单选题The function of the sentence "Water boils at 100 degree Centigrade" is______.

单选题______evidence that language-acquisition ability must be stimulated.

单选题A dispute that. according to Members of Parliament (MPs), threatens the very survival of London Metropolitan University (London Met), the capital"s biggest higher education institution, is spilling over onto London"s streets. Last week lorry drivers on Holloway Road in Islington watched as a group of students and staff marched in protest against a meeting of London Met"s governors. "Save our Staff" and "London Met on the Roper." a reference to the university"s vice-chancellor, Professor Brian Roper, screamed the banners. The university, which has 34,000 students, has long attracted controversy for the militancy of its staff and students, but the latest row is a more serious matter. This crisis is over an attempt by the Higher Education Funding Council (Hefc) to claw back more than ￡50m that London Met should not have received. It is believed that as many as 500 jobs could go as a result of the university having been overpaid for student dropouts since 2005, and the unions are furious, claiming at the same time that the university is being unfairly treated by Hefc but that neither the managers nor the governors have explored the alternatives to job cuts. "The University and College Union (UCU) is very concerned that the Hefc regulations appear to discriminate against widening participation," said a UCU spokesperson. "But we also feel very strongly about the fact that the management are not consulting the unions as they are required to do in law and that they have not considered alternatives like a freeze on new appointments." One of the issues in dispute is whether students who did not take their assessments at the end of the year but were intending to take them the following year should be classified as drop-outs. Hefc considers them to have dropped out and says that its funding definitions apply to all universities regardless; UCU believes they should not be classified in this way on the grounds that they need all the help they can" get to complete the course. The dispute has also hit the House of Commons. An early day motion signed by MPs says that the scale of the cuts—an 18m reduction in teaching budgets and 38m in claw-backs for previous years—"throws the future operability of the university into doubt at a time when education and training are vital to the capital"s economic health."

单选题The author of China Men is____.

单选题Jonathan Swift wrote all the following works EXCEPT______.

单选题In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize

单选题Dreams are______in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.

单选题The highway was blocked for five hours yesterday after an accident______a car and a lorry.

单选题According to the last paragraph, "paper plates" is to "china" as ______.

单选题A rational consumer tends to______his or her total utility.

单选题______has been addressed by Faulkner " the Father of American literature" for his artistic innovation and concern of the south in his works.

单选题Responses to his latest movie have generally been______.

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. "Net choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd," William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word "habit" carries a negative implication. So it seems paradoxical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation. But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks. Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try—the more we step outside our comfort zone—the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives. But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they're there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old reads. "The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder," says Dawna Markova, author of The Open Mind. "But we are taught instead to 'decide', just as our president calls himself 'the Decider'." She adds, however, that "to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities." All of us work through problems in ways of which we're unaware, she says. Researchers in the late 1960a discovered that humans are born with the capacity to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, relationally (or collaboratively) and innovatively. At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life. The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought. "This breaks the major rule in the American belief system — that anyone can do anything," explains M. J. Ryan, author of the 2006 book This Year I Will... and Ms. Markova's business partner. "That's a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters commonness. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence." This is where developing new habits comes in.

单选题The tall fellow over there is______the great mathematician, Bill Williams, himself.

单选题The economy in this city was______ by the new investment from abroad.

单选题The writer has gained such popularity with his readers that even his inanities are now considered

单选题In plain English BECOME(x,(~ALIVE(x)))means______.

单选题Although only of______intelligence he speaks four languages fluently.

单选题Most of the changes A occurred in patterns of family planning B had taken place before public family services were established and at C considerable emotional and physical costs D of many couples .

单选题 Some bosses dislike (to allow) people (to share) their responsibilities; they keep (all) important matters (tightly).in their own hands.