单选题 Eleven-year-old Angela had something wrong with her nervous system. She was unable to {{U}}(21) {{/U}} . In fact, she could hardly make any {{U}}(22) {{/U}} . Although she believed that she had a {{U}}(23) {{/U}} chance of recovering; the doctors said that {{U}}(24) {{/U}} , if any, could come hack to normal after getting this disease. Having heard this, the little girl was not {{U}}(25) {{/U}} . There, lying in her hospital bed, she {{U}}(26) {{/U}} that no matter what the doctors said, her going back to school was {{U}}(27) {{/U}} . She was moved to a specialized health center, and whatever method could be tried was used. Still she would not {{U}}(28) {{/U}} . It seemed that she was {{U}}(29) {{/U}} . The doctors were all fond of her and taught her about {{U}}(30) {{/U}} that she could make it. Every day Angela would lie there, {{U}}(31) {{/U}} doing her mental exercise. One day, {{U}}(32) {{/U}} she was imagining her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle happened: The bed began to {{U}}(33) {{/U}} ! "Look, what I'm doing! Look! I can do it! I moved! I moved!" she {{U}}(34) {{/U}} . Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was {{U}}(35) {{/U}} . More importantly, they were running {{U}}(36) {{/U}} safety. People were crying, and equipment was {{U}}(37) {{/U}} . You see, it was an earthquake. But don't {{U}}(38) {{/U}} that to Angela. She has {{U}}(39) {{/U}} that she did it, just as she had never doubted that she would recover. And now only a few years later, she's back in school. You see, to such a person who can {{U}}(40) {{/U}} the earth, such a disease is a small problem, isn't it?

单选题Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, D on ANSWER SHEET 1. The loudest outcry about poverty seemed to come in the wealthiest country by far in the world. According to most calculations, 1 most of the 1945-1970 period the United States had a standard of living well 2 Europe"s and many times above the world 3 . Yet 4 about grinding poverty, hunger, and dreadful need proceed more from the United States than from countries with one-fortieth of their living standard. An annual per capita income of eight dollars is 5 of much of Africa and Asia and not a little of South America. It would seem strange to these people 6 they only aware of the fact that American radicals demand a 7 from an American 8 to the far corners of the globe so that the money thus saved can be spent raising the standard of living of 9 Americans. What this last point suggests is not so much that human 10 are never to be satisfied though this is doubtlessly true, and the American suburbanite 11 of his second car and his color TV suffers just as 12 as an African farmer in need of a second cow and a screen door. Rather, it suggests the 13 of contemporary breach of social 14 the emancipation of the individual self. People have learned to consider any 15 to personal fulfillment an 16 insult. They have greatly expanded the circle of self-awareness. They no longer accept sharp limitations on individual desires in the 17 of the group. The amount of potential human discontent has always been 18 misery, failure, misfitting, bitterness, hatred, envy 19 telling. It has usually failed of 20 , and in the past it was accepted passively as being beyond help.

单选题History books and Hollywood westerns have created stereotypes of both the Indians and their white 1 ． 2 , Indians have been portrayed as ignorant, murdering 3 ; the whites, on the other hand, have been 4 as brave adventurers, struggling to make homes in a new and hostile land. It is not surprising that 5 the years the Indians have developed a sense of personal and cultural 6 and the whites a sense of superiority. These feelings are 7 evident 8 the reservations. Government reservations have fostered a "paternalistic" attitude of whites toward Indians, 9 Indians have been encouraged to be dependent upon whites for food and survival. It should come as no surprise 10 Indians, after years of isolation and dependency on reservations, often 11 motivation and self-esteem. In an attempt to 12 from a life of poverty and unemployment, many Indians 13 to alcohol. Alcoholism is a major health problem on reservations and in some way 14 approximately 80 percent of the families. As one Sioux Indian explained, "When you"ve got no job, no money, and a house with a dirt roof, you"ve got good reason to want to get drunk." Despair has even harsher consequences. The suicide 15 among Indian teenagers is four times the national average. Traditionally, Indian schools have tried to force children to forget their Indian language and 16 in favor of white customs and 17 . As a result, many young people feel inferior to the 18 white American and are ashamed of their Indian heritage. 19 , however, this deplorable situation has begun to change 20 the efforts of sensitive teachers and school administrators.

单选题Which of the following is the host country of D-Day ceremony?

单选题The core of Greece's troubles is too much spending, too little tax-collecting and book-cooking. Spain and Ireland are in trouble even if the percentage of their public debt in gross domestic product is much smaller than that of Germany. Italy, also in the financial markets' crosshairs, has high public debt but a lower deficit than the eurozone's average. The root of these countries' problems is that their prices and wages have risen much faster than those of other eurozone members. There are two ways to mitigate the pain. First, to adopt temporarily more expansionary fiscal policies for a while. Or, more powerfully, the wider euro area could adopt more expansionary monetary policies for several years. As to the second option, the "inflation fundamentalists" will have none of it. This elite consisting of central bankers, top economic officials, politicians, academics and journalists insists that it is unacceptable to allow inflation to climb above two percent. Hyper-inflation in Germany in the 1930s and stagflation in industrial countries in the 1970s and 1980s support their view. It's true that moderate inflation can creep up to become high inflation. But inflation fundamentalism can also hurt. There is little if any empirical evidence that moderate inflation hurts growth. In most countries, cutting actual wages is politically difficult if not impossible. But, to regain competitiveness and balance the books, real wage adjustments are sometimes inevitable. A slightly higher level of inflation allows for this painful adjustment with a lower level of political conflict. On the other hand, ultra-low inflation, in a recession, can easily become deflation. Falling prices encourage people to defer spending, which makes things worse and erodes tax payments, impairing a government's ability to pay debt. That in turn increases the debt's size and costs. In addition, a single-minded focus on inflation makes it easy for policymakers to lose sight of the broader picture-asset prices, growth and employment. Policy can become too tight or too loose--as in the run-up to the crisis in the U. S. when low inflation was seen as a comforting sign that things were in order. In a recession, ultra-low inflation also reduces the effectiveness of monetary policy since inter est rates cannot go below zero. The crisis in the euro area highlights the need for a more open minded discussion of the merits and costs of ultra-low inflation.

单选题By saying that "It's an image that will boggle the mind for years to come," (the last sentence in paragraph 2) the author means that______.

单选题Futurologists have not been very precise about how and how much digital media will change our lives. Most of comments have focused on the expectation that consumers will soon be able to use their TV or PC to shop, bank and order movies from their armchairs. Commentators envisage more dramatic change to everyday life. Nucholas Negroponte, director of MIT's Media Lab, believes that a key development over the next five years will be the "personalization" of the computer, with wearable devices such as a wrist-mounted TV, computer and telephone. Peter Cochrane, head of research at British Telecom, looks further ahead, asking us to "imagine a virtual reality interface, with your visual context flooded by information from spectacle-mounted or contact lenses augmented by directional audio input, tactile gloves and prosthetic arms and fingers that will give you the sensation of touch, resistance and weight". Historically, enthusiasts for new technologies have usually been over-optimistic about the speed of change. Most new technologies take longer to be adopted by the general public than these enthusiast experts, although there have been exceptions: once they had reached critical mass, VCRs and mobile phones took off faster than most experts predicted. Arguably, everyday life in the advanced economies changed more between the 1880s and the 1930s than in the last fifty years or, possibly, the next. Nevertheless, it is valid to talk about a digital "revolution", since the extent of change is dramatic by many standards and digital technology is its biggest single driving force. Even if the enthusiasts overstate how quickly things will change, they may turn out to be right about the scale of that change. At this stage, no one knows how the digital revolution will develop. Although the technology itself is now becoming somewhat more predictable, exactly how, and how fast things will change will depend not Only on technological developments but also on the policies of key commercial and political players, especially in the US, Less predictable is how enthusiastically consumers will take to this technology on an everyday, mass market scale. Least predictable are the sociocultural and geopolitical responses: Will the digital revolution lead to greater international understanding or bitter rivalry? Will it encourage materialism and erode religious belief, or lead to religious backlash? Will it make people happier?

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单选题According to the author, "backward" languages tend to expand in ______.

单选题Hotels were among the earliest facilities that bound the United States together. They were. both creatures and creators of communities, as well as symptoms of the frenetic quest for community. Even in the first part of the nineteenth century, Americans were private, business and pleasure purposed. Conventions were the new occasions, and hotels were distinctively American facilities making conventions possible. The first national convention of a major party to choose a candidate for President (that of the National Republican party, which met on December 12, 1831, and nominated Henry Clay for President) was held in Baltimore, at a hotel that was then reputed to be the best in the country. The presence of Barnum's City Hotel in Baltimore, a six-story building with two hundred apartments helps explain why many other early national political Conventions were held there. In the longer run, too. American hotels made other national conventions not only possible but pleasant and convivial. The growing custom of regularly assembling from afar the 'representatives of all kinds of groups—not only for political conventions, but also for commercial, professional, learned, and. vocational ones—in turn supported the multiplying hotels. By mid-twentieth century, conventions accounted for over third of the yearly room occupancy of all hotels in the nation, about eighteen thousand different conventions were held annually with a total attendance of about ten million persons. Nineteenth-century American hotelkeepers, who were no longer the genial, deferential "hosts" of the eighteenth-century European inn, became leading citizens. Holding a large stake in the community, they exercised power to make it prosper. As owners or managers of the local "palace of the public", they were makers and shapers of a principal community attraction. Travelers from abroad were mildly shocked by this high social position.

单选题Office jobs are among the positions hardest hit by computation. Word processors and typists will lose about 93,000 jobs over the next few years, while 57,000 secretarial jobs will vanish. Blame the PC: Today, many executives type their own memos and carry their "secretaries" in the palms of their hands. Time is also hard for stock clerks, whose ranks are expected to decrease by 68,000. And employees in manufacturing firms and wholesalers are being replaced with computerized systems. But not everyone who loses a job will end up in the unemployment line. Many will shift to growing positions within their own companies. When new technologies shook up the telecomm business, telephone operator Judy Dougherty pursued retraining. She is now a communications technician, earning about $ 64,000 per year. Of course, if you've been a tollbooth collector for the past 30 years, and you find yourself replaced by an E-ZPass machine, it may be of little consolation to know that the telecomm field is booming. And that's just it: The service economy is fading; welcome to the expertise (专门知识 ) economy. To succeed in the new job market, you must be able to handle complex problems. Indeed, all but one of the 50 highest-paying occupations--air-traffic controller—demand at least a bachelor's degree. For those with just a high school diploma, it's going to get tougher to find a well-paying job. Since fewer factory and clerical jobs will be available, what's left will be the jobs that computation can't kill: Computers can't clean offices, or care for Alzheimer's patients. But, since most people have the skills to fill those positions, the wages stay painfully low, meaning computation could drive an even deeper wedge between the rich and poor. The best advice now: Never stop learning, and keep up with new technology. For busy adults, of course, that can be tough. The good news is that the very technology that's reducing so many jobs is also making it easier to go back to school—without having to sit in a classroom. So-called Internet distance learning is hot, with more than three million students currently enrolled, and it's gaining credibility with employers. Are you at risk of losing your job to a computer? Check the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, which is available online at bls. gov.

单选题 For the past several years, the Sunday newspaper supplement Parade has featured a column called "Ask Marilyn". People are invited to query Marilyn vos Savant, who at age of 10 had tested at a mental level of someone about 23 years old; that gave her an IQ of 228-- the highest score ever recorded. IQ tests ask you to complete verbal and visual analogies, to envision paper after it has been folded and cut, and to deduce numerical sequences, among other similar tasks. So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe (whose IQ is 100) as, What's the difference between love and fondness? Or what is the nature of luck and coincidence? It's not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. Clearly, intelligence encompasses more than a score on a test. Just what does it mean to be smart? How much of intelligence can be specified, and how much can we learn about it from neurology, genetics, computer science and other fields? The defining term of intelligence in humans still seems to be the IQ score, even though IQ tests are not given as often as they used to be. The test comes primarily in two forms. the Stanford--Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scales (both come in adult and children's version). Generally costing several hundred dollars, they are usually given only by psychologists, although variations of them populate bookstores and the World Wide Web. Superhigh scores like vos Savant's are no longer possible, because scoring is now based on a statistical population distribution among age peers, rather than "simply dividing the mental age by the chronological age and multiplying by 100. Other standardized tests, such as the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), capture the main aspects of IQ tests. Such standardized tests may not assess all the important elements necessary to succeed in school and in life, argues Robert J. Sternberg. In his article " How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?", Sternberg notes that traditional test best assess analytical and verbal skills but fail to measure creativity and practical knowledge, components also critical to problem solving and life success. Moreover, IQ tests do not necessarily predict so well once populations or situations change. Research has found that IQ predicted leadership skills when the tests were given under low-stress conditions, but under high-stress conditions, IQ was negatively correlated with leadership--that is, it predicted the opposite. Anyone who has toiled through SAT will testify that test-taking skill also matters, whether it's knowing when to guess or what questions to skip.

单选题 The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed. The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might. Many in these countries are looking at this process and worrying : "Won't the wave of business concentration turn into an uncontrollable anti-competitive force?" There's no question that the big are getting bigger and more powerful. Multinational corporations accounted for less than 20% of international trade in 1982. Today the figure is more than 25% and growing rapidly. International affiliates account for a fast growing segment of production in economies that open up and welcome foreign investment. In Argentina, for instance, after the reforms of the early 1990s, multinationals went from 43% to almost 70% of the industrial production of the 200 largest firms. This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world economy. I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M & A wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customers' demands. All these are beneficial, not detrimental, to consumers. As productivity grows, the world's wealth increases. Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could recreate the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S., when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies, such as World Corn, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing (witness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan) but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt. Yet the fact remains that the merger movement must be watched. A few weeks ago, Alan Greenspan warned against the megamergers in the banking industry. Who is going to supervise, regulate and operate as lender of last resort with the gigantic banks that are being created? Won't multinationals shift production from one place to another when a nation gets too strict about infringements to fair competition? And should one country take upon itself the role of "defending competition" on issues that affect many other nations, as in the U. S. vs. Microsoft case?