单选题They immediately ______ and go in the opposite direction.

单选题Defenders of special protective labor legislation for women often maintain that eliminating such laws would destroy the fruits of a century long struggle for the protection of women workers. Even a brief examination of the historic practice of courts and employers would show that the fruit of such laws has been bitter; they are, in practice, more of a curse than a blessing. Sex defined protective laws have often been based on stereotypical assumptions concerning women's needs and abilities, and employers have frequently used them as legal excuses for discriminating against women. After the Second World War, for example, businesses and government sought to persuade women to vacate jobs in factories, thus making room in the labor force for returning veterans. The revival or passage of state laws limiting the daily or weekly work hours of women conveniently accomplished this. Employers had only to declare that overtime hours were a necessary condition of employment or promotion in their factory, and women could be quite legally fired, refused jobs, or kept at low wage levels, all in the name of "protecting" their health. By validating such laws when they are challenged by lawsuits, the courts have colluded over the years in establishing different, less advantageous employment terms for women than for men, thus reducing women's competitiveness on the job market. At the same time, even the most well intentioned lawmakers, courts, and employers have often been blind to the real needs of women. The lawmakers and the courts continue to permit employers to offer employee health insurance plans that cover all known human medical disabilities except those relating to pregnancy and childbirth. Finally, labor laws protecting only special groups are often ineffective at protecting the workers who are actually in the workplace. Some chemicals, for example, pose reproductive risks for women of childbearing years; manufacturers using the chemicals comply with laws protecting women against these hazards by refusing to hire them. Thus the sex defined legislation protects the hypothetical female worker, but has no effect whatever on the safety of any actual employee. The health risks to male employees in such industries cannot be negligible, since chemicals toxic enough to cause birth defects in fetuses or sterility in women are presumably harmful to the human metabolism. Protective laws aimed at changing production materials or techniques in order to reduce such hazards would benefit all employees without discriminating against any. In sum, protective labor laws for women are discriminatory and do not meet their intended purpose. Legislators should recognize that women are in the work force to stay, and that their needs—good health care, a decent wage, and a safe workplace—are the needs of all workers. Laws that ignore these facts violate women's rights for equal protection in employment.

单选题He is ______ to speak the truth.

单选题Woman: These summer days are getting to be more than I can take. It was even too hot to go to the pool yesterday.Man: Hold on, according to the weather report we should have some relief by the end of the week.Question: What dose the man mean?

单选题She flew into a rage and her husband sought in vain to ______ her with words of comfort and counsel.

单选题Our English teacher is ______. A. James and Mary's father B. James's and Mary's father C. Jame's and Mary's father D. James' and Mary's father

单选题Advertisement is often used to ______.

单选题She helped the old man ______ the car.

单选题We cannot be______the choices that our children are going to make, even though we have contributed to those choices.

单选题For Emily Dickinson there were three worlds, and she lived in all of them, making them the substance of everything that she thought and wrote. There was the world of nature, the things and the creatures that she saw, heard, felt about her, there was the "estate" that was the world of friendship. And there was the world of the unseen and unheard. From her youth she was looked upon as different. She was direct, impulsive, original, and the droll wit who said unconventional things which others thought but dared not speak, and said them incomparably well. The characteristics which made her inscrutable to those who knew her continue to bewilder and surprise, for she lived by paradoxes. Certainly the greatest paradox was the fact that the three most pervasive friendships were the most elusive. She saw the Reverend Charles Wadsworth of Philadelphia but three or four times in the course of her life, and then briefly, yet her admiration of him as an ideal and her yearning for him as a person were of us surpassed importance in her growth as a poet. She sought out for professional advice the critic and publicist Thomas Wentworth Higginson and invited his aid as mentor for more than twenty years, though she never once adopted any counsel he dared to hazard. In the last decade of her life, she came to be a warm admirer of the poet and novelist Helen Hunt Jackson, the only qualified judge among Emily Dickinson's contemporaries who believed her to be a great poet, yet Emily Dickinson steadfastly refused to publish even though Mrs. Jackson's importunity was insistent.

单选题Wives tend to believe that their husbands are infinitely Uresourceful/U and versatile.

单选题Judgment was {{U}}suspended{{/U}} till the following Monday because of the lack of evidence.

单选题Could you hold on a few minutes ______ I check this with my boss?

单选题The flowers are so beautiful that I would do ______ I can to save them.

单选题You needn't worry ______ regards the cost of the operation. A. with B. which C. as D. about

单选题Veteran track trainer Johnson is scathing in his______ of the leaders of the I. O.C., "These people are megalomaniacs. They are power-hungry administrators. "

单选题Woman: So you finally listen to your wife's advice and give up smoking. Man: It was my doctor's advice. I'm suffering from high-blood pressure. Question: What do we learn from the conversation? A. The man no longer smokes. B. The man is under pressure from his wife. C. The man usually follows his wife's advice. D. The man refuses to listen to his doctor's advice.

单选题What cannot be concluded about the satellite images?