单选题The Japanese Prime Minister"s ______ is a seat on the U N Security Council, for which he will be lobbying at the summit.

单选题True modesty does not ______ an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of it.

单选题The author of the story "I"m a Fool" is______.

单选题I wouldn" t marry Pat even if she______the last woman on earth.

单选题"American 2000: An Education Strategy "was issued by President______in 1991.

单选题Point out the work that was written by Henry David Thoreau. ______

单选题The direct reason for specialisation is ______.

单选题The ultimate court of appeal in civil cases throughout the U. K. is______.

单选题All art booms are different. The previous one ended in 1989, when Japanese buyers withdrew from the Impressionist market. Interest rates rose in the slump that followed; there were plenty of sellers but no buyers. Today the reverse is true. Buyers are looking to diversify into alternative assets. The only problem is the sellers. There is plenty of money, but little to buy. It should follow, then, that buyers will snap up anything. But that is not quite the case, as the Old Master sales at Christie"s in London on December 8th showed only too well. In the recent sales the best pieces sold brilliantly, and the rest hardly at all. The best included a rare Raphael drawing, and an elegant self-portrait by Sir Anthony van Dyck. Many of the leading dealers were present, including Philip Mould, known as the BBC"s "art detective;" Alfred Bader, a rich American art-market broker; and the heirs to two important art-dealing businesses, William Noortman and Simon Green. Van Dyck"s oval shaped self-portrait, painted in 1640, the year before he died, had been in the same family for almost 300 years. Mr. Mould joined forces with Mr. Bader to try and win the painting. Young Mr. Noortman, the under bidder who was trying to buy the picture for stock, did not stand a chance. The winning bid was ￡7.4m, nearly three times van Dyck"s previous auction record. The last lot in Christie"s sale was a black chalk drawing, less than a foot square, by Raphael, an early 16th-century Italian master. It is the study of a head for one of the Greek muses. Its beauty, rarity and the sense that the study may well have been used by the artist himself when working on a larger painting drew collectors from far and wide. Christie"s had estimated the study would fetch ￡12m-16m. Bidding opened at ￡8.5m, with three buyers on the telephone. Jennifer Wright, Christie"s New York-based drawings specialist, made a final bid for the Raphael of if 26m—a world record for a work on paper. After the sale, Christie"s international co-head, Richard Knight, was quick to point out that, at ￡ 68.4m, theirs had been the biggest Old Master sale ever. "This result shows what a very solid market this is," he said. But that took no account of the failures, which were considerable. 15 of the 43 lots in Christie"s auction failed to sell at all.

单选题Camels have been______for thousands of years.

单选题Some historians believe that John Jay could have played______in America's history as James Madison.

单选题The art and literature______the philosophies and ideas of the changing era.

单选题The topic-comment distinction depends on the point of view of the listener.

单选题The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich Countries ______.

单选题According to the conversation maxim of______suggested by Grice, one should speak truthfully. (西安外国语学院2006研)

单选题The branch of linguistics which studies the meaning of language is semiotics.

单选题The following factors contribute to the formation of new pronunciation EXCEPT______.

单选题What causes a crisis? Such a question may at first seem unanswerable because there are so many different kinds of unpleasant situations into which we humans can get ourselves. In one word, however, the real culprit is probably ignorance. Ignorance, as used here, does not imply a lack of formal education. Since one frequently sees highly educated persons getting into serious personal crises. Real ignorance is a lack of understanding of the law of cause and effect in our own lives. Many of us seem to think that we can do whatever feels good—acquire wealth, achieve status, pursue romantic conquests, eat heartily, and so forth— often at the expense of others, without ever having to concern ourselves with the consequences of such living. We foolishly ignore the karmic wisdom expressed in those popular phrases: "What goes around comes around." And "Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap." Pain, unpleasant as it may be, is our stem benefactor. It teaches us vital lessons as to the conduct of our lives. Feeling pain means that something just isn"t working and that it"s time to change ourselves or get help through another"s experience Getting help is a wise first step toward overcoming ignorance. When we hurt and really need the help, we listen attentively with mind and heart. We begin to learn those lessons which will prevent us from getting into similar predicaments later on. Some of us have to suffer consequential pain over an over before we are finally ready to seek out its causes. But eventually we say "Enough!" and get to work. What if the crisis is not our fault, we might ask. Frequently a crisis victim who thinks himself to be blameless will lash out at society, chance, God, fate, the system, his family, or whatever other abstraction it is most convenient to blame. But the threads of cause and effect are many and multicolored. Our puny minds can hardly know for sure how or when an effect will blossom from a previous cause, nor what combinations of circumstances are being dealt to us by our own past choices. We are the masters of our future because we are free beings, but we are equally the slaves of our past and must pay folly"s price. Helpers in many different roles are available to give us the timely aid we need when in crisis. There are friends, psychiatrists, pastors, counselors, teachers, crisis line operators, doctors, nurses, social workers, and numerous other sources of reeducation when we are up against a wall. If we will only ask them, they can help us overcome that ignorance which has, at least in part, caused us our present agony. Situations are many and varied, but it is safe to say that a situation never becomes a crisis until it involves pain. Pain spurs us on to ask, and exactly at that point where solid and beneficial learning can begin. Whatever our diplomas and degrees, this is the only real learning. It is this learning that sets us free. Ignorance, mistakes, pain, learning, freedom—so goes the eternal cycle of human evolution.

单选题How many people A realize that agriculture is a B source of raw C materials for clothing and D to shelter ?

单选题While this arrangement was a major improvement over its ______, it still had drawbacks.