单选题If you______foreign language, you can appreciate many foreign art forms.

单选题The great tragedy of life is not that men______, but that they cease to love.(2013年3月中国科学院考博试题)

单选题"The old verifies" labeled by William Faulkner must refer to ______.

单选题Among all the changes resulting from the ______ entry of women into the work force, the transformation that bas occurred in the women themselves is not the least important.

单选题They are working ______ time to fulfill the task according to the schedule. A. against B. over C. ahead of D. before

单选题Surprisingly enough, modern historians have rarely interested themselves in the history of the American South in the period before the South began to become self-consciously and distinctively "Southern" — the decades after 1815. Consequently, the cultural history of Britain's North American empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been written almost as if the Southern colonies had never existed. The American culture that emerged during the Colonial and Revolutionary eras has been depicted as having been simply an extension of New England Puritan culture. However, Professor Davis has recently argued that the South stood apart from the rest of American society during this early period, following its own unique pattern of cultural development. The case for Southern distinctiveness rests upon two related premises: first, that the cultural similarities among the five Southern colonies were far more impressive than the differences, and second, that what made those colonies alike also made them different from the other colonies. The first, for which Davis offers an enormous amount of evidence, can be accepted without major reservations; the second is far more problematic. What makes the second premise problematic is the use of the Puritan colonies as a basis for comparison. Quite properly, Davis decries the excessive influence ascribed by historians to the Puritans in the formation of American culture. Yet Davis inadvertently adds weight to such ascriptions by using the Puritans as the standard against which to assess the achievements and contributions of Southern colonials. Throughout, Davis focuses on the important, and undeniable, differences between the Southern and Puritan colonies in motives for and patterns of early settlement, in attitudes toward nature and Native Americans, and in the degree of receptivity to metropolitan cultural influences. However, recent scholarship has strongly suggested that those aspects of early New England culture that seem to have been most distinctly Puritan, such as the strong religious orientation and the communal impulse, were not even typical of New England as a whole, but were largely confined to the two colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Thus, what in contrast to the Puritan colonies appears to Davis to be peculiarly Southern — acquisitiveness, a strong interest in politics and the law, and a tendency to cultivate metropolitan cultural models — was not only more typically English than the cultural patterns exhibited by Puritan Massachusetts and Connecticut, but also almost certainly characteristic of most other early modern British colonies from Barbados north to Rhode Island: and New Hampshire. Within the larger framework of American colonial life, then, not the Southern—but the Puritan colonies appear to have been distinctive, and even they seem to have been: rapidly assimilating to the dominant cultural patterns by the late Colonial period.

单选题Many feel Kennedy's commitment was a desperate political maneuver to lift himself out of the calamity of the Bay of Pigs.

单选题What importance do the voluntary non-governmental organizations have in literacy pro grams?

单选题Actually, recycling is one of the least important things we can do, if our real______is to preserve natural resources,

单选题The European Commission issued a ______ decision on Oct. 29 permitting an alliance between United Airlines, Deutsche Lufthansa and Scandinavian Airlines System that allows them to coordinate prices, schedules and routes in the transatlantic market. It turned out to be well received.

单选题Hemp, a harsh, stiff fiber, comes from a plant that grows in both hot and mild climates.

单选题The amending treaty on European Union can become law only if there is ______ agreement to this effect.

单选题This article deals with the natural ______ which is most interesting to everyone.

单选题The editor spent hours ______ every single page of that thick novel, looking for the slightest error. A. decorating B. scrutinizing C. remedying D. shattering

单选题As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media ______. A. to and fro B. upside and down C. inside and out D. now and then

单选题If profit and money are your first ______ , and commitment to people your least concern, you have failed education.

单选题A knowledge of history ______ us to deal with the vast range of problems confronting the contemporary world.(2007年中国人民大学考博试题)

单选题What happened to Baron's latest book?

单选题Scientists have acknowledged that to interpret an animal’s thought processes in a sound manner requires a heavy dose of ______ from our own mental patterns, which we access introspectively.

单选题Several guests were wailing on the ______ for the front door to open.