单选题Virginia Woolf is considered to be one of the major exponents of ______and novelists of the "stream of consciousness" school.A. Romanticism B. RealismC. Classism D. Modernism

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单选题______ is regarded as the most English of all games.

单选题Why are Children raised in a home where physical or sexual abuse is taking place at a higher risk for developing an eating disorder?

单选题The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that it is trying to track down as many as 386 piglets that may have been genetically engineered and wrongfully sold into the U.S. food supply. The focus of the FDA investigation is pigs raised by researchers at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. They engineered the animals with two genes: One is a cow gene that increases milk production in the sow. The other, a synthetic gene, makes the milk easier for piglets to digest. The goal was to raise bigger pigs faster. There has been no evidence that either genetically altered plants or animals actually trigger human illness, but critics warn that potential side effects remain unknown. University officials say their tests showed the piglets were not born with the altered genes, but FDA rules require even the offspring of genetically engineered animals to be destroyed so they don' t get into the food supply. The FDA, in a quickly arranged news conference Wednesday prompted by inquiries by USA TODAY, said the University of Illinois will face possible sanctions and fines for selling the piglets to a livestock broker, who in turn sells to processing plants. Both the FDA and the university say the pigs that entered the market do not pose a risk to consumers. But the investigation follows action by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in December to fine a Texas company that contaminated 500,000 bushels of soybeans with com that had been genetically altered to produce a vaccine for pigs. Critics see such cases as evidence of the need for more government oversight of a burgeoning area of scientific research. "This is a small incident, but it's incident like this that could destroy consumer confidence and export confidence," says Stephanie Childs of the Grocery Manufacturers of America. "We already have Europe shaky on biotech. The countries to whom we export are going to look at this." The University of Illinois says it tested the DNA of every piglet eight times to make sure that the animal hadn't inherited the genetic engineering of its mother. Those piglets that did were put back into the study. Those that didn' t were sold to the pig broker. "Any pig who' s tested negative for the genes since 1999 has been sent off to market," says Charles Zukoski, vice chancellor for research. But FDA deputy commissioner Lester Crawford says that under the terms of the university's agreement with the FDA, the researchers were forbidden to remove the piglets without FDA approval. "The University of Illinois failed to check with FDA to see whether or not the animals could be sold on the open market. And they were not to he used under any circumstance for food." The FDA is responsible for regulating and overseeing transgenic animals because such genetic manipulation is considered an unapproved animal drug.

单选题Which of the following is not the major newspaper or magazine in the U.S.A.?A. Financial Times B. Washington PostC. New York Times D. National Geography

单选题{{I}}Questions 8 to 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Thecampaigntoname______wasstartedin1999withnearly200nominations.A.11newwondersB.anewwonderC.7newwondersD.17newwonders

单选题It was ______ who first introduced the sonnet into English literature.A. Thomas Loge B. Thomas WyattC. Thomas Campion D. Thomas Kyd

单选题{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} The decline of civility and good manners may be worrying people more than crime, according to Gentility Recalled, edited by Digby Anderson, which laments the breakdown of traditional codes that once regulated social conduct. It criticizes the fact that "manners" are scorned as repressive and outdated. The result, according to Mr. Anderson director of the Social Affairs Unit, an independent thing-tank -is a society characterized by rudeness: loutish behaviour on the streets, jostling in crowds, impolite shop assistants and bad-tempered drivers. Mr. Anderson says the cumulative effect of these-apparently trivial, but often offensive-is to make everyday life uneasy, unpredictable and unpleasant. As they are encountered far more often than crime, they can cause more anxiety than crime. When people lament the disintegration of law and order, he argues, what they generally mean is order, as manifested by courteous forms of social contact. Meanwhile, attempts to re-establish restraint and self-control through "politically correct" rules are artificial. The book has contributions from 12 academics in disciplines ranging from medicine to sociology and charts what it calls the "coarsening" of Britain. Old-fashioned terms such as "gentleman" and "lady" have lost all meaningful resonance and need to be re-evaluated, it says. Rachel Trickett, honorary fellow and former principal of St. Hugh's College, Oxford, says that the notion of a "lady" protects women rather than demeaning them. Feminism and demands for equality have blurred the distinctions between the sexes, creating situations where men are able to dominate women because of their more aggressive and forceful natures, she says. "Women, without some code of deference or respect, become increasingly victims." Caroline Moore, the first woman fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, points out that "gentleman" is now used only with irony or derision. "The popular view of a gentleman is poised somewhere between the imbecile parasite and the villainous one: between Woosteresque chinless wonders, and those heartless capitalist toffs who are ~.. the stock-in-trade of television." She argues that the concept is neither class-bound nor rigid; conventions of gentlemanly behaviour enable a man to act naturally as an individual within shared assumptions while taking his place in society. "Politeness is no constraint, precisely because the manners...are no 'code' but a language, rich, flexible, restrained and infinitely subtle." For Anthony O'hear, professor of philosophy at the University of Bradford, manners are closely associated with the different forms of behaviour appropriate to age and status. They curb both the impetuosity of youth and the bitterness of old age. Egalitarianism, he says, has led to people failing to act their age. "We have vice-chancellors with earrings, aristocrats as hippies...the trendy vicar on his motorbike." Dr Athena Leoussi, sociology lecturer at Reading University, bemoans the deliberate neglect by people of their sartorial appearance. Dress, she says, is the outward expression of attitudes and aspirations. The ubiquitousness of jeans "displays a utilitarian attitude" that has "led to the cultural impoverishment of everyday life". Dr Leoussi says that while cloths used to be seen as a means of concealing taboo forces of sexuality and violence, certain fashions-such as leather jackets have the opposite effect. Dr Bruce Charlton, a lecturer in public health medicine in Newcastle upon Tyne, takes issue with the excessive informality of relations between professionals such as doctors and bank managers, and their clients. He says this has eroded the distance and respect necessary in such relationships. For Tristam Engelhardt, professor of medicine in Houston, Texas, says manners are bound to morals. "Manners express a particular set of values," he says. "Good manners interpret and transform social reality. They provide social orientation."

单选题 {{B}}TEXT A{{/B}} An adult giraffe's head is about six feet above its heart. This means that to pump enough blood up to the brain the circulatory system must be strong enough to keep the blood at very high pressure. Biologists have known for some time that giraffes solve this problem by having unusually high blood pressure, about double that of human beings. But an international team of biologists began to wonder about this. If giraffes have such high blood pressure, they should have a terrible problem with swelling in their legs and feet. Why don't giraffes have swollen feet? Giraffes should have another problem, too. Every time they bend heads down to drink, the blood should rush to their heads and have a hard time flowing back up (when the head is down)to the heart. How come giraffes don't black out when they drink? The answer to the swollen feet problem, the researchers found, is that giraffes have what the researchers call a "natural anti-gravity suit". It turns out that the skin and other tissues in their legs and feet are much stiffer and tougher than those of other animals. As a result, the blood vessels in the leg cannot swell. Therefore, the blood has nowhere to go but back to the heart. What about blood rushing to the head whenever the giraffe bends down to drink? The researchers found that the giraffe's jugular vein, which carries blood from the head back to the heart, has lots of one-way valves in it. In the giraffe's neck, there are lots of muscles that flex and relax repeatedly as the animal moves its head and sucks up drinking water. By squeezing the valved jugular vein, they keep blood moving back to the heart even while the animal is drinking.

单选题How much will Ford provide as pension funds to the employees of Jaguar and Land Rover? A. $600m. B. $10bn. C. $2.5bn. D. $2,500.

单选题Thirty-two people watched kitty Genovese being killed right beneath their windows. She was their neigh bor. Yet none of the 32 helped her. Not one even called the police. Was this in gunman cruelty? Was it lack of feeling about one's fellow man? "Not so," say scientists John Barley and Bib Fatane. These men went beyond the headlines to probe the reasons why people didn't act. They found that a person has to go through two steps before he can help. First he has to notice that is an emergency. Suppose you see a middle-aged man fall to the side waik. Is he having a heart attack? Is he in a coma (昏迷) from diabetes(糖尿病)? Or is he about to sleep off a drunk? Is the smoke coming into the room from a leak in the air conditioning? Is it "steam pipes"? Or is it really smoke from a fire? It's not always easy to tell if you are faced with a real emergency. Second, and more important, the person faced with an emergency must feel personally responsible. He must feel that he must help, or the person won't get the help he needs. The researchers found that a lot depends on how many people are around. They had college students in to be "tested". Some came alone. Some came with one or two others. And some came in large groups. The receptionist started them off on the "tests". Then she went into the next room. A curtain divided the "testing room" and the room into which she went. Soon the students heard a scream, the noise of file cabinets falling and a cry for help. All of this had been pre-recorded on a tape-recorder. Eight out of ten of the students taking the test alone acted to help. Of the students in pairs, only two out of ten helped. Of the students in groups, none helped. In other words, in a group, Americans often fail to act. They feel that others will act. They, themselves, needn't. They do not feel any direct responsibility. Are people bothered by situations where people are in trouble? Yes. scientists found that the people were emotional, they sweated, they had trembling hands. They felt the other person's trouble. But they did not act. They were m a group. Their actions were shaped by the actions of those they were with.

单选题Why can't writers for GQ use the same methods as writers for newspapers?

单选题WhydidBritishforcestrikethepolicebuildinginBasra?A.Becausesomecivilprisonerswereplanningtobreaktheprison.B.BecausetheyfoundamajorIraqicriminalinthebuilding.C.Becausetheyheardtherewouldbeplannedexecutions.D.Becausetheyheardtherewouldbeanattack.

单选题The number of deaths in Samoa is more than ______ as that in American Samoa.

单选题The study of language acquisition is generally known as ______.A. theoretical linguistics B. psycholinguisticsC. applied linguistics D. historical linguistics

单选题Behind the brewing war over protecting patients' records in an age of HMOs and online medicine. Technology is a two-edged sword. Rarely is this as clear as it is in the realm of health care. Technology allows doctors to test their patients for generic defects--and then to turn around and spread the results throughout the world via the Internet. For someone in need of treatment, that's good news. But for someone in search of a job or an insurance policy, the ridings can be all bad. Last week President Bill Clinton proposed a corollary to the patients' bill of rights now before Congress: a right to medical privacy. Beginning In 2002, under rules set to become law in February, patients would be able to stipulate the conditions under which their personal medical data could be divulged. They would be able to examine their records and make corrections. They could learn who else had seen the information. Improper use of records by a caregiver or insurer could result in both civil and criminal penalties. The plan was, said Clinton, "an unprecedented step toward putting Americans back in control of their own medical records." While the administration billed the rules as an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of consumers and those of the health-care industry, neither doctors nor insurance companies were happy. The doctors said the rides could actually erode privacy, pointing to a prevision allowing managed-care plans to use personal in- formation without consent if the purpose was "health-care operations." That, physicians said, was a loophole through which HMOs and other insurers could pry into the doctor-patient relationship, in the name of assessing the quality of care. Meanwhile, the insurers protested that the rules would make them vulnerable to lawsuits. They were especially disturbed by a provision holding them liable for privacy breaches by "business partners" such as lawyers and accountants. Both groups agreed that privacy protections would drive up the cost of health care by at least an additional $ 3.8 billion, and maybe much more, over the next five years. They also complained about the increased level of federal scrutiny required by the new rules' enforcement provisions. One aim of the rules is to reassure patients about confidentiality, thereby encouraging them to be open with their doctors. Today various cancers and sexually transmitted diseases can go untreated because patients are afraid of embarrassment or of losing insurance coverage. The fear is real: Clinton aides noted that a January poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates found that one in six U.S. adults had at some time done something unusual to conceal medical information, such as paying cash for services.

单选题In London some generations ago people didn't go to the cinema, they went to the "pictures". A trip was a grand event, a reason to don glad rags and make a night of it. Amid live music and variety acts, people would meet, mingle, eat and drink before settling down to watch the feature film. This sense of grandeur has largely disappeared among cinema-goers. The Other Cinema, a new endeavour from Future Cinema (the pioneers behind Secret Cinema and the Future Shorts film festival), is an attempt to restore it. "The idea of a local cinema is lacking today," says Fabien Riggall, founder of Future Cinema. His new concept is an attempt to recreate that traditional feel. The plan is to screen films as part of a themed night that brings together like-minded locals and gets them talking. The launch event in February was a five-night run of Brief Encounter, a romantic film to coincide with Valentine's Day at the Troxy, a stunning art-deco theatre in east London. In typical Future Cinema style, notice of the event was spread through word of mouth and social-networking sites, lending it the gloss of exclusivity by the time tickets went on sale. Young and old attendees were united by a desire for something different, and open-minded enough to follow the instructions delivered some days before: wear black tie and "bring a flower for a lover or a stranger". At ￡ 20, tickets weren't cheap, but trips to the cinema rarely are these days, and this event promised more than a plush seat and a big screen. On arrival we were greeted by usherettes in 1940s caps with neat updos and scarlet lips. They seated us at round tables facing the stage under hazy red lighting as a jazz band got our toes tapping. While we ate and drank we were kept amused by wartime entertainment—a sing-along of "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner", The Lady Greys dance troupe twirling around in flouncy chiffon and a farce performed by the ushers—all of which was slightly baffling to a 21st-century audience (but in-keeping with the 1940s theme). By the time Brief Encounter began flickering on screen, a feeling of bonhomie filled the room. Giggles greeted the lovers' genteel gestures and the hammy accents of the supporting cast. But Noel Coward's script is as witty as ever. The Other Cinema subverts the anonymity experienced in multiplexes today. Mr Riggall believes that film "can be as important as politics", potentially uniting people and challenging their views. His picks are those he believes "you should see", from classics to new films which have yet to enjoy wide distribution. Future Cinema is looking for partners to create a network of events hosted on the same night each month across the world (a formula they have already used for their annual Future Shorts film festival). The London team will manage the concept—they will choose the film, devise the theme and provide the marketing materials. He says they have already had 250 enquiries from around Britain as well as the Philippines and Bangladesh. Future Cinema plans to have its global partners on board in time for its next event in April. The film will be Benda Bilili, a 2010 documentary about a group of disabled Congolese musicians. Mr Riggall hopes that cinema-goers watching this at the same time around the world will conduct a discussion across social-networking sites and across cultures. This may be a grand vision, but at a time when the multiplex delivers an unfailingly anodyne experience, it is gratifying to know that something different is being injected into the mix. (From The Economist; 603 words)