单选题The Pakistan government is leaning on the Taliban government to hand over Osama to save this entire region from catastrophe.

单选题Haven't I told you I don't want you keeping ______ with those awful riding-about bicycle boys?(2002年中国科学院考博试题)

单选题SCISSORS: TAILOR

单选题There were beautiful clothes ______in the shop windows.

单选题Leaving for work in plenty of time to catch the train will ______ worry about being late.

单选题 When it comes to the slowing economy, Ellen Spiro isn't biting her nails just yet. But the 47-year-old manicurist isn't cutting, filing or polish, ag as many nails as she'd like to, either. Most of her clients spend $ 12 to $ 50 weekly, but last month two longtime customers suddenly stopped showing up. Spero blames the softening economy. "I' m a good economic indicator," she says. "I provide a service that people can do without when they' re concerned about saving some dollars." So Spero is downscaling, shopping at middle-brow Dillard's department store near her suburban Cleveland home, instead of Neiman Marcus. "I don't know if other clients are going to abandon me, too," she says: Even before Alan Greenspan's admission that America's red-hot economy is cooling, lots of working folks had already seen signs of the slowdown themselves. From car dealerships to gap out- lets, sales have been lagging for months as shoppers temper their spending'. For retailers, who last year took in 24 percent of their revenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time. Already, experts say, holiday sales are off 7 percent from last year's pace. But don't sound any alarms just yet. Consumers seem only mildly concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy's long-term prospects even as they do some modest belt-tightening. Consumers say they're not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own for- tunes still feel pretty good. Home prices are holding steady in most regions. In Manhattan, "there's a new gold rush happening in the $4 million to $10 million range, predominantly fed by Wall Street bonuses," says broker Barbara Corcoran. to San Francisco, prices are still rising even as frenzied overbidding quiets. "Instead of 20 to 30 Offers, now maybe you only get two or three," says John Tealdi, a Bay Area real-estate broker. And most folks still feel pretty comfortable about their ability to find and keep a job. Many folks see silver linings to this slowdown. Potential home buyers would cheer for lower interest rates. Employers wouldn't mind a little fewer bubbles in the job market. Many consumers seem to have been influenced by stock-market swings, which investors now view as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom. Diners might see an upside, too. Getting a table at Manhattan's hot new Alain Ducasse restaurant used to be impossible. Not anymore. For that, Greenspan & Co. may still be worth toasting.

单选题He ______ Donald McHenry as ambassador to the United Nations.

单选题Over the past decade, American companies have tried hard to find ways to discourage senior managers from feathering their own nests at the expense of their shareholders. The three most popular reforms have been recruiting more outside directors in order to make boards more independent, linking bosses" pay to various performance measures, and giving bosses share options, so that they have the same long-term interests as their shareholders. These reforms have been widely adopted by America"s larger companies, and surveys suggest that many more companies are thinking of following their lead. But have they done any good? Three papers presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston this week suggest not. Start with those independent boards. On the face of it, dismissing the boss"s friends from the board and replacing them with outsiders looks a perfect way to make senior managers more accountable. But that is not the conclusion of a study by Professor James Westphal. Instead, he found that bosses with a boardroom full of outsiders spend much of their time building alliances, doing personal favors and generally pleasing the outsiders. All too often, these seductions succeed. Mr. Westphal found that, to a remarkable degree, "independent" boards pursue strategies that are likely to favor senior managers rather than shareholders. Such companies diversify their business, increase the pay of executives and weaken the link between pay and performance. To assess the impact of performance-related pay, Mr. Westphal asked the bosses of 103 companies with sales of over $1 billion what measurements were used to determine their pay. The measurements varied widely, ranging from sales to earnings per share. But the researcher"s big discovery was that bosses attend to measures that affect their own incomes and ignore or play down other factors that affect a company"s overall success. In short, bosses are quick to turn every imaginable system of corporate government to their advantage--which is probably why they are the people who are put in charge of things. Here is a paradox for the management theorists: any boss who cannot beat a system designed to keep him under control is probably not worth having.

单选题If you plant two apple trees in one square yard of land, and the trees' productivity ______ decline. A. is bound to B. is determined to C. is unlikely to D. is related to

单选题Motorola Inc., the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, will begin selling all of the technology needed to build a basic mobile phone to outside manufacturers, in a key change of strategy. The inventor of the call phone, which has been troubled by missteps compounded by a recent industry slump in sales, is trying to become a neutral provider of mobile technology to rivals, with an eye toward fostering a much larger market than it could create itself. The Chicago area-based company, considered to have the widest range of technologies needed to build a phone, said it planned to make available chips, a design layout for the computer beard, software, development tools and testing tools. Motorola has previously supplied mobile phone manufacturers with a couple of its chips, but this is the first time the company will offer its entire line of chips as well as a detailed blueprint. Mobile phones contain a variety of chips and components to control power, sound and amplification. Analysts .said they liked the new strategy but were cautious about whether Motorola's mobile phone competitors would want to buy the technology from a rival. The company, long known for its top-notch(等级) engineering culture, is hoping to profit from its mobile phone technology now that the basic technology to build a mobile phone has largely become a commodity. Motorola said it will begin offering the technology based on the next-generation GPRS (Global Packet Radio Service) standard because most mobile phone makers already have technology in place for current digital phones. GPRS offers faster access to data through "always on" network connections, and customers are charged only for the information they retrieve, rather than the length of download. Burgess said the new business will not conflict with Motorola's own mobile phone business because the latter will remain competitive by offering advanced features and designs. Motorola's phones have been criticized as being too complicated and expensive to manufacture, but Burgess said Motorola will simplify the technology in the phones by a third. In addition to basic technology, Burgess said, Motorola would also offer additional features such as Bluetooth, a technology that allows wireless communications at a short distance, and Global Positioning System, which tracks the user's whereabouts, and MP3 audio capability.

单选题Without fanfare or legislation, the government is orchestrating a quiet revolution in how it regulates new medicines. The revolution is based on the idea that the sicker people are, the more freedom they should have to try drugs that are not yet fully tested. For fifty years government policy has been driven by another idea: the fear that insufficiently tested medicines could cause deaths and injuries. The urgent needs of people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, and the possibility of meeting them with new drugs have created a compelling countervailing force to the continuing concern with safety. As a result, government rules and practices have begun to change. Each step is controversial. But the shift has already gone far beyond AIDS. New ways are emerging for very sick people to try some experimental drugs before they are marketed. People with the most serious forms of heart disease, cancer, emphysema, Alzheimer' s or Parkinson' s disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, diabetes, or other grave illnesses can request such drugs through their doctors and are likelier to get them than they would have been four years ago. "We've been too rigid in not making lifesaving drugs available to people who otherwise face certain death," says Representative Henry Waxman, of California, who heads the subcommittee that considers changes in drug-approval policies. "It's true of AIDS, but it's also true of cancer and other life- threatening diseases." For the first time, desperate patients have become a potent political force for making new medicines available quickly. People with AIDS and their advocates, younger and angrier than most heart-disease or cancer patients, are drawing on two decades of gay activists' success in organizing to get what they want from politicians. At times they found themselves allied with Reagan Administration deregulators, scientists, industry representatives, FDA staff members, and sympathetic members of Congress. They organized their own clinical trials and searched out promising drugs here and abroad. The result is a familiar Washington story: a crisis—AIDS—helped crystallize an informal coalition for reform. AIDS gave new power to old complaints. As early as the 1970s the drug industry and some independent authorities worried that the Food and Do, g Administration' s testing requirements were so demanding that new drugs were being unreasonably delayed. Beginning in 1972, several studies indicated that the United States had lost its lead in marketing new medicines and that breakthrough drugs—those that show new promise in treating serious or life-threatening diseases— had come to be available much sooner in other countries. Two high-level commissions urged the early release of breakthrough drugs. So did the Carter Administration, but the legislation it pro- posed died in Congress. Complaints were compounded by growing concern that "if we didn't streamline policies, red tape wot, Id be an obstacle to the development of the biotechnology revolution," as Frank E. Young, who was the head of the FDA from 1984 to 1989, put it in an interview with me. Young was a key figure in the overhaul of the FDA's policies. A pioneer in biotechnology and a former dean of the University of Rochester's medical school, he came to Washington with an agenda and headed the agency for five and a half years—longer than anyone else has since the 1960s. Young took the FDA job to help introduce new medicines created by biotechnology-- whose promise he had seen in his own gene-cloning lab--and to get experimental medicines to desperately iii people more quickly. He had seen people die waiting for new medicines because "they were in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said. That is now changing.

单选题Because the ______still refused to cooperate, the lawyer washed his hands of the entire case.

单选题The new biotechnology procedure discussed in this passage mainly concerns ______.

单选题Hutu extremists in government organized the killing and used state radio stations to urge ordinary people to crush the cockroaches-- a Hutu ______ for Tutsis, A. cursor B. irregularity C. slur D. amende

单选题Sulphur is one of the oldest, cheapest, and most useful minerals in the world. Yellowish or greenish in (1) , this odorless material is found in the earth in a crystal form. We have discovered thousands of (2) for it. For this reason, every man, woman, and child in America (3) about seventy-five pounds of it each year. Until 1900 almost all of the world's supply of sulphur came from the Italian (4) of Sicily. Since then America has discovered how to mine its own vast supplies found in Texas and Louisiana. Spain, Mexico, and South America are also (5) for it. (6) , we know there are trillions of tons of sulphur in our oceans. In Sicily sulphur was found near the earth's surface, but American miners had to learn (7) to extract sulphur from 1200 to 1500 feet underground. There were many years of experiments. Then they finally found the (8) . Several pipes were drilled down to the sulphur deposits. Some of them carried boiling water, causing the sulphur to (9) . Then other pipes carried the mineral up and (10) of the earth in a liquid form. Most people do not realize that the manufacture of many common articles (11) on sulphur. Some farmers use compounds of this mineral to (12) insects and plant pests. It is an important ingredient in the manufacture of paper pulp, (13) is used for our books and magazines. Researchers have found that some forms of sulphur can be used in fighting infections. Therefore many (14) include this mineral. Gunpowder, camera and X-ray film, and mbber tires also (15) sulphur. About eighty percent of all the sulphur (16) goes into the manufacture of sulphurie acid. In its pure form it has no (17) . However, sulphide compounds (18) have the strong smell of rotten eggs. Although most sulphurie acid is used to make fertilizers and to refine petroleum, it is an ingredient in hundreds of other commodities (19) , from textiles to glue, food preservatives, paint, and (20) glass.

单选题Pine trees, of which them am almost one hundred ______, are found throughout the North Temperate Zone.

单选题The slogan "scientific truth is a matter of social authority" has become dogma to many academic interest groups who have been ______ themselves to substitute their authority for that of the practicing scientists.(2006年中国社会科学院考博试题)

单选题All the prisoners will be ______ in five months.

单选题Trees that ______ the view of the oncoming traffic should be cut down. A. block B. inhibit C. spoil D. alter