单选题{{B}}Passage 1{{/B}} When we think of Hollywood—a term I use loosely to describe American movie production in general, not simply films made in Los Angeles — we think of films aimed at musing audiences and making money for producers. During the early years of the new century, as workers won their demands for higher wages and a shorter working week, leisure assumed an increasingly important role in everyday life. Amusement parks, professional baseball games, nickelodeons, and dance halls attracted a wide army of men and woman anxious to spend their hard-earned dollars in the pursuit of fun and relaxation. Yet of all these new cultural endeavours, films were the most important and widely attended source of amusement. For a mere five or ten cents, even the poorest worker could afford to take himself and his family to the local nickelodeon or storefront theatre "Every little town that has never been able to afford and maintain an opera house," observed one journalist in 1908,"now boasts one or two '{{U}}Bijou Dreams{{/U}}' "By 1910 the appeal of films was so great that nearly one-third of the nation flocked to the cinema each week; ten years later, weekly attendance equaled 50 percent of the nation's population. Early films were primarily aimed at entertaining audiences, but entertainment did not always come in the form of escapist fantasies. Many of the issues that dominated Progressive-era politics were also portrayed on the screen. "Between 1900 and 1917," observes Kevin Brownlow, "literally thousands of films dealt with the most pressing problems of the day — white slavery, political corruption, gangsterism, loansharking, slum landlords, capital vs labour, racial prejudice, etc." While most of these films were produced by studios and independent cornpanies, a significant number were made by what we might call today "special interest groups". As films quickly emerged as the nation's most popular form of mass entertainment, they attracted the attention of a wide range of organizations that recognized the medium's enormous potential for disseminating propaganda to millions of viewers.

单选题{{B}}Passage 4{{/B}} Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is "intelligent". Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day. If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N. B. D. -Nervous Break Down. "Intelligent" people do not have N. B. D. It's because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives. You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events, which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N. B. D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

单选题Which .of the following statements in NOT true according to the passage?

单选题 Every day, thousands of managers, bankers, sales-executives, lawyers, accountants, and other professionals are driven to anger and despair by the hard realities of the changing world of work. The once solid foundation for millions of middle-class families--the corporate career--is in a shambles. The Organization Man of the 1950s and 1960s is being replaced by the migrant manager and flee-lance professional of the 1990s. The pain of change is all around us. Corporations are rushing to cut costs and downsize before the end of the year. They want to take their lumps in 1991, in preparation for a stronger recovery in 1992. That means an unusual powerful wave of lay-offs will sweep through the U. S. during the last quarter of 1991. Already, the drumbeat of bad news is growing louder. White-collar workers will join the growing ranks of once secure employees who are finding themselves on the outside alone, afraid and angry. Who doesn't have a brother or a sister, a parent or a friend who has lost a job recently? The economic recovery will ease the pain, but it won't stop it. Forces of fierce global competition and industrial consolidation are compelling corporations to cut entire layers of middle managers and whole categories of professional staff. Few companies can hide from the intense pressure of international competition anymore.

单选题Whatistheman?[A]Ateacher.[B]Ashop-assistant.[C]Adoctor.

单选题 Every country with a monetary system of its own has to have some kind of market in which dealers in bills, notes, and other forms of short term credit can buy and sell. The "money market" is a set of institutions or arrangements for handling what might be called wholesale transactions in money and short term credit. The need for such facilities arises in much the same way that a similar need does in connection with the distribution of any of the products of a diversified economy to their final users at the retail level. If the retailer is to provide reasonably adequate service to his customers, he must have active contacts with others who specialize in making or handling bulk quantities of whatever is his stock in trade. The money market is made up of specialized facilities of exactly this kind. It exists for the purpose of improving the ability of the retailers of financial services—commercial banks, savings institutions, investment houses, lending agencies, and even governments—to do their jobs. It has little if any contact with the individuals or ruins who maintain accounts with these various retailers or purchase their securities or borrow from them. The elemental functions of a money market must be performed in any kind of modern economy, even one that is largely planned or socialist, but the arrangements in socialist countries do not ordinarily take the form of a market. Money markets exist in countries that use market processes rather than planned allocations to distribute most of their primary resources among alternative uses. The general distinguishing feature of a money market is that it relies upon open competition among those who are bulk suppliers of funds at any particular time and among those seeking bulk funds, to work out the best practicable distribution of the existing total volume of such funds. In their market transactions, those with bulk supplies of funds or demands for them, rely on groups of intermediaries who act as brokers or dealers. The characteristics of these middlemen, the services they perform, and their relationship to other parts of the financial vary widely from country to country. In many countries there is no single meeting place where the middlemen get together, yet in most countries the contacts among all participants are sufficiently open and free to assure each supplier or user of funds that he will get or pay a price that fairly reflects all of the influences (including his own) that are currently affecting the whole supply and the whole demand. In nearly all cases, moreover, the unifying force of competition is reflected at any given moment in a common price (that is, rate of interest) for similar transactions. Continuous fluctuations in the money market rates of interest result from changes in the pressure of available supplies of funds upon the market and in the pull of current demands upon the market.

单选题What does the word "this" ( Line 1, Para. 3 ) refers to?

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单选题By saying that "observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling", the author means that ______.

单选题In 1911, Americans smoked almost 10 billion cigarettes. Sixty years later this number (21) 700 billion. (22) this amazing increase, the demand for cigarettes in the United States is now (23) dropping. Since 1973, per capita cigarette (24) has decreased approximately I percent (25) . According to some estimates, 90 percent of all cigarette smokers would like to cut down or quit smoking (26) , but that, of course, is not easy to do and (27) do not succeed. Smokers who try to " (28) the habit" may experience both physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms for several weeks. They may suffer, for example, (29) headaches, nausea, irritability, and an inability to concentrate. Some (30) , such as drowsiness and craving (a strong desire for a cigarette), get even (31) after the first ten days. Most people continue to crave cigarettes for at least a month, and approximately one-fifth continue to (32) them for as many as five to nine years after they have (33) . As the American people have become increasingly conscious of good (34) habits, their attitudes toward smoking have changed. Nonsmokers are demanding the right to (35) smokeless, nontoxic air, especially since recent studies have (36) that secondhand smoke, that is, the cigarette smoke in the air, is (37) dangerous. (38) , the demands of antismoking advocates are getting re-suits. Some cities, such as Eugene, Oregon, have already passed strict laws that re-quire restaurants to provide nonsmoking (39) . It seems that smoking is no longer considered (40) acceptable behavior by many in American society.

单选题If the assumption about the delay of a new Ice Age is correct ______.

单选题When filling up forms, the writer frequently finds that he ______.

单选题The paradox in the relationship of education to business is ______.

单选题To "live a completely sedentary life style" (Paragraph. 1 ) in the passage means.

单选题Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. (21) the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer's piece in the Science Times on Tuesday. Fruit-flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit-flies (22) to live shorter lives. This suggests that (23) bulbs burn longer, that there is a(n) (24) in not being too terrifically bright. Intelligence, it (25) , is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow (26) the starting line because it depends on learning process—a (27) learning—instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they've apparently learned is when to (28) Is there an adaptive value to (29) intelligence? That's the question behind this new research. I like it. Instead of casting a wistful glance (30) at all the species we've left in the dust I. Q. wise, it implicitly asks what the real (31) of our own intelligence might be. This is (32) the mind of every animal I've ever met. Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would (33) on humans if they had the chance. Every cat with an owner, (34) , is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. We believe that (35) animals ran the labs, they would test us to (36) the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for terrain. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really (37) , not merely how much of it there is. (38) , they would hope to study a (39) question. Are humans actually aware of the world they live in? (40) the results are inconclusive.

单选题Ludwig Van Beethoven, a major composer of the nineteenth century, overcame many 1 problems to achieve artistic greatness. Born in Bonn, Germany, in 1770,he first studied music 2 the court organist, Gilles Vander Eeden. His father was excessively strict and given to 3 drinking. When his mother died, Beethoven, then a young man, was 4 guardian of his two younger brothers. Appointed deputy court organists to Christian Gottlob Neefe at a surprisingly early age in 1782, Beethoven also 5 the harpsichord and the Viola. In 1792 he was sent to Vienna 6 his patron. court Ferdinated Waldstein, to 7 music under Haydn. Beethoven 8 unmarried. Because 9 irregular payment from his publishers and erratic support 10 his patrons, he was troubled by financial worries throughout his 11 life. Continually plagued by 12 health, he developed an ear infection which 13 to his tragic deafness in 1819. In 14 of this handicap, however, he continued to write music. He completed mature mastepieces of great musical depth; three piano sonatas, four string quarters, the Missa Solemins, and the 9th Symphony. He died in 1872.His life was marked by a passionate dedication 15 independence. Nothing that Beethoven often 16 into fits of rage, Goethe once said 17 him," I am astonished by his talent, but he is unfortunately an altogether untamed personality." 18 Beethoven"s personality may have been 19 ,his music shows great discipline and control ,and this is 20 we remember him best.