单选题These glass wares are too ______ to survive long transportation by land.

单选题(No wonder) that (man's) great dream has been someday to control the weather. The first step toward control is knowledge, and scientists have been (hard at work) for years trying to (keep track for) the weather.A. No wonderB. man'sC. hard at workD. keep track for

单选题I'm ______ about how you discovered my website, and am very glad if you enjoy it.

单选题Woman: Professor White’s presentation seemed to go on forever. I was barely able to stay awake. Man: How could you sleep through it? It is one of the best that I have ever heard on this topic. Question: What does the man think of Professor White’s presentation?

单选题As a famous leader of human rights movement, Martin Luther King {{U}}detested{{/U}} injustice.

单选题 Money is a key element in economic and business activities and has been the theme of many witty remarks. Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Money makes money, and the money{{U}} (61) {{/U}}makes, makes more money." To most of us, money is {{U}}(62) {{/U}}but the currency of a country. But to some people, money is either the best friend or the worst demon. To{{U}} (63) {{/U}},however, money is a subject for study and for something to be money, it must at{{U}} (64) {{/U}}have the following characteristics: portability, divisibility, stability, durability and acceptability. {{U}} (65) {{/U}}, nowadays, money has got a lot of{{U}} (66) {{/U}}: credit cards, debit cards, access cards, IC cards, etc, but they are usually{{U}} (67) {{/U}}plastic money or electronic money, because they are used like money.{{U}} (68) {{/U}}a credit card, for example, you can buy books and ties, pay your restaurant bills and taxi fares. You can{{U}} (69) {{/U}}make a small overdraft if you cannot make your{{U}} (70) {{/U}}meet this month. "Don't{{U}} (71) {{/U}}home without it," American Express, one of the leading credit card issuers once{{U}} (72) {{/U}}us. For many,{{U}} (73) {{/U}}a reminder is no{{U}} (74) {{/U}}necessary, because the plastic money is so safe and so convenient that many people{{U}} (75) {{/U}}leave home without cash but never without a credit card.

单选题A: I can't read with only that little lamp on. B: ______.

单选题If sustainable competitive advantage depends on work force skills, American firms have a problem. Human management is not traditionally seen as central to the competitive survival of the firm in the United States. Skill acquisition is considered as individual responsibility. Labor is simply another force of production to be hired/rented at the lowest possible cost, which is a must as one buys raw material or equipment. The lack of importance attached to human resource management can be seen in the corporate pecking order. In an American firm the chief financial officer is almost always second in command. The post of head of human resource management is usually a specialized job, off at the edge of the corporate hierarchy. The executive who holds it is never consulted on major strategic decisions and has no chance to move up to Chief Executive Officer. By way of contrast, in Japan the head of human resource management is central—usually the second most important executive, after the CEO, in the firm's hierarchy. While American firms often talk about the vast amounts spent on training their work force, in fact, they invest less in the skills of their employees than do either Japanese or German firms. The money they do invest is also more highly concentrated on professional or managerial employees. And the limited investments that are made in training workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies. As a result, problems emerge when new breakthrough technologies arrive. If American workers, for example, take much longer to learn how to operate new flexible manufacturing stations than workers in Germany (as they do), the effective cost of those stations is lower in Germany than it is in the United States. More time is required before equipment is up and running at the speed with which new equipment is up and running at capacity, and the need for extensive retraining generates costs and creates bottlenecks that limit the speed with which new equipment can be employed. The result is a slower pace of technological change. And in the end the skills of the bottom half of the population affect the wages of the top half. If the bottom half can't effectively staff the processes that have to be operated, the management and professional jobs that go with these processes will disappear.

单选题What accounts for the significant decline in humanistic studies today?

单选题The bat is a marvel of evolutionary adaptation. Most of them roost during the day, and are active at night or twilight for they can avoid objects in the dark. I have seen this phenomenon at work. In my youth I used to explore old mining shafts in the Randsburg district. Sometimes my intrusion disturbed clans of bats that were hanging upside down in the dark caves. They would fly about to evident panic, but the panic was mine, not theirs. Some flew crazily out into the daylight but some merely returned to their perches. None ever touched me, much to my relief. They may exist but I have never seen a stuffed nylon bat. To children, bats may not be as lovable as koala bears. Perhaps manufacturers do not regard them as marketable. It is not so much their hideous faces and winged bodies that have caused us to get rid of bats, but rather the ancient myths in which dead humans, such as Count Dracula, leave their graves at night in the form of bats to suck blood from human victims, especially fragile young woman. As we know from some movies these vampires must return to their graves before daylight. Endangered young women can frustrate vampire by sleeping with a string of garlic around their necks. There are actually three species of bloodsucking bats. They are called vampire bats after the ancient legends, and their tactics are indeed frightful. Like Count Dracula, they feed at night. They make a small cut in their sleeping victim with sharp incisor teeth, usually not even awakening their prey. Then they suck the blood that sustains them. Should that discourage children from wanting them as pets? As Mitchell notes from the New 'Yorker ad, bats are clean and intelligent. Most of them are insect-eaters, and they serve nature by destroying crop-damaging insects. They also pollinate (传授花粉) flowers and spreading seed. Bat Conservation International claims that without bats a host of insects/pests would multiply unchecked and many of our planet's most valuable plants would go unpollinated. It is clear that the bat is our friend, and that, despite its appearance, it is here to serve humanity. I'd be the first to buy a stuffed nylon bat. Children's hearts are big, and bats need love, too.

单选题 Although interior design has existed since the beginning of architecture, its development into a specialized field is really quite recent. Interior designers have become important partly because of the many functions that might be{{U}} (56) {{/U}}in a single large building. The importance of interior design becomes{{U}} (57) {{/U}}when we realize how much time we{{U}} (58) {{/U}}surrounded by four wails. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be{{U}} (59) {{/U}}attractive and comfortable as possible. We also expect{{U}} (60) {{/U}}place to be appropriate to its use. You would be{{U}} (61) {{/U}}ff the inside of your bedroom were suddenly changed to look{{U}} (62) {{/U}}the inside of a restaurant. And you wouldn't feel{{U}} (63) {{/U}}in a business office that has the appearance of a school. It soon becomes clear that the interior designer's most important{{U}} (64) {{/U}}is the function of the particular{{U}} (65) {{/U}}. For example, a theater with poor sight lines, poor sound-shaping qualities, and{{U}} (66) {{/U}}few entries and exits will not work for{{U}} (67) {{/U}}purpose, no matter how beautifully it might be{{U}} (68) {{/U}}. Nevertheless, it is not easy to make suitable{{U}} (69) {{/U}}for different kinds of space, lighting and decoration of everything from ceiling to floor. {{U}}(70) {{/U}}addition, the designer must usually select furniture or design built-in furniture according to the functions that need to be served.

单选题The picture illustrates the {{U}}compassion{{/U}} the artist has for his native land.

单选题The belief that the universe is improving and that good will __ triumph over evil prevails.

单选题The {{U}}daring{{/U}} young man rode through the Indian village trying to find his long-lost sister.

单选题Man: Need a hand with those boxes?Woman: That's OK. I can manage. They're empty.Question: What does the woman mean?

单选题Researchers say that like those literary romantics Romeo and Juliet, they may be blind to the consequences of their quests for an idealized mate who serves their every physical and emotional need. Nearly 19 in 20 never-married respondents to a national survey agree that "when you marry you want your spouse to be your soul mate, first and foremost. " according to the State of Our Unions ~ 2001 Study released Wednesday by Rutgers University. David Popenoe, a Rutgers sociologist and one of the study's authors, said that view might spell doom for marriages. "It really provides a very unrealistic view of what marriage really is," Popenoe said. "The standard becomes so high, it's not easy to bail out if you didn't find a soul mate. " The survey points to a fundamental dilemma in which younger people want more from the institution of marriage while they seemingly are unwilling to make the necessary commitments. The survey also suggests that some respondents expect too much from a spouse, including the kind of emotional support rendered by same-sex friends. The authors of the study also suggest that the generation that was polled may more quickly leave a marriage because of infidelity than past generations. Popenoe said the poll, conducted by the Gallup Organization, is the first of its kind to concentrate on people in their 20s. A total of 1,003 married and single young adults nationwide were interviewed by telephone between January and March. The margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points. Respondents said they eventually want to get married, realize it's a lot of work and think there are too many divorces. They believe there is one right person for them out there somewhere and think their own marriages won't end in divorce. Since the poll is the first of its kind, researchers say it is impossible to say if expectations about marriage are changing or static. But scholars say the search for soul mates has increased over the last generation—and the last century—as marriage has become an institution centering on romance rather than utility. "One hundred years ago, people married for financial reasons, for tying families together, they married for political reasons," said John Decameter, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. "And most people had children. " Those conditions are no longer the case for young adults like David Asher, a 24-year-old waiter in a Trenton care who has been in a relationship far about two years. He wants to wait to make sure he's ready to exchange vows. "I know a lot of it has to do with financial reasons," he said. "Maybe if you're going to have children, marriage is the best bet. " But the main reason for matrimony- "If you're in love with someone, it's sort of like promising to them you are in love. " "That's all well and good," said Heather Helms-Erikson, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "But passion—partly in endorphin-caused physiological phenomenon—has been known to diminish in time. /

单选题When taken in large quantities some drugs can cause {{U}}permanent{{/U}} brain damage.