单选题Sweden has a longstanding reputation as an egalitarian country with a narrow gender gap. But a national debate about gender equality has revealed substantial dissatisfaction, with some Swedes feeling it has gone too far. Rousing controversy now is the issue of gender pedagogy, a concept that emerged in the early 2000s and typically involves challenging gender stereotypes in learning material and in avoiding treating male and female pupils in a stereotypical manner . But what has sharpened the debate in Sweden has been the argument that schools should also be gender neutral , giving children the opportunity to define themselves as neither male nor female if they wish. Kristina Henkel, a gender expert specializing in equality in schools, disputes the argument that gender pedagogy and neutrality are being foisted on Swedes. "Sweden has a long tradition of working with equality and this has had strong support among politicians, " she says, and adds that "the question of gender neutrality, or of everyone having equal rights despite their gender, has also been driven by activists at the grassroots level. " But Elise Claeson, a columnist and a former equality expert at the Swedish Confederation of Professions, disagrees. "I have long participated in debates with gender pedagogues and they act like an elite, " she says. "They tend to be well-educated, live in big cities, and have contacts in the media, and they clearly despise traditional people. " Ms. Claeson has been a vocal critic of the word "hen, " a new, gender-neutral pronoun that was recently included in the online version of the National Encyclopedia. Around the same time, Sweden"s first gender-neutral children"s book was published. The author, Jesper Lundqvist, uses hen throughout his book, completely avoiding han and hon, the Swedish words for him and her. Claeson believes that the word hen can be harmful to young children because, she says, it can be confusing for them to receive contradicting messages about their genders in school, at home, and in society at large. "It is important to have your gender confirmed to you as a child. This does not limit children; it makes them confident about their identity... Children ought to be allowed to mature slowly and naturally. As adults we can choose to expand and change our gender identities. " Last fall, nearly 200 teachers gathered in Stockholm to discuss how to avoid "traditional gender patterns" in schools. The conference was part of a research project run by the National Agency for Education and supported by the Delegation for Equality in Schools. "I work with these issues in Finland and Norway and it is clear to me that they have been inspired by the Swedish preschool — and school curricula , " says Ms. Henkel, the gender expert. But Henkel also insists that gender equality is a rights issue that cannot simply be left to the state to handle. Instead, she says, it requires the active involvement of citizens. "Rights are not something we receive and then don"t have to fight for. This is about a redistribution of power, and for that initiative and action are needed, not just fancy legislation. "

单选题Ibitterlyregret______himthesadstory.

单选题It by any chance someone comes to see me, ______ ask them to leave a

单选题Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in intercultural experiences. Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete. But three characteristics stand out in their reports: patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear. Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm even when things do not go as one wants them to, or hopes they will, or has even been sure they will. Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not. A person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in her own reactions than is a humorless person. The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to. "The awareness of being unclear" is a more difficult concept than patience or a sense of humor. Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear to the newcomers. That is, they do not know what is happening in the situation. Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can"t be sure of different people"s roles in what is going on. "It"s like I just got here from the moon." a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said, "Things are just so different here."

单选题The recent deterioration in the economy is of great concern to the government.

单选题If you happen to ______ my lost papers while you"re looking for your book, please let me know at once by telephone.

单选题I can meet you at eight o"clock; ______ you can call for me.

单选题The word "intricate" in line 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

单选题从供选择的答案中，选出最确切的解答。 The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a software engineering process, which captures many of best practices in modern software development. The notions of (1) and scenarios have been proven to be an excellent way to capture function requirements. RUP can be described in two dimensions-time and content. In the time dimension, the software lifecycle is broken into cycles. Each cycle is divided into four consecutive (2) which is concluded with a well-defined (3) and can be further broken down into (4) -a complete development loop resulting in a release of an executable product,a subset of the final product under development, which grows mcrementally to become the final system. The content structure refers to the disciplines, which group (5) logically by nature.

单选题The school authority is ______ funds to build housing for young teachers.

单选题We arranged that Kissinger would fly to Vietnam for talks early in July and then stop in Pakistan on the way back. There he would develop a stomachache that would require him to stay in bed and not be seen by the press. Then, with President Yahya"s cooperation he would be taken to an airport where a Pakistani plane would fly him over the mountains to China. Kissinger"s trip was given the code (密码) name Polo after Marco Polo, another Western traveler who made history by journeying to China. Everything went without a hitch. His slight illness in Islamabad received only minor attention from reporters covering him. They accepted the story that he would be confined to bed for at least a couple of days and began making arrangements for their own entertainment. Because of the need for complete secrecy and the lack of any direct communication facilities between Beijing and Washington, I knew that we would have no word from Kissinger while he was in China. Even after he had returned to Pakistan it would still be important to maintain secrecy. So before Kissinger left, we agreed on a single code word—Eureka—which he would use if his mission were successful. On July 11, A1 Haig, who knew our code word, phoned me to say that a cable from Kissinger had arrived. "What"s the message?" I asked. "Eureka," he replied.

单选题If a person drinks silver tea during his golden years, we can say that

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Although no one is certain why migration occurs, there are several theories. One theory claims that prehistoric birds of the Northern Hemisphere were forced south during the Ice Age. As the glaciers melted, the birds came back to their homelands, spent the summer, and then went south again as the ice advanced in winter. In time, the migration became a habit in spite of the disappearance of glaciers. Another theory proposes that the ancestral home of all modern birds was the tropics. When the region became overpopulated, many species were crowded north. During the summer, there was plenty of food, but during the winter, scarcity forced them to return to the tropics. A more recent theory suggests a relationship between increasing daylight and the stimulation of certain glands(腺)in the birds' bodies that may prepare them for migration. One scientist has been able to cause midwinter migrations by exposing birds to artificial periods of daylight. He has concluded that changes occur in the bodies of birds due to seasonal changes in the length of daylight.

单选题The ______ of emotional and psychiatric disorders that can prompt a person to seek therapy is wide.

单选题The food was divided ______ according to(he age and size of the child.(2007年中国人民大学考博试题)

单选题Space Shuttle Project is one of the first huge-typed spaceflight instruments used for many times in the world, organized by American National Aviation andSpaceflight Bureau, the main researches of (1) are researching and making the system of space shuttle, suggesting and choosing (2) and landing ports,deciding the scheme of reclaiming the roll booster of solid rocket, (3) the establishment of repairing the roll booster, and rebuilding and expanding the building of the (4) and controlling system. At the beginning of 1969, the United States set up a group that specially researched the development direction of spaceflight with (5) for the next stage, (6) by deputy president. After (7) and research, it suggested that an aerocraft with great benefits in (8) should be made, eg (9) the spaceflight being its leading stanchion. In this project, five orbit implements were prescribed to be made, (10) " Exploitation", " Columbia", " Challenger","Discovery" and "Atlands". In 1970, spaceflight got into an all-round (11) of research and manufacture. The whole-project had to delay more than three years. Five orbit implements were (12) to be four and flight experiment for six times was also decreased for four, (13) the number of production was cut down, according to the original scheme. In April 1971 this (14) was decided that Kennedy Space Centre was used for the launching and landing port for space shuttles, and Edwards Air Base was used for the (15) landing port. In February 1977,"Exploitation" Orbit Implement started to have entering and landing experiment sin Edwards Air Base. From May 12, 1981 to July 4, 1982, "Columbia" Space Shuttle successfully finished four flight experiments for research and manufacture, (16) meant that the (17) and manufactures were over in (18) form. It (19) about 12 years and cost more than 75 billion US dollars to finish the whole project. On November 11, 1990, space shuttles began to fly for (20) .

单选题Question 16-20 are based on the following dialogue: