单选题No such weapons were used and none been found.

单选题Traffic is a perennial problem in Hong Kong. Over the years many suggestions have been 61 to ease transport difficulties. These include from constructing wider roads and an underground railway 62 to staggering hours for schools to open and close. One official report pressed 63 for working hours to be spaced out to 64 congestion at 65 periods. In England and other countries this system is called staggering working hours" because many business centers use it. It is 66 that greater working 67 can be achieved, employees are happier because they can arrange 68 personal working hours, buses and trains can be dispatched at suitable 69 , and so on. The idea of 70 working days follows on from staggering hour. Land in Hong Kong is extremely expensive, yet 71 and large, offices are empty at weekends and most evenings, too. This appears to be a waste of valuable assets and seems 72 in a place noted for its business 73 . 74 , Saturday and Sunday working is not easy. Church-going and family needs can"t be 75 , but it should be remembered that many already work at 76 hours. Nurses, firemen, doctors, pilots, TV stars, 77 , have to come to grips with the problems. It seems 78 to assume that others could do the same. In fact they might find some 79 in having a day or two 80 during the week.

单选题A man or woman makes direct contact with society in two ways: as a member of some Ufamilial/U, professional or religious group, or as a member of a crowd.

单选题At the beginning of the twentieth century, North American society held, as an ideal, the Nuclear Family. This presumably perfect residential, social, and economic unit consisted of an adult male, an adult female and their minor children. This structure was thought to be stable and long lasting. However, a few decades later, the structure of that ideal family was being altered radically even while it was being touted as the structure to be aimed for. Popular magazines bemoaned the loss of the Nuclear Family and its replacement with inferior forms. There are a number of factors that are acting in concert to apply pressure on the Nuclear Family and generate a variety of new structures. Some of these are: The definition of marriage has changed somewhat in that few people now consider it to last "until death do us part". The concept of monogamy (the marriage of one man and one woman) has been modified to a form now referred to as serial monogamy (the marriage of one man and one woman at a time). This reflects the increasing equality of women and men in terms of economic advantage and the recognition that many women no longer depend on men for their survival. Women are acquiring independence and have become empowered to make their own choices. With this independence, the need to form a relationship with a man becomes less important. This change embodies the concept that the marriage is temporary and can be terminated by either partner at any time. Associated with this, of course, is the relaxation of the divorce laws and the significant reduction of the shame that had one time been attached to divorce. The economy of North America has resulted in a two-tier system of a few rich who control most of the resources and a large portion of the population who control almost none of the resources. Because of this, many couples are forced to have both partners with full-time jobs outside the home. There are unintended byproducts of the need for a double income. The most important of these is the replacement of a mother-oriented socialization of children to a "stranger-oriented" socialization system reflected in the growth of the childcare industry. Also, either partner is financially able to end the marriage without significant hardship. The combination of these changes will in the coming decades have a profound effect on the structure of the family of North America. As a result, the family will be a fluid, constantly changing structure with variable household arrangements as the norm.

单选题Current demographic trends, such as the fall in the birth rate, should favor ______ economic growth in the long run.

单选题Just last week, for example, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the disturbing disclosure that SARS may be pretty deadlier than previously believed. A. very B. far C. especially D. none

单选题What lies in pieces around them represents, in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few.

单选题The century-old hostilities between the two tribes eventually terminated through the persistent efforts of the local government.

单选题The enemy soldiers dropped bombs without aim and injured lots of citizens.

单选题Modern industrial methods have supplanted individual crafts, made blacksmiths, stone-carvers, coopers and cobblers virtually extinct. A. that made B. make C. which making D. making

单选题All living creatures pass on inherited traits from one generation to other.

单选题There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET. Something kept scratching on the outside of the tent. I wouldn't have thought much about it (91) I hadn't recently seen a ridiculously (92) film on television in which a monster tried to get into its (93) bedroom by scratching on the door with its claw-like hands. A stupid (94) , but it kept coming back, (95) sleep. When a cry rang out across the moor I crawled out to see what it was all about. In a small tent this is less easy than it (96) After (97) yourself from a cocoon-like sleepingbag, you have to (98) with the zip-fasteners of the tent from a kneeling (99) Outside all seemed in order. The (100) noise came from clumps of spiky rushes (101) blown by the wind (102) the canvas. The only (103) I have for the eerie cries is that overhead may have passed a(n) (104) flock of stone curlews, birds which make a diabolical noise. The moon was the colour of a corpse. Uncomforted, I crept back into the tent. Dawn was pretty dreary, too. Flocks of drifting clouds had settled down low (105) the horizon, jostling each other, uneasily, like sheep undecided what to do next. Hoping fervently they would push off, I paced (106) and walked on, taking the left (107) of the River Tavy, looking for its junction with the tributary that led to Great Kneeset. Nattor Down loomed up where it should have been, but another apparently unmapped hill popped (108) on the opposite side of the torrent, rather spoiling my simple conception of the landscape. The going became difficult, (109) a great deal of the stuff they call clitter, the rubble from the outcrops of granite, had fallen down into the gorge. But the compass (110) the heading and I scrambled along as fast as I could in weather that seemed to be worsening. I decided to make for some high place where I could look around and see whether it looked safe to go on.

单选题The well-known Garub Site, unearthed in 1997, shows that man had made living there as early as 5,000 years ago.

单选题Girl Meets Game 姑娘玩游戏 by Lev Grossman I love video games. I played my first one when I was 7. I feel lucky to be part of the first generation of gamers. I also get to be a first-generation-garner parent; my parents regarded games with a primitive, chimplike suspicion, but my daughter Lily will have a parent who understands them and plays alongside her. A cool parent. But when Lily played her first game a few weeks ago, at the age of 3, I found myself wondering something I never thought I would wonder: How cool a parent should I be? Lily has always been interested in the Web. A couple of weeks ago, we found a Flash game on a Teletubbies site involving five brown bunnies that need to be placed in their correct bunny-shaped holes. To my amazement, Lily shooed my hands away from the track pad and started slowly nudging bunnies toward burrows. When the fifth bunny hit home—and an unseen Tinky Winky shouted, "Yaaaaaay!"—every neuron in my daughter"s brain seemed to fire at once. Her skull practically glowed. She climbed off the chair and did a dance. Then she climbed back up onto the chair and said, "Daddy? You can go now." My feelings about this are conflicted. I"m not disappointed that Lily is learning to entertain herself, because I"ve been entertaining her for 3 years and could use a break in which to perform some basic personal hygiene. All the same, I"m confused about what games mean to a person that tiny. After all, video games didn"t really exist when I was 3. The most obvious questions are the easiest. Because I"m not psychotic, I would never allow my daughter to play—or see or know about—any game involving violence. When she plays the bunny game, Lily is learning about computers and refining her hand-eye coordination. So that"s all good, right? Just to make sure, I called Susan Gregory Thomas, author of Buy Buy Baby, a scorching investigative study of how corporations target underage consumers. She also happens to be the most technologically aware morn I know. Or, as I now call her, Susie Joykiller. Hand-eye coordination? Maybe. But she pointed out that kids that age—with their delicate, still developing carpal tunnels—are especially vulnerable to repetitive stress injury. O.K., but here"s something else: Lily gets frustrated easily, and the game rewards her for sticking with a problem till she solves it. "Maybe she could get the same kind of thing from trying to make a cake?" Thomas asked. "There are lots of other things to solve that have a much richer protocol." I get it: that"s what the real world is for. There is a paucity of quality clinical data on little children and games, and Thomas explains that video games often depend on analogies and symbols that kids may not understand in the way we think they do. "Very young children are astonishingly concrete thinkers. If you look at a screen and understand that everything that happens on a computer is a metaphor for something real in fife, it becomes very, very murky as to what they"re actually getting out of this." There are also troubling commercial aspects to a lot of games for preschoolers: they"re basically ads for branded characters like Dora the Explorer and Ariel the mermaid. And Thomas points out-in the nicest way possible—how pathetic it is that I want people to think I"m a cool dad. There"s a lot more to think about than I thought there was. I"m still happy that Lily likes games, but I"ve resolved to limit her playing time, and I"m not going to let her play alone, personal hygiene be damned. She and I won"t always be able to play games together, after all; far too soon she"ll be far too cool to hang out with me. But for now, maybe it"s a good idea for Daddy to stick around.

单选题The 12-year-old civil war had ______ 1.5 million lives.

单选题The winning ______ would be able to invest in cost-effective technology which would make him competitive on the world market for such services.

单选题Furniture makers use glue to hold joints together and sometimes to reinforce {{U}}it{{/U}}.

单选题It can be inferred that Phyllis's trip to England with Nathaniel in 1773 ______

单选题In the United States, the first day nursery was opened in 1854. Nurseries were established in various areas during the (91) half of the 19th century; most of (92) were charitable. Both in Europe and in the U. S. , the day-nursery movement received great (93) during the First World War, when (94) of manpower caused the industrial employment of unprecedented numbers of women. In some European countries nurseries were established (95) in munitions (军火)plants, under direct government sponsorship. (96) the number of nurseries in the U.S. also rose (97) , this rise was accomplished without government aid of any kind. During the years following the First World War, (98) , Federal, State, and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of control (99) the day nurseries by (100) them and by inspecting and regulating the conditions within the nurseries. The (101) of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries, as women were (102) called upon to replace men in the factories. On this (103) the U. S. government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools, (104) $6,000,000 in July, 1942, for a nursery school program for the children of working mothers. Many States and local communities (105) this Federal aid. By the end of the war, in August, 1945, more than 100,000 children were being cared (106) in day-care centers receiving Federal (107) Soon afterward, the Federal government (108) cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later (109) them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation. However, the expectation that most employed mothers would leave their (110) at the end of the war was only partly fulfilled.

单选题It also looks at various ways of facilitating the ______ of practical applications beyond the "research tool" stage in satisfying the national needs of earth resource management of developing countries.