单选题During an international crisis, many ______ messages will generally emanate from the president's office.

单选题The few remaining pockets of resistance were finally ______ into submission by the ruthless methods of the conquering army.

单选题According to government statistics, men of all social classes in Britain visit pubs quite regularly, 1 the kind of pub they go to may be different and their reasons for going there 2 too. Nowadays they often take their wives or girl-friends, which 3 to be the case. The fact is that the typical English pub is changing, partly 4 the licensing laws not being so strict as they 5 , but also because publicans are trying to 6 away with the old Victorian 7 of the pub and 8 provide couples with an atmosphere where they can both enjoy themselves. Pub used not to open 9 at certain times. The result was that they were usually 10 with men who seemed to be drinking as much as possible in the time 11 . But that kind of pub is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Curiously enough, the old British licensing laws, which foreigners found so objectionable and absurd, were 12 introduced as a 13 measure to stop workers drinking in the First World War. 14 , the strong Puritanical 15 in Parliament took 16 of the law and 17 it. Opening hours are 18 limited to eight hours a day, but the publican can now choose which hours 19 him best. And these days you can even get a cup of coffee if you prefer 20 beer. But in spite of this the Puritans would never dream of admitting that a pub could become a repeatable place.

单选题Absent impartiality on the part of the psychotherapist, a patient's conflicts may be exacerbated.

单选题Probation offers another way to 1 a jail sentence. The person is given a suspended sentence and is set free. The 2 of probation are to allow those who can 3 in normal society and to help them not to repeat their crimes. The decision as 4 who should be placed on probation and who should go behind bars is 5 to the judge. Parole, which 6 people in prison to finish their terms in the outside world is another way of 7 the number of inmates in our prisons. But 8 , unless something is done to help the person on parole, there is a good chance that he will wind up 9 in prison. In the past, a parole officer used to keep in 10 with the person on parole and tried to help him 11 up a normal life. Recent studies have found, 12 , that parole officers themselves need help. There are just not enough 13 them to go around. One system that might be an 14 remedy for this problem seems to be the halfway house. Halfway houses offer job and personal 15 services for paroles. Society has no control over 16 who are released when their jail terms are 17 . While a person is on parole, however, authorities 18 halfway houses can keep very close 19 with paroles and help with problems of 20 to normal life.

单选题The British historian Niall Ferguson speculated that the end of American______ might not fuel an orderly shift to a multipolar system.(厦门大学2008年试题)

单选题It is a treasure hunt with a difference: conducted not with metal detectors, but by negotiation. Italy is at last reaping the benefits of a two-year campaign to regain smuggled antiquities. Five American museums have been talked into returning works that they claim to have acquired in good faith. Almost 70 of the finest are now on display in Rome—and they have just been joined by the only known intact work by Euphronios, an Athenian vase-painter. New ground is also being broken with the return of nine items from the private collection of a New York philanthropist, Shelby White. This is the first pact negotiated with an individual. Francesco Rutelli, the culture minister, met Ms White twice in America before the deal was done. She has always maintained that she and her late husband had no idea that the pieces were suspect. A tenth item from their collection, also by Euphronios, is being sent back to Italy in 2010. Under Italian law, any classical artefacts found on Italian soil belong to the state, even if (like Euphronios' vases) they originated in Greece. A former head of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and an American art dealer have been on trial for almost three years in Rome, charged with trafficking in illegally excavated objects. Both deny wrongdoing. Their charge was followed by a deal that officials say is crucial for efforts to curb the traffic in smuggled antiquities. Switzerland has undertaken to require importers of classical artifacts to produce proofs of origin and of legal export. The deals with the museums have all involved give-and-take. In exchange for works claimed by Italy, the museums have been given others on long-term loan. "Italian lovers of art and archaeology will get back what has been stolen, while others abroad will profit from the exhibition of sometimes even more beautiful works," says Mr Rutelli. The deal with the Getty museum was the hardest to do but also the most productive. 40 of the works on show in Rome come from there. But they do not include the "Getty bronze", which the Italians had hoped to retrieve. This third-century BC statue, attributed to Lysippos, Greek sculptor, was caught by Italian fishermen in 1964. The Getty insists that it was found in international waters. The Italians say it was still illegally exported.

单选题I am sorry I opened your handbag but I ______ it for mine.

单选题She ______ for a while and was unable to make a decision, so she asked for my help.

单选题All of the international delegates attending the conference ______ to bring a souvenir from their own countries. A. has asked B. is asking C. were asked D. was asking

单选题As she has a kindly, outgoing nature, she is a ______ hostess and has a wide circle of very good friends.

单选题This is not ______ of the overwhelming opinion of the British people.

单选题The instructions on how to use the new machine ______ that nobody seemed to be able to understand.

单选题Another example of the exercise of power by Congress was the action it took during the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War. It has already been noted that President Johnson favored a lenient policy toward the South and attempted to carry out Lincoln's "10 percent plan". He pardoned most of the Southern leaders and permitted them to restore their state governments. They were permitted to elect Senators and Representatives. Congress, however, led by the Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens, had other ideas about the handing of the defeated Confederacy. Congress favored punitive policies. The South should be treated as conquered territory, and its readmission should be handled by Congress rather than the President. Congress opposed the "Johnson Governments" and the "Black Codes" passed by Southern states which virtually restored former slaves to their masters. Accordingly, it passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867. This measure divided the South into five military districts and provided that a seceded state would be readmitted in the Union only after it had ratified the 14th Amendment which provided that all persons born or naturalized in the United States should be citizens of the United States and of the state in which they resided, granted equality before the law to all persons, and prohibited a state from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Congress also barred rebel leaders from federal office, repudiated the Confederate debt, and reduced the representation of states which barred qualified persons from voting. Later it adopted the 15th Amendement guaranteeing the Negroes the right to vote. Johnson vigorously opposed these measures. He vetoed the Reconstruction Act and others, only to see Congress repass them over his veto. After such passage of the Tenure of Office Act, Johnson, believing it unconstitutional, violated it and removed a member of his Cabinet without consulting Congress. The House of Representatives proceeded to impeach Johnson. The Senate, however, failed, by one vote, to reach the two-thirds majority necessary for his removal.

单选题Ted got a better job and left the school before Mrs. Wolcox had him expelled.

单选题An often-used, but valuable analogy compares the immune system with an army. The defending troops are the white blood cells called lymphocytes, born in the bone marrow, billeted in the lymph nodes and spleen, and on exercise in the blood and lymph systems. A body can muster some 200,000,000 cells, making the immune system comparable in mass to the liver or brain. The lymphocytes are called to action when the enemy makes itself known. They attack anything foreign. Their job is to recognize the enemy for what it is, and then destroy it. One of the key features of the immune system is its specificity. Inoculation with smallpox provokes an attack on any smallpox virus, but on nothing else. This specificity of response depends on the lymphocyte's ability to identify the enemy correctly by the molecules on its surface, called antigens. An antigen is an enemy uniform. It can be a protein on the surface of a cold virus, or it can be a protein on the surface of a pollen grain, in which case the immune response takes the form of an allergy. An antigen can also be a protein on the surface of a transplanted organ, in which case the immune response "rejects" the transplant. Organs can therefore be transplanted only between closely related people—in whom the antigens are the same—or into people treated with a drug that suppresses the immune system, such as cyclosporin. In the 1940s, an Australian immunologist, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, proposed a theory that helped explain how lymphocytes recognize and are activated by specific foreign antigens. The clonal selection theory as it was called, suggested that the innate immune system was not a homogeneous mass of more or less identical lymphocytes, but rather was made up of millions of different families called clones. The members of each clone carry on their surfaces a receptor that is capable of identifying and binding to just one foreign antigen (or a part of it called the determinant). Thus, when a foreign body carrying that antigen appears, the antigen binds to the receptor of only those lymphocyte clones which are capable of recognizing it. Once the antigen binds to the receptor, it stimulates the lymphocyte to divide, which generates more identical copies of itself. These clone members then attack the foreign entity which carries the antigen. This implies that the immune system works on a "ready-made" basis. A person's immune system inherits the knowledge of all foreign antigens to which it might be exposed. The sum of this inheritance increases as new threats are met.

单选题The two countries were fighting severely to ______ every inch of the land. A. intervene B. contest C. imperil D. inhabit

单选题When he lived in Tibet in 1950s, radio was the only means he had to keep ______ of current events in the country.(2004年武汉大学考博试题)

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion—a world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try to imagine the consequences of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: knowing neither joy nor pleasure, neither anxiety nor fear, they would be as likely to repeat acts that hurt them as acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience because this emotionless world would lack rewards and punishments. Society would soon disappear: people would be as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist: in a world without friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, or bonds among members of groups. Society's economic underpinnings would be destroyed: since earning $10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $10, there would be no incentive to work. In fact, there would be no incentives of any kind. For as we will see, incentives imply a capacity to enjoy them. In such a world, the chances that the human species would survive are next to zero, because emotions are the basic instrument of our survival and adaptation. Emotions strcture the world for us in important ways. As individuals, we categorize objects on the basis of our emotions. True we consider the length, shape, size, or texture, but an object's physical aspects are less important than what it has done or can do to us—hurt us, surprise us, anger us or make us joyful. We also use categorizations coloured by emotions in our families, communities, and overall society. Out of our emotional experiences with objects and events comes a social feeling of agreement that certain things and actions are "good" and others are "bad", and we apply these categories to every aspect of our social life—from what foods we eat and what clothes we wear m how we keep promises and which people our group will accept. In fact, society exploits our emotional reactions and attitudes, such as loyalty, morality, pride, shame, guilt, fear and greed, in order to maintain itself. It gives high rewards to individuals who perform important tasks such as surgery, makes heroes out of individuals for unusual or dangerous achievements such flying fighter planes in a war, and uses the legal and penal system to make people afraid to engage in antisocial acts.

单选题By now Dad was sixty-five, and what little lenience he may once have possessed had long since hardened into______inflexibility. A. compassionate B. friendly C. remorseful D. steely