单选题UDeceptively /Usimple in design, the sculptural works of George Norton incorporate a broad range of textures, sizes, and contours.

单选题 A veteran negotiation specialist should be skillful at manipulating touchy situation.

单选题The phrase "at a premium" (paragraph 2) might mean ______.

单选题The most frustrating periods of any diet are the inevitable ______, when weight loss ______ if not stops.

单选题Unless your handwriting is ______, or the form specifically asks for typewriting, the form should be neatly handwritten.

单选题The payroll register constitutes the treasurer department's authority to pay the employees． Payment is usually made in the form of a check drawn on the company's regular bank account． Pre-numbered payroll checks should be used, and there should be independent verification of!the agreement of the checks with the payroll register in detail and in total． Payroll checks should be distributed directly to employees, on proper identification, by treasurer's department personnel．The checks should not be returned to payroll for distribution since the payroll department would then have control over both preparing and paying the payroll．Alternatively,payroll checks may be deposited directly in the employee's cheeking account． Payment of employees in cash is the exception rather than the rule．This form of payment is more easily influenced by errors, irregularities, and robbery than payment by check．Following payment, check numbers are entered on the register,the preparation and payment of the payroll are programmed on a computer． A termination notice should be issued by the personnel department on the completion of an individual's employment with the company．Copies of the termination authorization should be sent to the employee's supervisor and to payroll, and a copy should be filed in the employee's personnel record．The proper execution of this function is vital in preventing terminated employees from continuing on the payroll．The subsequent diversion of such payroll checks to an unauthorized individual has been responsible for many payroll cheat through the years． Every company is expected to fulfill the legal requirements relevant to the filing of payroll tax returns and the payment of the resulting taxes．Ordinarily,the payroll department prepares the tax returns and a check is issued through the guarantor system in payment of the taxes．The responsibility for the filing of returns before due dates should be assigned to a payroll department supervisor．Furthermore, there should be independent verification within that department of the accuracy and completeness of the return．Effective control over tax retums is necessary to avoid penalties for late or incorrect filings．

单选题The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I re member experiencing the events related to the People's Park that were occurring on campus. Some of these events were given national media coverage in the press and on TV. I found it interesting to compare my impressions of what was going on with perceptions obtained from the news media. I could begin to see events of that time feed on news coverage. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the distinctions between these realities. Electronic media are having a greater impact on the people's lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the Electronic City. Consider the information that television brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your consciousness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on "Live Action" such as the fires or the rescue efforts. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened. This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these realities. In 1992, many people watched in horror as riots broke out on a sad Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, seemingly fed by video coverage Rodney King beating. We are now in an age where the public can have access to information that enables it to make its own judgments, and most people, who had seen the video of this beating, could not understand how the jury was able to ac- quit the policemen involved. Media coverage of events as they occur also provides powerful feed- back that influences events. This can have harmful results, as it seemed on that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday night the public got to that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday night the public got to see Rodney King on television pleading. "Can we all get along?" By Saturday, television seemed to provide positive feedback as the Los Angeles riot turned out into a rally for peace. The television showed thousands of people marching with banners and cleaning tools. Because of that, many more people turned out to join the peaceful event they saw unfolding on television. The real healing, of course, will take much longer, but electronic media will continue to be a part of that process.

单选题Only one member of the committee______from the final report.

单选题The long-term fortunes of the modern economy depend in part on the strength and sustainability of the family, both in relation to fertility trends and to marriage trends. This basic, but often overlooked principle is now at work in the current global economic crisis. The decline of marriage and fertility is one factor in the global economic crisis. That is, one reason that some of the world's leading economies — from Japan to Italy to Spain to the euro zone as a whole — are facing fiscal challenges is that their fertility rates have been below replacement levels(2.1 children per woman)for decades. Persistent sub-replacement fertility eventually translates into fewer workers relative to retirees, which puts tremendous strains on public coffers and the economy as a whole. Indeed, one recent study finds that almost half of the recent run-up in public debt in the West can be attributed to rapid aging over the last two decades. Even China may see its sky-high growth " come down to earth in the next few decades as its work force shrinks" because of its one-child policy, as Carlos Cavalle and I argued in a recent report, The Sustainable Demographic Dividend. By contrast, a recent Rand study suggests that "India will have more favorable demographics than China" over the next few decades, insofar as its work force is poised to grow. In fact, the Rand study suggests that India may be able to use this demographic advantage to outpace China's economic growth rates by the end of the century. Finally, it's not just fertility that matters; it's also marriage. At least in the West, children are more likely to acquire the human and social capital they need to thrive in the modern economy when they are raised in an intact, married family. In the U. S. , for instance, children are more likely to graduate from high school, complete college and be gainfully employed as young adults if they were raised in an intact, married family. And around the globe, men are more likely to give their work their fullest effort and attention when they are married; this is one reason men worldwide enjoy "marriage premiums" in their income, ranging from about 14 percent(Mexico)to 19 percent(United States)to 35 percent(Russia). So, at least when it comes to men, research suggests that marriage has important implications for worker productivity. The bottom-line message is that what happens in the home does not stay at home; rather, the size of families, and their stability and quality, has important implications for the health of the global economy.

单选题As used in the first paragraph, terrain most clearly means ______.

单选题In what kind of style is the passage written?

单选题The company, EDS, is smart enough to ______ 90,000-person workforce into independent microteams that work directly with individual clients on creative business solutions. A. break out B. break off C. break away from D. break down

单选题The recent deterioration in the economy is of great concern to the government.

单选题The word "intricate" in line 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

单选题The school authority is ______ funds to build housing for young teachers.

单选题The ______ of emotional and psychiatric disorders that can prompt a person to seek therapy is wide.

单选题What was coded?

单选题The food was divided ______ according to(he age and size of the child.(2007年中国人民大学考博试题)

单选题The species of black spiders discovered on Mount Everest is ______.

单选题Question 16-20 are based on the following dialogue: