单选题What did the man want the woman to do?

单选题What's the attitude of GM vice-president towards the prospects in summer?

单选题Far be it from me to argue that the United States or NATO should be intervening in Libya to stop Muammar Qaddafi from crushing the rebels. But the fact that we're not intervening is pretty telling, if you consider it in historical context. Had a broad-based citizen uprising against Mr Qaddafi broken out in 1999 or 2001, not only would there have been strong American political will for intervention, it would have been easy to put together an international alliance and perhaps even a UN mandate. Those were the years after the Clinton administration, in the aftermath of its embarrassing failures in Bosnia and Rwanda, had decisively embraced the idea of humanitarian intervention. NATO had gone along, and even the UN was pushing towards its eventual ratification of the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine, which obliged outside powers to intervene militarily when countries failed to protect or actively attacked their own citizens. The Bush administration initially pulled back from the idea of humanitarian interventions, but after the attacks of September 11th it, too, embraced the liberal-internationalist idea of democracy promotion through force. A NATO that endorsed bombing campaigns and eventually military occupation of Kosovo would probably not have shrunk at the far more clear-cut case of Libya, had an uprising happened a dozen years ago. But NATO is flinching now, and there has been a sea change in the international appetite for humanitarian military interventions. The reason for that sea change is obvious. It is a four-letter word ending in Q. America and her European allies (ah, I love to call America a lady. Got to do that more often) still believe in promoting democracy, obviously, but we no longer believe in doing so 'at gunpoint, or even in putting our own troops at risk for it when the heavy lifting is being done by a country's own citizens. The fiasco of the Iraq invasion has put us off that sort of thing indefinitely. Iraq essentially broke the idea of a new world order based on an international community united under common basic precepts of minimally decent government. That breakage may not be permanent; the UN Security Council passed a strong Libya resolution with remarkable alacrity, and the International Criminal Court moved with unprecedented speed to open an investigation of war crimes in Libya. But if there is no "coalition of the willing" for intervention in Libya, that is due to the bitter taste Iraq has left in the mouths of Western governments and voters. The only European state pressing hard for air strikes in Libya is France, which has no bitter memories of foolish support for the invasion of Iraq because France opposed that invasion. Who's a cheese-eating surrender monkey now, eh? All of which raises a question. Back in the days when the cause of humanitarian intervention was on the rise, during the argument over Bosnia policy, Madeleine Albright (in Colin Powell's telling) encapsulated the thinking in a pithy phrase: "What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?" Mr Powell wrote in his memoirs that he "almost had an aneurysm"; the military was not a toy to be used because we had it sitting around. But basically, Ms Albright was right: the United States inherited the world's strongest military because of the cold war, and if in the post-cold war world there were no longer any plausible uses for that military, there really was no point in having it. Mr Powell, in fact, presided over dramatic cuts in the size of the defence establishment. It was the embrace of humanitarian intervention in the cause of promoting democracy, first in Kosovo, then (after the attacks of September 11th) in Afghanistan and finally Iraq, that provided the new justification for a military buildup. In the aftermath of wasting a couple of trillion dollars and several thousand American lives in Iraq, that justification for having a huge military appears to be dead, too. We have a legacy commitment in Afghanistan, but we are hoping to start winding that down beginning as early as this summer. After Afghanistan, what? If we are not interested in using the American military to stop Muammar Qaddafi from massacring his own people, and to secure oil fields run by Western companies whose precarious status is driving the price of oil over $100 a barrel and threatening to tank the world economy, it is not clear under what possible circumstances we might be interested in using the American military. The question, then, is why we are spending $ 700 billion a year on it. There is no point in having a superb military .if you can't, or won't, use it. And in the long term, we really don't have $ 700 billion a year to spare for things that serve no purpose. If we're not going to use it anyway, I'd venture we could get along with a military that was, say, half as superb.

单选题______, I must do another experiment.A. Be it ever so lateB. It be ever so lateC. It is ever so lateD. So late it be over

单选题Would you please _______ a seat for this evening’s concert?

单选题What is in the mind of the Taliban?

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单选题 In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 21 to 23 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.

单选题It was dark in the cave so she ______ a match.

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单选题Pageants are usually conceived on a fairly large scale, often under the auspices of some local or civic authority or at any rate in connection with local groups of some kind. This sometimes means that there is an allocation of funds available for the purpose of mounting the production, though unfortunately this will usually be found to be on the meager side and much ingenuity will have to be used to stretch it so that all performers can be adequately clothed. Most pageants have a historical flavour as they usually come about through the celebration of the anniversary of some event of historic importance, or the life or death of some local worthy. Research among archives and books in the public library will probably prove very useful and produce some workable ideas which will give the production an especially local flavour. From the first economy will have to be practiced because there are usually a great number of people to dress. Leading characters can be considered individually in the same way as when designing for a play; but the main body of the performers will need to be planned in groups and the massed effect must be always borne in mind. Many pageants take place in daylight in the open air. This is an entirely different problem from designing costumes which are going to be looked at under artificial lighting; for one thing, scenes viewed in the daylight are subject to many more distractions. No longer is everything around cut out by the surrounding darkness, but instead it is very easy to be aware of disturbing movement in the audience of behind the performers. Very theatrically conceived clothes do not always look their best when seen in a daylight setting of trees, verdant lawns and old ivy-covered walls; the same goes for costumes being worn in front of the mellow colors of stately homes. The location needs to be studied and then a decision can be made as to what kinds of colors and textures will harmonize best with the surroundings and conditions and then to carry this out as far as possible on the funds available. If money is available to dress the performers without recourse to their Own help in the provision of items, it is best to arrange for all the cutting and pinning together of the costumes to be done by one or two experienced people than to be given out to the groups and individuals for completion. When there is little or no money at all, the garments need to be reduced to the basic necessities. Cloaks and shawls become invaluable, sheets and large bath towels and bath sheets are admirable for draping. Unwanted curtains and bed spreads can be cut to make tunics, robes and skirts. These are particularly valuable if they are of heavy fabrics such as velvet or chenille. Colors should be massed together so that there are contrasting groups of dark and light, this will be found to help the visual result substantially. Crowds of people gathered together in a jumble of colors will be ground to look quite purposeless and will lack dramatic impact. The use of numbers of identical head-dresses, however simply made, are always effective when working with groups. If these are made of cardboard and painted boldly the cost can be almost negligible. Helmets, hats and plumes will all make quite a show even if the costumes are only blandest or sheets cleverly draped. The same can be said of the use of banners, shields and poles with stiff pennants and garlands—anything which will help to have a unifying effect. Any kind of eye-catching device will always go with a flourish and add excitement to the scenes.

单选题How long did the storm last?

单选题In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

单选题The audience waited in ______ silence while their aged speaker searched among his note for the figures he could not remember. A. respective B. respect C. respectful D. respectable

单选题So far, the Browns ______in Tangshan for twenty years.[A] have lived[B] lives[C] live[D] are living