单选题"The moose (驼鹿) is odd and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head?" The 19th-century writer of those words, Henry David Thoreau, was hardly alone in his comment of the moose. Moose"s funny appearance makes us think that it is clumsy and slow-witted. Is that true? Researchers in North America have uncovered many facts about this unusual animal. No one denies that the moose is a giant. Adult moose can grow as high as 1.5 to 2 meters, and weigh as much as 816kg. Although it has long legs that make it seem foolish, it can run up to 55km per hour, and those legs can kick off an entire pack of wolves. Moose is vegetarian. It feeds on woody plants, leaves and water plants. It learns to swim within days of birth, and they have been observed swimming for miles and diving to a depth of nearly 6 meters to feed on water plants! A moose can move its eyes and detect motion almost directly behind it without turning its head. Its nose is also an effective tool. Researchers suggest that because the moose"s nostrils(鼻 孔) are far apart, they may give it the unusual ability to locate the objects on a 3D scale. The moose"s hearing adds another merit to its sensory package. Its ears can turn to all directions, and they can pickup sounds from other moose as far as 3 km away! Baby moose tend to be curious and carefree. Their mothers protect them by providing tender and loyal care. They will attack any who are too close to their young, including wolves, bears, and even humans. Finally, when the young is about a year old and its mother is newly pregnant, the mother aggressively drives it away so that it can begin caring for itself.

单选题Awards provide a(n) ______ for young people to improve their skills. A. incentive B. initiative C. fugitive D. captive

单选题I'd like to buy the mobile, but I haven't got any money on me at the moment. Could you ______for me for a day or two?

单选题从下面提供的答案中选出应填入下列英文语句中______内的正确答案。 Application development increasingly means Windows development, and the popularity of visual development tools has (1) in tandem with Windows itself These tools create beautiful windowing (2) , and their fast development cycles and easy learning curves make them a good (3) for many types of PC development projects. Todays developers are leveraging these tools and the abundance of heap, powerful PCs to shift the balance of power to the desktop. As the world moves inexorably toward Windows and other (4) user interfaces, developers can choose from an abundance of (5) oriented tools. Popular examples include Microsoft Corp.s Visual Basic, Powersoft Corp.s PowerBuilder, Gupta Technology Corp.s SQL Windows，and so on.

单选题He carried out extensive research into the local real estate market before he decided to ______a mortgage.

单选题In order to learn a foreign language well, it is necessary to overcome the fear of making mistakes. If the primary goal of language use is communication, mistakes are secondary considerations that may be dealt with gradually as awareness of those mistakes increases. On the other hand, students should not ignore their mistakes. The language learner may observe how native speakers express themselves, and how native expressions differ from the way the learner might say them. For example, a Spanish speaker, who has been saying "I do it" to express willingness to do something in the immediate future, could by interacting with native speakers of English, observe that native speakers actually say "I'll do it" . The resulting discrepancy can serve as a basis for the student to modify his way of using the present tense in English. But a student who is unwilling to interact in the first place would lose this opportunity to learn by trial and error.

单选题When they had finished playing, the children were made to ______ all the toys they had taken out. [A] put off [B] put up [C] putout [D] put away

单选题My mother _______ that sweater last year. A. made B. did C. makes D. does

单选题"We're using the wrong word," says Sean Drysdale, a desperate doctor from a rural hospital at Hlabisa in northern KwaZulu-Natal. "This isn't an epidemic, it's a disaster. " A recent UNIEF report, which states that almost one-third of Swaziland's 900,000 people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, supports this diagnosis. HIV is spreading faster in southern Africa than anywhere else in the world. But is anyone paying attention? Despite the fact that most of the world's 33.5 million HIV/AIDS cases are in sub-Saharan Africa—with an additional 4 million infected each year—the priorities at last week's Organization of African Unity summit were conflict resolution and economies development. Yet the epidemic could have a greater effect on economic development—or, rather, the lack of it—than many politicians suspect. While business leaders are more concerned about the 2K millennium bug than the long-term effect of AIDS, statistics show that the workfare in South Africa, for instance, is likely to be 20% HIV positive by next year. Medical officials and researchers warn that not a single country in the region has a cohesive government strategy to tackle the crisis. The way managers address AIDS in the workplace will determine whether their companies survive the first decade of the 21st century, says Deane Moore, an actuary for South Africa's Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Moore estimates that in South Africa there will be 580,000 new AIDS cases a year and a life expectancy of just 38 by 2010. "We'll be back to the Middle Ages," says Drysdale, whose hospital is in one of the areas in South Africa with the highest rates of HIV infection. "The graph is heading toward the vertical. And yet people are still not taking it seriously. " Most southern African countries are simply too poor to supply more than basic health services, let alone medicines, to confront the crisis. Patients in some government hospitals in Harare have to supply their own bedding, food, drugs and, in some cases, even their own nurses. Zimbabwe's frail domestic economy depends to a large extent on informal enterprises and small businesses, many of which are going bankrupt as AIDS takes its toll on owners and employees. "The ripple effect is devastating," says Harare AIDS researcher Rene Loewenson. More ominous are the implications for South Africa with a sophisticated industrial infrastructure as well as a widespread informal sector. While the South African government is active in promoting AIDS education, it hasn't the money, manpower or material to cope with the attack of AIDS.

单选题My teacher was made______his teaching because of poor health.

单选题The store displayed its most ______products in the front window.(2014年厦门大学考博试题)

单选题We've bought some ______ chairs for the garden so that they are easy to store away

单选题Take your time and think the matter over before you ______ a conclusion.

单选题W: This book is great. I can' t put it down.M:______A. What? I can' t imagine your being excited by a book.B. Sorry. Books cannot attract you so much.C. I doubt you are involved in something else.D. Perhaps this book is something mysterious.

单选题We each ______ strong points and each of us on the other hand ______ weak points. A) have; have B) has; have C) has; has D) have; has

单选题During World War II the Allies suffered a long ______ of defeats before they finally achieved victory.

单选题The tanker broke in the middle, ______ out a great amount of oil into the sea. A. poured B. pouring C. to pour D. having poured

单选题The reason why all the solar energy falling on the earth can' t be utilized is that ______ .

单选题Many things make people think artists are weird—the odd hours, the nonconformity, the clove cigarettes. However, the weirdest may be this: artists' only jobs are to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel lousy. This wasn't always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th(上标) century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring. In the 20th(上标) century, classical music became more atonal, visual art more unsettling. Sure, there have been exceptions, but it would not be a stretch to say that for the past century or so, serious art has been at war with happiness. In 1824, Beethoven completed his "Ode to Joy". In 1962, novelist Anthoy Burgess used it in A Clockwork Orange as the favorite music of his ultra-violent antihero. You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But the reason may actually be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Today the messages that the average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and relentlessly happy. Since these messages have an agenda—to prey our wallets from our pockets—they make the very idea of happiness seem bogus(假的). "Celebrate!" commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attack. What we forget—what our economy depends on us forgetting—is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us that it is OK not to be happy, that sadness makes happiness deeper. As the wine-connoisseur movie Sideways tells us, it is the kiss of decay and mortality that makes grape juice into Pinot Norway need art to tell us, as religion once did, that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, is a breath of fresh air.