单选题Financial consultants acknowledge that the value of common stock is inherently changeable.

单选题The work has ______ the status of a classic among the composer's admirers.

单选题Speaker A: Could you break a 100-dollar bill for me? Speaker B: ______

单选题In a materialistic and ______ society people's interest seems to be focused solely on monetary pursuit. A. adaptive B. addictive C. acquisitive D. arrogant

单选题The process by means of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic process. Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. There are 1 things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value. Almost all fashionable clothes are 2 symbolic, so is food. We 3 our furniture to serve 4 visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses 5 the basis of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address". We trade perfectly good cars in for 6 models not always to get better transportation, but to give 7 to the community that we can 8 it. Such complicated and apparently 9 behavior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, "why can"t human beings 10 simply and naturally?" Often the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative 11 of such lives as dogs and cats. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no 12 for wanting to 13 to a cat-and-dog existence. A better solution is to understand the symbolic process 14 instead of being its slaves we become, to some degree at least, its 15 .

单选题In new semester, there will be many activities ______ campus.

单选题While traveling for various speaking engagements, I frequently stay overnight in the home of a family and am invited to one of the children's bedrooms. In it, I often find so many playthings that there's almost no room. And the closet is usually so tightly packed with clothes that I can barely squeeze in my jacket. I' m not complaining, only making a point. I think that the tendency to give children an overabundance (过多) of toys and clothes is quite common in American families, and I think that in far too many families not only do children come to take their parents' generosity for granted, but also the effects of this can actually be somewhat harmful to children. Of course, I' m not only thinking of the material possessions children are given. Children can also be overindulged (过分宠爱) with too many privileges—for example, when parents send a child to an expensive summer camp that the parents can't really afford. Why? One fairly common reason is that parents overindulge their children out of a sense of guilt. Parents who both hold down full-time jobs may feel guilty about the amount of time they spend away from their children and may attempt to compensate by showering them with material possessions. Overindulgence of a child also happens when parents are unable to stand up to their children's unreasonable demands. Such parents vacillate between saying no and giving in—but neither response seems satisfactory to them. If they refuse a request, they immediately feel a wave of remorse for having been so strict or ungenerous. If they give in, they feel regret and resentment over having been a pushover. This kind of vacillation not only impairs the parents' ability to set limits, it also sours the parent-child relationship to some degree, robbing parents and their children of some of the happiness and mutual respect that should be present in healthy families. But overindulging children with material things does little to lessen parental guilt (since parents never feel that they've given enough), nor does it make children feel more loved (for what children really crave is parents' time and attention). Instead, the effects of overindulgence can be harmful. Children may, to some degree become greedy, self-centered, ungrateful and insensitive to the needs and feelings of others, beginning with their parents. When children are given too much, their respect for their parents would be undermined.

单选题Speaker A. Excuse me, Mr. Black, can you spare me a few minutes? There's something I'd like to speak to you about. I won't keep you long.Speaker B: ______

单选题 {{B}}Directions: {{/B}} In this part there are four passages, each followed with five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your {{B}}ANSWER SHEET{{/B}} by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.{{B}}11-15{{/B}} For an increasing number of students at American universities, Old is suddenly in. The reason is obvious: the graying of America means jobs. Coupled with the aging of the baby-boom (生育高峰) generation, a longer life span means that the nation's elderly population is bound to expand significantly over the next 40 years. By 2040, 25 percent of all Americans will be older than 65, up from 14 percent in 1995. The change poses profound questions for government and society, of course. But it also creates career opportunities in medicine and health professions, and in law and business as well. "In addition to the doctors, we're going to need more sociologists, biologists, urban planners and specialized lawyers," says Professor Edward Schneider of the University of Southern California's (USC) School of Gerontology (老年学). Lawyers can specialize in "elder law", which covers everything from masts and estates to nursing-home abuse and age discrimination (歧视). Businessmen see huge opportunities in the elder market because the baby boomers, 74 million strong, are likely to be the wealthiest group of retirees in human history. "Any student who combines an expert knowledge in gerontology with, say, an MBA or law degree, will have a license to print money," one professor says. Margarite Santos is a 21-year-old senior at USC. She began college as a biology major but found she was "really bored with bacteria." So she took a class in gerontology and discovered that she liked it. She says, "I did volunteer work in retirement homes and it was very satisfying."

单选题Like so many things of value, truth is not always easy to come by. What we regard as true shapes our beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Yet we can believe things that have no basis in fact. People are capable of embracing horrific precepts that seem incredible in retrospect. In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler had millions of followers who accepted his delusions about racial superiority. As Voltaire put it long before Hitler's time, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " We are surrounded by illusions, some created deliberately. They may be subtle or may affect us profoundly. Some illusions, such as films and novels, we seek out and appreciate. Others can make us miserable and even kill us. We need to know if particular foods that taste perfectly fine can hurt us in the short term (as with Salmonella contamination) or in the long term (cholesterol), whether a prevalent virus is so dangerous that we should avoid public places, and what problems a political candidate may cause or resolve if elected. Gaining insights about the truth often is a challenge, and misconceptions can be difficult to recognize. We often believe stories because they are the ones available. Most people would identify Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb. Although Edison perfected a commercially successful design, he was preceded in the experimentation by British inventors Frederick de Moleyns and Joseph Swan, and by American J. W. Starr. The biggest enemies of truth are: people whose job is to sell us incomplete versions of the available facts, our willingness to believe what we want and the simple absence of accurate information. Companies advertising products on television do not describe the advantages of their competitors' products any more than a man asking a woman to marry him encourages her to date other men before making up her mind. It is a social reality that people encourage one another to make important decisions with limited facts. Technology has simplified and complicated the fact-gathering process. The Internet allows us to check facts more easily, but it also disburses misinformation. Similarly, a belief that videos and photos necessarily represent reality ignores how easily they can be digitally altered. Unquestioning reliance on such forms of media makes us more susceptible to manipulators: those who want to deceive can dazzle us with a modern version of smoke and mirrors.

单选题Husband: Tell you what, dear. I just got promoted. Wife: Really? ______ A. Take it easy. B. It's unexpected. C. You'll work hard later on, I guess. D. Oh, I'm thrilled.

单选题Why! I have nothing to confess, ______ you want me to say?

单选题Let's hang up some paintings on these ______ walls.

单选题Universal Grammar refers to the principles and properties that pertain to the grammars of all human languages.（对外经贸2005研)

单选题The idea (that) learning is (a) lifelong process (has expressed) by philosophers and educationalists (throughout) the centuries.

单选题This style of writing, incidentally, is Usuggestive/U of what is called the "newsreel technique" of John Dos Passos.

单选题He doesn't work but he gets a good______from his investments.