单选题What does the author mean when he says "you can't spend a college wage premium" (para. 3)?

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} Since World War Ⅱ, there has been a clearly discernible trend, especially among the growing group of college students, toward early marriage. Many youths begin to date in the first stages of adolescence, "go steady" through high school, and marry before their formal education has been completed. In some quarters, there is much shaking of graying locks and clucking of middle-aged tongues over the ways of "wayward youth". However, emotional maturity is no respecter of birthdays. It does not arrive automatically at twenty-one or twenty-five. Some achieve it surprisingly early, while others never do, even in three-score years and ten. Many students are marrying as an escape, not only from an unsatisfying home life, but also from their own personal problems of isolation or loneliness. And it can almost be put down as a dictum that any marriage entered as an escape cannot prove to be entirely successful. The sad fact is that marriage seldom solves one's problems; More often, it merely accentuates them. Furthermore, it is doubtful whether the home as an institution is capable of carrying all that the young are seeking to put into it; one might say in theological terms that they are forsaking one idol only to worship another. Young people correctly understand that their parents are wrong in believing that "success" is the final good, but they erroneously believe that they themselves have found the true center of life's meaning. Their expectaions of marriage are essentially Utopian and therefore incapable of fulfillment. They want too much, and tragic disillusionment is often bound to follow. Shall we, then, join the chorus of "Miserere" over early marriages? One cannot generalize: all early marriages are not bad any more than all later ones are good. Satisfactory marriages are determined not by chronology, but by the emotional maturity of the partners. Therefore, each case must be judged on its own merits. If the early marriage is not an escape, if it is entered into with relatively few illusions or false expectations, and if it is economically feasible, why not? Good marriages can be made from sixteen to sixty, and so can bad ones.

单选题According to Hoyle and his friends at Cambridge ______.

单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} Banking is about money; and no other familiar commodity arouses such excesses of passion and dislike. Nor is here any other about which more nonsense is talked. The type of thing that comes to mind is not what is normally called economies, which is inexact rather than nonsensical, and only in the same way as all sciences are at the point where they try to predict people's behavior and its consequences. Indeed most social sciences and, for example, medicine could probably be described in the same way. However, it is common to hear assertions of the kind "if you were left alone on a desert island a few seed potatoes would be more useful to you than a million pounds" as though this proved something important about money except the undeniable fact that it would not be much use to anyone in a situation where very few of us are at all likely to find ourselves. Money in fact is a token or symbolic object, exchangeable on demand by its holders for goods and services. Its use for these purposes is universal except within a small number of primitive agricultural communities. Money and the price mechanism, i. e., the changes in prices expressed in money terms of different goods and services, are the means by which all modern societies regulate demand and supply for these things. Especially important are the relative changes in price of different goods and services compared with each other, To take random examples: the price of house building has over the past five years risen a good deal faster than that of domestic appliances like refrigerators, but slower than that of motor insurance or French Impressionist paintings. This fact has complex implications for students of the industry, trade unionism, town planning, insurance companies, fine-art auctions, and politics. Unpacking these implications is what economics is about, but their implications for hankers are quite different. In general, in modern industrialized societies, prices of services or goods produced in a context requiring a high service-content (e. g. a meal in a restaurant) are likely to rise in price more rapidly than goods capable of mass-production on a large scale. It is also a characteristic of highly developed economies that the number of workers employed in service industries tends to rise and that of workers employed in manufacturing to fall. The discomfort this truth causes has been an important source of tension in western political life for many years and is likely to remain so for many more.

单选题 {{B}}Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following interview with Professor Schneider about climate change.{{/B}}

单选题Oscar Wilde was among the most outstanding Writers of [A] aestheticism. [B] realism. [C] romanticism. [D] materialism.

单选题Whatisthemaintopicofthistalk?A.Bicyclesandcars.B.Buildingcodes.C.Energyconservation.D.Newhousingconstruction.

单选题 BQuestions 17 ～ 20 are based on the following conversation. You may have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 ～ 20./B

单选题{{I}} Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.{{/I}} Believe it or not, airlines really are trying to do better. They promised to improve customer service last year {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}pressure from a Congress which was {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}stories of nightmare flights. So why is it that flying is getting {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}for so many passengers, {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}airlines are spending billions of dollars to improve service, {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}in new equipment such as mobile check-in stations and portable phone banks so travelers can quickly {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}a flight when it is delayed or cancelled? The fact is that air travel has {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}been such an annoyance, and customer complaints to the Transportation Department doubled in 1999 {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}1998. It seems Mother Nature would {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}people by bus this year. An unusual run of bad weather, {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}long walls of thunderstorms, has crippled airports lately and led to widespread delays and cancellations. After similar problems last summer, the FAA promised to work more closely with airlines {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}weather slowdowns — for example, FAA and airline representatives now gather at a single location in Herndon, Va. , to {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}the best way to allocate the available airspace. But even the FAA {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}the new initiative has fallen {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}of expectations, and many passengers complain that the delays seem {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}} Part of the problem is overcrowded planes. {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}the strong economy, US airlines are expected to carry a record 665 million passengers this year, up 5 percent from last year. On {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}, planes are about 76 percent full these days, also a {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}. That's good news for the Transport Department, which are profitably loading more passengers {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}each flight, and bad news for passengers, {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}irritations build rapidly in tight quarters.

单选题"Healing" and "closure" were the two most frequently uttered words in the news coverage following Timothy McVeigh"s conviction by a Denver jury of eleven counts of murder and conspiracy for the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. So universal was the desire to find some solace in the McVeigh verdict that practically no mention was made of the political culture that inspired his brutal truck-bombing. "What was he thinking?" one survivor wondered on ABC, in a clip played over and over, as if there were no context for McVeigh"s calculated violence. How quickly the nation has forgotten the deeply polarized climate of two years ago. the tide of antigovernment rhetoric from the Republican mainstream and the hateful language of conservative talk-radio; the National Rifle Association"s portrayal of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as Nazi storm troopers; the rapid rise of populist militias in thrall to theories about black helicopters and a Zionist Occupation Government; and a real government attack that had, however unintentionally, left seventy-two dead in Waco, Texas, two years before and was still very much alive on the gun-show circuit. McVeigh, trained to kill by the U.S. Army and apparently trained to think by a magazine, Soldier of Fortune, and a novel, The Turner Diaries, was not a typical militia member any more than he was a typical Republican. But such were the currents and eddies that swept him toward his "propaganda of the deed," just as John Salvi, Paul Hill and other killers of abortion providers could find context for their acts in the demonizing rhetoric streaming from parts of the anti-choice movement. In the wake of Oklahoma City, the militia movement stands fragmented; leaders of the Michigan Militia are even talking with scholars and the FBI to defuse Potential confrontations. Yet in February, five members of the white supremacist Aryan Republican Army were convicted of robbing Midwestern banks. In March, nine members of the Viper Militia in Arizona pleaded guilty to weapons and conspiracy charges. Also this year, in Idaho, three white supremacists were convicted of possession of hand grenades and still face trial for pipe-bomb attacks on a newspaper and a Planned Parenthood office. These acts are not tied together in any coherent conspiracy. But they are tied to the mainstream through a fashion for X-Files-style conspiratorial thinking that seems to be gaining momentum. Theories on the death of former White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster—that it was not a suicide—are only the tip of the iceberg. One Oklahoma City entrepreneur does a tidy business peddling videos proposing that McVeigh"s trial was itself a massive cover for government complicity in the bombing. Throughout American history, seemingly harmless fantasies have often inspired real and harmful conspiracies, whether government-sponsored ones like COINTELPRO or non-state violence like the Oklahoma City bombing or Ku Klux Klan lynchings. If we are not attentive to such politically rooted thought as it develops, we perpetrate our own conspiracy, one of omission, and will never know what "he" was "thinking". We will have no "closure"—perhaps only messages like that carried by a Ryder truck full of fertilizer.

单选题While there is no blueprint for transforming a largely government-controlled economy into a free one, the experience of the United Kingdom since 1979 clearly shows one approach that works: privatization, in which state-owned industries are sold to private companies. By 1979, the total borrowings and losses of state-owned industries were running at about ￡ 3 billion a year. By selling many of these industries, the government has decreased these borrowings and losses, gained over ￡ 34 billion from the sales, and now receives tax revenues from the newly privatized companies. Along with a dramatically improved overall economy, the government has been able to repay 12.5 percent of the net national debt over a two-year period. In fact, privatization has not only rescued individual industries and a whole economy headed for disaster, but has also raised the level of performance in every area. At British Airways and British Gas, for example, productivity per employee has, risen by 20 percent. At associated British Ports, labor disruptions common in the 1970"s and early 1980"s have now virtually disappeared. At British Telecom, there is no longer a waiting list—as there always was before privatization—to have a telephone installed. Part of this improved productivity has come about because the employees of privatized industries were given the opportunity to buy shares in their own companies. They responded enthusiastically to the offer of shares; at British Aerospace. They responded enthusiastically to the offer of shares; at British Aerospace, 89 percent of the eligible work force bought shares; at Associated British Ports, 90 percent; and at British Telecom, 92 percent. When people have a personal stake in something, they think about it, the new employee-owners grew so concerned about their company"s profits that during wage negotiations they actually pressed their union to lower its wage demands. Some economists have suggested that giving away free shares would provide a needed acceleration of the privatization process. Yet they miss Thomas Paine"s point that "what we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly. " In order for the far-ranging benefits of individual ownership to be achieved by owners, companies, and countries, employees and other individuals must make their own decisions to buy, and they must commit some of their own resources to the choice.

单选题Questions 17 to 20 are based on a conversation between Professor Lambert and a visitor, Dale Kohler. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 to 20.

单选题In the evenings, they go to the mall. Once a week or more. Sometimes, they even leave the dinner dishes in the sink so they will have enough time to finish all the errands. The father never comes—he hates shopping, especially with his wife. Instead, he stays at home to read the paper and put around his study: To do things that the other dads must be doing in the evenings. To summon the sand to come rushing in and plug up his ears with its roaring silence. Meanwhile, the mother arms herself with returns from the last trip. Her two young daughters forget games of flashlight tag or favorite TV shows and strap on tennis shoes and seatbelts： and they're off. On summer nights, when it's light until after the fireflies arrive, the air is heavy and moist. The daughters unroll their windows and stick the whole of their heads out into the slate blue sky, feeling full force the sweaty, honey suckle air. In the cold mall, their rubber soles squeak on shiny linoleum squares. The younger daughter tries not to step on any cracks. The older daughter keeps a straight-ahead gaze; her sullen eyes count down each errand as it's done. It is not until the third or, on a good night, the fourth errand that the trouble begins. The girls have wandered over to examine rainbow beach towels, perhaps, or some kind of pink ruffled bedspread. The mother's voice finds them from a few aisles away. Dinner squirms in the daughters' stomachs. Now comes that what-if-I-threw-up-right-this-second? or where-is-a-rabbit-hole-for-me-to-fall-into? feeling that they get around this time of evening, at the mall. The older one shakes her ponytails at the younger one. Her blue eyes hiss the careful-don't-cry warning, but the younger one's cheeks only get redder. Toe by toe, the daughters edge towards housewares where they finger lace placemats or trace patterns in the store carpet with sneakered soles. The mother's voice still finds them, shaking with rage. Finally, heels slapping in her sandals, she strides towards them and then keeps going. They follow, catching her word-trail, "Stupid people. Stupid，stupid，stupid. I HATE stupid people." It's the little skips between steps the younger one takes to keep up with her mother's tong, angry legs. It's the car door slamming and the seat belt buckle yanked into place. It's those things that tell the daughters how the next few hours will go. In the car, the older one sighs and grinds her back teeth. The younger one feels her face get hotter and her eyes start to swell. She stares at an ice cream stain on the back of the front seat and sees a pony, a flower, and a fairy in that splash of chocolate mint chip. The mother begins on both at once. "And when we get home, if your shoes are still in the TV room, I'm throwing them out. Same for books. No more shit house. No more lazy, ungrateful kids." And so on and so on through the black velvet sky and across the Hershey bar roads. On into the house with a slap or two. "You'll be happy when I'm in my grave," wails at them as they put on their nightgowns and brush their teeth. The older one sets a stone jaw and the younger one tries not to sob as she opens wide, engulfing her small hand and scrubbing each and every molar. The father is not spared. The volcanic mother saves some up just for him. "Fucking lousy husband. Do-nothing father. "And on like that for an hour or so more. Then in the darkest part of the night, it's bare feet and cool hands on a small sweaty forehead. Kisses and caresses and "Sorry Mom got a little mad." Promises for that pink ruffled bedspread or maybe a new stuffed animal. Long fingers rake through the younger one's curls. "Tomorrow evening, we'll get you some kind of treat. Right after dinner, we'll go to the mall./

单选题Which of the following about pickpocket is NOT true?

单选题The word "alumni" (in paragraph 2) means______.

单选题The objectives of purchasing employees have been labeled the "five rights of purchasing. "Purchasing employees try to buy the necessary materials and supplies at the right price, the right quality, from the right sources, at the right time. They must use the telephone to "shop around" for the best buys available, and they must take advantage of any discounts and any deliveries, installations, and warranties included in the prices. When purchasing employees decide on the supplier they intend to use, they issue a purchase order. The purchase order may direct the supplier to prepare the item for pickup by company employees or for delivery by the supplier. Purchasing people must then follow up on the order to make certain that the needed item is recevied on schedule anti in good condition. The problem of ordering the right quantity was explained earlier in the chapter. Several costs are associated with excessive inventories of materials and supplies. Money invested in excess inventories could have been invested elsewhere, where it could be earning money, excess inventories may be misplaced or stolen, may become spoiled or obsolete, and must be insured. The consequences of not ordering materials and supplies soon enough or in sufficient quantities can be especially, catastrophic for production departments. What if purchasing employees at American Motors Corporation failed to order the right number of cans or bottles? In each instance, production at a factory (or large segment of a factory) would be discontinued. The companies would lose much valuable production, even though many of their costs would continue, and employees would lose some of their income. Buying materials and supplies of the right quality is often just as important as controlling the quality of the items being manufactured for sale. The quality of the items produce can be no higher than the quality of the materials used in production processes. Also, purchasing employees are interested in getting what they are paying for, both in quantity and quality—and a little extra whenever possible. A reliable source is often more important than the lowest price in securing quality. A purchasing manager who abandons a reliable supplier to take advantage of a lower price elsewhere may not find the reliable supplier available if he needs him at some future date. A balance between price and quality must often be made. The purchasing task is easier when only one or a few suppliers are used. However, total reliance on one supplier can be hazardous. Many companies go bankrupt each year. Employees sometimes strike. Production facilities often break down. Floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters occasionally interfere with production and transportation facilities. Accordingly, many purchasing managers consider the use of several suppliers of key items as good insurance against disruptions in their own production processes. Timing is an important consideration in purchasing. When raw materials are needed today, delivery tomorrow or the day after won"t do. Purchasing managers must divise control systems that allow their employees to check on the progress of incoming orders.

单选题The Franklin Roosevelt came into power in the period of ______. A. Depression B. WW Ⅰ C. WW Ⅱ D. Civil War

单选题Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following talk. You have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 to 20.

单选题When stem cells specialize, they ______ .

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