单选题According to the weather forecast, which is usually ______. It will snow this afternoon.

单选题 A good night's sleep is believed to help slow the stomach's emptying, produce a smoother, less abrupt absorption of sugar, and will better ______ brain metabolism.

单选题Winds most often come from the coast, and are ______ dmp and not too cold.

单选题When he was asked about the missing camera, the boy ______ ever seeing it. (2003年西南财经大学考博试题)

单选题She often remains coldly remote from him; probably his badly scarred face produced an involuntary feeling of______in his neighbor.

单选题Now they think that their views about the president and his policies on Iraq, global warming or unilateralism have all been______, so why keep ranting? A. treacherous B. fraudulent C. avenged D. vindicated

单选题{{B}}Passage 2{{/B}} Men have often been praised by being told that they were as smart as a Philadelphia lawyer. No one knows why there is something special about Philadelphia lawyers, but the expression "smart as a Philadelphia lawyer" seems to have come from a famous trial early in the 18th century. An Englishman, William S. Cosby arrived in New York as the royal governor of the province. He was a tyrant. He wanted to make money quickly and he ruled the province with no thought for the law or the rights of the people. Among those who opposed his rule was John Peter Zinger who came to America from Germany. Mr. Zinger started a newspaper which praised liberty and sharply criticized the governor. Governor Cosby arrested Mr. Zinger, charged him with slander and kept him in prison for 9 months. Mr. Zinger could not find a New York lawyer to defend him because of the governor's power. But a leading lawyer from Philadelphia agreed to defend Mr. Zinger. He was Andrew Hamilton, white-haired and almost 80 years old. The trial opened, the jury chosen and charges read. At that time, the law on slander said that jury could decide only if the person accused published in the newspaper named in the charges. The question of whether words published were true or not was to be decided by the judge. Mr. Zinger told the court he was innocent. Then the lawyer from Philadelphia rose, admitted that Mr. Zinger did publish the newspaper as charged. But Mr. Hamilton continued. The publishing of a newspaper does not make a person guilty of slander. He said that words themselves must be proved false or slanderous; Otherwise Mr. Zinger is innocent. The judge warned Mr. Hamilton that he, the judge, would decide if the words were slanderous or not. Mr. Hamilton quickly turned to the jury and asked them to decide. He said that it was their right to decide whether the alleged slander was in fact the truth. In his final statement to the jury, Mr. Hamilton said the question was much bigger than the charges against Mr. Zinger. He said the question was liberty and right of people to oppose dishonesty and tyranny by speaking and writing the truth. After a brief discussion the jury declared that Mr. Zinger was not guilty and cheers broke out in the courtroom. The decision established the principle of freedom of the press in the American Colonies. Mr. Hamilton was praised as a hero. Through the years the fame of Mr; Zinger trial and praise for Mr. Hamilton has spread throughout the country. Anti so it is believed that the expression "as smart as a Philadelphia lawyer" honors the man from Philadelphia who successfully de- fended the freedom of the press to print the truth.

单选题 In most countries a PhD is a basic requirement for a career in academia. It is a(n) {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}to the world of independent research—a kind of intellectual {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}, created by an apprentice in close collaboration with a (n) {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}. The requirements to complete one {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}enormously between countries, universities and even {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Some students will first have to spend two years working on a {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}degree or diploma. Some will receive a stipend; others will {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}their own way. Some PhDs {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}only research, some require {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}and examinations and some require the student to teach undergraduates. A(n) {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}can be dozens of pages in mathematics, or many hundreds in history. As a result, newly minted PhDs can be as young as their {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}20s or world-weary forty-{{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}. One thing many PhD students have in {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}"slave labor". Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}a comment, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favorite flavor of {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}noodles. "It isn't graduate school itself that is discouraging, " says one student, who confesses to rather enjoying the hunt for free pizza. "What's discouraging is realizing the end point has been pulled out of reach. " Whining PhD students are nothing new, but there seem to be genuine problems {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}the system that produces research doctorates (the practical "professional doctorates" in fields such as law, business and medicine have a more obvious value). There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}as training for a job in academia, the number of PhD positions is {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}to the number of job openings.

单选题D. H. Lawrence was the fourth child of Arthur Lawrence and Lydia Beards all, and their first to have been born in Eastwood. Ever since their marriage in 1875, the couple had been on the move: Arthur's job as a miner had taken them where the best-paid work had been during the boom years of the 1870s, and they had lived in a succession of small and recently built grimy colliery villages all over Nottinghamshire. But when they moved to Eastwood in 1883, it was to a place where they would remain for the rest of their lives; the move seems to have marked a watershed in their early history. For one thing, they were settling down: Arthur Lawrence would work at Brinsley colliery until he retired in 1909. For another, they now had three small children and Lydia may have wanted to give them the kind of continuity in schooling they had never previously had. It was also the case that, when they came to Eastwood, they took a house with a shop window, and Lydia ran a small clothes shop: presumably to supplement their income, but also perhaps because she felt she could do it in addition to raising their children. It seems possible that, getting on badly with her husband as she did, she imagined that further children were out of the question. Taking on the shop may have marked her own bid for independence. Arthur's parents lived less than a mile away, down in Brinsley, while his youngest brother Walter lived only 100 yards away from them in another company house, in Princes Street. When the family moved to Eastwood, Arthur Lawrence was coming back to his own family's center: one of the reasons, for sure, why they stayed there. Lydia Lawrence probably felt, on the other hand, more as if she were digging in for a siege. Eastwood may have been home to Arthur Lawrence, but to Lydia it was just another grimy colliery village which she never liked very much and where she never felt either much at home or properly accepted. Her Kent accent doubtless made Midlands people feel that she put on airs.

单选题The apartheid government ______.

单选题Which of the following is true of distance education?

单选题Thousands of tired, nerve-shaking, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to mountains is going home; that wildness is necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vice of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can to mix and enrich their own little ongoings with those of Nature. A. tired, nerve-shaking, over-civilized B. the deadly apathy C. as best they can D. with those of Nature

单选题1 Crossing Wesleyan University's campus usually requires walking over colorful messa ges chalked on the ground. They can be as innocent as meeting announcements, but in a growing number of cases the language is meant to shock. It's not uncommon, for instance, to see lewd (淫荡的) references to professors' sexual preferences scrawled across a path or the mention of the word Nig' that African-American students say make them feel uncom fortable. In response, officials and students at schools are now debating ways to lead their com munities away from forms of expression that offend or harass (侵扰). In the process, they're butting up against the difficulties of regulating speech at institutions that pride themselves on fostering open debate. Mr. Bennet of Wesleyan says he had gotten used to seeing occasional chalkings filled with four-letter words. Campus tradition made any horizontal surface not attached to a building a potential billboard. But when chalkings began taking on a more threatening and lewd tone, Bennet decided to act. "This is not acceptable in a workplace and not accepta ble in an institution of higher learning," Bennet says. For now, Bennet is seeking input about what kind of message-posting policy the school should adopt. The student assembly recently passed a resolution saying the "right to speech comes with implicit responsibilities to respect community standards. " Other public universities have confronted problems this year while considering various ways of regulating where students can express themselves. At Harvard Law School, the recent controversy was more linked to the academic setting. Minority students there are seeking to curb what they consider harassing speech in the wake of a series of incidents last spring. At a meeting held by the "Committee on Healthy Diversity" last week, the school's Black Law Students Association endorsed a policy targeting discriminatory harassment. It would trigger a review by school officials if there were charges of "severe or pervasive con duct" by students or faculty. The policy would cover harassment based on, but not limited to, factors such as race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, and ethnic ity (种族划分). Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate, says other schools have adopted similar harass ment policies that are actually speech codes, punishing students for raising certain ideas. "Restricting students from saying anything that would be perceived as very unpleasant by another student continues uninterrupted," says Silverglate, who attended the Harvard Law town meeting last week.

单选题The announcement of the death of their beloved leader caused thereafter a feeling of great despair to ______ their lives.

单选题The playwright was known not for his original ideas but for his ______ of ideas that had been propounded by others. A. invention B. reiteration C. consideration D. rejection

单选题I think Kim would be great for the job. Her work record is ______.

单选题I'm sure that she'll cope with the changes very well; she is very______.(2004年湖北省考博试题)

单选题The basic causes are unknown, although certain conditions that may lead to cancer have been______.(2011年四川大学考博试题)

单选题The word "nomadic" in the sentence "How is this affected by whether a bird is nomadic.?" can best probably mean ______.

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. A. take up B. take on C. take off D. take over