单选题Margaret Thatcher was leader of the ______Party.

单选题{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} During the first half of the seventeenth century, when the nations of Europe were quarreling over who owned the New World, the Dutch and the Swedes founded competing villages ten miles apart on the Delaware River. Not long afterward, the English took over both places and gave them new names, New Castle and Wilmington. For a century and a half the two villages grew rapidly, but gradually Wilmington gained all the advantages. It was a little closer to Philadelphia, so when new textile mills opened, they opened in Wilmington, not in New Castle. There was plenty of water power from rivers and creeks at Wilmington, so when young Irenee DuPont chose a place for his gunpowder mill, it was Wilmington he chose, not New Castle. Wilmington became a town and then a city —a rather important city, much the largest in Delaware. And New Castle, bypassed by the highways and waterways that made Wilmington prosperous, slept ten miles south on the Delaware River. No two villages with such similar pasts could have gone such separate ways. Today no two pieces could be more different. Wilmington, with its expressways and parking lots and all its other concrete ribbons and badges, is a tired old veteran of the industrial wars and wears a vacant stare. Block after city block where people used to live and shop is broken and empty. New Castle never had to make way for progress and therefore never had any reason to tear down its seventeenth-and eighteenth-century houses. So they are still here, standing in tasteful rows under ancient elms around the original town green. New Castle is still an agreeable place to live. The pretty buildings of its quiet past make a serene setting for the lives of 4,800 people. New Castle may be America's loveliest town, but it is not an important town at all. Progress passed it by. Poor New Castle. Lucky Wilmington.

单选题{{B}}TEXT D{{/B}} If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurse's convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch; the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. "Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter. "Oh, that's God,," came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor." If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman's notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn't attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it's the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark. Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. It's a twist on a familiar quote "If at first you don't succeed, give up" or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements: Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.

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单选题{{B}}TEXT E{{/B}} People do not analyze every problem they meet. Sometimes they try to remember a solution from the last time they had a similar problem. They often accept the opinions or ideas of other people. Other times they begin to act without thinking; they try to find a solution by trial and error. However, when all these methods fail, the person with a problem has to start analyzing. There are six stages in analyzing a problem. First the person must recognize that there is a problem. For example, Sam's bicycle is broken, and he cannot read it to class as he usually does. Sam must see that there is a problem with his bicycle. Next the thinker must define the problem. Before Sam can repair his bicycle, he must find the reason why it does not work. For instance, he must determine if the problem is with the gears, the brakes, or the frame. He must make his problem more specific. Now the person must look for information that will make the problem clearer and lead to possible solutions. For instance, suppose Sam decided that his bike does not work because there is something wrong with the gear wheels. At this time. he can look in his bicycle repair book and read about gears. He can talk to his friends at the bike shop. He can look at his gears carefully. After studying the problem; the person should have several suggestions for a possible solution. Take Sam as an illustration. His suggestions might be: put oil on the gear wheels; buy new gear wheels and replace the old ones; tighten or loosen the gear wheels. Eventually one suggestion seems to be the solution to the problem. Sometimes the final idea comes very suddenly because the thinker suddenly sees something new or sees something in a new way. Sam, for example, suddenly sees that there is a piece of chewing gum between the gear wheels. He immediately realizes the solution to his problem: he must clean the gear wheels. Finally the solution is tested. Sam cleans the gear wheels and finds that afterwards his bicycle works perfectly. In short, he has solved the problem.

单选题 {{B}}ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS{{/B}}{{B}}The Application for Graduate Admission{{/B}} should be used by applicants to all programs except Dentistry, Law, Medicine, the master's degree programs in the Graduate School of Business Administration and the Doctor of Pharmacy degree program. Applicants to these programs should obtain forms directly from the schools to which they seek admission. (Their telephone numbers are area code 213i Dentistry 740-2841, Law 740- 7331,Medicine 342-1607, Business master's programs 740-7846, and Pharmacy 342-1474. ) Many academic departments require additional materials for admission. It is important for you to contact your academic department regarding any supplemental applications, specific GRE (Graduate Record Examination) Tests or other examinations required for admission, and depart- mental assistantship/fellowship opportunities.{{B}}COMPLETING THE APPLICATION{{/B}}Students must complete all appropriate sections of the enclosed application. Failure to do so may cause delays in the processing of the application. The university is required to report to the federal government the ethnic origin information requested in question 16 of the application. U.S. citizens or lawfully admitted permanent residents should select the racial/ ethnic category with which they most closely identify. International students are reported as a separate category and should select the non- resident alien category (number 5) regardless of their racial/ethnic origin. The five racial/ethnic categories are described as follows:{{B}}Black, non-Hispanic{{/B}} a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa (except those of Hispanic origins). {{B}}Asian or Pacific Islander{{/B}} a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or Pacific Islands. This includes people from China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, Samoa, India and Vietnam.{{B}}Hispanic{{/B}} a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.{{B}}American Indian or Alaskan Native{{/B}} a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America, and who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.{{B}}White, non-Hispanic{{/B}} a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East (except those of Hispanic origin). Students pursuing graduate degrees must apply for admission to specified programs; graduate applicants cannot be admitted to undeclared status. Those who wish to apply simultaneously to two different departments must submit an application form for each program. A photocopy of the enclosed form will suffice for the second application. Students; need to submit only one ＄ 55 non-refundable application fee for both applications, however. Domestic students who are not seeking graduate degrees, but who wish to enroll in graduate- level courses for personal or professional enrichment only, may register in limited student status. Such students do not need to submit applications for admission, but must receive departmental approval and the approval of the Office of the Registrar. Permission to take course work in limited status does not imply or guarantee admission. In most cases, limited status is not available to international students as it does not fulfill student visa requirements. Permission for such enrollment by students on non-resident visas may be granted only by the Office of Graduate and International Admissions.{{B}}APPLICATION FEE{{/B}}A check or money order for ＄ 55 drawn on a U. S. bank in U.S. currency and made payable to the University of Southern California must accompany the application. This fee is nonrefundable and-cannot be deferred. The application fee must be paid (or waived) before an application can be processed. Application fee waivers are granted only under the following circumstances:● The student is a U. S. citizen or permanent resident who can demonstrate financial need by enclosing a letter from the financial aid office of the last institution attended. This letter verifying financial need must accompany the application.● The student is currently an admitted USC student or is a USC alumnus or alumna.● The student is a full-time USC employee or a dependent of a full-time USC employee.{{B}}FILING THE APPLICATION{{/B}}Please consult your department for specific application deadlines. Those who apply by February 1, 1997 have the best chances of receiving full Consideration for admission decisions and departmental financial assistance, including fellowships and teaching assistantships; however, some departments have earlier or later application deadlines Use the envelope included with this application to forward your application for admission to the university Unless otherwise instructed by your department, transcripts and GRE scores should be sent to:{{B}}University of Southern California{{/B}}{{B}}Office of Graduate Admissions{{/B}}{{B}}University Park{{/B}}{{B}}Los Angeles, California{{/B}} 90089-0913Failure to use the above address will result in application processing delays.

单选题What's wrong with Europe's patent system?

单选题In the 16th century, Thomas More's work ______ became immediately popular after its publication. A. Paradise Lost B. A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C. Of Beauty D. Utopia

单选题Walt Whitman was a(n) ______. A. playwright B. essayist C. poet D. novelist

单选题{{B}}TEXT D{{/B}} A "scientistic" view of language was dominant among philosophers and linguists who affected to develop a scientific analysis of human thought and behavior in the early part of this century, Under the force of this view, it was perhaps inevitable that the art of rhetoric should pass from the status of being regarded as of questionable worth (because although it might be both a source of pleasure and a means to urge people to right action, it might also be a means to distort truth and a source of misguided action) to the status of being wholly condemned. If people are regarded only as machines guided by logic as they were be these "scientistic" thinkers, rhetoric is likely to be held in low regard: for the most obvious truth about rhetoric is that it speaks to the whole person. It presents its arguments first to the person as a rational being, because persuasive discourse, if honestly conceived, always has a basis in reasoning. Logical argument is the plot, as it were, of any speech or essay that is respectfully intended to persuade people. Yet it is a characterizing feature of rhetoric that it goes beyond this and appeals to the parts of our nature that are involved in feeling, desiring, acting, and suffering. It recalls relevant instances of the emotional reactions of people to circumstances real or fictional—that are similar to our own circumstances. Such is the purpose of both historical accounts and fables in persuasive discourse: they indicate literally or symbolically how people may react emotionally, with hope or fear, to particular circumstances. A speech attempting to persuade people can achieve little unless it takes into account the aspect of their being related to such hopes and fears. Rhetoric, then, is addressed to human beings living at particular times and in particular places. From the point of view of rhetoric, we are not merely logical thinking machines, creatures abstracted from time and space. The study of rhetoric should therefore be considered the most humanistic of the humanities, since rhetoric is not directed only to our rational selves. It takes into account what the "scientistic" view leaves out. If it is a weakness to harbor feelings, then rhetoric may be thought of as dealing in weakness. But those who reject the idea of rhetoric because they believe it deals in lies and who at the same time hope to move people to action, must either be liars themselves or be very naive; pure logic has never been a motivating force unless it has been subordinated to human purposes, feelings, and desires, and thereby ceased to be pure logic.

单选题Which of the following is true?A) Phonetics is the study of pronunciation.B) Phonetics is the scientific study of the movement of sound waves.C) Phonetics is the scientific study of the sounds of language.D) Phonetics is the scientific study of the organs of speech.

单选题"Omnibus, earthquake, discotheque" are replaced by "bus, quake, disco' respectively in the way of

单选题 {{B}}TEXT A{{/B}} The period of adolescence, i.e., the person between childhood and adulthood, may be long or short, depending on social expectations and on society's definition as to what constitutes maturity and adulthood. In primitive societies adolescence is frequently a relatively short period of time, while in industrial societies with patterns of prolonged education coupled with laws against child labor, the period of adolescence is much longer and may include most of the second decade of one's life. Furthermore, the length of the adolescent period and the definition of adulthood status may change in a given society as social and economic conditions change. Examples of this type of change are the disappearance of the frontier in the latter part of the nineteenth century in the United States, and more universally, the industrialization of an agricultural society. In modem society, ceremonies for adolescence have lost their formal recognition and symbolic significance and there no longer is agreement as to what constitutes initiation ceremonies. Social ones have been replaced by a sequence of steps that lead to increased recognition and social status. For example, grade school graduation, high school graduation and college graduation constitute such a sequence, and while each step implies certain behavioral changes and social recognition, the significance of each depends on the socio-economic status and the educational ambition of the individual. Ceremonies for adolescence have also been replaced by legal definitions of status roles, right, privileges and responsibilities, it is during the nine years from the twelfth birthday to the twenty-first that the protective and restrictive aspects of childhood and minor status are removed and adult privileges and responsibilities are granted. The twelve-year-old is no longer considered a child and has to pay full fare for train, airplane, theater and movie tickets. Basically, the individual at this age loses childhood privileges without gaining significant adult rights. At the age of sixteen the adolescent is granted certain adult rights which increase his social status by providing him with more freedom and choices. He now can obtain a driver' s license; he can leave public schools; and he can work without the restrictions of child labor laws. At the age of eighteen the law provides adult responsibilities as well as rights: the young man can now be a soldier, but he also can marry without parental permission. At the age of twenty-one the individual obtains his full legal rights as an adult. He now can write, he can buy liquor, he can enter into financial contracts, and he is entitled to run for public office. No additional basic rights are acquired as a function of age alter majority status has been attained. None of these legal provisions determine at what point adulthood has been reached but they do point to the prolonged period of adolescence.

单选题Were it not for the new telescope high in the Andes Mountains, researchers would not have argued that ______.

单选题The passage states that while married couples can prepare for grieving by _______.

单选题 The Game of the Name Here comes John Smith walking toward me. Even though be is but a passing acquaintance, the American greeting ritual demands that I utter a few words to reassure him of my good will. But what form of address should I use? John? Smith? Dr. Smith? A decision such as this is usually made unconsciously. As native speakers in tile American speech community, we have grown up learning the rules of address at the same time that we were acquiring the grammatical vales of American - English. At first thought, it might seem a trivial pursuit to examine the ways in which we address one another. But forms of address reveal many assumptions we make about memebers of our speech community. Our initial decision about the appropriate address form is based on relative ages. If the person being ad- dressed is a child, then almost all the rules that we have unconsciously assimilated can safely’be ignored, and we use the simple formula First Name. The child, in turn, addresses an adult by using the formula The plus Last Name. But defining a" child" is not always easy. 1 address my son's roommate at college by FN, even though he is an adult under the law. I, too, have the relative age of a child to a 75 - year - old acquaintance who calls me Pete. Let us assume that John Smith is not a child who can be addressed by FN but is either my contemporary or my elder. The next important determiner for the form of address will then be the speech situation. If the situation is a formal one, then I must disregard all other rules and use social Identity plus Last Name. John Smith will always be addressed as Dr. Smith (or sometimes simply as Doctor, with Last Name understood) in the medical setting of office or hospital. (I am allowed to call him if my status is at least as high as his or if we are friends outside of our social roles, but the rest of my utterance must remain respectful. ) We arc also obliged to address certain other people by their social identity in formal situation: public officials (Congressman: Your Honor) , educators ( Professor or Doctor) ,leaders of meetings ( Mr. Chairman ) , Roman Catholic priests (Father Daily) and nuns (Sister Anna), and so forth. By the way, note the sexist distinction in the formulas for priests and nuns. The formula for a priest is Father plus Last Name, but for a nun it is Sister plus Religious Name (usually an FN). Most conversations, however, arc not carried on in formal speech situations, and so the basic decision is when to use FN to TLN. A social acquaintance or newly hired colleague of approximately the same age and rank is usually introduced on an FN basis. "Pete, I'd like you to meet Harvy. "Now a problem arises if both age and rank of cone of the parties are higher: "Pete, I'd like you to meet Attorney Brown." Attorney Brown may, of course, at any time signal me that he is willing to suspend the rules of address and allow an FN basis. Such a suspension is his privilege to bestow, and it is usually handled humorously, with a remark like, "I answer quicker to Bruce." Complications arise when relative age and relative rank are not both the same. A young doctor who joins a hospital finds it difficult to address a much older doctor. They are equal in rank (and therefore FN should be used) but the great disparity in ages calls for TLN. In such eases, the young doctor can use the No - Name (NN) formula, phrasing his utterances adroitly to avoid using any term of address at all. English is quite exceptional among the world's languages in this respect. Most European languages oblige the speaker to choose between the familiar and formal second person singular ( as in the French tu and vous) ,as English once did when " thou" was in use. This is the basic American system, but the rules vary according to speech situations, subtle friendship or kin relationships between the speakers, regions of the country, and so forth. Southern speech, for example, adds the formula Title plus First Name (Mr. Charlic) to indicate familiar respect. Southerners are also likely to specify kin terms (as in Cousin Jane) whereas in most of the United States FN is used for cousins. Address to strangers also alters some of the rules. A speaker usually addresses a stranger whose attire and behavior indicate higher status by saying sir. But sometimes speakers with low status address those with obviously higher status by spurning this rule and instead using Mac or buddy--as when a construction worker asks a passing executive, socially identified by his atlacie’case, "You got a match, buddy?"

单选题{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} The reek of the twin towers' rabble still permeated Lower Manhattan when Yaroslav Trofimov's editor at The Wall Street Journal gave him an assignment that is the stuff of a foreign correspondent's fantasies: to travel through the lands of Islam and find out how Muslims were reacting to America's tragedy. Fluent in Arabic and carrying an Italian passport, the Ukrainian-born Trofimov gained access to people who wouldn't speak to most Westerners, especially Americans. Over three years, he met jihadists in Yemen, politicians in Bosnia, liberals in Tunisia, conservative clerics in Saudi Arabia, Hezbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon, caravaneers in mythic Timbuktu, and now gives us "Faith at War," part travel book, part political and cultural commentary, part adventure story and altogether superb, gracefully written guide into what he calls "the Islamic universe". The cosmological description is apt: the countries Trofimov visited seem, in their values, outlooks and aspirations, very distant from our own. "Faith at War" serves as a kind of wormhole, through which we can enter that parallel universe and begin to comprehend it. The news it brings will not comfort those who believe that globalization is drawing us closer together. On his first stop, Cairo, undergraduates dining in a McDonald' s a few days after 9/11 demonstrate that itt s possible to delight in a Big Mac and in the fiery deaths of 3,000 Americans at the same time. "Everyone celebrated," an 18-year-old university student gushes as she dips her fries into ketchup, "cheering that America finally got what it deserved." This and similar encounters lead Trofimov to conclude that poverty is not the root cause of Islamic extremism: ,'Often those with the most bloodthirsty ideas were the well-to-do and the privileged who have had some experience with the West — and not the downtrodden and ignorant ' masses' that are usually depicted as the font of anti-Western fury." At his next destination, Saudi Arabia, Trofimov sips tea with a dissident who echoes a mantra of the Bush administration — the Middle East's repressive regimes are responsible for terrorism, and the key to defeating it is to democratize the region. The country's justice minister, though, tells him that democracy is "un-Islamic,. Some of Trofimov' s material is, unfortunately, dated, especially in the chapters dealing with Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraqi Shiite leaders express deep antipathy to the United States ("Even if you turn this country into heaven, we don' t want it from you," says one); he might hear different opinions now that a Shiite dominated government is more or less in place. Trofimov's episodic narrative creates a mosaic of the Muslim universe, which is less monolithic than generally pictured. Each tile is exquisitely wrought, but the overall pattern is not always clear. Trofimov implies that in the eyes of a great many Muslims, what began as a war against terrorism has morphed into a war against Islam — a clash of civilizations. But Muslims in more moderate countries like Tunisia and Mali don't seem to share that view, and I for one couldn't tell which vision is likely to prevail. That said, this book deserves a wide readership. The Muslims don't understand us, we don't understand them. "Faith at War" goes a long way toward solving the second part of that dismal equation.

单选题Pygmalion is a play written by______, which is later adapted into a musical film. A. George Bemard Shaw B. Oscar Wild C. William Shakespeare D. Virginia Woolf

单选题The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is