单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} There are 6 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and write your answer on the Answer Sheet.{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} In old days, when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something far too shocking to distract the serious work of an office, secretaries were men. Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man's secretary became his personal servant, charged with remembering his wife's birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to the dry cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at by; and, of course, typing and filing and taking shorthand. Now all this may be changing again. The microchip and high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much of the routine clerical work that secretaries did. "Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve only the high-powered work--and then men will want to do it again. " That was said by one of the executives (male) of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this country. What he has predicted is already under way in the US. One girl described to me a recent temporary job placing men in secretarial jobs in San Francisco. She noted that all the men she dealt with appeared to be gay so possibly that is just new twist to the old story. Over here, though, there are men coming onto the job market as secretaries. Classically, girls have learned shorthand and typing and gone into a company to seek their fortune from the bottom--and that's what happened to John Bowman. Although he joined a national grocery chain as secretary to its first woman senior manager, he has since been promoted to an administration job. "I filled in the application form and said I could do audio/typing, and in fact I was the only applicant. The girls were reluctant to work for this young, glamorous new woman with all this power in the firm." "I did typing at school, and then a commercial course. I just thought it would be useful finding a job. I never got any funny treatment from the girls, though I admit I've never met another male secretary. But then I joined the Post Office as a clerk and carelessly played with the typewriter, and wrote letters, and thought that after all secretaries were getting a good￡1, 000 a year more than clerks like me. There was a shortage at that time, you see." "It was simpler working for a woman than for a man. I found she made decisions, she told everybody what she thought, and there was none of that male bitchiness, or that stuff 'ring this number for me dear, ' which men go in for." "Don't forget, we were a team-that's how I feel about in--not boss and servant but two people doing different things for the same purpose." Once high technology has made the job of secretary less routine, will there be made takeover? Men should beware of thinking that they can walk right into the better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as they because they are as efficient and well trained to cope with word processors and computers, as men.

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单选题Ultimately, the better team did not win the game.

单选题What is the philosophy underlying the function of science according to the author?

单选题In 1931, Joseph Stalin invited George Washington Carver to Usuperintend/U cotton plantations in southern Russia and to make a tour of the Soviet Union, but he refused.

单选题During an international crisis, many ______ messages will generally emanate from the president's once. A. confidential B. abstruse C. appalling D. compelling

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单选题I know him well enough to accept his explanation ______ .

单选题Most of the 33 newly discovered planets' giant gas bags swing so erratically that they create {{U}}havoc{{/U}} on any smaller, nearby, life-friendly planets.

单选题In the film Wall Street, Gordon Gekko could best be described as a(n) ______.

单选题Hundreds of local residents signed a ______ against closing the swimming-pool.

单选题If a person talks about his weak points, his listener is expected to say something in the way of ______. A. persuasion B. remedy C. encouragement D. compromise

单选题It is no______that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery.(2004年湖北省考博试题)

单选题With its maverick approach to the subject, Shere Hite's book has been more widely debated than most. The media throughout the country have brought the author's ______ opinions to the public's attention.

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单选题 As children get older, self-discipline should take the place of imposed discipline. Constrains become internalized and children begin to weigh from within the validity of their promptings (敦促). But their tendency to be sell-critical, to develop a code of their own, depends on the extent to which they must have kept critical company. The dialogue within reflects the dialogue without that is why discussion is so important during adolescence. Those in authority over children will, therefore, attempt to get children to do what is sensible by appealing to their common sense instead of ordering them around or appealing to their own status, They will not say, "I'm your father arid I'm telling you not to smoke." but will point out the dangers involved. It is a further question, however, whether a child's acceptance of good reasons should be the criterion for his action. If a parent explains to a child why it is stupid and wrong to put objects on railway lines, and yet sees him doing so, will he stand aside and reflect that the boy is learning to choose? Parents must weigh their own fundamental principles against what is instructive for their children. Example, of course, is crucial. Parents and others must provide a pattern out of which the child can eventually develop his own style of self-regulation, This is not likely to happen unless exercise of authority is rationalized and sensitively adapted to age, to persons, and to the tasks in hand. For the young will tightly rebel against the irrational expression of a traditional status. In brief, teachers and parents must learn to be in authority without being authoritarian.