单选题In Cambodia, the choice of a spouse is a complex one for the young male. It may involve not only his parents and his friends, 1 those of the young woman, but also a matchmaker. A young man can 2 a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to 3 the marriage negotiations, or the young man"s parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection. 4 , a girl may veto the spouse her parents have chosen. 5 a spouse has been selected, each family investigates the other to make sure its child is marrying 6 a good family. The traditional wedding is a long and colorful affair. Formerly it lasted three days, 7 by the 1980s it more commonly lasted a day and a half. Buddhist priests offer a short sermon and 8 prayers of blessing. Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, 9 cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride"s and groom"s wrists, and 10 a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the 11 . Newlyweds traditionally move in with the wife"s parents and may 12 with them up to a year, 13 they can build a new house nearby. Divorce is legal and easy to 14 , but not common. Divorced persons are 15 with some disapproval. Each spouse retains 16 property he or she 17 into the marriage, and jointly-acquired property is 18 equally. Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice 19 up: The divorced male doesn"t have a waiting period before he can remarry 20 the woman must wait ten months.

单选题According to paragraph 5, the responses of different countries to globalization may be looked on as

单选题Though it is mere 1 to 3 percent of the population, the upper class possesses at least 25 percent of the nation's wealth. This class has two segments: upper-upper and lower-upper. Basically, the upper-upper class is the "old rich"—families that have been wealthy for several generations—an aristocracy of birth and wealth. Their names are in the Social Register, a listing of acceptable members of high society. A few are known across the nation, such as the Rockefellers, Roosevelts, and Vanderbilts. Most are not visible to the general public. They live in grand seclusion, drawing their income from the investment of their inherited wealth. In contrast, the lower-upper class is the "new rich". Although they may be wealthier than some of the old rich; the new rich have hustled to make their money like everybody else beneath their class. Thus their prestige is generally lower than that of the old rich, who have not found it necessary to lift a finger to make their money, and who tend to look down upon the new rich. However its wealth is acquired, the upper class is very, very rich. They have enough money and leisure time to cultivate an interest in the arts and to collect rare books, painting, and sculpture. They generally live in exclusive areas, belong to exclusive social clubs, communicate with each other, and marry their own kind—all of which keeps them so distant from the masses that they have been called the out-of-sight class. More than any other class, they tend to be conscious of being members of a class. They also command an enormous amount of power and influence here and a broad, as they hold many top government positions, run the Council on Foreigh Relations, and control multinational corporations. The actions affect the lives of millions.

单选题Why can a laborer be called a wage slave?______.

单选题The primary factor accounting for Michell's directing Notting Hill is that

单选题Which of the following is LEAST likely to be found as a fossil, assuming that all are buried rapidly?

单选题For anyone who is set on a career in fashion it is not enough to have succeeded in college. The real test is whether they can survive and become established during their early 20s, making a name for themselves in the real world where business skills can count for as much as flair and creativity ... Fashion is a hard business. There is a continuous amount of stress because work is at a constant breakneck speed to prepare for the next season's collections. It is extremely competitive and there is the constant need to cultivate good coverage in newspapers and magazines. It also requires continual freshness because the appetite for new ideas is insatiable (不能满足的). "We try to warn people before they come to us about how tough it is" ,says Lydia Kemeny, the Head of Fashion at St. Martin's School of Art in London, "and we point out that drive and determination are essential." This may seem far removed from the popular image of trendy(时髦的)and dilettante(浅薄的) young people spending their time designing pretty dresses. That may well be what they do in their first year of study but a good college won't be slow in introducing students to commercial realities. "We don't stamp on the blossoming flower of creativity but in the second year we start introducing the constraints of price, manufacturability, marketing and so on." Almost all fashion design is done to a brief(任务提示，说明). It is not a form of self-expression as such, although there is certainly room for imagination and innovation. Most young designers are going to end up as employees of a manufacturer or fashion house and they still need to be able to work within the characteristic style of their employer. Even those students who are most avant-garde[(艺术等)激进派] in their own taste of clothes and image may need to adapt to produce designs which are right for the mainstream Marks and Spencer type of market. They also have to be able to work at both the exclusively expensive and the cheap end of the market and the challenge to produce good design inexpensively may well be more demanding than where money is no object.

单选题The author implies that it is very easy to enter a bookshop and buy

单选题The author's attitude towards the current state of childhood cancer

单选题"This is a really exciting time- a new era is starting," says Peter Bazalgette, the chief creative officer of Endemol, the television company behind "Big Brother" and other popular shows. He is referring to the upsurge of interest in mobile television, a nascent industry at the intersection of telecoms and media which offers new opportunities to device makers, content producers and mobile-network operators. And he is far from alone in his enthusiasm. Already, many mobile operators offer a selection of television channels or individual shows, which are "streamed" across their third-generation (3G) networks. In South Korea, television is also sent to mobile phones via satellite and terrestrial broadcast networks, which is far more efficient than sending video across mobile networks; similar broadcasts will begin in Japan in April. In Europe, the Italian arm of 3, a mobile operator, recently acquired Canale 7, a television channel, with a view to launching mobile-TV broadcasts in Italy in the second half of 2006. Similar mobile-TV networks will also be built in Finland and America, and are being tested in many other countries. Meanwhile, Apple Computer, which launched a video-capable version of its iPod portable music-player in October, is striking deals with television networks to expand the range of shows that can be purchased for viewing on the device, including "Lost", "Desperate Housewives" and "Law ＆ Order". TiVo, maker of the pioneering personal video recorder (PVR), says it plans to enable subscribers to download recorded shows on to iPods and other portable devices for viewing on the move. And mobile TV was one of the big trends at the world's largest technology fair, the Consumer Electronics Show, which took place in Las Vegas this week. Despite all this activity, however, the prospects for mobile TV are unclear. For a start, nobody really knows if consumers will pay for it, though surveys suggest they like the idea. Informa, a consultancy, says there will be 125m mobile-TV users by 2010. But many other mobile technologies inspired high hopes and then failed to live up to expectations. And even if people do want TV on the move, there is further uncertainty in three areas: technology, business models and the content itself.

单选题When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up. Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving "to pursue my goal of running a company." Broadcasting his ambition was "very much my decision," McGee says. Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29. McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run. It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his aspirations. And McGee isn"t alone. In recent weeks the No. 2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post. As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don"t get the nod also may wish to move on. A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations. As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net. In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research. As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders. The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional. For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached . Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey: "I can"t think of a single search I"ve done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first." Those who jumped without a job haven"t always landed in top positions quickly. Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO. It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange. Robert Willumstad left Citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO. He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later. Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers. The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one. "The traditional rule was it"s safer to stay where you are, but that"s been fundamentally inverted," says one headhunter. "The people who"ve been hurt the worst are those who"ve stayed too long."

单选题 In 1999, the price of oil hovered around $16 a barrel. By 2008, it had{{U}} (1) {{/U}}the $100 a barrel mark. The reasons for the surge{{U}} (2) {{/U}}from the dramatic growth of the economies of China and India to widespread{{U}} (3) {{/U}}in oil-producing regions, including Iraq and Nigeria’s delta region. Triple-digit oil prices have{{U}} (4) {{/U}}the economic and political map of the world,{{U}} (5) {{/U}}some old notions of power. Oil-rich nations are enjoying historic gains and opportunities,{{U}} (6) {{/U}}major importers — including China and India, home to a third of the world’s population —{{U}} (7) {{/U}}rising economic and social costs. Managing this new order is fast becoming a central{{U}} (8) {{/U}}of global politics. Countries that need oil are clawing at each other to{{U}} (9) {{/U}}scarce supplies, and are willing to deal with any government,{{U}} (10) {{/U}}how unpleasant, to do it. In many poor nations with oil, the profits are being, lost to corruption,{{U}} (11) {{/U}}these countries of their best hope for development. And oil is fueling enormous investment funds run by foreign governments,{{U}} (12) {{/U}}some in the west see as a new threat. Countries like Russia, Venezuela and Iran are well supplied with rising oil{{U}} (13) {{/U}}, a change reflected in newly aggressive foreign policies. But some unexpected countries are reaping benefits,{{U}} (14) {{/U}}costs, from higher prices. Consider Germany.{{U}} (15) {{/U}}it imports virtually all its oil, it has prospered from extensive trade with a booming Russia and the Middle East. German exports to Russia{{U}} (16) {{/U}}128 percent from 2001 to 2006. In the United States, as already high gas prices rose{{U}} (17) {{/U}}higher in the spring of 2008, the issue cropped up in the presidential campaign, with Senators McCain and Obama{{U}} (18) {{/U}}for a federal gas tax holiday during the peak summer driving months. And driving habits began to{{U}} (19) {{/U}}, as sales of small cars jumped and mass transport systems{{U}} (20) {{/U}}the country reported a sharp increase in riders.