单选题The judge panel includes the following EXCEPT ______.

单选题Summer in ______ south of France are dry and sunny.

单选题We expected about 20 guests but there were ____________ people there.

单选题I went there in 1984, and that was the only occasion when I ______ the journey in exactly two days. A. must take B. must have made C. was able to make D. could make

单选题 A new study suggests that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression as young adults. But the extent to which TV may or may not be to blame is a question that the study leaves unanswered. The researchers used a national long-term survey of adolescent health to investigate the relationship between media use and depression. They based their findings on more than 4,000 adolescents who were not depressed when the survey began in 1995. As part of the survey, the young people were asked how many hours of television or Videos they watched daily. They were also asked how often they played computer games and listened to the radio. Media use totaled an average of 5 and one-half hours a day. More than 2 hours of that was spent watching TV. 7 years later, in 2002, more than 7 percent of the young people had signs of depression. The average age at that time was 21. Brian Primack at the University of Pittsburgh medical school was the lead author of the new study. He says every extra hour of television meant an 8 percent increase in the chances of developing signs of depression. The researchers say they did not find any such relationship with the use of other media such as movies, Video games or radio. But the study did find that young men were more likely than young women to develop depression given the same amount of media use. Doctor Primack says the study did not explore why watching TV causes depression. But one possibility, he says, is that it may take time away from activities that could help prevent depression, like sports and socializing. It might also interfere with sleep, he says, and that could have an influence. The study was just published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. In December, the journal Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives. Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people. The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially active, to read, attend religious services and to vote.

单选题"What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison?" asks an old software industry joke. Answer: God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison. The boss of Oracle is hardly alone among corporate chiefs in having a reputation for being rather keen on himself. Indeed, until the bubble burst and the public turned nasty at the start of the decade, the cult of the celebrity chief executive seemed to demand bossly narcissism, as evidence that a firm was being led by an all-conquering hero. Narcissus in Greek myth met a nasty end, of course. And in recent years, boss-worship has come to be seen as bad for business. In his management besteller, Good to Great, Jim Collins argued that the truly successful bosses were not the self-proclaimed stars who adorn the covers of Forbes and Fortune, but instead self-effacing, thoughtful, monkish sorts who lead by inspiring example. A statistical answer may be at hand. For the first time, a new study, "It's All About Me", to be presented next week at the annual gathering of the American Academy of Management, offers a systematic, empirical analysis of what effect narcissistic bosses have on the firms they run. The authors, Arijit Chatterjee and Donald Hambriek, of Pennsylvania State University, examined narcissism in the upper echelons of 105 firms in the computer, and software industries. To do this, they had to solve a practical problem: studies of narcissism have hitherto relied on surveying individuals personally, something for which few chief executives are likely to have time or inclination. So the authors devised an index of narcissism using six publicly available indicators obtainable without the co-operation of the boss. These are: the prominence of the boss's photo in the annual report; his prominence in company press releases; the length of his "Who's Who" entry; the frequency of his use of the first person singular in interviews; and the ratios of his cash and non-cash compensation to those of the firm's second-highest paid executive. Narcissism naturally drives people to seek positions of power and influence, and because great self-esteem helps your professional advance, say the authors, chief executives will tend on average to be more narcissistic than the general population. How does that affect a firm? Messrs Chatterjee and Hambrick found that highly narcissistic bosses tended to make bigger changes in the use of important resources, such as research and development, or in spending and leverage; they carried out more and bigger mergers and acquisitions; and their results were both more extreme (more big wins or big losses) and more volatile than those of firms run by their humbler peers. For shareholders, that could be good or bad.

单选题Which of the following, according to the author, should play the leading role in the solution of environmental problems?

单选题His strange behavior had greatly ______ me and my friends as well that evening.

单选题The above passage is most probably taken from ______.

单选题A: Isn"t the pink shirt pretty? B: ______

单选题 Eleven summers ago I was sent to a management program at the Wharton School to be prepared for bigger things. Along with lectures on finance and entrepreneurship and the like, the program included a delightfully out-of-place session with Al Filreis, an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania, on poetry. For three hours he talked us through 'The Red Wheelbarrow' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.' The experience—especially when contrasted with the horrible prose of our other assigned reading—sent me fleeing to the campus bookstore, where I resumed a long-interrupted romance with meter and rhyme (韵). Professor Filreis says that he is 'a little shocked' at how intensely his Wharton students respond to this unexpected deviation from the businesslike, not just as a relief but as a kind of stimulus. Many write afterward asking him to recommend books of poetry. Especially now. 'The grim economy seems to make the participants keener than ever to think 'out of the box' in the way poetry encourages, ' he told me. Which brings me to Congress, an institution stuck deeper inside the box than just about any other these days. You have probably heard that up on Capitol Hill (美国国会山), they're very big on prayer breakfasts, where members gather over scrambled eggs and ask God for wisdom. You can judge from the agonizing debt spectacle we've watched this summer how well that's working. Well, maybe it's time to add some poetry readings to the agenda. I'm not suggesting that poetry will guide our legislators to wisdom any more than prayer has. Just that it might make them a little more human. Poetry is no substitute for courage or competence, but properly applied, it is a challenge to self-certainty, which we currently have in excess. Poetry serves as a spur to creative thinking, a reproach to dogma and habit, a remedy to the current fashion for pledge signing. The poet Shelley, in defense of poetry nearly two centuries ago, wrote, 'A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.' Shelley concludes that essay by calling poets 'the unacknowledged legislators of the world, ' because they bring imagination to the realm of 'reasoners and mechanists.' The relevance of poetry was declared more concisely in five lines from the love poem 'Asphodel, That Greeny Flower, ' by William Carlos Williams.. It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

单选题I remember quite clearly the first time I was really shaken by my wife's intuition. We were looking; for a second-hand car, and I had been much taken by a rather nice drop-head with a well-cared-for appearance. "Well, she runs nicely,” I told my wife after the try-out. “Good start-up, engine sounds sweet, low mileage and the right price. What do you think?" "I don't like it" "Why not?" "I don't know. There's just something about lie salesman that I don't believe. " A few weeks after we had bought another car elsewhere, I happened to find out the history of the drop-head. It had been seriously damaged in a crash before we saw it, and cleverly done up. The car was, indeed, a very bad risk. Of all the things about women that their husbands do not understand, perhaps the biggest question is this: How can she often be right about things of which she has absolutely no knowledge? How does a woman's intuition work? What is this strange power that tells her exactly when her husband isn't working late on business, however honest he pretends to be? Is it guesswork, or some sixth sense that men don't have?

单选题She likes heating her own voice. She never stops ________

单选题Research findings show we spend about two. hours dreaming every night, no matter what we ______during the day.

单选题Some companies might not let you rent a car ______ you have a credit card.

单选题If the horse wins tomorrow, he ______ twenty races in the past three years.

单选题These examples show that all individuals, they are rich or poor, should be responsible ______ they are involved in law. A. if;when B. if; as long as C. whether; as long as D. whether; since

单选题We should be able to do the job for you quickly, ______ you give us all the necessary information. A. in case B. provided that C. or else D. as if

单选题All ______ was needed was one final push to close the deal.