单选题 In the U.S., the Republican's doctrines were slightly liberal, whereas the Democrats' were hardly ______.
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单选题In the present economic ______ we can make even greater progress than previously.
单选题The doctor promised that this medicine would ______ the pain in the stomach.(2009年北京航空航天大学考博试题)
单选题The company was financially ______ and almost went to bankruptcy during last year's economic recession.
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单选题Patty Sheehan, the 1983 Ladies Professional Golf Association Player of the Year, is known for her______ and self-reliance.
单选题It's a very popular play, and it would be wise to ______ seats well in advance.
单选题A hefty 50% of those from ages 18 to 34 told the pollsters in the TIME/CNN survey that they "feminist" values.
单选题The magician picked out several persons ______ from the audience and asked them to help him with the performance. A. by accident B. on average C. on occasion D. at random
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The Greek's lofty attitude toward
scientific research and the scientists' contempt of utility was a long time
dying. For a millennium after Archimedes, this separation of mechanics from
geometry inhibited fundamental technological progress and in some areas
repressed it altogether. But there was a still greater obstacle to change until
the very end of the middle ages: the organization of society. The social system
of fixed class relationships that prevailed through the Middle Ages (and in some
areas much longer) itself hampered improvement. Under this system, the
laboring masses, in exchange for the bare necessities of life, did all the
productive work, while the privileged few--priests, nobles, and kings--concerned
themselves only with ownership and maintenance of their own position. In
the interest of their privileges they did achieve considerable progress in
defense, in warmaking, in government, in trade, in the arts of leisure, and in
the extraction of labor from their dependents, but they had no familiarity with
the process of production. On the other hand, the laborers, who were familiar
with manufacturing techniques, had no incentive to improve or increase
production to the advantage of their masters. Thus, with one class possessing
the requisite knowledge aid experience, but lacking incentive and leisure, and
the other class lacking the knowledge and experience, there was no means by
which technical progress could be achieved. The whole ancient
world was built upon this relationship--a relationship as sterile as it was
inhuman. The availability of slaves nullified the need for more efficient
machinery. In many of the commonplace fields of human endeavor, actual
stagnation prevailed for thousands of years. Not all the glory that was Greece
and the grandeur that was Rome could develop the windmill or contrive so simple
an instrument as the wheelbarrow--products of the tenth and thirteenth centuries
respectively. For about twenty-five centuries, two-thirds of the
power of the horse was lost because he wasn't shod, and much of the strength of
the ox was wasted because his harness wasn't modified to fit his shoulders.
For more than five thousand years, sailors were confined to rivers and
coasts by a primitive steering mechanism which required remarkably little
alteration (in the thirteenth century) to become a rudder. With
any ingenuity at all, the ancient plough could have been put on wheels and the
ploughshare shaped to bite and turn the sod instead of merely scratching it but
the ingenuity wasn't forthcoming. And the villager of the Middle Ages, like the
men who first had fire, had a smoke hole in the center of the straw and reed
thatched roof of his one-room dwelling (which he shared with his animals), while
the medieval charcoal burner (like his Stone Age ancestor) made himself a hut of
small branches.
单选题What is at fault in our present system is not the outcome but the Ufallible/U procedure.
单选题If that is what he said, his reasoning must be Ufallacious/U.
单选题As the passage shows, Grammatron makes it possible for readers to ______. A. adapt the story for a video version B, "walk in" the story and interact with it C. develop the plots within the author's control D. steal the show and become the main character
单选题Sometimes ______ matters may result in surprising large effects. A. predictable B. big C. trivial D. imaginable
单选题Public ______ for the usually low-budget, high-quality films has enabled the independent film industry to grow and thrive. A. appreciation B. recognition C. gratitude D. tolerance
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单选题All the major cities of the United States, ______the cities of the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, began as centers of the trade.
单选题George Bush, once U.S.______ to China, became President in 1988.
单选题In addition to the Mandarin dialects, there are six other Chinese dialect groups, spoken mainly in southern and southeastern China. This linguistic______, particularly in southeastern China, has provided the basis for strong regional identity and some ethnic variation within the larger Han community.
