单选题The new findings in archaeology have thrown ______ on the customs in the ancient tribe.

单选题There is scientific evidence to support our ______ that being surrounded by plants is good for health. A. instinct B. implication C. perception D. conception

单选题I must warn you that you may find parts of this article rather difficult to understand. Wait! The sentence you have just read is quite untrue. But that isn't why you were irritated by it. It was, of course, also insulting and few people enjoy being insulted. By reading this article you are making the claim that you are the sort of person who will understand it; my opening sentence questioned your claim, and that is what made it insulting. In other words, an insult occurs whenever one person denies some aspect of identity which another is claiming, explicitly or otherwise. When describing the course of a disease, pathologists often talk of the body organizing its defences in response to a biological insult. But in everyday life we use the term only when the rules which govern social encounters are breached in the manner described. For social interaction to work it is essential that the participants respect the "face" of all involved. "Face" refers to the public image which a person chooses to present in a particular situation. Its importance is obvious when two people are talking to each other, but it cannot be ignored by the writer who wishes to keep his readers. If I wish to insult you, I must not merely threaten your face, but do so deliberately. Without malicious intent, I am guilty of a social blunder but nothing worse. Some people are famous for dropping bricks, but they are considered socially unskilled or naive rather than insulting; this can be seen from the fact that their remarks elicit laughter, admittedly strained, rather than anger. What happens when face is lost? It is usually possible to avoid or overlook the insult ("I didn't hear that"/"she's only a child"). If it is not overlooked, the next move is conventionally a challenge in which the victim draws attention to the violation ("what do you mean, I've got the manners of a pig?"). This is an invitation to the offender to restore order by making a response which indicates that the conventions have not after all been violated. He may apologize ( "I don't know what came over me" ) or make compensation ( "I'm always throwing my food all over the place"). Alternatively, he can attempt to change the meaning of his remark ( "I was only joking" / "I can't stand people who eat delicately" ). Any of these ploys can repair the damage, so long as the wounded party accepts the explanation and the offender confirms his penitence by a display of suitable gratitude.

单选题Ronny's steps died away, and there was a moment of______silence.

单选题Direct adverting includes all forms of sales appeals, mailed, delivered, or exhibited directly to the prospective buyer of an advertised product or service, without use of any indirect medium, such as newspapers or television. Direct advertising logically may be divided into three broad classifications, namely, direct-mail advertising, mail order advertising, and unmailed direct advertising. All forms of sales appeals that are sent through the mails are considered direct-mail advertising. The chief functions of direct-mail advertising are to familiarize prospective buyers with a product, its name, its maker, and its merits and with the product's local distributors. The direct-mail appeal is designed also to support the sales activities of retailers by encouraging the continued patronage of both old and new customers. When no personal selling is involved, other methods are needed to persuade people to send in orders by mall. In addition to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, other special devices order promotions are designed to accomplish a complete selling job without salespeople. Used for the same broad purposes as direct-mall advertising, unmailed direct-mail advertising, includes all forms of indoor advertising displays and all printed sales appeals distributed from door to door, handed to customers in retail stores or conveyed in some other manner directly to the recipient. With each medium competing keenly for its share of the business, advertising agencies continue to develop new techniques for displaying and selling wares and services. Among these techniques have been vastly improved printing and reproduction methods in the graphic field, adapted to magazine advertisements and to direct-mail enclosures; the use of color in newspaper advertisements and in television; and outdoor signboards more attractively designed and efficiently lighted. Many subtly effective improvements are suggested by advertising research.

单选题Will the pressure applied by environmentalists be enough to ______ the industrialized nations into using less fossil fuels?

单选题Boris Yeltsin, Russia's ______ present, died. His funeral in Moscow was attended by a bevy of world leaders past and present.(2009年北京大学考博试题)

单选题He always has a lot of______ideas in his mind, and sometimes we do not even know what he is thinking about.

单选题Directly he saw her, he fell ______ in love.

单选题The secretary wants to ______ all the file clerks to make preparations for the company Christmas party. A. enlighten B. enlist C. enable D. enclose

单选题A terrible traffic accident happened; people were saddened as they watched the ______ sight on TV.

单选题It is (largely) through perspiration, (or) the evaporation of water (through) the pores, that humans(rid them) of excess moisture.

单选题Danis Hayes raised the essential paradox and asked how people could have fought so hard against environmental degradation ______ themselves now on the verge of losing the war.

单选题The Second Hague Disarmament Conference of 1907 was marked more by discord than discourse, a sign of the deteriorating world situation.

单选题The rain came through the roof and ______from the ceiling.

单选题It can be seen that if a rocket misses its target, it keeps on traveling through space until ______.

单选题He was______when he heard the unexpected news, but I finally convinced him.

单选题The fact that it will never be possible to converse with someone on another planet shows that ______.

单选题I selected the most difficult job for myself because I find that the more a job challenges me, ______.