单选题At no time in history has there been such a mass movement of people from countryside to city as is happening now. By the year 2030, it' s estimated that more than two thirds of the word' s population will be living in cities, twice as many as today. This means that the problems faced by cities to day-overcrowding, poor housing, unemployment, poverty, and lack of food water--will be twice as had in the next century, unless we find solutions soon. Another serious issue is how to provide good transport to their citizens. Many world' s major cities are already struggling with out-of-date transport infrastructures. How can they deal with the additional demands in the 21stcentury? London is a good example. It was the world' s first big city--the first with a population of a mil lion people. Its enlargement was made possible by the invention of the steam engine, which powered the world's first underground railway. But its transport systems are now hopelessly out-of-date, and need urgent modernization. London' s future success depends very much on transport. Over a million people travel into central London every day from outside the city. They, and the people who live in London, want a public transport system that is fragment, safe and environmentally friendly. What they often get, however, falls far short of that ideal. Commuters complain about disorder, cost and pollution, while businesses worry about the problems their staff have in getting to work on time. Yet, the proportion of London households that own a car grew from just over 10 per cent in the early 1950s to over 60 percent today. As the city has become increasingly crowded and polluted, there has been a growing realization that action is needed.

单选题The bureau develops and implements US foreign economic policy and tries to ______ America's economic interests with its foreign policy. A. undertake B. resolve C. obey D. reconcile

单选题In recent years, business schools ______ the master's degree in business administration enjoy great popularity among the management in big companies. A. representing B. offering C. presenting D. supplying

单选题The railroad A is simultaneously stripped the landscape of the natural resources, made velocity of transport and economy of scale B necessary parts of industrial production; and carried consumer goods to households: C it dispatched immigrants to unsettled places, D drew emigrants away from farms and villages to cities, and sent men and guns to battle.

单选题This scenario is either a huge hoax ______ the American people or will require extreme reductions in discretionary spending including funding for science programs.

单选题As a lawyer ______ for his good judgment and eloquence, he is often invited to those grand banquets and meets those distinguished people from all circles.(2007年中国矿业大学考博试题)

单选题Don't call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, advisor to presidents, and friend to the rich and powerful would be more accurate. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is better known for his activities outside the academy. This week he sold Africana com, a website he created with a fellow Harvard University professor, to Time Warner. Terms of the deal weren't revealed, though the Wall Street Journal pegged the price at more than $10 million, with Gates reaping up to $1 million. Time Warner will incorporate the site, a portal with news and information about people of African descent, into America Online when the two merge as expected. The sense is that Gates got a very good deal. The site is a rich source of scholarship but hardly a rich source of revenue. As recently as the late 1980s Gates, who turns 50 this week, was an obscure professor, penning books on literary theory only a graduate student could love. Now he can't be avoided. He hosted a series about Africa on public television, writes occasional articles for the New Yorker, and even advises the Gore presidential campaign. He counts director Steven Spielberg, Microsoft's Bill Gates and President Clinton as friends. "They're not intimate friends," he insists. Indeed, Gates has evolved into a kind of expert on everything African-American. "He remains the go-to person on the state of African-American affairs," said Perry Steinberg, head of American Program Bureau, a lecture agency. The 30 or so speeches Gates delivers each year are another source of income for the professor. With fame comes controversy. Several other black intellectuals have taken him to task for not being confrontational enough. Gates has heard it before. '"Me? Critics? Oh, what a shock." But he considers himself more a descendent of historian and educator W. E.B. Du Bois than of Malcolm X. His ultimate goal is to build the field of Afro-American studies. "Fifty years from now I want there to be at least 10 great centers of Afro-American studies," he says. If working as a consultant on Spielberg's historical film Amistad or giving A1 Gore advice helps, so be it.

单选题The reception was attended by various ______ members of the local community and representatives of regional industries.

单选题The fund is for ______ distress among the flood victims in the southern city.

单选题Famed for their high-elevation forests, the Appalachian Mountains sweep south from Quebec to Alabama. Highest in New England and North Carolina, this broad system covers more than 1,200 miles to form the rocky backbone of the eastern United States. The Blue Ridge Mountains form a substantial part, 615 miles, of the far-reaching Appalachians. They begin as a narrow, low ridge in Pennsylvania, then slowly spread and rise until they reach the height of 5,938 feet at majestic Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. The Blue Ridge technically includes among its major spurs the Great Smoky Mountains and the Black Mountains; Mount Mitchell, in the latter range, is at 6,684 feet the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. Like the rest of the Appalachians, these mountains were once substantially higher and bolder. Their uplift was completed some 289 million years ago, and they have been drastically eroded ever since. At one time, immense continental glaciers covered the land as far south as Pennsylvania. Although they did not spread over the Blue Ridge, plants and animals far beyond their reach became adapted to the cold. When the climate warmed and the ice melted, the cold-adapted species retreated northward, surviving in the south only at higher, cooler elevations. Red Spruces and Fraser firs are remnants of the Ice Age, thriving in the higher elevations of the Blue Ridge; and local belches, birches, and red oaks are typical of forests farther to the north. Sharing the high peaks is another distinctive plant community. This is the "bald"—a treeless area covered with grass, or more commonly, with broad-leaved shrubs. Often large and vigorous, the latter include huckleberries, mountain laurel, and most especially, rhododendron, an evergreen shrub that blossoms in June and creates some of the most spectacular wild gardens on Earth.

单选题The book, published ______, revived our interest in the author who had just died. A. anonymously B. privately C. recently D. posthumously

单选题The rebels ______ the government and declared their independence from its rule.

单选题All the problems between the writer and David can be resolved because ______.

单选题A number of books like Reading Faces and Body Language have【C1】______the individual's tendency to broadcast things through all manner of【C2】______movement and facial gymnastics. Such matters, made widely familiar by pop sociology, anthropology and psychology, have become the stuff of common conversation. Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, is mainly a primer in how to【C3】______others by a cold-blooded control of【C4】______signals that occur commonly in the workaday world: for example, how executives signal their style of power【C5】______the clothes they choose and the way they【C6】______their office furniture. 【C7】______work or play, everybody emits wordless signals of infinite variety. Overt, like a warm smile. Spontaneous, like a【C8】______eyebrow Involuntary, like leaning away from a salesperson to【C9】______a deal. Says Julius Fast in Body Language: "We rub our noses for puzzlement. We【C10】______our arms to【C11】______ourselves or to protect ourselves. We【C12】______our shoulders for indifference." Any competent psychiatrist remains alert to the expressions by which a patient's hidden emotions make【C13】______known. People even signal by the odors they【C14】______, as Janet Hopson【C15】______in superfluous detail in Scent Signals: The Silent Language of Sex. Actually, it is impossible for an individual to【C16】______signaling other people; the person who mutely【C17】______human intercourse sends out an unmistakable signal in the form of utter silence. Sociologist Dane Arche calls reading such signals "social intelligence." He said, "We must unshackle ourselves from the tendency to ignore silent behavior and to prefer words【C18】______everything else." The evidence all over is that【C19】______people wander the earth through thickets of verbiages, many, perhaps most, do pay more attention to wordless signals and are more likely to be influenced and【C20】______by nonverbal messages.

单选题A______of soap and two brightly colored towels were left beside the bath, the women smiled politely at Nicole and withdrew carefully from the room.(2003年中国科学院考博试题)

单选题Our manager is so______in his thinking, he never listens to new ideas.

单选题Although biological methods of pest control are now available to committed organic gardeners, there are few of us who never need to______tile use of chemicals.

单选题The factory ______ its waste into the river.