单选题The journalists and camera crews began to ______ in the heat as they stood waiting for the president to appear.

单选题{{B}}Passage 1{{/B}} Crossing Wesleyan university's campus usually requires walking over colorful messages chalked on the ground. They can be as innocent as meeting announcements, but in a growing number of cases the language is meant to shock. It's not uncommon, for instance, to see lewd (淫荡的) references to professors' sexual preferences scrawled across a path or the mention of the word Nig' that African-American students say make them feel uncomfortable. In response, officials and students at schools are now debating ways to lead their communities away from forms of expression that offend or harass (侵扰). In the process, they're butting up against the difficulties of regulating speech at institutions that pride themselves on fostering open debate. Mr. Bennet of Wesleyan says he had gotten used to seeing occasional chalkings filled with four-letter words. Campus tradition made any horizontal surface not attached to a building a potential billboard. But when chalkings began taking on a more threatening and lewd tone, Bennet decided to act. "This is not acceptable in a workplace and not acceptable in an institution of higher learning," Bennet says. For now, Bonnet is seeking input about what kind of message-posting policy the school should adopt. The student assembly recently passed a resolution saying the "right to speech comes with implicit responsibilities to respect community standards." Other public universities have confronted problems this year while considering various ways of regulating where students can express themselves. At Harvard Law School, the recent controversy was more linked to the academic setting. Minority students there are seeking to curb what they consider harassing speech in the wake of a series of incidents last spring. At a meeting held by the "Committee on Healthy Diversity" last week, the school's Black Law Students Association endorsed a policy targeting discriminatory harassment. It would trigger a review by school officials if there were charges of "severe or pervasive conduct" by students or faculty. The policy would cover harassment based on, but not limited to, factors such as race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, and ethnicity (种族划分). Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate, says other schools have adopted similar harassment policies that are actually speech codes, punishing students for raising certain ideas. "Restricting students from saying anything that would be perceived as very unpleasant by another student continues uninterrupted," says Silverglate, who attended the Harvard Law town meeting last week.

单选题The police inspector, having received new information from a confidential source, decided to enlarge the ______ of his enquiry.(2006年财政部财政研究所考博试题)

单选题Many people are ______ to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital. A. insensitive B. allergic C. sensible D. infected

单选题It is either pride or ______, but she is determined to pay her way and I'm not allowed to help her out.

单选题I had to take a step, even though I understand that that step was in the direction of______ rather than success.(2003年西南财经大学考博试题)

单选题His writing depicts this changing world and the increasing cultural {{U}}diversity{{/U}} of the United States. A. conflict B. refinement C. variety D. movement

单选题According to the law which he later produced, everything in the universe attracts everything else towards ______.

单选题Although he had done many great things, he never felt it necessary to ______ his achievements. A. lavish B. extravert C. impose D. vaunt

单选题His inability to learn foreign languages was a(n)______to his career.

单选题______ is medical technology that allows the prolongation of life artificially while the world is already over-populated?

单选题The teacher's behavior and the student's response ______ what many people have said about language learning.

单选题The information was later admitted ______ obtained from unreliable sources.

单选题Always since the creation of celluloid, plastics have been found to have a multitude of industrial and commercial uses.

单选题Once the ______of the election had died down, it was back to normal for the President. A. husk B. hump C. hub D. hubbub

单选题She ______ her vacation so much that she didn"t want it to end.

单选题 In recent speeches at Republican fundraisers, President Bush has taken to criticizing the press for baring government secrets. The outgoing secretary of the Treasury, John Snow, in what may have been his last official act, wrote to The New York Times that in exposing the monitoring of bank transfers, it had undermined a successful counterterrorism program. A house resolution, passed by a party line vote, called on the media to safeguard classified programs. The government has discovered what governments have discovered before, that an undercurrent of hostility towards the news media runs through the country and that there could be political advantage in campaigning against the press in general. The champion press hater, of course, was President Nixon, who told his staff that the press is the enemy, and he proceeded to declare his own private war against the media. In 1969, he had a speech written by speechwriter Pat Buchanan denouncing the media as a "tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men". And he gave it to Vice President Spiro Agnew to deliver. That speech is best remembered today for the line contributed by another speechwriter, William Safire, about "nattering nabobs of negativism". It is not clear that the public hates the press as much as officialdom would like to think. A recent Pew Research report found that public attitudes towards the press have been on a downward track for years. Growing numbers of people questioned the news media's patriotism and fairness. And yet most Americans continue to say they like mainstream news outlets. And so, as The Christian Science Monitor headlined the other day: "Amid war on terror, a war with the press." You would not expect that I, as a journalist, would exhibit total neutrality in such a war. And so let me quote Justice Potter Stewart in his opinion in the Pentagon Papers ease in 1971: "In the absence of governmental checks and balances present in other areas of our national life, the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the area of national defense and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry... Without an informed and free press, there cannot be an enlightened people;" That remains true, even when Mr. Bush proclaims a state of war with the terrorists.

单选题The man had a good disguise, but as soon as he spoke he______himself.

单选题Many people believe that the family is the ______ of the community. A. nucleus B. latitude C. swamp D. destiny