单选题In many societies, the person who fails to ______ to conventional behavior is likely to be avoided by others.(2006年中国矿业大学考博试题)

单选题It's strange that he should refuse a job in government ______ a university appointment.

单选题According to this passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

单选题According to the passage, modern advertising is "authoritative" because of the way it ______.

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Notable' as important nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights treat women very differently. Shelley produced a "masculine" text in which the fates of subordinate female characters seem entirely dependent on the actions of male heroes or anti-heroes. Bronte produced a more realistic narrative portraying a world where men battle for the favors of apparently high-spirited, independent women. Nevertheless, these two novels are alike in several crucial ways. Many readers are convinced that the compelling mysteries of each plot conceal elaborate structures of allusion and fierce, though shadowy, moral ambitions that seem to indicate metaphysical intentions, though efforts by critics to articulate these intentions have generated much controversy. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic tensions that inhere in the relationship between surface drama and concealed authorial intention, a method I call an evidentiary narrative technique.

单选题The basic ______ of their philosophy is that everyone should be free to do as they please, as long as they do not harm others.

单选题Don't rest on your laurels; ______ your success and start looking for new markets now. A. add up B. follow up C. work up D. count up

单选题Radio and television make it possible for the news to be widely ______.

单选题It is not easy to give away money ______ it is to make money.

单选题(A favorite story) among (acoustic) exports (concerns with) a noisy long Island suburb where, every day and night, huge trucks (rumbled down) a freeway.

单选题In spite of the wide range of reading material specially designed or ______ for language learning purposes, there is yet no effective and systematic program for the reading skills.(2005年清华大学考博试题)

单选题The fire has caused great losses, but the factory tried to ______ the consequences by saying that the damage was not as serious as reported.

单选题As the society has rigid social ______, everyone knows his role in the society.

单选题Several trial efforts in the 1980s proved that it was financially ______ to restore old buildings.

单选题It is appropriate on an anniversary of the founding of a university to remind ourselves of its purposes. It is equally appropriate at such time for students to (21) why they have been chosen to attend and to consider how they can best (22) the privilege of attending. At the least you as students can hope to become (23) in subject matter which may be useful to you in later life. There is, (24) , much more to be gained. It is now that you must learn to exercise your mind sufficiently (25) learning becomes a joy and you thereby become a student for life. (26) this may require an effort of will and a period of self-discipline. Certainly it is not (27) without hard work. Teachers can guide and encourage you, but learning is not done passively. To learn is your (28) . There is (29) the trained mind satisfaction to be derived from exploring the ideas of others, mastering them and evaluating them. But there is (30) level of inquiry which I hope that some of you will choose. If your study takes you to the (31) of understanding of a subject and, you have reached so far, you find that you can penetrate to (32) no one has been before, you experience an exhilaration which can't be denied and which commits you to a life of research. Commitment to a life of scholarship or research is (33) many other laudable goals. It is edifying, and it is a source of inner satisfaction even (34) other facets of life prove disappointing. I strongly (35) it.

单选题He ______ to his customers and halved the price. [A] leaked [B] drew [C] quoted [D] yielded

单选题In the experiment we kept a watchful eye ______ the developments and recorded every detail. [A] in [B] at [C] for [D] on

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单选题{{B}}Passage 5{{/B}} Anthropologists, psychologists and others have begun seeking the roots of ambition in family, culture, gender, genes and more. They have by no means thrown the curtain all the way back, but they have begun to part it. If humans are an ambitious species, it's clear we're not the only one. Many animals are known to signal their ambitious tendencies almost from birth. Even before wolf pups are weaned, they begin sorting themselves out into alphas and all the others. The alphas are quicker, more curious, greedier for space, milk, Mom--and they stay that way for life. Alpha wolves wander widely, breed annually and may live to a geriatric 10 or 11 years old. Lower-ranking wolves enjoy none of these benefits--staying close to home, breeding rarely and usually dying before they're four. Humans often report the same kind of temperamental determinism. Families are full of stories of the inexhaustible infant who grew up to be an entrepreneur, the phlegmatic child who never really showed much go. But if it's genes that run the show, what explains identical twins--precise genetic templates of each other who ought to be temperamentally identical but often exhibit profound differences in the octane of their ambition? Ongoing studies of identical twins have measured achievement motivation--lab language for ambition--in identical siblings separated at birth, and found that each twin's profile overlaps 30% to 50% of the other's. In genetic terms, that's an awful lot--"a benchmark for heritability", says geneticist Dean Hamer of the U.S. National Cancer Institute. But that still leaves a great deal that can be determined by experiences in infancy, subsequent upbringing and countless other {{B}}imponderables{{/B}}. Some of those variables may be found by studying the function of the brain. At Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, researchers have been conducting brain imaging to investigate a trait they call persistence--the ability to stay focused on a task until it's completed just so--which they consider one of the critical engines driving ambition. The researchers recruited a sample group of students and gave each a questionnaire designed to measure persistence level. Then they presented the students with a task--identifying sets of pictures as either pleasant or unpleasant and taken either indoors or outdoors--while conducting magnetic resonance imaging of their brains. The nature of the task was unimportant, but how strongly the subjects felt about performing it well--and where in the brain that feeling was processed--could say a lot. In general, the researchers found that students who scored highest in persistence had the greatest activity in the limbic region, the area of the brain related to emotions and habits. "The correlation was .8 [or 80%]," says professor of psychiatry Robert Cloninger, one of the investigators. "That's as good as you can get." It's impossible to say whether innate differences in the brain were driving the ambitious behavior or whether learned behavior was causing the limbic to light up. But a number of researchers believe it's possible for the nonambitious to jump-start their drive, provided the right jolt comes along. "Energy level may be genetic," says psychologist Simonton, "but a lot of times it's just finding the right thing to be ambitious about." Simonton and others often cite the case of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who might not have been the same President he became--or even become president at all--had his disabling polio not taught him valuable lessons about patience and tenacity.