单选题Most young people think that is an interesting book, but to people of my generation, it is {{U}}boring and full of nonsense{{/U}}. A. all the talk of the town. B. all thumbs. C. all good for nothing. D. all for the birds.

单选题Modern industrial society grants little status to old people. In fact, such a society has a system of built-in obsolescence. There is no formal system for continuing our education throughout our life in order to keep up with rapidly changing knowledge. When our education and job skills have grown obsolete, we are treated exactly like those who have never gained an education or job skills and are not encouraged or given the opportunity to begin anew. As a society becomes more highly developed, the overall status of older people diminishes. Improved health technology creates a large pool of old people, who compete for jobs with the young. However, economic technology lowers the demand for workers and creates new jobs for which the skills of the aged are obsolete, forcing older people into retirement. At the same time, young people are being educated in the new technology and are keeping pace with rapid changes in knowledge. Finally, urbanization creates age-segregated neighborhoods. Because the old live on fixed incomes, they must often live in inferior housing. All these factors—retirement, obsolete knowledge and skills, inferior standards of living—lower the status of the aged in society. A century ago, when one could expect to live only to 50 or so, the life span more or less coincided with the occupation and family cycle. But today the average life span allows for fifteen to twenty years of life after these cycles. It appears that our life span is outpacing our usefulness in society.

单选题Outside people were cheering and awaiting the arrival of the new year while inside Harry was lying severely ill in bed feeling thoroughly ______.

单选题The foreman read the arbitration of guilt fourteen times, one for each defendant. A．verdict B．predict C．verification D．punishment

单选题Even in times of prosperity, you cannot {{U}}waste money{{/U}} like this! It doesn't grow on trees. A. let the money down the river B. let the money down the valley D. let the money down the road D. let the money down the drain

单选题For me and my other classmates, trying to fathom what happened to our old school friend, we may never know if we really Uwould grow up/U with a future terrorist.

单选题While it is essential that the text covers the subject adequately, it is also important that it is neither too detailed {{U}}or{{/U}} too complex for the intended reader.

单选题Fifty volunteers were alphabetically divided into two equal groups, Group A to participate (91) a 7-week exercise program, and Group B to avoid (92) exercise of any sort during those 7 weeks. On the day before the exercise program began, all 50 men participated in a step-test. This (93) of stepping up and down on a 16-inch bench (94) 30 steps a minute for 5 minutes. One minute after completion of the step-test the pulse (95) of each subject was taken and recorded. This (96) as the pretest for the experiment. For the next 7 weeks, subjects in the experimental group (Group A) rode an Exercycle (a motor-driven bicycle-type exercise machine) for 15 minutes each day. The exercise schedule (97) for riders to ride relaxed during the first day's ride, (98) holding on to the handle bars and foot pedals (99) the machine moved. (100) , for the next 3 days, they rode relaxed for 50 seconds of each minute, and pushed, pulled, and pedaled actively for 10 seconds of each minute. The ratio of active riding was (101) every few days, (102) by the third week it was half of each minute, and by the seventh week the riders were (103) 15 solid minutes of active riding. (104) end of the 7 weeks, the step-test was again (105) to both groups of subjects, and their pulses taken. The post-exercise pulse rates of subjects in the experimental group. (106) found to have decreased a(n) (107) of 30 heart beats per minute, with the lowest decrease 28 and th highest decrease 46. The pulse rates of subjects in the control group (108) the same or changed no more than 4 (109) , with a(n) (110) difference between the initial and final tests of zero.

单选题If people cannot afford to buy their own house, they can rent property from a private landlord, as 10% of the population does , or from their local council.

单选题What does "the uninitiated" mean?

单选题Regarding their family roles, Chinese wives, Korean wives and American wives differ from each other in both how long they spent at home and their status as an individual.

单选题The first paragraph of this passage tells us about ______.

单选题In 1991, while the economies of industrialized countries met an economic ______, the economies of developing countries were growing very fast.

单选题Just consider, it was only one minute when she left school, and the impressions of six years are not got over in that space of time.

单选题His ______ behavior made everyone nervous. He was always rushing to open doors and perform other small tasks, apologizing unnecessarily for any inconvenience that he might have caused.

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

单选题In WAR MADE EASY Norman Solomon demolishes the myth of an independent American press zealously guarding sacred values of free expression. Although strictly focusing on the shameless history of media cheerleading for the principal post World War II American wars, invasions, and interventions, he calls into question the entire concept of the press as some kind of institutional counterforce to government and corporate power. Many of the examples compiled in this impeccably documented historical review will be familiar to readers who follow the news on the Internet. But such examples achieve fresh impact because of the way Solomon has organized and analyzed them. Each chapter is devoted to a single war hawk argument ("America Is a Fair and Noble Superpower," "Opposing the War Means Siding with the Enemy," "Our Soldiers Are Heroes, Theirs Are Inhuman"), illustrated with historical examples from conflicts in the Dominican Republic, E1 Salvador, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kosovo, both Iraq wars, and others in which the media were almost universally enthusiastic accomplices. The book should really be subtitled "War reporting doesn't just suck, it kills. "it makes you feel like demanding a special war crimes tribunal for corporate media executives and owners who joined the roll-up to" shock and awe" as non-uniformed psywar ops. To be sure, this would raise the issue of whether or not following orders might suffice for the defense of obedient slaves such as Mary McGrory and Richard Cohen, who performed above and beyond the call of duty. "He persuaded me, " ncGrory gushed(热情洋溢地表达) the morning after Colin Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations on February 5, 2003, declaring that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. " The cumulative effect was stunning. "In the same Washington Post edition, Cohen wrote. The evidence he presented to the United Nations—some of it circumstantial, some of it absolutely bone-chilling in its detail—had to prove to anyone that Iraq. not only hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool—or possibly a Frenchman—could conclude otherwise. Solomon demonstrates how this kind of peppy prewar warm up degenerates into drooling and heavy breathing once the killing begins. As if observing a heavy metal computer game, the pornographers of death concentrate on the exquisite craftsmanship and visual design of the murder machines and the magnificence of the fiery explosions they produce.

单选题The government has hardly taken measures to crack down on these crimes when new ones occurred. A. Hardly had the government taken B. The government had hardly taken C. Hardly the government had taken D. The government is hardly taking

单选题When he realized he had been suggested to sign the contract by intrigue, he threatened to start legal proceedings to cancel the agreement.

单选题To weaken the damage for earthquakes, scientists are working on ways to enable accurate prediction. A. relieve B. deduct C. minimize D. rid