单选题All the following novels are written by the Bronte sisters except____.

单选题Twenty years of imprisonment has______him from the modern city life.

单选题Poetry Poetry is universal to all people, all places, and all times. The most【C1】______people have memorized poetry; the most cultured have nurtured it. Poetry knows no【C2】______, neither culture, age, gender, nor religion. We can even make a case that poetry captures the【C3】______of the universe, the ebb and flow of the tides, the beat of the seasons, and the rise and fall of our breath. Why is poetry the【C4】______thing humanity has to a universal language? Because poetry 【C5】______the ear, mind, and soul. It satisfies our【C6】______for beauty through the power of its language. But poetry【C7】______more than mere pleasure. It also communicates【C8】______Good poetry offers food for the【C9】______"Poetry, " wrote the Nobel Prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot, "may make us from time to time a little more【C10】______of the deeper, unnamed feelings to which we rarely【C11】______ Poetry reveals these "deeper, unnamed feelings" , and gives them【C12】______By calling attention to the aspects of life we might【C13】______in our hurry, poetry makes us understand not only their nature but also our own. As a result, poetry is not something special or【C14】______from our daily lives. Rather, it is an【C15】______part of everyone, an expression of our【C16】______hopes, wishes, and dreams. Although poetry satisfies a deep human appetite, many people fear and【C17】______it, claiming it is obscure, as it is written by men and women out of【C18】______with the realities of life. In fact, from the earliest times, most poets have been people of【C19】______, deeply involved with the rhythms of life. Ben Jonson was a bricklayer and Robert Bums a farmer. Nor are female poets【C20】______from the rigors of life. Phillis Wheatley was a former slave and Stevie Smith, a secretary.

单选题Viewed from the hilltop, a few neglected farmhouses lay scattered in the valley. If we wanted to find shelter for the night, that was the only place for miles ______ .

单选题The reason why he didn't take the exam was______he had an accident on his way to the school.

单选题Some social critics took a dim view of the industrialism of the nineteenth century, believing that it______a harsh, crude life-style.(2011年南京大学考博试题)

单选题She wants to know whether the measures have been agreed ______. A. to B. with C. about D. upon

单选题High grades are supposed to______academic ability, but John's actual performance did not confirm this.(中国矿业大学2008年试题)

单选题We can ______ his help whenever we are in trouble. A．count on B．repond to C．look for D．tell from

单选题Last Sunday ______ had a picnic in Beihai Park. A. John, Mary and I B. John, me and Mary C. John, I and Mary D. I, John and Mary

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} In almost all cases the soft parts of fossils are gone for ever but they were fitted around or within the hard parts. Many of them also were attached to the hard parts and usually such attachments are visible as depressed or elevated areas, ridges or grooves, smooth or rough patches on the hard parts. The muscles most important for the activities of the animal and most evident in the appearance of the living animal are those attached to the hard parts and possible to reconstruct from their attachments. Much can be learned about a vanished brain from the inside of the skull in which it was lodged. Restoration of the external appearance of an extinct animal has little or no scientific value. It does not even help in inferring what the activities of the living animal were, how fast it could run, what its food was, or such other conclusions as are important for the history of life. However, what most people want to know about extinct animals is what they looked like when they were alive. Scientists also would like to know. Things like fossil shells present no great problem as a rule, because the hard parts are external when the animal is alive and the outer appearance is actually preserved in the fossils. Animals in which the skeleton is internal present great problems of restoration, and honest restorers admit that they often have to use considerable guessing. The general shape and contours of the body are fixed by the skeleton and by muscles attached to the skeleton, but surface features, which may give the animal its really characteristic look, are seldom restorable with any real probability of accuracy. The present often helps to interpret the past. An extinct animal presumably looked more or less like its living relatives, if it has any. This, however, may be quite equivocal. For example, extinct members of the horse family are usually restored to look somewhat like the most familiar living horses — domestic horses and their closest wild relatives. It is, however, possible and even probable that many extinct horses were striped like zebras. If lions and tigers were extinct they would be restored to look exactly alike. No living elephants have much hair and mammoths, which are extinct elephants, would doubtless be restored as hairless if we did not happen to know that they had thick, woolly coats. We know this only because mammoths are so recently extinct that prehistoric men drew pictures of them and that the hide and hair have actually been found in a few specimens. For older extinct animals we have no such clues.

单选题Landsat 7 shows how changes have occurred on land by sending back ______.

单选题Simpkins" period of office as a local politician was nearly over. He felt reluctant to go through all the bother of standing for re-election. His tentative voicing of this feeling shocked Baden. "You"re never going to give up after all this time?" "That"s the point about it, Baden. Perhaps I"ve gone on too long. I feel tired, somehow." "Tired! Look at me. I"m tired and I can give you ten years. How long have you been on the council now?" "Eighteen years." Baden snorted. It was nothing beside his thirty-five years of unbroken service, during which he"s been three times major. Simpkins winked at Baden"s wife, Maude, and she, looking up for her embroidery, gave him back a small smile. Simpkins sometimes felt that it was not a mere ten years which separated Baden and himself, but two world wars. The years of his boyhood before the first war were the golden age that Baden looked back to. "It all ended after that," he had said more than once. "We never saw its like again." It was no use arguing that the quality of life was better for more people now, because Baden wouldn"t have it. "There were men working for my father who had six, seven and eight children. They brought them up all right though they hadn"t much money. Now it"s all grab. They want money, ears, drink and holidays abroad. And nobody"s happy." "Were they ever?" Simpkins wondered. "Was an obsession with keeping body and soul together a necessary condition of human happiness?" They were talking in the new bungalow Baden had built where Maude could find amusement watching the traffic go by. "A drink, anyway, Tom?" "I"d not say no to a drop of whisky, Baden." The floorboards trembled as Baden crossed the room. "How much do you weigh?" Simpkins asked. "Too much," Maude chipped in. "Oh, I don"t know," Baden said sharply. "Fifteen and a half stone." "Add a bit to that," Simpkins thought. "You must have iron legs. I"m bigger than you and I don"t weigh that much." "You don"t have my belly, though, Tom." Baden placed his two hands on the swell of his waistcoat. "It is good solid stuff, not just as a bag of wind." Maude tut-tutted, "Really, Baden", while Simpkins laughed. "There"s nothing the matter with me, in spite of Maude always going on about it." "It"s no use me saying anything," Maude said. "He stopped listening to me years ago." Simpkins sensed some bitterness behind the mild comment. Always headstrong, and domineering where he met resistance, Baden instinctively treated women as people to be kept in their place.

单选题Staying in a hotel costs ______ renting a room in an apartment for a week. A. twice as more as B. as more twice as C. twice as much as D. as much twice as

单选题If open-source software is supposed to be free, how does anyone selling it make any money? It's not that different from how other software companies make money. You'd think that a software company would make most of its money from, well, selling software. But you'd be wrong. For one thing, companies don't sell software, strictly speaking; they license it. The profit margin on a software license is nearly 100 percent, which is why Microsoft gushes billions of dollars every quarter. But what's the value of a license to a customer? A license doesn't deliver the code, provide the utilities to get a piece of software running, or answer the phone when something inevitably goes wrong. The value of software, in short, doesn't lie in the software alone. The value is in making sure the soft ware does its job. Just as a traveler should look at the overall price of a vacation package instead of obsessing over the price of the plane ticket or hotel room, a smart tech buyer won't focus on how much the license costs and ignore the support contract or the maintenance agreement. Open-source is not that different. If you want the software to work, you have to pay to ensure it will work. The open-source companies have refined the software model by selling subscriptions. They roll together support and maintenance and charge an annual fee, which is a healthy model, though not quite as wonderful as Microsoft's money-raking one. Tellingly, even Microsoft is casting an envious eye at aspects of the open-source business model. The company has been taking halting steps toward a similar subscription scheme for its software sales. Microsoft's subscription program, known as Soft ware Assurance, provides maintenance and support together with a software license. It lets you up grade to Microsoft's next version of the software for a predictable sum. But it also contains an implicit threat: If you don't switch to Software Assurance now, who knows how much Microsoft will charge you when you decide to upgrade? Chief information officers hate this kind of "assurance", since they're often perfectly happy running older versions of software that are proven and stable. Microsoft, on the other hand, rakes in the software-licensing fees only when customers upgrade. Software Assurance is Microsoft's attempt to get those same licensing fees but wrap them together with the service and support needed to keep systems running. That's why Microsoft finds the open-source model so threatening: open-source companies have no vested interest in getting more licensing fees and don't have to pad their service contracts with that extra cost. In the end, the main difference between open-source and proprietary software companies may be the size of the check you have to write.

单选题Though many scientific breakthroughs have resulted from Umishaps/U, it has taken brilliant thinkers to recognize their potential.