单选题It can be seen from the passage that the two immediate goals of hurricane research are ______.
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单选题What idea did the author derive from the recent opinion polls?
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单选题 No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral
decline of a nation. "Is this what you like to accomplish with your careers?" an
American senator asked Time Warner executives recently. "You have sold your
souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?" At
Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the latest manifestation of the
soul-searching that has involved the company ever since the company was born in
1990. It's a self-examination that has, at different times, involved issues of
responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line.
At the core of this debate is chairman Gerald Levin, 56, who took over from the
late Steve Ross in the early 1990s. On the financial front, Levin is under
pressure to raise the stock price and reduce the company's mountainous debt,
which will increase to $17.3 billion after two new cable deals close. He has
promised to sell off some of the property and restructure the company, but
investors are waiting impatiently. The flap over rap is not making
life any easier for him. Levin has consistently defended the company's rap music
on the grounds of expression. In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for
releasing Ice-T's violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as a
lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. "The test of any
democratic society," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column," lies
not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of
thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or
irritating the results may sometimes be. We won't retreat when we face any
threats." Levin would not comment on the debate last week, but
there were signs that the chairman was backing off his hard-line stand, at least
to some extent. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's
stockholders' meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of society's
ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to
communicate with students. But he talked as well about the "balanced struggle"
between creative freedom and social responsibility, and he proclaimed that the
company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling
of potentially objectionable music. The 15-member Time Warner
board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy. But insiders
say some of them have shown their concerns in this matter. "Some of us have
known for many, many years that the freedoms under the First Amendment are not
totally unlimited," says Luce. "I think it is perhaps the case that some people
associated with the company have only recently come to realize this."
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单选题Themainpurposeofthispassageisto______.A.introducetheprocessofpresidentialinaugurationB.introducethenewpresidentC.introducehowpresidentsareelectedD.introducethewifeofMr.Bush
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单选题Now the politics of U.S. health reform is in a mess but the odds on a bill passing in the end are improving. It will not be a tidy thing, but if it moves the country close to universal health insurance, the administration will call it a success.
At this moment, that point of view may seem too optimistic. Last Friday, the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives had hoped to produce a finished bill. But they failed, because the party"s fiscal conservatives demanded further savings. House Democrats are also divided on revenue-raising measures.
The Senate is dealing with the same problems: how to contain the cost of expanded insurance coverage, and how to pay for what remains, so that the reform adds nothing to the budget deficit over the course of 10 years.
Where the money comes from remains the crucial problem. Apparently, the answer is straightforward: tax employer-provided health benefits. At present, an employer in the U.S. is free from paying tax if he pays the health insurance while an individual purchaser has to buy it with after-tax dollars. This anomaly costs nearly $250bn a year in revenue—enough to pay for universal coverage, and then some. Yet many Democrats in both the House and the Senate oppose to ending it. Will there be a breakthrough in terms of that aspect?
However, to get employers out of health insurance should be an aim, not something to be feared. Many U.S. workers have complained that if they lose their job, their health insurance will go with it and tying insurance to employment will undoubtedly worsen the insecurity.
What about high-risk workers who are thrown on to the individual market? If the tax break were abolished as part of a larger reform which obliges insurers to offer affordable coverage to all people regardless of pre-existing conditions, it will not be a problem. It"s true this change needs to increase tax, and many people in Congress are reluctant to contemplate in any form. But some kind of increase is inescapable. This one makes more sense than most.
The President should say so. His Republican opponent John McCain called for this change during the election campaign and Mr. Obama and other Democrats assailed the idea. So what? Mr. Obama has changed his ideas on other aspects of health reform. For example, it seems that he now prefers an individual mandate to buy insurance. Let us see a similar flexibility on taxing employerprovided insurance.
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Whether the eyes are "the windows of
the soul" is debatable; that they are intensely important in interpersonal
communication is a fact. During the first two months of a baby' s life, the
stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not be real: a
mask with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with
eyes covered will not motivate a smile, nor will the sight of only one eye when
the face is presented in profile. This attraction to eyes as opposed to the nose
or mouth continues as the baby matures. In one study, when American
four-year-olds were asked to draw people, 75 percent of them drew people with
mouths, but 99 percent of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, however, where
babies are carried on their mother' s back, infants do not acquire as much
attachment to eyes as they do in other cultures. As a result, Japanese adults
make little use of the face either to encode or decode meaning. In fact, Argyle
reveals, that the proper place to focus one' s gaze during a conversation in
Japan is on the neck of one' s conversation partner. The role of
eye contact in a conversational exchange between two Americans is well defined;
speakers make contact with the eyes of their listener for about one second, then
glance away as they talk; in a few moments they re-establish eye contact with
the listener or reassure themselves that their audience is still attentive, then
shift their gaze away once more. Listeners, meanwhile, keep their eyes on the
face of the speaker, allowing themselves to glance away only briefly. It is
important that they be looking at the speaker at the precise moment when the
speaker re-establishes eye contact: if they are not looking, the speaker assumes
that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed
or will terminate the conversation. Just how critical this eye maneuvering is to
the maintenance of conversational flow becomes evident when two speakers are
wearing dark glasses: there may be a sort of traffic jam of words caused by
interruption, false starts, and unpredictable
pauses.
单选题Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Elizabethan England?
单选题The GOOD HEALTH SYMPOSIUM A Recipe for Balanced Living 09:30 — 17:15, SATURDAY 19th APRIL COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE THEATRE. Kensington High Street TICKETS — £2.50 (£1.50 students/non-wage earners) 09:30 Arrivals and refreshments 10:00 REDUCE CORONARY RISK BY BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION Dr Chundra Patel 10:50 WHAT WERE PEOPLE PROGRAMMED TO EAT? Dr David Ryde 11:40 LEARNING TO COPE WITH STRESS Donald Norfolk 12:30 Lunch (Buffet vegetarian lunches will be available at £2.00. per head.) 14:00 OUR HEALTH IN OUR HANDS Dr Denis Burkitt 14:50 EAT, DRINK AND BE WORRIED Dr Erik Millstone 15:40 Tea 16:20 HOMEOPATHY AND NUTRITION DrAndrew Lockie 17:10 Dr Alan Long will conclude the symposium. There will be time after each lecture for discussion and questions. For details of speakers please see opposite. Organised by The Vegetarian Society DETAILS OF SPEAKERS DR CHANDRA PATEL is a senior clinical lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine, University of also a founder member of the British Holistic Medical Association (BHMA). DR DAVID RYDE has had over 30 years in general practice. He is an expert on obesity and weight loss. DONALD NORFOLK is an osteopath and the author of "Fit for Life" and "The Stress Factor". He has appeared on TV and radio. DR DENIS BURKITT is a foremost medical epidemiologist and a world expert on the importance of fibre in the diet. DR ERIK MIL LSTONE is a lecturer in Science Studies at the University of Sussex. He is a nationally-known expert on food additives and labelling. DR ANDREW LOCKIE is medical homeopath and labelling. DR ALAN LONG who will conclude the symposium, is an Hon. Research Advisor to the Vegetarian Society. There will be a large display of books on health and vegetarian cookery at the event. ADVANCE TICKETS — available from: "Good Health" Symposium, Vegetarian Centre & Bookshop. 53 Marloes Road, Kensington, London W86 LA Please enclose SAE and cheque / P.O. for correct amount Including £2 for advance lunch ticket (if required).
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单选题 Questions 14~16 are based on a TV interview about n young man. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14~16.