单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people. Days after days my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability. Accountability isn't hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences. Of the many values that hold civilization together—honesty, kindness, and so on—accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law— and, ultimately, no society. My job as a police officer is to impose accountability to people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people's behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment. Fortunately there are still communities—smaller towns, usually—where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: "In this faimily certain things are not tolerated—they simply are not done!" Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you enrage him. The main cause of this break-down is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it's the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn't teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn't provide a stable home. I don't believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything. We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.

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单选题Only ______ perform that operation. A) can a good doctor B) a good doctor can C) can do a good doctor D) do a good doctor

单选题 Long after the 1998 World Cup was won, disappointed fans were still cursing the disputed refereeing (裁判) decisions that denied victory to their team. A researcher was appointed to study the performance of some top referees. The researcher organized an experimental tournament (锦标赛) involving four youth teams. Each match lasted an hour, divided into three periods of 20 minutes during which different referees were in charge. Observers noted down the referees' errors, of which there were 61 over the tournament. Converted to a standard match of 90 minutes, each referee made almost 23 mistakes, a remarkably high number. The researcher then studied the videotapes to analyse the matches in detail. Surprisingly, he found that errors were more likely when the referees were close to the incident. When the officials got it right, they were, on average, 17 meters away from the action. The average distance in the case of errors was 12 meters. The research shows the optimum (最佳的)distance is about 20 meters. There also seemed to be an optimum speed. Correct decisions came when the referees were moving at a speed of about 2 meters per second. The average speed for errors was 4 meters per second. If FIFA, football's international ruling body, wants to improve the standard of refereeing at the next World Cup, it should encourage referees to keep their eyes on the action from a distance, rather than rushing to keep up with the ball, the researcher argues. He also says that FIFA's insistence that referees should retire at age 35 may be misguided. If keeping up with the action is not so important, their physical condition is less critical.

单选题Dr. Zhang was always ______ the poor and the sick, his private clinic often providing them with free medical care.

单选题The medicine was supposed to cure all kinds of ______, ranging from colds to back pains. A. compliments B. ailments C. implements D. commitments

单选题The author describes the telephone as impartial because it ______.

单选题They first-year students were learning from the army in Miyun, a suburb of Beijing near ______ I lived. A. what B. where C. that D. which

单选题Motherwasproudthatherdaughterlooked __________ amongthegirlsinthepartythatevening.

单选题The limited area was already full of exasperated engineers of various types, some looking ______, some angry, and some staring into space as they tried to think.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} There are 15 questions in this part of the test. Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your-Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. When we think about addiction to drugs or alcohol, we frequently focus on negative aspects, ignoring the pleasures that accompany drinking or drug-taking. {{U}}(21) {{/U}}the essence of any serious addiction is a pursuit of pleasure, a search for a "high" that normal life does not{{U}} (22) {{/U}}. It is only the inability to function{{U}} (23) {{/U}}the addictive substance that is dismaying, the dependence of the organism upon a certain experience and a(n){{U}} (24) {{/U}}inability to function normally without it. Thus a person will take two or three{{U}} (25) {{/U}}at the end of the day not merely for the pleasure drinking provides, but also because he "doesn't feel{{U}} (26) {{/U}}" without them. {{U}} (27) {{/U}}does not merely pursue a pleasurable experience and need to{{U}} (28) {{/U}}it in order to function normally. He needs to repeat it again and again. Something about that particular experience makes life without it{{U}} (29) {{/U}}complete. Other potentially pleasurable experiences axe no longer possible, {{U}}(30) {{/U}}under the spell of the addictive experience, his life is peculiarly{{U}} (31) {{/U}}. The addict craves an experience and yet he is never really satisfied. The organism may be{{U}} (32) {{/U}}sated, but soon it begins to crave again. Finally a serious addiction is{{U}} (33) {{/U}}a harmless pursuit of pleasure by its distinctly destructive elements. A heroin addict, for instance, leads a{{U}} (34) {{/U}}life: his increasing need for heroin in increasing doses prevents him from Working, from maintaining relationships, from developing in human ways. {{U}}(35) {{/U}}an alcoholic's life is narrowed and dehumanized by his dependence on alcohol.

单选题"I am convinced that we will not ______ a millimetre nor move one step to the side," said Gov. Ruben Costas to tens of thousands of jubilant supporters waving the department's green and white flags. A. recast B. rebuke C. assert D. retreat

单选题"What About the Men?" was the title of a Congressional briefing last week timed to 1 National Work and Family Month. "What about them ?" you may be 2 to yell. When Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute, first went out on the road to talk about her organization"s research into men"s work-family 3 , she received many such grumpy responses. Work-life experts laughed at her. Men are 4 , they said. They don"t have the right to complain. That was in 2008, before the Great Recession had hit. And this year, when Galinsky went out on the road again to talk about the results of a new study on male work-life conflict, she got a very 5 response. Some men became very 6 . They felt they didn"t have permission to feel 7 . ""This is what I think about each and every day, " " she recalled another man telling her. " " I didn"t realize that anyone else did, " " he said. "He thought he was alone, " Galinsky told me. 8 men are 9 work-family conflict isn"t new. Indeed, it"s been some time now that they—and younger men in particular—have been complaining of feeling the 10 in even greater numbers of women. Failure, 11 , uncertainty, the 12 that comes from spending a lifetime playing one game 13 , mid-way through, that the rules have suddenly changed, seem to have 14 the old categories of self, work and meaning for many men. Is this a bad thing? I"d rather see it as a moment ripe 15 possibility. "A new beginning, " said Ellen Galinsky. After all, what men are starting to say sounds an awful lot like the conversational stirrings that 16 the way for the modern women"s movement. For some years now, sociologists have been tracking the patterns of what they call 17 in men and women"s lives. Mostly, when we think of this, we tend to focus 18 how they live, what they do, spend their time, whether they do or do not empty the dishwasher or care for their children. But what about how they feel? Now that this final frontier is being breached, I wonder if we aren"t fully prepared to see more meaningful change in men"s—and women"s and families " —lives than ever before. That is: if we can 19 the change and act 20 it with courage, not fear.

单选题Mary likes _______ very much, but she didn"t go _______ last Sunday.

单选题A recent history of the Chicago meat-packing industry and its workers examines how the industry grew from its appearance in the 1830's through the early 1890's. Meat-packers, the author argues, had good wages, working conditions, and prospects for advancement within the packinghouses, and did not cooperate with labor agitators since labor relations were so harmonious. Because the history maintains that conditions were above standard for the era, the frequency of labor disputes, especially in the mid-1880's, is not accounted for. The work ignores the fact that the 1880's were crucial years in American labor history, and that the packinghouse workers! efforts were part of the national movement for labor reform. In fact, other historical sources for the late nineteenth century record deteriorating housing and high disease and infant mortality rates in the industrial community, due to low wages and unhealthy working conditions. Additional date from the University of Chicago suggest that the packing houses were dangerous places to work. The government investigations commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt which eventually led to the adoption of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act found the packinghouses unsanitary, while observed that most of the workers were poorly paid and overworked. The history may be too optimistic because most of its data date from the 1880's at the latest, and the information provided from that decade is insufficiently analyzed. Conditions actually declined in the 1880's, and continued to decline after the 1880's, due to are organization of the packing process and a massive influx of unskilled workers. The deterioration. In worker status, partly a result of the new availability of unskilled and hence cheap labor, is not discussed. Though a detailed account of work in the packing-houses is attempted, the author fails to distinguish between the wages and conditions for skilled workers and for those unskilled laborers who comprised the majority of the industry's workers from the 1880's on. While conditions for the former were arguably tolerable due to the strategic importance of skilled workers in the complicated slaughtering, cutting and packing process (though worker complaints about the rate and conditions of work were frequefit), pay and conditions for the latter were wretched. The author's misinterpretation of the origins of the feelings the meat-packers had for their industrial neighborhood may account for the history's faulty generalizations. The pride and contentment the author remarks upon were, arguably, less the products of the industrial world of the packers--the giant yards and the intricate plants--than of the unity and vibrancy of the ethnic cultures that formed a viable community on Chicago's South Side. Indeed, the strength of this community succeeded in generating a social movement that effectively confronted the problems of the industry that provided its livelihood.