单选题The vast majority of people in any culture ______ to the established standard of that culture.

单选题The______ in my son's clothes are beginning to come apart. A. seams B. beams C. rims D. segments

单选题With the awfully limited vocabulary to only a thousand words or fewer, the reader resembles a color blind artist who is only aware of a few colors and consequently his ability to create on canvas is lamentably restricted.

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单选题We never believed that he would resort to ______ in order to achieve his goal; we always regarded him as an honest man.

单选题With all his experience abroad he was a major {{U}}asset{{/U}} to the company.

单选题The motivation of rapists is now (acknowledged) to be a more complex matter (than being) formerly believed; it (has come) to be widely accepted that rape is not (necessarily) the result of sexual desire.

单选题 The geology of the Earth's surface is dominated by the particular properties of water. Present on Earth in solid, liquid, and gaseous states, water is exceptionally reactive. It dissolves, transports, and precipitates many chemical compounds and is constantly modifying the face of the Earth. Evaporated from the oceans, water vapor forms clouds, some of which are transported by wind over the continents. Condensation from the clouds provides the essential agent of continental erosion: rain. Precipitated onto the ground, the water trickles down to form brooks, streams, and rivers, constituting what is called the hydrographic network. This immense polarized network channels the water toward a single receptacle: an ocean. Gravity dominates this entire step in the cycle because water tends to minimize its potential energy by running from high altitudes toward the reference point that is sea level. The rate at which a molecule of water passes through the cycle is not random but is a measure of the relative size of the various reservoirs. If we define residence time as the average time for a water molecule to pass through one of the three reservoirs--atmosphere, continent, and ocean--we see that the times are very different. A water molecule stays, on an average, eleven days in the atmosphere, one hundred years on a continent and forty thousand years in the ocean. This last figure shows the importance of the ocean as the principal reservoir of the hydrosphere but also the rapidity of water transport on the continents. A vast chemical separation process takes places during the flow of water over the continents. Soluble ions such as calcium, sodium, potassium, and some magnesium are dissolved and transported. Insoluble ions such as aluminum, iron, and silicon stay where they are and form the thin, fertile skin of soil on which vegetation can grow. Sometimes soils are destroyed and transported mechanically during flooding. The erosion of the continents thus results from two closely linked and interdependent processes, chemical erosion and mechanical erosion. Their respective interactions and efficiency depend on different factors.

单选题He was a young man of barely eighteen years, evidently county ______ , and now, as it seemed, on his first visit to town.

单选题His understanding made a deep ______ on the young girl.

单选题______ there is a logical connection between all the things that happen in that immensely connected body of salted water that covers 71 percent of the surface of the earth.

单选题Practitioners of law and medicine are esteemed in many countries which seems to indicate that ______ depends on profession or title.

单选题Composed of song, dance, and personal invective, the old comedy plays also include outspoken political criticism and comment on literary and philosophical topics. A. comical B. witty C. satirical D. frank

单选题Why would any woman in her fight mind choose to walk on the balls of her feet with her heels propped up by spikes? The historical answer is that high heels reflect aristocratic tastes-specifically, the tastes of the seventeenth-century French court, which first popularized them in Europe. Not only did heels keep the wearer's feet relatively mud free, they also created a physical elevation to match the social elevation of the stylish, exaggerated the strutting gait of the noble classes, and they suggested, by their very precariousness, that their owners could afford not to worry about falling on their faces. Indeed, as Bernard Rudofsky points out, seventeenth-century wearers of high heels, men and women, frequently had to be transported in sedan chairs because they could not manage cobblestones on foot. Some "heels" in that era were actually full-soled platforms, and to walk on these things at all, one needed the constant elbow support of two Servants. The helplessness associated with the raised-heel style encouraged the notion that heeled persons were above having to care for themselves. In view of this, it is not surprising that even today it is women, almost exclusively, who wear heels. High heels are the cobbler's contribution to what I have called the pedestal ploy. They link physical incapacity with the notion of woman as a "higher being"--too high to get along on her own. Women have taken to high heels, of course, because they feel, correctly, that they increase their attractiveness to men. Part of that increased attractiveness has to do with male fantasies of female fragility. As fashion-iconoclast Elizabeth Hawes puts it, "The idea is that he, in his heavy shoes, should feel stronger and more capable than she on her fragile stilts. Never mind the realities." Another part of it may be biological. In his discussion of rump display among mammals, Dale Guthrie notes that the "lines of the buttocks, thigh, calf and ankle have a native sexual stimulation, but this can be increased with high-heeled shoes; the curves are exaggerated when the heel is lifted." Heels also exaggerate the lateral motion of buttocks the. ultimate function of high heels, therefore, may be to fuel the male belief that women are both impotent and seductive.

单选题 Lobbying groups often try to disguise a financial self-interest by clumsily dressing up their arguments in the guise of concern for the public. You see this tendency in the pharmaceutical industry{{U}} (21) {{/U}}in energy and lumber companies who like to tout their{{U}} (22) {{/U}}of the environment. But{{U}} (23) {{/U}}, two new books argue, are these tactics more{{U}} (24) {{/U}}a cause for concern than in agribusiness. Marion Nestle's "Food Safety: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bio-terrorism' looks at the way the American meat and biotechnology industries have{{U}} (25) {{/U}}successfully on Capitol Hill{{U}} (26) {{/U}}stricter federal regulation, which the author argues has undermined the safety of the food supply.(27) , Maxime Schwartz's "How the Cows Turned Mad"{{U}} (28) {{/U}}the origins of mad-cow disease over more than two centuries, and reveals the fallout from the British government's blind{{U}} (29) {{/U}}that the disease could not be{{U}} (30) {{/U}}to humans. In 1999, Ms Nestle writes in her earlier book, Rosemary Mueklow, the executive director of the National Meat Association, lobbied against President Clinton's{{U}} (31) {{/U}}to establish a more thorough testing regime for E. coli 0157: H7, a potentially{{U}} (32) {{/U}}pathogen. Ms Muck low’s organization—which represents meatpackers and processors who{{U}} (33) {{/U}}to discard or reprocess meat found to be infected under the new testing regime—argued on Capitol Hill that{{U}} (34) {{/U}}microbial testing in meat could actually lead to a greater public health risk{{U}} (35) {{/U}}confident consumers might relax their own safe-handling procedures at home.

单选题The word "defunct" in the first paragraph most probably means ______.

单选题The whole passage carries a tone of ___________.

单选题______ news and current affairs, I hardly watch any television. A. Aside from B. Regardless of C. In the face of D. So far as

单选题Output is now six times ______ it was before 1990.