单选题The elements of nature must be reckoned with in any military campaign. Napoleon and Hitler both underestimated the ______ of the Russian winter. A. severity B. consequence C. influence D. threat

单选题It is strictly ______ that access to confidential documents is denied to all but a few. A. secured B. forbidden C. regulated D. determined

单选题No one could come Up with an easy solution to Japan's labor ______.

单选题The doctor promised that this medicine would ______ the pain in the stomach.

单选题What worries people who have recently completed their military service about the reform?

单选题Fried foods have long been frowned upon. Nevertheless, the skillet is about our handiest and most useful piece of kitchen equipment. Stalwart lumberjacks and others engaged in active labor requiring 4,000 calories per day or more will take approximately one-third of their rations prepared in this fashion. Meat, eggs, and French toast cooked in this way are served in millions of homes daily. Apparently the consumers are not beset-with more signs of indigestion than afflict those who insist upon broiling, roasting, or boiling. Some years ago one of our most eminent physiologists investigated the digestibility of fried potatoes. He found that the pan variety was more easily broken down for assimilation than when deep fat was employed. The latter, however, dissolved within the alimentary tract more readily than the boiled type. Furthermore, he learned, by watching the progress of the contents of the stomach by means of the fluoroscope, that fat actually accelerated the rate of digestion. Now all this is quite in contrast with "authority". Volumes have been written on nutrition, and everywhere the dictum has been accepted--no fried edibles of any sort for children. A few will go so far as to forbid this style of cooking wholly. Now and then an expert will be bold enough to admit that he uses them himself. The absence of discomfort being explained on the ground that he possesses a powerful gastric apparatus. We can of course sizzle perfectly good articles to death so that they will be leathery and tough. But thorough heating, in the presence of shortening, is not the awful crime that it has been labeled. Such dishes stimulate rather than retard contractions of the gall bladder. Thus it is that bile mixes with the nutriment shortly after it leaves the stomach. We don't need to allow our foodstuffs to become oil-soaked, but other than that, there seems to be no basis for the widely heralded prohibition against this method. But notions become fixed. The first condemnation probably arose because an "oracle" suffered from dyspepsia, which he ascribed to some fried item on the menu. The theory spread. Others agreed with him, and after a time the doctrine became incorporated in our textbooks. The belief is now tradition rather than a proved fact. It should have been refuted long since, as experience has demonstrated its falsity.

单选题The nurse ______ the doctor in the operation room. A. insisted B. resisted C. assisted D. persisted

单选题Drink coffee when you're sleepy; it's a good ______ and will help to keep you awake. A. incentive B. prompt C. stimulus D. appetite

单选题The author of the passage explicitly disagrees with which of the following statements?

单选题Even though he was guilty, the ______ judge did not send him to prison.

单选题He is looking for a job that will give him greater______ for career development. (2004年湖北省考博试题)

单选题Chimpanzees are frequently used as Ustand-ins/U for human beings in experiments.

单选题The best title for the passage will be ______.

单选题The flower bud of a water lily opens at sunset since its opening is triggered by the decreased light.

单选题The full ______ of changes in computer technology will be felt within the next few years.

单选题The local authority ______ the company an interest-free loan to start up the new factory. A. granted B. allocated C. financed D. sponsored

单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} It is one of the world's most recognized phrased, one you might even hear in places where little English is spoken: "The name's Bond, James Bond". I've heard it from a taxi driver in Ghana and a street sweeper in Paris, and I remember the thrill of hearing Sean Connery say it in the first Bond film I saw, Gold Finger. I was a Chicago schoolgirl when it was released in 1904. The image of a candy-coloured London filled with witty people stately old buildings and a gorgeous, ice-cool hero instilled in me a deep-rooted belief that Britain was OK. When Fan Fleming created the man with the license to kill, based on his own experiences while working for the British secret service in World War II, he couldn't have imagined that his fictional Englishman would not only shake, but stir the entire world. Even world-weary actors are thrilled at being in a Bond movie. Christopher Walkon, everyone's favorite screen psycho, who played mad genius Max Zorin in 1985's A View to a Kill, gushed: "I remember first seeing DJ'No when I was 15. I remember Robert Shaw trying to strangle James Bond in from Russia with love. And now here I am trying to kill James Bond myself." Bond is the complete entertainment package: he has hot and cold running women on tap dastardly villains bent on complete world domination, and America always plays second string to cool, sophisticated Britain. Bond's England only really existed in the adventures of Bulldog Drummond, the wartime speeches of Winston Churchill and the songs of Dame Vera Lynn. When Fleming started to write his spy stories, the world knew that, while Britain was victorious in the war against Hitler, it was depleted as a result. London was bombed out, a dark and grubby place, while America was now the only place to be. It was America that was producing such universal icons as Gary Cooper's cowboy in High Noon ("A man's got to do what a man's got to do"); the one-man music revolution that was Elvis Presley: Marilyn Monroe, the walking, talking male fantasy married to Joe DiMaggio, then the most famous athlete in the world. Against this reality, Fleming had the nerve and arrogance to say that, while hot dogs and popcorn were fine, other things were more important. And those things were uniquely British: quiet competence, unsentimental ruthlessness, clear-eyed, steely determination, an ironic sense of humour and doing a job well. All qualities epitomized by James Bond. Of course, Bond was always more fairytale than fact, but what else is a film for? No expense is spared in production, the lead is suave and handsome, and the hardware is always awesome. In the latest film, the gadgets include a surfboard with concealed weapons, a combat knife with global positioning system beacon, a watch that doubles as a laser-beam cutter, an Aston Martin VI2 Vanquish with all the optional extras you've come to expect, a personal jet glider.., the list is endless. There are those who are disgusted by the Bond films unbridled glorification of the evils of sexism, racism, ageism and extreme violence, but it's never that simple.