单选题 In Rembrandt's day, many of his fellow painters portrayed their characters much like the idealized gods of Greek and Roman mythology. Rembrandt differed by painting people in a more realistic and humble manner. He used himself, his family members, and even beggars as models. He viewed these individuals as being just as worthy of immortalization in art as mythological figures. He also fittingly enhanced his work by the use of chiaroscuro, a painting technique where light striking the foregrounded figures dramatically contrasts with a darkened background. Rembrandt reflected his paintings by remaining true to his singular artistic vision and casting his own light on the darkness of conformity.

单选题Which of the following can be inferred as to the relationship between Ellison's work and political movements of his time?

单选题OFFENSE: EUPHEMISM::(A) analogy : simile(B) ennui : rehearsal(C) commitment : equivocation(D) exhortation : elocution(E) harmony : mediation

单选题Science and society are ...... collaborators: In the best of worlds we may achieve a very fine and finely negotiated partnership, and in the worst of worlds, ------- one by the other.

单选题What is the area of a circle whose radius is the diagonal of a square whose area is 4?

单选题Even though the mayor was not______the argument for the proposal, she decided to forgo her vote.(A) influenced by(B) cognizant of(C) in support of(D) opposed to(E) indifferent to

单选题SOLVENT:(A) inert material(B) moisturizer(C) cleanser(D) precipitant(E) instigator

单选题Since Cyrano de Bergerac did not wish to be under an obligation to any man, he refused to be a ______ of Cardinal Richelieu.(A) proselytizer(B) mentor(C) protégé(D) benefactor(E) predecessor

单选题2 x + 2 x =

单选题A rhetorician who spends so much of his time studying the famous______of logic is more than likely to produce a few self-evident statements of his own.(A) self-knots(B) paradoxes(C) twists(D) tautologies(E) platitudes

单选题If(7,3)isthecenterofthecircleabove,thentheradiusofthecirclecouldbeequaltowhichofthefollowing?A.2B.3C.5D.7E.9

单选题The company at which Mark is employed has 80 employees, each of whom has a different salary. Mark's salary of $43,700 is the second-highest salary in the first quartile of the 80 salaries. If the company were to hire 8 new employees at salaries that are less than the lowest of the 80 salaries, what would Mark's salary be with respect to the quartiles of the 88 salaries at the company, assuming no other changes in the salaries? A. The fourth-highest salary in the first quartile B. The highest salary in the first quartile C. The second-lowest salary in the second quartile D. The third-lowest salary in the second quartile E. The fifth-lowest salary in the second quartile

单选题AverageU.S.applepricesbyconsumption2001200220032004Allsales(centsperpound)15.8018.9020.9015.80Freshconsumption(centsperpound)22.9025.8029.4021.70Allprocessing(dollarsperton)108.00130.00131.00107.00Canned(dollarsperton)139.00161.00154.00149.00Juiceandcider(dollarsperton)83.40104.00103.0073.00Frozen(dollarsperton)139.00175.00173.00172.00Dried(dollarsperton)84.70108.00107.0077.30DatafromU.S.AppleAssociationwww.usapple,org.

单选题When a store processes a credit-card payment, they are charged a fee of 25 cents plus 2.6% of the total. If a store processes 4,000 credit card payments for a total of $150,000, how much will they be charged in fees?

单选题COMPOSE:(A) disturb(B) reveal(C) strengthen(D) isolate(E) prevent

单选题The author employs all of the following in the passage EXCEPT(A) An illustrative analogy(B) An admission of uncertainty(C) A comparison of processes(D) The coining of a new term(E) A counter-example

单选题Nearly two thousand years have passed since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus became part of the greatest story every told. Many things have Line changed in the intervening years. The hotel indus- (5) try worries more about overbuilding than over- crowding, and if they had to meet an unexpected influx, few inns would have a manger to accom- modate the weary guests. Now it is the census taker that does the traveling in the fond hope that (10) a highly mobile population will stay put long enough to get a good sampling. Methods of gath- ering, recording, and evaluating information have presumably been improved a great deal. And where then it was the modest purpose of Rome to (15) obtain a simple head count as an adequate basis for levying taxes, now batteries of complicated statistical series furnished by governmental agen- cies and private organizations are eagerly scanned and interpreted by sages and seers to get a clue to (20) future events. The Bible does not tell us how the Roman census takers made out, and as regards our more immediate concern, the reliability of present-day economic forecasting, there are con- siderable differences of opinion. They were aired (25) at the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the American Statistical Association. There was the thought that business forecasting might well be on its way from an art to a science, and some speakers talked about newfangled computers and (30) high-falutin mathematical systems in terms of excitement and endearment which we, at least in our younger years when these things matter, would have associated more readily with the description of a fair maiden. But others pointed to (35) the deplorable record of highly esteemed forecasts and forecasters with a batting average below that of the Mets, and the presidentelect of the Association cautioned that "high powered statisti- cal methods are usually in order where the facts (40) are crude and inadequate, the exact contrary of what crude and inadequate statisticians assume." We left this birthday party somewhere between hope and despair and with the conviction, not really newly acquired, that proper statistical (45) methods applied to ascertainable facts have their merits in economic forecasting as long as neither forecaster nor public is deluded into mistaking the delineation of probabilities and trends for a pre- diction of certainties of mathematical exactitude.

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单选题Money may be the husk of many things, but not the______, for it buys you food, but not appetite, and acquaintances, but not______.(A) essence… riches(B) skin… friendship(C) dermis… usefulness(D) kernel… camaraderie(E) anatomy … spirit