单选题（浙江大学2008年试题） The energy crisis, which is being felt around the world, has dramatized how the careless use of the earth's resources has brought the whole world to the brink of disaster. The overdevelopment of motor transport, with its【1】of more cars, more highways, more pollution, more suburbs, more commuting, has【2】to the near-destruction of our cities, and the pollution not only of【3】air, but also of the earth's atmosphere. The disaster has arrived in the【4】of the energy crisis. Our present【5】is unlike war, revolution or depression. It is also unlike the great natural disasters of the past. Worldwide resources【6】and energy use have brought us to a state【7】long-range planning is essential. What we need is not a continuation of our present serious state, which【8】the future of our country, our children, and our earth,【9】a movement forward to a new norm in order to work rapidly and effectively on planetary problems. This country has been falling back under the continuing exposures of loss of【10】. There is a strong demand for moral revival and【11】some devotion that is vast enough and yet【12】enough to enlist the devotion of all. In the past it has been only in a way in【13】of their own country【14】any people have been able to【15】themselves wholeheartedly. This is the first time we have been asked to defend ourselves and what we hold dear in【16】with all the other inhabitants of this planet, who【17】with us the same endangered air and the same endangered oceans. There is a【18】need to reassess our present course, and to【19】new methods through which the world can survive. This is a priceless【20】.

单选题The airline ______ me for the amount they had overcharged me.

单选题In width of scope, Yeats far exceeds any of his contemporaries. He is the only poet since the 18th century who has been a public man in his own country and the only poet since Milton who has been a public man at a time when his country was involved in a struggle for political liberty. This may not seem an important matter, but it is a question whether the kind of life lived by poets for the last two hundred years or so has not been one great reason for the drift of poetry away from the life of the community as a whole, and the loss of touch with tradition. Once the life of contemplation has been divorced from the life of action, or from real knowledge of men of action, something is lost which it is difficult to define, but which leaves poetry enfeebled and incomplete. Yeats responded with all his heart as a young man to the reality and the romance of Ireland's struggle but he lived to be completely disillusioned about the value of the Irish rebellion. He saw his dreams of liberty blotted out in horror by" the innumerable clanging wings that have put out the moon". It brought him to the final conclusion of the futility of all discipline that is not of the whole being, and of "how base at moments of excitement are minds without culture". But he remained a man to whom the life of action always meant something very real.

单选题The accident was a terrible______; they all died.

单选题He spends his time in ______ complaints rather than acting.

单选题Huxley is ______ optimistic for the future of either man or plant on this planet. A. anything but B. nothing but C. above all D. rather than

单选题By saying that he became sort of dependent on the industry, Mark Amerika meant that ______.

单选题Sitting still all day is______to a healthy boy's nature.

单选题Everyone has faced the embarrassing______of deciding how much extra to give a waiter or taxi-driver.

单选题He swallows his words so much that I can never ______ what he is saying. A. make out B. put up C. deal with D. take up

单选题Mail service will be temporarily______because of the strike of the postal workers. A. suspended B. abridged C. deprived D. lessened

单选题Certainly the humanist thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who are our ideological ancestors, thought that the goal of life was the unfolding of a person"s potentialities; what mattered to them was the person who is much , not the one who has much or use much .

单选题War is the social cancer of mankind. It is a pernicious form of ignorance, for it destroys not only its "enemies", but also the whole superstructure of what it is a part—and thus eventually it defeats itself.

单选题The new chemical will {{U}}exterminate{{/U}} this kind of insects in this area.

单选题The house they have bought is in very bad repair. The old boiler in the kitchen needs ______.

单选题I am grateful for your ______ invitation, and I'd like to accept your offer with pleasure. A. delighted B. innocent C. gracious D. prestigious

单选题As we have seen, propaganda can appeal to us by amusing our emotions or ______ our attention from the real issues at hand.

单选题One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is the voice of the advertisers. Its strident clamour dominates our lives. It shouts at us from the television screen and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from every page of the newspaper; plucks at our sleeves on the escalator; signals to us from the successful man as a man no less than 20% of whose mall consists of announcements of giant carpet sales. Advertising has been among England's biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to demonstrable achievement. Why all this fantastic expenditure? Perhaps the answer is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer. At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer——appeal to all his other problems of man——hours and machine tolerances and stress factors, So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it, by pretending that it confers status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness, if the advertising agency can to this authoritatively enough, the manufacturer is in clover. Other manufacturers find advertising saves them changing their product. And manufacturers hate change. The ideal product is one which goes on unchanged for ever. If, therefore, for one reason or another, some alteration seems called for——how much better to change the image, the packet or tile pitch made by the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself. The advertising man has to combine the qualities of the three most authoritative professions: Church, Bar, and Medicine. The great skill required of our priests, most highly developed in missionaries but present, indeed mandatory, in all, is the kill of getting people to believe in and contribute money to something which can never be logically proved. At the Bar, an essential ability is that of presenting the most persuasive case you can to a jury of ordinary people, with emotional appeals masquerading as logical exposition; a case you do not necessarily have to believe in yourself, just one you have studiously avoided discovering to be false. As for medicine, any doctor will confirm that a large part of his job is not clinical treatment but faith healing. His apparently scientific approach enables his patients believe that he knows exactly what is wrong with them and exactly what they need to put them right, just as advertising does——"Run down? You need...". "No one will dance with you? A dab of * * * * will make you popular." Advertising men use statistics rather like a drunk uses a lamp-post-for support rather than illumination. They will dress anyone up in a white coat to appear like an unimpeachable authority or, failing that, they will even be happy with the announcement, "As used by 90% of the actors who play doctors on television." Their engaging quality is that they enjoy having their latest ruses uncovered almost as anyone else.

单选题Do you think it is late to ______on a new career? A. disembark B. embark C. remark D. assume