单选题The football player was not nominated by the committee ,______not very popular with all its members.[A] to be considered[B] considering[C] being considered[D] having considered

单选题Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on ANSWER SHEET TWO. Americans today choose among more options in more parts of life than has ever been possible before. To an extent, the opportunity to choose {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}our lives. It is only logical to think that if some choice is good, more is better; people who care about having {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}options will benefit from them, and those who do not can always just {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}the 273 versions of cereal they have never tried. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}recent research strongly suggests that, psychologically, this {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}is wrong. Although some choice is undoubtedly better than none, more is not always better than {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}} Recent research offers {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}into why many people {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}unhappy rather than pleased when their options {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}. We began {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}a distinction between "maximizers" (those who always aim to make the best possible choice) and "satisficers" (those who aim for "good enough," whether or not better selections might be out there). The greatest maximizers engage {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}more product comparisons than the satisficers, both before and after they make purchasing decisions, and they take {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}to decide what to buy. When satisficers find an item that {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}their standards, they stop looking. But maximizers {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}enormous effort {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}labels, checking out consumer magazines and trying new products. They also spend more time comparing their purchasing decisions with {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}} We found that the greatest maximizers are the {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}with the fruits of their efforts. When they compare themselves with others, they get little pleasure from finding out that they did better and {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}dissatisfaction from finding out that they did worse. They are more {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}to experiencing regret after a purchase, and if their acquisition disappoints them, their {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}of well-being takes longer to recover. They also tend to brood or ruminate more than satisficers do.

单选题Why was the pub built halfway of the hill?

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单选题In order to strengthen his arguments, George ______ respectable social scientists who agree with him. A. recites B. confirms C. quotes D. convinces

单选题Under the present system, state enterprises must ______ part of the profits to the government. A.turn down B.turn up C.turn out D.turn in

单选题 Rich Americans are willing to take conspicuous consumption to new heights by spending big bucks to fly into space, including paying 100,000 for a 15-minute trip into the heavens, according to a poll released on Monday. Possibly bored by the banal baubles of mundane Mother Earth or inspired by the dashing derring-do of such pioneers as first American in space Alan Shepard and first millionaire in space Dennis Tito, the poll says 7 percent of rich Americans would pay 20 million for a two-week orbital-flight and 19 percent would pay 100,000 for 15-minute sub-orbital flight. The poll by Zogby International was commissioned by Futron Corp., a Maryland aerospace consulting group which has a 1.8 million contract with NASA to explore the commercial applications of space travel, including what space tourism could look like in the next 20 years. Zogby International conducted telephone interviews with 450 Americans whose yearly incomes exceed 250,000 or whose net worth exceeds 1 million. The polls, conducted in January but only released Monday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percent. Futron's NASA project program manager Derek Webber said, "We commissioned this survey in order to get an idea of what rich people think and not the man in the street who loves the idea of going into space but can't afford it." He added, "We are saying these trips will cost a minimum of 100,000 for a 15-minute trip, which was the amount of time the first American in space, Alan Shepard, had and for that you get to feel space weightlessness and see the world from up there." That trip would take a tourist 50 miles (80 km) into space. Webber said a surprising 7 percent of the wealthy polled said they would be willing to take a two-week flight to an orbiting space station, paying the 20 million that the Russians charged the two pioneering space tourists who have already made the trip, South African Mark Shuttleworth and American Dennis Tito. If the price dropped to $50,000, 16 percent of those surveyed would be interested. Space tourists would have to meet medical standards and only be able to go to the International Space Station. N'Sync singer Lance Bass is currently undergoing tests to see if he could become the third space tourist. He wants to become the first entertainer in space.

单选题Please ______ from smoking until the airplane is airborne.

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单选题The economic recession has meant that job ______ is a rare thing.

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单选题Many people believe that our species ______ threatened with extinction.

单选题Social institutions are now being called ______ to provide assistance to the homeless.

单选题 Disagreement marks historical appraisals of America' s emergence as a great power at the turn of the twentieth century. On the one hand, historians have praised the maturing of the Republic, which was now able to take its place among the arbiters of the world' s destinies. On the other hand, many writers have tried to define America' s new floe indistinctive terms. They argue that the United States did not enter the great power game as just another player but introduced a new style of diplomatic play and perhaps even a new set of rules. Judgments clash about these innovations. An older school of thought stresses the idealism that America brought to the world arena. More recently, "New left" revisionists have charged that America' s contribution to international life was the self-serving notion of "informal empire," typified by a worldwide Open Door doctrine. This strategy avoided formal territorial possession but sought economic dominance of foreign raw materials, markets, and investments. Historians disagree further about the motivating impulses of American diplomacy. Recent "revisionists" have tended almost exclusively to emphasize domestic economic factors in explaining American foreign policy, the United States sought foreign markets, the argument goes, to solve the problems of domestic overproduction and constant business depressions. Other scholars respond that international politics can only be properly understood in an international con- text. They argue that Theodore Roosevelt, for example, acted not for narrow domestic reasons but because he realistically perceived that if the United States did not hold its own against the other powers, it would soon risk being eclipsed on the world stage, and even being pushed around in its own hemisphere, despite the Monroe Doctrine.