单选题Trivial breaches of regulations we can {{U}}pass over{{/U}}, but more serious ones will have to be investigated.

单选题Some medical conditions can often cure themselves ______, without medical intervention.

单选题World population will continue rising from the current 5 billion until about 2050, but if the trends of the 1980s continue, it will ______ at about 9 billion.

单选题The room is so ______ with furniture that it's hard to move about. A. muddled B. cluttered C. distributed D. scattered

单选题Todey this city is a highly skilled society without the urban sprawl and rural poverty that ______ larger nations.

单选题Despite their spartan, isolated lifestyle, there are no stories of women being raped or {{U}}wanton{{/U}} violence against civilians in the region.

单选题Parents take a great interest in the ______ questions raised by their children.

单选题Smoking is so harmful to personal health that it kills people each year ______ than automobile accidents. A. seven more times B. seven times more C. over seven times D. seven times

单选题Pundits who want to sound judicious are fond of warning against generalizing. Each country is different, they say, and no one story fits all of Asia. This is, of course, silly, all of these economies plunged into economic crisis within a few months of each other, so they must have had something in common. In fact, the logic of catastrophe was pretty much the same in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Korea. (Japan is a very different story. ) In each case investors—mainly, but not entirely, foreign banks who had made short-term loans—all tried to pull their money out at the same time. The result was a combined banking and currency crisis, a banking crisis because no bank can convert all its assets into cash on short notice; a currency crisis because panicked investors were trying not only to convert long-term assets into cash, but to convert baht or rupiah into dollars. In the face of the stampede, governments had no good options. If they let their currencies plunge, inflation would soar and companies that had borrowed in dollars would go bankrupt; if they tried to support their currencies by pushing up interest rates, the same firms would probably go bust from the combination of debt burden and recession. In practice, countries split the difference and paid a heavy price regardless. Was the crisis a punishment for bad economic management? Like most cliches, the catchphrase "crony capitalism" has prospered because it gets at something real; excessively cozy relationships between government and business really did lead to a lot of bad investments. The still primitive financial structure of Asian business also made the economies peculiarly vulnerable to a loss of confidence. But the punishment was surely disproportionate to the crime, and many investments that look foolish in retrospect seemed sensible at the time. Given that there were no good policy options, was the policy response mainly on the right track? There was frantic blame-shifting when everything in Asia seemed to be going wrong; now there is a race to claim credit when some things have started to go right. The International Monetary Fund points to Korea's recovery—and more generally to the fact that the sky didn't fall after all—as proof that its policy recommendations were right, never mind that other IMF clients have done far worse, and that the economy of Malaysia—which refused IMF help, and horrified respectable opinion by imposing capital controls—also seems to be on the mend. Malaysia's Prime Minister, by contrast, claims full credit for any good news—even though neighboring economies also seem to have bottomed out. The truth is that an observer without any ax to grind would probably conclude that none of the polices adopted either on or in defiance of the IMF's advice made much difference either way. Budget polices, interest rate policies, banking reform— whatever countries tried, just about all the capital that could flee, did. And when there was no more money to run, the natural recuperative powers of the economies finally began to prevail. At best, the money doctors who purported to offer cures provided a helpful bedside manner; at worse, they were like medieval physicians who prescribed bleeding as a remedy for all ills. Will the patients stage a full recovery? It depends on exactly what you mean by "full". South Korea's industrial production is already above its pre-crisis level, but in the spring of 1997 anyone who had predicted zero growth in Korean industry over the next two years would have been regarded as a reckless doomsayer. So if by recovery you mean not just a return to growth, but one that brings the region's performance back to something like what people used to regard as the Asian norm, they have a long way to go.

单选题______ considered the human body aesthetically satisfactory.

单选题You must try your best to ______ to the new environment.(2003年西南财经大学考博试题)

单选题Recent border confrontations between the two countries lead credence to tile rumors of an impending war.

单选题A local friend who shall be nameless warned me that I was ______ trouble soon.

单选题You need to rewrite this sentence because it is ______; the readers will have difficulty in understanding it. A. comprehensive B. alternative C. deliberate D. ambiguous

单选题According to the instructor, students who are absent from, lectures more than three times will be ______ in the end of the semester assessment.

单选题The investigation into the food safety incident over dairy products tainted with melamine is______.

单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}}{{B}}Passage 1{{/B}} Cities develop as a result of functions that they can perform, some functions result directly from the ingenuity of the citizenry, but most functions result from the needs of the local area and of the surrounding hinterland (the region that supplies goods to the city and to which the city furnishes services and other goods). Geographers often make a distinction between the situation and the site of a city. Situation refers to the general position in relation to the surrounding region, whereas site involves physical characteristics of the specific location. Situation is normally much more important to the continuing prosperity of a city. If a city is well situated in regard to its hinterland, its development is much more likely to continue. Chicago, for example, possesses an almost unparalleled situation, it is located at the southern end of a huge lake that forces east-west transportation lines to be compressed into its vicinity, and at a meeting of significant land and water transport routes. It also overlooks what is one of the world's finest large farming regions. These factors ensured that Chicago would become a great city regardless of the disadvantageous characteristics of the available site, such as being prone to flooding during thunderstorm activity. Similarly, it can be argued that much of New York City's importance stems from its early and continuing advantage of situation. Philadelphia and Boston both originated at about the same time as New York and shared New York's location at the western end of one of the world's most important oceanic trade routes, but only New York possesses an easy-access functional connection (the Hudson-Mohawk lowland) to the vast Midwestern hinterland. This account does not alone explain New York's primacy, but it does include several important factors. Among the many aspects of situation that help to explain why some cities grow and others do not, original location on a navigable waterway seems particularly applicable. Of course, such characteristic as slope, drainage, power resources, river crossings, coastal shapes, and other physical characteristics help to determine city location, but such factors are normally more significant in early stages of city development than later.