单选题It is {{U}}postulated{{/U}} that a cure for the disease will have been found by the year 2000.
单选题Can yon make a sentence to
bring out
the meaning of the phrase?
单选题Man of Few Words
Everyone chases success, but not all of us want to be famous.
South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is
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for keeping to himself. When the 63-year-old man was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature, reporters were warned that they would find him "particularly difficult to
2
"
Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago. He seemed
3
by the news that he won the US $1.3 million prize.
"It came as a complete surprise. I wasn"t even aware they were due to make the announcement," he said. His
4
of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend prize-giving in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10. But despite being described as
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to track down, the critics agree that his writing is easy to get to know.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to an English-speaking family, Coetzee
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his break-through in 1980 with the novel "Waiting for the Barbarians". He
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his place among the world"s leading writers with two Booker prize victories, Britain"s highest honour for novels. He first
8
in 1983 for the
Life and Times of Michael K
and his second title came in 1999 for Disgrace.
A major theme in his work is South Africa"s former apartheid system, which divided whites from blacks.
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with the problems of violence, crime and racial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid
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within.
"I have always been more interested in the past than the future," he said in a rare interview.
"The past
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its shadow over the present. I hope I have made one or two people think
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about whether they want to forget the past completely." In fact, this purity in his writing seems to be
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in his personal life. Coetzee is a vegetarian, a cyclist rather than a motorist and he doesn"t drink alcohol. But what he has
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to literature, culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up. "In looking at weakness and failure in life," the Nobel prize judging panel said, "Coetzee"s work
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the divine spark in man."
单选题In England football is a game enjoyed
单选题Medical Education In 18th- century colonial America, those who wanted to become physicians either learned as personal students from established professionals or went abroad to study in the traditional schools of London, Paris, and Edinburgh. Medicine was first taught formally by specialists at the University of Pennsylvania, beginning in 1765, and in 1767 at King's College (now Columbia University), the first institution in the colonies to give the degree of doctor of medicine. Following the American Revolution, the Columbia medical faculty (formerly of King's College ) was combined with the College of Physicians and Surgeons ,chartered in 1809 ,which survives as a division of Columbia University. In 1893 the Johns Hopkins Medical School required all applicants to have a college degree and was the first to afford its students the opportunity to further their training in an attached teaching hospital. The growth of medical schools attached with established institutions of learning went together with the development of proprietary schools of medicine(私人医学院)run for personal profit, most of which had low standards and poor facilities. In 1910 Abraham Flexner, the American education reformer, wrote Medical Education in the United States and Canada, exposing the poor conditions of most proprietary schools. Subsequently, the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges laid down standards for course content, qualifications of teachers, laboratory facilities, connection with teaching hospitals, and licensing of medical professionals that survive to this day. By the late 1980s the U. S. and Canada had 142 4 - year medical colleges recognized by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education to offer the M. D. degree; during the 1987 - 1988 academic year,47,262 men and 25,686 women entered these colleges and an estimated 11,752 men and 5, 958 women were graduated. Graduates, after a year of internship, receive licenses to practice if they pass an examination given either by a state board or by the National Board of Medical Examiners.
单选题The steadily rising cost of labor has greatly increased merchandise's prices.A. continuouslyB. quicklyC. excessivelyD. exceptionally
单选题Only people over 18 are eligible to vote.
单选题The government is debating the education laws.A. discussingB. defeatingC. delayingD. declining
单选题The workers finally called off the strike.A. put offB. endedC. cancelledD. participated in
单选题The curious look from the strangers around her made her feel
uneasy
.
单选题
Early or Later Day Care
The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the
parents during the sensitive "attachment" period from birth to three may scar a
child's personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life. Some
people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be
subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental separation
it entails, and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments
against such a strong conclusion. Firstly, anthropologists point out that the
insulated love affair between children and parents found in modern societies
does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, in some tribal
societies, such as the Ngoni, the father and mother of a child did not rear
their infant alone—far from it. Secondly, common sense tells US that day care
would not be so widespread today if parents care-takers found children had
problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried
out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicated and
controversial. Thirdly, in the last decade there have been a number of careful
American studies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported that
day care had a neural or slightly positive effect on children's development. But
tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough
accepted to settle the issue. But Bowlby's analysis raises the
possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such
care might lead to say, more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can
only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects,
parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children
under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness.
At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition
to nursery easy, and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of
child care at this time. The matter, then, is far from clear-cut, though
experience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable for
infants.
单选题Jack was
dismissed
.
单选题What are my chances of {{U}}promotion{{/U}} if I stay here?
单选题If Operation Migration is successful, whooping cranes will
单选题The accommodation was cheap, but the food was very
expensive
.
单选题My father is a {{U}}physician{{/U}}.
A. researcher
B. professor
C. doctor
D. student
单选题{{B}}第三篇{{/B}}
{{B}}Technology Transfer
in Germany{{/B}} When it comes to translating basic research into
industrial success, few nations can match Germany. Since the 1940s, the nation's
vast industrial base has been fed with a constant stream of new ideas and
expertise from science. And though German prosperity (繁荣) has faltered (衰退) over
the past decade because of the huge cost of unifying east and west as well as
the global economic decline, it still has an enviable (令人羡慕) record for mining
ideas into profit. Much of the reason for that success is the
Fraunhofer Society, a network of research institutes that exists solely to solve
industrial problems and create sought-after technologies. But today the
Fraunhofer institutes have competition. Universities are taking an ever larger
role in technology transfer, and technology parks are springing up all over.
These efforts are being complemented by the federal programs for pumping money
into start-up companies. Such a strategy may sound like a
recipe for economic success, but it is not without its critics. These people
worry that favoring applied research will mean neglecting basic science,
eventually starving industry of flesh ideas. If every scientist starts thinking
like an entrepreneur (企业家), the argument goes, then the traditional principles
of university research being curiosity-driven: free and widely available will
suffer. Others claim that many of the programs to promote technology transfer
are a waste of money because half the small businesses that are promoted are
bound to go bankrupt within a few years. While this debate
continues, new ideas flow at a steady rate from Germany's research networks,
which bear famous names such as Helmholtz, Max Planck and Leibniz. Yet it is the
fourth network, the Fraunhofer Society, that plays the greatest role in
technology transfer. Founded in 1949, the Fraunhofer Society is
now Europe's largest organization for applied technology, and has 59 institutes
employing 12,000 people. It continues to grow. Last year it swallowed up the
Heinrich Hertz Institute for Communication Technology in Bedim Today, there are
even Fraunhofers in the US and Asia.
单选题The whole idea to build a deluxe hotel here sounds
insane
to me. ______
单选题She gets
aggressive
when she is drunk.
单选题Moderate Earthquake Strikes England
A moderate earthquake struck parts of southeast England on 28 April 2007, toppling chimneys from houses and rousing residents from their beds. Several thousand people were left without power in Kent County. One women suffered minor head and neck injuries.
"It felt as if the whole house was being slid across like a fun-fair ride," said the woman.
The British Geological Survey said the 4.3-magnitude quake struck at 8:19 a.m. and was centered under the English Channel, about 8.5 miles south of Dover and near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel.
Witnesses said cracks appeared in walls and chimneys collapsed across the county. Residents said the tremor had lasted for about 10 to 15 seconds.
"I was lying in bed and it felt as if someone had just got up from bed next to me." Said Hendrick van Eck, 27, of Canterbury about 60 miles southeast of London. "I then heard the sound of cracking, and it was getting heavier and heavier. It felt as if someone was at the end of my bed hopping up and down."
There are thousands of moderate quakes on this scale around the world each year, but they are rare in Britain. The April 28 quake was the strongest in Britain since 2002 when a 4.8-magnitude quake struck the central England city of Birmingham.
The country"s strongest earthquake took place in the North Sea in 1931, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale. British Geological Survey scientist Roger Musson said the quake took place on 28 April in an area that had seen several of the biggest earthquakes ever to strike Britain, including one in 1580 that caused damage in London and was felt in France. Musson predicted that it was only a matter of time before another earthquake struck this part of England. However. people should not be scared too much by this prediction, Musson said, as the modern earthquake warning system of Britain should be able to detect a forthcoming quake and announce it several hours before it takes place. This would allow time for people to evacuate and reduce damage to the minimum.