单选题A/An ______ is a person who is not present at a crime but who helps another in doing something criminal.(2006年中国矿业大学考博试题)

单选题Some would consider such speech an infringement of good mariners whereas others would not. A. an example B. a violation C. an insult D. an indication

单选题Mary ______ when she found her husband drunk again.

单选题By the mid-nineteenth century, the term "ice-box" had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States: The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War(1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented. Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose: In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox. But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.

单选题One of the basic characteristics of capitalism is the private ownership of the major means of production-capital. The ownership of large amounts of capital can bring (61) profits, as well as economic and political power. Some recent theorists, (62) have argued that our society has moved to a new stage of (63) that they call "postindustrial" society. One important change in such society is that the ownership of (64) amounts of capital is no longer the only or even the most important (65) of profits and influence; knowledge as well as (66) capital brings profits and influence. There are many (67) with the thesis above, not the least of (68) is that wealthy capitalists can buy the experts and knowledge they need to keep their profits and influence. But this does not (69) the importance of knowledge in an advanced industrial society, as the (70) of some new industries indicates. (71) , genetic engineering and the new computer technology have (72) many new firms and made some scientists quite rich. In (73) with criticism of the postindustrial society thesis, however, it must also be (74) that those already in control of huge amounts of capital (i. e. , major corporations) soon (75) to take most profits in these industries based on new knowledge. Moving down from the level of wealth and power, we still find knowledge increasingly (76) . Many new high-tech jobs are being created at the upper-skill, low-paying service (77) . Something like a caste line is emerging centered around knowledge. Individuals who fall too far behind in the (78) of knowledge at a young age will find it almost impossible to catch up later, no matter how hard they try, Illiteracy in the English language has been a severe (79) for many years in the United States, but we are also moving to the point when computer illiteracy will hinder many more people and (80) them to a life of low-skill and low paid labor.

单选题He told us a lot of jokes and had us ______ all through the meal.

单选题Please do not be ______ by his manners since he is merely trying to attract attention.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} Thousands of years ago man used handy rocks for his surgical operations. Later he used sharp bone or horn, metal knives and more recently, rubber and plastic. And that was where we stuck, in surgical instrument terms, for many years. In the 1960s a new tool was developed, one which was, first of all, to be of great practical use to the armed forces and industry, but which was also, in time, to revolutionize the art and science of surgery. The tool is the laser and it is being used by more and more surgeons all over the world, for a very large number of different complaints. The word laser means: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Light. As we all know, light is hot; any source of light ——from the sun itself down to a humble match burning ——will give warmth. But light is usually spread out over a wide area. The light in a laser beam, however, is concentrated. This means that a light with no more power than that produced by an ordinary electric light bulb becomes intensely strong as it is concentrated to a pinpoint-sized beam. Experiments with these pinpoint beams showed researchers that different energy sources produce beams that have a particular effect on certain living cells. It is now possible for eye surgeons to operate on the back of the human eye without harming the front of the eye, simply by passing a laser beam right through the eyeball. No knives, no stitches (刀口缝合), no unwanted damage ——a true surgical wonder. Operations which once left patients exhausted and in need of long periods of recovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable. So much more difficult operations can now be tried. The rapid development of laser techniques in the past ten years has made it clear that the future is likely to be very exciting. Perhaps some cancers will be treated with laser in a way that makes surgery not only safer but more effective. Altogether, tomorrow may see more and more information coming to light on the diseases which can be treated medically.

单选题The italicized word "telesurgery" (Par. 1, sentence 2) can be best explained as ______.

单选题King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted "kings don't abdicate, they dare in their sleep. " But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down. So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyle? The Spanish case provides arguments both for and against monarchy. When public opinion is particularly polarized, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, mon-archs can rise above "mere" politics and "embody" a spirit of national unity. It is this apparent transcendence of politics that explains monarchs' continuing popularity polarized. And also, the Middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms(not counting Vatican City and Andorra). But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure. Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside. Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history—and sometimes the way they behave today—embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities. At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states. The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways. Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses(or helicopters). Even so, these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%, and media intru-siveness makes it increasingly difficult to maintain the right image. While Europe's monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example. It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy's reputation with her rather ordinary(if well-heeled)granny style. The danger will come with Charles, who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and a pretty hierarchical view of the world. He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service—as non-controversial and non-political heads of state. Charles ought to know that as English history shows, it is kings, not republicans, who are the monarchy's worst enemies.

单选题Sorry, I can't repay you this week. I'm completely______.

单选题There was so much ______ material in the essay that it was difficult to get the author's message.

单选题The automobile salesman gave us some______on the latest models.

单选题The town was ______ after fifty years. A. exclusive B. subsequent C. invariable D. resolute

单选题Nor has Washington yet______to Mexican demands for a treaty specifying extradition for U. S. officials who disregard the new stricture.

单选题She complained that the treatment she received in the hospital had completely ______ her of her dignity.

单选题More often than not, it is difficult to ______ the exact meaning of a Chinese idiom in English. A. exchange B. transfer C. convey D. convert

单选题The author quotes Coleridge in order to______.

单选题It is impossible to ______ whether she'll be well enough to come home from the hospital next month. A. foresee B. infer C. fabricate D. inhibit

单选题The Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park in Texas were created by volcanic eruption that occurred______.