单选题John and I have ______ to meet at the bus station at 9 o'clock.

单选题Paul is an ______ worker, and rarely does well in examinations. However he often refuses our help. A. errant B. erroneous C. erratic D. exotic

单选题The media's ______in the President's private life switched the attention away from the real issues. A.capacity B.concentration C.focus D.involvement

单选题The development and widespread use of computer technology and the Internet have transformed how we communicate, how we communicate, how business is conducted, how information is dispersed, and how society is organized. Prior to【C1】______1980, in-depth information about any one【C2】______matter was attained through laborious research【C3】______countless visits to libraries and【C4】______repeated interviews with persons【C5】______known reputation and reputable【C6】______. Now, a great deal of【C7】______is available at the click of a mouse【C8】______, all attainable from within the【C9】______of ones own home or from the【C10】______of a computer in an office. Previous labor-intensive【C11】______jobs, such as loading and unpacking of【C12】______, luggage handling at airports, and food【C13】______, once performed by a large middle-class【C14】______, are now performed routinely by robots which are monitored by computer-controlled systems. Our lives have been【C15】______by the advent of computer and internet technologies, but likewise these benefits【C16】______have been ushered in by the technology【C17】______have had an adverse affect on the【C18】______of our interpersonal relationships. Mere communication is no【C19】______via postal mail or face-to-face【C20】______, but rather via electronic email, personal internet message boards, and by virtue of handheld personal electronic assistants.

单选题What has happened to DOE's "solar Village on the National Mall"?

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} There are a number of formats for reporting research, such as articles to appear in journals, reports addressed to funding agencies, theses or dissertations as part of the requirements for university degrees, and papers to be presented at conferences. These formats differ from one another mostly in their purposes and the audiences which they address. We will now briefly describe them. The journal article is a way of reporting research for professional journals or edited collections- The research is reported in a brief, yet informative way, focusing mostly on the main features of the research such as the purpose, review of the literature (often referred to as 'background'), procedures used for carrying out the research accompanied by tables, charts, and graphs, and interpretations of the results (often referred to as 'discussion'). The content and emphasis of the journal article will vary according to the intended readers (researchers or practitioners) and it is important for the researcher to be aware of the background and interest of the readers of the journal. Articles intended to be read by practitioners will emphasize the practical implications and recommendations of the research, while articles intended to be read by researchers will describe in detail the method used to collect the data, the construction of the data collection procedures, and the techniques used for analyzing the data. It is important for the novice researcher to be aware of the fact that articles submitted to journals go through a process of evaluation by experts who make a judgement and recommend whether they should be published or not. The thesis or dissertation is a format for reporting research which graduate students write as part of fulfilling the requirements for an advanced academic degree. The student is expected to describe in great detail all the phases of the research so it can be examined and evaluated carefully by the reader. Thus the thesis or dissertation includes the purpose and significance of the study, the rationale, a thorough review of the literature, detailed information as to the research tools and the procedures involved in their development, a description of the process of data analysis and the results, and an interpretation of the results in the form of conclusions, implications, and recommendations. This detailed description of the process of the research is needed to provide the professors with an indication of the student's ability to carry out research. The conference paper is a way of reporting research at conferences, seminars, and colloquia. At such meetings research papers are usually presented orally. They are similar to the research article since research is reported in a concise, yet informative way, focusing on the most essential elements of the research. Handouts and transparencies can also accompany the presentations. As with the research article, here too, the content and emphasis of the oral report will depend to a large extent on the type of audience present at the meeting, and whether they are researchers or practitioners.

单选题While shopping in a department, I ______ left my purse lying on a counter of handbags.

单选题The Smithsonian houses Ua miscellaneous/U collection of aircraft, artifacts, butterflies, stones [both precious and common], and so on.

单选题Russian women had to wear protective masks as they walked in Moscow, which was ______ by a heavy smog yesterday.

单选题The workers' demands are ______: they are asking for only a small increase in their wages.

单选题She was delirious last night, but she seems quite {{U}}lucid{{/U}} this morning.

单选题______ last year and is now earning his living as an advertising agent.

单选题He phoned his uncle who lived in the country, asking him to ______his two schoolmates for the weekend.

单选题One of Freud's great ______ into the human personality was the discovery of how it is influenced by unconscious processes.

单选题The first and essential step in the study of any language is observing and ______ pre cisely what happens when native speakers speak it.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} The idea of humanoid robots is not new. They have been part of the imaginative landscape ever since Karl Capek, a Czech writer, first dreamed them up for his 1921 play "Rossum's Universal Robots." (The word "robot" comes from the Czech word for drudgery, robota.) Since then, Hollywood has produced countless variations on the theme, from the sultry False Maria in Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece "Metropolis" to the withering C-3PO in "Star Wars" and the ruthless assassin of "Terminator." Humanoid robots have walked into our collective subconscious, coloring our views of the future. But now Japan's industrial giants are spending billions of yen to make such robots a reality. Their new humanoids represent impressive feats of engineering: when Honda introduced Asimo, a four-foot robot that had been in development for some 15 years, it walked so fluidly that its white, articulated exterior seemed to conceal a human. Honda continues to make the machine faster, friendlier and more agile. Last October, when Asimo was inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in Pittsburgh, it walked onto the stage and accepted its own plaque. At two and a half feet tall, Sony's QRIO is smaller and more toy-like than Asimo. It walks, understands a small number of voice commands, and can navigate on its own. If it falls over, it gets up and resumes where it leaves off. It can even connect wirelessly to the internet and broadcast what its camera eyes can see. In 2003, Sony demonstrated an upgraded QRIO that could run. Honda responded last December with a version of Asimo that runs at twice the speed. In 2004, Toyota joined the fray with its own family of robots, called Partner, one of which is a four-foot humanoid that plays the trumpet. Its fingers work the instrument's valves, and it has mechanical lungs and artificial lips. Toyota hopes to offer a commercial version of the robot by 2010. This month, 50 Partner robots will act as guides at Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. Despite their sudden proliferation, however, humanoids are still a mechanical minority. Most of the world's robots are faceless, footless and mute. They are bolted to the floors of factories, stamping out car parts or welding pieces of metal, making more machines. According to the United Nations, business orders for industrial robots jumped 18% in the first half of 2004. They may soon be outnumbered by domestic robots, such as self-navigating vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers and window washers, which are selling fast. But neither industrial nor domestic robots are humanoid.

单选题By the time you get to New York, I ______ for London. A. would be leaving B. am leaving C. have already left D. shall have left

单选题Yeats was beginning to use a vocabulary freshly minted from the treasury of Gaelic literature, and many of the shorter poems in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) deal with a mythology Ireland had well nigh forgotten and England never known. For Arthur and his Round Table Yeats substituted the very different Conchubar and his Red Branch Warriors, and Finn and his Fenians. The Red Branch cycle of legends included Fergus, whom Ness had tricked out of his kingdom so that her son Conchubar could rule over Ulster in his stead, and in Fergus and the Druid Yeats makes him avid for dreaming wisdom. Fergus was the unwitting agent of the doom of the Sons of Usna, Naoise the lover of Deirdre and his brothers Ardan and Ainle, who had accompanied the lovers to Scotland when they fled from Conchubar's wrath, for Deirdre was Conchubar's intended bride. Fergus had persuaded them to return against the wishes of Deirdre and had been tricked out of acting as their safe conduct. He joined with Maeve, Queen of Connaught, after this, in her raid on Ulster, in which Cuehulain achieved his great fame as Ulster's champion. Cuehulain is the Achilles of the Irish Saga, and he appears throughout Yeats's plays and poems, as warrior, as husband of Emer, as lover of Eithne Inguba, and of Aoife, as the unknowing killer of his own son and finally as victim of the sea.

单选题I saw them bending with great ______ over the machines, after 6 hours' working they found the fault.

单选题This policy gave ______ to private property and led to differences between the rich and the poor. A. fife B. birth C. way D. death