单选题He gradually ______ that his wife was right and he had to change his way of living.

单选题She told us that the lease would terminate in May, and she had to find a new house.

单选题The ______ of his first novel appeared in The Times yesterday; no doubt he was very happy to see that.

单选题It is (raining hard) outside. (Haven' t) you (taken) an umbrella (with you)?

单选题It is the first of several agreements United States hopes to reach as it attempts to reduce, labor costs by $5.8 billion and ______ bankruptcy.

单选题The military operations______yesterday were targeted at the military installations. A. propelled B. commenced C. plagued D. modulated

单选题Most environmental______from climate changes to freshwater and forest habitat loss have become markedly worse.

单选题In the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia , one scene shows an American newspaper reporter eagerly snapping photos of men looting a sabotaged train. One of the looters, Chief Auda abu Tayi of the Howeitat clan, suddenly notices the camera and snatches it. "Am I in this?" he asks, before smashing it open. To the dismayed reporter, Lawrence explains, "He thinks these things will steal his virtue. He thinks you"re a kind of thief." As soon as colonizers and explorers began taking cameras into distant lands, stories began circulating about how indigenous peoples saw them as tools for black magic. The "ignorant natives" may have had a point. When photography first became available, scientists welcomed it as a more objective way of recording faraway societies than early travelers" exaggerated accounts. But in some ways, anthropological photographs reveal more about the culture that holds the camera than the one that stares back. Up into the 1950s and 1960s, many ethnographers sought "pure" pictures of "primitive" cultures, routinely deleting modern accoutrements such as clocks and Western dress. They paid men and women to re-enact rituals or to pose as members of war or hunting parties, often with little regard for veracity. Edward Curtis, the legendary photographer of North American Indians, for example, got one Makah man to pose as a whaler with a spear in 1915—even though the Makah had not hunted whales in a generation. These photographs reinforced widely accepted stereotypes that indigenous cultures were isolated, primitive, and unchanging. For instance, National Geographic magazine"s photographs have taught millions of Americans about other cultures. As Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins point out in their 1993 book Reading National Geographic, the magazine since its founding in 1888 has kept a tradition of presenting beautiful photos that don"t challenge white, middle-class American conventions. While dark-skinned women can be shown without tops, for example, white women"s breasts are taboo. Photos that could unsettle or disturb, such as areas of the world torn asunder by war or famine, are discarded in favor of those that reassure to conform with the society"s stated pledge to present only "kindly" visions of foreign societies. The result, Lutz and Collins say, is the depiction of "an idealized and exotic world relatively free of pain or class conflict." Lutz actually likes National Geographic a lot. She read the magazine as a child, and its lush imagery influenced her eventual choice off anthropology as a career. She just thinks that as people look at the photographs of other cultures, they should be alert to the choice of composition and images.

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

单选题As we have seen, propaganda can appeal to us by arousing our emotions or______our attention from the real issues at hand. A. retaining B. sustaining C. distracting D. obscuring

单选题According to the context, the word "doused" in the last sentence of this passage could be best replaced with ______.

单选题We had no way to measure the exact distance we had traveled, but we thought it was______ten miles. A. apparently B. appraisably C. appropriately D. approximately

单选题______ of the Pennsylvania Gazette, Benjamin Franklin tried hard to make the periodical popular.

单选题Janet loved her job and enjoyed every day of it, although she found Mondays in the office a ______boring.

单选题In science the meaning of the word "explain" suffers with civilization's every step in search of reality. Science can not really explain electricity, magnetism, and gravitation; their effects can be measured and predicted, but of their nature no more is known to the modem scientist than to Thales who first speculated on the electrification of amber. Most contemporary physicists reject the notion that man can ever discover what these mysterious forces "really" are. Electricity, Bertrand Russell says, "is not a thing, like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave." When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, we have told all there is to tell. Until recently scientists would have disapproved of such an idea. Aristotle, for example, whose natural science dominated Western thought for two thousand years, believed that man could arrive at an understanding of 'reality by reasoning from self-evident principles. He felt, for example, that it is a self-evident principle that everything in the universe has its proper place, hence one can conclude that objects fall to the ground because that is where they belong, and smoking goes up because that is where it belongs. The goal of Aristotelian science was to explain why things happen. Modern science was born when Galileo began trying to explain how things happen and thus originated the method of controlled experiment which now forms the basis of scientific investigation.

单选题In some California housing estates, a key alone is insufficient to get someone in the door; his or her voiceprint must also be______. (中国科学院2013年10月试题)

单选题Which of the following may be the most appropriate title for the passage?

单选题Nell's father said to him that he was ______ dog to learn new tricks.

单选题The advertising industry has resorted to self-regulation in a serious effort to {{U}}curtail{{/U}} not only bad taste but also misrepresentation and deception in copy and illustrations.

单选题Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the U.S. President when many businesses were______ during the Great Depression.