单选题Telephones save the feet and endless amounts of time. This is due partly to the fact that the telephone service is superb here, ______ the postal service is less efficient.

单选题A group of scholars from several countries were holding a ______ on new trend of literature.(2006年中国矿业大学考博试题)

单选题One of the consequences of advanced Ucognitive/U ability has been the emergence of cultural life.

单选题The badly wounded soldiers take ______ for medical treatment over those only slightly hurt. A. priority B. measures C. chance D. responsibility

单选题Distributing which of the following publications would be most likely to encourage Aleuts to make more use of English?

单选题Her father flew into a ______ when he learned that she wanted to get married before she graduated from the university. [A] feeling [B] emotion [C] sensation [D] passion

单选题Because of the______ of its ideas, the book was in wide circulation both at home and abroad.(2014年厦门大学考博试题)

单选题Love was in the air in a Tokyo park as normally staid Japanese husbands gathered to scream out their feelings for their wives, promising ______ and extra tight hugs.(2013年北京大学考博试题)

单选题According to legend, Daniel Webster made a ______ with Satan, but managed to talk his way out of it at the last moment.

单选题The Trojan War proved to the Greeks that cunning and ______ were often more effective than military might. A. artifice B. strength C. wisdom D. beauty

单选题School integration plans that involve busing between suburban and central-city areas have contributed, according to a recent study, to ______ any future need/or busing.

单选题Psychologists agree that human beings have a strong need to ______ their time; having too much idle time can be as stressful as having none at all.

单选题For millions of years before the appearance of the electric light, shift work, all night cable TV and the Internet, the Earth"s creatures evolved on a planet with predictable and reassuring 24-hour rhythms. Our biological clocks are set for this daily cycle. Simply put, 9ur bodies want to sleep at night and be awake during the day. Most women and men need between eight and eight and a half hours of sleep a night to function properly throughout their lives (Contrary to popular belief, humans don"t need less sleep as they age). But on average, Americans sleep only about seven and a half hours per night, a marked drop from the nine hours they averaged in 1910. What"s worse, nearly one third of all Americans get less than six hours of sleep on a typical work night. For most people, that"s not nearly enough. Finding ways to get more and better sleep can be a challenge. Scientists have identified more than 80 different sleep disorders. Some sleeping disorders are genetic. But many problems are caused by staying up late and sleeping in, by traveling frequently between time zones or by working nights. Dr. James F. Jones at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver says that sleep disorders are often diagnosed as other discomforts. About one third of the patients referred to him with possible chronic fatigue syndrome actually have treatable sleep disorders. "Before we do anything else, we look at their sleep," Jones says. Sleep experts say that most people would benefit from a good look at their sleep patterns. "My motto (座右铭) is "Sleep defensively"," says Mary Carskadon of Brown University. She says people need to carve out sufficient time to sleep, even if it means giving up other things. Sleep routines—like going to bed and getting up at the same time every day—are important. Pre-bedtime activities also make a difference. As with Elsner, who used to suffer from sleeplessness, a few lifestyle changes—avoiding stimulants and late meals, exercising hours before bedtime, relaxing with a hot bath—yield better sleep.

单选题The National Party ______.

单选题That grand--sized pine tree ______ the horizon.

单选题A survey earlier this year found that about 50 percent of South Africans think that "most" or "almost all" governmental officials are involved in______.

单选题The history of responses to the work of the artist Sandro Botticelli(1444—1510)suggests that widespread appreciation by critics is a relatively recent phenomenon. Writing in 1550, Vasari expressed an unease with Botticelli's work, admitting that the artist fitted awkwardly into his evolutionary scheme of the history of art. Over the next two centuries, academic art historians defamed Botticelli in favor of his fellow Florentine, Michelangelo. Even when anti-academic art historians of the early nineteenth century rejected many of the standards of evaluation adopted by their predecessors, Botticelli's work remained outside of accepted taste, pleasing neither amateur observers nor connoisseurs.(Many of his best paintings, however, remained hidden away in obscure churches and private homes.) The primary reason for Botticelli's unpopularity is not difficult to understand: most observers, up until the mid-nineteenth century, did not consider him to be noteworthy, because his work, for the most part, did not seem to these observers to exhibit the traditional characteristics of fifteenth-century Florentine art. For example, Botticelli rarely employed the technique of strict perspective and, unlike Michelangelo, never used chiaroscuro. Another reason for Botticelli's unpopularity may have been that his attitude toward the style of classical art was very different from that of his contemporaries. Although he was thoroughly exposed to classical art, he showed little interest in borrowing from the classical style. Indeed, it is paradoxical that a painter of large-scale classical subjects adopted a style that was only slightly similar to that of classical art. In any case, when viewers began to examine more closely the relationship of Botticelli's work to the tradition of fifteenth-century Florentine art, his reputation began to grow. Analyses and assessments of Botticelli made between 1850 and 1870 by the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, as well as by the writer Pater(although he, unfortunately, based his assessment on an incorrect analysis of Botticelli's personality), inspired a new appreciation of Botticelli throughout the English-speaking world. Yet Botticelli's work, especially the Sistine frescoes, did not generate worldwide attention until it was finally subjected to a comprehensive and scrupulous analysis by Home in 1908. Home rightly demonstrated that the frescoes shared important features with paintings by other fifteenth-century Florentines—features such as skillful representation of anatomical proportions, and of the human figure in motion. However, Home argued that Botticelli did not treat these qualities as ends in themselves—rather, that he emphasized clear depletion of a story, a unique achievement and one that made the traditional Florentine qualities less central. Because of Home's emphasis crucial to any study of art, the twentieth century has come to appreciate Botticelli's achievements.

单选题If a cat comes too close to its nest, the mockingbird ______a set of actions to protect its offspring.

单选题He never felt that being disabled______him of all moral responsibility to himself and his community.