单选题The London 2012 sustainability watchdog embroiled in a row over the sportsship of the Olympic Stadium by Dow Chemical is to push the International Olympic Committee to appoint an " ethics champion" for future Games. The Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 has been bruised by criticism over Dow's sponsorship of the wrap that will surround the Olympic stadium, particularly since commissioner Meredith Alexander last month resigned in protest. Campaigners believe that Dow has ongoing liabilities relating to the 1984 Bhopal disaster that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 20,000 people and the serious injury of tens of thousands more. Dow, which bought the owner of the plant in 2001, insists that all liabilities have been settled in full. Commission chairman Shaun McCarthy said that its tight sustainability remit did not extend to acting as moral guardian of the Olympic movement but that it would press for such a role to be created when evaluating sponsors for future Games. In addition to sponsoring the 7m pounds wrap that will surround the Olympic Stadium, Dow has a separate 100m dollars sponsorship deal with the IOC that was signed in 2010. But McCarthy also defended the commission's role in evaluating the Dow deal, after Amnesty International wrote to London 2012 chairman Lord Coe to raise the issue. "What has been lost in all of this story is that a really excellent, sustainable product has been procured, we looked at Locog's examination of Dow Chemical's current corporate responsibility policies and, again, Dow achieved that highest score in that evaluation. We verified that. " said McCarthy. "As far as the history is concerned and issues around Bhopal, there is no doubt Bhopal was a terrible disaster and snore injustice was done to the victims. Who is responsible for that injustice is a matter for the courts and a matter for others. We have a specific remit and terms of reference that we operate under and we have operated diligently under those terms. " The commission will on Thursday release its annual review. It finds that "good press" has been made to wands many of Locog's sustainability target, but that "major challenges" remain. In particular, the commission found that there was no coherent strategy to achieve a 20% reduction in carbon emissions after an earlier scheme to use renewable energy feel through when a wind turbine on the site proved impractical. " We had conversations with Locog over a year ago about this and said they had to demonstrate how they were going to achieve at least 20% carbon reductions through energy conservation if they're not going to do it through renewable energy," said McCarthy. "There are some good initiatives, but quite frankly they just haven't done it. "

单选题Being afraid of the enemy's attack, he ______ motionless in the grass for half an hour. A. lie B. lay C. laid D. lied

单选题Living constantly in the atmosphere of slave, he became infected ______ the unconscious ______ their psychology. No one can shield himself ______ such an influence. A. on...by...at B. by... for...in C. from...in...on D. through...with...from

单选题In order to answer the question: "which are the social tendencies that are general human characteristics?" we have to emphasize on the study of

单选题The author is primarily concentrated on ______.

单选题The plan for the new office tower went ahead ____________ of local opposition.

单选题By 1929, Mickey Mouse was as popular______children as Coca-Cola. A. for B. in C. to D. with

单选题 Would you stoop to pick up a found penny? If you believe in the value of money or the possibility of luck, you would. Unless, of course, you're a teenager. When Nuveen Investments asked 1000 kids age 12 to 17 to name the sum they would bother to pick up, 58 percent said a dollar or more. "Some won't give pocket space to coins even if they're already in hand," says Neale Godfrey author of Money Doesn't Grow on Trees. Many high schoolers throw away the changes. As one boy explained to her, "what am I going to do with it?" The cavalier attitude is making some parents rethink the allowance tradition. The weekly stipend is meant to help kids learn about money, but some experts say too much cash--easily handed out in these flush times--and too few obligations can lead to a fiscally irresponsible future. Many kids have a "lack of understanding (of) how hard it is to earn money," says Godfrey. "That is not OK." Allowances, done right, are a way to teach children to plan ahead and choose wisely, to balance saving spending investing, and even philanthropy. Doing it right means deciding ahead of time how much to give and how often to give it. And it re- quires determining what the child's responsibilities will be. "About 50 percent of children between 12 and 18 get an allowance or cash from their parents," says a survey conducted in 1997 by Ohio State university for the U. S Labor Department. The median amount they got was a $ 50 a week. Nationally speaking, about 10 million kids receive a total of around $ 1 billion every week. The problem with a parental open-wallet policy, says Godfrey: "If you're always given money, why would it have any value to you?" Earned money is spent more wisely, she says. "You're teaching them that there is not an entitlement program in life. The way you get it is you earn it." Godfrey thinks an allowance should be chore-based, and she divides work into two categories: citizen-of-the-household chores .and work-for-pay chores. "The punishment for not doing your workfor-pay chores is you don't get paid." Other experts including Jayne Pearl, author of Kids and Money, believe that every family member is entitled to a small piece of the financial pie and that it shouldn't be tied to work. Doing so "complicates things unnecessarily and imbues allowance with power struggles and control is- sues," says Pearl. "I think of an allowance as learning capital...They have to have some money to practise with." "For many kids 3 is a good time to begin getting all allowance," experts say. This sounds early, but it's then that children start understanding the notion of exchanging coins for, say, candy. Deciding how much to give can be tough. "If the parents can afford it, I have them pay their age per week," says Godfrey. "A 3-year-old gets $3." Sound like a lot for a little person? Godfrey's plan takes 10 percent off the top for charity. The remainder is divided into thirds and put into jars. The quick-cash jar "is for instant gratification". This spend--as they choose money--means that candy bars, cards, and other impulse buys are no longer paid for by Mom and Dad, which causes kids to curb many impulses. The second jar is for medium-term savings, meant to be spent on medium-ticket luxuries like in-line skates or a CD player. The final jar is invested for the long term, such as for college.

单选题Our social behavior is ______.

单选题Whatadifferencebetweenthetwohouseswhichstand_____toeachother.

单选题Lately, the restaurant chain, which______.mainly to blue-collar diners, has been hurt by competition.

单选题Two main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle. The former method simply consists of setting an elephant to work and beating him until he does what is expected of him. Apart from any moral considerations this is a stupid method of training, for it produces a resentful animal who at a later stage may well turn man-killer. The gentle method requires more patience in the early stages, but produces a cheerful, good-tempered elephant who will give many years of loyal service. The first essential in elephant training is to assign to the animal a single mahout who will be entirely responsible for the job. Elephants like to have one master just as dogs do, and are capable of a considerable degree of personal affection. There are even stories of half- trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pained to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer. Such extreme cases must probably be taken with a grain of salt, but they do underline the general principle that the relationship between elephant and mahout is the key to successful training. The most economical age to capture an elephant for training is between fifteen and twenty years, for it is then almost ready to undertake heavy work and can begin to earn its keep straight away. But animals of this age do not easily become subservient to man, and a very firm hand must be employed in the early stages. The captive elephant, still roped to a tree, plunges and screams every time a man approaches, and for several days will probably refuse all food through anger, and fear. Sometimes a tame elephant is tethered nearby to give the wild one confidence, and in most cases the captive gradually quietens down and begins to accept its food. The next stage is to get the elephant to the training establishment, a ticklish business which is achieved with the aid of two tame elephants roped to the captive on either side. When several elephants are being trained at one time, it is customary for the new arrival to be placed between the stalls of two captives whose training is already well advanced. It is then left completely undisturbed with plenty of food and water so that it can absorb the atmosphere of its new home and see that nothing particularly alarming is happening to its companions. When it is eating normally, its own training begins. The trainer stands in front of the elephant holding a long stick with a sharp metal point. Two assistants, mounted on tame elephants, control the captive from either side, while others rub their hands over his skin to the accompaniment of a monotonous and soothing chant. This is supposed to induce pleasurable sensations in the elephant, and its effects are reinforced by the use of endearing epithets, such as "ho! my son", or "ho! my father", or "my mother", according to the age and sex of the captive. The elephant is not immediately susceptible to such blandishments, however, and usually lashes fiercely with its trunk in all directions. These movements are controlled by the trainer with the metal-pointed stick, and the trunk eventually becomes so sore that the elephant curls it up and seldom afterwards uses it for offensive purposes.

单选题The phrase "increment, earned though not received" in the third paragraph means ______.

单选题Like most fathers and sons, we fought; it was a cold war lasting from the ______ of my adolescence until I went off to college.

单选题Quietly malicious chairmanship. There is no sound excuse for this. It is deeply antisocial, and a sudden excess of it would tear great holes in our communal life. But a man can be asked once too often to act as chairman, and to such a man, despairing of his weakness and feeling a thousand miles from any delight, I can suggest a few devices. In introducing one or two of the chief speakers, grossly over-praise them but put no warmth in your voice, only a metallic flavour of irony. If you know what a speaker's main point is, then make it neatly in presenting him to the audience. During more tremendous peroration which the chap has been working on for days, either begin whispering and passing notes to other speakers or give the appearance of falling asleep in spite of much effort to keep awake. If the funny man takes possession of the meeting and brings out the old jokes, either look melancholy or raise your eyebrows as high as they will go. Announce the fellow with the weak delivery in your loudest and clearest tones. For any timid speaker, officiously clear a space bang in the middle and offer him water, paper, pencil, a watch, anything. With noisy, cheeky chaps on their feet, bustle about the platform, and if necessary give a mysterious little note to some members of the audience. If a man insists upon speaking from the floor of the hall, ask him for his name, pretend to be rather deaf, and then finally, announce his name with a marked air of surprise. After that you can have some trouble with a cigarette lighter and then take it to pieces. When they all go on and on, make no further pretence of paying any attention and settle down to drawing outrageous caricatures of the others on the platform, and then at last ask some man you particularly dislike to take over the chair, and stalk out, being careful to leave all your papers behind. And if all this fails to bring you any delight, it should at least help to protect you against further bouts of chairmanship.

单选题The British political system has ______ over several centuries into its present state.

单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} Joe Coyne slides into the driver's seat, starts up the car and heads to town. The empty stretch of interstate gives way to urban congestion, and Coyne hits the brakes as a pedestrian suddenly crosses the street in front of him. But even if he hadn't stopped in time, the woman would have been safe. She isn't real. Neither is the town. And Coyne isn't really driving. Coyne is demonstrating a computerized driving simulator that is helping researchers at Old Dominion University (ODU) examine how in-vehicle guidance systems affect the person behind the wheel. The researchers want to know if such systems, which give audible or written directions, are too distracting—or whether any distractions are offset by the benefits drivers get from having help finding their way in unfamiliar locations. "We're looking at the performance and mental workload of drivers," said Caryl Baldwin, the assistant psychology professor leading the research, which involves measuring drivers' reaction time and brain activity as they respond to auditory and visual cues. The researchers just completed a study of the mental workload involved in driving through different kinds of environments and heavy versus, light traffic. Preliminary results show that as people "get into more challenging driving situations, they don't have any extra mental energy to respond to something else in the environment, "Baldwin said. But the tradeoffs could be worth it, she said. This next step is to test different ways of giving drivers navigational information and how those methods change the drivers' mental workload. "Is it best if they see a picture…that shows their position, a map kind of display?" Baldwin questioned. "Is it best if they hear it?" Navigational systems now on the market give point-by-point directions that follow a prescribed mute. "They're very unforgiving," Baldwin said. "If you miss a turn, they can almost seem to get angry." That style of directions also can be frustrating for people who prefer more general instructions. But such broad directions can confuse drivers who prefer route directions, Baldwin said. Perhaps manufacturers should allow drivers to choose the style of directions they want, or modify systems to present some information in a way that makes sense for people who prefer the survey style, she said. Interestingly, other research has shown that about 60 percent of men prefer the survey style, while 60 percent women prefer the route style, Baldwin said. This explains the stereotype that men don't like to stop and ask for directions and women do, Baldwin added.

单选题______ from her contract, De Havilland sued the studio and, after a two-year battle, won her case in a landmark decision that benefited all contract actors.