单选题They found the ______ bridge when they went across the village. A. old stone Chinese B. Chinese old stone C. old Chinese stone D. Chinese stone old
单选题Someone who is called a phoenix today ______. A. has come back from a defeat B. is probably immortal C.thinks he or she can live forever D. Is not well liked by colleagues
单选题As one of a rare group of economists who believe that "manufacturing matters" for the health of the American economy, I was heartened to hear President Obama emphasize manufacturing in his State of the Union address. During the last two years, the manufacturing sector has led the economic recovery, expanding by about 10 percent and adding more than 300,000 jobs. Though there are economists who do not share my view, I believe that a strong manufacturing sector matters for several reasons.
First, economists agree that the United States must rebalance growth away from consumption and imports financed by foreign borrowing toward exports. Manufactured goods account for about 86 percent of merchandise exports from the United States and about 60 percent of exports of goods and services combined. American manufacturing exports are becoming more attractive as a result of rising wages abroad, the decline in the dollar"s value, increasing supply-chain coordination and transportation costs, and strong productivity growth in American manufacturing.
Germany and Japan, two high-wage countries, have maintained substantial shares of manufacturing in their economies, and are major exporters of manufactured goods to emerging market economies. Like manufacturing in these countries, manufacturing in the United States can win larger shares of global export markets with the right policies in place.
Second, on average manufacturing jobs are high-productivity, high value-added jobs with good pay and benefits. In 2009, the average manufacturing worker earned $74,447 in annual pay and benefits compared with $63,122 for the average non-manufacturing worker. In that year, only about 9 percent of the work force was employed in manufacturing, down from about 13 percent in 2000. The fall in manufacturing employment during the 2000s was a major factor behind growing wage inequality and the polarization of job opportunities between the top and bottom of the wage and skill distribution, with a hollowing out of middle-income jobs.
Third, manufacturing matters because of its substantial role in innovation. American leadership in science and technology remains highly dependent on R. & D. investment by manufacturing companies, and the social returns to such investment are substantial, far exceeding the returns to the companies that fund it.
American multinational companies that account for about 84 percent of all private-sector business R. & D. in the United States still place about 84 percent of their R. & D. activities in the United States, often in clusters around research universities. But this share is gradually declining as American companies shift some of their R. & D. to Asia in response to rapidly growing markets, ample supplies of technical workers and engineers and generous subsidies. Congress"s failure to extend and broaden the R. & D. tax credit, as President Obama has urged, is also encouraging companies in the United States to look to other countries offering far more generous R. & D. tax incentives.
单选题A: I like this apartment very much, but I"ll come back this evening with my wife and kids. Will that be convenient?
B: ______.
单选题The American students came to our school in November, and we then made a______visit to theirs.
单选题Was ______ Bill, ______ played basketball very well, ______ helped the blind man across the street? A) that; that; who B) it; that; that C) it; who; that D) this; who; who
单选题At the party we found that shy girl ______ her mother all the time.(2013年北京航空大学考博试题)
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Passage Three (1) Viewed from a star
in some other corner of the galaxy, Earth would be a speck, a faint blue dot
hidden in the blazing light of our sun. While our neighbors Venus and Mars would
reflect a fairly even glow. Earth would put on a little show. Earth's light
would brighten and dim as it spins, because oceans, deserts, forests and clouds
which are all too small to be seen from such a distance, reflect varying amounts
of sunlight. The variations, it turns out, are so strong and distinctive that
surprising amount of information could be taken from a simple ebb and flow of
light. Scientists at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study
conducted a detailed study of Earth's reflections as a way for human scientists
to learn about distant planets that may be like our own. (2) "If
you looked at our solar system from far away, and you looked at the terrestrial
planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, one of the quickest ways to see that
Earth is unique, which is by looking at the light curve," said Ed Turner,
professor of astrophysics and a co-author of the study. "Earth has by far the
most complicated light curve." The standard thinking in the field had been that
most of the information about an Earth-like planet would come from spectral
analysis, a static reading of the relative component of different colors within
the light, rather than a reading of changes over time. Spectral analysis would
reveal the presence of gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide and oxygen, in
the planet's atmosphere. Looking at the change in light over time does not
replace spectral analysis, but it could greatly increase the amount of
information scientists could learn, said Turner. It may indicate, for example,
the presence of weather, oceans, ice or even plant
life.
单选题Which of the following statements is NOT true about John McDermott?
单选题Few people went to meet him at the railway station yesterday, ______ ? A.didnt they B.did they C.werent they D.were they
单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}}
More than 6,000 children were expelled
(开除) from US school last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US
Department of Education said on May 8. The department gave a
report to the expulsions (开除) as saying handguns accounted for 58% of the 6,093
expulsions in 1996—1997, against 7% for rifles (步枪) or shotguns and 35% for
other types of firearms. "The report is a clear sign that our
nation's public schools are cracking down (严惩) on students who bring guns to
school," Education Secretary Richard Riley said in a statement.
In March 1997, an 11-year old boy and a 13-year old boy using handguns and
rifles shot dead four children and a teacher at a school in Arkansas. In
October, two were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a Mississippi
school. Two months later, a 14-year old boy killed three high school
students and wounded five in Kentucky. Most of the expulsions,
56%, were from high school, 34% were from junior high schools and 9% were from
elementary schools, the report said.
单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}}
In 1784, five years before he became
president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So
he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw—having extracted them
from the mouths of his slaves. That's a far different image from
the cherry-tree-chopping George most people remember from their history books.
But recently, many historians have begun to focus on the roles slavery played in
the lives of the founding generation. They have been spurred in part by DNA
evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson
had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings. And only over the
past 30 years have scholars examined history from the bottom up. Works of
several historians reveal the moral compromises made by the nation's early
leaders and the fragile nature of the country's infancy. More
significantly, they argue that many of the Founding Fathers knew slavery was
wrong--and yet most did little to fight it. More than anything,
the historians say, the founders were hampered by the culture of their time.
While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they
also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the
country they helped to create. For one thing, the South could
not afford to part with its slaves. Owning slaves was "like having a large bank
account," says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His
Slaves, and the Creation of America. 'The southern states would not have signed
the Constitution without protections for the "peculiar institution," including a
clause that counted a slave as three fifths of a man for purposes of
congressional representation. And the statesmen's political
lives depended on slavery. The three-fifths formula handed Jefferson his narrow
victory in the presidential election of 1800 by inflating the votes of the
southern states in the Electoral College. Once in office, Jefferson extended
slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13
states, including three slave states. Still, Jefferson freed
Hemings's children—though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other
slaves. Washington, who had begun to believe that all men were created equal
after observing the bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War,
overcame the strong opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their
freedom in his will. Only a decade earlier, such an act would have required
legislative approval in Virginia.
单选题Those dissenters of westernization made no mention of the
healthy
aspects of globalization.
单选题从下面提供的答案中选出应填入下列英文语句中______内的正确答案。 With the widespread use of the personal computer, many authorities in the field of (1) have point out need for computer literacy. Unfortunately, there is no (2) agreement as to what term computer literacy means. Some feel that computer literacy means knowing how to make the computer compute; that is,knowing how to program computers in one or more programming languages. Others feel that knowing how to program is merely a small segment of computer literacy. These people (3) the major emphasis in schools should be on teaching how to effectively use the many software packages that available. Still others suggest that computer literacy education is not required. They suggest that computers are being so rapidly integrated into our society that using a computer will be as (4) as using a telephone or a video tape recorder, and that special education will not be necessary. (5) of ones definition of computer literacy, it is recognized by most that learrung to use a computer is indeed an important skill in modern society.
单选题The large size and roughly circular shape of the Pacific made some scientists think that it ______ a hole left when the moon separated from the earth.
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Given the choice between spending an
evening with friends and taking extra time for his school-work, Andy Klise
admits he would probably{{U}} (21) {{/U}}for the latter. It's not that
he doesn't like to have fun; It's just that his desire to excel{{U}} (22)
{{/U}}drives his decision-making process. A 2001 graduate of
Wooster High School and now a senior biology major at The College of Wooster,
Klise acknowledges that he may someday have{{U}} (23) {{/U}}thoughts
about his decision to limit the time he has spent{{U}} (24) {{/U}}, but
for now, he is comfortable with the choices he has made. "If things had not{{U}}
(25) {{/U}}out as well as they have, I would have had some regrets,"
says Klise, who was a Phi Beta Kappa inductee as a junior. "But spending the
extra time studying has been well worth the{{U}} (26) {{/U}}. I realized
early on that to be successful, I had to make certain{{U}} (27)
{{/U}}." {{U}} (28) {{/U}}the origin of his intense
motivation, Klise notes that it has been part of his makeup for as long as he
can remember. "I've always been goal{{U}} (29) {{/U}}," he says. "This
internal drive has caused me to give my all{{U}} (30) {{/U}}pretty much
everything I do." Klise{{U}} (31) {{/U}}Wooster's
nationally recognized Independent Study (I. S. ) program with preparing him for
his next{{U}} (32) {{/U}}in life: a research position with the National
Institute of Health (NIH). "I am hoping that my I.S. experience will help me{{U}}
(33) {{/U}}a research position with NIH," says Klise. "The yearlong
program gives students a chance to work with some of the nation's{{U}} (34)
{{/U}}scientists while making the{{U}} (35) {{/U}}from undergraduate
to graduate studies or a career in the medical
field."
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单选题M: Maria, I want you to have all my laundry ready by the time I get home.
W: You must be kidding!
Question: What does the woman mean?
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单选题Mr. Smith would just rather we ______ now, but we must go to work.
