单选题I'm far from certain that this group is going to be able to______ what is necessary to gain complete control.

单选题Reporters and photographers alike took great______at the rude way the actor behaved during the interview. A. annoyance B. offence C. resentment D. irritation

单选题Since 1970, when Sultan Qaboos came to power and launched Oman's development, poverty has been largely______and medical care has been provided throughout the country.

单选题Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age. For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their education must be adapted to those differences. Although we focus on the needs of exceptional children, we find ourselves describing their environment as well. While the leading actor on the stage captures our attention, we are aware of the importance of the supporting players and the scenery of the play itself. Both the family and the society in which exceptional children live are often the key to their growth and development. And it is in the public schools that we find the full expression of society" s understanding—the knowledge, hopes, and fears that are passed on to the next generation. Education in any society is a mirror of that society. In that minor we can see the strengths, the weaknesses, the hopes, the prejudices, and the central values of the culture itself. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities. "All men are created equal." We"ve heard it many times, but it still has important meaning for education in a democratic society. Although the phrase was used by this country"s founders to denote equality before the law, it has also been interpreted to mean equality of opportunity. That concept implies educational opportunity for all children—the right of each child to receive help in learning to the limits of his or her capacity, whether that capacity be small or great. Recent court decisions have confirmed the right of all children—disabled or not—to an appropriate education, and have ordered that public schools take the necessary steps to provide that education. In response, schools are modifying their programs, adapting instruction to children who are exceptional, to those who cannot profit substantially from regular programs.

单选题Although punctual himself, the professor was quite used ______ ate for his lecture.

单选题Cities develop as a result of functions that they can perform, some functions result directly from the ingenuity of the citizenry, but most functions result from the needs of the local area and of the surrounding hinterland (the region that supplies goods to the city and to which the city furnishes services and other goods). Geographers often make a distinction between the situation and the site of a city. Situation refers to the general position in relation to the surrounding region, whereas site involves physical characteristics of the specific location. Situation is normally much more important to the continuing prosperity of a city. If a city is well situated in regard to its hinterland, its development is much more likely to continue. Chicago, for example, possesses an almost unparalleled situation: it is located at the southern end of a huge lake that forces eastwest transportation lines to be compressed into its vicinity, and at a meeting of significant land and water transport routes. It also overlooks what is one of the world's finest large farming regions. These factors ensured that Chicago would become a great city regardless of the disadvantageous characteristics of the available site, such as being prone to flooding during thunderstorm activity. Similarly, it can be argued that much of New York City's importance stems from its early and continuing advantage of situation. Philadelphia and Boston both originated at about the same time as New York and shared New York's location at the western end of one of the world's most important oceanic trade routes, but only New York possesses an easyaccess functional connection (the HudsonMohawk lowland ) to the vast Midwestern hinterland. This account does not alone explain New York's primacy, but it does include several important factors. Among the many aspects of situation that help to explain why some cities grow and others do not, original location on a navigable waterway seems particularly applicable. Of course, such characteristic as slope, drainage, power resources, river crossings, coastal shapes, and other physical characteristics help to determine city location, but such factors are normally more significant in early stages of city development than later.

单选题I expect I shall go and see her ______, but no regularly.

单选题Not until the advent of histochemistry could the anatomist see through the microscope which cells carry specific enzymes or {{U}}gauge{{/U}} how active these enzymes are in different cells under various conditions.

单选题______ if he is willing to fit in with the plans of our group.

单选题During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure had been transformed by economic risk and new realties. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months. In just one generation, millions of mothers have gone to work, transforming basic family economics. Scholars, policymakers, and critics of all stripes have debated the social implications of these changes, but few have looked at the side effect; family risk has risen as well. Today's families have budgeted to the limits of theirs new two-paycheck status. As a result, they have lost the parachuted they once had in times of financial setback—a back-up earner(usually Mom)who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick. This " added-worker effect" could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. But today, a disruption to family fortunes can no longer be made up with extra income from an otherwise stay at home partner. During the same period, families have been asked to absorb much more risk in their retirement income. Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those in the auto industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interest rates, stock market fluctuation, and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money. For much of the past year, President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a saving-account model, with retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments depending on investment returns. For younger families the picture is not any better. Both the absolute cost of healthcare and the share of it borne by families have risen—and newly fashionable health-saving plans are spreading from legislative halls to Wal-Mart workers, with much higher deductibles and a large new dose of investment risk for families' future healthcare. Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent—and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance—have jumped eightfold in just one generation. From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders. The financial fallout has begun, and the political fallout may not be far behind.

单选题In a sense, the new protectionism is not protectionism at all, at least not in the traditional sense of the term．The old protectionism referred only to trade restricting and trade expanding devices, such as the tariff or export subsidy．The new protectionism is much broader than this； it includes interventions into foreign trade but is not limited to them．The new protectionism, in fact, refers to how the whole of government intervention into the private economy affects international trade．The emphasis on trade is still there, thus came me term"protection"．But what is new is the realization that virtually all government activities can affect international economic relations． The emergence of the new protectionism in the Western world reflects the victory of the interventionist．or welfare economy over the market economy．Jab Tumiler writes, "The old protectionism…coexisted, without any apparent intellectual difficulty with the acceptance of the market as a national as well as an international economic distribution mechanism．Indeed, protectionists as well as(if not more than)free traders stood for laissez faire．Now, as in the 1930s, protectionism is an expression of a profound skepticism as to the ability of the market to distribute resources and incomes to societies sarisfaction．" It is precisely this profound skepticism of the market economy that is responsible for the protectionism．In a market economy,economic change of various colors implies redistribution of resources and incomes．The same opinion in many communities apparently is that such redistributions often are not proper．Therefore, the government intervenes to bring about a more desired result． The victory of the welfare state is almost complete in northem Europe．In Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and the Netherlands, government intervention in almost all aspects of economic and social life is considered normal．In Great Britain this is only somewhat less true．Government traditionally has played a very active role in economic life in France and continued to do so．Only West Germany dares to go against the tide towards excessive interventionism in Western Europe．It also happens to be the most successful Western European economy． The welfare state has made significant progress in the United States as well as in Western Europe．Social security,unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws, and rent control are by now traditional welfare state elements on the American scene．

单选题So ______ was the mood of the meeting that an agreement was soon reached.

单选题Farmers often use water buffalo to help them in the ______ fields.

单选题Factors leading to the crises included poor regulation mismanagement and deception in the industry, and competition from other types of financial firms.

单选题The world"s greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shah 1 the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice 2 the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who 3 that around 50bn tons of meltwater 4 each year and not being replaced by new snowfall. The study is the first to survey all the world"s icecaps and glaciers and was made 5 by the use of satellite data. Overall, the contribution of melting ice outside the two largest caps— Greenland and Antarctica—is much 6 than previously estimated, with the lack of ice loss in the Himalayas and the other high peaks of Asia 7 most of the discrepancy. Bristol University glaciologist Prof Jonathan Bamber, who was not part of the research team, said, "The very unexpected result was the negligible mass loss from high mountain Asia which is not 8 different from zero. " The melting of Himalayan glaciers caused 9 in 2009 when a report from the UN"s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change mistakenly stated that they would disappear by 2035, instead of 2350. 10 , the scientist who led the new work is clear that while greater uncertainty has been discovered in Asia"s highest mountains, the melting of ice caps and glaciers around the world 11 a serious concern. "Our results and those of everyone else show we are losing a huge amount of water into the oceans every year," said Prof John Wahr of the University of Colorado. "People should be just as worried about the melting of the world"s ice as they were before. " His team"s study, published in the journal Nature, concludes that between 443-629bn tons of meltwater overall are added to the world"s oceans each year. This is 12 sea level by about 1.5mm a year, the team reports, 13 the 2mm a year caused by expansion of the warming ocean. The scientists are careful to point out that lower-altitude glaciers in the Asian mountain ranges—sometimes dubbed the "third pole" —are 14 melting. Satellite images and reports confirm this. But over the study period, enough ice was added to the peaks to 15 .

单选题Because of the close ______ of architects and builders, the building was completed ahead of schedule. A. simulation B. composition C. collaboration D. inflation

单选题Despite efforts to provide them with alternatives such as the shelter, women frequently and repeatedly returned to violent and abusive partners. By the late 1970s, feminists at Women Together, like those doing similar work throughout the United States, began to understand that battered women experience a range of post-traumatic psychological responses to abuse, similar to those of victims of other types of violence or trauma. Subsequently, the psychological response of battered women became reified as "battered woman syndrome," a sub-category of post-traumatic stress disorder. Interestingly, in the course of trying to create social change, the focus of feminists perceptibly shifted to trying to explain why battered women fail to leave the partners who beat them. In trying to address this question, a debate ensued among feminists and mental health workers as to potential merits and problems of categorizing as mental disorder what many feminists labeled a normal response to fear and an appropriately angry response to abuse. Although many women left abusive relationships or successfully ended violence by other means, some responded to ongoing or accelerated abuse by killing or trying to kill their male partners. In many states, when they went to trial, such women found they were restricted from introducing testimony about the abuse they had endured or their resulting states of mind. In trying to address these women's needs, some activists and scholars advocated the use of expert testimony to explain battered woman syndrome to juries. This strategy would introduce evidence of past abuse and challenge the gender biases of self-defense law by explaining the woman's state of mind at the time of the offense. Feminist legal scholars raised potential problems in the use of battered woman syndrome. They argued that it could be used against women who did not neatly fit pre-established criteria and had the potential to become another example of the tendency to label women's normal angry responses as mental illness. While the desirability of working to admit expert testimony was debated, individual state courts and legislatures varied in their willingness to recognize battered woman syndrome, permit evidence of past abuse, or allow expert testimony. As the legal debate about battered women's responses to violence was beginning to unfold, the Ohio movement became directly involved in it when a former shelter resident, shot and killed her abusive common law husband. In 1978 Women Together, in conjunction with the woman's lawyer, decided to challenge existing law by trying to introduce battered woman syndrome expert testimony at trial. Because at the time the syndrome had little scientific merit or legal recognition, the trial court declared inadmissibility, a decision upheld by the State Supreme Court (State v. Thomas 1981 66 Ohio St. 2d 51). Women Together founders left the shelter to establish professional careers, viewing this as a means of advancing the feminist agenda. The frustrations, limitations and defeats they had experienced as outside challengers impelled them to adopt a strategy of infiltration and appropriation of the institutions they sought to change. For example, one founder, who had worked through lobbying for ERA America in addition to her other feminist activism, explained her decision to run for elected office by saying: "[When ERA was defeated] I decided to run for the legislature. I said 'I can do better than these turkeys. '/

单选题Americans today don"t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even Our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren"t difficult to find. "Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual," says education writer Diane Ravitch. "Schools could be a counterbalance." Ravitch"s latest book, "Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms", traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy; "Continuing along this path," says writer Earl Shorris. "We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society." "Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege," writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life", a Pulitzer-Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in U.S. politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing." Mark Twain"s "Huckleberry Finn" exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized—going to school and learning to read—so he can preserve his innate goodness. Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes, and imagines. School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country"s educational system is in the grips of people who "joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise".

单选题Are we at the beginning of another Age of Exploration? Perhaps even more important, are we at the beginning of 1 Age of Colonization? As the population of the world increases towards the point 2 the earth can no longer support all the people 3 on it, the second question becomes urgent. Will we discover a new world, 4 Columbus did, on which human life will be possible? At this point in the space age, no one can really answer these questions. We can say, 5 that we will not see tomorrow the kind of space travel that 6 fiction and the movies have shown. It will be a long time before we have flight that run 7 to human colonies on the moon or on, one of the planets. We are not even going to be able to 8 immediate advantages of the minerals that we may find on the planets 9 our own solar system. Great problems must be solved 10 we could send colonists out into place. The distances that must be 11 and the length of time it takes to do that can hardly be 12 . There are also dangers that we still do not realty understand, from radiation, for example, or from pieces of matter 13 in space, or from contamination forms of life that might 14 there. There is also need for humans to take their own environment into space 15 them. So far no "island" has been discovered in space on which people can exist without systems that 16 life, and these systems must accompany any future space 17 Finally, on the most practical 18 there has to be enormous expense 19 in space exploration. The U.S. and Russian governments have already spent billions of dollars for projects 20 which they can receive a return only in knowledge and not in money.

单选题The ______ goal of the book is to help bridge the gap between research and teaching, particularly between researchers and teachers.