单选题What is the relationship between the following two sentences? (a) He married a blonde heiress. (b) He married a blonde.
单选题Who is the most important English dramatist in the 18th century?
单选题These militants ______.
单选题Morphemes that represent "tense", "number", "gender", "case" and so forth are called ______ morphemes.
单选题{{B}}TEXT E{{/B}} Green-space facilities are
contributing to an important extent to the quality of the urban environment.
Fortunately it is no longer necessary that every lecture or every book about
this subject has to start with the proof of this idea. At present it is
generally accepted, although more a self-evident statement than on the base of a
closely-reasoned scientific proof. The recognition of the importance of
green-spaces in the urban environment is a first step on the right way. This
does not mean, however, that sufficient details are known about the functions of
green-space in towns and about the way in which the inhabitants are using these
spaces. As to this rather complex subject, I shall, within the scope of this
lecture, enter into one aspect only, namely the recreative function of green
space facilities. The theoretical separation of living, working,
traffic and recreation which for many years has been used in town-and-country
planning, has in my opinion resulted in disproportionate attention for forms of
recreation far from home, whereas there was relatively little attention for
improvement of recreative possibilities in the direct neighborhood of the home.
We have come to the conclusion that this is not right, because an important part
of the time which we do not pass in sleeping or working, is used for activities
at and around home. So it is obvious that recreation in the open air has to
begin at the street-door of the house. The urban environment has to offer as
many recreation activities as possible, and the design of these has to be such
that more obligatory activities can also have a recreative aspect.
The very best standard of living is nothing if it is not possible to take
a pleasant walk in the district, if the children cannot be allowed to play in
the streets, because the risks of traffic are too great, if during shopping you
can nowhere find a spot for enjoying for a moment the nice weather, in short, if
you only feel yourself at home after the street-door of your house is closed
after you.
单选题Britain is a member of the European Union, which was previously called ______ andA. the World Trade Center, the Common MarketB. the Common Market, the European Economic CommunityC. the European Community, the European Economic CommunityD. the Common Market, the OPEC
单选题From 1732 to 1758. Franklin wrote and published his famous ______, an annual collection of proverbs. A. The Autobiography B. Poor Richard's Almanack C. Common Sense D. The General Magazine
单选题The General Election in Britain is held every ______ years.A. threeB. fourC. fiveD. six
单选题An example of "soft" energy mentioned in this passage is ______.
单选题In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and
then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question
on ANSWER SHEET TWO. Questions 1 to 5
are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10
seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now
listen to the interview.
单选题The morpheme "scope" in the common word "telescope" is a(n) A. bound morpheme. B. bound form. C. inflectional morpheme. D. free morpheme.
单选题Which of the following works written by Charles Dickens is different
from the other ones?
A. Oliver Twist
B. Dombey and Son
C. Pickwick Papers
D. The Old Curiosity Shop
单选题Children can speak before they can read or write shows that language is A. arbitrary. B. used for communication. C. productive. D. basically vocal.
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单选题{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} Historically, execution
has served as a significant form of punishment for deviance from social norms
and criminal behavior. Capital punishment is no longer in use in Great Britain;
but King Henry VIII executed an estimated 72,000 thieves and vagabonds during
his long reign. When the American colonists came from England in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, they brought some of, but not all, the English laws
concerning punishment for capital crimes. For centuries, the
death penalty was used in North America for murder, alleged witchcraft, and a
few other crimes. Little thought was given to its justification; capital
punishment was assumed to be morally and religiously justified. The first
critical challenge to this practice came in 1821 when a study of the Louisiana
criminal code recommended repeal of the death penalty. This suggestion was not
adopted in Louisiana, but, ironically, it led to abolition of capital punishment
in several South American countries. In 1834, Pennsylvania
became the first American state to end its use of executions. Although certain
states followed Pennsylvania's lead, the history of the death penalty in the
United States over the last 100 years has been rather uneven. As some states
abolish capital punishment, others reinstate it. Currently, 37 states, the
military, and federal statutes provide for execution for selected
crimes. The debate over the death penalty has traditionally
focused on its appropriateness as a form of punishment and its value in
deterring criminals. Viewed from the functionalist perspective of Emile
Durkheim, sanctioning of deviant acts helps to reinforce the standards of proper
behavior within a society. In this light, supporters of capital punishment
insist that fear of execution will prevent at least some criminals from
committing serious offenses. Moreover, in their view, the death penalty is
justified even if it does not serve as a deterrent, because such criminals
deserve to die for their crimes. By contrast, opponents of
capital punishment have long attacked it as "legalized murder". For example, in
the last weeks of his term as governor of New Mexico in 1986, Toney Anaya
commuted the death sentences of all five men awaiting execution in the state.
Anaya called the death penalty "inhumane, immoral, and anti-God" and added that
"my personal beliefs do not allow me to permit the execution of an individual in
the name of the state." Opponents of the death penalty point out
that a 1985 report identified 343 Americans wrongly convicted of offenses
punishable by death since 1900, 25 of whom were actually executed. For example,
in 1979 a black man was sentenced to death for the murder of a 4-year-old white
girl. He received a stay only days before his scheduled execution when the
victim's mother implicated another person; the man's conviction was subsequently
overturned. Critics argue that the possibility of error in the criminal justice
system in itself makes capital punishment morally offensive. They also insist
that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against
"cruel and unusual punishment." Thus far, they have failed to persuade the
Supreme Court that their constitutional argument is valid. In
1976, in the case of Gregg vs. Georgia, the Court held that executions can be
appropriate so long as they do not involve needless pain or suffering and are
not grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime. This ruling and
others were especially significant, since no executions had taken place since
1967. In part, this reflected a lull in the criminal justice system as officials
waited to see how the Supreme Court would assess the constitutionality of the
death penalty. In the aftermath of the Court's decisions, one execution took
place amidst national publicity in 1977 and another in 1979. Executions became
more common in the early 1980s; in 1987, there were 25. Moreover, there were
more inmates on "death row" in 1987 than at any other time in American
history.
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单选题By advancing the theory of ______, Bacon showed the new empirical attitutes toward truth about nature and bravely challenged the medieval scholasticists.A. inductive reasoningB. deductive reasoningC. educationD. scientific experimentation
单选题 Jan Hendrik Schon's success seemed too good to be true, and it was.
In only four years as a physicist at Bell Laboratories, Schon, 32, had
co-authored 90 scientific papers—one every 16 days, which astonished his
colleagues, and made them suspicious. When one co-worker noticed that the same
table of data appeared in two separate papers—which also happened to appear in
the two most prestigious scientific journals in the world, Science and
Nature—the jig was up. In October 2002, a Bell Labs investigation found that
Schon had falsified and fabricated data. His career as a scientist was
finished. If it sounds a lot like the fall of Hwang Woo Suk—the
South Korean researcher who fabricated his evidence about cloning human cells—it
is. Scientific scandals, which are as old as science itself, tend to follow
similar patterns of hubris and comeuppance. Afterwards, colleagues wring their
hands and wonder how such malfeasance can be avoided in the future. But it never
is entirely. Science is built on the honor system; the method of peer- review,
in which manuscripts are evaluated by experts in the field, is not meant to
catch cheats. In recent years, of course, the pressure on scientists to publish
in the top journals has increased, making the journals much more crucial to
career success. The questions raised anew by Hwang's fall are whether Nature and
Science have become too powerful as arbiters of what science reaches the public,
and whether the journals are up to their task as gatekeepers.
Each scientific specialty has its own set of journals. Physicists have Physical
Review Letters; cell biologists have Cell; neuroscientists have Neuron, and so
forth. Science and Nature, though, are the only two major journals that cover
the gamut of scientific disciplines, from meteorology and zoology to quantum
physics and chemistry. As a result, journalists look to them each week for the
cream of the crop of new science papers. And scientists look to the journals in
part to reach journalists. Why do they care? Competition for grants has gotten
so fierce that scientists have sought popular renown to gain an edge over their
rivals. Publication in specialized journals will win the accolades of academics
and satisfy the publish-or-perish imperative, but Science and Nature come with
the added bonus of potentially getting your paper written up in The New York
Times and other publications. Scientists are also trying to
reach other scientists through Science and Nature, not just the public.
Scientists tend to pay more attention to the Big Two than to other journals.
When more scientists know about a particular paper, they're more apt to cite it
in their own papers. Being oft-cited will increase a scientist's "Impact
Factor", a measure of how often papers are cited by peers. Funding agencies use
the Impact Factor as a rough measure of the influence of scientists they're
considering supporting. Whether the clamor to appear in these
journals has any bearing on their ability to catch fraud is another matter. The
fact is that fraud is terrifically hard to spot. Consider the process Science
used to evaluate Hwang's 2005 article. Science editors recognized the
manuscript's import almost as soon as it arrived. As part of the standard
procedure, they sent it to two members of its Board of Reviewing Editors, who
recommended that it go out for peer review (about 30 percent of manuscripts pass
this test). This recommendation was made not on the scientific validity of the
paper, but on its "novelty, originality, and trendiness," says Denis Duboule, a
geneticist at the University of Geneva and a member of Science's Board of
Reviewing Editors, in the January 6 issue of Science. After
this, Science sent the paper to three stem-cell experts, who had a week to look
it over. Their comments were favorable. How were they to know that the data was
fraudulent? "You look at the data and do not assume it's fraud," says one
reviewer, anonymously, in Science. In the end, a big scandal
now and then isn't likely to do much damage to the big scientific journals, what
editors and scientists worry about more are the myriad smaller infractions that
occur all the time, and which are almost impossible to detect. A Nature survey
of scientists published last June found that one-third of all respondents had
committed some forms of misconduct. These included falsifying research data and
having "questionable relationships" with students and subjects—both charges
leveled against Hwang. Nobody really knows if this kind of fraud is on the rise,
but it is worrying. Science editors don't have any plans to
change the basic editorial peer-review process as a result of the Hwang scandal.
They do have plans to scrutinize photographs more closely in an effort to spot
instances of fraud, but that policy change had already been decided when the
scandal struck. And even if it had been in place, it would not have revealed
that Hwang had misrepresented photographs from two stem cell colonies as coming
from 11 colonies. With the financial and deadline pressures of the publishing
industry, it's unlikely that the journals are going to take markedly stronger
measures to vet manuscripts. Beyond replicating the experiments themselves,
which would be impractical, it's difficult to see what they could do to make
science beyond the honor system.
单选题______ was identified as the spokesman of the Lost Generation.A. Edwin Arlington Robinson B. Robert FrostC. Ernest Hemingway D. Sinclair Lewis
单选题______ is jointly written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Its publication marked the beginning of the Romantic revival in England.