单选题Question 21-25 are based on the following passage:
单选题Jane has ______ won the respect of everyone in the field of dance both for the society and herself. A. deservedly B. exactly C. despicably D. diffusely
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单选题According to the passage thermal cameras ______.
单选题It's very interesting to note where the debate about diversity (多样化) is taking place. It is taking place primarily in political circles. Here at the College Fund, we have a lot of contact with top corporate (公司的) leaders; none of them is talking about getting rid of those instruments that produce diversity. In fact, they say that if their companies are to compete in the global village and in the global market place, diversity is an imperative. They also say that the need for talented, skilled Americans means we have to expand the pool of potential employees. And in looking at where birth rates are growing and at where the population is shifting, corporate America understands that expanding the pool means promoting policies that help provide skills to more minorities, more women and more immigrants. Corporate leaders know that if that doesn't occur in our society, they will not have the engineers, the scientists, the lawyers, or the business managers they will need. Likewise, I don't hear people in the academy saying "Let's go backward. Let's go back to the good old days, when we had a meritocracy (不拘一格选人才)" (which was never true--we never had a meritocracy, although we've come closer to it in the last 30 years). I recently visited a great little college in New York where the campus has doubled its minority population in the last six years. I talked with an African American who has been a professor there for a long time, and she remembers that when she first joined the community, there were fewer than a handful of minorities on campus. Now, all of us feel the university is better because of the diversity. So where we hear this debate is primarily in political circles and in the media-- not in corporate board rooms or on college campuses.
单选题He cannot see anything without his glasses, so he made a ______ of
remembering to get them fixed before he went to work,
A. chore
B. success
C. point
D. mess
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单选题Passage 4 It didn't happen overnight. The problem of polluted air has been festering for centuries. Suddenly the problem of air pollution is becoming critical and is erupting right before our eyes Not only do our eyes burn as they focus through murky air, but when the air clears, we see trees and vegetation dying. We must realize that this destruction can no longer be pinned to some mysterious cause. The one major culprit is air pollution. Today's air pollution is an unfortunate by-product of the growth of civilization. Civilized mall desires goods that require heavy industrialization and mass production. Machines and factories sometimes pollute and taint the air with substances that are dangerous to man and the environment. These substances include radioactive dust, salt spray, herbicide and pesticide aerosols, liquid droplets of acidic matter, gases, and sometimes soil particles. These materials can act alone to irritate objects and forms of life. More dangerously, they join together to act upon the environment. Only lately have we begun recognizing some of their dangerous consequences. Scientists have not yet been able to obtain a complete report on the effects of air pollution on trees. They do know, however, that sulfur dioxide, fluorides, and ozone destroy trees and that individual trees respond differently to the numerous particulate and gaseous pollutants. Sometimes trees growing in a single area under attack by pollutants will show symptoms of injury or will die while their neighbors remain healthy. Scientists believe this difference in response depends on the kind of tree and its genetic makeup. Other factors, such as the tree's stage of growth and nearness to the pollution source, the amount of pollutant, and the length of the pollution attack also play a part. In short, whether or not a tree dies as a result of air pollution depends on a combination of host and environmental factors. For the most part, air pollutants injure trees. To conifers, which have year-round needles, air pollution causes early balding. In this event, trees cannot maintain normal food production levels. Undernourished and weakened, they are open to attack by a host of insects, diseases, and other environmental stresses. Death often follows. Air pollution may also cause hardwoods to lose their leaves. Because their leaves are borne only for a portion of the year and are replaced the following year, air pollution injury to hardwoods may not be so severe.
单选题For the past several years, the Sunday newspaper supplement Parade has featured a column called "Ask Marilyn." People are invited to query Marilyn vos Savant, who at age 10 had tested at a mental level of someone about 23 years old; that gave her an IQ of 228-the highest score ever recorded. IQ tests ask you to complete verbal and visual analogies, to envision paper after it has been folded and cut, and to deduce numerical sequences, among other similar tasks. So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe (whose IQ is 100) as, What"s the difference between love and fondness? Or what is the nature of luck and coincidence? It"s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers.
Clearly, intelligence encompasses more than a score on a test. Just what does it mean to be smart? How much of intelligence can be specified, and how much can we learn about it from neurology, genetics, computer science and other fields?
The defining term of intelligence in humans still seems to be the IQ score, even though IQ tests are not given as often as they used to be. The test comes primarily in two forms: the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scales (both come in adult and children"s version). Generally costing several hundred dollars, they are usually given only by psychologists, although variations of them populate bookstores and the World Wide Web. Superhigh scores like Vos Savant"s are no longer possible, because scoring is now based on a statistical population distribution among age peers, rather than simply dividing the mental age by the chronological age and multiplying by 100. Other standardized tests, such as the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), capture the main aspects of IQ tests.
Such standardized tests may not assess all the important elements necessary to succeed in school and in life, argues Robert J. Steinberg. In his article "How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?" Steinberg notes that traditional test best assess analytical and verbal skills but fail to measure creativity and practical knowledge, components also critical to problem solving and life success. Moreover, IQ test do not necessarily predict so well once populations or situations change. Research has found that IQ predicted leadership skills when the tests were given under low-stress conditions, but under high-stress conditions, IQ was negatively correlated with leadership-that is, it predicted the opposite. Anyone who has toiled through SAT will testify that test-taking skill also matters, whether it knows when to guess or what questions to skip.
单选题At the back of the theatre was the bar with a half-glass______ to separate the drinkers and promenaders from the seated audience. A. prevention B. partition C, parameter D. pedestrian
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Soon after Beijing graduate student
Gang Dong-chun landed in Taiwan last year to research its political development,
the United Daily News invited him to write a guest column. Gang quickly
discovered, however, that there was a huge gap between his views and those of
his Taiwanese comrades. The result: The Beijing University
researcher came in for stinging criticism in the same newspaper. One critic
asked how someone from the university whose students launched China's historic
plutodemocracy movement of May 4, 1919, could argue that things such as national
and economic development should take precedence over democracy. The episode
illustrated both the problems and the promise of educational exchanges across
the Taiwan Strait. Gang was nevertheless just the first of what
may soon be a steady trickle of students, teachers and researchers taking part
in educational exchanges. Until now, these have been limited to brief
conferences and getting-to-know-you tours of each side's educational centers.
But now Taipei and Beijing are allowing longer stays for study and research a
significant breakthrough that could help reduce the two sides' many
differences. Ironically, the exchanges are gaining momentum
despite recent cross-strait tensions. In mid-January, university presidents and
administrators from two dozen educational institutions in mainland China met
their Taiwanese counterparts for 10 days at National Cheng Kung University in
the southern city of Tainan. They discussed how to move from perfunctory to
substantive exchanges. "In the past, academics were led by politics," says Wu
Jin, the university's president. "This is not right. We should deal with
academics and politics separately. " The conference concluded
with a politically neutral statement with the bland title: To Create the 21st
Century for the Chinese People Through Academic Cooperation. In it, the
presidents of leading schools in Taiwan and prestigious mainland institutions
agreed to open teaching posts in each others' universities, cooperate on
research projects and open doors for students to study on both sides.
Weng Shilie, an engineering professor who's president of Shanghai's
Jiaotong University, says "Education is forever," implying that political
problems are merely temporary. Temporary or not, the obstacles to cooperation
remain formidable. Neither side recognizes the other's academic credentials and
both governments impose paralyzing restrictions on students. In Taiwan,
screening committees at two ministries must vet applications from
mainland-Chinese students. Taipei allowed an estimated 6,000 Chinese residents
to visit Taiwan for education and cultural exchanges last year, an increase of
50% over 1994. Most were athletes, performing artists and scholars attending
conferences. Following Gang's three-month stay last year, Taiwan
agreed to let 14 graduate researchers come from China to study; the first are
expected to arrive in March. They will research Taiwan-related topics at nine
universities. Each student will receive a monthly scholarship of NT $15,000
($546) for his first four months, a round-trip air ticket, accommodation and
health insurance. Education officials in Taipei say they hope to increase the
number of scholarships to 20 next year. "We have opened the door," says Bruce
Wu, who administers the scholarships from the Chinese Development Fund of the
Mainland Affairs Council, a cabinet-level agency in Taipei. "Everything now
depends on China's cooperation. " Given the political stalemate
between Taipei and Beijing, however, skepticism abounds. In practice, says
political scientist Lu Ya-li of National Taiwan University, it is very difficult
for the two sides to treat education in a politically neutral way. "Cross-strait
academic exchanges are very important. But so far no professors can come here
for a long-term teaching assignment, and some schools are against these
exchanges for political reasons. " Recent visitors to China say
there are already some Taiwanese students studying on the mainland without
official approval, Lu and other Taiwanese academics say there is an even
stronger attraction among mainland-Chinese professors to teach in Taiwan because
salaries are higher and research resources more plentiful. Says Lu. "Some
schools here are trying to recruit acuity, mostly in such fields as Chinese
literature and the natural sciences. " Still, that may be a pipe
dream. Lu says the gap in the social sciences is far too great for such
exchanges because of four decades of Marxist ideology. "In political science,"
sighs Lu, "we still don't speak the same language.
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单选题I don't understand why people ______such a beautiful garden with cans and bottles.(2002年武汉大学考博试题)
单选题We are prepared to satisfy all your______ claims. A. legitimate B legible C. intimate D. legislative
单选题 She was often oblivious of the potential consequences of her action.
单选题The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique against the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries; there was an understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important, there was a virile tradition of ethnocentrism, vented long before against Indian Buddhism, which, since the seventeenth century, focused on Western Christianity. Accordingly, even before the missionary movement really got under may in the mid-nineteenth century, it was already at a disadvantage. After 1860, as missionary activity in the hinterland expanded, it quickly became apparent that in addition to the intangibles, numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility abounded. In part, the very presence of the missionary evoked attack. They were, after all, the first foreigners to leave the treaty ports and venture into the interior, and for a ling time they were virtually the only foreigners whose quotidian labors carried them to the farthest reaches of the Chinese empire. For many of the indigenous population, therefore, the missionary stood as a uniquely visible symbol against which opposition to foreign intrusion could be vented. In part, too, the missionary was attacked because the manner in which he made his presence felt after 1860 seemed almost calculated to offend. By indignantly waging battles against the notion that China was the sole fountainhead of civilization and, more particularly, by his assault on many facets of Chinese culture per se, the missionary directly undermined the cultural hegemony of the gentry class. Also, in countless ways, he posed a threat to the gentry's traditional monopoly of social leadership. Missionaries, particularly Catholics, frequently assumed the garb of the Confucian literati. They were only persons at the local level, aside from the gentry, who were permitted to communicate with the authorities as social equals. And they enjoyed an extraterritorial status in the interior that gave them greater immunity to Chinese law than had ever been possessed by the gentry. Although it was the avowed policy of the Chinese government after 1860 that the new treaties were to be strictly adhered to, in practice implementation depended on the wholehearted accord of provincial authorities. There is abundant evidence that cooperation was dilatory. At the root of this lay the interactive nature of ruler and ruled. In a severely understaffed bureaucracy that ruled as much by suasion as by might, the official almost always a stranger in the locality of his service, depended on the active cooperation of the local gentry class. Energetic attempts to implement treaty provisions concerning missionary activities, in direct defiance of gentry sentiment, ran the risk of alienating this class and destroying future effectiveness.
单选题He isn't legally responsible for his nephew, but he feels he has a
moral ______ to help him.
A. observation
B. obligation
C. objection
D. obstruction
单选题Helen was s6 persistent that her husband ______ at last. A. conceded B. converged C. conceived D. conferred
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单选题All the students in this university are requested to comply with the regulations.
单选题The police found some stolen ______hidden in the thief's house.
