单选题The reading of the first chapter of the novel Pride and Prejudice has led the reader to the understanding of Mrs Bennet as a woman of

单选题The White House lies in______.

单选题In 1900, Jack London published his first collection of short stories, named A. The Son of the Wolf. B. The Sea Wolf. C. The Law of Life. D. White Fang.

单选题The author wants to tell us in Para 1-4_____.

单选题A series of dynastic civil wars between supporters of the House of Lancaster and the House of York in the 15th century are also known as A. Seven Years' War. B. the Hundred Years' War. C. the Wars of the Roses. D. War of Independence.

单选题{{B}}TEXT D{{/B}} Many women in top management jobs never fully embraced the dress-down look. Unlike some male counterparts who famously flaunt khakis and open shirts-think AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates-high-powered female lawyers, investment bankers and managers generally kept coming to work during recent casual times looking professional and polished. "Women in management positions didn't put on khakis to go to work," notes Gayle Kemper, senior vice president and area manager for Computer Associates' Southeastern region, based in Atlanta. As a concession to casual, women shifted to pantsuits over skirt suits. She said she "almost always" wears suits, despite the company's "business appropriate" dress policy. According to a recent survey of more than 200 large US companies commissioned by the Men's Apparel Alliance, a non profit group of retailers and manufacturers, 56% have a business dressing policy, requiring suits and ties for men and suits or dresses for women. That's understandable to Cynthia Strickland, director of Saks Fifth Avenue's One-on- One personal shopping service, who said, "It goes back to the old thing they discovered with students: if you dress a certain .way, you behave a certain way. Take it up a few notches and it applies to the workplace." Strickland, herself dressed in an Armani all-season light wool gray pinstripe suit when interviewed last week, said she's definitely seeing more women snatching up suits, and this spring there's an upswing in skirt suits. The key to changing a suit wardrobe is a number of different "underpinnings", the garment worn under the jacket, she said. Currently, the hot choice is a bustier, a strapless top that often features buttons and lace trim. "It's a nice feminine piece," she said. "We have them all over the store and they're selling like mad." Moreover, a suit moves effortlessly from work to dinner. Change the undergarment, add jewelry, slip into backless shoes and the corporate look goes dressy. Strickland said more women are selecting handbags and shoes to match an outfit and also buying hats and gloves, seeking a more "pulled together" appearance. But not all embrace that look. Heidi Dillmann, 26, has done the polished look and now happily opts for weekend-typed wear. In her previous job as a financial analyst, she would wear suits and nylons. As corporate development manager for the Knot Inc, a SOHO-based Web site and magazine publisher on wedding, she wears outfits like cropped pants, a rugby shirt and sandals. She likes it better because the clothes are cheaper and more comfortable and don't require dry cleaning. She hasn't given away the uniform she wore three years ago; the suits hang in the back of her closet. She pulls them out reluctantly when she meets with potential business partners, lawyers and the like.

单选题WhendidPostofficeinBritainemploycats?

单选题Our schools, according to the passage, ______.

单选题Who is the present worldwide president of Thompson?

单选题Atpresent,JohnR.Boltonis______.

单选题When did the Republic of Ireland join the EC?A. In 1952. B. In 1955. C. In 1973. D. In 1975.

单选题{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Nice people do racism too. Liberal commitment to a multi-ethnic Britain is wilting. Some very nice folk have apparently decided that the nation's real problem is too many immigrants of too many kinds. Faced with a daily onslaught against migrants it may be understandable to give in to populist bigotry; but it is not forgivable. Take this, for example: "National citizenship is inherently exclusionary." So no foreigners need ever apply for naturalisation, then. And" ... public anxiety about migration ... is usually based on a rational understanding of the value of British citizenship and its~ incompatibility with over-porous borders". Straight from the lexicon of the far right. And best of all: "You can have a welfare state provided that you are a homogenous society with intensely shared values." These are extracts from an article in the Observer, penned by the liberal intellectual Goodhart, who is just one of several liberal thinkers now vigorously making what they consider a progressive argument against immigration. It goes like this: the more diverse a society, the less likely its citizens are to share common values; the fewer common values, the weaker the support for vital institutions of social solidarity, such as the welfare state and the National Health Service. There are perfectly good reasons to worry about how we respond to immigration, not least the downward pressure on workers' wages; the growth of racial inequality; and the exploitation of illegals. But the answer to these problems is not genteel xenophobia, but trade union rights, backed by equality and employment law. The xenophobes should come clean. Their argument is not about immigration at all. They are liberal Powellites; what really bothers them is race and culture. If today's immigrants were white people from the old Commonwealth, Goodhart and his friends would say that they pose no threat because they share Anglo-Saxon values. Unfortunately for liberal Powellites, the real history of the NHS shatters their fundamental case against diversity. The NHS is a world-beating example of the way that ethnic diversity can create social solidarity. Launched by a Welshman, built by Irish: labourers, founded on the skills of Caribbean nurses and Indian doctors, it is now being rescued by an emergency injection of Filipino nurses, refugee ancillaries and antipodean medics. And it remains 100% British. Virtually all of our public services have depended heavily on immigrants. Powell was forced to admit as much when, as minister for health he advertised for staff in the Caribbean. His new admirers will discover that a rapidly depopulating Europe will have no choice but to embrace diversity. For the moment, however, the liberal Powellites are gaining support in high places. Their ideas are inspired by the work of the American sociologist Putnam, a Downing Street favourite. He purports to show that dynamic, diverse communities are more fragmented than stable, monoethnic ones. But the policy wonks have forgotten that Putnam's research was conducted in a society so marked by segregation that even black millionaires still live in gated ghettoes. The prime minister still seems uneasy on the issue. Last week, he wavered uncertainly between backing his pro-immigration home secretary, and a defensive response to Howard's goading that the government was in a mess on the topic. Oddly enough, this is a place in the arena of world politics where the PM does not stand shoulder to shoulder with Bush. The Spanish-speaking former governor of Texas recently announced that he would "regularise" the status of millions of illegal Mexican immigrants who had slipped across the border to work. It's the kind of massive amnesty that would send the Daily Express into conniptions. Even more peculiar, the prime minister appears to be ignoring not only Blunkett but also his new best friend, the Labour mayor of London, Livingstone, and Scotland's first minister, McConnell. London wants more immigrants to keep pace with its booming economy, Scotland wants them to boost its ageing work force..Yet the liberal Powellites still seem prepared to confront a Bush-Blunkett-Livingstone-McConnell axis, because they are scared witless by the far right. They hope that by appeasing racism, they'll make it go away. But this is a beast with an insatiable appetite. The French discovered that too late; the thuggish National Front is now France's second largest party, with one in five likely to vote for them in upcoming local elections. Liberal secularists who joined in the assault on the rights of French Muslims now have to find a convincing explanation for their cowardice, which has also betrayed the freedom of expression of French Jews and Christians. In Holland, this spinelessness has ended up as straight leftwing racism. The previously liberal Dutch establishment is now pushing an asylum policy so extreme even the Sun was moved to criticise it. The line up that favours managed migration and diversity--Blunkett, McConnell, Livingstone, Bush and the Sun--share one quality that the PM should envy m6re than any other at present: they are all popular with the public. Maybe the government ought to pay, more heed to this focus group than the ones that see scary foreigners on every street corner. Perhaps we should also be creating an even more progressive immigration policy, for example offering easier admission to those who will bring their skills to the depopulated regions of the north. The Americans will next year offer more work permits to IT whizzkids from India than ever before; and before the middle of the century, the world's strongest economy will become its most ethnically diverse. Our own population is still over 92% white; we shouldn't be duped by anxious faint-hearts into becoming an all-white backwater.

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单选题When the book reviewer discusses the Internet University, ______.

单选题Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20th century?

单选题People can still talk about Anglo-Saxons today even though they came to Britain in the 5th century. This feature of language is called [A] Arbitrariness. [B] Duality. [C] Creativity. [D] Displacement.

单选题According to this passage, the nineteenth century seems to be an age of ______.

单选题{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} Growing concerns over the safety and efficacy of anti-depressant drugs prescribed to children have caught the eye of Congress and the New York state attorney general. Now they're becoming the catalyst for calls to reform the way clinical trials of all drugs are reported. Pressure is already causing some changes within the pharmaceutical industry. And it has put the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which approves new drugs, in the hot seat. If reforms are carried out, they could bring an unprecedented level of transparency to drug research. The solution now under consideration: a public database, or registry, of drug trials, where companies would post the results of those trials. In congressional testimony Thursday, a spokesman for the American Medical Association endorsed the registry and said it should include information on each trial's purpose and objective, its design, and the dates it begins and ends. If the trial is not completed, the registry should include an explanation. While drug companies have been eager to make public any positive results of their trials, recent revelations suggest they've balked at divulging tests when the results are not what they'd hoped to see. The furor has centered around the use of anti- depressants on children. The industry has begun to make some moves to address the concerns about drug trials. Drug companies have agreed to set up a voluntary system of posting their drug trials on the Internet. But that seems unlikely to satisfy some members of Congress, who are expected to ! ntroduce legislation to establish a mandatory drug registry. Last week, editors of a dozen influential medical journals announced that they would begin requiring drug companies to post a drug trial in a public database prior to accepting an article about it. Doctors rely on these articles to make treatment choices. The editors hope that the registry will force unfavorable drug studies, before kept secret, into the open. Medical journals already had been tightening up on the authorship of their articles, insisting that authors declare if they had any conflicts of interest, such as any financial or other ties to the drug company, says Daniel Callahan, a director at the Hastings Center, a nonprofit bioethics research institute in Garrison, N.Y. Information from previously undisclosed clinical trials could lower prices, reduce the number of badly designed trials, and help doctors considering the use of a drug for a non-approved purpose to know why it hash' t been approved for that use. Antidepressant drugs "have some serious side effects ... that seem to be much more common than people realize.., much more common than you might think from seeing drug ads and from reports on drug studies," says Joel Gurin, executive vice president of Consumer Reports. His magazine just finished a survey of readers showing a "dramatic shift from talk therapy to drug therapy for mental health problems" during thepast decade. In 1995, less than half of people getting mental health treatment —40 percent- got drug therapy. Today 68 percent receive drug treatment, Mr. Gurin says. Some studies coming to light show that antidepressants work no better than placebos. Even better than merely registering drug trials, Caplan (director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia) suggests, would be to require that a new drug not only be "safe and do what it' s sup- posed to do", but that it do it as well or better than other drugs already on the market. That, he says, would help push research into new areas and save money.

单选题With regard to its size, Australia is ______ country in the world.

单选题Las Vegas uses flashing lights and ringing bells to create an illusion of reward and to encourage risk taking. Insurance company offices present a more somber mood to remind us of our mortality. Every marketer knows that context and presentation influence our decisions. For the first time, economists are studying these phenomena scientifically. The economists are using a new technology that allows them to trace the activity of neurons inside the brain and thereby study how emotions influence our choices, including economic choices like gambles and investments. For instance, when humans are in a "positive arousal state," they think about prospective benefits and enjoy the feeling of risk. All of us are familiar with the giddy excitement that accompanies a triumph. Camelia Kuhnen and Brian Knutson, two researchers at Stanford University, have found that people are more likely to take a foolish risk when their brains show this kind of activation. But when people think about costs, they use different brain modules and become more anxious. They play it too safe, at least in the laboratory. Furthermore, people are especially afraid of ambiguous risks with unknown odds. This may help explain why so many investors are reluctant to seek out foreign stock markets, even when they could diversify their portfolios at low cost. If one truth shines through, it is that people are not consistent or fully rational decision makers. Peter L. Bossaerts, an economics professor at the California Institute of Technology, has found that brains assess risk and return separately, rather than making a single calculation of what economists call expected utility. Researchers can see on the screen how people compartmentalize their choices into different parts of their brains. This may not always sound like economics but neuro-economists start with the insight—borrowed from the economist Friedrich Hayek—that resources are scarce within the brain and must be allocated to competing uses. Whether in economies or brains, well-functioning systems should not be expected to exhibit centralized command and control. Neuro-economics is just getting started. The first major empirical paper was published in 2001 by Kevin McCabe, Daniel Houser, Lee Ryan, Vernon Smith and Theodore Trouard, all economics professors. A neuro-economics laboratory at Cal Tech, led by Colin F. Camerer, a math prodigy and now an economics professor, has assembled the foremost group of interdisciplinary researchers. Many of the early entrants, who have learned neurology as well as economics, continue to dominate the field. Investors are becoming interested in the money-making potential of these ideas. Imagine training traders to set their emotions aside or testing their objectivity in advance with brain scans. Futuristic devices might monitor their emotions on the trading floor or in a bargaining session and instruct them how to compensate for possible mistakes. Are the best traders most adept at reading the minds of others? Or is trading skill correlated with traits like the ability to calculate and ignore the surrounding caldron of human emotions? More ambitiously, future research may try to determine when a short-term price bubble will collapse. Does the market tide turn when people stop smiling, adjust to their adrenalin levels or make different kinds of eye contact? Not all of neuro-economics uses brain scans. Andrew W. Lo, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, applied polygraph-like techniques to securities traders to show that anxiety and fear affect market behavior. Measuring eye movements, which is easy and cheap, helps the researcher ascertain what is on a subject"s mind. Other researchers have opened up monkey skulls to measure individual neurons; monkey neurons fire in proportion to the amount and probability of rewards. But do most economists care? Are phrases like "nucleus accumbens"—referring to a subcortical nucleus of the brain associated with reward—welcome in a profession caught up in interest rates and money supply? Skeptics question whether neuro-economics explains real-world phenomena.