单选题Whatever happened to the death of newspaper? A year ago the end seemed near. The recession threatened to remove the advertising and readers that had not already fled to the internet. Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom. America"s Federal Trade Commission launched a round of talks about how to save newspapers. Should they become charitable corporations? Should the state subsidize them? It will hold another meeting soon. But the discussions now seem out of date. In much of the world there is the sign of crisis. German and Brazilian papers have shrugged off the recession. Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit. Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same. It has not been much fun. Many papers stayed afloat by pushing journalists overboard. The American Society of News Editors reckons that 13,500 newsroom jobs have gone since 2007. Readers are paying more for slimmer products. Some papers even had the nerve to refuse delivery to distant suburbs. Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further. Newspapers are becoming more balanced businesses, with a healthier mix of revenues from readers and advertisers. American papers have long been highly unusual in their reliance on ads. Fully 87% of their revenues came from advertising in 2008, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD). In Japan the proportion is 35%. Not surprisingly, Japanese newspapers are much more stable. The whirlwind that swept through newsrooms harmed everybody, but much of the damage has been concentrated in areas where newspaper are least distinctive. Car and film reviewers have gone. So have science and general business reporters. Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off. Newspapers are less complete as a result. But completeness is no longer a virtue in the newspaper business.

单选题No _____you're hungry if you haven't eaten since yesterday

单选题It has been documented that during World War Ⅱ, America's armed forces once tried formation flight to save fuel.

单选题A well-established friendship carries a long history of experience and interaction that ______ who we are and keeps us connected.

单选题An article in Scientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you"re more beautiful than you are. We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing (to use the psychological terminology) strategies to achieve this. Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the "above average effect", or "illusory superiority", and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others—all obviously statistical impossibilities. We rose tint our memories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations. We become defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem. We stalk around thinking we"re hot stuff. Psychologist and behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key studying into self-enhancement and attractiveness. Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves" from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive. Visual recognition, reads the study, is "an automatic psychological process occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent conscious deliberation". If the subjects quickly chose a falsely flattering image—which must did—they genuinely believed it was really how they looked. Epley found no significant gender difference in responses. Nor was there any evidence that, those who self-enhance the must (that is, the participants who thought the most positively doctored picture were real) were doing so to make up for profound insecurities. In fact those who thought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showed other markers for having higher self-esteem. "I don"t think the findings that we have are any evidence of personal delusion", says Epley. "It"s a reflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves". If you are depressed, you won"t be self-enhancing. Knowing the results of Epley"s study, it makes sense that people hate photographs of themselves so viscerally—on one level, they don"t even recognize the persons in the picture as themselves. FaceBook, therefore, is a self-enhancer"s paradise, where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit, style, beauty, intellect and lifestyle. "It"s not that people"s profiles are dishonest," says Catalina Toma of Wiscon Madison University, "but they portray an idealized version of themselves." (People are much more likely to out and out lie on dating websites, to audience of strangers. )

单选题The cypress trees of the Louisiana wetlands are threatened by the exploding population of nutria, a type of South American rodent introduced into the area in the 1930s in hopes of starting a nutria fur industry. Unfortunately, no one wanted the fur, and now the rodents number in the millions. A park ranger has suggested introducing the South American jaguar, the nutria's natural predator, into the Louisiana wetlands as a way to control the nutria population. Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the ranger's plan to introduce jaguars as an effective way to control the nutria population? A. Past attempts to control the nutria population through traps and poison have resulted in limited and temporary population reductions. B. A program in Florida found that the best way to conserve the root systems of wetland trees such as cypresses is to surround the trees' roots with tough plastic barriers. C. The jaguar is a large and deadly predator that, if introduced, could kill livestock, pets, or even humans that it encounters in the Louisiana wetlands. D. During the past year an unusually cold winter killed an estimated 35 percent of the nutria population in the Louisiana wetlands. E. The South American jaguar is a predator of the ferret, which is currently the chief predator of the nutria in the Louisiana wetlands.

单选题In a sample of 800 high school students in which all students are either freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or seniors, 22 percent are juniors and 74 percent are not sophomores. If there are 160 seniors, how many more freshmen than sophomores are there among the sample of students? A. 42 B. 48 C. 56 D. 208 E. 256

单选题FlightBA123toViennaisnowboardingat____________.

单选题If you know exactly what you want, the best route to a job is to get specialized training. A recent survey shows that companies like the graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training. That"s especially true of booing fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell"s School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor"s degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies, especially, like a background of formal education coupled with work experience. But in the long run, too much specialization doesn"t pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years. As further evidence of the erosion (销蚀) of corporate faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State"s Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices. Although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle and upper-level management. "They want someone who isn"t constrained by nuts and bolts to look at the big picture," says Scheetz. This sounds suspiciously like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have. writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adaptability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems. David Birch claims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree, "I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things," says Birch. Liberal-arts means an academically thorough and strict program that includes literature, history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior—plus a computer course or two. With that under your belt, you can feel free to specialize, "A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace," says Scheetz.

单选题 In 1999, the price of oil hovered around ＄16 a barrel. By 2008, it had {{U}}(21) {{/U}} the ＄100 a barrel mark. The reasons for the surge {{U}}(22) {{/U}} from the dramatic growth of the economies of China and India to widespread {{U}}(23) {{/U}} in oil-producing regions, including Iraq and Nigeria's delta region. Triple-digit oil prices have {{U}}(24) {{/U}} the economic and political map of the world, {{U}}(25) {{/U}} some old notions of power. Oil-rich nations are enjoying historic gains and opportunities, {{U}}(26) {{/U}} major importers—including China and India, home to a third of the world's population— {{U}}(27) {{/U}}rising economic and social costs. Managing this new order is fast becoming a central {{U}}(28) {{/U}} of global politics. Countries that need oil are clawing at each other to {{U}}(29) {{/U}} scarce supplies, and are willing to deal with any government, {{U}}(30) {{/U}} how unpleasant, to do it. In many poor nations with oil, the profits are being lost to corruption, {{U}}(31) {{/U}} these countries of their best hope for development. And oil is fueling enormous investment funds run by foreign governments, {{U}}(32) {{/U}} some in the West see as a new threat. Countries like Russia, Venezuela and Iran are well supplied with rising oil {{U}}(33) {{/U}}, a change reflected in newly aggressive foreign policies. But some unexpected countries are reaping benefits, {{U}}(34) {{/U}} costs, from higher prices. Consider Germany. {{U}}(35) {{/U}} it imports virtually all its oil, it has prospered from extensive trade with a booming Russia and the Middle East. German exports to Russia {{U}}(36) {{/U}} 128 percent from 2001 to 2006. In the United States, as already high gas prices rose {{U}}(37) {{/U}} higher in the spring of 2008, the issue cropped up in the presidential campaign, with Senators McCain and Obama {{U}}(38) {{/U}} for a federal gas tax holiday during the peak summer driving months. And driving habits began to {{U}}(39) {{/U}}, as sales of small cars jumped and mass transport systems {{U}}(40) {{/U}} the country reported a sharp increase in riders.

单选题If the average (arithmetic mean) of x and y is 40, and z-x=60, what is the average of y and z? A. 20 B. 50 C. 65 D. 70 E. 140

单选题To be specific, ______ deals with how speech sounds are produced. A. Articulatory Phonetics B. Acoustic Phonetics C. Auditory Phonetics D. Phonological Phonetics

单选题By this quality of freedom alone, play marks itself off from the course of the natural process. It is something added ______ and spread out over it like a flowering, an ornament.

单选题In a nationwide poll, P people were asked 2 questions. If 2/5 answered "yes" to question 1, and of those 1/3 also answered "yes" to question 2, which of the following represents the number of people polled who did not answer "yes" to both questions? A. 2/15 P B. 3/5 P C. 3/4 P D. 5/6 P E. 13/15 P

单选题A circle graph shows how the MegaTech corporation allocates its Research and Development budget: 14% microphotonics; 24% home electronics; 15% food additives; 29% genetically modified microorganisms; 8% industrial lubricants; and the remainder for basic astrophysics. If the arc of each sector of the graph is proportional to the percentage of the budget it represents, how many degrees of the circle are used to represent basic astrophysics research? A. 8° B. 10° C. 18° D. 36° E. 52°

单选题The following data sufficiency problems consist of a question and two statements, labeled (1) and (2), in which certain data are given. You have to decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient for answering the question. Using the data given in the statements plus your knowledge of mathematics and everyday facts (such as the number of days in July or the meaning of counterclockwise), you must indicate whether Ａ. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient. Ｂ. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient. Ｃ. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient. Ｄ. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient. Ｅ. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

单选题William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym of O. Henry, was born in North Carolina. His only formal education was to attend his Aunt Lina"s school until the age of fifteen, where he developed his lifelong love of books. By 1881 he was a licensed pharmacist. However, within a year, on the recommendation of a medical colleague of his Father"s, Porter moved to La Salle County in Texas for two years herding sheep. During this time, Webster"s Unabridged Dictionary was his constant companion, and Porter gained knowledge of ranch life that he later incorporated into many of his short stories. He then moved to Austin for three years, and during this time the first recorded use of his pseudonym appeared, allegedly derived from his habit of calling "Oh, Henry" to a family cat. In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a draftsman, then as a bank teller for the First National Bank. In 1894 Porter founded his own humor weekly, the "Rolling Stone", a venture that failed within a year, and later wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post. In the meantime, the First National Bank was examined, and the subsequent indictment of 1886 stated that Porter had embezzled funds. Porter then fled to New Orleans, and later to Honduras, leaving his wife and child in Austin. He returned in 1897 because of his wife"s continued ill-health, however, she died six months later. Then, in 1898 Porter was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment in Ohio. At the age of thirty five, he entered prison as a defeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife, and finally his freedom. He emerged from prison three years later, reborn as O. Henry, the pseudonym he now used to hide his true identity. He wrote at least twelve stories in jail, and after re-gaining his freedom, went to New York City, where he published more than 300 stories and gained fame as America"s favorite short story writer. Porter married again in 1907, but after months of poor health, he died in New York City at the age of forty-eight in 1910. O. Henry"s stories have been translated all over the world.

单选题Automotive accidents are one of the leading causes of death in children. Child safety advocates argue that harsh penalties should be imposed on drivers who fail to place children under 30 pounds in rear-facing children's seats in the rear of the car whenever a car is in motion. Such penalties, they argue, will help save children's lives. All of the following statements support the argument of the child safety advocates EXCEPT: A. The rear seats of a car are safer for all passengers, both adults and children, in the event of an accident. B. Studies have shown that children in rear-facing seats have been shown to sustain less serious injuries in accidents than children in front-facing seats. C. Studies have shown that children under 30 pounds can sustain serious injuries in even minor accidents if they are not properly restrained. D. Studies have shown that children between 60 and 90 pounds are safest in a car when using both a seat belt and a properly sized booster seat. E. Some drivers will not abide by regulations unless they are forced to do so by the threat of harsh penalties.

单选题WhichofthefollowingCANNOTbeconsideredasminimalpair?

单选题This course is designed to help children ______ such real life situations as separation and loss. A. cope with B. settle down C. intervene in D. interfere with