单选题 On a four-day trip to Ethiopia, I had a dream. In my dream, I saw two men, one older and one younger, facing one another against a background of temples and pyramids. The father was speaking as he performed the oil ceremony for his son. I became excited in the possibility of performing a visiting ceremony {{U}}(31) {{/U}} my son in Africa. For the next six days I privately wondered what {{U}}(32) {{/U}} to use in such a ceremony. Gradually the words {{U}}(33) {{/U}} me. By the time we arrived in Cairo, I was ready. I told my son that there was a ceremony I wanted to {{U}}(34) {{/U}} him in the tombs in Egypt. His eyes shone with {{U}}(35) {{/U}} But I wondered if he would still be receptive after my next statement. In the dream I remembered that the son was oiled, as it {{U}}(36) {{/U}}, with a dry substance. I took this to mean that powder {{U}}(37) {{/U}} oil was used. But what powder? I ruled out ground grass and flowers, and finally settled on sand. Sand represents the Sahara, and sand also {{U}}(38) {{/U}} the remains of the ancient people of Egypt. That made philosophical {{U}}(39) {{/U}} to me, but in the real world, young adults or almost anybody for that matter, {{U}}(40) {{/U}} disinclined to have sand poured on their hair.

单选题I took someone's umbrella ______.

单选题As a writer Walkter was very ______. A. imaginary B. imagining C. imaginative D. imaginable

单选题It's been called the Gig Economy, Freelance Nation, the Rise of the Creative Class, and the e-economy, with the "e" standing for electronic, entrepreneurial. Everywhere we look, we can see the U.S. workforce undergoing a massive change. No longer do we work at the same company for 25 years, waiting for the gold watch, expecting the benefits and security that come with full-time employment. We're no longer simply lawyers, or photographers, or writers. Instead, we're part-time lawyers-cure-amateur' photographers who write on the side. Today, careers consist of piecing together various types of work, juggling multiple clients, learning to be marketing and accounting experts, and creating offices in bedrooms/coffee shops. Independent workers abound. We call them freelancers, contractors, sole proprietors, consultants, temps, and the self-employed. This transition is nothing less than a revolution. We haven't seen a shift in the workforce so significant in almost 100 years since we transitioned from an agricultural to an industrial economy. Now, employees are leaving the traditional workplace and opting to piece together a professional life on their own. As of 2005, one-third of our workforce participated in this "freelance economy". Statistics show that number has only increased over the past six years. While the economy has unwillingly pushed some people into independent work, many have chosen it because of greater flexibility that lets them skip the dreary office environment and focus on more personally fulfilling projects. These trends will have an enormous impact on our economy and our society: We don't actually know the true composition of the new workforce. After 2005, the government stopped counting independent workers in a meaningful and accurate way. Studies have shown that the independent workforce has grown and changed significantly since then. Jobs no longer provide the protections and security that workers used to expect. The basics such as health insurance, protection from unpaid wages, a retirement plan, and unemployment insurance are out of reach for one-third of working Americans. Independent workers are forced to seek them elsewhere, and if they can't find or afford them, then they go without. Therefore, it's time to build a new support system that allows for the flexible and mobile way that people are working. This new, changing workforce needs to build economic security in profoundly new ways. For the new workforce, the New Deal is irrelevant. When it was passed in the 1930s, the New Deal provided workers with important protections and benefits but those securities were built for a traditional employer-employee relationship. The New Deal has not evolved to include independent workers. (424 words)

单选题A. angryB. cryC. armyD. copy

单选题从供选择的答案中，选出最确切的解答。 WebSQL is a SQL-like (1) language for extracting information from the web. Its capabilities for performing navigation of web (2) make it a useful tool for automating several web-related tasks that require the systematic processing of either all the links in a (3) , all the pages that can be reached from a given URL through (4) that match a pattern, or a combination of both. WebSQL also provides transparent access to index servers that can be queried via the Common (5) Interface.

单选题Shaw's international fame was firmly established ______.

单选题Our physical development is largely directed by the genes that we inherit from our parents. At one time, psychologists waged vigorous debates about how much of our behavior is genetically determined and how much of it is learned. This was known as the nature-nurture controversy. We now know that this "either-or" question is largely meaningless, since behavior depends on the interaction between heredity (遗传) and environment. However, it is also dear that genetic factors do set limits on our behavioral capabilities, as illustrated most dramatically in certain genetically baaed birth disorders. Psychologists working in the field of behavior genetics study how behavior is influenced by biological factors and how favorable or unfavorable environmental conditions can affect an organism' s genetically inherited potential. Genetic theory began around 1865, when Gregor Mendel reported on his experiments with garden peas. Mendel showed that heredity involved the passing on of specific organic factors, not the simple blending of the parents' characteristics. These specific factors might produce visible characteristics in the offspring(后代), or they might simply be carried for possible transmission to another generation. In any case, the offspring of one set of parents did not all inherit the same traits. Early in the twentieth century, geneticists made an important distinction between genotype and phenotype. Genotype refers to the specific genetic makeup of an individual, while phenotype refers to the observable characteristics produced by that genetic endowment(才能). Genotype and phenotype axe not identical because not every gene is expressed in a visible trait and bemuse the expression of a genotypic trait may be modified by the environment. An individual's genetic coding is like the catalog of a giant library. Some of the coded directives are used on one occasion, some on another. Some are never used at all, either, because they are contradicted by stronger genetic directives or because the environment never calls them forth. For example, geneticists have discovered that chickens have retained the genetic code for teeth, yet, because the code is prevented from being expressed, hens' teeth remain a cliche for scarcity.

单选题He was ______ to be a college graduate but he knew nothing about history.

单选题What do they think about the restaurant?

单选题I thought the meeting was going to be awful, but it didn't ______ too badly. A. turn up B. turn out C. turn apart D. turn down

单选题According to the author, which of the following is NOT an ancient belief?

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单选题 Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical. In{{U}} (1) {{/U}}world during the fifteenth century the term " reading"{{U}} (2) {{/U}}meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace. One should be wary, however, of{{U}} (3) {{/U}}that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is a(n){{U}} (4) {{/U}}to others. Examination of factors related to the{{U}} (5) {{/U}}development of silent reading reveals that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in{{U}} (6) {{/U}}. The last century saw a steady gradual increase in{{U}} (7) {{/U}}and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, the number of potential listeners{{U}} (8) {{/U}}, and thus there was some{{U}} (9) {{/U}}in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishing of reading as a{{U}} (10) {{/U}}activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would{{U}} (11) {{/U}}distraction to other readers. Towards the end of the century there was still{{U}} (12) {{/U}}argument over whether books should be used for information or treated{{U}} (13) {{/U}}, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way{{U}} (14) {{/U}}weakening. Indeed this argument still remains with us in education.{{U}} (15) {{/U}}its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was{{U}} (16) {{/U}}by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a{{U}} (17) {{/U}}readership on the other. By the end of the century students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use skills in reading them which were inappropriate,{{U}} (18) {{/U}}not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural, and technological changes in the century had greatly{{U}} (19) {{/U}}what the term "reading"{{U}} (20) {{/U}}.

单选题She helped the old man ______ the car. A. into B. on C. in D. to

单选题______to hurt her, he did not tell her the truth.

单选题Several novels by Mo Yan ______ into English so far.

单选题 After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthquake scientists had good news to report: the damage and death toll could have been much worse. More than 60 people died in this earthquake. By comparison, an earthquake of similar intensity that shook America in 1988 claimed 25, 000 victims. Injuries and deaths were relatively less in Los Angeles because the quake occurred at 4:31 a.m. on a holiday, when traffic was light on the city's highways. In addition, changes made to the construction codes in Los Angeles during the last 20 years have strengthened the city's buildings and highways, making them more resistant to quakes. Despite the good news, civil engineers aren't resting on their successes. Pinned to their drawing boards are blueprints for improved quake-resistant buildings. The new designs should offer even greater security to cities where earthquakes often take place. In the past, making structures quake-resistant meant firm yet flexible materials, such as steel and wood, that bend without breaking. Later, people tried to lift a building off its foundation, and insert rubber and steel between the building and its foundation to reduce the impact of ground vibrations. The most recent designs give buildings brains as well as concrete and steel supports, called smart buildings. The structures respond like living organisms to an earthquake's vibrations. When the ground shakes and the building tips forward, the computer would force the building to shift in the opposite direction. The new smart structures could be very expensive to build. However, they would save many lives and would be less likely to be damaged during earthquakes.

单选题I found, while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative black woman, that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can be found very close. In the late 1920s, my mother ran away from home to 1 my father. Marriage, if not running away, was 2 of seventeen-year-old girls. By the time she was twenty, she had two children and was pregnant 3 a third. Five children later, I was born. And this is how I 4 to know my mother: she 5 a large, soft, loving-eyed woman who was 6 impatient in our home. Her quick, violent temper was on 7 only a few times a year, when she 8 with the white landlord who had the misfortune to suggest to her that her children did not need to go to school. She made all the clothes we wore, even my brother"s 9 . She made all the towels and sheers we used. She spent the summers canning vegetables and fruits. She spent the winter evenings making quilts 10 to cover all our beds.