单选题"Where I lived, and What I Lived for" is taken from Thoreau"s______.

单选题______is NOT one of the first generation of English Romantic poets.

单选题Which of the following statement is NOT true?(大连外国语学院2008研)

单选题In 1954, ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "mastery of the art of modem narration".

单选题Good news was sometimes released prematurely, with the British recapture of the port ______ half a day before the de fenders actually surrendered.

单选题______tells of the adversity of the orphan Pip that makes him discard his snobbishness.

单选题A ______of this approach is that the variables are visually presented in a style that can be understood by generalists and specialists alike,

单选题A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be added.

单选题Which of the following is not related to Chomsky?

单选题The words that refer to substance, action and quality are ______ words, also known as content words.

单选题Known as Dr. Love in Britain for his early books concerning affairs of the heart, with The Consolations of Philosophy, de Botton has taken the liberty of using the writings and lives of Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche to turn out another self-help tome. This one promises to help us deal with unpopularity, not having enough money, frustration, inadequacy, a broken heart and life"s other difficulties. It has also been turned into a six-part television series that debuted in Britain on March 26. Perhaps predictably, critics of de Botton say he does a disservice with this simplification that the lives and works of great men shouldn"t be boiled down to easily digestible bits. But they are snobs. Not everyone has the time or inclination to tackle Proust"s long and sometimes dull novel or to go back to the ancient Greeks. Many—like Portillo—may be encouraged to do so after reading de Botton, but if they"re not, so what? The Consolations of Philosophy can serve as a fine introduction to the world of philosophy. At its best, great writing teaches us about ourselves. If we can see a common experience or emotion expressed in a play, a thought, a novel, then it makes us feel less alone in the world. So in Consolations, de Botton shows how the writers helped him in his own experience: how, after reading Montaigne"s writings on the human body, he wasn"t embarrassed when he found himself unable to make love on a vacation in Portugal. He also shows us how the lives of the philosophers were reflected in their own work. De Botton takes us through the thinkers chronologically, starting with Socrates on un-popularity. Sentenced to death essentially for annoying the people of ancient Athens with his constant questioning of accepted beliefs—What is courage? What makes a man virtuous?—Socrates chose to die rather than to renounce his belief that wisdom comes through reasoning. We must, Socrates said, question common assumptions. If they don"t hold up, then we"re right to stand apart from the crowd. Epicurus, now known as one of the great proponents of sensual pleasure, teaches what we need from life to make us happy, and it"s not what you think. In the chapter titled Consolation for Not Having Enough Money, de Botton constructs an Epicurean list of what"s required for happiness—friends, freedom, an active mind, and enough money so that subsistence-level needs are met. And so on: Seneca teaches us that if we expect less from life we will be less disappointed when things don"t go our way. From Nietzsche we learn that only by suffering setbacks can we achieve greatness. Surprisingly for a man called Dr. Love, the book"s weakest chapter is Consolation for a Broken Heart. De Botton chose Schopenhauer, a man who preferred the company of poodles to both men and women, to be his guide here. Our subconscious will-to-life supposedly drives us toward people we would want nothing to do with if they didn"t provide the characteristics that could make our offspring perfect. Yet Schopenhauer"s life is an interesting one, a story worthy of being told. At the end, the only problem with de Botton is not that he"s simplifying the works of others. It"s that he promises more than he delivers. The ideas garnered from the tales of these great men lack any trace of profundity. Here is what 2, 400 years of wisdom brings us: stand up for what you believe in, material goods won"t make you happy, lower your expectations to avoid disappointment, through suffering comes strength. It"s all sound advice, but it"s advice that"s all been heard before.

单选题______is regarded as "America"s Declaration of Intellectual Independence".

单选题In 2012, Chinese enterprises will be confronted with unprecedented challenges, said the Report of Chinese Enterprise Development, issued by the Development Research Center of the State Council on January 8.

单选题Tiffin, a British Raj word for a snack or a light meal, was also a tasty chocolate bar with bits of biscuit and fruit which Fry's used to make before it was______out of existence.

单选题Stable political conditions and freedom A from foreign invasion enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and B to produce more wealth than C the other country equally well served by nature but D less well ordered.

单选题It will take us twenty minutes to get to the railway station, ______traffic delays.

单选题 The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is{{U}} (1) {{/U}}to say it anyway. He is that{{U}} (2) {{/U}}bird, a scientist who works independently{{U}} (3) {{/U}}any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not{{U}} (4) {{/U}}thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested. {{U}} (5) {{/U}}he, however, might tremble at the{{U}} (6) {{/U}}of what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only{{U}} (7) {{/U}}that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about. The group in{{U}} (8) {{/U}}are a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural selection. This group generally do well in IQ test,{{U}} (9) {{/U}}12-15 points above the{{U}} (10) {{/U}}value of 100, and have contributed{{U}} (11) {{/U}}to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the{{U}} (12) {{/U}}of their elites, including several world-renowned scientists,{{U}} (13) {{/U}}. They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts,{{U}} (14) {{/U}}, have previously been thought unrelated. The former has been{{U}} (15) {{/U}}to social effects, such as a strong tradition of{{U}} (16) {{/U}}education. The latter was seen as a (an){{U}} (17) {{/U}}of genetic isolation. Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately{{U}} (18) {{/U}}. His argument is that the unusual history of these people has{{U}} (19) {{/U}}them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this{{U}} (20) {{/U}}state of affairs.

单选题Although we feel dissatisfied with the election results, we have to become reconciled ______ the decision made by our fellow countrymen.

单选题Which of the following is NOT included in G. Leech"s seven types of meaning?

单选题By______we mean language is resourceful because of its duality and recursiveness.(西安外国语学院2006研)