单选题She ______ a large amount of money from her father when he died.

单选题She ______into tears when she heard from the hospital that her father died.

单选题Skippers must make a report to customs either in person or by telephone, if they have any duty-free goods on board, or are carrying prohibited goods including animals ______ their port of departure. A. with regard to B. ignorant of C. resistant to D. irrespective of

单选题Among the freshmen at UCLA ______ thought themselves as Jewish.

单选题The president is to give a formal __ at the opening ceremony. 

单选题 Is College a Worthy Investment? A. Why arc we spending so much money on college? And why are we so unhappy about it? We all seem to agree that a college education is wonderful, and yet strangely we worry when we see families investing so much in this supposedly essential good. Maybe it's time to ask a question that seems almost sacrilegious (大不敬的): is all this investment in college education really worth it? B. The answer, I fear, is no. For an increasing number of kids, the extra time and money spent pursuing a college diploma will leave them worse off than they were before they set foot on campus. C. For my entire adult life, a good education has been the most important thing for middle-class households. My parents spent more educating my sister and me than they spent on their house, and they're not the only ones...and, of course, for an increasing number of families, most of the cost of their house is actually the cost of living in a good school district. Questioning the value of a college education seems a bit like questioning the value of happiness, or fun. D. The average price of all goods and services has risen about 50 percent. But the price of a college education has nearly doubled in that time. Is the education that today's students are getting twice as good? Are new workers twice as smart? Have they become somehow massively more expensive to educate? E. Perhaps a bit. Richard Vedder, an Ohio University economics professor, rays, 'I look at the data, and I see college costs rising faster than inflation up to the mid-1980s by 1 percent a year. Now I see them rising 3 to 4percent a year over inflation. What has happened? The federal government has started dropping money out of airplanes.' Aid has increased, subsidized (补贴的) loans have become available, and 'the universities have gotten the money.' Economist Bryan Caplan, who is writing a book about education, agrees: 'It's a giant waste of resources that will continue as long as the subsidies continue.' F. Promotional literature for colleges and student loans often speaks of debt as an 'investment in yourself.' But an investment is supposed to generate income to pay off the loans. More than half of all recent graduates are unemployed or in jobs that do not require a degree, and the amount of student-loan debt carried by households has increased more than five times since 1999. These graduates were told that a diploma was all they needed to succeed, but it won't even get them out of the spare bedroom at Morn and Dad's. For many, the most visible result of their four years is the loan payments, which now average hundreds of dollars a month on loan balances in the tens of thousands. G. It's true about the money—sort of. College graduates now make 80 percent more than people who have only a high-school diploma, and though there are no precise estimates, the wage premium (高出的部分) for an outstanding school seems to be even higher. But that's not true of every student. It's very easy to spend four years majoring in English literature and come out no more employable than you were before you went in. Conversely, chemical engineers straight out of School can easily make almost four times the wages of an entry-level high-school graduate. H. James Heckman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, has examined how the returns on education break down for individuals with different backgrounds and levels of ability. 'Even with these high prices, you're still finding a high return for individuals who are bright and motivated,' he says. On the other hand, 'if you're not college ready, then the answer is no, it's not worth it.' Experts tend to agree that for the average student, college is still worth it today, but they also agree that the rapid increase in price is eating up more and more of the potential return. For borderline students, tuition (学费) rise can push those returns into negative territory. I. Everyone seems to agree that the government, and parents, should be rethinking how we invest in higher education—cad that employers need to rethink the increasing use of college degrees as crude screening tools for jobs that don't really require college skills. 'Employers seeing a surplus of college graduates and looking to fill jobs are just adding that requirement, ' says Vedder. 'In fact, a college degree becomes a job requirement for becoming a bat-tender.' J. We have started to see some change on the finance side. A law passed in 2007 allows many students to cap their loan payment at 10 percent of their income and forgives any balance after 25 years. But of course, that doesn't control the cost of education; it just shifts it to taxpayers. It also encourages graduates to choose lower-paying careers, which reduces the financial return to education still further. 'You're subsidizing people to become priests and poets and so forth,' says Heckman. 'You may think that's a good thing, or you may not.' Either way it will be expensive for the government. K. What might be a lot cheaper is putting more kids to work. Caplan notes that work also builds valuable skills—probably more valuable for kids who don't naturally love sitting in a classroom. Heckman agrees wholeheartedly: 'People are different, and those abilities can be shaped. That's what we've learned, and public policy should recognize that.' L. Heckman would like to see more apprenticeship-style (学徒式) programs, where kids can learn in the workplace—learn not just specific job skills, but the kind of 'soft skills, ' like getting to work on time and getting along with a team, that ate crucial for career success. 'It's about having mentors (指导者) and having workplace-based education, ' he says. 'Time and again I've seen examples of this kind of program working.' M. Ah, but how do we get there from here? With better public policy, hopefully, but also by making better individual decisions. 'Historically markets have been able to handle these things,' says Vedder, 'and I think eventually markets will handle this one. If it doesn't improve soon, people are going to wake up and ask, 'Why am I going to college?''

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单选题 Americans today don't place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren't difficult to find. 'Schools have always been in a society where practice is more important than intellect', says education writer Diane Ravitch. 'Schools could be a counterbalance'. Ravitch's latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, 'We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society'. 'Intellect is resented as a form. of power or privilege', writes historian and Professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in U.S. politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children, 'We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing'. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized—going to school and learning to read, so he can preserve his innate goodness. Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines. School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country's educational system is in the grips of people who 'joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise'.

单选题Jack was in the conference room (discussing) plans with (the other) committee members when the chairman (had called) to say (he'd be late).A. discussingB. the otherC. had calledD. he'd be late

单选题Which of the following is Not true according to the first two paragraphs?

单选题His ______ handwriting resulted from haste and carelessness rather than from the inability to form the letters correctly.

单选题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying 'All shall pass with time going by.' You can cite examples to illustrate the meaning of letting go of past glory and suffering in life. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

单选题The items contained in the parcel do not ______ with those on the list that accompanied it. A. correspond B. agree C. cope D. associate

单选题 Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 1 minute to check through your work once more. Calendar In the modem calendar, we label all years with B.C. or A.D.

单选题—It's so noisy upstairs. What are they doing? —They be having a party.

单选题Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed people's natural relations, loosened their responsibilities to kin (亲戚) and neighbors, and substituted in their place superficial relationships with passing acquaintances. However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the "obviousness" is not tree. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community. But, for the most part, this fact has few significant consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else. Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ between more and less urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friendships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Nor are residents of large communities any likelier to display psychological symptoms of stress or alienation, a feeling of not belonging, than are residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do worry more about crime, and this leads them to a distrust of strangers. These findings do not imply that urbanism makes little or no difference. If neighbors are strangers to one another, they are less likely to sweep the sidewalk of an elderly couple living next door or keep an eye out for young troublemakers. Moreover, as Wirth suggested, there may be a link between a community's population size and its social heterogeneity (多样性). For instance, sociologists have found that the size of a community is associated with bad behavior including gambling, drugs, etc. Large-city urbanites are also more likely than their small-town counterparts to have a cosmopolitan (见多识广者的) outlook, to display less responsibility to traditional kinship roles, to vote for leftist political candidates, and to be tolerant of nontraditional religious groups, unpopular political groups, and so-called undesirables. Everything considered, heterogeneity and unusual behavior seem to be outcomes of large population size.

单选题 Anger is a very common human 28 and at some time or another we all experience it. From young children to old people we all feel anger at various times and for various reasons. There is nothing wrong with this, it is only when you lose 29 of your feelings and begin to rant and rave unnecessarily about something very trivial that it is seen as a 30 . Because it is a natural emotion you do not have to strive to get rid of it 31 , but you only have to control it getting out of hand. If you know that the lack of self confidence is your main problem. Do something about it. There are 32 books written about this subject and there is much to be learned from them. Check your local churches or clubs and find out if there are any 33 currently running on the subject of self confidence and self esteem. It is well worth the effort to 34 your self confidence. Make yourself do things that might freak you out. Talking to strangers might 35 you. If this is the case make a point of 36 one stranger per day and starting a conversation. Make a list of things that 37 you and lead to you getting angry. Discuss your list with your family and they will give you their support in helping you any way they can. They will be so pleased that you are trying to be different that you can be sure that they will do everything they can to make you happy. A. aggravate B. approaching C. classes D. completely E. control F. emotion G. tournament H. trailed I. lecture J. numerous K. problem L. followed M. regain N. scare O. view

单选题In order to understand a problem thoroughly, da Vinci ______.

单选题 'Depression' is more than a serious economic downturn. What distinguishes a depression from a harsh recession is paralyzing fear—fear of the unknown so great that it causes consumers, businesses, and investors to retreat and panic. They save up cash and desperately cut spending. They sell stocks and other assets. A shattering loss of confidence inspires behavior that overwhelms the normal self-correcting mechanisms that usually prevent a recession from becoming deep and prolonged; a depression. Comparing 1929 with 2007-09, Christina Romer, the head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, finds the initial blow to confidence far greater now than then. True, stock prices fell a third from September to December 1929, but fewer Americans then owned stocks. Moreover, home prices barely dropped. From December 1928 to December 1929, total household wealth declined only 3%. By contrast, the loss in household wealth between December 2007 and December 2008 was 17%. Both stocks and homes, more widely held, dropped more. Thus traumatized (受到创伤), the economy might have gone into a free fall ending in depression. Indeed, it did go into free fall. Shoppers refrained from buying cars, appliances, and other big-ticket items. Spending on such 'durables' dropped at a 12% annual rate in 2008's third quarter, a 20% rate in the fourth. And businesses shelved investment projects. That these huge declines didn't lead to depression mainly reflects, as Romer argues, countermeasures taken by the government. Private markets for goods, services, labor, and securities do mostly self-correct, but panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabilizing tendencies. In this situation, only government can protect the economy as a whole, because most individuals and companies are involved in the self-defeating behavior of self-protection. Government's failure to perform this role in the early 1930s transformed recession into depression. Scholars will debate which interventions this time—the Federal Reserve's support of a failing credit system, guarantees of bank debt, Obama's 'stimulus' plan and bank 'stress test '—counted most in preventing a recurrence. Regardless, all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose., to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb the fear that would perpetuate (使持久) a free fall. All this improved confidence. But the consumer sentiment index remains weak, and all the rebound has occurred in Americans' evaluation of future economic conditions, not the present. Unemployment (9.8%) is abysmal (糟透的), the recovery's strength unclear. Here, too, there is an echo from the 1930s. Despite bottoming out in 1933, the Depression didn't end until World War Ⅱ. Some government policies aided recovery; some hindered it. The good news today is that the bad news is not worse.