单选题The potential profit, and the ease A on which they can be made from insider trading, market manipulation, conflict-of-interest transactions B and many other illegal or unethical activities C are too great and too pervasive D to be ignored .

单选题The author raises the question "what about pain without gain?" because ______.

单选题As______known to the world, Mark Twain is a great American writer.

单选题In English, ______and______are often expressed by subject and object.

单选题To the child, the genius with imagination, or the wholly untraveled, the approach to a great city for the first time is a wonderful thing. Particularly if it be evening-that mystic period between the glare and gloom of the world when life is changing from one sphere or condition to another. Ah, the promise of the night. What does it not hold for the weary! What old illusion of hope is not here forever repeated ! Says the soul of the toiler to itself. " I shall soon be free. I shall be in the ways and the hosts of the merry. The streets, the lamps, the lighted chamber set for dining, are for me. The theatre , the halls, the parties, the ways of rest and the paths of song—these are mine in the night. "The following passage is taken from the novel entitled______.

单选题"With malice toward none, with charity for all. "

单选题Metonymy involves using the familiar to stand for the unfamiliar.（对外经贸2005研)

单选题Animals other than humans have not developed communications comparable to human language. But is it possible that other animals have the【C21】______to learn a language if they are adequately taught? Obviously, this is a fascinating notion. The idea of communicating directly with another species has long been a part of human folklore and children's fantasies. But【C22】______a scientific level, the question of whether animals can learn a language is important primarily, because it【C23】______to the controversy between the cognitive and the learning approaches to language. If language is【C24】______on and is actually an outgrowth of the intellectual structure of the human mind, there is the strong supposition【C25】______only humans are capable of using language. Therefore, Noam Chomsky and other psycholinguists have argued that only humans can learn a language, 【C26】______most behaviorists feel that with sufficient patience it should be possible to teach an animal some sort of language. 【C27】______the two schools of thought clearly differ on this point, it is not really a crucial test of the two theories. If a chimpanzee can master a simple language all it would mean is that the chimp's intellectual capacity and brain structure are more【C28】______to ours than we thought. It would not necessarily imply that our intellectual structure is unimportant in our own mastery of language. Thus, teaching an animal language is an impressive demonstration of the power of learning techniques, but it is not evident that language is developed entirely through learning. On the other hand, the question of whether other animals can learn a language is fascinating 【C29】______its own right, aside from its value as a test of the two theories of language development. Accordingly, 【C30】______one's position on the theoretical dispute, we must consider training an animal to use language a dramatic accomplishment.

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006's World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced. What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few guesses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c) soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer {{U}}mania{{/U}}; d) none of the above. Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in "none of the above." Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own research if he switched to psychology. His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. "With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20," Ericsson recalls. "He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers." This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person "encodes" the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was a process known as deliberate practice. Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task, Rather: it involves setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome. Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying expert performers in a wide range of pursuits, including soccer. They gather all the data they can, not just performance statistics and biographical details but also the results of their own laboratory experiments with high achievers. Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated. Or, put another way, expert performers--whether in memory or surgery, ballet or computer programming-- are nearly always made, not born.

单选题Police don"t yet know why Hawkins chose the Westroads Mall or the Von Maur department store in particular, Warren said, adding only that the teen may have frequented the mall.

单选题Economists reached a consensus that inflation in China would come from the sizzling property market instead of the food or energy sector.

单选题Beowulf, a typical example of______, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

单选题He was______admittance to the concert hall for not being properly dressed.

单选题This room is in a terrible mess it______cleaned.

单选题______ manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree and case.

单选题As he grew older, all memory of his childhood began to______from his mind.

单选题______are language varieties appropriate for use in particular speech situations.

单选题According to the author, one of the driving forces behind the M&A wave is ______.

单选题Community service can______anything from gardening to helping old people" s homes.

单选题The New Generation Since his first appearance 13 years ago, Harry Potter Has loomed over a generation. In 1997, he was 11 years old—and so were legions of his devotees. The boy wizard, whose final adventures hit the screen next week in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, is still a teenager, but is there a sense in which his fans, now 24, are also finding it hard to grow up? With many young adults still living at home or remaining in education, sociologists have argued that the age of maturity is changing fast; that the current crop of twentysomethings is stuck. Any attempt to define a generation will fail. But how much do we know about the people who made Harry Potter a superstar? Are they the iiber-confident, sex-savvy go-getters of advertising fantasy, or a cuckoo generation destined to remain in the family nest, devoid of career prospects or financial stability, sold out by the grownups who frittered away their future? We can surely take it for granted that this group of people are more technologically literate and enthusiastic than any that has preceded them; recent data from the Office for National Statistics suggests that only 1 per cent of 16-to 24-year-olds has never accessed the Internet. But it"s also common sense to assume that, while young people might revel in how easy it is to communicate with one another, they are likely to feel less confident in the current economic climate about their ability to access and afford education, to enter the job market, to get a foothold on the property ladder and to rely on the State to provide a safety net in times of trouble. In short, young people are both more connected and more alone than ever. On one side they are awash in a sea of celebrity culture, in which young people such as Wayne Rooney can be materially rewarded beyond anybody"s wildest dreams for the possession of a single skill, and the less gifted are briefly lauded on a television talent show before a long descent into obscurity. On the other, economic, environmental and geopolitical convulsions creajte a sense of collective catastrophe that seems to deflate the very idea of individual aspiration. So how does that make them feel? Mel Smith, who works for the Youth Support Service as part of the Transition to Adulthood(T2 A)Alliance, which was established to provide support for young adults in the criminal justice system, explains how some of the people she works with find that their age makes them even more vulnerable. " It"s a very difficult time, the very early twenties, because of the way that a lot of the support is set up, " she says. " As they reach age milestones, they move from youth to adult services; they may find themselves moved to a different service just because they"ve had a birthday. " When Thomas Viney, a 27-year-old graduate living in London, read a lengthy article in The New York Times arguing that the delayed adulthood experienced by many twentysomethings constituted a new developmental life stage, he felt the need to respond. He wrote that by the time his parents were his age, they had established a household, had children, got proper jobs, started savings schemes and pension plans and, more generally, had learnt to look after themselves. By contrast, he had amassed little of any tangible value and his life, punctuated by amusing but random interactions with his mates, seemed more defined by aimlessness than purpose. When a girlfriend said she thought she was pregnant(she wasn"t), the cold wave of responsibility was enough to sweep him completely off his feet. Viney believes that his experience is not simply a typical twentysomething scenario but indicative of a far more damaging malaise. "A lot of people in my generation, " he tells me, "were brought up to think that they were very special and that they had something to contribute to the world—not through hard work, but through the arts. I think we"re lost; that we no longer think it"s OK to knuckle down and apply ourselves, because that isn"t the life that we were promised. " His upbringing was middle class, rather than wealthy, but he feels that it took place against the backdrop of what he calls a time of "biblical" plenty and abundance. He also says that his generation has been "encouraged to enjoy ourselves" , that there"s something wrong with you if you don"t and that there will be few consequences to a life of hedonism. As a result, he and his friends, with a couple of exceptions, have barely a serious job or stable domestic environment among them. Viney himself, though, is taking a few tentative steps towards serious adulthood, working in publishing and writing in his spare time. What he has learnt, he says, is that for all that his parents had to sacrifice, they gained far more than they lost. Facebook, as everyone but a Martian knows, was founded by a bunch of precocious youths. Apart from all the online games, groups, jokes and pokes, probably the most recognisable feature of Facebook is the "status update". But what might the status update of this disparate bunch be? How would they encapsulate all the exuberance, anxiety, yearning and joyfulness that being twentysomething brings? Perhaps something like: "Status pending. Update to follow. Don"t wait up. "