单选题A most ______ argument about who should go and fetch the bread from the kitchen was going on when I came in. [A] trivial [B] delicate [C] minor [D] miniature

单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} Real Policemen hardly recognize any resemblance between their lives and what they see on TV. The first difference is that a policeman's real life revolves around criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a professional lawyer, and what is more, he has to apply it on his feet, in the dark and rain, running down a street after someone he wants to talk to. Little of his time is spent in chatting, he will spend most of his working life typing millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, unimportant people who are guilty of stupid, petty crimes. Most television crime drama is about finding the criminal: as soon as he's arrested, the story is over. In real life, finding criminals is seldom much of a problem. Except in very serious eases like murders and terrorist attacks little effort is spent on searching. Having made an arrest, a detective really starts to work. He has to prove his case in court and to do that he often has to gather a lot of evidence. The third big difference between the drama detective and the real one is the unpleasant pressures: first, as members of a police force they always have to behave absolutely in accordance with the law; secondly, as expensive public servants they have to get results. They can hardly ever do both. Most of the time some of them have to break the rules in small ways. If the detective has to deceive the world, the world often deceives him. Hardly anyone he meets tells him the truth. And this separation the detective feels between himself and the rest of the world is deepened by the simplemindedness—as he sees it—of citizens, social workers, doctors, law-makers, and judges, who, instead of eliminating crime punish the criminals less severely in the hope that this will make them reform. The result, detectives feel, is that nine-tenths of their work is recatching people who should have stayed behind bars. This makes them rather cynical.

单选题Which of the following is NOT true of an SMSA?

单选题Pardon one: how are your manners? The decline of civility and good manners may be worrying people more than crime, according to Gentility Recalled, edited by Digby Anderson, which laments the breakdown of traditional codes that once regulated social conduct. It criticizes the fact that "manners" are scorned us repressive and outdated. The result, according to Mr. Anderson-director of the Social Affairs Unit, an independent think-tank—is a society characterized by rudeness: loutish behaviour on the streets, jostling in crowds, impolite shop assistants and bad-tempered drivers. Mr. Anderson says the cumulative effect of these—apparently trivial, but often offensive—is to make everyday life uneasy, unpredictable and unpleasant. As they are encountered far more often than crime, they can cause more anxiety than crime. When people lament the disintegration of law and order, he argues, what they generally mean is order, as manifested by courteous forms of social contact. Meanwhile, attempts to re-establish restraint and self-control through "politically correct" rules are artificial. The book has contributions from 12 academic in disciplines ranging from medicine to sociology and charts what it calls the "coarsening" of Britain. Old- fashioned terms such as "gentleman" and "lady" have lost all meaningful resonance and need to be re-evaluated, it says. Rachel Trickett, honorary fellow and former principal of St Hugh' s College, Oxford, says that the notion of a "lady" protects women rather than demeaning them. Feminism and demands for equality have blurred the distinctions between the sexes, creating situations where men are able to dominate women because of their more aggressive and forceful natures, she says. "Women, without some code of deference or respect, become increasingly victims." Caroline Moore, the first woman fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, points out that "gentleman" is now used only with irony or derision. "The popular view of a gentleman is poised somewhere between the imbecile parasite and the villainous one: between Woosteresque chinless wonders, and those heartless capitalist toffs who are the stock-in-trade of television." She argues that the concept is neither class-bound nor rigid; conventions of gentlemanly behavior enable a man to act naturally as and individual within shared assumptions while taking his place in society. "Politeness is no constraint, precisely because the manners are no ' code' but a language, rich, flexible, restrained and infinitely subtle." For Anthony O' Hear, professor of philosophy at the University of Bradford, manners are closely associated with the different forms of behavior appropriate to age and status. They curb both the impetuosity of youth and the bitterness of old age. Egalitarianism, he says, has led to people failing to act their age. "We have vice-chancellors with earrings, aristocrats as hippies the trendy vicar on his motorbike." Dr. Athena Leoussi, sociology lecturer at Reading University, bemoans the deliberate neglect by people of their sartorial appearance. Dress, she says, is the outward expression of attitudes and aspirations. The ubiquitousness of jeans "displays a utilitarian attitude" that has "led to the cultural impoverishment of everyday life". Dr. Leoussi says that while clothes used to be seen as a means of concealing taboo forces of sexuality and violence, certain fashions—such as leather jackets--have the opposite effect. Dr. Bruce Charlton, a lecturer in public health medicine in Newcastle upon Tyne, takes issue with the excessive informality of relations between professionals such as doctors and bank managers, and their clients. He says this has eroded the distance and respect necessary in such relationships. For Tristarn Engelhardt, professor of medicine in Houston, Texas, says manners are bound to morals. "Manners express a particular set of values," be says. "Good manners interpret and transform social reality. They provide social orientation./

单选题As one of the youngest professors in the university, Miss King is certainly on the ______ of a brilliant career.(2013年北京航空大学考博试题)

单选题Their issuance for psychologists will impact not only on the role of current practitioners, but on the training and justifying of future ______, as well as the function and public image of the profession.

单选题Helen Keller"s work gave comfort and encouragement to other handicapped people who ______ might have led a hopeless life.

单选题The passage is mainly discussing the fact that______.

单选题The criticism from the pubic has ______this novel.(2010年北京航空航天大学考博试题)

单选题It turned out that he had ______ the whole story just to cheat his friends. A. dissipated B. diverged C. detached D. fabricated

单选题Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea, (21) into a hobby and lately has (22) into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D candidates (23) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keep (24) of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they (25) that their homebrewed lists were becoming too long and (26) . Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo. During 1994, they (27) yahoo into a customized database designed to (28) the needs of the thousands of users (29) began to use the service through the closely (30) Internet community. They developed customized software to help them (31) locate, identify and edit material (32) on the Internet. The name Yahoo is (33) to stand for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but Filo and Yang insist they selected the (34) because they considered themselves yahoos. Yahoo itself first (35) on Yang's workstation, "akebono", while the search engine was (36) on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" . In early 1995 Marc Andersen, co-founder of Netscape Communication in Mountain View, California, invited Filo and Yang to move their files (37) to larger computers (38) at Netscape. As a result Stanford's computer network returned to (39) , and both parties benefited. Today, Yahoo (40) organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web.

单选题Nowadays, our government advocates credit to whatever we do or whoever we contact with. once you ______ your words, you will lose your social status and personal reputation.

单选题The multibillion-dollar international pharmaceutical industry has been accused of manipulating the results of drug trials for financial gain and withholding information that could expose patients to possible harm. The stranglehold the industry has on research is causing increasing alarm in medical circles as evidence emerges of biased results, under-reporting and selective publication driven by a market worth more than 10 billion pounds in Britain alone. The industry has sponsored trials of new drugs which have held out great promise for patients with cancer, heart disease, mental health problems and other illnesses. But tests on the same drugs in independent trials paid for by non-profit organizations— governments, medical institutions or charities—have yielded very different results. Drugs for abnormal heart rhythm introduced in the late 1970s were killing more Americans every year by 1990 than the Vietnam War. Yet early evidence suggesting the drugs were lethal, which might have saved thousands of lives, went unpublished. Expensive cancer drugs introduced in the past 10 years and claiming to offer major benefits have increasingly been questioned. Evidence published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that 38 per cent of independent studies of the drugs reached unfavorable conclusions about them, compared with 5 per cent of the studies paid for by the pharmaceutical industry. In the latest case, researchers commissioned by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to develop guidelines for the prescribing of anti-depressant drugs to children say they were refused access to unpublished trials of the drugs held by the pharmaceutical companies. Published evidence suggested that the anti-depressant drugs were safe and effective for children. But when they obtained the unpublished evidence by contacting individual researchers who had worked on the trials and other sources, a different picture emerged—one of an increase in suicidal thoughts and attempted suicide. Only one of the drugs, Prozac, emerged as safe. Anti-depressant drugs, though not recommended for children, were widely prescribed in Britain until last year, when the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency issued a warning to doctors, prohibiting their use. This followed safety concerns raised by campaigners and taken up in two BBC TV Panorama broadcasts which brought the biggest response in the program's history. Writing in the Lancet medical magazine, the researchers say: " On the basis of published evidence alone, we could have considered at least tentatively recommending use of these drugs for children and young people with depression. "

单选题It is hard to tell whether we are going to have a boom in the economy or a ______. [A] concession [B] recession [C] submission [D] transmission

单选题 The traditional American Thanksgiving Day celebration {{U}}(1) {{/U}} to 1621. {{U}}(2) {{/U}} that year a special least was prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The colonists who {{U}}(3) {{/U}} there had left England because they felt {{U}}(4) {{/U}} of religious freedom. They came to the {{U}}(5) {{/U}} and faced difficulties in {{U}}(6) {{/U}} the ocean. The ship which {{U}}(7) {{/U}} them was called Mayflower. The North Atlantic was difficult to travel. There were bad storms. They were {{U}}(8) {{/U}} in learning to live in the new earth by the Indians who {{U}}(9) {{/U}} the region. The puritans, {{U}}(10) {{/U}} they were called, had much to be thankful {{U}}(11) {{/U}} Their religious practices were {{U}}(12) {{/U}} longer a source of criticism by the government. They learned to {{U}}(13) {{/U}} their farming habits to the climate and soil. {{U}}(14) {{/U}} they selected the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving {{U}}(15) {{/U}}, they invited their {{U}}(16) {{/U}}, the Indians, to join them in dinner and {{U}}(17) {{/U}} of gratitude for the new life. They recalled the group of 102 men, women and children who left {{U}}(18) {{/U}}. They remembered their {{U}}(19) {{/U}} who did not see the shore of Massachusetts. They {{U}}(20) {{/U}} the 65 days journey which had tested their strength.

单选题The folk art rubric has also been extended to include all manner of traditional artistic productions, even the self-consciously Uquaint/U.

单选题It was a real ______ when Susan came back from her vacation and told us she had married a local waiter. A. comfort B. shock C. attack D. impact

单选题Before a big exam, a sound night"s sleep will do you more good than poring over textbooks. That, at least, is the folk wisdom. And science, in the form of behavioral psychology, supports that wisdom. But such behavioral studies cannot distinguish between two competing theories of why sleep is good for the memory. one says that sleep is when permanent memories form. The other says that they are actually formed during the day, but then "edited" at night, to flush away what is superfluous. To tell the difference, it is necessary to look into the brain of a sleeping person, and that is hard. But after a decade of painstaking work, a team led by Pierre Maquet at Liege University in Belgium has managed to do it. The particular stage of sleep in which the Belgian group is interested in is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, when brain and body are active, heart rate and blood pressure increase, the eyes move back and forth behind the eyelids as if watching a movie, and brainwave traces resemble those of wakefulness. It is during this period of deep that people are most likely to relive events of the previous day in dreams. Dr. Maquet used an electronic device called PET to study the brains of people as they practiced a task during the day, and as they slept during the following night. The task required them to press a button as fast as possible, in response to a light coming on in one of six positions. As they learnt how to do this, their response times got faster. What they did not know was that the appearance of the lights sometimes followed a pattern--what is referred to as "artificial grammar". Yet the reductions in response time showed that they learnt faster when the pattern was present than when there was not. What is more, those with more to learn (i. e. , the "grammar", as well as the mechanical task of pushing the button) have more active brains. The "editing" theory would not predict that, since the number of irrelevant stimuli would be the same in each case. And to eliminate any doubts that the experimental subjects were learning as opposed to unlearning, their response times when they woke up were even quicker than when they went to sleep. The team, therefore, concluded that the nerve connections involved in memory are reinforced through reactivation during REM sleep, particularly if the brain detects an inherent structure in the material being learnt. So now, on the eve of that crucial test, maths students can sleep soundly in the knowledge that what they will remember the next day are the basic rules of algebra and not the incoherent talk from the radio next door.

单选题The game of golf became so popular in Scotland in order to keep people from playing golf when they______archery, a military necessity, the Scottish parliament passed a special law in 14The Scottish people, however, largely ignored this similar laws.

单选题What's the main idea for the second paragraph?