单选题No punishment is too severe for such an ______ crime. It is almost impossible to understand its enormity.

单选题______ will be given to the doctoral candidates who are registered in their last year of study and who are attending a major professional meeting.

单选题Three (51)______years ago Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit made his (52)______thermometer in his home town of Danzig (Now Gdansk in Poland). The thermometer was filled with (53)______ and completely sealed, but it was not much use without some sort of (54)______to measure the temperature. One story (55)______that, during the winter of 1708--1709, Fahrenheit took a measurement of 0 degrees as the coldest temperature outdoors--which would now read as minus 17.8℃. Five years (56)______he used mercury instead of alcohol for his (57)______, and made a top reference point by measuring his own body temperature as 90 degrees. Soon afterwards he became a glassblower, (58)______allowed him to make thinly blown glass tubes that could be marked up with more points on the scale and so (59)______accuracy. Eventually he took the (60)______point of his temperature scale from a reading made in ice, water and salt, and a top point made from the boiling point of water. The scale was recalibrated using 180 degrees between these (61)______points and Fahrenheit was able to make much more accurate and more (62)______measurements of temperature. But in 1742 a rival challenged the Fahrenheit scale and (63)______superseded it. Anders Celsius, in Sweden, invented a scale of 100 degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water and gradually (64)______over many countries. However, the British (65)______wedded to Fahrenheit until well into the 20th century.

单选题Japan is a ______society of one nationality and a few underrepresented minority groups, such as the ethnic Chinese and Koreans.(2015年北京航空大学考博试题)

单选题Banking and financial systems are full of ______and corruption hinder the region's successes. A. bribery B. management C. administration D. mismanagement

单选题Signs of deafness had given him great anxiety as early as 1798. For a long time he successfully concealed it from all but his most intimate friends, while he consulted physicians and quacks with eagerness. But neither quackery nor the best skill of his time availed him, and it has been pointed out that the root of the evil lay deeper than could have been supposed during his lifetime. Although his constitution was magnificently strong and his health was preserved by his passion for outdoor life, a post-mortem examination revealed a very complicated state of disorder, evidently dating from childhood (if not inherited) and aggravated by lack of care and good food. The touching document addressed to his brothers in 1802, and known as his "will" should be read in its entirety. No verbal quotation short of the whole will do justice to the overpowering outburst which runs in almost one long unpunctuated sentence through the whole tragedy of Beethoven's life, as he knew it then and foresaw it. He reproaches men for their injustice in thinking and calling him pugnacious, stubborn, and misanthropical when they do not know that for six years he has suffered from an incurable condition aggravted by incompetent doctors. He dwells upon his delight in human society from which he has had so early to isolate himself, but the thought of which now fills him with dread as it makes him realize his loss, not only in music but in all finer interchange of ideas, and terrifies him lest the cause of his distresses should appear. He declares that, when those near him had heard a flute or a singing shepherd while he heard nothing, he was only prevented from taking his life by the thought of his art, but it seemed impossible for him to leave the world until he had brought out all that he felt to be in his power. He requests that after his death his present doctor, if surviving, shall be asked to describe his illness and to append it to this document in order that at least then the world may be as far as possible reconciled with him. He leaves his brothers property, such as it is, and in terms not less touching, if more conventional than the rest of the document, he declares that his experience shows that only virtue has preserved his life and his courage through all his misery. During the last twelve years of his life, his nephew was the cause of most of his anxiety and distress. His brother, Kaspar Karl, had often given him trouble--for example, by obtaining and publishing some of Beethoven's early indiscretions, such as the trio variations, op. 44, the sonatas, op. 49, and other trifles. In 1815, after Beethoven had quarreled with his oldest friend, Stephan Breuning, for warning him against trusting his brother in money matters, Kaspar died, leaving a widow of whom Beethoven strongly disapproved, and a son, nine years old, for the guardianship of whom Beethoven fought the widow through all the law courts. The boy turned out utterly unworthy of his uncle's persistent devotion and gave him every cause for anxiety. He failed in all his examinations, including an attempt to learn some trade in all his ecaminations, including an attempt to learn some trade in the polytechnic school, whereupon he fell into the hands of the police for attempting suicide, and after being expelled from Vienna, joined the army. Beethoven's utterly simple nature could neither educate nor understand a human being who was not possessed by the wish to do his best. His nature was passionately affectionate, and he had suffered all his life from the want of a natural outlet for it. He had often been deeply in love and made no secret of it. But Robert Browning had not a more intense dislike of "the artistic temperament" in morals, and though Beethoven's attachments were almost hopelessly above him in rank, there is not one that was not honorable and respected by society as showing the truthfulness and self-control of a great man. Beethoven's orthodoxy in such matters has provoked the smiles of Philistines, especially when it showed itself in his objections to Mozart's Don Giovanni and the grounds for selecting the subject of Fidelio for his own opera. The last thing that Philistines will ever understand is that genius is far too independent of convention to abuse it, and Beethoven's life, with all its mistakes, its grotesqueness, and its pathos, is as far beyond the shafts of Philistine wit as his art.

单选题My landlady is always trying to Umeddle/U in everything we do.

单选题The star of the show is a ______ performer who acts, sings, and dances with equal facility.

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} These days we hear a lot of nonsense about the "great classless society". The idea that the twentieth century is the age of the common man has become one of the great cliches of our time. The same old arguments are put forward in evidence. Here are some of them: monarchy as a system of government has been completely discredited. The monarchies that survive have been deprived of all political power. Inherited wealth has been savagely reduced by taxation and, in time, the great fortunes will disappear altogether. In a number of countries the victory has been complete. The people rule; the great millennium has become a political reality. But has it? Close examination doesn't bear out the claim. It is a fallacy to suppose that all men are equal and that society will be leveled out if you provide everybody with the same educational opportunities. (It is debatable whether you can ever provide everyone with the same educational opportunities, but that is another question.) The fact is that nature dispenses brains and ability with a total disregard for the principle of equality. The old rules of the jungle, "survival of the fittest", and "might is right" are still with us. The spread of education has destroyed the old class system and created a new one. Rewards are based on merit. For "aristocracy" read "meritocracy"; in other respects, society remains unaltered: the class system is rigidly maintained. Genuine ability, animal cunning, skill, the knack of seizing opportunities, all bring material rewards. And what is the first thing people do when they become rich? They use their wealth to secure the best possible opportunities for their children, to give them a good start in life. For all the lip service we pay to the idea of equality, we do not consider this wrong in the western world. Private schools which offer unfair advantages over state schools are not banned because one of the principles in a democracy is that people should be free to choose how they will educate their children. In this way, the new meritocracy can perpetuate itself to a certain extent: an able child from a wealthy home can succeed far more rapidly than his poorer counterpart. Wealth is also used indiscriminately to further political ends. It would be almost impossible to become the leader of a democracy without massive, financial backing. Money is as powerful a weapon as ever it was. In societies wholly dedicated to the principle of social equality, privileged private education is forbidden. But even here people are rewarded according to their abilities. In fact, so great is the need for skilled workers that the least able may be neglected. Bright children are carefully and expensively trained to become future rulers. In the end, all political ideologies boil down to the same thing: class divisions persist whether you are ruled by a feudal king or an educated peasant.

单选题Traditional fairytales are being ditched by parents because they are too______ for their young children, a study found.(2013年北京大学考博试题)

单选题He had tried to ______ sleep by all his usual methods, but with no success.

单选题The writer says that he had to pass the philosophy final (Paragraph 5) because ______. Ⅰ. if not, he would have had to attend the college' s summer school Ⅱ. otherwise he would have been able to continue his study in the class Ⅲ. if he had failed the philosophy final, he would have been able to find time to work to earn money for next-term tuition

单选题Writing a book in 1968 on the morality of abortion—he describes his stance as "conservative pro-choice" — Callahan hit on the idea for a think tank on biomedical ethics.

单选题A recent survey shows that, while ninety-four percent of companies conducting management-training programs open them to women, women arc______ only seventy-four percent of those programs.(2014年北京航空航天大学考博试题)

单选题But by the time we are adult, the childhood hiding which dwindled to adolescent shyness, is expected to disappear altogether, as we bravely stride out to meet our guests, hosts, companions, relatives, colleagues, customers, clients, or friends.

单选题Though he refused any responsibility for the failure of the negotiations, Stevenson had no right to______ himself: it was his______ that had caused the debacle. A. blame... skill B. congratulate... modesty C. berate... largesse D. absolve... acrimony

单选题My new laptop can______information much more quickly than my old computer.

单选题The criminals were printing______ dollar bills when: they were arrested.

单选题______ from power, he had to go back to his hometown and toil in his little farm. A. Relinquished B. Tumbled C. Displaced D. Retrieved

单选题The primary purpose of this passage is to ______.