单选题According to the author, what may be chiefly responsible for the moral decline of Japanese society?

单选题Friday is a character in the novel written by______.

单选题To increase performance and win against Morgan Stanley, Chen decided to forge a short-lived alliance between Yongle and Dazhong Electronics, which brought Yongle to the brink of insolvency.

单选题The ______ nature of language is a sign of sophistication and it makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions.

单选题Parole is the term used by Saussure to refer to utterances.

单选题There are three stadiums in this city, each having a seating______of 5000 spectators.

单选题______is the leader of the Conservative party in the U. K. at present.

单选题The tradition of hospitality to strangers ______.

单选题This passage is part of an introduction written by a well-known doctor and essayist for his 1996 book about rare neurological disorders. A. I am writing this with my left hand, although I am strongly right-handed. I had surgery to my right shoulder a month ago and am not permitted, not capable of, use of the right arm at this time. I write slowly, awkwardly—but more easily, more naturally, with each passing day. I am adapting, learning, all the while—not merely this left-handed writing, but a dozen other left-handed skills as well. I have also become very adept with my toes, to compensate for having one arm in a sling; I was quite off balance for a few days when the arm was first immobilized, but now I walk differently, I have discovered a new balance. I am developing different patterns, different habits... a different identity, one might say, at least in this particular sphere. There must be changes going on with some of the programs and circuits in my brain—altering synaptic weights and connectivities and signals(though our methods of brain imaging are still too crude to show these). B. Though some of my adaptations are deliberate, planned, and some are learned through trial and error(in the first week I injured every finger on my left hand), most have occurred by themselves, unconsciously, by reprogrammings and adaptations of which I know nothing(any more than I know, or can know, how I normally walk). Next month, if all goes well, I can start to readapt again, to regain a full(and "natural")use of the right arm, to reincorporate it back into my body image, myself, to become a dexterous human being once again. C. But recovery, in such circumstances, is by no means automatic, a simple process like tissue healing—it will involve a whole nexus of muscular and postural adjustments, a whole sequence of new procedures(and their synthesis), learning, finding a new path to recovery. My surgeon, an understanding man who has had the same operation himself, said, "There are general guidelines, restrictions, recommendations. But all the particulars you will have to find out for yourself. " Jay, my physiotherapist, expressed himself similarly: " Adaptation follows a different path in each person. The nervous system creates its own paths. You're the neurologist—you must see this all time. " D. Nature's imagination, as physicist Freeman Dyson likes to say, is richer than ours, and he speaks, marvellingly, of this richness in the physical and biological worlds, the endless diversity of physical forms and forms of life. For me, as a physician, nature's richness is to be studied in the phenomena of health and disease, in the endless forms of individual adaptation by which human organisms, people adapt and reconstruct themselves when faced with the challenges and vicissitudes of life. E. Thus while one may be distressed by the trials of developmental disorders or disease, one may sometimes see them as creative too—for if they destroy particular paths, particular ways of doing things, they may force the nervous system into making other paths and ways, force on it an unexpected growth and evolution. This other side of development or disease is something I see, potentially, in almost every patient. That such radical adaptations can occur demands a view of the brain as dynamic and active rather than programmed and static, a supremely efficient adaptive system geared for evolution and change, ceaselessly adapting to the needs of the organism—its need, above all, to construct a coherent self and world, whatever defects or disorders of brain function befall it. That the brain is minutely differentiated is clear: there are hundreds of tiny areas crucial for every aspect of perception and behavior(from the perception of color and of motion to, perhaps, the intellectual orientation of the individual). The miracle is how they all cooperate, are integrated together, in the creation of a self. F. This sense of the brain's remarkable plasticity, its capacity for the most striking adaptations, not the least in the special(and often desperate)circumstance of neural or sensory mishap, has come to dominate my own perception of my patients and their lives. So much so, indeed, that I am sometimes moved to wonder whether it may be necessary to redefine the very concepts of "health" and "disease", to see these in terms of the ability of the organism to create a new organization and order, one that fits its special, altered disposition and needs, rather than in the terms of a rigidly defined "norm".

单选题AMD has capitalized on Intel's difficulties in recent years to emerge as its first really credible rival.

单选题Take the medicine now. I believe it will______your pain.

单选题______, we decided to go fishing last Sunday.

单选题By saying "You have left the door wide open," a speaker might be performing the three acts; locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary______.(西安交大2008研)

单选题The fire proveth gold, and temptation proveth the righteous man.

单选题The poetry of John Donne represents a sharp break from the poetry of his predecessors in the Eliz-abethian era. One of the outstanding features in his poetry is " conceit " which means______.

单选题Another area that technology is changing our way of life is entertainment. ______. People listened to music in concert halls or at small social gatherings. For many people now however, music is a solitary experience.

单选题______ is a theory of linguistic analysis which refers to an analysis of utterances (or texts)in term of the information they contain.

单选题The cities in the United States have been the most visible sponsors and beneficiaries of projects that place art in public places. They have shown exceptional imagination in applying the diverse forms of contemporary art to a wide variety of purposes. The activities observed in a number of "pioneer" cities sponsoring art in public places—a broadening exploration of public sites, an increasing awareness among both sponsors and the public of the varieties of contemporary artistic practice, and a growing public enthusiasm—are increasingly characteristic of cities across the country. With many cities now undergoing renewed development, opportunities are continuously emerging for the inclusion or art in new or renewed public environments, including buildings, plazas, parks, and transportation facilities. The result of these activities is a group of artworks that reflect the diversity of contemporary art and the varying character and goals of the sponsoring communities. In sculpture, the projects range from a cartoon-like Mermaid in Miami Beach by Roy Lichtenstein to a small forest planted in New York City by Alan Sonfist. The use of murals followed quickly upon the use of sculpture and has brought to public sites the work of artists as different as the realist Thomas Hart Benton and the Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg. The specialized requirements of particular urban situations have further expanded the use of art in public places; in Memphis, sculptor Richard Hunt has crested a monument to Martin Luther King, Jr. who was slain there: in New York, Dan Flavin and Bill Brand have contributed neon and animation works to the enhancement of mass transit facilities. And in numerous cities, art is being raised as a symbol of the commitment to revitalize urban areas. By continuing to sponsor projects involving a growing body of art in public places, cities will certainly enlarge the situations in which the public encounters and grows familiar with the various forms of contemporary art. Indeed, cities are providing artists with an opportunity to communicate with a new and broader audience. Artists are recognizing the distinction between public and private spaces, and taking that into account when executing their public commissions. They are working in new, often more durable media, and on an unaccustomed scale.

单选题After what could well be called a whirlwind courtship, Margaret unaccountably married him. The incongruity of the marriage was underlined by the fact of her undoubted physical beauty and his quite remarkable ugliness. Friends were too stunned for a while to indulge in even mild comment; it was as if the enormity of the match had dulled the edge of malice. He was of insignificant height, fat, and of a singularly unpleasant disposition. His clothes looked as though they had been carefully chosen to give the least possible flattery to an already handicapped body and added to the overall effect of grossness that Nature in her perversity had begun to create some thirty-five years before. It was thus that they walked together down the aisle, he bobbing at her shoulder like evil imp, she serene and calm, seemingly unaware of the striking contrast. Of course, gossip needs at least a basis of hard fact to feed its flame on, and so George, with no known background and no apparent antecedents, with few friends and, as far as was known, even fewer enemies, was poor fuel for those professional good friends who attach themselves to some circle and desperately try to compensate for their own inadequacy by laying bare the sores of others. The wedding passed and they immediately settled into domesticity with scarcely a ruffle. He could be seen regularly on the morning train to town, and it is pleasant to be able to record that his face was, for most of the time, buried in "The Times" and that his clothes were at least the right color to give the impression of respectable occupation. She, on most mornings, went about her various good works or shopped in the village. She was unfailingly polite and was thus well-liked by her neighbors. They entertained enough to fulfill the needs of convention and quickly sank into the comfortable anonymity of suburban life. All seemed set fair for a dull but tolerable existence. There was much disappointment among those who had predict that little short of disaster would ensue from such an unlikely mating. These good friends visited them, in consequence, more frequently perhaps than they would normally have done, in the hope of detecting the first crack in the structure of their marriage.

单选题In 1951, ______confirm her theory geneticist Barbara McClintock claimed that genetic information shifted from one chromosome to another.