单选题Autobiographical advertising can ______consumers' past memories about the Product or brand.(2013年10月中国科学院考博试题)

单选题The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 was ______of United States policy concerning the activities and rights of European powers in North and South America.

单选题The rear section of the brain does not contract with age, and one can continue living without intellectual or emotional faculties.

单选题One of the real services of the historical novel is not that it can be a substitute for history, but that it can be a(n) extension.

单选题Those who ______ the weather as a conventional opening seem to be ignorant of the reason why human beings wish to talk.

单选题He will ______resign in view of the complete failure of the research project.(2011年四川大学考博试题)

单选题Linda could not refuse, ______she foresaw little pleasure in the visit. A. since B. for C. though D. when

单选题The Commission found instances where police officers had lied under oath, ______ evidence, neglected black prisoners and wrongly imprisoned Aborigines. A. entailed B. fabricated C. cleansed D. precluded

单选题The star of the show is a ______ performer who acts, sings, and dances with equal facility. A. changeable B. pretentious C. versatile D. near-sighted

单选题Some economists maintain that______.

单选题We've ______ sugar. Ask Mrs. Jones to lend us some. A. run away with B. run out of C. run off D. run down

单选题The criminal's______ for leniency was ignored by the jurors.(2002年复旦大学考博试题)

单选题An experiment can be ______ by poor planning.

单选题In that country the coins are so ______ that one has to carry great quantities to make a single purchase.

单选题Open up most fashion magazines and you will see incredibly thin models with impossible hair and wearing unreasonably expensive, impracticably styled clothes. But shouldn"t clothes be comfortably durable and make a principle of being simple for the individual who wears them? Why are we constantly told that we need to buy new clothes and add fresh pieces to our collection? Fashions change year after year so lots of people can make piles of money. If folks are convinced that they need a different look each season, that this year"s sweater"s length and shoes style are important, they can be persuaded to buy. The fashion industry would have you ignore your shortcomings and just make you feel beautiful and happy. In fact it is not only a phenomenon we can find in people"s dressing. Fashion controls our lives. Fashion controls what we wear, what we eat, what we drink, the way we cut our hair, the makeup we buy and use, the color of the cars we drive. Fashion even controls our ideas. You don"t believe me? How many of your friends are vegetarians? Why are they vegetarians? Because it is fashionable! Where does fashion come from? Often the reasons are quite logical. Scientists and historians study the fashions of the past and discover the secrets of each fashion. When girls see an attractive guy, their blood pressure rises and their lips become redder. That"s why guys think that girls wearing lipstick are beautiful. Why do guys shave their heads? In the past soldiers shaved their heads to kill the insects that lived in their hair. Now guys shave their heads so that they look strong and masculine, like soldiers. People spend a lot of time and money on fashion. But are they wasting their money? Changes in fashion help to develop new technologies. Changes in style create work for people all over the world. Many people work in the fashion industry, particularly in the fashion capitals of London, New York, Paris and Milan. And finally, fashion makes you feel good, doesn"t it? When you are dressed in the latest style, dancing to the most fashionable music, after watching the latest hit film, you feel great, don"t you?

单选题BBC's Casualty programme on Saturday evening gave viewers a vote as to which of two patients should benefit from a donation. But it failed to tell us that we would not need to make so many life-and-death decisions if we got to grip with the chronic organ shortage. Being pussyfooting around in its approach to dead bodies, the Government is giving a kicking to some of the most vulnerable in our society. One depressing consequence of this is that a significant number of those on the waiting list take off to foreign countries to purchase an organ from a living third-world donor, something that is forbidden in the United Kingdom. The poor have no option but to wait in vain. The Human Tissue Authority's position on the retention of body parts for medical research after a post-mortem examination is equally flawed. The new consent forms could have been drafted by some evil person seeking to stop the precious flow of human tissue into the pathological laboratory. The forms are so lengthy that doctors rarely have time to complete them and, even if they try, the wording is so graphic that relatives tend to leg it before signing. In consequence, the number of post mortems has fallen quickly. The wider worry is that the moral shortsightedness evident in the Human Tissue Act seems to infect every facet of the contemporary debate on medical ethics. Take the timid approach to embryonic stem cell research. The United States, for example, refuses government funding to scientists who wish to carry out potentially ground-breaking research on the surplus embryos created by IVF treatment. Senators profess to be worried that embryonic research fails to respect the dignity of "potential persons". Rarely can such a vacuous concept have found its way into a debate claiming to provide enlightenment. When is this "potential" supposed to kick in? In case you were wondering, these supposedly precious embryos are at the same stage of development as those that are routinely terminated by the Pill without anyone crying. Thankfully, the British Government has refused the position of the United States and operates one of the most liberal regimes in Europe, in which licences have been awarded to researchers to create embryos for medical research. It is possible that, in years to come, scientists will be able to grow organs in the lab and find cures for a range of debilitating diseases. The fundamental problem with our approach to ethics is our inability to separate emotion from policy. The only factor that should enter our moral and legal deliberations is that of welfare, a concept that is meaningless when applied to entities that lack self-consciousness. Never forget that the research that we are so reluctant to conduct upon embryos and dead bodies is routinely carried out on living, pain-sensitive animals.

单选题There was a noisy ______ at the back of the hall when the speaker began his address.(2003年上海交通大学考博试题)