单选题Much of the information we have today about chimpanzees comes from the groundbreaking, long-term research of the great conservationist, Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall was born in London, England, on April 3, 1934. On her second birthday, her father gave her a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. Jubilee was named after a baby chimp in the London Zoo, and seemed to foretell the course Jane"s life would take. To this day, Jubilee sits in a chair in Jane"s London home. From an early age, Jane was fascinated by animals and animal stories. By the age of 10, she was talking about going to Africa to live among the animals there. At the time, in the early 1940s, this was a radical idea because women did not go to Africa by themselves. As a young woman, Jane finished school in London, attended secretarial school, and then worked for a documentary filmmaker for a while. When a school friend invited her to visit Kenya, she worked as a waitress until she had earned the fare to travel there by boat. She was 23 years old. Once in Kenya, she met Dr. Louis Leakey, a famous paleontologist and anthropologist. He was impressed with her thorough knowledge of Africa and its wildlife, and hired her to assist him and his wife on a fossil-hunting expedition to Olduvai Gorge. Dr. Leakey soon realized that Jane was the perfect person to complete a study he had been planning for some time. She expressed her interest in the idea of studying animals by living in the wild with them, rather than studying dead animals through paleontology. Dr. Leakey and Jane began planning a study of a group of chimpanzees who were living on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Kenya. At first, the British authorities would not approve their plan. At the time, they thought it was too dangerous for a woman to live in the wilds of Africa alone. But Jane"s mother, Vanne, agreed to join her so that she would not be alone. Finally, the authorities gave Jane the clearance she needed in order to go to Africa and begin her study. In July of 1960, Jane and her mother arrived at Gombe National Park in what was then called Tanganyika and is now called Tanzania. Jane faced many challenges as she began her work. The chimpanzees did not accept her right away, and it took months for them to get used to her presence in their territory. But she was very patient and remained focused on her goal. Little by little, she was able to enter their world. At first, she was able to watch the chimpanzees only from a great distance, using binoculars. As time passed, she was able to move her observation point closer to them while still using camouflage. Eventually, she was able to sit among them, touching, patting, and even feeding them. It was an amazing accomplishment for Jane, and a breakthrough in the study of animals in the wild. Jane named all of the chimpanzees that she studied, stating in her journals that she felt they each had a unique personality. One of the first significant observations that Jane made during the study was that chimpanzees make and use tools, much like humans do, to help them get food. It was previously thought that humans alone used tools. Also thanks to Jane"s research, we now know that chimps eat meat as well as plants and fruits. In many ways, she has helped us to see how chimpanzees and humans are similar. In doing so, she has made us more sympathetic toward these creatures, while helping us to better understand ourselves. The study started by Jane Goodall in 1960 is now the longest field study of any animal species in their natural habitat. Research continues to this day in Gombe and is conducted by a team of trained Tanzanians. Jane"s life has included much more than just her study of the chimps in Tanzania. She pursued a graduate degree while still conducting her study, receiving her Ph. D. from Cambridge University in 1965. In 1984, she received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize for "helping millions of people understand the importance of wildlife conservation to life on this planet. " She has been married twice; first to a photographer and then to the director of National Parks. She has one son. Dr. Jane Goodall is now the world"s most renowned authority on chimpanzees, having studied their behavior for nearly 40 years. She has published many scientific articles, has written two books, and has won numerous awards for her groundbreaking work. The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation was founded in 1977 in California but moved to the Washington, D. C. , area in 1998. Its goal is to take the actions necessary to improve the environment for all living things. Dr. Goodall now travels extensively, giving lectures, visiting zoos and chimp sanctuaries, and talking to young people involved in environmental education. She is truly a great conservationist and an amazing human being.

单选题After the Arab states won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education, with girls as well as boys______to go to school.

单选题Coupled with (A)the growing quantity of information are (B)the development of technologies which (C)enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed (D)to more locations than has ever been possible before.

单选题Which one of the following writers is a master user of different dialects in his novels?

单选题Human facial expressions differ from those of animals in the degree______they can be deliberately controlled and modified.

单选题B. Please answer the following questions based on the above passage. And your answers should be brief and to the point with no more than three lines of words for each question.

单选题Manual dexterity may be compromised by arthritis, affecting ability to grasp, manipulate and maneuver objects.

单选题Naturally men who were themselves learned praised learning, all the more because they found themselves the appreciated legatees of a classical inheritance to which their medieval predecessors had paid little attention. The enthusiasm for contact with the learned civility of the ancient world was expressed as early as the 1330s, when Petrarch exclaimed, "I am alive now, yet I would rather have been born in another time, " and wrote eloquent letters to the heroes he could only meet through their works. By including examples of these among his widely circulated correspondence, he encouraged others to see the part learning had played in antiquity, whether in the person of a Cicero, who was both philosopher and participatory man of affairs, or of a Livy who recorded public events as an inspiration to posterity. In Floreance in the 1430s, Matteo Palmieri wrote in his Delia Vita Civile or on "civil" life "now indeed may every thoughtful spirit thank God that it has been permitted to him to be born in this new age. " But, while mentioning the revitalization of the arts as part of the recapture of classical attainments, he stressed above all the importance of "philosophy and wisdom" being at last "drunk from the pure fountainhead. " He was writing for a politically responsible class for whom learning was more important than diversion. And this was the emphasis that was taken up in the North from the early sixteenth century. When Celtis urged his fellow Germans to show the world that they were not cultural barbarians he spoke not of the arts but of learning. For Erasmus in 1517 all over the world, as if on a given signal, splendid talents are stirring and conspiring together to revive the best learning, but it was for their blindness to learning, not the arts, that he criticized the "Philistines". Steadily, learning, or at least a more than superficial education, came to be taken for granted by those for whom it was not a vocation. As for the prince himself, Botero in 1598 repeated the medieval quip: "an unlettered prince is a crowned ass. "

单选题We should______with the difficulties we were confronted with.

单选题A membership card______the holder to use the club"s facilities for a period of twelve months.

单选题Blank verse consists of lines in iambic pentameters which do not rhyme. (南开大学2004研)

单选题A good reputation is a(n)______asset for a company.

单选题Which of the following is an "inflectional suffix"?

单选题Odgen and Richards argue that the relation between a word and a thing it refers to is not direct.（南开大学2004研)

单选题My wife and I got married right out of college, in 1978. We were young and naive and unashamedly idealistic, and we decided to make our first home in a Utopian environmentalist community in New York State. For seven years, we lived, quite contentedly, in circumstances that would strike most Americans as austere in the extreme: our living space measured just seven hundred square feet and we didn"t have a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, a lawn, or a car. We did our grocery shopping on foot, and when we needed to travel longer distances we used public transportation. Because space at home was scarce, we seldom acquired new possessions of significant size. Our electric bills worked out to be about a dollar a day. The Utopian community was Manhattan.(Our apartment was on Sixty-ninth Street, between Second and Third.)Most Americans, including most New Yorkers, think of New York City as an ecological nightmare, a wasteland of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams, but in comparison with the rest of America it"s a model of environmental responsibility. By the most significant measures, New York is the greenest community in the United States, and it is one of the greenest cites of the world. The most devastating damage humans have done to the environment has arisen from the heedless burning of fossil fuels, a category in which New Yorkers are practically prehistoric. The average Manhattanite consumes gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn"t matched since the mid-nineteen-twenties, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. Eighty-two per cent of Manhattan residents travel to work by public transit, by bicycle, or on foot. That"s ten times the rate for Americans in general, and eight times the rate for residents of Los Angeles County. New York City is more populous than all but eleven states; if it were granted statehood, it would rank fifty-first in per-capita energy use. "Anyplace that has such tall buildings and heavy traffic is obviously an environmental disaster— except that it isn"t, " John Holtzclaw, a transportation consultant for the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, told me. " If New Yorkers lived at the typical American sprawl density of three households per residential acre, they would require many times as much land. They"d be driving cars, and they"d have huge lawns and be using pesticides and fertilizers on them, and then he"d be overwatering their lawns, so that runoff would go into streams. " The key to New York"s relative environmental benignity is its extreme compactness. Manhattan"s population density is more than eight hundred times that of the nation as a whole. Placing one and a half million people on a twenty-three-square-mile island sharply reduces their opportunities to be wasteful, and forces the majority to live in some of the most inherently energy-sufficient residential structures in the world: apartment buildings. It also frees huge tracts of land from the rest of America to sprawl into.

单选题The Sony Play Station Portable looks and feels gorgeous. With its______and sophisticated lines, it's the iPod of games machines, aimed as much at adults as teenagers.

单选题James Shapiro follows his award-winning book on William Shakespeare, "1599" , which came out in 2005, with an unlikely subject: an investigation into the old chestnut that Shakespeare wasn't the man who wrote the works. Most mainstream Shakespeareans stand aloof from it. But apparently the claims of Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere and Christopher Marlowe, among others, are on the rise. An appetite for conspiracy theories, combined with a call for "balance" from some sectors of academe and the rise of Internet have given the thing new life. Respectable audiences turn up to listen to lectures on it. The controversy is even taught at university level. The authorship controversy turns on two things: snobbery and the assumption that, in a literal way, you are what you write. How could an untutored, untraveled glover's son from hickville, the argument goes, understand kings and courtiers, affairs of state, philosophy, law, music—let alone the noble art of falconry? Worse still, how could the business-minded, property-owning, money-lending materialist that emerged from the documentary scraps, be the same man as the poet of the plays? Many have shaken their heads at the sheer vulgarity of it all, among them Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Henry James, his brother William, and Sigmund Freud. Mr Shapiro teases out the cultural prejudices, the historical blind spots, and above all the anachronism inherent in these questions. No one before the late 18th century had ever asked them, or thought to read the plays or sonnets for biographical insights. No one had even bothered to work out a chronology for them. The idea that works of literature hold personal clues, or that—more grandly— writing is an expression and exploration of the self, is a relatively recent phenomenon. The central chapters of Mr Shapiro's book concentrate on the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the search for alternative claimants took off. The two main characters in his story are Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere. Mr Shapiro takes them both seriously, patiently following their lives and contextualising their ideas. The quest for the true claimant drove people mad. Here are secrets and codes, an elaborate cipher-breaking machine, an obsession with graves and crazy adventures to find lost manuscripts. One man spent months dredging the River Severn. Mr Shapiro himself turns sleuth, exposing as fraudulent a piece of evidence long thought to be genuine—one more hoax in the long history of Shakespearean wild goose chases. The last chapter is a return to sanity: a brilliant defence of the man from Stratford. Piece by piece, Mr Shapiro builds the case—the contemporary witnesses, the tracks left by printing houses and theatrical practice, the thousand details that show, apart from anything else, how unnecessary the whole farrago has been. The Shakespeare that emerges is both simple and mysterious; a man of the theatre, who read, observed, listened and remembered. Beyond that is imagination. In essence, that's what the book is about.

单选题______conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.

单选题Geoffrey Chaucer planned originally to have each of the pilgrims tell______stories on the way to Canterbury and the same number of stories on the way back in his famous The Canterbury Tales.

单选题If you want to set up a company, you must______ with the regulations laid down by the authorities.