单选题I intend to move that our committee ______ Jim as chairman, and I hope that you will second my motion.

单选题The spring floods had washed away the bridge, we were forced to take a ______ route.

单选题The expedition has left for the Andes and there is no ______ when it will return. (2010年北京航空航天大学考博试题)

单选题The employees tried to avoid every risk that might ______ her displeasure during the first month after she was divorced by her husband.

单选题His desire to ______ other people has caused trouble in his family, A. please B. dominate C. force D. urge

单选题He has failed me so many times that I no longer place any ______ on what he promises. A. faith B. belief C. credit D. reliance

单选题Arriving anywhere with these possessions, he might just as easily put up for a month or a year as for a single day.

单选题In fact, there is perhaps only one human being (in) a thousand who (are) passionately interested in (his) job for the job's (sake).

单选题If you want this painkiller, you'll have to ask the doctor for a______.(中南大学2006年试题)

单选题Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an 31 should be made even before choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, 32 , most people make several job choices during their working lives, 33 because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve 34 position. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should 35 enter into a broad flexible training program that will 36 them for a field of work rather than for a single 37 . Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans 38 benefit of help from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing 39 about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss 40 . Some drift from job to job. Others 41 to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for 42 real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents for them—choose the professional field, 43 both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal 44 . The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "white-collar" job is 45 good reason for choosing it as life"s work. 46 , these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the 47 of young people should give serious 48 to these fields. Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants 49 life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some want security; others are willing to take 50 for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards.

单选题______ how the immature brain prevents seizure-induced cell injury or death could lead to new methods to reduce or prevent seizure damage in adults.

单选题Classified advertising is different to display advertising because ______.

单选题 Let's get out the dictionary and settle this dispute once and for all.

单选题It was raining heavily, little Mary felt cold, so she stood______to her mother.

单选题In a fit of______the sick man killed himself.

单选题Grandpa Wang, a famous painter, spent his life in a tranquil little farming cottage.

单选题Linguists have understood for decades that language and thought are closely related. Humans construct reality using thought and express these thoughts through the use of language. Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorl are credited with developing the most relevant explanation outlining the relationship between thought and language, the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. The hypothesis consists of two parts, linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism. Supporters of linguistic relativity assume that culture is shaped by language. Terwilliger defines linguistic determinism as the process by which "the functions of one's mind are determined by the nature of the language which one speaks." In simpler terms, the thoughts that we construct are based upon the language that we speak and the words that we use. In its strongest sense, linguistic determinism can be interpreted as meaning that language determines thought. In its weakest sense, language partially influences thought. Whorl was careful to avoid authoritative statements which would permanently commit him to particular position. Because of the broad nature of his statements, it is difficult to distinguish exactly to what extent Whorf believes that language determines thought. Heated debate among modern linguists demonstrates that disagreement exists about the accuracy and correctness of Whorf's studies and of the actual level of influence of language on thought processes. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis essentially consists of two distinct statements connecting the relation of thought and language. Whorf believes that humans may be able to think only about objects, processes, and conditions that have language associated with them. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis also explains the relationship between different languages (French, English, German, Chinese, and so on) and thought. Whorl demonstrated that culture is largely determined by language. Different cultures perceive the world in different ways. Culturally essential objects, conditions and processes usually are defined by a plethora of words, while things that cultures perceive as unimportant are usually assigned one or two words. Whorf developed this theory while studying the Hopi Indian tribe. Whorl was amazed that the Hopi language has no words for past, present, and future. The Hopi have only one word for flying objects. A dragonfly, an airplane, and a pilot are defined using the same word. Whorl questioned whether or not the Hopi view the world differently than western peoples. After further interpretation and analysis he concluded that the Hopi have a sense for the continuum of time despite having no words to specifically describe past, present, and future. It is commonly believed that the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis possesses some truth, but the extent to which it is applicable to all situations is questioned. Linguists generally sup port a "strong" or a "weak" interpretation. Linguists who study the hypothesis tend to cite examples that support their beliefs but are unable or unwilling to refute the opposing arguments. Examples exist that strengthen the arguments of everyone who studies the hypothesis. Nobody has gained significant ground in proving or refuting the hypothesis because the definitions of Sapir and Whorl are very vague and incomplete, leaving room for a significant amount of interpretation.

单选题{{B}}Passage Four{{/B}} Television is one of today's most powerful and widespread means of mass communication. It directly influences our lives on both a short and long-term basis; it brings worldwide situations into our homes; it affords extensive opportunities for acquiring higher education; and it performs these tasks in a convenient yet effective manner. We are all aware of the popularly accepted applications of television, particularly those relative to entertainment and news broadcasting. Television, however, has also been a vital link in unmanned deep space exploration (such as the Voyager Ⅰ and Ⅱ missions), in providing visions from hazardous areas (such as proximity to radioactive materials or environments) in underwater research, in viewing storms moving across a metropolitan area (the camera being placed in a weather-protective enclosure near the top of a tower) , etc. The earth's weather satellites also use television cameras for viewing cloud cover and movements from 20, 000 miles in space. Infrared filters are used for night views, and several systems include a spinning mirror arrangement to permit wide-area views from the camera. Realizing the unlimited applications for today's television, one may thus logically ponder the true benefits of confining most of our video activities to the mass-entertainment field. Conventional television broadcasting within the United States centres around free enterprise and public ownership. This requires funding by commercial sponsors, and thus functions in a revenue-producing business manner. Television in USSR-subjected areas, conversely, is a government-owned and maintained arrangement. While such arrangements eliminate the need for commercial sponsorship, it also has the possibility of limiting the type of programs available to viewers (a number of purely entertainment programs similar to the classic "Bewitched", however, have been seen on these government-controlled networks. All isn't as gray and dismal as the uninformed might unnecessarily visualize). A highly modified form of television called Slow-Scan TV is presently being used by many Amateur Radio operators to provide direct visual communications with almost any area of the world. This unique visual mode recently allowed people on the tiny South Pacific country of Pitcairn Island to view, for the first time in their lives, distant areas and people of the world. The chief radio Amateur and communications officer of Pitcairn, incidentally, is the legendary Tom Christian-great, great grandson of Tom Christian of "Mutiny on the Bounty" fame. Radio Amateurs in many lands worked together for several months establishing visual capabilities. The results have proven spectacular, yet the visual capabilities have only been used for health education, or welfare purposes. Commercial TV is still unknown to natives of that tiny country. Numerous other forms of television and visual communication have also been used on a semi-restricted basis. This indicates the many untapped areas of video and television which may soon be exploited on a more widespread basis. The old clich of a picture being worth a thousand words truly has merit.