单选题Though ______ rich, ha was better off than at any other period in his life. [A] by any means [B] by some means [C] by all means [D] by no means

单选题Everyone in American these days seems to be______with his or her physical fitness, and everyone is talking about getting in shape.

单选题Right now there is a sale of 19th-century European Paintings and sculpture in the museum.(清华大学2006年试题)

单选题The______prevents the people in the two neighboring nations from living in peace.

单选题The history of African—Americans during the past 400 years is traditionally narrated (41) an ongoing straggle against (42) and indifference on the part of the American mainstream, and a struggle (43) as an upward movement is (44) toward ever more justice and opportunity. Technology in and of (45) is not at fault; it's much too simple to say that gunpowder or agricultural machinery or fiber optics (46) been the enemy of an (47) group of people. A certain machine is put (48) work in a certain way--the purpose (49) which it was designed. The people who design the machines are not intent on unleashing chaos; they are usually trying to (50) a task more quickly, cleanly, or cheaply, (51) the imperative of innovation and efficiency that has ruled Western civilization (52) the Renaissance. Mastery of technology is second only (53) money as the true measure of accomplishment in this country, and it is very likely that by (54) this under-representation in the technological realm, and by not questioning and examining the folkways that have (55) it, blacks are allowing (56) to be kept out of the mainstream once again. This time, however, they will be (57) from the greatest cash engine of the twenty-first century. Inner-city blacks in particular are in danger, and the beautiful suburbs (58) ring the decay of Hartford, shed the past and learn to exist without contemplating or encountering the tragedy of the inner city. And blacks must change as well. Tile ways that (59) their ancestors through captivity and coming to freedom have begun to loose their utility. If blacks (60) to survive as full participants in this society, they have to understand what works now.

单选题She bought a house near the sea last year she could take a ______ along the beach whenever she wanted to. A.stroll B.stride C.stretch D.strand

单选题Hotels and restaurants are an ______ part of the city; without them the city's tourist industry can not exist.

单选题Biotechnology enables us ______.

单选题Telecommuting, ______ the computer for the trip to the job, has been hailed as a solution to all kinds of problems related to office work.

单选题Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has resulted in robotics—the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimetre accuracy—far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone. But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves — goals that pose a real challenge. "While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error," says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, "we can't yet give a robot enough 'common sense' to reliably interact with a dynamic world." Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries. What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain's roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented — and human perception far more complicated — than previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can't approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don't know quite how we do it.

单选题Which of the following statements about small business is not true?

单选题2 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 im- migrants. 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—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Accommodations must be made for students with learning disabilities. A. criminal B. pump C. psychology D. lodgings

单选题It is believed that the Black Death, rampant in the Medieval Europe __________, killed 1/3 of its population.

单选题Which of the following statements about arteriosclerosis in NOT true?

单选题In recent years, there has been a steady assault on salt from the doctors: salt is bad for you—regardless of your health. Politicians also got on board: "There is a direct relationship," US congressman Neal Smith noted, "between the amount of sodium a person consumes and heart disease, circulatory disorders, stroke and even early death." Frightening, if true! But many doctors and medical researchers are now beginning to feel the salt scare has gone too far. "All this hue and cry about eating salt is unnecessary," Dr. Dustan insists. "For most of us it probably doesn"t make much difference how much salt we eat." Dustan"s most recent short-term study of 150 people showed that those with normal blood pressure experienced no change at all when placed on an extremely low-salt diet, or later when salt was reintroduced. Of the hypertensive subjects, however, half of those on the low-salt diet did experience a drop in blood pressure, which returned to its previous level when salt was reintroduced. "An adequate to somewhat excessive salt intake has probably saved many more lives than it has cost in the general population," notes Dr. John H. Laragh. "So a recommendation that the whole population should avoid salt makes no sense." Medical experts agree that everyone should practice reasonable "moderation" in salt consumption. For the average person, a moderate amount might run from four to ten grams a day, or roughly 1/2 to 1/3 of a teaspoon. The equivalent of one to two grams of this salt allowance would come from the natural sodium in food. The rest would be added in processing, preparation or at the table. Those with kidney, liver or heart problems may have to limit dietary salt, if their doctor advises. But even the very vocal "low salt" exponent, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr. admits that "we do not know whether increased sodium consumption causes hypertension." In fact, there is growing scientific evidence that other factors may be involved: deficiencies in calcium, potassium, perhaps magnesium; obesity (much more dangerous than sodium); genetic predisposition; stress. "It is not your enemy," says Dr. Laragh. "Salt is the No. 1 natural component of all human tissue, and the idea that you don"t need it is wrong. Unless your doctor has proven that you have a salt-related health problem, there is no reason to give it up."

单选题For instance, the public may not fully understand the physical principles behind lasers, but it clearly can appreciate the extraordinary medical benefits ______ this technology.

单选题In the third stage of the evolution of the mind, ______.

单选题The government recently presented an ambitious plan to tackle the violence and ______that follow when too many people drink too much too quickly in too small an area.