单选题This is a market in which enterprising businesses ______ for the demands of teenagers and older youths in all their rock mania and pop-art forms. A. cater B. entitle C appeal D. subject

单选题During the 19th century, Jews in most European countries achieved some equality of status with non-Jews. Nonetheless, at times Jews were Uharassed/U by anti-Semitic groups.

单选题Directions: There are twenty blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet, The Japanese desire for marriage had been very strong. In the fifth "world youth attitude survey" {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}by the Management and coordination Agency in 1993, over 70 percent of the Japanese {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}chose the answers "One should get married" or "It’s better to get married." Of the 11 countries surveyed, Japan was {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}only by the Philippines in the percentage advocating marriage {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}opposed to a single life. In recent years, however, there has been a spreading recognition among the Japanese public that something {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}is happening in people's attitudes toward marriage. When they began to have adequate food, clothing and shelter years of postwar shortages and thus became able to {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}their attention to other matters, the Japanese for the first time {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}a renewed look at the question of marriage. In the 1990s,people began to ask "What on earth is marriage anyway?" and to talk about marriage itself. In Japan. the proportion of men still unmarried in their thirties reached about 20 percent in the national census taken in 1985, and the {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}apparently exceeded 30 percent in 1995, The proportion of unmarried women in the 25-29 age bracket has been increasing {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}about 5 percent every five years until it is now nearly 50 percent. What are the real reasons that women choose not to marry? Early on, two were {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}: women were now better educated and more women were interested in working outside the home. Many women have become {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}independent, acquiring enough self-confidence to {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}a meaningful life outside of marriage. And {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}seems to be a wide gap in the way men and women view marriage. Women generally believe that, {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}women's roles in Japan's postwar society have become diversified, men have essentially remained unchanged {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}such circumstances, communication between the sexes is, in fact, far from easy. Besides that, in the postwar Japan, individualism has begun to lake {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}. The 50 years since the end of the war be regarded as process of a {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}from the family-centered to the individual-centered way of thinking. In Japan today, society has matured to a point {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}it now tolerates a diversity of marriage styles which were unthinkable not very long ago. In the future, such tolerance is almost {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}to in-crease. But a headlong plunge toward unbridled individualism is also dangerous. The ideal {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}may be to achieve a complementary fusion of the collectivism of Japan's traditional community and the individual-ism of the new age.

单选题The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases (21) the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant (22) of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a (23) bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (24) and will strictly control the amount of (25) that can be given to a case (26) a trial begins In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he (27) with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not (28) sufficient control. (29) of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (30) of media protest when he said the (31) of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges (32) to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which (33) the European Convention on Human Rights legally (34) in Britain, laid down that everybody was (35) to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.

单选题Many Fine Art graduates take __________ professional practice as artists, and this course encourages them to consider their role as artists in the community by providing opportunities for short-term placements outside the Faculty.

单选题 There is no question that the old style of air pollution could kill people. In one week following the infamous "peasouper" fog in December 1952, 4, 700 people died in London. Most of these people were elderly and already had heart or lung diseases. A series of these killer fogs eventually led to the British Parliament passing the Clean Air Act which restricted the burning of coal. Fortunately the effect of smog on the lungs is not so dramatic. Scientists have now conducted a number of laboratory experiments in which volunteers are exposed to ozone inside a steel chamber for a few hours. Even at quite low concentrations there is a reversible fall in lung function, an increase in the irritability of the lungs and evidence of airway inflammation (发炎). Although irritable and inflamed lungs are particularly seen in people with asthma (哮喘) and other lung diseases, these effects of ozone also occur in healthy subjects. Similar changes are also seen after exposure to nitrogen dioxide, although there is some disagreement about the concentration at which they occur. Other studies have found that people living in areas with high levels of pollution have more symptoms and worse lung function than those living in areas with clean air. Groups of children attending school camps show falls in lung function even at quite low concentrations of ozone. There is also a relationship between ozone levels and hospital admissions for asthma, both in North America and Australia. It is suspected that long-term exposure to smog may result in chronic bronchitis (支气管炎) and emphysema (肺气肿), but this has yet to be proven. Recently an association has been found between the levels of particles in the air and death rates in North American cities. The reason for this association is not understood and as yet there is no evidence this occurs in Australia. However, we do know that hazy days are associated with more asthma attacks in children.

单选题The reception was attended by various ______ members of the local community and representatives of regional industries. A. protuberant B. conspicuous C. prominent D. projecting

单选题It can be concluded from the passage that modern advertising is authoritative because of the way it ______.

单选题You can then eliminate all ______ the genuinely suitable applicants without having to interview an enormous number of people in person. A. of B. that C. for D. but

单选题The two countries will assign counter-drug officials to their respective embassies on a______ basis.

单选题Hydrocarbons, ______ by engine exhausts, react with nitrogen oxides in the presence of sunlight to form complex toxic gases.

单选题It is a ______ of contemporary psychology that an individual's mental health is supported by having good social networks. A. maxim B motto C. discipline D. tenet

单选题It is in the school______he studied ten years ago______he gave a wonderful speech.

单选题Running can strengthen your heart and muscles, but ,it can damage your knee joints and the bones in your feet.

单选题When Le Corbusier draws on this experience later in his own work, it is the memory of the building as a foil to nature that guides his vision. A. tableau B. prototype C. facade D. counter-balance

单选题The poetry of Ezra Pound is sometimes difficult to understand because it contains so many ______ references. A. obscure B. acute C. notable D. objective

单选题The terrorists kidnapped the director of the company and demanded a large sums of money for his ______. A. liberty B. relief C. relaxation D. release

单选题We have at present not any ______ of the furniture as you required. A. mark B, inventory C. stock D. account