单选题My friend's parents ______ her to marry the poor young man, but at last she succeeded. A. banned B. prohibited C. prevented D. forbade

单选题The clumsy movement of the giant panda amused all the______.

单选题China started its nuclear power industry only in recent years, and should ______ no time in catching up.

单选题Why did the nobles wish to kill Henry?

单选题Most organisms must fit in with their surroundings because their skills to alter their environment are restricted and highly specialized.

单选题It is on occasion the (manner in which) a person expresses the thought (rather than) the actual words (which) tells us (whether) the speaker is serious or not.

单选题The report was unusual in that it is insinuated corruption on the part of the minister.

单选题Whichofthefollowingstatementisbesttodescribethelastparagraph?

单选题Censorship a word that seems to be______quite controversy over certain people, may not be such a bad idea.

单选题The English language contains a(n) ______ of words which are comparative seldom used in ordinary conversation.

单选题Most people spend far more of their leisure time with the mass media than in any other ______.

单选题Bill is an example of a severely disabled person who has become ______ at many survival skills. [A] proficient [B] persistent [C] consistent [D] sufficient

单选题 In the long run a government will always encroach upon freedom to the extent to which it has the power to do so. This is almost a natural law of politics, since, whatever the intentions of the men who exercise political power, the sheer momentum of government leads to a constant pressure upon the liberties of the citizen. But in many countries society has responded by throwing up its own defenses in the shape of social classes or organized corporations which, enjoying economic power and popular support, have been able to set limits to the scope of action of the executive. Such, for example, in England was the origin of all our liberties--won from government by the stand first of the feudal nobility, then of churches and political parties, and latterly of trade unions, commercial organizations, and the societies for promoting various causes. Even in European lands which were arbitrarily ruled, the powers of the monarchy, though absolute in theory, were in their exercise. checked in a similar fashion. Indeed the fascist dictatorships of today are the first truly tyrannical governments which western Europe has known for centuries, and they have been rendered possible only because on coming to power they destroyed all forms of social organization which were in any way rivals to the state.

单选题English primrose need to be grown in rich damp soil with plenty of ______ or compost worked into it. A. marijuana B. manure C. malt D. mallet

单选题Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will ______ down the economy. A. put B. settle C. drag D. knock

单选题Mass production is ______ only in an economy with a highly developed technology. A. feasible B. permissible C. allowable D. receivable

单选题A few years ago, in their search for ways to sell more goods, advertising men hit on a new and controversial gimmick. It is a silent, invisible commercial that, the ad men claim, can be rushed past the consumer's conscious mind and planted in his subconscious- and without the consumer's knowledge. Developed by James Vicary, a research man who studies what makes people buy, this technique relies on the psychological principle of subliminal perception. Scientists tell us that many of the sights coming to or eyes are not consciously "seen". We select only a few for conscious "seeing" and ignore the rest. Actually the discarded impressions are recorded in the brain though they are below the threshold of consciousness. There's little doubt in Vicary's mind as to the subliminal ad's effectiveness. His proof can be summed up in just two words: sales increase. In an unidentified movie house not so long ago, unknown audiences saw a curious film program. At the same time, on the same screen on which the film hero was courting the heroine a subliminal projector was flashing its invisible commercials. "Get popcorn", ordered the commercial for a reported one three-thousandths of a second every five seconds. It announced "Coca-Cola" at the same speed and frequency to other audiences. At the end of a six weeks trial, popcorn sales had gone up 57 percent, Coke sales 18 percent. Experimental Films. Inc, says the technique is not new. It began research on subliminal perception in 1954. Experimental Films stresses that its equipment was designed for helping problematic students and treating the mentally ill. At NYU two doctors showed twenty women the projected image of an expressionless face. They told the subjects to watch the face for some change of expression. Then they flashed the word angry on the screen at subliminal speeds. Now the women thought the face looked unpleasant. When the word happy was flashed on the screen instead, the subjects thought the woman's facial expression looked much more pleasant. Subliminal techniques, its promoters believe, are good for more than selling popcorn. Perhaps the process can even be used to sell political candidates, by leaving a favorable impression of the candidate in the minds of the electorates subliminally. How convincing are these invisible commercials? Skeptical psychologists answer that they aren't anywhere near as effective as the ad men would like to think they are. Nothing has been proven yet scientifically, says a prominent research man.