单选题Witnesses were allegedly tortured or subjected to pressure to fabricate evidence against him. A. fix up B. take up C. pack up D. make up

单选题The news reports completely overlooked the more profound political implications of the events. A. neglected B. foresaw C. explored D. assessed

单选题Initially his book did not receive much attention, but two weeks after the critic"s review appeared in the newspapers, it climbed to the best sellers" list.

单选题The promised wage increase is being held back while it is examined by the government to see if it is greater than the law allows. A. dismissed B. delayed C. neglected D. rejected

单选题We will ship the goods on Monday according to your order less we hear from you by Friday.

单选题I figured that when 2010 finally arrived, I"d be here in Los Angeles on my videophone looking at my new editor in her formfitting silver bodysuit as she yelled at me from New York for sexually harassing her in the first sentence of the first column we worked on together. But even though we both have Skype, we haven"t used it once. In fact, even though Skype is the only one of all the cool gadgets that cartoons promised me would exist by 2010, people don"t seem nearly as excited as they should be. Only 34% of Skype calls even use video. And when Skype announced on Jan. 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show that we"ll soon have videophones on our televisions, everyone went right back to talking about which booths gave out the best key-chain lights. I"ve used Skype twice: to be a guest expert on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and to let my mother see her grandson. Both involved a lot of help from tech people and drool. Yes, I find Meredith Vieira that attractive. But I haven"t used it since. That"s because Skype breaks the century-old social contract of the phone: we pay close attention while we"re talking and zone out while you are. As soon as you begin to talk, I feel trapped and desperately scan the room for tasks I can do to justify the enormous waste of time that is your talking. I wash dishes, I file receipts, I read news sites, I make little fake suicide faces to my wife Cassandra about how much I want to hang up that cause her to yell "Joel, I need you now" in a really unconvincing way that I"ve asked her not to do, but I still can"t stop making the suicide faces. In desperate times, when I am on my cell phone in the middle of nowhere, I will pace. The only other time I pace is when I stub a toe or bum myself. But when I start talking, I assume that you are sitting perfectly still, rapt. And while that is actually true when I"m talking, people aren"t listening to those of you who haven"t been on E! But Skype requires me to look at you while you"re talking, which is totally ridiculous. The only sci-fi show that understood this was Star Trek. Bones and Jim would use their flip phones to talk quickly about beaming or health issues. The only time they"d fire up the videophone was when a Klingon was sitting in a spaceship 20 yards away with guns pointed at them. Even then I think Sulu was checking out Go Fug Yourself. Interested in talking more about my theory, I used my landline to call Sherry Turkle, an MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology. She told me people are not only uninterested in Skype, we"re also not interested in talking on the regular phone. We want to TiVo our lives, avoiding real time by texting or e-mailing people when we feel like it. "Skype, which was the fantasy of our childhood, gets you back to sitting there and being available in that old-fashioned way. Our model of what it was to be present to each other, we thought we liked that," she said. "But it turns out that time shifting is our most valued product. This new technology is about control. Emotional control and time control." You"d be shocked by how many times two people talking on the phone about people not wanting to talk on the phone have to tell each other they"re enjoying their conversation. I"ve had phone sex where I expressed less appreciation of another person. If we miss anything about the regular phone, I think it"s the psychoanalyst"s trick it employed: you"re lying on a couch facing the wall, imagining nonjudgmental empathy from someone you can"t see. In her book Alone Together, which comes out next year, Turkle writes about a study in which she found that people really like to talk to robots. As soon as you ask people to interact with a computer with artificial intelligence, they start unloading secrets. Robots, it seems, are less likely to take over the earth than they are daytime-television hosting jobs. As far as the full-contact listening that Skype requires, I don"t think we want that all that often from people who aren"t already in our house. The fact is, we don"t really want to see other people that badly. That"s why it"s so difficult to make plans with them. That, plus texting times and places back and forth takes forever. Maybe all the stuff we thought we wanted in the future sucks. Flying cars would block our light, food pills would make Gordon Ramsey"s screaming even more preposterous, and those moving sidewalks just give me another reason to hate fat people at airports. Far better is to have control over our most valuable commodity: time. Sure, we complain about being busy, but that"s pretty great as long as we get to choose when we do things. The truth is, my editor will never even call me. She"ll just e-mail. Which is actually fine with me. There"s plenty of video online of women in silver bodysuits. (from Time, Jan. 18, 2010.)

单选题The rich man was asked to pay a high ______ for his daughter who was taken away by criminals.

单选题My chief objection to the book is that the characters are stereotyped. A．lacking in individuality B．incomplete C．poorly drawn D．overdone

单选题One morning my patience was growing thin during Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher's mistake. A. when B. as C. while D. whenever

单选题The problem has been ______ my mind all day.

单选题As mentioned in the passage, Rod Paige was certainly ______.

单选题Of all the areas of learning the most important is the development of attitudes. Emotional reactions as well as logical thought processes affect the behavior of most people. "The burnt child fears the fire" is one instance; another is the rise of despots like Hitler. Both examples also point up the fact that attitudes stem from experience. In one case the experience was direct and impressive; in the other it was indirect and cumulative. The Nazis were indoctrinated largely by the speeches they heard and the books they read. The classroom teacher in the elementary school is in a strategic position to influence attitudes. This is true partly because children acquire attitudes from those adults whose word they respect. Another reason it is true is that pupils often delve somewhat deeply into a subject in school that has only been touched upon at home or has possibly never occurred to them before. To a child who had previously acquired little knowledge of Mexico, his teacher"s method of handling such a unit would greatly affect his attitude toward Mexicans. The media through which the teacher can develop wholesome attitudes are innumerable. Social studies (with special reference to races, creeds and nationalities), science matters of health and safety, the very atmosphere of the classroom...these are a few of the fertile fields for the inculcation of proper emotional reactions. However, when children come to school with undesirable attitudes, it is unwise for the teacher to attempt to change their feelings by cajoling or scolding them. She can achieve the proper effect by helping them obtain constructive experiences. To illustrate, first grade pupils afraid of policemen will probably alter their attitudes after a classroom chat with the neighborhood officer in which he explains how he protects them. In the same way, a class of older children can develop attitudes through discussion, research, outside reading and all-day trips. Finally, a teacher must constantly evaluate her own attitudes, because her influence can be deleterious if she has personal prejudices. This is especially true in respect to controversial issues and questions on which children should be encouraged to reach their own decisions as a result of objective analysis of all the facts.

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The world-famous British Museum which houses a ______ collection of valuable books, paintings, works of arts, etc. attracts millions of visitors every year. A. immersible B. miscellaneous C. overwhelming D. unified

单选题Where any people have made a temporary approach to such a character, it has been because the dread of heterodox ______ was for a time suspended.

单选题Since she did not have time to read the entire play before class, she read an outline of the plot instead.

单选题It was not until she arrived at the classroom she realized she had forgotten her coursebook.

单选题Mary is by no means learned; nor is she good at any practical trade. The only asset she possesses is her beauty.

单选题Today black children in south Africa are still reluctant to study subjects from which they were effectively barred for so long. A. anxious B. curious C. opposed D. unwilling

单选题It is easy to see why many little girls prefer to ______ with the male role, but the girl who does find the male role more attractive is faced with a dilemma. A. beautify B. modify C. identify D. justify