单选题It isn' t quite______that he will be present at the meeting.

单选题The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seemingly ______ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.

单选题You must insist that students give a truthful answer ______with the reality of their world.

单选题By componential analysis, BECOME(x,(~ ALIVE(x)))is an explanation of______.(西安外国语学院2006研)

单选题It is necessary that an efficient worker______his work on time.

单选题All the words in a language can be used to refer to, but only some have senses.

单选题Although money is always useful, it isn"t all______.

单选题Reference is one of the rarely used cohesive devices. (南开大学2005研)

单选题Their financial success has______jealousy among their neighbors.

单选题Discussion of the assimilation of Puerto Ricans in the United States has focused on two factors: social standing and the loss of national culture. In general, excessive stress is placed on one fact or the other, depending on whether fine commentator is North American or Puerto Rica. Many American Social scientists, such as Oscar Handlin, Joseph Fitzpatrick, and Oscar Lewis, consider Puerto Ricans as the most recent in a long line of ethnic entrants to occupy the lowest rung on the social ladder. Such a "socio-demographic" approach tends to regard assimilation as a benign process, taking for granted increased economic advantage and inevitable cultural integration, in a supposedly egalitarian context. However, this approach fails to take into account the colonial nature of the Puerto Rican case, with this group, unlike their European predecessors, coming from a nation politically subordinated to the United States. Even the "radical" critiques of this mainstream research model, such as the critique developed in Divided Society, attach the issue of ethnic assimilation too mechanically to factors of economic and social mobility, and are thus unable to illuminate the cultural subordination of Puerto Ricans as a colonial minority. In contrast, the "Colonialist" approach of island-based writers such as Eduardo Seda-Bonilla, Manuel Maldonado-Denis, and Lius Nieves-Falcon tends to view assimilation as the forced loss of national culture in an unequal contest with imposed foreign values. There is, of course, a strong tradition of culture accommodation among other Puerto Rican thinkers. The writings of Eugenio Fernandez Mendez clearly exemplify this tradition, and many supporters of Puerto Rico"s commonwealth status share the same universalizing orientation. But the Puerto Rican intellectuals who have written most about the assimilation process in the United States all advance cultural nationalist views, advocating the preservation of minority cultural distinctions and rejecting what they see as the subjugation of colonial nationalities. This cultural and political emphasis is appropriate, but the colonialist thinkers misdirect it, overlooking the class relations at work in both Puerto Rican and North American history. They pose the clash of national cultures as absolute polarity, with each culture understood as static and undifferentiated. Yet both the Puerto Rican and North American traditions have been subject to constant challenge from cultural forces within their own societies; forces that may move toward each other in ways that cannot be written off as mere "assimilation". Consider, for example, the indigenous and Afro-Caribbean traditions in Puerto Rican culture and how they influence and are influenced by other Caribbean cultures and Black cultures in the United States. The elements of Coercion and inequality, so central to cultural contact according to the colonialist framework, play no role in this kind of convergence of racially and ethnically different elements of the same class.

单选题Sometimes it seems home baking is a tradition that has______disappeared.

单选题"Competence" and "performance" are two distinctive terms proposed by Saussure.（北二外2005研)

单选题The speaker claimed that (no other) modem nation devotes (so small) a portion of its wealth to public assistance and health (than) the United States (does).

单选题Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of a(n)【C1】______should be made even before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, 【C2】______, most persons make several job choices during their working live, partly 【C3】______economic and industrial changes and partly to improve their positions. The " one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should therefore【C4】______into a broad flexible training program that will fit them for a field of【C5】______rather than for a single job. Unfortunately many young people, knowing little about the occupational world or themselves for that matter, choose their lifework【C6】______a hit-or-miss basis. Some【C7】______from job to job. Others【C8】______to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for【C9】______real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents—choose the professional field, 【C10】______both the relatively small proportion of work vacancies in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal【C11】______. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "white-collar" job is 【C12】______good reason for choosing it as a life's wore. 【C13】______, these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the majority of young people should give serious consideration to these fields. Before making an "occupational choice" , a person should have a general idea of what he wants 【C14】______life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take 【C15】______for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.

单选题The novel______launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.

单选题Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own【C1】______the turn of the century when jazz was born, America had no prominent【C2】______of its own. No one knows exactly when jazz was【C3】______, or by whom. But it began to be【C4】______in the early 1900s. Jazz is America' s contribution to【C5】______music. In contrast to classical music, which【C6】______formal European traditions, jazz is spontaneous nod free-form. It bubbles with energy, 【C7】______the moods, interests, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s, jazz【C8】______like America. And【C9】______it does today. The【C10】______of this music are as interesting as the music【C11】______. American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, were the jazz【C12】______They were brought to the Southern states【C13】______slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long【C14】______When a Negro died his friends and relatives【C15】______a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanies the【C16】______. On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion. 【C17】______on the way home the mood changed. Spirits fired. Death had removed one of their【C18】______, but the living were glad to be alive. The band played【C19】______music, improvising on both the harmony and the melody of the times【C20】______at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of jazz.

单选题Those part-time students expected A to offer some jobs B on campus C during the D coming summer vacation.

单选题Point out which item does not fall under the same category as the rest, and explain the reason in ONE sentence. (南京大学2007研)

单选题Not one of all the purple hostWho took the flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory! As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden earThe distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!The first line of the following poem is______.

单选题- Mr. Smith, I wonder if you are free this afternoon. We" d like you to come to our party.