单选题Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be selected randomly from a representative cross section of the community; that no citizen should be denied the right to serve on a jury on account of race, religion, sex, or national origin; that defendants are entitled to trial by their peers; and that verdicts should represent the conscience of the community and not just the letter of the taw. The jury is also said to be the best surviving example of direct rather than representative democracy. In a direct democracy, citizens take turns governing themselves, rather than electing representatives to govern for them. But as recently as in 1968, jury selection procedures conflicted with these democratic ideals. In some states, for example, jury duty was limited to persons of supposedly superior intelligence, education, and moral character. Although the Supreme Court of the United States had prohibited intentional racial discrimination in jury selection as early as the 1880 case of Strauder v. West Virginia, the practice of selecting so-called elite or blue-ribbon juries provided a convenient way around this and other antidiscrimination laws. The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century. Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898, it was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty. Even then several states automatically exempted women from jury duty unless they personally asked to have their names included on the jury list. This practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s. In 1968, the Congress of the United States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury. This law abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community. In the landmark 1975 decision Taylor v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court extended the requirement that juries be representative of all parts of the community to the state level. The Taylor decision also declared sex discrimination in jury selection to be unconstitutional and ordered states to use the same procedures for selecting male and female jurors.

单选题A: You have a call on line one. B: ______.

单选题After you have finished reading the book, please just put it back ______ it belongs.

单选题The doctor suggests that a person ______ exercises every day if he wishes to be healthy.A. does B. did C. do D. will do

单选题Cox Radio, one of the nation's largest radio chains, plans to ______ its ties with independent record promoters to distance itself from a payola-like practice that runs rampant in the music business. A. consolidate B. tout C. sever D. splash

单选题Which of the following is NOT the reason why small green plants are very important to dry places?

单选题Regular use of this moistening cream will help to ______ the rough, dry condition of your skin.

单选题Mark Twain tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy. A. hyperbole B. euphemism

单选题We lost two superstars in 1977.Neither man’s admirers have been able to understand the success of the other one.And this tells us something of the difference between the generations that the two singe

单选题The country's production dropped while prices and unemployed ______.

单选题The director has______ me with the unpleasant job of dismissing perfectly good workers that the firm can no longer afford to employ.

单选题The journalist, unfortunately, ______ a long time to send these important facts to the editor.

单选题It is difficult ______ a world record and even more difficult to ______ it.

单选题I've only recently explored Shakespeare with profit and pleasure.

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单选题 The first week of July 1776 was a busy one for Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence, which he largely wrote, was adopted on the fourth. But he chose the same week to begin keeping a record of the temperature change in a notebook. This wasn't a single example: for eight years, as president, Jefferson made detailed notes on the seasonal availability of various vegetables in the markets of Washington, DC. This wasn't because he couldn't focus, says Joshua. Kendall, author of America's Obsessives(强迫症者): The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation. Rather, his obsessional habits were a self-soothing response to anxiety. When his wife died, he responded by cataloguing the tens of thousands of letters he'd sent or received. 'A mind always employed is always happy,' he liked to say. But that wasn't a platitude(陈辞滥调): some of Jefferson's compulsive industriousness made history, but all of it helped keep him mentally healthy. The core of Kendall's argument is that many successful people show symptoms of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (强迫型人格障碍). Steve Jobs would get angry over a misplaced comma; he rejected one version of the Apple II computer because the lines on its internal circuit boards weren't straight enough. But, if-Kendall is correct, Jobs wasn't a person consumed solely by his own ambition: he focused on shaping and perfecting the physical world just to avoid con fronting his innermost self. Kendall quotes a psychiatrist who says it often begins with an insecure growing-up: 'Children who have little control over the key events and people in their lives begin to focus on something they can control.' Avoiding self-reflection, they make poor parents and partners. But their avoidance also leads to their success. This is disturbing, since the 'experiential avoidance' —the effort not to feel certain feelings, or think certain thoughts—is widely considered as a bad thing. It's blamed for everything from social anxiety to self-harm; the fast-developing acceptance and commitment therapy is dedicated to overcoming it, by helping people safely to 'feel their feelings'. Could it really bring benefits? The question strikes deep at how we think about psychological disorders. By definition, they interfere with life. But what counts as interfering is subjective: is it 'better' to be a great innovator than an ordinary spouse, or vice versa? The happiest among Kendall's obsessives are those with self-awareness: they chose to embrace their obsessions, accepting the downsides. The tragic ones kept trying to make their relationships conform to their rigid demands. A Wired magazine cover last year asked readers, 'Do you really want to be like Steve Jobs?' In a work culture that increasingly uses 'obsessive' as a compliment, it's worth pausing to ask the question.

单选题Man: Excuse me, I was told I could find Dr. Adkins here. Woman: And you have. Questions: What does the woman mean? A. She is Dr. Adkins. B. She has to find the doctor. C. The doctor has been expecting the man. D. The doctor will be with the man shortly.