单选题A (more sophisticated) analysis shows that an expansion (rather than) a boycott of wood products is (that) we really ought to (be after).A. more sophisticatedB. rather thanC. thatD. be after

单选题The League secretary and monitor ______ asked to make a speech at yesterdays meeting． A．is B．was C．are D．were

单选题Their request was ______ and consequently rejected.

单选题Person to person sale failed to meet the need ______.

单选题I______ that an hour would be enough for me to get to the theatre, but I simply forgot that it was the rush hour.

单选题He ( ) a knowledge of this language by careful study.

单选题I was very tired. Otherwise, I ______ to the theatre with you for the new film.

单选题Natural disasters affect people at all levels. The experience can cause people to feel angry, 18 , and afraid. Mental health experts are worried about children who experience a 19 event before they are eleven years of age. They say such children are three times more likely to develop 20 problems than those who experience their first tragedy later in life. Experts say children are better able to deal with a tragedy if parents, friends and other 21 help them understand the experience. They say help should start as soon as possible after the event. Experts 22 a number of suggestions about how to explain a tragedy to children. They say that how adults react to a child's feelings and questions is important to helping a child feel safe again. First, experts say parents should try to control their reaction to the tragedy. Parents should remain as 23 as possible. They say children will react to what they see. Next, adults should help children feel 24 . Listen to the worries children 25 , without judging them. Parents should talk to their children. Tell children repeatedly that they and other loved ones are safe. Also, family members need to 26 in one area and spend more time together. Some experts ask adults to limit their time with radio or television when children are present. Experts also suggest that parents return to their normal 27 as soon as possible. They say people of all ages like to have an established way of doing things.

单选题In Japan's capital city of Tokyo, earthquake danger limits the height of buildings. The city has spread out so far and the traffic has become so heavy that it is very difficult to get from one place to another. The price of land, too, has become very high. All this explains why a group of Japanese land developers came to the conclusion that there was nowhere to go but down. So far they have dug out space underground for fifteen major shopping centers ,and the underground construction has only begun. What are some of the advantages of shopping and eating underground? Clean, filtered (过滤 的) air is one of them. The city of Tokyo has one of the most serious smog problems in the world. Another advantage is that there won't be traffic accidents as that on the city's busy streets. Still another is the convenience of moving from place to place. You're usually right next to, or even in, a subway station. And you can even spend the night underground if you like. The Kyobashi Station, for example, in down town Tokyo, has a hotel with a bar, restaurant and barbershop.

单选题The defense computers calculate ways to ______ the enemy missiles. A. spoil B. harm C. destroy D. damage

单选题Strict sanitary procedures formulated by our municipal government help to out-breaks of diseases. A. preview B. forestall C. ignite D. fluctuate

单选题If the seller fails to provide good title, the contract will become null and ______.

单选题______ had we sat down than the telephone rang.

单选题 How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health A. Does the language we speak determine how healthy and rich we will be? New research by Keith Chen of Yale Business School suggests so. The structure of languages affects our judgments and decisions about the future and this might have dramatic long-term consequences. B. There has been a lot of research into how we deal with the future. For example, the famous marshmallow (棉花糖) studies of Walter Mischel and colleagues showed that being able to resist temptation is predictive of future success. Four-year-old kids were given a marshmallow and were told that if they do not eat that marshmallow and wait for the experimenter to come back, they will get two marshmallows instead of one. Follow-up studies showed that the kids who were able to wait for the bigger future reward became more successful young adults. C. Resisting our impulses for immediate pleasure is often the only way to attain the outcomes that are important to us. We want to keep a slim figure but we also want that last slice of pizza. We want a comfortable retirement, but we also want to drive that dazzling car, go on that dream vacation, or get those gorgeous shoes. Some people are better at delaying gratification (满足) than others. Those people have a better chance of accumulating wealth and keeping a healthy life style. They are less likely to be impulse buyers or smokers, or to engage in unsafe sex. D. Chen's recent findings suggest that an unlikely factor, language, strongly affects our future-oriented behavior. Some languages strongly distinguish the present and the future. Other languages only weakly distinguish the present and the future. Chen's recent research suggests that people who speak languages that weakly distinguish the present and the future are better prepared for the future. They accumulate more wealth and they are better able to maintain their health. The way these people conceptualize the future is similar to the way they conceptualize the present. As a result, the future does not feel very distant and it is easier for them to act in accordance with their future interests. E. Different languages have different ways of talking about the future. Some languages, such as English, Korean, and Russian, require their speakers to refer to the future explicitly (明确地). Every time English-speakers talk about the future, they have to use future markers such as 'will' or 'going to.' In other languages, such as Mandarin, Japanese, and German, future markers are not obligatory (强制性的) . The future is often talked about similar to the way present is talked about and the meaning is understood from the context. A Mandarin speaker who is going to go to a seminar might say 'Wo qu ting jiangzuo,' which translates to 'I go listen seminar.' Languages such as English constantly remind their speakers that future events are distant. For speakers of languages such as Mandarin future feels closer. As a consequence, resisting immediate impulses and investing for the future is easier for Mandarin speakers. F. Chen analyzed individual-level data from 76 developed and developing countries. This data includes people's economic decisions, such as whether they saved any money last year, the languages they speak at home, demographics (人口统计资料), and cultural factors such as 'saving is an important cultural value for me.' He also analyzed individual-level data on people's retirement assets, smoking and exercising habits, and general health in older age. Lastly, he analyzed national-level data that includes national savings rates, country GDP and GDP growth rates, country demographics, and proportions of people speaking different languages. G. People's savings rates are affected by various factors such as their income, education level, age, religious connection, their countries' legal systems, and their cultural values. After those factors were accounted for, the effect of language on people's savings rates turned out to be big. Speaking a language that has obligatory future markers, such as English, makes people 30 percent less likely to save money for the future. This effect is as large as the effect of unemployment. Being unemployed decreases the likelihood of saving by about 30 percent as well. H. Similar analyses showed that speaking a language that does not have obligatory future markers, such as Mandarin, makes people accumulate more retirement assets, smoke less, exercise more, and generally be healthier in older age. Countries' national savings rates are also affected by language. Having a larger proportion of people speaking languages that does not have obligatory future markers makes national savings rates higher. I. At a more practical level, researchers have been looking for ways to help people act in accordance with their long-term interests. Recent findings suggest that making the future feel closer to the present might improve future-oriented behavior. For instance, researchers recently presented people with renderings of their future selves made using age-progression algorithms (算法) that forecast how physical appearances would change over time. One group of participants saw a digital representation of their current selves in a virtual mirror, and the other group saw an age-morphed version of their future selves. Those participants who saw the age-morphed version of their future selves allocated more money toward a hypothetical savings account. The intervention brought people's future to the present and as a result they saved more for the future. J. Chen's research shows that language structures our future-related thoughts. Language has been used before to alter time perception with surprising effects. Ellen Langer and colleagues famously improved older people's physical health by simple interventions including asking them to talk about the events of twenty years ago as if it they were happening now. Talking about the past as if it were the present changed people's mindsets and their mindsets affected their physical states. Chen's research points at the possibility that the way we talk about the future can shape our mindsets. Language can move the future back and forth in our mental space and this might have dramatic influences on our judgments and decisions.

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单选题I am contacting you regarding your advertisement for the Sales Department opening listed on your website.

单选题 She sat on the bench in the park, her chin ______ in her hand.

单选题Which of the following can best raise students' creativity according to Robert ______ Eisenberger?

单选题We have in America a ______ speech that is neither American, Oxford English, nor English but a combination of the three.