单选题The Supreme Court ______ the judgment of the lower court.

单选题He was wet to the skin, his whole body was ______ and trembling.

单选题With a wave of his hand, the magician made the duck ______

单选题The kitchen was small and ______ so that the disabled woman could reach everything without difficulty. A.complete B.complex C.composite D.compact

单选题The most Uprolific/U writer is not necessarily the best.

单选题Yourperformanceisgenerallyassumedto_______theknowledgeyouhaveacquired and will retain.

单选题The (clothes you) wear do not serve only a (pure) practical function. They speak volumes about the (way you) view your personality, your state of mind, your social status, (and even) your aspirations and dreams.

单选题We can surely ______ all difficulties that may come up. A. get on B. come over C. get over D. come across

单选题People planning to travel by car to North Dakota in the winter are advised to ______ their cars with snow tires and warm clothing.

单选题A patient crowd had ______ around the entrance to the theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of the stars of the show.

单选题By 1776 the fine art of painting as it had developed in western Europe up to this time had been introduced into the American colonies through books and prints, European visitors and immigrants, and traveling colonists who brought back copies (and a few original) of old master paintings and acquaintance with European art institutions. By the outbreak of the Revolution against British rule in 1776, the status of the artists had already undergone change. In the mid-eighteenth century, painters had been willing to assume such artisan-related tasks as varnishing, gilding teaching, keeping artists were described at the time suggests their status: "limner" was usually applied to the anonymous portrait painter up to the 1760"s: "painter" characterized anyone who could paint a flat surface. By the second half of the century, colonial artists who were trained in England or educated in the classics rejected the status of laborer and thought of themselves as artists. Some colonial urban portraitists, such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, and Charles Wilson Peale, consorted with affluent patrons. Although subject to fluctuations in their economic status, all three enjoyed sufficient patronage to allow them to maintain an image of themselves as professional artists, an image indicated by their custom of signing their paintings. A few art collectors James Bowdoin Ⅲ of Boston, William Byrd of Virginian, and the Aliens and Hamiltons of Philadelphia introduced European art traditions to those colonists privileged to visit their galleries, especially aspiring artists, and established in their respective communities the idea of the value of art and the need for institutions devoted to its encouragement. Although the colonists tended to favor portraits, they also accepted landscapes, historical works, and political engravings as appropriate artistic subjects. With the coming of independence from the British Crown, a sufficient number of artists and their works were available to serve nationalistic purposes. The achievements of the colonial artists, particularly those of Copley, West, and Peale, lent credence to the boast that the new nation was capable of encouraging genius and that political liberty was congenial to the development of taste—a necessary step before art could assume an important role in the new republic.

单选题The doctor was in a ______ as to whether to tell the patient the truth or a lie. A. prudence B. dilemma C. secrecy D. psychology

单选题When we were in the mountains, we often found ourselves entirely {{U}}enveloped{{/U}} by the fog.

单选题He is a(n) ______ and well-behaved child, but his parents worry about him for he talks too little.

单选题The deterioration of the environment, both physically and aesthetically, is most apparent in our cities. The dehumanizing effects of life in the slums and ghettoes particularly, where there is little hope for improving conditions, have often been cited as contributing causes of urban rioting and disturbances. Crime rates usually reach their peak in these neighborhoods. Such symptoms of general psychological maladjustment suggest that modern cities provide a less than ideal environment for human beings. There seems to be abundant evidence that traditional cultural patterns break down in cities, and also that the high numbers of contacts with individuals, not part of one"s circle of regular social acquaintances may lead to mental disturbance defined here merely as behavior generally considered "disturbed" by the majority of the society. It is important to note that antisocial behavior and "mental illness" are found in all cultures, and that indeed the same disorders recognized by Western psychiatrists are found even in primitive peoples. Therefore, we can be reasonably certain that lack of an evolutionarily "natural" environment is not the sole cause of such behavior. Nevertheless, that lack may well serve to aggravate the problems of people living in our most crowded, smoggy, and impersonal metropolises. Stanford psychologist PG Zimbardo has concluded that urban pressures are transforming Americans into potential assassins. He based his conclusions on experimental studies of the connection between anonymity and aggression, and on field studies of vandalism. He noted an estimated 230 violent urban outbreaks in the period 1964-1969, and reported that in 1967 vandals in New York City alone wrecked 360,000 pay telephones, broke 202,719 school windows, and did damage to parks and transit systems costing some $850,000. Cars were abandoned on streets of a large city (New York) and a small one (Palo Alto, California), and secretly watched to see if there was a difference in vandalism between the two localities. The New York car was virtually demolished within three days by 23 separate attacks by looters and vandals, nearly all in view of passersby and during the daytime. The Palo Alto car was not molested for more than a week. How much (if any) of such behavior might be reduced if density were lowered is unknown, but at least the anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that high density is a factor in such problems. Crime rates are some five times as high in urban as in rural areas. Though some of this difference may be due to disparities in reporting, not all of it can be explained on this basis. Rates for violent crimes have been shown to be positively correlated with actual population densities in American cities. This general correlation held for statistics taken in three different years, 1940, 1950, and 1960, in the same cities. The rises in assault and robbery with higher density were particularly striking, although murder and rape both also reflected the trend. Robbery is the only one of the four that does not most commonly occur between acquaintances. Interestingly, crime rates in the suburbs have been rising in the past few years, especially among teenagers from relatively affluent areas, although their crimes are more often acts against property than crimes of violence.

单选题Is Wal-Mart going wobbly? Over the past couple of weeks, America's largest company--linchpin of the low-wage, no-benefit economy that is increasingly the norm in America--has announced some surprising reversals of course. In a series of speeches and interviews, chief executive H. Lee Scott unveiled four initiatives that he clearly hopes will polish the company's increasingly tarnished image. Wal-Mart, he said, will shift to more environmentally responsible practices--demanding better packaging of its products. It will offer more affordable health insurance to its employees, cutting the monthly premium in some cases to just ＄11. It will monitor the environmental and health and safety practices of its foreign suppliers. And it will lobby for a higher federal minimum wage. Scott's timing is anything but accidental. The sweatshop conditions in which thou-sands of employees of Wal-Mart's suppliers routinely work, and the depressive effect that Wal-Mart has on working-class living standards here in the United States, are receiving increasing scrutiny--enough to impede the company's growth. Wal-Mart's at-tempts to open stores in the major cities of the Northeast and West Coast have been largely checked by a coalition of fearful and irate unions, smaller retailers, churches and liberal activists. Wal-Mart's stock is down 13 percent this year. And worse is still to come. So the leopard realized it was time to change its spots-up to a point. Only 44 percent of Wal-Mart's nearly 1. 3 million U.S. employees are covered under its health insurance plan. Now the company says it will make its insurance more affordable. Of all Scott's commitments, the one that does merit belief is his out-of-the-blue declaration of support for a higher minimum wage. For Wal-Mart is bumping up against a serious problem at least partly of its own making: Because it pitches its products to a disproportionately low-income client, its revenue rises and falls with the fortunes of the lower end of the American working class. And those fortunes these days are anything but bright. The coming crunch in heating oil prices, the decimation of American manufacturing, the steady decline of median family incomes over the past several years, the failure to raise the federal minimum wage since 1997--all these are combining to limit the ability of Wal-Mart shoppers to buy as much as they used to. Wal-Mart, could, of course, raise its workers' wages, but Scott has dismissed that out of hand. So now it's the feds' responsibility to rescue Wal-Mart from the consequences of the low-wage, low-consumption economy that Wal-Mart, with such fanatical devotion, has created. For, in Wal-Mart's America, it's not clear that even Wal-Mart can thrive.

单选题A ______ translation is not always the closest to the original meaning. A. liberal B. literal C. literary D. literate

单选题 An Ohio State University study has linked behavior in young children{{U}} 61 {{/U}}the type of job their mother has. Mothers with complex occupations that are self-directed and require working with other people{{U}} 62 {{/U}}to have offspring with relatively low levels of behavior problems. The opposite held{{U}} 63 {{/U}}when the jobs were routine, closely supervised, and dealt with things, rather than people. "A job that challenges and interests a mother and gives her an opportunity to exercise judgment and solve problems clearly has{{U}} 64 {{/U}}consequences for her children's behavior," indicates{{U}} 65 {{/U}}professor of sociology Elizabeth Mengaghan. Occupations with more positive conditions include management, sales, and teaching positions. Jobs that may be related to increased child behavior problems include book keeping, food service, and{{U}} 66 {{/U}}line positions. Women who are supervised closely at work and made to{{U}} 67 {{/U}}strict orders may be more likely to use this same style in{{U}} 68 {{/U}}their kids. They may emphasize obedience to parental authority and the potential for{{U}} 69 {{/U}}punishment. "We believe that the choice of such a parenting style may increase the{{U}} 70 {{/U}}of behavior problems in children." On the{{U}} 71 {{/U}}hand, mothers whose jobs are less controlled by supervisors and{{U}} 72 {{/U}}must work closely with other people probably rely less on physical punishment,{{U}} 73 {{/U}}encouraging children to think about consequences of their actions and{{U}} 74 {{/U}}responsibility for their behavior.{{U}} 75 {{/U}}an approach encourages youngsters to follow parental demands{{U}} 76 {{/U}}they aren't being supervised because they have accepted parental values as their own. Moreover, mothers whose jobs don't{{U}} 77 {{/U}}constant supervision"{{U}} 78 {{/U}}problem-solving skills that they can bring to other parts of their life". The research also found that those who have{{U}} 79 {{/U}}challenging and interesting jobs provide better home environments for their children. The mothers give their offspring more intellectual stimulation and emotional support, and this,{{U}} 80 {{/U}}turn, is linked to fewer behavior problem.