单选题"Can it be sin to know? / Can it be death? And do they only stand/By ignorance?" are taken from the literary work written by______.

单选题The experiment requires more money than______.

单选题We hope the measures to control prices,______taken by the government, will succeed.

单选题Quotation and author are correctly paired in all the following except____.

单选题By saying these figures are conservative (Line 1, Paragraph 3), Dr Worm means that ______.

单选题This most important measurement A has omitted in the studies of the quality of education in this country, the only one, I think, B that extends C even to children the license to freely speak, write and D be creative .

单选题Probably the most widespread and familiar ethnic variety of the English language is______.

单选题New parents are annoying. They think you want to hear about every gurgle and baby-step. But it could be worse. When your boss has a sprog, watch your wallet. A study to be published next month in Administrative Science Quarterly looks at what happens to workers' pay when a male boss has a child. Researchers tracked salaries at every firm in Denmark with more than ten employees between 1996 and 2006.(They confined themselves to male bosses partly because the sample of female bosses was too small.) Male bosses, it turns out, pay themselves significantly more once they become fathers. Even after controlling for factors such as age, length of tenure and the performance of the firm, the study found that bosses with daughters pay themselves 3.5% more than childless ones. If they have a son, that increases to a hefty 6.4% . David Ross of Columbia Business School, one of the authors, says all fathers feel a duty to support their families. For grunts this means working harder. Bosses have the more agreeable option of raising their own wages. This is bad news for underlings. That extra money comes out of workers' pockets, the study finds. Staff employed by a father is typically paid less. The amount depends on such things as the sex of the baby and whether it is his first child. Male employees bear the brunt: if the boss's child is a son, for example, they can expect 0. 5% less salary than if he hadn't reproduced. Female staff fare better. After their boss's first child, they can expect to be paid a little more. Mr Ross speculates that this might be because, having seen their wives go through childbirth, they start to respect women more. Alas, such goodwill doesn't last. Once the boss has a second child, female workers' wages are likely to fall, just like men's.

单选题Jack lay, quiet and unmoving, for thirty minutes while a stranger repeatedly stabbed him with sharp needles, causing blood to pour steadily out of his leg. Jack was getting a tattoo. His friend Tony had recently gotten a tattoo, and Jack was so impressed by Tony"s bravery and his tattoo that he decided to get one too. Getting a tattoo because your friends and peers have them is just one of the reasons why a lot of young people in North America get tattoos. Peer pressure, media influence, and personal expression are some of the common reasons for wearing tattoos today. The desire to be part of a group, to be accepted by one"s friends or peers, can have a great influence on what a person does. Sometimes, wearing a tattoo can be a sign that you belong to a certain group. Gangs often use special clothes and tattoos to identify their particular group. For example, in one gang all the members may wear green army jackets and have large"Xs" tattooed on their arms. It is not only gangs that have this type of special "uniform". Young people often belong to a certain group of friends. Some of these groups wear only brand-name clothes. Some wear only black clothes. Others wear tattoos. When a person"s friends are all doing something, such as getting a tattoo, that person is more likely to do the same thing, and get a tattoo, too. The media is another big influence behind the popularity of tattoos in North America. A wide variety of media images show tattoos. Tattoos can be seen on people appearing in commercials selling expensive cars. Famous sports heroes with tattoos are shown in magazines. Fashion models are often seen in magazines and on TV wearing designer clothes that show their bodies tattooed with detailed and colorful patterns. These media images link tattoos to ideas of wealth, success, and status. As a result, many people decide to get a tattoo for its fashion and status value. It is not always the influence of other people or the media that results in a person getting a tattoo. Many people decide to wear tattoos in order to express their artistic nature, their beliefs, or their feelings—in other words, to show their individuality. A musician in a rock band may get a tattoo of a guitar on the arm. Some environmentalists may tattoo pictures of endangered animals on their shoulders. Lovers may tattoo each others" names over their hearts. A tattoo can be a public sign to show what is important in a person"s life. As you can see, there are many reasons why young North Americans get tattoos. A tattoo can be part of a group"s uniform. It can be a sign of fashion. It can be an expression of individuality. The decision to get a tattoo is most often a result of the influence of friends or media or the desire to express oneself. For Jack, it was a mixture of all three.

单选题Modern English novel arose in the______century.

单选题Once upon a time there was a prince who unwisely confided to the media that while tending his beloved garden, he often talked to his plants. He also warned his future subjects about losing touch with their natural surroundings and their rich cultural heritage. But the people scoffed and said it was the fuddy-duddy Prince who was out of touch. And as for talking to his plants—well, they shook their heads and remembered the madness of the Prince"s forebear, King George III, who famously struck up a conversation with a tree that he had mistaken for the King of Prussia. These days Britain"s Prince of Wales is still considered a tad eccentric: after all, who in his right mind would have lost the love of the fairy-tale Princess Diana? But increasingly, Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor(who is not only Prince of Wales but also, inter alia, Duke of Cornwall, Lord of the Isle and Great Steward of Scotland)is winning applause for his not-so-crazy campaign to combat what he calls "the wanton destruction that has taken place... in the name of progress." For 30 years the Prince has been in the forefront of efforts to promote kinder, gentler farming methods; protect Britain"s countryside from urban sprawl; improve city landscapes; and safeguard the nation"s architectural heritage. And whereas his was once a lonely if plumy voice crying in the wilderness, the Prince has seen many of his once maverick opinions become mainstream. Charles is not the first royal concerned about nature. Mad King George dabbled in botany when he wasn"t losing his mind or the American colonies, and Charles"s father, the Duke of Edinburgh, has long supported wildlife causes. But it is Charles who has become the crusader, with a vision of Britain that may border on the romantic but is in synch with Britons alarmed by what is happening to their green and pleasant land. He has the energy and dedication to get things done. "My problem," he has said, "is that I become carried away by enthusiasm to try to improve things, and also feel very strongly that his only way to progress is by setting examples and then hoping others will eventually follow." An example people are following is organic farming, which Charles has adopted wholeheartedly on his own farmlands in the Duchy of Cornwall and surrounding his country home at Highgrove in western England. Charles once noted that when he decided to go organic, which means forswearing artificial fertilizers and pesticides, the experts were very polite, "but what they were saying about this latest demonstration of insanity once they were out of earshot can only be surmised." Today the experts have been confounded. The Duchy"s Home Farm near Highgrove is 100% organic and organic produce is in high demand, fetching premium prices in shops and supermarkets. "Seeing is believing" is one of Charles" favorite saying, no doubt repeated when the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture recently paid Highgrove a visit. And it"s a safe bet that the American visitor received an earful on Charles" other farming concern: genetically modified crops. Once again the Prince has shown himself to be ahead of the curve. Back in December 1995 he pronounced himself "profoundly apprehensive" about the brave new world of genetically modified organisms and complained of the "confidence bordering on arrogance" with which they are promoted. The Prince practices what he preaches, and a sign by the lane leading up to his Home Farm announces that "you are entering a gmofree zone." Charles" philosophy is simply expressed. "We should," he says, be adopting a "gentler, more considered approach, seeking always to work with the grain of nature in making better, more sustainable use of what we have."

单选题Misled people tend to think that using an animal in research is ______.

单选题The researchers found the age at which young people first fall ______ to bullies seems to determine how much it affects them.

单选题The sense relation which holds the pair of words sweet—suite is ______.

单选题Direct psychoanalysis could not possibly be found in the works of______.

单选题Scarcely had they settled themselves in their seats in the theatre______the curtain went up.

单选题He seems to be an honest person.______, I don"t trust him.

单选题You can't be______careful in making the decision as it was such a critical case.

单选题We dare not play jokes on her______she should become angry.

单选题By enshrining the scientific outlook on development in its constitution, the CPC has made a commitment to the Chinese people and to the whole world that it will follow the path of sustainable development and make sure the fruits of development are shared by all people.