not to say anything until ______ at the meeting.A. askingB. to askC. askedD. ask
单选题In spite of the strong opposition to new and strict environmental laws, however, it is still possible to attack the problem of chemical pollution; but we must attack it from three directions. First, we need more independent research into the effects of chemicals by scientists who are not paid by the government or by large industrial companies. Second, scientists need to educate the general public and inform them about the dangers of chemicals in the environment. If the public knows that a certain chemical threatens the health of their children, then it will put pressure on politicians in office, they will take action to correct the long-term economic costs of chemicals. It will be extremely expensive to clean areas of land which are contaminated (污染) by chemicals; it will be even more costly to give medical treatment to people who are suffering from serious illnesses after exposure to dangerous chemicals. If governments realize this, the short-term economic benefits of chemicals will seem much less attractive to them. If we can put pressure on governments in these three ways, perhaps they will begin to behave more responsibly. They will perhaps pass new laws against pollution and enforce them strictly. Perhaps, then, the chemical producers will begin to behave more responsibly.
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单选题The older view is that the laws of Nature are absolute, though they may have been inaccurately ______.