单选题The ex-president had been ______ in the country to refresh his mind before he passed away. A. given to walking B. given a walk C. given for a walk D. giving a walk

单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}} Is Wal-Mart going wobbly? Over the past couple of weeks, America's largest company--linchpin of the low-wage, no-benefit economy that is increasingly the norm in America--has announced some surprising reversals of course. In a series of speeches and interviews, chief executive H. Lee Scott unveiled four initiatives that he clearly hopes will polish the company's increasingly tarnished image. Wal-Mart, he said, will shift to more environmentally responsible practices--demanding better packaging of its products. It will offer more affordable health insurance to its employees, cutting the monthly premium in some cases to just ＄11. It will monitor the environmental and health and safety practices of its foreign suppliers. And it will lobby for a higher federal minimum wage. Scott's timing is anything but accidental. The sweatshop conditions in which thou-sands of employees of Wal-Mart's suppliers routinely work, and the depressive effect that Wal-Mart has on working-class living standards here in the United States, are receiving increasing scrutiny--enough to impede the company's growth. Wal-Mart's at-tempts to open stores in the major cities of the Northeast and West Coast have been largely checked by a coalition of fearful and irate unions, smaller retailers, churches and liberal activists. Wal-Mart's stock is down 13 percent this year. And worse is still to come. So the leopard realized it was time to change its spots-up to a point. Only 44 percent of Wal-Mart's nearly 1. 3 million U.S. employees are covered under its health insurance plan. Now the company says it will make its insurance more affordable. Of all Scott's commitments, the one that does merit belief is his out-of-the-blue declaration of support for a higher minimum wage. For Wal-Mart is bumping up against a serious problem at least partly of its own making: Because it pitches its products to a disproportionately low-income client, its revenue rises and falls with the fortunes of the lower end of the American working class. And those fortunes these days are anything but bright. The coming crunch in heating oil prices, the decimation of American manufacturing, the steady decline of median family incomes over the past several years, the failure to raise the federal minimum wage since 1997--all these are combining to limit the ability of Wal-Mart shoppers to buy as much as they used to. Wal-Mart, could, of course, raise its workers' wages, but Scott has dismissed that out of hand. So now it's the feds' responsibility to rescue Wal-Mart from the consequences of the low-wage, low-consumption economy that Wal-Mart, with such fanatical devotion, has created. For, in Wal-Mart's America, it's not clear that even Wal-Mart can thrive.

单选题At the meeting, Smith argued ______ in favor of the proposal.

单选题The pilot made an unexpected ______ because of engine trouble. A. conclusion B. crash C. victory D. landing

单选题Only when faced with overwhelming evidence of being treated differently than the men who surrounded me______, briefly, with the notion that I was different in gender-related ways from my male colleagues.

单选题My brother said he ______ told his examination results by the time I next saw him.

单选题The army's brave fighting ______ in total victory.

单选题We must recognize difficulties, analyse them and______them.

单选题The author agrees with the ALA that ______.

单选题According to the passage, high-risk persons exclude which of the following kinds of people?

单选题Why do teens drink? Reasons vary from ______ pressure to family patterns to social conditioning.

单选题The goals and desires______ widely between men and women, between the rich and the poor.(2002年上海交通大学考博试题)

单选题When solid changes to liquid, it ______ heat from all substances near it and this reduces the temperature surrounding it. A. takes in B. takes on C. takes off D. takes down

单选题Haven"t I told you I don"t want you keeping ______ with those awful riding-about bicycle boys.?

单选题Nepal is a country in central Asia that is landlocked and ______ by the Himalayas. A. secluded B. bordered C. integrated D. opened

单选题The government is ______ its policy of helping the unemployed.