单选题In her statement Miss Nightingale intended to

单选题The language experts believe that the ______ age for learning a foreign language is 6 years old.

单选题It is often observed that the aged spend much time thinking and talking about their past lives, (71) about the future. These reminiscences are not simply random or trivial memories, (72) is their purpose merely to make conversation. The old person's recollections of the past help to (73) an identity that is becoming increasingly fragile: (74) any role that brings respect or any goal that might provide (75) to the future, the individual mentions his past as a reminder to listeners, that here was a life (76) living. (77) , the memories form part of a continuing life (78) , in which the old person (79) the events and experiences of the years gone by and (80) on the overall meaning of his or her own almost completed life. As the life cycle (81) to its close, the aged must also learn to accept the reality of their own impending (即将发生的) death. (82) this task is made difficult by the fact that death is almost a (83) subject in the United States. The mere discussion of death is often regarded as (84) . As adults many of us find the topic frightening and are (85) to think about it—and certainly not to talk about it (86) the presence of someone who is dying. Death has achieved this taboo (87) only in the modem industrial societies. There seems to be an important mason for our reluctance to (88) the idea of death. It is the very fact that death remains (89) our control; it is almost the only one of the natural processes (90) is so.

单选题The lady ______ her skirt by sitting on the seat while flying.

单选题The shop manager said that he intended to ______ the less efficient members of his staff. A. resign B. dismiss C. employ D. appoint

单选题This state research program is made up of two funds, ______ could last for two years.

单选题The badly wounded soldiers take ______ for medical treatment over those only slightly hurt.

单选题Attacking an increasingly popular Internet business practice, a consumer watchdog group Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asserting that many online search engines are concealing the impact special fees have on search results by Internet users. Commercial Alert, a 3-year-old group founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, asked the FTC to investigate whether eight of the Web's largest search engines are violating federal laws against deceptive advertising. The group said that the search engines are abandoning objective formulas, to determine the order of their listed results and selling the top spots to the highest bidders without making adequate disclosures to Web surfers. The complaint touches a hot-button issue affecting tens of millions of people who submit search queries each day. With more than 2 billion pages and more than 14 billion hyperlinks on the Web, search requests rank as the second most popular online activity after E-mail. The eight search engines named in Commercial Alert's complaint are. MSN, owned by Microsoft; Netscape, owned by AOL Time Warner; Directhit, owned by Ask Jeeves; HotBot and Lycos, both owned by Terra Lycos; Altavista, owned by CMGI; LookSmart, owned by LookSmart; and Iwon, owned by a privately held company operating under the same name. Portland, Ore. -based Commercial Alert could have named more search engines in its complaint, but focused on the biggest sites that are auctioning off spots in their results, said Gary Ruskin, the group's executive director. "Search engines have become central in the quest for learning and knowledge in our society. The ability to skew (扭曲) the results in favor of hucksters (小贩) without telling consumers is a serious problem," Ruskin said. By late Monday afternoon, three of the search engines had responded to The Associated Press' inquiries about the complaint. Two, LookSmart and AltaVista, denied the charges. Microsoft spokesman Matt Pilla said MSN is delivering" compelling search results that people want." The FTC had no comment about the complaint Monday. The complaint takes aim at the new business plans embraced by more search engines as they try to cash in on their pivotal (关键的) role as Web guides and reverse a steady stream of losses. To boost revenue, search engines in the past year have been accepting payments from businesses interested in receiving a higher ranking in certain categories or ensuring that their sites are reviewed more frequently.

单选题The purpose of Joel Waldfogel's study is to ______.

单选题John Locke, the well-known 18th century English thinker, emphasized experience as the condition for expansion of human knowledge.

单选题His short______in the living room had been long enough to keep him awake now.

单选题The elements of nature must be reckoned with in any military campaign. Napoleon and Hitler both underestimated the______of the Russian winter.

单选题A new material ______ , we have good reason to be optimistic. A. developed B. being developed C. was being developed D. was developed

单选题The exchange of goodwill mission greatly ______ a better understanding between the two countries.

单选题Passage 3 As a wise man once said, we are all ultimately alone. But an increasing number of Europeans are choosing to be so at an ever earlier age. This isn't the stuff of gloomy philosophical contemplations, but a fact of Europe's new economic landscape, embraced by sociologists, real-estate developers and ad executives alike. The shift away from family life to solo lifestyle, observes a French sociologist, is part of the "irresistible momentum of individualism" over the last century. The communications revolution, the shift from a business culture of stability to one of mobility and the mass entry of women into the workforce have greatly wreaked havoc on (扰乱) European's private lives. Europe's new economic climate has largely fostered the trend toward independence. The current generation of home-aloners came of age during Europe's shift from social democracy to the sharper, more individualistic climate of American style capitalism. Raised in an era of privatization and increased consumer choice, today's tech-savvy (精通技术的) workers have embraced a free market in love as well as economics. Modem Europeans are rich enough to afford to live alone, and temperamentally independent enough to want to do so. Once upon a time, people who lived alone tended to be those on either side of marriage-twenty something professionals or widowed senior citizens. While pensioners, particularly elderly women, make up a large proportion of those living alone, the newest crop of singles are high earners in their 30s and 40s who increasingly view living alone as a lifestyle choice. Living alone was conceived to be negative, dark and cold, while being together suggested warmth and light. But then came along the idea of singles. They were young, beautiful, strong! Now, young people want to live alone. The booming economy means people are working harder than ever. And that doesn't leave much room for relationships. Pimpi Arroyo, a 35-year-old composer who lives alone in a house in Paris, says he hasn't got time to get lonely because he has too much work. "I have deadlines which would make life with someone else fairly difficult." Only an Ideal Woman would make him change his lifestyle, he says. Kaufmann, author of a recent book called "The Single Woman and Prince Charming," thinks this fierce new individualism means that people expect more and more of mates, so relationships don't last long-- if they start at all. Eppendorf, a blond Berliner with a deep tan, teaches grade school in the morning. In the afternoon she sunbathes or sleeps, resting up for going dancing. Just shy of 50, she says she'd never have wanted to do what her mother did-- give up a career to raise a family. Instead, "I've always done what I wanted to do: live a self-determined life./

单选题He was afraid that the branch might bend over and break, and he would be sent ______ to the ground.

单选题The sun is very large in comparison with its nine ______ planets which, in turn, are circled by a total of thirty-three satellite.