单选题4 There is no denying that students should learn something about how computers work, just as we expect them at least to understand that the internal combustion engine (内燃机) has something to do with burning fuel, expanding gases and pistons (活塞) being driv en. For people should have some basic idea of how the things that they use do what they do. Further, students might be helped by a course that considers the computer's impact on society. But that is not what is meant by computer literacy. For computer literacy is not a form of literacy (读写能力) ; it is a trade skill that should not be taught as a liberal art. Learning how to use a computer and learning how to program one are two distinct ac tivities. A case might be made that the competent citizens of tomorrow should free them selves from their fear of computers. But this is quite different from saying that all ought to know how to program one. Leave that to people who have chosen programming as a ca- reer. While programming can be lots of fun, and while our society needs some people who are experts at it, the same is true of auto repair and violin-making. Learning how to use a computer is not that difficult, and it gets easier all the time as programs become more "user-friendly". Let us assume that in the future everyone is going to have to know how to use a computer to be a competent citizen. What does the phrase "learning to use a computer" mean? It sounds like "learning to drive a car", that is, it sounds as if there is some set of definite skills that, once acquired, enable one to use a computer. In fact, "learning to use a computer" is much more like "learning to play a game", but learning the rules of one game may not help you play a second game, whose rules may not be the same. There is no such thing as teaching someone how to use a computer. One can only teach people to use this or that program and generally that is easily accomplished.

单选题The Committee pronounced four members expelled for failure to provide information in the ______ of investigations.

单选题As the ______ to the general strike the management promised to increase the workers' payment.

单选题Because of the bombing that killed six people Washington has been urging the spokesman to ______ terrorism more severely.

单选题Educational Service Inc. operates 70 institutes in the United States and they concentrate on providing career-focused degree programs to ______ 28,000 students.

单选题His strange behavior had greatly ______ me and my friends as well that evening. A. perplexed B. exhausted C. exclaimed D. exceeded

单选题G. Barela, a famous football player, was______to Manchester United in 2013 by a million pounds.

单选题______commutation via the telegraph began in the 1840s, just before the Civil War, and via flic telephone just afterward(1870s). (2009年北京大学考博试题)

单选题We need one hundred more signatures before we take the ______ to the governor.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} Justice in society must include both a fair trial to the accused and the selection of an appropriate punishment for those proven guilty. Because justice is regarded as one form of equality, we find in its earlier expressions the idea of a punishment equal to the crime. Recorded in the Bible is the expression "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." That is, the individual who has done wrong has committed an offense against society. To make repayment for this offense, society must get equally balanced, which can be done only by imposing an equal injury upon him. This conception of deserved-punishment justice is reflected in many parts of the legal codes and procedures of modern times, which is illustrated when we demand the death penalty for a person who has committed murder. This philosophy of punishment was supported by the German idealist Hegel, who believed that society owed it to the criminal to put into operation a punishment equal to the crime he had committed. The criminal had by his own actions denied his true self and it is necessary to do something that will eliminate this denial and restore the self that has been denied. To the murderer nothing less than giving up his life will pay his debt The demand for the death penalty is a right the state owes the criminal and it should not deny him what he deserves. Modern jurists have tried to replace deserved-punishment justice with the notion of corrective justice. The aim of the latter is not to abandon the concept of equality but to find a more adequate way to express it. It tries to preserve the idea of equal opportunity for each individual to realize the best that is in him. This does not mean that criminals will escape punishment or be quickly returned to take up careers of crime. It means that justice is to heal the individual, not simply to get even with him. Therefore, his conviction of crime must not deprive him of the opportunity to make his way in the society of which he is a part.

单选题According to the author, a system of guaranteed subsistence minimum ______.

单选题The beauty of the reflected images in the limpid pool was the poignant beauty of things that are ______, existing only until the sunset. A. equitable B. ephemeral C. euphonious D. evasive

单选题Yesterday you were acclaimed; today you are ______. Isn't life full of ups and downs?

单选题 {{B}}Questions 28—30 are based on the following monologue. You now have 15 seconds to read questions 28—30.{{/B}}

单选题There was a quick turnover of staff in the department as the manager treated his employees with ______ contempt. A. utter B. sole C. intimate D. corresponding

单选题3 A new biotechnology procedure that could become commercially available in as little as two to four years is "transgenosis", which permits scientists to create an animal with spe cific traits by adding, removing, inactivating, or repairing genes in an embryo. The addi tional genes can come from any source. For example, if a gene of interest occurs in mosqui toes say, one that codes for resistance to a certain disease—it can be removed and placed in the embryo of a farm animal, the several strains of commercially useful transgenic farm animals that will probably emerge in the next few years could include leaner pigs, poultry resisting to influenza or other deadly diseases, sheep with wool that is easier to wash, and goats that produce valuable pharmaceuticals in their milk. The simplest way to make transgenic animals is to inject a gene into a one-cell embryo and then implant the embryo in another animal. Under the right conditions, the new gene joins one of the embryo's strands of genes. Each cell created as the embryo divides gets a copy of the new gene. An alternative technique is to incorporate the gene into a type of virus known as a retrovirus that has been modified so it cannot reproduce itself after ente ring a cell. The virus, which cannot cause disease, delivers the gene to the cell's nucle us. Often this method is better than gene injection because a retrovirus always delivers just one gene, and the gene is always undamaged and complete.

单选题In a world where information is a flood—______ to everyone, and where nothing is secret or proprietary, the only organizations and managers who will thrive are those who can quickly wade into the water, harness what they need, and then add value to it through speedy, innovative business decisions. A. acceptable B. available C. accessible D. attainable

单选题This will make schools mole directly and effectively ______ to parents, and more responsive to their criticisms and wishes.