单选题If you stick ______the piano every day, you will become quite a good musician.

单选题Unless I was ______ mistaken, there was something wrong with Louise. A. very much B. too C. almost D. very

单选题In para. 7, the author______.

单选题M: Today's a bad day for me. I fell off a step and twisted my ankle.W: Don't worry. Usually ankle injuries heal quickly if you stop regular activities for a while.Q: What does the woman suggest the man do? A. Give his ankle a good rest. B. Treat his injury immediately. C. Continue his regular activities. D. Be careful when climbing steps.

单选题The shop assistant ______ me $25 for this suitcase. A. cost B. charged C. spent D. demanded

单选题If you are choosing a password for your computer, which of the following is the best choice?

单选题The history of English literature begins in the______century.

单选题She did not throw away the stockings until they were so ______ that they couldn't be mended anymore.

单选题{{B}}Passage 1{{/B}} Crossing Wesleyan university's campus usually requires walking over colorful messages chalked on the ground. They can be as innocent as meeting announcements, but in a growing number of cases the language is meant to shock. It's not uncommon, for instance, to see lewd (淫荡的) references to professors' sexual preferences scrawled across a path or the mention of the word Nig' that African-American students say make them feel uncomfortable. In response, officials and students at schools are now debating ways to lead their communities away from forms of expression that offend or harass (侵扰). In the process, they're butting up against the difficulties of regulating speech at institutions that pride themselves on fostering open debate. Mr. Bennet of Wesleyan says he had gotten used to seeing occasional chalkings filled with four-letter words. Campus tradition made any horizontal surface not attached to a building a potential billboard. But when chalkings began taking on a more threatening and lewd tone, Bennet decided to act. "This is not acceptable in a workplace and not acceptable in an institution of higher learning," Bennet says. For now, Bonnet is seeking input about what kind of message-posting policy the school should adopt. The student assembly recently passed a resolution saying the "right to speech comes with implicit responsibilities to respect community standards." Other public universities have confronted problems this year while considering various ways of regulating where students can express themselves. At Harvard Law School, the recent controversy was more linked to the academic setting. Minority students there are seeking to curb what they consider harassing speech in the wake of a series of incidents last spring. At a meeting held by the "Committee on Healthy Diversity" last week, the school's Black Law Students Association endorsed a policy targeting discriminatory harassment. It would trigger a review by school officials if there were charges of "severe or pervasive conduct" by students or faculty. The policy would cover harassment based on, but not limited to, factors such as race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, and ethnicity (种族划分). Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate, says other schools have adopted similar harassment policies that are actually speech codes, punishing students for raising certain ideas. "Restricting students from saying anything that would be perceived as very unpleasant by another student continues uninterrupted," says Silverglate, who attended the Harvard Law town meeting last week.

单选题The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist"s smart-phone is the climax of a slow turning of the tables between the technology industry and the United States government. On the one side, you have the United States government"s mighty legal and security apparatus fighting for data of the most sympathetic sort: the secrets buried in a dead mass murderer"s phone. The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the F.B.I. unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., in December. In the other corner is the world"s most valuable company, whose chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, has said he will appeal the court"s order. Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any government intruder, anywhere. There will probably be months of legal tussling, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor. Yet underlying all of this is a simple dynamic: Apple, Google, Facebook and other companies hold most of the cards in this confrontation. They have our data, and their businesses depend on the global public"s collective belief that they will do everything they can to protect that data. Any crack in that front could be fatal for tech companies that must operate worldwide. If Apple is forced to open up an iPhone for an American law enforcement investigation, what"s to prevent it from doing so for a request from the Chinese or the Iranians? Once armed with a method for gaining access to iPhones, the government could ask to use it proactively, before a suspected terrorist at tack—leaving Apple in a bind as to whether to comply or risk an attack and suffer a public-relations nightmare. Yet it"s worth noting that even if Apple ultimately loses this case, it has plenty of technical means to close a backdoor over time. "If they"re anywhere near worth their salt as engineers, I bet they"re rethinking their threat model as we speak," said Jonathan Zdziarski, who studies the iPhone and its vulnerabilities.

单选题The police inspector, having received new information from a confidential source, decided to enlarge the ______ of his enquiry.(2006年财政部财政研究所考博试题)

单选题In the United States, it is important to be on time, or punctual, for an appointment, a class, etc. However, this may not be true in all countries. An American professor discovered this difference while teaching a class in a Brazilian (巴西的) university. The two-hour class was scheduled' to begin at 10 A. M. and end at 12. On the first day, when the professor arrived on time, no one was in the classroom. Many students came after the scheduled time. Several arrived half an hour later. Few apologized for their lateness. Were these students being rude? He decided to study the students, behavior. The professor talked to American and Brazilian students about lateness in both an informal and a formal situation: at a lunch with a friend and in a university class. He found that if they had a lunch appointment with a friend, the average American student defined lateness as 19 minutes after the agreed time. However, the average Brazilian student felt the friend was late after 33 minutes. In an American university, classes not only begin at the scheduled time in the United States, but also end at the scheduled time. In the Brazilian class, only a few students left the class at 12: 00; many remained past 12: 30 to discuss the class and ask more questions. While arriving late may not be very important in Brazil, neither is staying late.

单选题Walking through my train yesterday, staggering from my seat to the buffet and back, I counted five people reading Harry Potter novels. Not children- these were real grown-ups reading children"s books, Maybe that would have been understandable. If these people had jumped whole-heartedly into a second childhood it would have made more sense. But they were card-carrying grown-ups with laptops and spreadsheets returning from sales meetings and seminars. Yet they chose to read a children"s book. I don"t imagine you"ll find this headcount exceptional. You can no longer get on the London Tube and not see a Harry Potter book. Nor is it just the film; these throwback readers were out there in droves long before the movie campaign opened. So who are these adult readers who have made J.K. Rowling the second-biggest female earner in Britain (after Madonna)? As I have tramped along streets knee-deep in Harry Potter paperbacks, I"ve mentally slotted them into three groups. First come the Never-Readers, whom Harry has enticed into opening a book. Is this a bad thing? Probably not. Writing has many advantages over film, but it can never compete with its magnetic punch. If these books can re-establish the novel as a thrilling experience for some people, then this can only be for the better. If it takes obsession-level hype to lure them into a bookshop. that"s fine by me. But will they go on to read anything else? Again, we can only hope. The second group are the Occasional Readers. These people claim that tiredness, work and children allow them to read only a few books a year. Yet now--to be part of the crowd, to say they"ve read it- they put Harry Potter on their oh-so-select reading list. It"s infuriating, and maddening. Yes, I"m a writer myself, currently writing difficult, unreadable, hopefully unsettling novels, but there are so many other good books out there, so much rewarding, enlightening, enlarging works of fiction for adults; and yet these sad cases are swept along by the hype, the faddism, into reading a children"s book. The third group are the Regular Readers, for whom Harry is sandwiched between McEwan (英国当代作家) and Balzac, Roth (德国现代诗人) and Dickens. This is the real baffler--what on earth do they get out of reading it? Why bother? But if they call rattle through it in a week just to say they"ve been there- like going to Longleat (朗利特山庄，英国名胜)or the Eiffel Tower--the worst they"re doing is encouraging others.

单选题Evidence came up ______ specific speech sounds are recognized by babies as young as five months old. A. that B. which C. what D. when

单选题The ______ of the dollar can be directly linked to deterioration of the current account of the U.S. balance of payments.

单选题I had to take a step, even though I understand that that step was in the direction of______ rather than success.(2003年西南财经大学考博试题)

单选题I was ______ when I learnt that your application for the post of secretary had been unsuccessful.

单选题What is true about the Internet according to the text? A．People now have realized that the Internet will dominate our society completely. B．The Internet increases by 50/% every year. C．The Internet will combine all the traditional media such as books, televisions and push them further. D．The Internet prevents individuals from developing new skills.