单选题The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases (21) the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant (22) of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a (23) bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (24) and will strictly control the amount of (25) that can be given to a case (26) a trial begins In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he (27) with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not (28) sufficient control. (29) of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (30) of media protest when he said the (31) of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges (32) to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which (33) the European Convention on Human Rights legally (34) in Britain, laid down that everybody was (35) to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.

单选题Many Fine Art graduates take __________ professional practice as artists, and this course encourages them to consider their role as artists in the community by providing opportunities for short-term placements outside the Faculty.

单选题Since the earliest times in England, the traveler"s inn has always been a warm and hospitable place, a gathering place for voyagers to rest and recover. The tireless landlord, the local customers sharing drinks and food, the welcoming atmosphere, have all become part of the legend of the typical English country and city life. In later centuries, the English tavern took on the role of community gathering place, being the location where friendly chatter and fierce social debate mixed with business discussions, and food, wine, beer and coffee were consumed as the noise of convivial (酒宴的) exchanges rose. In modern times, the English pub often continues to function as the communal meeting place, especially for people whose homes are too small to entertain any number of guests or friends. In many Asian countries, the local restaurant serves a similar social function. In Ireland, the pub has acted as a central attraction for poorer villagers in the rural areas, and as a literary and social focus in the cities. In keeping with the sociable nature of pub gatherings, music as well as talk has become a central part of this institution in Ireland. Now people around the world are able to experience the friendly nature of the Irish pub, which follows in the wake of its English equivalent as a welcome and growing export. English pubs have been found in America, in parts of Europe and throughout the world where English people have settled. Today the Irish pub is witnessing an outburst of international popularity as Westerners turn away from their television and computer screens and seek to put a human face to their social contacts. They are finding it in the bars and corners of Irish pubs, where Guinness stout, the Irish national drink, is available in the tall, dark creamy pint glasses and Irish music is the regular fare. In Mr. McCarville"s view, a pub is a place where you and your friends should be able to walk in and have a drink and talk to each other. But in traditional pubs everywhere there is loud raucous music so that customers can"t talk. He says that in all the traditional pubs in Australia they are putting poker machines, and Mr. McCarville saw many vacant looking people gambling. He feels that these pubs are no longer pleasant places to go to have a drink because you can"t talk to anyone. "The one place where conversation has always been great is an Irish pub, so everywhere they are set up they become very popular," he says. "There is music in them, but it is Irish music. It may be traditional or modern Irish music, but it is happy, infectious music which stimulates the mood of the place and does not overpower it. " So Irish pubs are spreading.

单选题The reception was attended by various ______ members of the local community and representatives of regional industries. A. protuberant B. conspicuous C. prominent D. projecting

单选题The two countries will assign counter-drug officials to their respective embassies on a______ basis.

单选题The sudden change of weather made the temperature ______ a lot.

单选题Sometimes they ______ their students' poor comprehension to a lack of intelligence. A. distribute B. attribute C. contribute D. consider

单选题Key James, Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Virginia State government, loves to turn the tables on those who don't think it's possible to be middle-class, conservative, educated and still be truly black. Once, during an abortion debate, a woman in the audience angrily told James she was so middle-class she didn't have a clue about real African American life. "If you understood what these women go through," the woman said, "you would realize that abortion is their only choice." James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare. She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family. Now she discovers another child is on the way. "How would you counsel that woman? " asked James. "Have an abortion," the woman responded. "That child would have a very poor quality of life." "I have a vested interest in your answer," James said. "The woman I described was my mother. I was the fifth of six children born into poverty. And, in case you're interested, the quality of my life is just fine!/

单选题It was for this reason ______ she left her homeland and moved to a mountain village.

单选题Hydrocarbons, ______ by engine exhausts, react with nitrogen oxides in the presence of sunlight to form complex toxic gases.

单选题Iceland lies far north in the Atlantic, with its northernmost tip actually ______ the Arctic circle. A. touched B. touches C. touching D. being touched

单选题I was unaware of the critical points involved, so my choice was quite ______.

单选题This story tells us ______.

单选题Go (围棋) is an ancient Asian game. In recent years, computer experts, particularly those 27 in artificial intelligence, have felt the fascination. Programming other board games has been a relative snap. Even chess has 28 to the power of the processor. Five years ago, a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue not only beat but thoroughly 29 Garry Kasparov, the world champion at that time. That is because chess, while highly complex, can be reduced to a matter of brute force computation. Go is different. Deceptively easy to learn, either for a computer or a human, it is a game of such depth and 30 that it can take years for a person to become a strong player. To date, no computer has been able to achieve a skill level beyond that of the casual player. The game is played on a board divided into a grid of 19 31 and 19 vertical lines. Black and white pieces called stones are placed one at a time on the grid's intersections. The object is to acquire and defend 32 by surrounding it with stones. Programmers working on Go see it as more accurate than chess in 33 the ways the human mind works. The challenge of programming a computer to mimic that process goes to the core of artificial intelligence, which involves the study of learning and decision-making, strategic thinking, knowledge representation, pattern recognition and perhaps most intriguingly, intuition. In the 34 of a chess game, a player has an average of 25 to 35 moves available. In Go, on the other hand, a player can choose from an average of 240 moves. A Go-playing computer would need about 30000 years to look as far ahead as Deep Blue can with chess in three seconds. But the 35 go deeper than processing power. Not only do Go programs have trouble evaluating positions quickly; they have trouble making it correctly. 36 , the allure (吸引力) of computer Go increases as the difficulties it poses encourages programmers to advance basic work in artificial intelligence. A. complexity B. Consequently C. course D. horizontal E. humbled F. humiliated G. Nonetheless H. obstacles I. reflecting J. responding K. slanted L. specializing M. submitted N. subscribed O. territory

单选题Black FridayEveryone likes to shop for gifts for the holiday season, but few people know the history of holiday shopping. While people have heard of Black Friday; most do not know its origins. Black F

单选题It was sunrise on an August morning when the captain and his crew cast their nets some 50 miles south of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. As the net was pulled over, the contents were poured out follo

单选题Running can strengthen your heart and muscles, but ,it can damage your knee joints and the bones in your feet.

单选题The terrorists kidnapped the director of the company and demanded a large sums of money for his ______. A. liberty B. relief C. relaxation D. release

单选题We have at present not any ______ of the furniture as you required. A. mark B, inventory C. stock D. account

单选题It is too early to say whether IBM's competitors will be able to ______ their products to the new hardware at an affordable cost.