单选题The new guppies I bought have just a tinge of yellow.

单选题According to the passage, the pro-life and pre-choice positions on abortion are ______.

单选题Difficult as it is, English study is in the long run ______ to a learner in his or her career development.

单选题The child's earliest words deal with concrete objects and actions, it is much later that he is able to grapple with ______.

单选题Martin Luther King, Jr. persuaded his followers to bring the ________ of the American Negroes to the attention of the United Nations, but they did not act very effectively.

单选题There are signs______restaurants are becoming more popular with families. (中南大学2006年试题)

单选题That MGM Grand Youth Center is open to children 3-12 years old ______ what hotel they are staying in.

单选题To ______ the structural imbalances in the budget, and also in the economy the Administration has given its support to a constitutional amendment.

单选题Millions of people in the United States suffer from ______ back pain that comes from sitting too long at a desk.

单选题The lawyer ______ his ideas loudly and clearly in court, which surprised her a great deal. A. acclaimed B. admonished C. addressed D. asserted

单选题The great question that this paper will, but feebly, attempt to answer is, what is the creative process? Though much theory has accumulated, little is really known about the power that lies at the bottom of poetic creation. It is true that great poets and artists produce beauty by employing all the powers of personality and by fusing emotions, reason, and intuitions. But what is the magical synthesis that joins and arranges these complex parts into poetic unity? John L. Lowes, in his justly famous "The Road to Xanadu", developed one of the earliest and still generally acceptable answers to this tantalizing question. Imaginative creation, he concludes, is a complex process in which the conscious and unconscious minds jointly operate. "There is... the Deep Well with its chaos of fortuitously blending images; but there is likewise the Vision which sees shining in and through the chaos of the potential lines of Form, and with the Vision, the controlling Will, which gives to that potential beauty actuality." The Deep Well is the unconscious mind that is peopled with the facts, ideas, and feelings of the conscious activity. The imaginative vision, an unconscious activity, shines through the land of chaos, of lights and shadows, silently seeking pattern and form. Finally, the conscious mind again, through Will, captures and embodies the idea in the final work of art. In this way is unity born out of chaos. Though there can be no absolute certainty, there is general agreement that the periods in the development of a creative work parallel, to some extent, Lowes" theory of Well, Vision, Form, and Will. There are at least three stages in the creative process: preparation, inspiration, work. In a sense, the period of preparation is all of the writer"s life. It is the Deep Well. It is especially a period of concentration which gives the unconscious mind an opportunity to communicate with the conscious mind. When remembrances of things past reach the conscious level of the writer"s mind, he is ready to go on with the process. Part of this preparation involves learning a medium—learning a language, learning how to write, learning literary forms. It is important to mot here that form cannot be imposed upon the idea. Evidence, though sparse, shows that the idea gives birth to the form that can best convey it. It is the Vision, according to Lowes, which sees shining in and through the chaws of the potential lines of Form..."

单选题People's behavior patterns must be ______ with their goals. A. consented B. convertible C. compatible D. confronted

单选题Each passage is followed by some question or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. Friction between America's military and its civilian overseers is nothing new. America's 220-year experiment in civilian control of the military is a recipe for friction. The nation's history has seen a series of shifts in decision-making power among the White House, the civilian secretaries and the uniformed elite (精英). However, what may seem on the outside an unstable and special system of power sharing has, without a doubt, been a key to two centuries of military success. In the infighting dates to the revolution, George Washington waged a continual struggle not just for money, but to control the actual battle plan. The framers of the Constitution sought to clarify things by making the president the "commander in chief". Not since Washington wore his uniform and led the troops across the Alleghenies to quell(镇压) the Whiskey Rebellion has a sitting president taken command in the riel& Yet the absolute authority of the president ensures his direct command. The president was boss, and everyone in uniform knew it. In the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln dealt directly with his generals, and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton handled administrative details. Lincoln, inexperienced in military matters, initially deferred (顺从) to his generals. But when their caution proved disastrous, he issued his General War order No. 1 -- explicitly commanding a general advance of all Union forces. Some generals, George B. McClellan in particular, bridled at his hands-on direction. But in constitutional terms, Lincoln was in the right. His most important decision was to put Ulysses S. Grant in charge of the Union Army in 1864. Left to its own timetable, the military establishment would never have touched Grant. The relationship between the president and his general provides a textbook lesson in civilian control and power sharing. Grant was a general who would take the fight to the enemy, and not second-guess the president's political decisions. Unlike McClellan, for example, Grant cooperated wholeheartedly in recruiting black soldiers. For his part, Lincoln did not meddle in operations and did not visit the headquarters in the field unless invited. The balance set up by Grant and Lincoln stayed more or less in place through World War I. Not until World War II did the pendulum finally swing back toward the White House. Franklin Roosevelt, who had been assistant Navy secretary during World War I, was as well prepared to be commander in chief as any wartime president since George Washington.

单选题America was optimistic almost as a matter of official doctrine right from the outset. Anyone setting up a republic in the 1770s had to be aware that nearly every republic in history had failed, usually under the iron heel of a tyrant or conqueror. No sooner had the American experiment got started than Napoleon repeated the pattern by ruining Europe"s frail republics. Yet this one, safeguarded by an ocean, prospered. British visitors in the 19th century, like Frances Trollope and Charles Dickens, found the Americans" self-confidence, national pride and boastfulness almost insufferable, but they had to admit that the Americans got things done. Enterprising chaps like Andrew Carnegie emigrated from gaunt British poverty to accumulate Wagnerian fortunes on the other side of the Atlantic. In the 20 th century, too, a succession of visitors as different as Rudyard Kipling, Winston Churchill and Alistair Cooke loved recharging their spiritual batteries with long trips to America. Cooke even made a career out of praising America"s can do attitude, though with an undercurrent of irony at its excesses. What would he make of its current moods? Today, recession-related jitters are widespread. Nearly everyone knows someone who has just lost their job and can"t help speculating whether they"re going to be next. American gloom comes in both highbrow and lowbrow forms. It has become characteristic of the wealthiest and most highly educated Americans to be pessimistic about their country. They fear the erosion of civil liberties, a loss of competitiveness and an inability to produce new generation of elite scientists. Lowbrow gloom, sometimes developing into self-contempt, is easy to find just by turning on the TV. Millions watch The Biggest Loser a show in which hideously overweight citizens cast off their last race of dignity as they compete to shed rolls of fat. In Das Kapital Karl Marx made a bitingly ironic remark that the bourgeoisie was becoming so bloated that it would soon be paying to lose weight. The joke"s on him; as it turns out, it"s the pro-bourgeois American working class that is paying millions to slim down, and taking an abnormal interest in others on the same quest.

单选题Based on the essay, which of the following sentences is the best conclusion about the characteristics of a successful inventor?

单选题If marriage exists only as an intimate relationship that A(can be terminated at will), and family exists B(only by virtue of) bonds of affection, both marriage and family C(are relegated to) the market place of trading places, with individuals maximizing D(his psychological capital) by moving through a series of more or less satisfying intimate relationships.

单选题The coming of automation is ______ to have important social consequences. A. like B. frightful C. bound D. compelled

单选题According to the passage, the relationship between employer and illegal worker is best described as ______.

单选题The sight of a sick horse being driven along the streets of the village remained ______ him for weeks.