单选题It disgusted him when atheists attacked religion: he thought they were vulgar . (2004年中国社会科学院考博试题)

单选题To give top ______ to health is to prolong your life and enjoy your life. A. superiority B. priority C. inferiority D. minority

单选题The early retirement of experienced workers is seriously harming the U. S. economy, according to a new report from the Hudson Institute, a public policy research organization. Currently, many older experienced workers retire at an early age. According to the recently issued statistics, 79 percent of qualified workers begin collecting retirement benefits at age 62; if that trend continues, there will be a labor shortage that will hinder the economic growth in the twenty-first century. Older Americans constitute an increasing proportion of the population, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, and the population of those over age 65 will grow by 60% between 2001 and 2020. During the same period, the group aged 18 to 44 will increase by only 4%. Keeping older skilled workers employed, even part time, would increase U. S. economic output and strengthen the tax base; but without significant policy reforms, massive early retirement among baby boomers seems more likely. Retirement at age 62 is an economically rational decision today. Social Security and Medicaid earnings limits and tax penalties subject our most experienced workers to marginal tax rates as high as 67%. Social Security formulas encourage early retirement. Although incomes usually rise with additional years of work, any pay increases after the 35-year mark result in higher social Security taxes but only small increases in benefits. Hudson Institute researchers believe that federal tax and benefit policies are at fault and reforms are urgently needed, but they disagree with the popular proposal that much older Americans will have to work because Social Security will not support them and that baby boomers are not saving enough for retirement. According to the increase in 401(k) and Keogh retirement plans, the ongoing stock market on Wall Street, and the likelihood of large inheritances, there is evidence that baby boomers will reach age 65 with greater financial assets than previous generations. The Hudson Institute advocates reforming government policies that now discourage work and savings, especially for older workers. Among the report' s recommendations. Tax half of all Social Security benefits, regardless of other income; provide 8% larger benefits for each year beyond 65; and permit workers nearing retirement to negotiate compensation packages that may include a lower salary but with greater healthcare benefits. However, it may take real and fruitful planning to find the right solution to the early retirement of older experienced workers; any measures taken must be allowed to prolong the serviceability of older experienced workers.

单选题It's easy to ______ us because we're supposedly a bunch of dumb country bumpkins and rednecks. A. pick over B. pick off C. pick on D. pick out

单选题When the relationship of parents and children is at this low ______, mutual love and respect need careful maintenance and rebuilding.

单选题By working hard he acquired an extraordinary______ of the English language.

单选题U.S. airlines would have to suffer the following losses if there were war with Iraq except that ______.

单选题Questions 25—27 are based on the following conversation. You now have 15 seconds to read questions 25—27.

单选题3 It was two years ago today that the hunting ban came into force, supposedly ending centuries of tradition. However, the law has been an unmitigated failure—not that either side is shouting about it. It was a nightmare vision that struck fear and loathing into the hearts of millions. When the hunting ban became law, it was said, 16,000 people would lose their jobs, thousands of hounds would be put down, rotting carcasses would litter the country side, hedgerows would disappear, riders would face on-the-spot fines, law-abiding people from doctors to barristers would be dragged from their horses and carted off to prison, while dog owners would be prosecuted if their mutt caught a rabbit. These were just some of the claims as desperate countryside campaigners battled to save their sport in the lead-up to the hunting ban, which Labour rammed into law using the Parliament Act on November 18, 2004. For many, the fears were real. Others exaggerated as they fought an increasingly aggressive anti-hunting lobby which had rejected acres of independent evidence affirming that hunting is the most humane way of killing foxes. In the battle to "fight prejudice, fight the ban", every emotive argument was deployed. For its part, the anti-hunting brigade extravagantly claimed that the ban would put an end to the rich parading in red jackets. A senior Labour MP, Peter Bradley, admitted in this newspaper that it was, as many suspected, about "class war". He lost his seat shortly afterwards. But people in red coats did not disappear. In fact, none of the forecasts came true. What did happen was something nobody had predicted, the spectacular revival and growth of hunting with hounds.In short, the hun ting ban has been a failure. Today, on the second anniversary of the ban's coming into force on February 18, 2005, new figures show that participation in the sport has never been higher. It is so cheer ful that two new packs have been formed, something that has not happened for centuries. They include the seductively named Private Pack, set up by the financier Roddy Flem ing in Gloucestershire. It operates on an invitation-only basis, a sort of hunting private members club. This can only mean one thing, like it or not, hunting is cool. Young people are taking it up, enticed by the element of rebellion and the mystique of what actually hap pens as hunts attempt to keep within the law.

单选题In the first decades of the twentieth century, the individual gene could not be seen, but could be worked with fruitfully.

单选题Mr Wang's behavior is______

单选题This is the ______ piano on which the composer created some of his greatest works.

单选题Apparently there were ______ between police reports taken from the same witnesses at different times. A. distortions B. discrepancies C. disorders D. distractions

单选题Which of the following is NOT a correct statement?

单选题Before we move, we should______some of the old furniture, so that we can have more room in the new house.(中国矿业大学2008年试题)

单选题An American university president once commented that "Einstein has created a new outlook, a new view of the universe. It may be some generations before the average mind grasps the identity of time and space, and so on, but even ordinary men understand now that the universe is something vast than ever thought before. " A. It may be some generations B. before C. something vast D. than ever thought before.

单选题Patients tend to feel indignant and insulted of the physician tells them he can find no organic cause for the pain. They tend to interpret the term "psychogenic" to mean that they are complaining of nonexistent symptoms. They need to be educated about the fact that many forms of pain have no underlying physical cause but are the result, as mentioned earlier, of tension, stress or hostile factors in the general environment. Sometimes a pain may be a manifestation of "conversion hysteria". Obviously, it is folly for an individual to ignore symptoms that could be a warning of a potentially serious illness. Some people are so terrified of getting news from a doctor that they allow their malaise to worsen, sometimes past the point of no return. Total neglect is not the answer to hypochondria. The only answer has to be increased education about the way the human body works; so that more people be able to steer an intelligent course between promiscuous pill-popping and irresponsible disregard of genuine symptoms. Of all forms of pain, none is important for the individual to understand than the "threshold" variety. Almost everyone has a telltale ache that is triggered whenever tension or fatigue reaches a certain point. It can take the form of a migraine-type headache or a squeezing pain deep in the abdomen or cramps or a pain in the lower back or even in the joints. The individual who has learned how to make the correlation between such threshold pains and their cause doesn"t panic when they occur; he or she does something about relieving the stress and tension. Then, if the pain persists despite the absence of apparent cause, the individual will telephone the doctor.

单选题The reporter asked the general to ______on his statement.

单选题Most people would be (71) by the high quality of medicine (72) to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization, a great deal of (73) to the individual, a (74) amount of advanced technical equipment, and (75) effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must (76) in the courts if they (77) things badly. But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in (78) health care is organized and (79) . (80) to pubic belief it is not just a free competition system. The private system has been joined by a large public system, because private care wag simply not (81) the less fortunate and the elderly. But even with this huge public part of the system, (82) this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars—more than 10 percent of the U. S. budget, large numbers of Americans are left (83) . These include about half the 11 million unemployed and those who fail to meet the strict limits (84) income fixed by a government trying to save where it can. The basic problem, however, is that there is no central control (85) the health system. There is no (86) to what doctors and hospitals charge for their services, other than what the public is able to pay. The number of doctors has shot up and prices have climbed. When faced with a toothache, a sick child, or a heart attack, all the unfortunate persons concerned can do is (87) up. Two thirds of the population (88) covered by medical insurance. Doctors charge as much as they want (89) that the insurance company will pay the bill. The rising cost of medicine in the U. S. A. is among the most worrying problems facing the country. In 198l the Country's health bill climbed 15.9 percent—about twice as fast as prices (90) general.