单选题Furniture makers use glue to hold joints together and sometimes to reinforce it .

单选题The late Paul Samuelson once quipped that "women are just men with less money." As a father of six, he might have added something about women"s role in the reproduction of the species. But his aphorism is about as good a one-sentence summary of classical feminism as you can get. The first generations of successful women insisted on being judged by the same standards as men. They had nothing but contempt for the notion of special treatment for "the sisters", and instead insisted on getting ahead by dint of working harder and thinking smarter. Margaret Thatcher made no secret of her contempt for the wimpish men around her. (There is a joke about her going out to dinner with her cabinet. "Steak or fish?" asks the waiter. "Steak, of course," she replies. "And for the vegetables? They"ll have steak as well.") During America"s most recent presidential election Hillary Clinton taunted Barack Obama with an advertisement that implied that he, unlike she, was not up to the challenge of answering the red phone at 3am. Many pioneering businesswomen pride themselves on their toughness. Dong Mingzhu, the boss of Gree Electric Appliances, an air-conditioning giant, says flatly, "I never miss. I never admit mistakes and I am always correct." In the past three years her company has boosted shareholder returns by nearly 500%. But some of today"s most influential feminists contend that women will never fulfill their potential if they play by men"s rules. According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland, two of the most prominent exponents of this position, it is not enough to smash the glass ceiling. You need to audit the entire building for "gender asbestos"—in other words, root out the inherent sexism built into corporate structures and processes. The new feminism contends that women are wired differently from men, and not just in trivial ways. They are less aggressive and more consensus-seeking, less competitive and more collaborative, less power-obsessed and more group-oriented. Judy Rosener, of the University of California, Irvine, argues that women excel at "transformational" and "interactive" management. Peninah Thomson and Jacey Graham, the authors of "A Woman"s Place is in the Boardroom", assert that women are "better lateral thinkers than men" and "more idealistic" into the bargain. Feminist texts are suddenly full of references to tribes of monkeys, with their aggressive males and nurturing females. What is more, the argument runs, these supposedly womanly qualities are becoming ever more valuable in business. The recent financial crisis proved that the sort of qualities that men pride themselves on, such as risk-taking and bare-knuckle competition, can lead to disaster. Lehman Brothers would never have happened if it had been Lehman Sisters, according to this theory. Even before the financial disaster struck, the new feminists also claim, the best companies had been abandoning "patriarchal" hierarchies in favor of "collaboration" and "networking", skills in which women have an inherent advantage. This argument may sound a little like the stuff of gender workshops in righteous universities. But it is gaining followers in powerful places. McKinsey, the most venerable of management consultancies, has published research arguing that women apply five of the nine "leadership behaviors" that lead to corporate success more frequently than men. Niall FitzGerald, the deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters and a former boss of Unilever, is as close as you can get to the heart of the corporate establishment. He proclaims, "Women have different ways of achieving results, and leadership qualities that are becoming more important as our organizations become less hierarchical and more loosely organized around matrix structures." Many companies are abandoning the old-fashioned commitment to treating everybody equally and instead becoming "gender adapted" and "gender bilingual"—in touch with the unique management wisdom of their female employees. A host of consultancies has sprung up to teach firms how to listen to women and exploit their special abilities. The new feminists are right to be frustrated about the pace of women"s progress in business. Britain"s Equality and Human Rights Commission calculated that, at the current rate of progress, it will take 60 years for women to gain equal representation on the boards of the FTSE 100. They are also right that old-fashioned feminism took too little account of women"s role in raising children. But their arguments about the innate differences between men and women are sloppy and counterproductive. People who bang on about innate differences should remember that variation within subgroups in the population is usually bigger than the variation between subgroups. Even if it can be established that, on average, women have a higher "emotional-intelligence quotient" than men, that says little about any specific woman. Judging people as individuals rather than as representatives of groups is both morally right and good for business. Caring, sharing and engineering Besides, many of the most successful women are to be found in hard-edged companies, rather than the touchy-feely organizations of the new feminist imagination: Areva (nuclear energy), AngloAmerican (mining), Archer Daniels Midland (agribusiness), DuPont (chemicals), Sunoco (oil) and Xerox (technology) all have female bosses. The Cranfield School of Management"s Female FTSE 100 Index reveals that two of the industries with the best record for promoting women to their boards are banking and transport. Women would be well advised to ignore the siren voices of the new feminism and listen to Ms Dong instead. Despite their frustration, the future looks bright. Women are now outperforming men markedly in school and university. It would be a grave mistake to abandon old-fashioned meritocracy just at the time when it is turning to women"s advantage. ("Womenomics", by Schumpeter, from The Economist , Jan. 2nd, 2010)

单选题He had studied hard, he would have been able to pass the exam. A. He had studied harder B. If only he studied more C. Had he studied harder D. When he studied more

单选题Computers are playing a more and more important function in our daily life, which should not be {{U}}belittled{{/U}}. A. respected B. disparaged C. looked up to D. lived up to

单选题Picasso was an artist who fundamentally changed the ______ of art for later generation.

单选题Mark Anthony's eulogy of Caesar at his funeral is memorably recorded in a play by Shakespeare. A. prayer B. praise C. biography D. denunciation

单选题The students on the school bus were ______ for half an hour in the traffic so all of them were late for class that morning.

单选题I suppose the party ended in a friendly atmosphere, isn"t it ?

单选题The ancient Jewish people regarded themselves as the salt of the earth, the chosen few by God to rule the world. A. outcast B. elite C. nomad D. disciple

单选题When he was told that he scored 58 in the final examination, he was in a comfort of remorse.

单选题He is commonly perceived as a man of marks, but he is also a ______, who is now apparently abhorrent of marriage. A. celibate B. libeller C. bella D. deist

单选题The recent conference on the effective use of the seas and oceans was another attempt {{U}}resolving{{/U}} major differences among countries with conflicting interests.

单选题The 20th-century poem suggests to something we have been able to find nothing about. A. alludes B. avoids C. alleges D. alerts

单选题The word "extracting" underlined in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.

单选题{{U}}Providing the manager tells us{{/U}}, we would't have made that sort of mistakes. He did have the share of the blame. A. Providing the manager would tell us B. Provided the manager would have told us C. Provided the manager had told us D. Provided the manager should have told us

单选题I should come to the spot soon, but that I have been much engaged with some formalities. A. I would have come to the spot soon B. I should have come to the spot soon C. I could come to the spot sooner D. I would come to the spot sooner

单选题The soldier was of running away when the enemy ______.

单选题A few years ago, in their search for ways to sell more goods, advertising men hit on a new and controversial gimmick . It is a silent, invisible commercial that, the ad men claim, can be rushed past the consumer"s conscious mind and planted in his subconscious—and without the consumer"s knowledge. Developed by James Vicary, a research man who studies what makes people buy, this technique relies on the psychological principle of subliminal perception. Scientists tell us that many of the sights coming to our eyes are not consciously "seen". We select only a few for conscious "seeing" and ignore the rest. Actually the discarded impressions are recorded in the brain though they are below the threshold of consciousness. There"s little doubt in Vicary"s mind as to the subliminal ad"s effectiveness. His proof can be summed up in just two words: sales increase. In an unidentified movie house not so long ago, unknown audiences saw a curious film program. At the same time, on the same screen on which the film hero was courting the heroine a subliminal projector was flashing its invisible commercials. "Get popcorn," ordered the commercial for a reported one three-thousandths of a second every five seconds. It announced "Coca-Cola" at the same speed and frequency to other audiences. At the end of a six weeks trial, popcorn sales had gone up 57 percent, Coke sales 18 percent. Experimental Films. Inc, says the technique is not new. It began research on subliminal perception in 1954. Experimental Films stresses that its equipment was designed for helping problematic students and treating the mentally ill. At NYU two doctors showed twenty women the projected image of an expressionless face. They told the subjects to watch the face for some change of expression. Then they flashed the word angry on the screen at subliminal speeds. Now the women thought the face looked unpleasant. When the word happy was flashed on the screen instead, the subjects thought the woman"s facial expression looked much more pleasant. Subliminal techniques, its promoters believe, are good for more than selling popcorn. Perhaps the process can even be used to sell political candidates, by leaving a favorable impression of the candidate in the minds of the electorates subliminally. How convincing are these invisible commercials? Skeptical psychologists answer that they aren"t anywhere near as effective as the ad men would like to think they are. Nothing has been proven yet scientifically, says a prominent research man.

单选题The thief was apprehended, but {{U}}his accomplice{{/U}} had disappeared.

单选题The house was situated on a hill over the village. A. above the village B. beyond the village C. under the village D. within the village