单选题If you had asked me then if I would accept a job as a restaurant critic for The New Times, or any established publication, I would have replied, without a second thought, "Of course not!" And not just because I did not want to think of myself as an ambitious sort. Working in restaurants was honest labor anyone could see that. Writing about for the mainstream press was not; it felt like joining the enemy. But reviewing was fun, so much fun that when mainstream publishers started paying me for my opinions, I didn"t do the decent thing. Before I knew it, I had stopped cooking professionally. Then I stopped cooking altogether. "She"s joined the leisure class," my friends said. I disarmed my critics by inviting them along; nobody I knew could afford to eat out and nobody refused. We went with equal amounts of guilt and pleasure, with a feeling that we were trespassing on the playgrounds of the rich. We didn"t belong in those starchy restaurants. We always got the worst table. And then, because I didn"t own a credit card, I had to pay in cash. The year turned into two, and three, and more. I got a credit card. I got good clothes. I was writing for increasingly" prestigious. Meanwhile, a voice inside me kept whispering, "How could you?" When I receive weekly letters from people who think it is indecent to write about $ 100 meals while half the world is hungry, the voice yacks right along. "They"re absolutely right," it whispers. And when it asks, "When are you going to grow up and get a real job?" It sounds a lot like my mother. And just about then is when I tell the voice to shut up. Because when my mother starts telling me that all I"m doing with my life is telling rich people where to eat, I realize how much the world has changed. Yes, there are still restaurants where rich people go to remind themselves that they are different from you and me. But there are fewer and fewer of them. As American food has come of age, American restaurants have changed. Going out to eat used to be like going to the opera today, it is more like going the movies.

单选题Acting is defined as the ability to react to______stimuli.

单选题The fierce competition in this trade gets______of this enterprise"s development.

单选题From the text we learn that Stephen Cooper is ______.

单选题The______is a syllabus in which the language content is arranged in terms of speech acts together with the language items needed for them. (西安外国语学院2006研)

单选题The way we use our bodies when communicating indicates how we perceive our power, authority, and position in relation to the person we are communicating with.

单选题Shakespeare lived in the period of______.

单选题Of the following, who has NOT been elected American President?

单选题My students found the book ______ , it providing them with an abundance of information on the subject.

单选题Glaciers______where the rate of ice loss is equivalent to the forward advance of the glacier.

单选题He stole into his room______he should awaken his parents and get scolded.

单选题Henry Ford wanted to use the profits to expand the company"s factories this was an unusual idea at the time.

单选题A. My story is a simple one. You have only got to figure to yourselves a girl in a bedroom with a pen in her hand. She had only to move that pen from left to right—from ten o'clock to one. Then it occurred to her to do what is simple and cheap enough after all—to slip a few of those pages into an envelope, fix a penny stamp in the corner, and drop the envelope into the red box at the corner. It was thus that I became a journalist; and my effort was rewarded on the first day of the following month—a very glorious day it was for me—by a letter from an editor containing a cheque for one pound ten shillings and sixpence. B. What could be easier than to write articles? But wait a moment. Articles have to be about something. Mine, I seemed to remember, was about a novel by a famous man. And while I was writing this review, I discovered that if I were going to review books I should need to do battle with a certain phantom. And the phantom was a woman, and when I came to know her better I called her after the heroine of a famous poem "The Angel in the House". It was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing reviews. It was she who bothered me and wasted my time and so tormented me that at last I killed her. I will describe her as shortly as I can. She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts of family life. She sacrificed herself daily. She was so constituted that she never had a mind or a wish of her own, but preferred to sympathize with the minds and wishes of others. Above all— I need not say it—she was pure. In those days every house had its angel. And when I came to write I encountered her with the very first words. The shadow of her wings fell on my page; I heard the rustling of her skirts in the room. Directly, that is to say, I took my pen in hand to review that novel by a famous man, she slipped behind me and whispered; "My dear, you are a young woman. You are writing about a book that has been written by a man. Be sympathetic; be tender; flatter; deceive; use all the arts and wiles of our sex. Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all, be pure. " And she made as if to guide my pen. I now record the one act for which I take some credit to myself. I turned upon her and caught her by the throat. I did my best to kill her. My excuse, if I were to be had up in a court of law, would be that I acted in self-defense. Had I not killed her she would have killed me. She would have plucked the heart of my writing. For, as I found, directly I put pen to paper, you can not even review a novel without having a mind of your own, without expressing what you think to be the truth about human relations, morality, sex. And all these questions, according to the Angel in the House, cannot be dealt with freely and openly by women; they must charm, they must conciliate, they must—to put it bluntly—tell lies if they are to succeed. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. She died hard. Her fictitious nature was of great assistance to her. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

单选题The most puzzling and intriguing moving things visible to humans have always been the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the stars we can see in the night sky. Newton's new calculus, combined with his "Laws of Motion", made a mathematical model for the force of gravity that not only described the observed motions of planets and stars in the night sky, but also of swinging weights and flying cannonballs in England.Questions:

单选题A premier brand means a(n)______brand.

单选题Different from other writers of______, Edgar Allan Poe"s works show reminiscence of a genteel tradition.

单选题During the Civil War of England, the Cavaliers supported______while the Roundheads were in support of______.

单选题They seem______to socialize with a very small circle of people.

单选题The extinction of large prehistoric animals is noted to suggest that ______.

单选题Syntactic deep structure was developed to______.