单选题In Action Painting, the paint is sometimes ______ onto the canvas.

单选题Europe as a ______ unit did little by itself; it either sent for US help, or each European government acted on its own. A. incidental B. apparent C. cohesive D. descendent

单选题So far (the story) is from being true that (I was surprised) anyone (could have believed) it (was)so.

单选题In spite of a problem with the ______ equipment, some very useful work was accomplished.

单选题After his recovery from illness, he is determined to ______ what he had been doing to attain the goal. A. assume B. consume C. presume D. resume

单选题Before the construction of the road, it was prohibitively expensive to transport any furs or fruits across the mountains.

单选题The questions raised by the author are becoming “un?avoidable” for many modern Western democracies NOT because ( )

单选题Because of______reviews, the producer announced that the play will close with tonight's performance.

单选题 Passage Four At the fall 2001 Social Science History Association convention in Chicago, the Crime and Justice network sponsored a forum on the history of gun ownership, gun use, and gun violence in the United States. Our purpose was to consider how social science historians might contribute to the public debate over gun control and gun rights. To date, we have had little impact on that debate. It has been dominated by mainstream social scientists and historians, especially scholars such as Gary Kleck, John Lott, and Michael Bellesiles, whose work, despite profound flaws, is politically congenial to either opponents or proponents of gun control. Kleck and Mark Gertz, for instance, argue on the basis of their widely cited survey that gun owners prevent numerous crimes each year in the United States by using firearms to defend themselves and their property. If their survey respondents are to be believed, American gun owners shot 100, 000 criminals in 1994 in self-defense--a preposterous number. Lott claims on the basis of his statistical analysis of recent crime rates that laws allowing private individuals to carry concealed firearms deter murders, rapes, and robberies, because criminals are afraid to attack potentially armed victims. However, he biases his results by confining his analysis to the year between 1977 and 1992, when violent crime rates had peaked and varied little from year to year. He reports only regression models that support his thesis and neglects to mention that each of those models find a positive relationship between violent crime and real income, and an inverse relationship between violent crime and unemployment. Contrary to Kleck and Lott, Bellesiles insists that guns and America's "gun culture" are responsible for America's high rates of murder. In Bellesiles's opinion, relatively few Americans owned guns before the 1850s or know how to use, maintain, or repair them. As a result, he says, guns contributed little to the homicide rate, especially among white, which was low everywhere, even in the South and on the frontier, where historians once assume guns and murder went hand in hand. According to Bellesiles, these patterns changed dramatically after the Mexican War and especially after the Civil War, when gun ownership became widespread and cultural changes encouraged the use of handguns to command respect and resolve personal and political disputes. The result was an unprecedented wave of gun-related homicides that never truly abated. To this day, the United States has the highest homicide rate of any industrial democracy. Bellesiles's low estimates of gun ownership in early America conflict, however, with those of every historian who has previously studied the subject and have thus far proven irreproducible. Every homicide statistic he presents is either misleading or wrong. Given the influence of KJeck, Lott, Beliesiles, and other partisan scholars on the debate over gun control and gun rights, we felt a need to pull together what social science historians have learned to date about the history of gun ownership and gun violence in America, and to consider what research methods and projects might increase our knowledge in the near future.

单选题Compared mathematically to smoking and driving, almost everything else seems relatively risk-free, ______ almost nothing seems worth regulation. A. yet B. since C. so D. even though

单选题The vast majority of people in any given culture will ______ to the established standards of that culture. A. confine B. conform C. confront D. confirm

单选题The gloves were really loo small, and it was only by______them that I managed to get them on.

单选题The age of the general practitioner is over. More and more graduates of medical schools tend to ______,that is, to concentrate on limited areas of their profession.

单选题He does not ______ as a teacher of English as his pronunciation is terrible. A. equal B. match C. qualify D. fit

单选题There was something feverish, even ______, in the manner in which shoppers crowded into shops in the last days before Christmas. A. desperate B. courageous C. discriminating D. courteous

单选题All normal human beings are ______ at least to a degree -they get a feeling of warmth and kinship from engaging in group activities.

单选题The local people were joyfully surprised to find the price of vegetables no longer ______ according to the weather. A. altered B. convened C. fluctuated D. modified

单选题Doctors in this hospital have successfully ______ 100 surgical treatments to remedy those suffering nearsightedness.