单选题We are going on the ______ that the work will he finished tomorrow.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSER SHEET 1. Divorce is the act by which a valid marriage is dissolved, usually freeing the parties to remarry. In regions in {{U}}(1) {{/U}}ancient {{U}}(2) {{/U}} authority still predominates, divorce may be {{U}}(3) {{/U}} and rare, especially when, as among Roman Catholics and Hindus, the religious {{U}}(4) {{/U}} views marriage {{U}}(5) {{/U}} indissoluble. Custom, {{U}}(6) {{/U}}, may make divorce a simple matter in {{U}}(7) {{/U}} societies. {{U}}(8) {{/U}} some Pueblo Indian tribes a woman could divorce her husband {{U}}(9) {{/U}} leaving his moccasins on the doorstep. The {{U}}(10) {{/U}} of individual determination and mutual {{U}}(11) {{/U}} are making divorce {{U}}(12) {{/U}} acceptable in the {{U}}(13) {{/U}} parts of the world. Among premodern societies, the rate of marital stability is difficult to {{U}}(14) {{/U}} {{U}}(15) {{/U}} the varying definitions of {{U}}(16) {{/U}} and divorce. It seems to be broadly true {{U}}(17) {{/U}} wherever divorce is a legal impossibility the wedding is a well-defined event conducted with {{U}}(18) {{/U}} formality. The {{U}}(19) {{/U}} principle does not hold true: elaborate marriage ceremonial is quite compatible with high divorce rates. Many anthropologists agree that divorce is generally more permissible in matrilineal societies {{U}}(20) {{/U}} in patrilineal ones, in which the procreative and sexual rights of the bride are often symbolically transferred to the husband with the payment of bride-price.

单选题What is following is the cause that will make the Olympic Games suspect and no longer worth watching?

单选题Li Ping was born ______.A. in the year 1984, at 10a. m. on June 18thB. on June 18th at 10a. m. in the year 1984C. at 10a. m. in the year 1984 on June 18thD. at 10a. m. on June 18th in the year 1984

单选题 For American parents, bargain prices for toys this holiday season qualify as good news: A Barbie fan who rose before dawn for Wal-Mart's Black Friday sale could secure the "Barbie Diamond Castle Princess Liana Doll" for $5-royally marked down from its regular retail price. At Target, a radiocontrolled helicopter cost a mere $15. The price wars were enough to draw consumers out of their bunkers (碉堡) for their first shopping outing in months. But wrapped up with those cheap toys are ominous economic omens for both sides of the Pacific. The rock-bottom prices show how desperate US retailers are to plump up weak consumer demand—a symptom of the ailing US economy and a serious problem for China, which makes nine of every 10 toys sold in American stores. The toy industry has played a major role in China's economic surge (猛增) over the past 30 years. But Chinese toy makers began feeling the economic squeeze well before the US recession was made official in late November. The volume of Chinese toys passing through eight major US ports was down 5.9 percent in the first nine months in 2008, compared to the same period in 2007, according to economic forecasters IHS Global Insight, which tracks the information for the National Federation of Retailers. China's new labor contract law which imposed stricter conditions and compensation for layoffs of temporary workers took effect in 2007, increasing costs for manufacturers that rely heavily on migrants on production lines, including toy makers and other labor-intensive manufacturers based mainly in southern Guangdong province. Toy makers also were hard hit by the rising price of oil, which surged to more than $140 a barrel in June, and in turn sharply increased the price of plastic. Industry sources say the toy makers saw profits squeezed to the point where many tried to renegotiate contracts with buyers—especially major US players like Wal-Mart. When they discovered the buyers wouldn't move even slightly on the purchase agreements, many simply decided to close their factories. "Over half (of the factories) that have closed had negotiated a price, then when they couldn't get the retailer to move (on the price), they wouldn't make it at a loss and closed down," said Britt Beemer, a retail strategist and founder of America's Research Group. To be sure, some of the factories that were shut down were small shops that employed only a few dozen workers. And the contraction is to some degree a natural consolidation process in an industry that is overbuilt.

单选题Text 3 For the generation that grew up during the feminist revolution and the rapid social change of the 1960s and 1970s, it at first seemed achievement enough just to "make it" in a man's world. But coupled with their ambition, today's women have developed a fierce determination to find new options for being both parent and professional without sacrificing too much to either role or burning themselves out beyond redemption. Women have done all of the accommodating in terms of time, energy, and personal sacrifice that is humanly possible, and still they have not reached true integration in the workplace. For a complicated set of reasons—many beyond their control—they feel conflict between their careers and their children. All but a rare few quickly dispel the myth that superwoman ever existed. For many women, profession and family are pitted against one another on a high stakes collision course. Women's values are stacked against the traditions of their professions. In the home, men and women struggle to figure out how dual-career marriages should work. Role conflict for women reaches far beyond the fundamental work/family dilemma to encompass a whole constellation of fiercely competing priorities. Women today find themselves in an intense battle with a society that cannot let go of a narrowly defined work ethic that is supported by a family structure that has not existed for decades. The unspoken assumption persists that there is still a woman at home to raise the children and manage the household. But the economic reality is that most people, whether in two-parent or single-parent families, need to work throughout their adult lives. As a consequence, the majority of today's mothers are in the labor market. The first full-fledged generation of women in the professions did not talk about their overbooked agenda or the toll it took on them and their families. They knew that their position in the office was shaky at best. With virtually no choice in the matter, they bought into the traditional notion of success in the workplace—usually attained at the high cost of giving up an involved family life. If they suffered self-doubt or frustration about how hollow professional success felt without complementary rewards from the home, they blamed themselves—either for expecting too much or for doing too little. And they asked themselves questions that held no easy answers. Am I expecting too much? Is it me? Am I alone in this dilemma? Do other women truly have it all? Until now, this has been a private dilemma, unshared, as each woman was left to forge her own unique solution to merging her dual loyalties to work and family. Too often she felt that she alone had failed to achieve a comfortable balance between the two.

单选题when he submitted his papers in 1905, Einstein ______

单选题The book shows a remarkable______of knowledge.

单选题In his ______to further knowledge of the universe, man has now begun to explore space.

单选题Pneumonia is closely related to ______.

单选题Trade with Britain and the West Indies allowed colonial seaports such as Boston to ______.(2010年北京航空航天大学考博试题)

单选题The historian Frederick J. Turner wrote in the 1890's that the agrarian discontent that had been developing steadily in the United States since about 1870 had been precipitated by the closing of the internal frontier — that is, the depletion of available new land needed for further expansion of the American farming system. Not only was Turner's thesis influential at the time, it was later adopted and elaborated by other scholars, such as John D. Hicks in The Populist Revolt (1931). Actually, however, new lands were taken up for farming in the United States throughout and beyond the nineteenth century. In the 1890's, when agrarian discontent had become most acute, 1, 100,000 new farms were settled, which was 500, 000 more than had been settled during the previous decade. After 1890, under the terms of the Homestead Act and its successors, more new land was taken up for farming than had been taken up for this purpose in the United States up until that time. It is true that a high proportion of the newly farmed land was suitable only for grazing and dry farming, but agricultural practices had become sufficiently advanced to make it possible to increase the profitability of farming by utilizing even these relatively barren lands. The emphasis given by both scholars and statesmen to the presumed disappearance of the American frontier helped to obscure the great importance of changes in the conditions and consequences of international trade that occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1869 the Suez Canal was opened and the first transcontinental railroad in the United States was completed. An extensive network of telegraph and telephone communications was spun: Europe was connected by submarine cable with the United States in 1866 and with South America in 1874. By about 1870 improvements in agricultural technology made possible the full exploitation of areas that were most suitable for extensive farming on a mechanized basis. Huge tracts of land were being settled and farmed in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and in the American West, and these areas were joined with one another and with the countries of Europe into an interdependent market system. As a consequence, agrarian depressions no longer were local or national in scope, and they struck several nations whose internal frontiers had not vanished or were not about to vanish. Between the early 1870's and the 1890's, the mounting agrarian discontent in America paralleled the almost uninterrupted decline in the prices of American agricultural products on foreign markets. Those staple-growing farmers in the United States who exhibited the greatest discontent were those who had become most dependent on foreign markets for the sale of their products. Insofar as Americans had been deterred from taking up new land for farming, it was because market conditions had made this period a perilous time in which to do so.

单选题I get asked about what individuals can do to stay current in a world that somehow keeps and repeating pattems all at the same time. A. transforming B. distorting C. converting D. contorting

单选题The cost is going (21) for just about everything, and college tuition is no exception. According to a nationwide survey (22) by the College Board's Scholarship Service, (23) at most American universities will be (24) of 9 percent higher this year over last. The biggest increase will occur at private colleges. Public colleges, heavily subsidized by tax funds, will also (25) their tuition, but the increase will be a few percentage points (26) than their privately sponsored neighbors. (27) a follow-up, the United Press international did their own study (28) Massachus-setts Institute of Technology. At M. I. T. advisors recommended (29) students have $ 8,900 (30) for one year's expenses, including $ 5,300 (31) tuition, $ 2,685 for room and (32) , $ 630 for personal expenses, and $ 285 for books and supplies. Ten years ago the tuition (33) only $ 2,150. To (34) that another way, the cost has climbed 150 percent in the last (35) .

单选题For years, studies have found that first-generation college students—those who do not have a parent with a college degree—lag other students on a range of education achievement factors. Their grades are lower and their dropout rates are higher. But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them. This has created "a paradox" in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has "continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close" an achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science. But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students. The authors of the paper are from different universities, and their findings are based on a study involving 147 students (who completed the project) at an unnamed private university. First generation was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree. Most of the first-generation students (59.1 percent) were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree. Their thesis—that a relatively modest intervention could have a big impact—was based on the view that first-generation students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students. They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap. Many first-generation students "struggle to navigate the middle-class culture of higher education, learn the "rules of the game," and take advantage of college resources," they write. And this becomes more of a problem when collages don"t talk about the class advantage and disadvantages of different groups of students. Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students" educational experience, many first-generation students lack sight about why they are struggling and do not understand how students like them can improve.

单选题The author's tone in the text may best be summarized as that of

单选题A. dearB. hearC. earlyD. fear