单选题There"s a ______ in the fact that although we"re living longer than ever before, people are more obsessed with health issues than they ever were.

单选题When we say a person or an experience is " packaged" , we are complaining of a sense of excessive calculation and a lack of authenticity. Such a fear of unreality is at least a century old; it arose along with industrialization and rapid communication. Now that the world is more competitive, and we all believe we have less time to consider things, the craft of being instantaneously appealing has taken on more and more importance. We might say, cynically, that the person who appears "packaged"simply doesn"t have good packaging. Still, the sense of uneasiness about encountering packaged people in a packaged world is real, and it shouldn"t be dismissed. Indeed, it is a theme of contemporary life, equally evident in politics, entertainment, and the supermarket. Moreover, public uneasiness about the phenomenon of packaging is compounded by confusion over a loss of iconic packages and personalities. Producers of packaged products have probably never been as nervous as they became during the first half of the 1990s. Many of the world"s most famous brands were involved in the merger mania of the 1980s, which produced debt-ridden companies that couldn"t afford to wait for results either from their managers or their marketing strategies. At the same time, the feeling was that it was far too risky to produce something really new. The characteristic response was the line extension—"dry" beer, "lite"mayonnaise, "ultra" detergent. New packages have been appearing at a rapid pace, only to be changed whenever a manager gets nervous or a retailer loses patience. The same skittishness is evident in the projection of public personalities as the clear, if synthetic, images of a few decades ago have lost their sharpness and broken into a spectrum of weaker, reflected apparitions. Marilyn Monroe, for example, had an image that was, Jayne Mansfield notwithstanding, unique and well defined. She was luscious as a Hershey"s bar, shapely as a Coke bottle. But in a world where Coke can be sugar free, caffeine free, and cherry flavored, just one image isn"t enough for a superstar. Madonna is available as Marilyn or as a brunette, a Catholic schoolgirl, or a bondage devotee. Who knows what brand-extension will come next?

单选题______was NOT a Protestant denomination.

单选题So involved with their computers ______ that leaders at summer computer camps often have to force them to break for sports and games.

单选题The professor______an invitation to all the students to come to tea.

单选题The growth speeialisation in the 19th century might be more clearly seen in sciences such as ______.

单选题Bound morphemes do not include______. (西安交大2008研)

单选题We"ve got all the different companies working together and we have proved it works and is commercially______.

单选题The doctors don't______that he will live much longer.

单选题 Their demand for a pay raise has not the slightest ____________of being met.

单选题Contrary to the popular conception that it is powered by conscious objectivity, science often operates through error, happy accidents, ______and persistence in spite of mistakes.

单选题For a long time, France has been pushing for lifting the weapons embargo against those countries.

单选题Of the following writers, ______ is NOT a writer of Realism.

单选题Two sounds are in free variation when they occur in the same environment and do not contrast, namely, the substitution of one for the other does not produce a different word, but merely a different pronunciation.

单选题______refers to the abstract properties of an entity; while______ refers to the concrete entities having these properties.

单选题These bright colors look good on you because of your dark______.

单选题If that idea was wrong, the project is bound to fail,______good all the other ideas might be.

单选题The well-known verse of "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright/ In the forest to night/ What immortal hand or eyes/ Could frame they fearful symmetry?" is written by____.

单选题The author's attitude towards euthanasia seems to be that of ______.

单选题The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are______indeed.