单选题Now, don't tell anyone else what I've just told you. Remember, it's ______. A. controversial B. secretive C. confidential D. sacred

单选题American women were ______ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.

单选题To achieve our goal, we have to obviate all the problems.

单选题The bus moved slowly in the thick fog. We arrived at our ______ almost two hours later. A. designation B. destiny C. destination D. dignity

单选题 At the public radio station KEXP in Seattle, there's a simple procedure for evaluating new technology. "We just go ahead and do stuff," says one of the station's morning disc jockeys. That's how the quirky station created one of the first music podcasts—without support from major record companies. A podcast is a digital recording of a radio-style audio program that can be downloaded from the Internet and played on a digital music player. Many podcasters think the technology could revolutionize radio as TiVo did television. Podcasting is a great way for KEXP to reach thousands of new listeners, especially those outside of Seattle. But the station can't podcast programs such as John in the morning—a variety of independent and mainstream music—because record companies haven't provided an easy, affordable way for podcasters to license songs. That's why most podcasts today are talk radio. KEXP decided that it couldn't sit around and wait and wait for a major label to sign off on this. So it invited 14 unsigned or small bands from the Seattle area to contribute songs to a podcast. The station asked a lawyer—a listener who volunteers at the station—to draw up a simple contract for the bands. KEXP did not release numbers but said the podcast was a hit. KEXP is now podcasting some live performances to which it owns the rights. Since podcasts are recordings, they can be played at any time. Listeners can pause, fast-forward or rewind them. And since podcasts are posted online, listeners can download programs from radio stations and independent broadcasters from all over the world. The podcasts can also be hacked and pirated. An enterprising listener could pull songs out of a podcast and turn them into music files or CDs. That's why many record companies say the technology is promising but problematic. But record labels worry that listeners will pirate the songs contained in the downloaded radio shows. For example, OK Go and several other emerging bands with EMI have their own podcasts. But EMI is not ready to approve a blanket podcasting license. "Podcasting is potentially very exciting," says Executive Vice-president Adam Klein. The result: yet another Napster-like standoff over piracy and music rights.

单选题It is reported that the latest outbreak of the bird flu in Pennsylvania in the United States has prompted China to slap a ban on poultry imports from the state. A. marine products B. dairy products C. industrial products D. avian products

单选题The popularity of the film show that the reviewers" fears were completely ______.

单选题The hands on this clock are lubricate so that it can be seen in the dark.

单选题The affluent middle class created by the Asian boom now take up over from exports as the main engine of growth.

单选题Beijing Television Station Transmitting Tower really looks magnificent at night when it is illuminated .

单选题Heat exhaustion is a condition caused by ______ to sunlight or another heat source which often results in dehydration and salt depletion. A. a reaction to B. overexposure C. an limitation of D. an absence of

单选题To begin some activity is to ______ doing it.

单选题A somewhat singular and solitary person, he demonstrated early in his life a capacity for hard work, long hours, and ______. Almost a personification of the Protestant work ethic, Thorndike simply abhorred making even the slightest error and consequently was always striving for perfection in his work. A. accuracy B. precision C. vision D. permission

单选题On a Windows screen, there will roll down many more buttons when you hit the "Tools" button. A. cast B. caste C. cascade D. cataract

单选题People who live in crowded cities often experience breathing problems during the summer when high temperature combine with ______ polluted air.

单选题Only one-fifth of Americans saw oil as the chief mason that the U.S. made a war on Iraq, but 75 percent of the French and of the Russians believed ______.

单选题Which statement about social control agents is NOT true?

单选题If they spend some time on Chinese history, they will be more able to predict China"s future.

单选题Since the energy crisis, these big cars have become a real liability. They cost too much to run.

单选题 Now which are the animals really to be pitied in captivity? First, those clever beings whose lively urge for activity can find no outlet behind the bars of the cage. This is most conspicuous, even for the uninitiated, in the case of animals which, when living in a free state, are accustomed to roaming about widely. Owing to this frustrated desire, foxes and wolves housed, in many old-fashioned zoos, in cages which are far too small, are among the most pitiable of all caged animals. Though pinioned swans generally seem happy, under proper care, by hatching and rearing their young without any trouble, at migration time things become different: they repeatedly swim to the lee side of the pond, in order to have the whole extent of its surface at their disposal, trying to take off. Again and again the grand preparations end in a pathetic flutter of their half wings; a truly sorry picture! This, however, rarely awakens the pity of the zoo visitor, least of all when such an originally highly intelligent and mentally alert animal has deteriorated, in confinement, into a crazy idiot, a very caricature of its former self. Sentimental old ladies, the fanatical sponsors of the societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, have no compunction in keeping a grey parrot in a relatively small cage or even chained to a perch. Together with the large corvines, the parrots are probably the only birds which suffer from that state of mind, common to prisoners, namely, boredom.