单选题Her style of dress accentuated her extreme slenderness.

单选题They are known as singles, singletons, the never-married, the divorced, and the widowed. What they share is that they are part of the country"s fastest-growing living unit—more than 31 million one-person households in 2010, according to the U. S. Census. Traditionally, relationship researchers have found that people living alone are on the bottom rung of the wellness ladder. They lack the emotional, financial, and daily help of a committed partner, which are major reasons why people in successful marriages and other strong two-person relationships live better in measures of health, happiness, and longevity. "When people succeed in having a good intimate relationship, it has so many benefits," says UCLA psychology professor Ben Karney. "Your body works better, your immune system functions better, your body produces more antibodies. Study after study shows that people in good relationships live longer." Even severely ill people who were in good relationships recovered faster and lived longer than comparably ill people who were not in good relationships. Single men, in particular, take especially poor care of themselves. "Unmarried men are more likely to have bad health habits than married men," says Linda Waite, a sociologist at the University of Chicago. "They drink too much, don"t eat well, don"t wear seat belts" and don"t enjoy the kind of social supports they would in a committed relationship. Single women, by comparison, live better, precisely because they have better social connections and are used to taking care of themselves. However, many experts say the health and happiness disadvantages of living alone are disappearing. Social science research tends to look at a long-distance rearview mirror, analyzing large groups of people over many, many years. Current trends are easily documented. "Over the past 30 years, the health gap between the married and never-married has narrowed to almost nothing," says Debra Umberson, a sociologist at the University of Texas. "Being not married has increasingly become an accepted option." "Once they accept [being unmarried] and make their peace with it, they live just as well as anyone else," says Deb Carr, a Rutgers University sociologist. "We see them expanding their definitions of what is a family. Not only do they have larger numbers of friends [than married people], but they have more frequent contact with them and closer relationships with them." Carr says society has become friendlier to "never marrieds" as well, and that people are more tolerant and supportive of a broad range of different ways people choose to live. Eric Klinenberg is a sociologist at NYU and author of a recent book about living alone called Going Solo . It supports, if not celebrates, the emergence of the one-person house-hold as an increasingly preferred living choice, not only in the United States but even more so in many Western European nations. Klinenberg is careful to distinguish among different types of one-person households when assessing their occupants" health and well-being. He also thinks that much of the pro-marriage research is based on either misleading or flawed assumptions. "Many, if not most, studies of the health consequence of marriage compared currently married people versus never married people," he says. The adverse health consequences of divorce and widowhood are well-documented but are usually viewed separately from the positive health effects of people who remain married. No one gets married thinking the marriage will fail or their spouse will die, Klinenberg notes. And while staying married produces benefits, he says it"s impossible to conclude that simply getting married improves a person"s well-being and longevity compared with staying single. In looking at the effects of living alone, Klinenberg says, "I make a very careful distinction between living alone, being alone, being isolated, and feeling lonely. These are four different things. And most researchers, even the best of them, mix them together." In the end, human relationships are the best antidote to the downside effects of living alone. Toni Antonucci, a University of Michigan psychologist and relationship expert, creates an image of people having a social convoy (护卫队) that helps them navigate their life. Keeping that convoy intact is essential for our happiness. People need to realize this and take ownership of their relationships. "We just sort of think happiness comes to us," she says. "We need to rethink that. You can do things to make yourself happier. People should take some responsibility for being happy instead of it being a passive thing."

单选题The weakened governor could not withstand another {{U}}catastrophe{{/U}}.

单选题(When) I heard the principal (called) my name, I walked to (the) front (to receive) my diploma.

单选题A: Tom, why didn't you come to the class yesterday?B: ______

单选题Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly. Now, Brown and other U. S. medical schools are plugging geriatric (老年) courses into their curricula. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the number of elderly Americans will nearly double to 71 million by 2030. The first members of the Baby Boomer generation, so named for the explosion in births in the years after World War Two, turn 65 in three years. In addition, people are living longer than ever. "The first ripples of the silver tsunami are lapping at the shores of our country, but there is not a coordinated or strategic response taking place in America," said Richard Besdine, who is direetor of the geriatrics division at Brown University medical school in Providence. Geriatries has never been a field of choice for young doctors. Elderly care doctors are paid less than most other physicians and surgeons and the aged can be hard to treat. They have complicated medical histories and their ailments, even such routine illnesses as pneumonia (肺炎), can be more difficult to diagnose because they may be masked by other conditions. Also, drugs can affect them differently than middle-aged adults." It's a hard job; it's not paid very well; it's complicated; and there's very little status within the hierarchy of medical specialties to being a geriatric physician," said Gavin Hougham, senior program officer and manager of medicine programs at the John A. Hartford Foundation. Out of 800 000 doctors in the United States, roughly 7 000 are geriatricians, Hougham said. The country needs another 13 000 to adequately care for today's older population, according to the American Geriatrics Society. The shortfall could reach 36 000 by 2030. To help counter that, private groups are bankrolling medical schools' emphasis on aging. The Hartford Foundation has given more than $40 million to 27 schools to train faculty in elderly care, and the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation has given more than $100 million to 30 schools to include more geriatrics content. "If they don't learn it, they still have to deal with it," Hougham said. "It's not that not learning geriatrics will cause these older people to go away. They're coming whether we're ready or not. /

单选题A: You did an excellent job on the presentation.B: ______

单选题The attitude of the writer toward top managers quitting is ______

单选题(Despite of) diligent effort to promote domestic production during the war years, the Continental Army (had to rely) primarily on (captures) and imports for (much) of its military hardware and even for clothing.

单选题A: Did you hear that I won first prize in the talent show? B: ______.

单选题Only her friends knew she had a(n) fatal illness, and her family was not informed.

单选题Shopping malls customarily experience some slack periods for sales, especially so in summer.

单选题The president believed that the ______ of his personality and of his travels would compete forcefully against the "image-making" publicity tours of his rivals.

单选题The increase in global trade means that international companies cannot afford to make costly advertising mistakes if they want to be competitive. Understanding the language and culture of target markets in foreign countries is one of the keys to successful international marketing. Too many companies, however, have jumped into foreign markets with embarrassing results. Translation mistakes are at the heart of many blunders in international advertising. General Motors, the US auto manufacturer, got a costly lesson when it introduced its Chevrolet Nova to the Puerto Rican market. "Nova" is Latin for "new (star)" and means "star" in many languages, but in spoken Spanish it can sound like "nova", meaning "it doesn't go". Few people wanted to buy a car with that cursed meaning. When GM changed the name to Caribe, sales "picked up" dramatically. Marketing blunders have also been made by food and beverage companies. One American food company's friendly "Jolly Green Giant" (for advertising vegetables) became something quite different when it was translated into Arabic as " Intimidating Green Ogre". When translated into German, Pepsi's popular slogan, "Come Alive with Pepsi" came out implying "Come Alive from the Grave". No wonder customers in Germany didn't rush out to buy Pepsi. Successful international marketing doesn't stop with good translations—other aspects of culture must be researched and understood if marketers are to avoid blunders. When marketers do not understand and appreciate the values, tastes, geography, climate, superstitions, religion, or economy of a culture, they fail to capture their target market. For example, an American designer tried to introduce a new perfume into the Latin American market but the product aroused little interest. The main reason was that the camellia used in it was traditionally used for funerals in many South American countries. Having awakened to the special nature of foreign advertising, companies are becoming much more conscientious in their translations and more sensitive to cultural distinctions. The best way to prevent errors is to hire professional translators who understand the target language and its idiomatic usage, or to use a technique called "back translation" to reduce the possibility of blunders. The process uses one person to translate a message into the target language and another to translate it back. Effective translators aim to capture the overall message of an advertisement because a word-for-word duplication of the original rarely conveys the intended meaning and often causes misunderstandings. In designing advertisements for other countries, messages need to be short and simple. They should also avoid jokes, since what is considered funny in one part of the world may not be so humorous in another.

单选题Mary succeeded in living ______her extraordinary reputation.

单选题The country announced that it would halt nuclear testing this year and hoped that other countries would take the same action.

单选题One of the reasons for the obesity epidemic currently observed in industrialized countries is that in these countries .

单选题A: Why didn't Tom give you one of his paintings? B：______

单选题Although interior design has existed since the beginning of architecture, its development into a specialized field is really quite recent. Interior designers have become important partly because of the many functions that might be (61) in a single large building. The importance of interior design becomes (62) when we realize how much time we (63) surrounded by four walls. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be (64) attractive and comfortable as possible. We also expect (65) place to be appropriate to its use. You would be (66) if the inside of your bedroom were suddenly changed to look (67) the inside of a restaurant. And you wouldn't feel (68) in a business office that has the appearance of a school. It soon becomes clear that the interior designer's most important (69) is the function of the particular (70) . For example, a theater with poor sight lines, poor sound-shaping qualities, and (71) few entries and exits will not work for (72) purpose, no matter how beautifully it might be (73) . Nevertheless, it is not easy to make suitable (74) for different kinds of space, lighting and decoration of everything from ceiling to floor. (75) addition, the designer must usually select furniture or design built-in furniture according to the functions that need to be served.