单选题Although the main motivation for a renewed interest in logic was a search for the foundations of mathematics, the chief Uprotagonists/U of this effort extended their inquiry into the domain of the natural languages.

单选题She flew into a rage and her husband sought in vain to ______ her with words of comfort and counsel.

单选题The reason why he didn't take the exam was______he had an accident on his way to the school.

单选题High grades are supposed to______academic ability, but John's actual performance did not confirm this.(中国矿业大学2008年试题)

单选题Some social critics took a dim view of the industrialism of the nineteenth century, believing that it______a harsh, crude life-style.(2011年南京大学考博试题)

单选题We cannot be______the choices that our children are going to make, even though we have contributed to those choices.

单选题For Emily Dickinson there were three worlds, and she lived in all of them, making them the substance of everything that she thought and wrote. There was the world of nature, the things and the creatures that she saw, heard, felt about her, there was the "estate" that was the world of friendship. And there was the world of the unseen and unheard. From her youth she was looked upon as different. She was direct, impulsive, original, and the droll wit who said unconventional things which others thought but dared not speak, and said them incomparably well. The characteristics which made her inscrutable to those who knew her continue to bewilder and surprise, for she lived by paradoxes. Certainly the greatest paradox was the fact that the three most pervasive friendships were the most elusive. She saw the Reverend Charles Wadsworth of Philadelphia but three or four times in the course of her life, and then briefly, yet her admiration of him as an ideal and her yearning for him as a person were of us surpassed importance in her growth as a poet. She sought out for professional advice the critic and publicist Thomas Wentworth Higginson and invited his aid as mentor for more than twenty years, though she never once adopted any counsel he dared to hazard. In the last decade of her life, she came to be a warm admirer of the poet and novelist Helen Hunt Jackson, the only qualified judge among Emily Dickinson's contemporaries who believed her to be a great poet, yet Emily Dickinson steadfastly refused to publish even though Mrs. Jackson's importunity was insistent.

单选题Simpkins" period of office as a local politician was nearly over. He felt reluctant to go through all the bother of standing for re-election. His tentative voicing of this feeling shocked Baden. "You"re never going to give up after all this time?" "That"s the point about it, Baden. Perhaps I"ve gone on too long. I feel tired, somehow." "Tired! Look at me. I"m tired and I can give you ten years. How long have you been on the council now?" "Eighteen years." Baden snorted. It was nothing beside his thirty-five years of unbroken service, during which he"s been three times major. Simpkins winked at Baden"s wife, Maude, and she, looking up for her embroidery, gave him back a small smile. Simpkins sometimes felt that it was not a mere ten years which separated Baden and himself, but two world wars. The years of his boyhood before the first war were the golden age that Baden looked back to. "It all ended after that," he had said more than once. "We never saw its like again." It was no use arguing that the quality of life was better for more people now, because Baden wouldn"t have it. "There were men working for my father who had six, seven and eight children. They brought them up all right though they hadn"t much money. Now it"s all grab. They want money, ears, drink and holidays abroad. And nobody"s happy." "Were they ever?" Simpkins wondered. "Was an obsession with keeping body and soul together a necessary condition of human happiness?" They were talking in the new bungalow Baden had built where Maude could find amusement watching the traffic go by. "A drink, anyway, Tom?" "I"d not say no to a drop of whisky, Baden." The floorboards trembled as Baden crossed the room. "How much do you weigh?" Simpkins asked. "Too much," Maude chipped in. "Oh, I don"t know," Baden said sharply. "Fifteen and a half stone." "Add a bit to that," Simpkins thought. "You must have iron legs. I"m bigger than you and I don"t weigh that much." "You don"t have my belly, though, Tom." Baden placed his two hands on the swell of his waistcoat. "It is good solid stuff, not just as a bag of wind." Maude tut-tutted, "Really, Baden", while Simpkins laughed. "There"s nothing the matter with me, in spite of Maude always going on about it." "It"s no use me saying anything," Maude said. "He stopped listening to me years ago." Simpkins sensed some bitterness behind the mild comment. Always headstrong, and domineering where he met resistance, Baden instinctively treated women as people to be kept in their place.

单选题Judgment was {{U}}suspended{{/U}} till the following Monday because of the lack of evidence.

单选题Veteran track trainer Johnson is scathing in his______ of the leaders of the I. O.C., "These people are megalomaniacs. They are power-hungry administrators. "

单选题______ down than the telephone rang. A. Not until I lay B. No sooner had I lain C. Hardly had I lain D. Scarcely did I lie

单选题The Ureciprocal/U hatred between various members of different races underlies the difficulty of integration in the United States.

单选题The scientist has made another wonderful discovery, ______ is of great importance to science.

单选题Nearly 1,000 people are presumed dead as chances ______ of finding more survivors from the sunken Egyptian ferry. A. bubble B. dwindle C. sway D. shiver

单选题Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies. Since the world"s population is expected to double in the next 50 years, many experts think we are on the edge of a widespread water crisis. But that doesn"t have to be the outcome. Water shortages do not have to trouble the world—if we start valuing water more than we have in the past. Just as we began to appreciate petroleum more after the 1970s oil crises, today we must start looking at water from a fresh economic perspective. We can no longer afford to consider water a virtually free resource of which we can use as much as we like in any way we want. Instead, for all used except the domestic demand of the poor, governments should price water to reflect its actual value. This means charging a fee for the water itself as well as for the supply costs. Governments should also protect this resource by providing water in more economically and environmentally sound ways. For example, often the cheapest way to provide irrigation water in the dry tropics is through small-scale projects, such as gathering rainfall in depressions and pumping it to nearby cropland. No matter what steps governments take to provide water more efficiently, they must change their institutional and legal approaches to water use. Rather than spread control among hundreds or even thousands of local, regional, and national agencies that watch various aspects of water use, countries should set up central authorities to coordinate water policy.

单选题1One day in 1963, a dolphin named Elvar and a famous astronomer, Carl Sagan, were playing a little game. The astronomer was visiting an institute which was looking into the way dolphins communicate with each other. He was standing at the edge of one of the tanks where several of these highly intelligent, friendly creatures were kept. Elvar had just swum up alongside him and had turned on his back. He wanted Sagan to scratch his stom ach again, as the astronomer had done twice before. But this time Elvar was too deep in the water for Sagan to reach him. Elvar looked up at Sagan, waiting. Then, after a minute or so, the dolphin leapt up through the water into the air and made a sound just like the word "More!" The astonished astronomer went to the director of the institute and told him about the incident. "Oh, yes. That's one of the words he knows," the director said, showing no surprise at all. Dolphins have bigger brains in proportion to their body size than humans have, and it has been known for a long time that they can make a number of sounds. What is more, these sounds seem to have different functions, such as warning each other of dan ger. Sound travels much faster and much further in water than it does in air. That is why the parts of the brain that deal with sound are much better developed in dolphins than in humans. But can it be said that dolphins have a "language" in the real sense of the word? Scientists don't agree on this. A language is not just a collection of sounds, or even words. A language has a struc ture, or what we call a grammar. The grammar of a language helps to give it meaning. For example, the two questions "Who loves Mary?" and "Who does Mary love?" mean dif ferent things. If you stop to think about it, you will see that this difference doesn't come from the words in the question but from the difference in structure. That is why the ques tion "Can dolphins speak?" can't be answered until we find out if dolphins not only make sounds but also arrange them in ways which affect their meaning.

单选题The new bicycle exhibited at the National British Cycling Championships was radical because ______.