单选题At the party we found that shy girl ______ her mother all the time.(2013年北京航空大学考博试题)

单选题 Passage Three (1) Viewed from a star in some other corner of the galaxy, Earth would be a speck, a faint blue dot hidden in the blazing light of our sun. While our neighbors Venus and Mars would reflect a fairly even glow. Earth would put on a little show. Earth's light would brighten and dim as it spins, because oceans, deserts, forests and clouds which are all too small to be seen from such a distance, reflect varying amounts of sunlight. The variations, it turns out, are so strong and distinctive that surprising amount of information could be taken from a simple ebb and flow of light. Scientists at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study conducted a detailed study of Earth's reflections as a way for human scientists to learn about distant planets that may be like our own. (2) "If you looked at our solar system from far away, and you looked at the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, one of the quickest ways to see that Earth is unique, which is by looking at the light curve," said Ed Turner, professor of astrophysics and a co-author of the study. "Earth has by far the most complicated light curve." The standard thinking in the field had been that most of the information about an Earth-like planet would come from spectral analysis, a static reading of the relative component of different colors within the light, rather than a reading of changes over time. Spectral analysis would reveal the presence of gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide and oxygen, in the planet's atmosphere. Looking at the change in light over time does not replace spectral analysis, but it could greatly increase the amount of information scientists could learn, said Turner. It may indicate, for example, the presence of weather, oceans, ice or even plant life.

单选题Which of the following statements is NOT true about John McDermott?

单选题Few people went to meet him at the railway station yesterday, ______ ? A．didnt they B．did they C．werent they D．were they

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} More than 6,000 children were expelled (开除) from US school last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May 8. The department gave a report to the expulsions (开除) as saying handguns accounted for 58% of the 6,093 expulsions in 1996—1997, against 7% for rifles (步枪) or shotguns and 35% for other types of firearms. "The report is a clear sign that our nation's public schools are cracking down (严惩) on students who bring guns to school," Education Secretary Richard Riley said in a statement. In March 1997, an 11-year old boy and a 13-year old boy using handguns and rifles shot dead four children and a teacher at a school in Arkansas. In October, two were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a Mississippi school. Two months later, a 14-year old boy killed three high school students and wounded five in Kentucky. Most of the expulsions, 56%, were from high school, 34% were from junior high schools and 9% were from elementary schools, the report said.

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw—having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves. That's a far different image from the cherry-tree-chopping George most people remember from their history books. But recently, many historians have begun to focus on the roles slavery played in the lives of the founding generation. They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings. And only over the past 30 years have scholars examined history from the bottom up. Works of several historians reveal the moral compromises made by the nation's early leaders and the fragile nature of the country's infancy. More significantly, they argue that many of the Founding Fathers knew slavery was wrong--and yet most did little to fight it. More than anything, the historians say, the founders were hampered by the culture of their time. While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create. For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves. Owning slaves was "like having a large bank account," says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. 'The southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections for the "peculiar institution," including a clause that counted a slave as three fifths of a man for purposes of congressional representation. And the statesmen's political lives depended on slavery. The three-fifths formula handed Jefferson his narrow victory in the presidential election of 1800 by inflating the votes of the southern states in the Electoral College. Once in office, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states, including three slave states. Still, Jefferson freed Hemings's children—though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves. Washington, who had begun to believe that all men were created equal after observing the bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War, overcame the strong opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will. Only a decade earlier, such an act would have required legislative approval in Virginia.

单选题Those dissenters of westernization made no mention of the healthy aspects of globalization.

单选题从下面提供的答案中选出应填入下列英文语句中______内的正确答案。 With the widespread use of the personal computer, many authorities in the field of (1) have point out need for computer literacy. Unfortunately, there is no (2) agreement as to what term computer literacy means. Some feel that computer literacy means knowing how to make the computer compute; that is,knowing how to program computers in one or more programming languages. Others feel that knowing how to program is merely a small segment of computer literacy. These people (3) the major emphasis in schools should be on teaching how to effectively use the many software packages that available. Still others suggest that computer literacy education is not required. They suggest that computers are being so rapidly integrated into our society that using a computer will be as (4) as using a telephone or a video tape recorder, and that special education will not be necessary. (5) of ones definition of computer literacy, it is recognized by most that learrung to use a computer is indeed an important skill in modern society.

单选题The large size and roughly circular shape of the Pacific made some scientists think that it ______ a hole left when the moon separated from the earth.

单选题 Given the choice between spending an evening with friends and taking extra time for his school-work, Andy Klise admits he would probably{{U}} (21) {{/U}}for the latter. It's not that he doesn't like to have fun; It's just that his desire to excel{{U}} (22) {{/U}}drives his decision-making process. A 2001 graduate of Wooster High School and now a senior biology major at The College of Wooster, Klise acknowledges that he may someday have{{U}} (23) {{/U}}thoughts about his decision to limit the time he has spent{{U}} (24) {{/U}}, but for now, he is comfortable with the choices he has made. "If things had not{{U}} (25) {{/U}}out as well as they have, I would have had some regrets," says Klise, who was a Phi Beta Kappa inductee as a junior. "But spending the extra time studying has been well worth the{{U}} (26) {{/U}}. I realized early on that to be successful, I had to make certain{{U}} (27) {{/U}}." {{U}} (28) {{/U}}the origin of his intense motivation, Klise notes that it has been part of his makeup for as long as he can remember. "I've always been goal{{U}} (29) {{/U}}," he says. "This internal drive has caused me to give my all{{U}} (30) {{/U}}pretty much everything I do." Klise{{U}} (31) {{/U}}Wooster's nationally recognized Independent Study (I. S. ) program with preparing him for his next{{U}} (32) {{/U}}in life: a research position with the National Institute of Health (NIH). "I am hoping that my I.S. experience will help me{{U}} (33) {{/U}}a research position with NIH," says Klise. "The yearlong program gives students a chance to work with some of the nation's{{U}} (34) {{/U}}scientists while making the{{U}} (35) {{/U}}from undergraduate to graduate studies or a career in the medical field."

单选题M: Maria, I want you to have all my laundry ready by the time I get home. W: You must be kidding! Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题Mr. Smith would just rather we ______ now, but we must go to work.

单选题According to the passage, we can guess it is safer to take a car driven by a woman because

单选题But the judge surprised the entire court when he stated, "The ______ of the marriage contract invalidated it."

单选题Given the Secretary of State's ______ the President's foreign policies, he has no choice but to resign. A. reliance on B. antipathy toward C. pretense of D. support for

单选题______ studies the internal structure of simple propositions. A. Predicate calculus B. Propositional calculus C. Sentential calculus