单选题The only way he escaped from the bitter reality was to lose himself in a movie, allowing his imagination to ______, viewing himself as a character in it.

单选题The initial consonants are identical in alliteration. (南开大学2004研)

单选题France will lower its tax rate on food and drinks at restaurants in hopes of ______ tourists and locals to struggling cafes, which means a saving of $7.05 on a $50 meal.

单选题Around 1960, computer software is greatly improved and the first programming languages appeared.

单选题The highest office in the judiciary in the U. K. is______.

单选题Which of the following is NOT included in G. Leech"s seven types of meaning?(大连外国语学院2008研)

单选题Our lives are not only dominated by the inanities of our contemporaries but also by those of men who have been dead for generations. This is important to stress because it shows us that even in the areas where society apparently allows us some choice the powerful hand of the past narrows down this choice even further. Let us take for example, a scene in which a pair of lovers are silting in the moonlight. Let us further imagine that this moonlight session turns out to be the decisive one, in which a proposal of marriage is made and accepted. They who are dead have long ago written the script for almost every move that is made. The notion that sexual attraction can be translated into romantic emotion was cooked up by misty-voiced minstrels titillating the imagination of aristocratic ladies about the 12th century or thereabouts. The idea that a man should fixate his sexual drive permanently and exclusively on one single woman, with whom he is to share a bed, bathroom and the boredom of a thousand bleary-eyed breakfasts, was produced by misanthropic theologians some time before that. And the assumption that the initiative in the establishment of this wondrous arrangement should be in the hands of the male, with the female graciously succumbing to the impetuous onslaught of his wooing, goes back right to prehistoric times when savage warriors first descended on some peaceful matriarchal hamlet and dragged away its screaming daughters to their marital cots. Just as all these hoary ancients have decided the basic framework within which the passions of our exemplary couple will develop, so each step in their courtship has been predefined, prefabricated—if you like, "fixed". It is not only that they are supposed to fall in love and to enter into a monogamous marriage in which she gives up her name and he his solvency, but this love must be manufactured at all cost or the marriage will seem insincere to all concerned. Each step in their courtship is laid down in social ritual also, and, although there is always some leeway for improvisations, too much ad-libbing is likely to risk the success of the whole operation. In this way, our couple progresses predictably from movie dates to church dates to meeting-the-family dates, from holding hands to tentative explorations to what they originally planned to save for afterwards, from planning their evening to planning their suburban ranch house—with the scene in the moonlight put in its proper place in this ceremonial sequence. Neither of them has invented this game or any part of it. They have only decided that it is with each other, rather than with other possible partners, that they will play it. Family, friends, clergy, salesmen of jewelry and of life insuranee, florists and interior decorators ensure that the remainder of the game will also be played by the established rules. Nor, indeed, do all these guardians of tradition have to exert much pressure on the principal players, since the expectations of their social world have long ago been built into their own projections of the future—they want precisely that which society expects of them.

单选题The opinion that "Errors show that the learner has not changed his mother tongue habits into desired habits of the new language" is very likely to be held by______.

单选题Every man in this country has the right to live where he wants to, ______the color of his skin.

单选题Being color-blind, Sally can't make a______between red and green.

单选题The idea that the human personality is a blank slate, to be written upon only by experience, prevailed for most of the second half of the 20th century. Over the past two decades, however, that notion has been undermined. Studies comparing identical with non-identical twins have helped to establish the heritability of many aspects of behaviour, and examination of DNA has uncovered some of the genes responsible. Recent work on both these fronts suggests that happiness is highly heritable. As any human being knows, many factors govern whether people are happy or unhappy. External circumstances are important: employed people are happier than unemployed ones and better-off people than poor ones. Age has a role, too; the young and the old are happier than the middle-aged. But personality is the single biggest determinant: extroverts are happier than introverts, and confident people happier than anxious ones. That personality, along with intelligence, is at least partly heritable is becoming increasingly clear; so, presumably, the tendency to be happy or miserable is, to some extent, passed on through DNA. To try to establish just what that extent is, a group of scientists from University College, London examined over 1, 000 pairs of twins from a huge study on the health of American adolescents. They conclude that about a third of the variation in people's happiness is heritable. That is along the lines of, though a little lower than, previous estimates on the subject. But while twin studies are useful for establishing the extent to which a characteristic is heritable, they do not finger the particular genes at work. One of the researchers, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve has tried to do just that, by picking a popular suspect—the gene that encodes the serotonin-transporter protein, a molecule that shuffles a brain messenger called serotonin through cell membranes—and examining how variants of that gene affect levels of happiness. Serotonin is involved in mood regulation. Serotonin transporters are crucial to this job. The serotonin-transporter gene comes in two functional variants—long and short. The long one produces more transporter-protein molecules than the short one. People have two versions(known as alleles)of each gene, one from each parent. So some have two short alleles, some have two long ones, and the rest have one of each. The adolescents in Dr. De Neve's study were asked to grade themselves from very satisfied to very dissatisfied. Dr. De Neve found that those with one long allele were 8% more likely than those with none to describe themselves as very satisfied; those with two long alleles were 17% more likely. Which is interesting. Where the story could become controversial is when the ethnic origins of the volunteers are taken into account. All were Americans, but they were asked to classify themselves by race as well. On average, the Asian Americans in the sample had 0. 69 long genes, the black Americans had 1.47 and the white Americans had 1. 12. That result sits comfortably with other studies showing that, on average, Asian countries report lower levels of happiness than their GDP per head would suggest. African countries, however, are all over the place, happinesswise. But that is not surprising, either. Africa is the most genetically diverse continent, because that is where humanity evolved. Black Americans, mostly the descendants of slaves carried away from a few places in west Africa, cannot possibly be representative of the whole continent. These studies may be a few steps too far along the road to genetic determinism for some people. But there is growing interest in the study of happiness, not just among geneticists but also among economists and policymakers dissatisfied with current ways of measuring humanity's achievements. Future work in this field will be read avidly in those circles.

单选题Germany, Europe"s economic powerhouse, does not lack courage: it rebounded from two world wars, digested reunification and has now powered ahead of neighbors still reeling from the financial crisis. It overhauled a rigid labor market and raised the retirement age to 67 with little fuss. Most recently, it simply decided to abandon nuclear power. With this boldness at the top comes obedience at the bottom—82 million Germans will wait at a pedestrian red light, even with no car in sight. But when it comes to empowering women, no Teutonic drive or respect seems to work—even under one of the world"s most powerful women, Chancellor Angela Merkel. Despite a batch of government measures and ever more passionate debate about gender roles, only about 14 percent of German mothers with one child resume full-time work, and only 6 percent of those with two. All 30 German stock index companies are run by men. Nationwide, a single woman presides on a supervisory board: Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah at Henkel. Eighteen months after the International Herald Tribune launched a series on the state of women in the 21st century with a look at Germany, the country has emerged as a test case for the push-and-pull of economics and tradition. For the developed world, Germany"s situation suggests that puzzling out how to remove enduring barriers to women"s further progress is one of the hardest questions to solve. In all European countries, from the traditionally macho southern rim to more egalitarian Nordic nations, the availability and affordability of child care, intertwined with traditional ideas about gender roles, have proved key factors in determining gender equality. The nature of male networks is another telling factor. Women remain a striking minority in top corporate circles, even in fiercely egalitarian countries like Sweden or the US where opportunities often go with one"s abilities. Very few countries approach 20 percent female representation on corporate executive boards. Yet if Swedish executive suites boast 17 percent women and the United States and Britain 14 Percent, in Germany it is 2 percent—as in India, according to McKinsey"s 2010 Women Matter report. One of the countries in most need of female talent—German birthrate is among the lowest in Europe and labor shortages in skilled technical professions are already 150,000—Germany is a place where gender stereotypes remain engrained in the mind, and in key institutions across society.

单选题The actual production and comprehension of the speech by speakers of a language is called ______. (北二外2010研)

单选题The airstream provided by the lungs has to undergo a number of modifications to acquire the quality of a speech sound.

单选题The author seems to be mainly concerned with most fisheries' ______.

单选题Bilabial consonant is produced when the obstruction is partial and the air is forced through a narrow passage.（对外经贸2006研)

单选题But for me, none of this matched the experience of simply meandering around Pingyao"s unheralded back streets.

单选题Verbal dueling, the use of language for the sheer joy of using it, is mainly to do with the______ function of language.

单选题Obstruction between the back of the tongue and the velar area results in the pronunciation of

单选题The word "talking,(Line 5, Paragraph 3) denotes ______.