单选题It is either pride or ______, but she is determined to pay her way and I'm not allowed to help her out.

单选题I had to take a step, even though I understand that that step was in the direction of______ rather than success.(2003年西南财经大学考博试题)

单选题His writing depicts this changing world and the increasing cultural {{U}}diversity{{/U}} of the United States. A. conflict B. refinement C. variety D. movement

单选题According to the law which he later produced, everything in the universe attracts everything else towards ______.

单选题Although he had done many great things, he never felt it necessary to ______ his achievements. A. lavish B. extravert C. impose D. vaunt

单选题His inability to learn foreign languages was a(n)______to his career.

单选题______ is medical technology that allows the prolongation of life artificially while the world is already over-populated?

单选题The teacher's behavior and the student's response ______ what many people have said about language learning.

单选题The information was later admitted ______ obtained from unreliable sources.

单选题Always since the creation of celluloid, plastics have been found to have a multitude of industrial and commercial uses.

单选题Once the ______of the election had died down, it was back to normal for the President. A. husk B. hump C. hub D. hubbub

单选题She ______ her vacation so much that she didn"t want it to end.

单选题 In recent speeches at Republican fundraisers, President Bush has taken to criticizing the press for baring government secrets. The outgoing secretary of the Treasury, John Snow, in what may have been his last official act, wrote to The New York Times that in exposing the monitoring of bank transfers, it had undermined a successful counterterrorism program. A house resolution, passed by a party line vote, called on the media to safeguard classified programs. The government has discovered what governments have discovered before, that an undercurrent of hostility towards the news media runs through the country and that there could be political advantage in campaigning against the press in general. The champion press hater, of course, was President Nixon, who told his staff that the press is the enemy, and he proceeded to declare his own private war against the media. In 1969, he had a speech written by speechwriter Pat Buchanan denouncing the media as a "tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men". And he gave it to Vice President Spiro Agnew to deliver. That speech is best remembered today for the line contributed by another speechwriter, William Safire, about "nattering nabobs of negativism". It is not clear that the public hates the press as much as officialdom would like to think. A recent Pew Research report found that public attitudes towards the press have been on a downward track for years. Growing numbers of people questioned the news media's patriotism and fairness. And yet most Americans continue to say they like mainstream news outlets. And so, as The Christian Science Monitor headlined the other day: "Amid war on terror, a war with the press." You would not expect that I, as a journalist, would exhibit total neutrality in such a war. And so let me quote Justice Potter Stewart in his opinion in the Pentagon Papers ease in 1971: "In the absence of governmental checks and balances present in other areas of our national life, the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the area of national defense and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry... Without an informed and free press, there cannot be an enlightened people;" That remains true, even when Mr. Bush proclaims a state of war with the terrorists.

单选题The man had a good disguise, but as soon as he spoke he______himself.

单选题Many people believe that the family is the ______ of the community. A. nucleus B. latitude C. swamp D. destiny

单选题Researchers are looking for new ways to ______ the problem. A. abridge B. approach C. condense D. dispose

单选题Even though strong evidence has proved the nicotine to be ________, the tobacco company still insists that its products are harmless.

单选题Wherever there is matter, there is energy; all changes of matter______changes in the form of the energy.

单选题Forget what Virginia Woolf said about What a writer needs-a room of one's own. The writer she had in mind wasn't at work on a novel in cyberspace, one with multiple hypertexts, animated graphics and downloads of trancey, chiming music. For that you also need graphic interfaces, ReslPlayer and maybe even a computer laboratory at Brown University. That was where Mark Amerika—his legally adopted name; don't ask him about his birth name-composed much of his novel Grammatron. But Grammatron isn't just a story. It's an online narrative (grammatron. com) that uses the capabilities of cyberspace to tie the conventional story line into complicated knots. In the four years it took to produce—it was completed in 1997—each new advance in computer software became another potential story device. "I became sort of dependent on the industry", jokes Amerika, who is also the author of two novels printed on paper." That's unusual for a writer, because if you just write on paper the" technology is pretty stable." Nothing about Grammatron is stable. At its center, if there is one, is Abe Golam, the inventor of Nanoscript, a quasi-mystical computer code that some unmystical corporations are itching to acquire. For much of the story, Abe wanders through Prague-23, a virtual "city" in cyberspace where visitors indulge in fantasy encounters and virtual sex, which can get fairly graphic. The reader wanders too, because most of Grammatron's 1,000-plus text screens contain several passages in hypertext. To reach the next screen, just double-click. But each of those hypertexts is a trapdoor that can plunge you down a different pathway of the story. Choose one and you drop into a corporate- strategy memo, Choose another and there's a XXX- rated sexual rant. The story you read is in some sense the story you make. Amerika teaches digital art at the University of Colorado, where his students develop works that straddle the lines between art, film and literature. "I tell them not to get caught up in mere plot," he says. Some avant-garde writers—Julio Cortazar, Italo Calvino-have also experimented with novels that wander out of their author's control. "But what makes the Net so exciting," says Amerika, "is that you can add sound, randomly generated links, 3-D modeling, animation." That room of one's own is turning into a fun house.