单选题Text 4 All couples have problems and disagreements, so it's critical that they learn how to communicate about them in a way that will be helpful instead of making them worse. I do not believe that prescribing specific techniques for communicating is as helpful as focusing on the core attitudes behind the communication. My thoughts on effectively communicating about ANY difficult issue are in keeping with the ideas I used in the "assertiveness training" I did back in the 70s. What I learned was that I could tell people the "correct" words to use and "correct" body language, etc. to be "assertive" —but none of it worked unless it came from "inside" the person. In other words, your ability to communicate has more to do with your attitudes and beliefs about your "right to know" and the degree of "equality" in the relationship (or lack thereof) and the degree of "caring" involved between the two people than in whatever actual words or techniques you use. All these things are FAR more important than the "skills". You can't just "put on the skills like a coat" and have them work. As I said, the words need to come as an outgrowth of an attitude of genuinely wanting to effectively work on whatever problem is being discussed. Another similarity between learning how to effectively discuss a problem and how people learn to talk in an assertive manner is that even if you say everything "just right" (in accordance with the guidelines for using good communication skills), there is no guarantee that the other person will receive it in the way it is intended. For instance, with assertiveness, someone could perfectly execute an "assertive" conversation and still have it be interpreted as being "aggressive". One way of determining the specific words that are more likely to be effective is to think in terms of the "ego states" as defined by transactional analysis: "parent, adult, and child". You'll have more likelihood of success by approaching the discussion from all "adult", problem-solving way of talking, while avoiding using the "judgmental" words of a "parent" or the "hurt feelings" words of a "child". The bottom line is that you don't need specific communication skills so much as you need to approach any conversation with a certain attitude: that the clear goal is to "improve the relationship" rather than to just "criticize" and/or "change" the other person. With that spirit, you have a better chance of success; without it, all the communication skills in the world won't be enough.

单选题The policemen went into action ______ they heard the alarm. A. promptly B. presently C. quickly D. directly

单选题It is more important that she should be free ______ she should live a luxurious life.

单选题Barbara: Your help means everything. Just don't know I'll ever repay you. Kenneth: ______ . It's nothing! A. It's no big deal B. It's not a big thing to do C. It's worth mentioning D. It's not worth talking about

单选题(Economist) Adam Smith (published) his book The Wealth of Nations in 1776, (a year) also (notably) for the Declaration of Independence.

单选题Brazil has become one of the developing world"s great successes at reducing population growth—but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard. Brazil"s population growth rate has dropped from 2. 99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1. 93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2. 7 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries. Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas (通俗电视连续剧) and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world"s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil"s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the hig;h life in big cities. "Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values—not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working," says Martine. "They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package. " Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible (不相容的) with unlimited reproduction," says Martine. (293 words)

单选题The local people could hardly think of any good way to ______. poverty they had endured. A. shake off B. ward off C. put off D. take off

单选题Change, or the ability to (31) oneself to a changing environment is essential (32) evolution. The farmer whose land is required for housing or industry must adapt himself: he can transfer to another place and master the problems (33) to it; he can change his occupation, perhaps (34) a period of training; or he can starve to death. A nation which can't adapt its trade or defense requirements to (35) world conditions faces an economic and military disaster. Nothing is fixed and permanently stable. (36) must be movement forward, which is progress of a sort, and movement backward, which is decay and deterioration. In a changing world, tradition can be a force for good or for evil. (37) long as it offers a guide, it helps the ignorant and the uninformed to take a step (38) and, thereby adapt themselves to (39) circumstances. But if we make an idol of tradition, it ceases to be a guide. It becomes an obstacle (40) on the path of course. Man is to accept the help which tradition can give but to be well aware of its limitations in a changing world.

单选题Despite his occasional fondness for gambling, he is still considered as a good boy ______.

单选题The professor's lecture was so ______ that some of the students fell asleep during the class.

单选题Speaker A：Peter, I'm awfully sorry. I won't be able to come this Friday. Speaker B: What's the matter? ______ A. Nothing wrong, I hope. B. I'm really sorry for that. C. It's all right with me. D. You can come some other time.

单选题On the local market,______fruits and vegetables are now commonly sold.

单选题Within fifteen years Britain and other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the recycling of waste. The word rubbish could lose its meaning because everything that goes into the dumps would be made into something useful. Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else. The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out. The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city. This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but also paper and rubber as well. Another new project is being set up to discover the best ways of sorting and separating the rubbish. When this project is complete, the rubbish will be processed like this: first, it will pass through sharp metal bars which will tear open the plastic bags in which rubbish is usually packed; then it will pass through a powerful fan to separate the lightest elements from the heavy solids; after that grounders and rollers break up everything that can be broken. Finally the rubbish will pass under magnets, which will remove the bits of iron and steel; the rubber and plastic will then be sorted out in the final stage. The first full scale giant recycling plants are, perhaps, fifteen years away. Indeed, with the growing cost of transporting rubbish to more distant dumps, some big cities will-be forced to build their own recycling plants before long.

单选题We must Uarouse/U them to fight for their own security.

单选题Few airlines want to impose a total ban on their passengers using electronic devices because______.

单选题The Mona Lisa painting now hangs in the Musee du Louvre in Paris. The painting"s increasing fame was further emphasized when it was stolen on 21 August 1911. The next day, Louis Beroud, a painter, walked into the Louvre and went to the Salon Carre where the Mona Lisa had been on display for five years. However, where the Mona Lisa should have stood, he found four iron pegs. Beroud contacted the section head of the guards, who thought the painting was being photographed for marketing purposes. A few hours later, Beroud checked back with the section head of the museum, and it was confirmed that the Mona Lisa was not with the photographers. The Louvre was closed for an entire week to aid in investigation of the theft. French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had once called for the Louvre to be "burnt down," came under suspicion; he was arrested and put in jail. Apollinaire tried to implicate his friend Pablo Picasso, who was also brought in for questioning, but both were later exonerated. At the time, the painting was believed to be lost forever, and it was two years before the real thief was discovered. Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia had stolen it by entering the building during regular hours, hiding in a broom closet and walking out with it hidden under his coat after the museum had closed. Peruggia was an Italian patriot who believed Leonardo"s painting should be returned to Italy for display in an Italian museum. Peruggia may have also been motivated by a friend who sold copies of the painting, which would skyrocket in value after the theft of the original. After having kept the painting in his apartment for two years, Peruggia grew impatient and was finally caught when he attempted to sell it to the directors of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence; it was exhibited all over Italy and returned to the Louvre in 1913. Peruggia was hailed for his patriotism in Italy and only served six months in jail for the crime. During World War II , the painting was again removed from the Louvre and taken safely, first to Chateau d"Amboise, then to the Loc Dieu Abbey and Chateau de Chambo-rd, then finally to the Ingres Museum in Montauban. In 1956, the lower part of the painting was severely damaged when a vandal doused the painting with acid. On 30 December of that same year, a young Bolivian named Ugo Ungaza Villegas damaged the painting by throwing a rock at it. This resulted in the loss of a speck of pigment near the left elbow, which was later painted over. The use of bulletproof glass has shielded the Mona Lisa from more recent attacks. In April 1974, a handicapped woman, upset by the museum"s policy for the disabled, sprayed red paint at the painting while it was on display at the Tokyo National Museum. On 2 August 2009, a Russian woman, distraught over being denied French citizenship, threw a terra cotta mug or teacup, purchased at the museum, at the painting in the Louvre; the vessel shattered against the glass enclosure. In both cases, the painting was undamaged.

单选题The first Olympiad is said to have consisted ______ of a 200-yard foot race near the small city of Olympia. A. nearly B. completely C. merely D. identically