单选题When doing business with an Arab, you have to endure hours of small talk, waiting for the topic of commerce to be broached. A. raised B. broken C. solved D. concluded

单选题The sixties have been misunderstood. It was not a radical decade, as the term radical is commonly used in connection with those years. It was not a decade of the left ascendant. Rampant, perhaps but not ascendant. Rather, the decade was radicalizing, which, subsequent decades have shown, is different. Politically, the sixties invigorated the right more than the left. But of course politics is not everything. In fact, three decades down the road, the nation's political discourse may be driven by conservatives, but they, although by many measures triumphant, seem aggrieved because politics seems peripheral to, and largely impotent against, cultural forces and institutions permeated with what conservatives consider the sixties sensibilities. Treating a decade as a discrete entity obviously makes the assumption that history during that decade had an obliging tidiness, opening with a decisive and tone-setting episode and closing with a suitably climatic event. History rarely accommodates that assumption. Such a treatment of a decade also makes the equally dubious assumption that the decade in question had a clearly dominant tone or profile. So the 1920s was the decade of jazz, flappers, the birth of the sports celebrity(Babe Ruth, Red Orange, Jack Dempsey), the Lost Generation, Sacco and Vanzetti and.. .Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Let us stipulate this, then: A decade, even one as intensely felt at the time and as hotly debated afterward as the sixties was and is, can come to seem, when recollected in tranquility, quite unlike the decade as it was felt at the time, and unlike the decade as it is portrayed by people with an emotional or political investment in portraying it a particular way. It is arguable that we should think of the sixties as beginning in November 1963 and ending in October 1973. That is, the years we connect with the tumultuousness associated with the phrase "the sixties' began with the assassination of a president and ended with the Yom Kippur War and the energy crisis". The assassination shattered(or at least many people say it did)the nation's sunny postwar disposition; it supposedly "ended American innocence". It is unclear how innocent was his nation that had been made possible by Puritans, had been founded by such innocents as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison had been born in the bloodshed of what actually was not only the American Revolution but also America's first civil war, had been preserved by the worst civil war the world had until then seen...you get the picture. The sixties as a decade of "lost innocence"? The 1973 oil embargo, which produced a sense of national vulnerability and pervasive limits, did seem to bring down a curtain on something. But on what?

单选题According to the passage each production of a Bond film is ______.

单选题For nearly 50 years, Speck has been a ______ author, writing 13 books including an autobiography and numerous magazine articles.

单选题More legislation is needed to protect the ____ properly rights of the patent.

单选题______ is forbidden in some states, such as in the United States for religious reasons, while it is permitted in some other states.(2007年中国矿业大学考博试题)

单选题Boys have a stronger______to go in for adventures than girls.

单选题From the time of the Greeks to the Great War, medicine's job was simple: to struggle with ______ diseases and gross disabilities, to ensure live births, and to manage pain.

单选题You have nothing to ______ by refusing to listen to our advice,

单选题His magnificent house is the______ of all his friends.

单选题In a month of work days (approximately 20), how many calls could the solar contractor expect if this current rate continues unchanged?

单选题This leads record companies to treat musicians as contracted artists who are not paid a fixed sum for their labor-time, but instead receive royalties in ______ to their success. A. addition B. relation C. percentage D. proportion

单选题The country"s deficit that year ______ to a record 169.8 billion dollars.

单选题The couple had been trying to satisfy all the needs of their only youngster, who had been______ for more pocket money all the time. A. supposing B. pleading C. trailing D. devising

单选题The prevalence of highly intelligent devices has eliminated the handicaps associated with most disabilities.

单选题Larry does not have to worry about his newly-bought car, because he has______ it against accident, theft and fire. A. assured B. secured C. ensured D. insured

单选题Today, a high-level finance manager is just as likely to be a casual-looking 21-year-old as a balding executive. They have all either started their own companies or head a division within an existing firm. Most are under 30. Many of them share a tendency to think, speak and act fast. A detailed psychological study carried out recently on young business start-uppers aged over 25 revealed some common characteristics. The head psychologist at the University of Northumbria, Dr. Martyn Dyer-Smith, says "We found that they are opportunists. They have that entrepreneurial ability to take whatever is in front of them and turn it to their advantage. Any fool can make US $ 2 if they are in the right place at the right time, what is much harder is to actually plan their business. Originally I had a hypothesis that they planned a long time ahead, but I was wrong. What came across was a surprisingly short planning time. They took the opportunities as and when they came up." What cannot be underestimated, though, is self-confidence. "There is an amazing, almost abnormal, belief in themselves and (they) go very much on intuition." Says Dyer-Smith. While there is no typical pattern to what puts someone in the fast lane, there are some common threads: living up to the expectations of parents, channeling excessive amounts of energy into business, or finding a way to overcome personal barriers such as dyslexia (a reading disability) or learning difficulties, for example. The biggest surprise was the lack of young women. This was particularly unexpected, given the recent publicity about how girls are performing better than boys at school and becoming more confident and ambitious. But young women are opting for more secure careers rather than gambling with their future. With only a handful of female role models, some girls are not even considering being their own boss, let alone working on a concept fresh out of school, according to Dr Susan Vinnicombe, director of the center for the Development of Women Business Leader. "Women are going more into the corporate structure and doing well there. But perhaps the reason that they are not doing business for themselves at an earlier age is because women"s attitudes are different. They perceive risk in a different way to men, who are not worried about borrowing huge amounts of money if it"s going to help their business in the long term. Women are more cautious and more hesitant ," she says. Vinnicombe sees the lack of female entrepreneurs as part of a larger problem about women and the IT industry. Given that the computer world is one of the key areas for growth, where youth is an asset, it is "remarkable" that so many women are missing out on it. "The number of women in IT has actually dropped in the past 10 years. There is a real problem with attracting them to the IT industry, as girls don"t seem to want to do it at university. It"s become such a worrying issue that I know the government is looking into ways to attract them."