单选题The economic situation A will improve given that there is B forecast to be less unemployment and C closures than in D previous years .

单选题While modulation/demodulation technology was being standardized for the most recent modems, several other Uperipheral/U standards were also being developed.

单选题My mother tried to ______ a little money each month for his summer vaction.

单选题The doctor warned him that his ______ nature made him susceptible to a stroke and urged him to curb his temper.

单选题It turned out that he had ______ the whole story just to cheat his friends.

单选题The freshmen will be notified regarding the college placement examination.

单选题Nowadays more and more people are interested in arranging time for exercises and ______ to release the stress caused by the fast pace and pressure of their lives.(2004年厦门大学考博试题)

单选题Theauthor’sintentioninwritingthisarticleistomakeAmericansrealizethat________.

单选题Passage 1 There has been a lot of hand-wringing over the death of Elizabeth Steinberg. Without blaming anyone in particular, neighbors, friends, social workers, the police and newspaper editors have struggled to define the community's responsibility to Elizabeth and to other battered children. As the collective soul-searching continues, there is a pervading sense that the system failed her. The fact is, in New York State the system couldn't have saved her. It is almost impossible to protect a child from violent parents, especially if they are white, middle-class, well-educated and represented by counsel. Why does the state permit violence against Children? There are a number of reasons. First, parental privilege is a rationalization. In the past, the law was giving its approval to the biblical injunction against sparing the rod. Second, while everyone agrees that the state must act to remove children from their homes when there is danger of serious physical or emotional harm, many child advocates believe that state intervention in the absence of serious injury is more harmful than helpful. Third, courts and legislatures tread carefully when their actions intrude or threaten to intrude on a relationship protected by the Constitution. In 1923, the Supreme Court recognized the "liberty of parent and guardian to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control". More recently, in 1977, it upheld the teacher's privilege to use corporal punishment against schoolchildren. Read together, these decisions give the constitutional imprimatur to parental use of physical force. Under the best conditions, small children depend utterly on their parents for survival. Under the worst, their dependency dooms them. While it is questionable whether anyone or anything could have saved Elizabeth Steinberg, it is plain that the law provided no protection. To the contrary, by justifying the use of physical force against children as an acceptable method of education and control, the law lent a measure of plausibility and legitimacy to her parents' conduct. More than 80 years ago, in the teeth of parental resistance and Supreme Court doctrine, the New York State Legislature acted to eliminate child labor law. Now, the state must act to eliminate child abuse by banning corporal punishment. To break the vicious cycle of violence, nothing less will answer. If there is a lesson to be drawn from the death of Elizabeth Steinberg, it is this: spare the rod and spare the child.

单选题In sharp ______ to John, who is frank, Henry is too sophisticated.

单选题The government ______ the use of seat belts in all cars.

单选题I want to talk about all these points in ______ order of importance.

单选题Some people viewed the findings with caution, noting that a cause-and-effect relationship between passive smoking and cancer remained ______.

单选题The ______ now seems to stand as the primary to a new era of strong economic growth. A.defect B.descent C.deficit D.defeat

单选题What is the approximate length of the Parthenon?

单选题Placing a human being behind the wheel of an automobile often has the same curious effect as cutting certain fibres in the brain. The result in either case is more primitive behaviour. Hostile feelings are apt to be expressed in an aggressive way. The same man who will step aside for a stranger at a doorway will, when behind the wheel, risks an accident trying to beat another motorist through an intersection. The importance of emotional factors in automobile accidents is gaining recognition. Doctors and other scientists have concluded that the highway death toll resembles an epidemic and should be investigated as such. Dr Ross A. McFarland, Associate Professor of Industrial Hygiene at the Harvard University School of Public Health, said that accidents "now constitute a greater threat to the safety of large segments of the population than diseases do." Accidents are the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 35. About one third of all accidental deaths and one seventh of all accidental injuries are caused by motor vehicles. Based on the present rate of vehicle registration, unless the accident rate is cut in half, one of every 10 persons in the country will be killed or injured in a traffic accident in the next 15 years. Research to find the underlying causes of accidents and to develop ways to detect drivers who are apt to cause them is being conducted at universities and medical centres. Here are some of their findings so far: A man drives as he lives. If he is often in trouble with collection agencies, the courts, and police, chances are he will have repeated automobile accidents. Accident repeaters usually are egocentric, exhibitionistic, resentful of authority, impulsive, and lacking in social responsibility. As group, they can be classified as borderline psychopathic personalities, according to Dr. McFarland. The suspicion, however, that accident repeaters could be detected in advance by screening out persons with more hostile impulses is false. A study at the University of Colorado showed that there were just as many overly hostile persons among those who had no accidents as among those with repeated accidents. Psychologists currently are studying Denver high school pupils to test the validity of this concept. They are making psychological evaluations of the pupils to see whether subsequent driving records will bear out their thesis.

单选题Women have significant advantages over men in space because they need less food and less oxygen and they ______ radiation better. A. stand up to B. stand in for C. stand up for D. stand in with

单选题Sometimes the 3-year-old child has trouble ______ fact from fiction.

单选题She bought various ______ , which later reminded her of the trip to Thailand.

单选题After the concert, the clean-up crew found the ground ______ with papers, bottles and cans. A. scrubbed B. used C. littered D. dispersed