单选题Man: Oh, boy, the question is too difficult for me. What shall I do? Woman: Don't worry. Let's sit down and try to figure it out. Question: What does the woman suggest?

单选题Perhaps all criminals should be required to carry cards which read: Fragile; Handle with Care. It will never do, these days, to go around referring to criminals as violent thugs. You must refer to them politely as "social misfits". The professional killer who wouldn't think twice about using his club or knife to batter some harmless old lady to death in order to rob her of her meager life-savings must never be given a dose of his own medicine. He is in need of "hospital treatment". According to his misguided defenders, society is to blame. A wicked society breeds evil—or so the argument goes. When you listen to this kind of talk, it makes you wonder why we aren't all criminals. We have done away with the absurdly harsh laws of the nineteenth century and this is only right. But surely enough is enough. The most senseless piece of criminal legislation in Britain and a number of other countries has been the suspension of capital punishment. The violent criminal has become a kind of hero-figure in our time. He is glorified on the screen; he is pursued by the press and paid vast sums of money for his "memoirs". Newspapers which specialize in crime reporting enjoy enormous circulations and the publishers of trashy cops and robbers stories or "murder mysteries" have never had it so good. When you read about the achievements of the great train robbers, it makes you wonder whether you are reading about the some glorious resistance movement. The hardened criminal is cuddled and cosseted by the sociologists on the one hand and adored as a hero by the masses on the other. It's no wonder he is a privileged person who expects and receives VIP treatment wherever he goes. Capital punishment used to be a major deterrent. It made the violent robber think twice before pulling the trigger. It gave the cold-blooded prisoner something to ponder about while he was shaking up or serving his arsenic cocktail. It prevented unarmed policemen from being killed while pursuing their duty by killers armed with automatic weapons. Above all, it protected the most vulnerable members of society, young children, from brutal violence. It is horrifying to think that the criminal can literally get away with murder. We all know that "life sentence" does not mean what it says. After ten years or so of good conduct, the most desperate villain is free to return to society where he will live very comfortably, thank you, on the proceeds of his crime, or he will go on committing offences until he is caught again. People are always willing to hold liberal views at the expense of others. It's always fashionable to pose as the defender of under-dog, so long as you, personally, remain unaffected. Did the defenders of crime, one wonders, in their desire for fair-play, consult the victims before they suspended capital punishment? Hardly. You see, they couldn't, because all the victims were dead.

单选题A balance of international payment refers to the net result of the business which a nation {{U}}carries on{{/U}} with other nations in a given period.

单选题Curt Carlson, the wealthiest man in Minnesota, owned a hotel and travel company with sales reaching Uin the neighborhood of/U $ 9 billion.

单选题As skies fill with millions of migrating birds, European scientists say the seasonal miracle appears to depend on a seeming ______ :The fatter the bird, the more efficiently it flies.

单选题Chemists, physicists and mathematicians are ______ known as scientists.

单选题All the staff members of the department made {{U}}zealous{{/U}} efforts to clean up the hall for the Christmas party.

单选题It's very interesting to note where the debate about diversity (多样化) is taking place. It is taking place primarily in political circles. Here at the College Fund, we have a lot of contact with top corporate (公司的) leaders; none of them is talking about getting rid of those instruments that produce diversity. In fact, they say that if their companies are to compete in the global village and in the global market place, diversity is an imperative. They also say that the need for talented, skilled Americans means we have to expand the pool of potential employees. And in looking at where birth rates are growing and at where the population is shifting, corporate America understands that expanding the pool means promoting policies that help provide skills to more minorities, more women and more immigrants. Corporate leaders know that if that doesn't occur in our society, they will not have the engineers, the scientists, the lawyers, or the business managers they will need. Likewise, I don't hear people in the academy saying "Let's go backward. Let's go back to the good old days, when we had a meritocracy (不拘一格选人才)” (which was never true—we never had a meritocracy, although we've come closer to it in the last 30 years). I recently visited a great little college in New York where the campus has doubled its minority population in the last six years. I talked with an African American who has been a professor there for a long time, and she remembers that when she first joined the community, there were fewer than a handful of minorities on campus. Now, all of us feel the university is better because of the diversity. So where we hear this debate is primarily in political circles and in the media—not in corporate board rooms or on college campuses.

单选题Female sea turtles, before laying (her) eggs, swim (as much) as 2,000 kilometers (to return) to the beaches (where)they themselves were hatched.

单选题The ______ to the biggest desert in China comprised two senior experts and seven young scholars.

单选题A: Can I see your driving licence?B: ______

单选题His plan should succeed without too much trouble, for it seems quite feasible.

单选题Jane was quite annoyed(下划线) with Jerry for arriving so late.

单选题Scientists assume that unrestrained population growth and dwindling resources may force humans to look to the sea for food.

单选题My assumption was that you would remember the appointment, so I didn"t remind you.

单选题Woman: Mr. Smith would not stop drinking even though the doctor told him that he must. Man. I wish he could take the doctor's advice. Question: What do we know about Mr. Smith?

单选题There is a closer relationship between morals and architecture and interior decoration (61) we suspect. Huxley has pointed out that Western ladies did not take frequent baths (62) they were afraid to see their own naked bodies, and this moral concept delayed the (63) of the modern white-enameled bathtub for centuries. One can understand (64) in the design of old Chinese furniture there was so little consideration for human (65) only when we realize the Confucian atmosphere in which people moved about. Chinese redwood furniture was designed for people to sit (66) in, because that was the only posture approved by society. Even Chinese emperors had to sit on a(n) (67) on which I would not think of (68) for more than five minutes, and for that matter the English kings were just as badly off. Cleopatra went about (69) on a couch carried by servants, because (70) she had never heard of Confucius. If Confucius should have seen her doing that, he would certainly have struck her shins with a stick, as he did (71) one of his old disciples, Yuan Jiang, when the latter was found sitting in an (72) posture. In the Confucian society in which we lived, gentlemen and ladies had to (73) themselves perfectly erect, at least on formal (74) , and any sign of putting one's leg up would be at once considered a sign of vulgarity and lack of (75) .

单选题On the morning of September 11th, I boarded the train from Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan just as usual and went to the Body Positive office in the South Street Seaport of Lower Manhattan. While I was leaving the subway at 8:53 am, a man ran down the street screaming, "Someone just bombed the World Trade Center. " Those around me screamed and shouted "No!" in disbelief. However, being an amateur photographer, and thinking that I might be able to help out, I ran directly toward the WTC. I stopped just short of the WTC at a corner and looked up. There before me stood the gaping hole and fire that had taken over the first building. I stood there in shock taking pictures, wanting to run even closer to help out, but I could not move. Soon I saw what looked like little angels floating down from the top of the building. I began to cry when I realized that these "angels" —in fact, desperate office workers—were coming down, some one by one, some even holding hands with another. Could I actually be seeing this disaster unfold with hundreds of people around me crying, screaming and running for safety? As I watched in horror, another white airliner came from the south and took aim at the South Tower. As the plane entered the building, there was an explosion and fire and soon debris (碎片) began to fall around me. It was then that I realized that we were being attacked and that this was just not a terrible accident. Yet, I still could not move, until I was pushed down by the crowd on the street, many now in a panic running toward the water, as far from the WTC as they could possibly get. All around me were the visual reminders of hundreds of people running in panic. There were shoes, hats, briefcases, pocketbooks, newspapers, and other personal items dropped as hundreds of people ran for safety. Much has been written about the disaster already. We have learned so much in such a small amount of time about appreciating life. In some way we must move forward, bury the dead, build a memorial for those lost, and begin the coping and healing process for the survivors. But healing takes time. Some have been able to head right back to work, others seek counseling, while others remain walking through the streets with expressionless faces. However, we are all united in our grief.