单选题First, of course, it is plain that in a few years everyone will have at his elbow several times more mechanical energy than he has today. Second, there will be advances in biological knowledge as far-reaching as those that have been made in physics. We are only beginning to learn that we can control our biological environment as well as our physical one. Starvation has been prophesied twice to a growing world population: by Malthus about 1.8 billion and by Crookes about 1.9 billion. It was headed off the first time by taking agriculture to America and the second time by using the new fertilizers. Soon starvation will be headed off by the control of the diseases and the heredity of plants and animals——by shaping our own biological environment. And third, I come back to the haunting theme of automation. The most common species in the factory today is the man who works or minds a simple machine——the operator. Before long he will be as extinct as the hand-loom weaver and the dodo (老古董). The repetitive tasks of industry will be taken over by the machines, as the heavy tasks were taken over long ago; and the mental tedium will go the way of physical exhaustion. Today we still distinguish, even among repetitive jobs, between the skilled and the unskilled, but in a few years to come all repetition will be unskilled. We simply waste our time if we oppose this change.

单选题______everybody's disappointment, the football match was put off. A．To B．In C．With D．For

单选题This is the first draft of the book. Please feel perfectly free to ______ it.

单选题Betty was offended because she felt that her friends had ignored her purposefully at the party.

单选题No organ of the body is less Uappreciated/U than the skin.

单选题Which of the following statements can best describe the behavior of most thin people as ascribed by the passage?

单选题Even after having their grandchildren live with them for ten years, the couple felt that children these days was the most difficult of all family matters. A. rising B. raising C. caring D. taking care

单选题I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, {{U}}but{{/U}} self-induced pressure.

单选题The woman in the yard gathered her housecoat tightly about her and moved quickly indoor.

单选题Double Eagle Ⅱ, the first trans-Atlantic balloon, was greeted by {{U}}avid{{/U}} crowds in France.

单选题Education in Russia and the other new countries faces especially daunting obstacles because the struggling economies of these nations often provide insufficient funds for education. A. stunning B. discouraging C. concerning D. prevailing

单选题Tom and Alice ______ having a new car to replace their old one for years.

单选题What distinguished her {{U}}in{{/U}} the other girls was her peculiar hairstyle.

单选题There remains, of course, the risk of capital {{U}}depreciation{{/U}}.

单选题I hear that he knows four languages, such as Chinese, French, German and Japanese.

单选题There is no {{U}}alternative{{/U}}, the president must approve the bill if Congress passes it.

单选题Jacob Lawrence executed many cycles of paintings ______ significant social themes.

单选题The winner of the Nobel Prize in physics dedicated the honor to his high school physics teacher,______had been an inspiration during his early years.

单选题When they broke open the door, they found a strange man lied on the floor unconscious.

单选题At first, the delivery of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible, but, with painstaking efforts and at great expenses, it became a reality. A． transaction B． transmission C． transition D． transformation