单选题The supervisor was advised to (A)give the assignment to whomever (B)he believed had (C)a strong sense of responsibility, and the courage of conviction (D).

单选题"Grace under pressure" is a typical sign of the______.

单选题The last sound of "top" can be articulated as an unreleased or released plosive. These different realizations of the same phoneme are not in complementary distribution.

单选题The picture was put in the corner of the room, nobody______in it.

单选题That was so serious a matter that I had no choice but______the police.

单选题Anglo-Saxon literature is almost exclusively a verse literature in______. It was passed down by words of mouth from generation to generation.

单选题The smallest units that affect meaning are morphemes.

单选题He didn" t see the men______the room, but he heard them______in it.

单选题"Stepmom" is Julia Robert's new movie. It is a family drama. It co-stars Susan Sarandon. Ed Harris is also a co-star.

单选题Which of the following reflects the spirit of chivalry, i. e. , the quality and ideal of knightly conduct, in the early feudal age?

单选题{{B}}Text 4{{/B}} It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them -- especially in American--the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity. Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss's agenda in businesses of every variety. Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year-- from organizations as diverse as Time Warner, the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California, Berkeley——have left managers hurriedly peering into their intricate IT systems and business processes in search of potential vulnerabilities. "Data is becoming an asset which needs to be guarded as much as ally other asset," says Haim Mendelson of Stanford University's business school. "The ability to guard customer data is the key to market value, which the board is responsible for on behalf of shareholders". Indeed, just as there is the concept of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), perhaps it is time for GASP. Generally Accepted Security Practices, suggested Eli Norm of New York's Columbia Business School. "Setting the proper investment level for security, redundancy, and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one." he says. The mystery is that this should come as a surprise to any boss. Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust, that most valuable of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore -- and that few things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data get into the wrong hands. The current state of affairs may have been encouraged -- though not justified-- by the lack of legal penalty (in America, but not Europe) for data leakage. Until California recently passed a law, American firms did not have to tell anyone, even the victim, when data went astray. That may change fast: lots of proposed data-security legislation is now doing the rounds in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts in America, disclosed on June 17th, overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that puts corporate America on notice that regulators will act if firms fall to provide adequate data security.

单选题T. S. Eliot"s______is a precise depiction of the state of culture and society after World War I and an illustration of the spiritual poverty of the West of the time.

单选题Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response to the suffering of the industrial worker in the England of the 1840"s. What is most impressive about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working-class homes. Her method is partly documentary in nature; the novel includes such features as a carefully annotated reproduction of dialect, the exact details of food prices in an account of a tea party, an itemized description of the furniture of the Bartons" living room, and a transcription of the ballad " The Oldham Weaver. " The interest of this record is considerable, even though the method has a slightly distancing effect. As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-class life as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact. But there is genuine imaginative re-creation in her accounts of the walk in Green Heys Fields, of tea at the Bartons" house, and of John Barton and his friend"s discovery of the starving family in the cellar in the chapter "Poverty and Death." Indeed, for a similarly convincing re-creation of such families" emotions and responses(which are more crucial than the material details on which the mere reporter is apt to concentrate), the English novel had to wait 60 years for the early writing of D. H. Lawrence. If Gaskell never quite conveys the sense of full participation that would completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Barton, she still brings to these scenes an intuitive recognition of feelings that has its own sufficient conviction. The chapter "Old Alice"s History" brilliantly dramatizes the situation of that early generation of workers brought from the villages and the countryside to the urban industrial centers. The account of Job Legh, the weaver and naturalist who is devoted to the study of biology, vividly embodies one kind of response to an urban industrial environment; an affinity for living things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environment, into a kind of crankiness. The early chapters—about factory workers walking out in spring into Green Heys Fields; about Alice Wilson, remembering in her cellar the twig-gathering for brooms in the native village that she will never again see; about Job Legh, intent on his impaled insects—capture the characteristic responses of a generation to the new and crushing experience of industrialism. The other early chapters eloquently portray the development of the instinctive cooperation with each other that was already becoming an important tradition among workers.

单选题The Cantos consists of____poems.

单选题As a presupposition trigger, "continue" belongs to the category of______.

单选题A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound and cannot be further analyzed.

单选题The word "gizmos" (Line 1, Paragraph 2) most probably means ______.

单选题CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION is important while we are trying to understand a sentence. GENERAL CONTEXT EFFECT occurs when our general knowledge about the world influences language comprehension. SPECIFIC CONTEXT EFFECTS involve information obtained from earlier parts of a discourse.

单选题Schools must A meet their annual goals for all students and those same goals for specified student subgroups, B includes members of racial and ethnic minorities, C economically disadvantaged students , English-language learners, and children with D disabilities .

单选题The sentence "This is no flash in the pan" (Line 5, Paragraph 3) means that ______.