单选题As it was a stormy night, ______ people went to see the film.

单选题The stream in front of our village will dry ______ when early autumn comes around.A. oatB. awayC. offD. up

单选题While acting may run in the family, it wasn't Angelina Jolie's only choice when she thought about her future career. Although Jolie has studied her craft since childhood, at one point the 26-year-old, who stars this month in Tomb Raider with her father, actor John Voight, wanted to be a funeral director. "I thought that the crossing over could be a beautiful thing and a time of comfort where people could reach out to each other." Tradition appeals to Jolie, who moved with her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, and brother after her parents separated when she was two. "I never had one home. I never had an attic that had old stuff in it. We always moved, so I was never rooted anywhere. And I always dreamed of having that attic of things that I could go back and look at. And I'm very drawn to some things that are tradition, that are roots, and I think that may be why I focused on funerals." Finally, she chose acting. "Following in my father's footsteps," she says, "is an interesting thing, because I think we speak to each other through our work. You don't really know your parents in a certain way, and they don't really know you. So he can watch a film and see how I am as a woman, die way I'm dealing with a husband who's been injured, or the way I'm crying alone." "And it's the same for me: I can watch films of his and just see who he is. I've learned to communicate with him as a person."

单选题A. familiar B. popular C. farther D. forward

单选题______is mentioned above，the number of the cattle here has been limited to 200． A．As　 B．It　 　C．What 　　D．That

单选题When I arrived, I learned Mary ______ for almost an hour. A. had gone B. had set off C. had left D. had been away

单选题The service was held to ______ the sacrifice of those who died in the war.

单选题Immigrants are consumers as well as producers, so they create jobs as well as taking them. And the work they do need not be at the expense of native workers. Immigrants often hold jobs that natives are unwilling to accept at any feasible wage. Also, immigrants sometimes help to keep industries viable (能存活的) that would otherwise disappear altogether, causing employment to fall. This was the conclusion of a study of the Los Angeles garment industry in the 1970s and 1980s. And when immigrants working for low wages do put downward pressure on natives' wages, they may raise the (real) wages of natives in general by keeping prices lower than they otherwise would be. In theory, then, the net effect of immigration on native wages is uncertain. Unfortunately, most of the empirical (经验主义的) research on whether immigrants make natives worse off in practice is also inconclusive except the effect, one way or the other, seems small. Most of this research has been done in America: if there were any marked influence on wages, that is where you would expect to find it, given the scale of immigration and the tendency of the newcomers to concentrate in certain areas. But most studies have compared wages and employment in areas with many immigrants to wages and employment in areas with few. For instance, one examined the impact of sudden and notorious inflow of refugees to Miami from the Cuban port of Mariel in 1980. Within the space of a few months, 125000 people had arrived, increasing Miami's labor force by 7%. Yet the study concluded that wages and employment among the city's natives, including the unskilled, were virtually unaffected. Another study examined the effect of immigration on wages and employment of those at the bottom of the jobs ladder-unskilled blacks and Hispanics. It found that a doubling of the rate of immigration had no detectable effect on natives. The most recent work, admittedly, has tended to question these findings. Using more detailed statistics and more sophisticated methods than the earlier studies, this work has tended to find that immigrants' wages take longer to rise to the level of the natives' wages than has been supposed. This implies a more persistent downward pressure on the host economy's labor market. Typically these studies find that immigration does depress unskilled natives' wages to a small extent. But nearly all economists would agree that the effects of immigration are insignificant in relation to other influences.

单选题By such demarcation, strong, representative national societies can then be left to do what they do best— ______ young scientists' development at national meetings, and represent their disciplines at the national level.(2009年北京航空航天大学考博试题)

单选题 Like many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we all to question our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero? Despite immense differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics that instruct and inspire people. A hero does something worth talking about. A hero has a story of adventure to tell and community who will listen. But a hero goes beyond mere fame. Heroes serve powers or principles larger than themselves. Like high-voltage trans- formers, heroes take the energy of higher powers and step it down so that it can be used by ordinary people. The hero lives a life worthy of imitation. Those who imitate a genuine hero experience life with new depth, enthusiasm, and meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom do they serve? What are they willing to live and die for? If the answer or evidence suggests they serve only their own fame, they may be famous persons but not heroes. Madonna and Michael Jackson are famous, but who would claim that their fans find life more abundant? Heroes are catalysts (催化剂) for change. They have a vision from the mountaintop. They have the skill and the charm to move the masses. They create new possibilities. Without Gandhi, India might still be part of the British Empire. Without Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. , we might still have segregated (隔离的) buses, restaurants, and parks. It may be possible for largescale change to occur without leaders with magnetic personalities, but the pace of change would be slow, the vision uncertain, and the com- mittee meetings endless.

单选题In the new shark repellent method, an insulated cable is buried on the bottom of the sea around a beach from which people swim.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the one that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. A hobby can be almost anything a person likes to do in his spare time. Hobbyists {{U}}(61) {{/U}} pets, build model ships anything a person likes to do in his spare time. Hobbyists perform {{U}}(62) {{/U}} musical instruments. They collect {{U}}(63) {{/U}} from books to butterflies and from shells to stamps. People {{U}}(64) {{/U}} hobbies because these activities {{U}}(65) {{/U}} enjoyment, knowledge and relaxation. Anyone can follow a satisfging hobby, {{U}}(66) {{/U}} his age, position or income. Hobbies can help a person's {{U}}(67) {{/U}} or physical health. Doctors have found that hobbies are valuable {{U}}(68) {{/U}} helping patients {{U}}(69) {{/U}} from illnesses. Hobbies can provide patients with interests that keep them {{U}}(70) {{/U}} thinking about themselves. Many hospitals treat patients by having them {{U}}(71) {{/U}} up interesting hobbies. {{U}} (72) {{/U}} modern times, people were too busy {{U}}(73) {{/U}} a living to have hobbies. But some people who had (74) {{/U}} did enjoy hobbies. They have had more time than {{U}}(75) {{/U}} for hobbies since automation began to reduce the {{U}}(76) {{/U}} time they spent {{U}}(77) {{/U}} jobs. Hobbies provide {{U}}(78) {{/U}} for workers who do the {{U}}(79) {{/U}} tasks all day along. Those who have {{U}}(80) hobbies never need to worry about what to do when they have leisure hours.{{/U}}

单选题Staff Sgt. Nicholas Lanier has entered what he calls the "vast unknown." A combat veteran and father to four daughters, he can't remain in the military because of a serious back injury earned in Iraq. But he can't yet accept a civilian job because he doesn't know when the military will discharge (使退伍) him. He has no clue how much the government will pay him in disability compensation related to his injury, so he can't make a future budget. He just waits. Thousands of troops are like Lanier: not fully fit to serve but in limbo (无着落) for about two years waiting to get discharged under a new system that was supposed to be more efficient than its predecessor. And the delays are not only affecting service members, but the military's readiness as well. New troops can't enlist until others are discharged. The government determines the pay and benefits given to wounded, sick or injured troops for their military service. Under the old system, a medical board would determine their level of military compensation and the service member would be discharged. Then the veteran essentially would have to go through the process again with the Veterans Affairs Department to determine benefits. Under the new system, which started in 2007 and will be completely rolled out at military bases nationwide by the end of September, the service member essentially goes through both disability evaluation systems at the same time before leaving the military. But the new, supposedly streamlined, system is still such a cumbersome process that it's leaving many service members in limbo, they say.

单选题Drawing a picture is the simplest way of putting an idea down on paper. That is (21) men first began to write, six thousand years ago or (22) . The alphabet we now use (23) down to us over a long period of time. It was developed from the picture-writing of ancient Egypt. Picture-writing was useful in many (24) . It could be used to express ideas as well as (25) . For example, a drawing of a (26) meant the object "man". (27) a drawing of a man lying on the ground with a spear in him meant " (28) " Besides the Egyptians, the Chinese (29) the American Indians also developed ways (30) writing in pictures. But only (31) much could be said as follows. Thousands of pictures would have been needed (32) express all the ideas that people might have. It would have shown many thousands more to express all the objects (33) to men. No one could (34) so many pictures in a lifetime. Either could anyone learn the meaning of all (35) drawings in a lifetime.

单选题Mary thought she would never meet Tom again, but by a curious ______ they finally met. A. coincidence B. incidence C. incident D. accident

单选题The film in my camera is finished. I need to get it ______ A. cut B. cleaning C. to test D. developed