单选题The Naming Theory is advanced by ______.

单选题The word "business" occurs twice in the first paragraph, what does the second "business" mean?

单选题The state which has the largest land area of all the states in the United States is[A] Texas.[B] California.[C] Alaska.[D] Utah.

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单选题The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), the largest youth organization in the United States, has policies which prohibit atheists, agnostics, and "known or avowed" homosexuals from membership in its Scouting program; both youths and adults have had their memberships revoked as a result. The BSA contends that these policies are essential in its mission to instill in young people the values of the Scout Oath and Law. According to its mission statement, the Boy Scouts of America seeks "to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law". All members are required, as a condition of membership, to promise to uphold and obey both of these pledges. In reciting the Scout Oath, a Scout promises to be morally straight and to do their duty to God; the Scout Law holds that a Scout is clean and reverent. The BSA also prohibits girls from participating in Cub Scouting and Boy Scouting. These policies are controversial and are considered by some to be unfair. The organization"s legal right to have these policies has been upheld repeatedly by both state and federal courts. The Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed that as a private organization, the BSA can set its own membership standards. In recent years, the policy disputes have led to litigation over the terms under which the BSA can access governmental resources including public lands. In certain municipalities, the conditions under which the Boy Scouts of America can access public and nonpublic governmental resources have become controversial, sometimes resulting in litigation. When a private organization such as the BSA receives access on terms more favorable than other private organizations, it is known as "special" or "preferential" access. For example, state and local governments may lease property to nonprofit groups on terms that are preferential to or equal to the terms they offer to commercial groups. Special access includes access at a reduced fee or access to places off-limits to other groups. The categorization of access as "special" or "equal" is not always clear-cut. Some cities, counties, and states have ordinances or policies that limit government support for organizations that practice some types of discrimination. When the BSA"s membership policies are contrary to these laws, some government organizations have moved to change the terms under which the BSA is allowed to access its resources. Private individuals have filed lawsuits to prevent governmental entities from granting what they see as preferential access. The BSA on the other hand has sued governmental entities for denying what it sees as equal access. In response to these changes and litigation, the federal government passed laws mandating the BSA"s equal access to local and state-level governmental resources. However, state and local governments still have flexibility regarding the provision of special access to the BSA. There also has been opposition to BSA"s membership policies, both from organizations and individuals. Some within the Scouting movement, as well as long-time Scouting supporters, parents, chartered organizations, and religious organizations have expressed opposition to the policies in ways ranging from protests to forming organizations that advocate inclusiveness. Some push for a voluntary change within the BSA, others seek involuntary change by filing lawsuits, still others choose to disassociate themselves from the BSA or encourage others to do so. The Unitarian Universalist Association"s opposition to the BSA"s membership exclusions led to a dispute between the organizations. In 2001, the Union for Reform Judaism"s Commission on Social Action, citing a commitment to ending discrimination in all forms, issued a memorandum recommending that congregations stop hosting BSA troops and that parents withdraw their children from all of the Boy Scouts of America"s programs. Additionally, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ issued a statement urging the BSA to change policy and stated that, "Discrimination against anyone based on sexual orientation is contrary to our understanding of the teachings of Christ." The Secular Coalition for America has urged Congress to revoke the federal charter of the BSA, stating: "Our government must not entangle itself in religious organizations; nor should it establish, with government imprimatur, a private religious club." There have been numerous efforts to change the BSA"s membership policies, but most of them have failed. Thus, the fight will go on and there is a long way to go before a satisfactory result is achieved.

单选题The experiment described in the passage shows that______.

单选题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{{I}} Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question. Now listen to the news.{{/I}}

单选题{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Stupendous prices were paid in a historic sale of 19th- and 20th-century avant-garde paintings collected over a lifetime by John Hay Whitney and his wife, Betsy Cushing Whitney, Picasso's "Garcon à la Pipe" (Boy With a Pipe), painted in 1905, shot up to $104.1 million at Sotheby's during a protracted bidding match over the telephone. That is nearly twice the previous record for the artist: the $55 million paid for "La Femme aux Bras Croisés" at Christie's New York in November 2000. The huge figure reflects the double iconic value that the portrait derived from its mastery and from the aura of its owners, the very patrician Whitneys. The portrait is perhaps the artist's ultimate achievement. Constantly hailed as the giant of modem art, Picasso was probably at his greatest when working under the spell of Old Masters. The rigorous composition, the color balance and the profound psychological probe of the young sitter place the likeness in a category that begins with Italian Renaissance portraitists and continues tight through the 19th century with Corot and Degas. Bought by Whitney in 1950, the painting was seen at distant intervals in major exhibitions dealing with the artist, from the 1967 Grand Palais retrospective in Paris to the 1996 portrait show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The portrait was thus both famous in art history and forgotten. This maximized its impact. Not least, "Garcon à la Pipe" epitomized the taste of connoisseurs of the old school who bought on the strength of their convictions, not on advice. They collected for the sake of the art, neither for investment—they were already rich—nor to achieve social status, which they had by birth. In short, the Whitney sale marked the end of an era when the old cultivated elite of the Western world dominated the art market. Buyers sensed the unique character of the occasion. They responded to pictures that played each other up, linked by affinities that went beyond style or school. Edouard Manet's "Les Courses au Bois de Boulogne" (Races in the Bois de Boulogne) is as important regarding the Impressionist's painting as "Garcon" is within Picasso's oeuvre. The complex composition worthy of 17th-century masters is combined with a sketchiness in much of the detail that already heralds the march toward Abstractionism. The forward thrust of the horses in the foreground and the tense postures of their riders give the picture a vigor and an authority it shares with the Picasso. And like Picasso's portrait, it owes a soothing harmony to its color balance. The Manet brought $26.3 million—a figure deemed disappointing by some only because market prices are at an all-time high. The same combination of boldness in composition and harmony in the color scheme can again be detected in Claude Monet's "Bateaux Sur le Galet" (Boats on the Strand), painted in 1004. Here too the work is unusual. The thrust of the Brush strokes that define the boats and the close-up view of hulls that seem to burst out of the space in which they are lodged create an Expressionist effect. At $4.46 million, the rare masterpiece was worth every peony of it. With remarkable consistency, Whitney sought and found similar characteristics in the work of artists that seemed least likely to display them. Odilon Redon's admirable still life of flowers in a vase seems compressed in a space too small to contain it. Painted in oil rather than drawn in pastel, the still life has a brilliance in its color harmony that is quite unusual. Curiously, "Fleurs Dans un Vase Vert" cost a comparatively moderate $1.68 million. It was not obvious enough in the context of that evening's sale. The collector's versatility where style, school and period were concerned was exceptional. He apparently bought with equal relish some paintings as extraordinarily advanced for their time as others seem rooted in timeless classicism. "Nature Morte au Purro II" was painted by Matisse around 1904-1905 in the contrasted colors of the Fanves, quickly applied in juxtaposed touches. These distill form and outline. The still life rose to $1.85 million, but did not match the highest expectations pinned on it. The Matisse bears a kinship of sorts to one of Paul Signac's most original compositions, painted in 1807. In the small close-up view of the stem of a boat, the sea and the sky are handled as a shower of broad greenish and bluish specks, The Signac touched a chord. At $1 million it fared better than the Matisse in comparative terms. Given their modernity, neither picture was wildly expensive in today's market.

单选题 In the first episode of "Six Feet Under", a popular American television show aired earlier this decade, a large corporation tries to buy a family-owned funeral home (even making overtures at the patriarch's own burial). The owners of Salem Funerals its biggest rival, Stewart Enterprises, is just over $7, down from $28 at its peak in 1998. The trouble was a wave of consolidation during the 1980s and 1990s. Funeral-home companies thought they could grow by acquisition and cut costs through consolidation. But they overpaid amid a scramble to buy independent funeral homes, and found that they could not wring big savings out of them. Death, although recession-proof, is not a growth business (even though baby boomers are getting on), so SCI is trying to increase its margins. In recent years it has adopted a new strategy, cutting prices for caskets and urns while concentrating on selling bundles of services, says David Hass, a managing director. In 2005-06, average revenues per funeral service at SCI rose by an impressive 9% (or $394 per service), whereas the number of funeral services performed fell by 5.8%. SCI has also gone for branding. Its chain of "Dignity Memorial" funeral homes offers such services as a "24- hour compassion helpline" and advice on securing bereavement fares from airlines. The company says the brand is doing well: it is rolling out a Hispanic version, Funeraria del Angel, targeted at Latinos, complete with bilingual staff and the option of 24-hour viewing of the deceased. Independents say that the corporates' prices are too high, and that their service is too impersonal for such a delicate business. "Everything is bottom-line oriented," complains Jim Weeks, who recently bought back the funeral home once owned by his family in Savannah, Georgia, from SCI. Whatever the price, both corporates and independents will be troubled by the growing popularity of cremations. These are much less costly than burials. Richard Puryear of Salem Funerals and Cremations estimates that a typical burial costs $6,400, whereas cremations average at best $2,800. In 2005 about 32% of funerals in America were cremations, up from 26% in 2000, according to the Cremation Association of North America. It expects the number to rise to 46% by 2025. SCI is responding by withdrawing from the cheapest cremations and going for more lucrative packages. Already 41% of its business comes from cremations (above the national average because its business is concentrated along the coast, where cremations are especially popular). "We expect it could be 50% in the next five to ten years," if not higher, says Mr.Hass. Family operators face an extra hurdle. It is hard to persuade young people to get involved in the business, which is not just gloomy but also grueling: undertakers are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of the staff of independent funeral homes are 45 or older, says Mr.Puryear. So death could yet be their undoing.

单选题Poor Richard's Almanac, an annual collection of American proverbs, was written by

单选题According to the text the newsagent last wrote out "Topham’on the top right-handed comer of the author's paper because ______.

单选题AccordingtoDr.Adams,whatshouldwehaveasanattainablegoaloflanguagelearning?

单选题Which of the following is NOT a nickname of the United States?

单选题______ made Herman Melville known as the "man who lived among cannibals."

单选题What had been the main factor preventing the development of battery buses?

单选题Why are there problem weeds?

单选题When a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone else to do him a favor, he is performing A. an illocutionary act. B. a perlocutionary act. C. a locutionary act. D. none of the above.

单选题{{B}}SECTION C{{/B}} Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.

单选题Many peasants earn less than ______.