单选题When he applied for a ______ in the office of the local newspaper he was told to see the manager. A. location B. profession C. career D. position

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单选题The prime minister's proposal for new taxes created such a(n)______that his government fell.

单选题Every community requires a wholesome, dependable supply of water, and every community generates liquid and solid wastes. A. considerable B. healthful C. immediate D. secure

单选题Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies. Since the world's population is expected to double in the next 50 years, many experts think we are on the edge of a widespread water crisis. But that doesn't have to be the outcome. Water shortages do not have to trouble the world—if we start valuing water more than we have in the past. Just as we began to appreciate petroleum more after the 1970s oil crises, today we must start looking at water from a fresh economic perspective. We can no longer afford to consider water a virtually free resource of which we can use as much as we like in any way we want. Instead, for all used except the domestic demand of the poor, governments should price water to reflect its actual value. This means charging a fee for the water itself as well as for the supply costs. Governments should also protect this resource by providing water in more economically and environmentally sound ways. For example, often the cheapest way to provide irrigation water in the dry tropics is through small-scale projects, such as gathering rainfall in depressions and pumping it to nearby cropland. No matter what steps governments take to provide water more efficiently, they must change their institutional and legal approaches to water use. Rather than spread control among hundreds or even thousands of local, regional, and national agencies that watch various aspects of water use, countries should set up central authorities to coordinate water policy.

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} The food you eat does more than provide energy. It can have a dramatic effect on your body's ability to fight off heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and weak bones. With remarkable consistency, recent research has found that a diet high in plant-based foods—fruits, vegetables, dried peas and beans, grains, and starchy staples such as potatoes—is the body's best weapon in thwarting many health-related problems. These foods work against so many diseases that the same healthy ingredients you might use to protect your heart or ward off cancer will also benefit your intestinal tract and bones. Scientists have recently estimated that approximately 30 to 40 percent of all cancers could be avoided if people ate more fruits, vegetables, and plant-based foods and minimized high-fat, high-calorie edibles that have scant nutritional value. Up to 70 percent of cancers might be eliminated if people also stopped smoking, exercised regularly, and controlled their weight. In the past, researchers had linked fat consumption with the development of cancers, but they currently believe that eating fruits, vegetables, and grains may be more important in. preventing the disease than not eating fat. "The evidence about a high-fat diet and cancer seemed a lot stronger several years ago than it does now," says Melanie Polk, a registered dietitian and director of nutrition education at the American Institute for Cancer Research. The road to strong bones is paved with calcium-rich food. Leafy green vegetables and low-fat dairy products are excellent sources of calcium, the mineral that puts stiffness into your skeletal system and keeps your bones from turning rubbery and fragile. Your body uses calcium for mom than keeping your bones strong. Calcium permits cells to divide, regulates muscle contraction and relaxation, and plays an important role in the movement of protein and nutrients inside cells. If you don't absorb enough from what you eat to satisfy these requirements, your body will take it from your bones. Because your body doesn't produce this essential mineral, you must continually replenish the supply. Even though the recommended daily amount is 1,200 mg, most adults don't eat more than 500 mg. One mason may have been the perception that calcium-rich dairy products were also loaded with calories. "In the past, women, in particular, worded that dairy products were high in calories, "says Letha Y. Griffin, M. D., of Peachtree Orthopaedics in Atlanta." But today you can get calcium without eating any high-fat or high-calorie foods by choosing skim milk or low-fat yogurt. "Also, low-fat dairy products contain phosphorous and magnesium and are generally fortified with vitamin D, all of which help your body absorb and use calcium. If you find it difficult to include enough calcium in your diet, ask your doctor about supplements. They are a potent way to get calcium as well as vitamin D and other minerals. But if you rely on pills instead of a calcium-rich diet, you won't benefit from the other nutrients that food provides. Getting the recommended vitamin D may be easy, since your body makes the vitamin when your skin is exposed to the sun's rays.

单选题She makes no ______of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances. A. concealment B. compliment C. amendment D. acknowledgement

单选题Human facial expressions differ from those of animals in the degree to which they can be ______ controlled and modified.

单选题In the popular Western imagination, India continues to be a country in backwardness and poverty with little to show______scientific innovation or technological achievement.

单选题We know the couple were Ureluctant/U to have their daughter marry him.

单选题I am grateful for your ______ invitation, and I'd like to accept your offer with pleasure.(2005年中国科学院考博试题)

单选题According to the passage glass cools and becomes rigid differently from metals because ______.

单选题The______action of the policemen saved the people in the house from being burnt. (厦门大学2011年试题)

单选题A/An ______ is a person who is not present at a crime but who helps another in doing something criminal.(2006年中国矿业大学考博试题)

单选题Some would consider such speech an infringement of good mariners whereas others would not. A. an example B. a violation C. an insult D. an indication

单选题Mary ______ when she found her husband drunk again.

单选题By the mid-nineteenth century, the term "ice-box" had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States: The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War(1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented. Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose: In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox. But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.

单选题One of the basic characteristics of capitalism is the private ownership of the major means of production-capital. The ownership of large amounts of capital can bring (61) profits, as well as economic and political power. Some recent theorists, (62) have argued that our society has moved to a new stage of (63) that they call "postindustrial" society. One important change in such society is that the ownership of (64) amounts of capital is no longer the only or even the most important (65) of profits and influence; knowledge as well as (66) capital brings profits and influence. There are many (67) with the thesis above, not the least of (68) is that wealthy capitalists can buy the experts and knowledge they need to keep their profits and influence. But this does not (69) the importance of knowledge in an advanced industrial society, as the (70) of some new industries indicates. (71) , genetic engineering and the new computer technology have (72) many new firms and made some scientists quite rich. In (73) with criticism of the postindustrial society thesis, however, it must also be (74) that those already in control of huge amounts of capital (i. e. , major corporations) soon (75) to take most profits in these industries based on new knowledge. Moving down from the level of wealth and power, we still find knowledge increasingly (76) . Many new high-tech jobs are being created at the upper-skill, low-paying service (77) . Something like a caste line is emerging centered around knowledge. Individuals who fall too far behind in the (78) of knowledge at a young age will find it almost impossible to catch up later, no matter how hard they try, Illiteracy in the English language has been a severe (79) for many years in the United States, but we are also moving to the point when computer illiteracy will hinder many more people and (80) them to a life of low-skill and low paid labor.

单选题He told us a lot of jokes and had us ______ all through the meal.