单选题One of the enduring myths of American folklore is that Jesse James was a home-grown Robin Hood who "stole from the rich and gave to the poor" That legend enjoyed a revived popularity in the 1960s. Supported by movies, pulp fiction, and even serious scholarship, this image has dominated our understanding of the post-Civil War James gang and other western outlaws. Historians have described James as a "primitive rebel" who championed "a special type of peasant protest and rebellion" against modernizing forces by robbing banks and railroads. But James himself would have considered this notion a great joke. In fact, James's robbers went after the express company safes just because that's where the money was. As for the Robin Hood theme, there is no evidence the James gang did anything with the cash they stole except to spend it on fine horseflesh and gambling. The key to understanding the motives of the James gang—besides greed—is the Civil War, especially the vicious guerrilla combat within the larger war that plagued Missouri. Support for the Confederacy was strong in the Little Dixie counties that flanked the Missouri River just east of the Kansas border. In these counties lived most of the men and boys who went into the bush as Confederate guerrillas, including Frank and Jesse James. They learned their trade under the tutelage of such psychopathic killers as " Bloody Bill" Anderson and William Clarke Quantrill, who murdered scores of Missouri Unionists and fought it out with Union soldiers during four years of internecine warfare. These guerrillas were anything but the poor farmers of folklore. Many of them (like James) came from families that were three times more likely to own slaves and possessed twice as much wealth as the average Missouri family. James fought during the war against emancipation and after the war against the Republican Party that freed and enfranchised the slaves. Many of the banks and express companies struck by the James gang were owned by individuals or groups associated with the Republican Party. Like the Ku Klux Klan in former Confederate states, the James gang did its best to undermine the new order ushered in by Northern victory in the Civil War. When Democrats regained control of Missouri in the 1870s, the James gang looked for greener pastures outside the state. In August 1876, they rode all the way to Northfield, Minn. , with the aim of robbing a bank there in which a Union general was reported to have deposited large funds. When the bank cashier—also a Union veteran—refused to open the vault, James shot him in cold blood. The citizens of Northfield fought back, killing two of the bandits before they could flee the town. Jesse and Frank James got away, but this affair was the beginning of the end for Jesse's career as the self-described "Napoleon of crime. /

单选题The case ______. ( )

单选题 Competition for admission to the country's top private schools has always been tough, but this year Elisabeth Krents realized it had reached a new level. Her wake-up call came when a man called the Dalton School in Manhattan, where Krents is admission director, and inquired about the age cut off for their kindergarten program. After providing the information (they don't use an age cut off), she asked about the age of his child. The man paused for an uncomfortably long time before answering. 'Well, we don't have a child yet,' he told Krents. 'We're trying to figure out when to conceive a child so the birthday is not a problem.' School obsession is spreading from Manhattan to the rest of the country. Precise current data on private schools are unavailable, but interviews with representatives of independent and religious schools all told the same story: a glut of applicants, higher rejection rates. 'We have people calling us for spots two years down the road,' said Marilyn Collins of the Seven Hills School in Cincinnati. 'We have grandparents calling for pregnant daughters.' Public-opinion poll after poll indicates that Americans' No. 1 concern is education. Now that the long economic boom has given parents more disposable income, many are turning to private schools, even at price tags of well over $10,000 a year. 'We're getting applicants from a broader area, geographically, than we ever have in the past,' said Betsy Haugh of the Latin School of Chicago, which experienced a 20 percent increase in applications this year. The problem for the applicants is that while demand has increased, supply has not. 'Every year, there are a few children who do not find places, but this year, for the first time that I know, there are a significant number of children who don't have places,' said Krents, who also heads a private-school admission group in New York. So what can parents do to give their 4-year-old an edge? Schools know there is no foolproof way to pick a class when children are so young. Many schools give preference to siblings or alumni children. Some use lotteries. But most rely on a mix of subjective and objective measures: tests that at best identify developmental maturity and cognitive potential, interviews with parents and observation of applicants in classroom settings. They also want a diverse mix. Children may end up on a waiting list simply because their birthdays fall at the wrong time of year, or because too many applicants were boys. The worst thing a parent can do is to pressure preschoolers to perform—for example, by pushing them to read or do math exercises before they're ready. Instead, the experts say, parents should take a breath and look for alternatives. Another year in preschool may be all that's needed. Parents, meanwhile, may need a more open mind about relatively unknown private schools—or about magnet schools in the public system. There's no sign of the private-school boom letting up. Dalton's spring tours, for early birds interested in the 2001-2002 school year, are filled. The wait list? Forget it. That's closed, too.

单选题Speaker A: Let"s go out for a walk. Speaker B: ______. It"s raining!

单选题The barman didn't want to send the man away because ______. A. the man paid the bill every time he brought it to him B. the man was too tired to leave C. he was kind-hearted D. he lidded his job very much

单选题The coal-miners agreed to ______ the strike if the management would satisfy their demands. A. call up B. call for C. call off D. call forth

单选题It ________ me about three hours to get to your new company.

单选题Woman: My cousin Bob is getting married in California and I can't decide whether to go. Man: It's a long trip, but I think you'll have a good time. Question: What does the man imply?

单选题Insomnia, or “poor sleep”, can have bad effects on a persons health and general well-being. It can_____21on both our physical and mental health and can lead to other health_____22. Insomnia can b

单选题 Questions12-14 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题I feel it an honor______to speak here.

单选题What does the writer think about machines with human-like ability?

单选题Small communities, with their distinctive character—where life is stable and intensely human—are disappearing. Some have 27 from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have 28 changes as they have come into contact with an 29 machine civilization. The merging of diverse peoples into a common mass has produced tension among members of the minorities and the majority alike. The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have 30 in the modern world in distinctive, small communities. They have resisted the homogenization 31 more successfully than others. In planting and harvest time one can see their bearded men working the fields with horses and their women hanging out the laundry in neat rows to dry. Many American people have seen Amish families, with the men wearing broad-brimmed black hats and the women in long dresses, in railway or bus 32 . Although the Amish have lived with 33 America for over two and a half centuries, they have moderated its influence on their personal lives, their families, communities, and their values. The Amish are often 34 by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs. They are seen as abandoning both modern 35 and the American dream of success and progress. But most people have no quarrel with the Amish for doing things the old-fashioned way. Their conscientious objection was tolerated in wartime, for after all, they are good farmers who 36 the virtues of work and thrift. A. accessing I. progress B. conveniences J. respective C. destined K. survived D. expanding L. terminals E. industrialized M. undergone F. perceived N. universal G. practice O. vanished H. process

单选题______ you say, he won' t listen to you.

单选题There is no doubt that the war will cause widespread human ______.

单选题This room is ______ that one.

单选题If this kind of fish becomes ______ , future generations may never taste it at all. A. minimum B. short C. seldom D. scarce

单选题He did not tell his parents because he knew they would try to change his mind but he ______ in a colleague at work.

单选题______my neighbor’s kid with his coming exam，I spend an hour working with him every day.

单选题Export of handicraft products is the mainstay of the county's economy. A. rich resources B. primary concern C. only source D. main support