单选题In AS'case, according to Lorch,are involved________.

单选题Man: Jenny, why do you often watch talk shows?Woman: They make me laugh and sometimes crack me up, and I have learned a lot from their talks.Question: Why does the woman like watching talk shows?

单选题David was lying in bed, ______, listening to an English pop song.A. awokeB. awakeC. wakingD. wake

单选题______ he has created striking stage settings for the Martha Graham dance company, artist Isamu Noguchi is more famous for his sculpture.

单选题 Talk to any parent of a student who took an adventurous gap year (a year between school and university when some students earn money, travel, etc. ) and a misty look will come into their eyes. There are some disasters and even the most motivated, organized gap student does require family back-up, financial, emotional and physical. The parental mistiness is not just about the brilliant experience that has matured their offspring; it is vicarious living. We all wish pre-university gap years had been the fashion in our day. We can see how much tougher our kids become; how much more prepared to benefit from university or to decide positively that they are going to do something other than a degree. Gap years are fashionable, as is reflected in the huge growth in the number of charities and private companies offering them. Pictures of Prince William toiling in Chile have helped, but the trend has been gathering steam for a decade. The range of gap packages starts with backpacking, includes working with charities, building hospitals and schools and, very commonly, working as a language assistant, teaching English. With this trend, however, comes a danger. Once parents feel that a well structured year is essential to their would-be undergraduates' progress to a better university, a good degree, an impressive CV and well paid employment, as the gap companies blurbs suggest it might be, then parents will start organizing and paying for the gaps. Where there are disasters, according to Richard Oliver, director of the gap companies umbrella organization, the Year Out Group, it is usually because of poor planning. That can be the fault of the company or of the student, he says, but the best insurance is thoughtful preparation. "When people get it wrong, it is usually medical or, especially among girls, it is that they have not been away from home before or because expectation does not match reality. " The point of a gap year is that it should be the time when the school leaver gets to do the thing that he or she fancies. Kids don't mature if mum and dad decide how they are going to mature. If the 18-year-old's way of maturing is to slob out on Hampstead Heath soaking up sunshine or spending a year working with fishermen in Cornwall, then that's what will be productive for that person. The consensus, however, is that some structure is an advantage and that the prime mover needs to be the student. The 18-year-old who was dispatched by his parents at two weeks' notice to Canada to learn to be a snowboarding instructor at a cost of ￡5,800, probably came back with little more than a hangover. The 18-year-old on the same package who worked for his fare and spent the rest of his year instructing in resorts from New Zealand to Switzerland, and came back to apply for university, is the positive counterbalance.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} In 1998 consumers could purchase virtually anything over the Internet. Books, compact discs, and even stocks were available from World Wide Web sites that seemed to spring up almost daily. A few years earlier, some people had predicted that consumers accustomed to shopping in stores would be reluctant to buy things that they could not see or touch in person. For a growing number of time-starved consumers, however, shopping from their home computer was proving to be a convenient alternative to driving to the store. A research estimated that in 1998 U.S. consumers would purchase ＄ 7.3 billion of goods over the Internet, double the 1997 total. Finding a bargain was getting easier, owing to the rise of online auctions and Web sites that did comparison shopping on the Internet for the best deal. For all the consumer interest, retailing in cyberspace was still a largely unprofitable business, however. Internet pioneer Amazon. com, which began selling books in 1995 and later branched into recorded music and videos, posted revenue of $153.7 million in the third quarter, up from ＄ 37.9 million in the same period of 1997．Overall, however, the company's loss widened to ＄ 45.2 million from $ 9.6 million, and analysts did not expect the company to turn a profit until 2003．Despite the great loss, Amazon com had a stock market value of many billions, reflecting investors' optimism about the future of the industry. Internet retailing appealed to investors because it provided an efficient means for reaching millions of consumers without having the cost of operating conventional stores with their armies of salespeople. Selling online carried its own risks, however. With so many companies competing for consumers' attention, price competition was intense and profit margins thin or nonexistent. One video retailer sold the hit movie Titanic for ＄ 9.99, undercutting (削价) the ＄19.99 suggested retail price and losing about ＄ 6 on each copy sold．With Internet retailing still in its initial stage, companies seemed willing to absorb such losses in an attempt to establish a dominant market position.

单选题You may get good grades by studying only before examinations, but you will only succeed ______ by studying hard every day.

单选题Hot containers of nuclear wastes to be put in Antarctic region would______

单选题A few common misconceptions. Beauty is only skin-deep. One's physical assets and liabilities don't count all that much in a managerial career. A woman should always try to look her best. Over the last 30 years, social scientists 'have conducted more than 1,000 studies of how we react to beautiful and not-so-beautiful people. The virtually unanimous conclusion: Looks do matter, more than most of us realize: The data suggest, for example, that physically attractive individuals are more likely to be treated well by their parents, sought out as friends, and pursued romantically. With the possible exception of women seeking managerial jobs, they are also more likely to be hired, paid well, and promoted. Un-American, you say, unfair and extremely unbelievable? Once again, the scientists have caught us mouthing pieties (虔诚)while acting just the contrary. Their typical experiment works something like this. They give each member of a group-college students, perhaps, or teachers or corporate personnel managers a piece of paper relating an individual's accomplishments. Attached to the paper is a photograph. While the papers all say exactly the same thing the pictures are different. Some show a strikingly attractive person, some an average-looking character, and some an unusually unattractive human being. Group members are asked to rate the individual on certain attributes, anything from personal warmth to the likelihood that he or she will be promoted. Almost invariably, the better looking the person in the picture, the higher the person is rated. In the phrase, borrowed from Sappho, that the social scientists use to sum up the common perception, what is beautiful is good. In business, however, good looks cut both ways for women, and deeper than for men. A Utah State University professor, who is an authority on the subject, explains: In terms of their careers, the impact of physical attractiveness on males is only modest. But its potential impact on females can be tremendous, making its easier, for example, for the more attractive to get jobs where they are in the public .eye. On another note, though, there is enough literature now for us to conclude that attractive women who aspire to managerial positions do not get on as well as women who may be less attractive.

单选题The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of a fully-loaded truck,______to the truck.(中南大学2007年试题)

单选题He has such ______ bad toothache so he has to go to see ______ doctor. A．a; a B．the; the C．a; the D．the; a

单选题He gradually ______ that his wife was right and he had to change his way of living.(2004年武汉大学考博试题)

单选题According to psychoanalysis, a persons' attention is attracted______by the intensity of different signals ______ by their context, significance, and information content. A. not less than, as B. as, just as C. so much, as D. not so much, as

单选题It is not easy to remain Utranquil/U when events suddenly change you life.

单选题I'm thinking about changing careers, but I don't quite know how to______it.

单选题His Selected Poems ______ first published in 1986.A. wereB. wasC. has beenD. is

单选题2 Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values that we unquestionably accept are false. Don Quizote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satire method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous combination, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude. Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because the readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is hypocritical, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens de- vote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.

单选题To persuade consumers to buy more of its cameras, the PictureSharp Camera company has launched an advertising campaign in coordination with its dealers to promote the slogan, 'A Picture Is Worth a Million Words." The dealers participating in the program are experiencing very robust sales, but PictureSharp analysts are concerned that the campaign is not successfully meeting its goals. Which of the following, if true, most justifies the concerns of the PictureSharp analysts that the campaign is not successful? A. The new PictureSharp slogan is a thinly veiled imitation of the better-known saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words." B. PictureSharp is one of the leading manufacturers of digital cameras, which although generally more expensive than conventional film cameras, are considerably more versatile. C. Many consumers who saw the commercials in this advertising campaign were concerned that they lacked the artistic skill to create a picture that would actually be worth "a million words." D. Although almost all PictureSharp camera dealers participated in the advertising campaign by displaying promotional materials in their stores, some of them did not display or distribute all of the marketing materials that PictureSharp sent them. E. All PictureSharp dealers also sell other brands of cameras, some of which are comparable to PictureSharp cameras in features and quality but significantly lower in price, allowing the dealers to charge a higher markup than for PictureSharp cameras.

单选题Journalists keep writing about and reporting on important events. This better reflects the recreational function of language.

单选题Rebecca ______ me earlier if she did not like her house she bought last month. A. told B. would tell C. had told D. would have told