单选题Free Advice Is Just around the Corner When Daniel Franklin, a political science professor from Atlanta, needed career advancement advice, he didn't turn to colleagues, therapists or even his morn. He went to the Advice Ladies. Three thirty something New York women, advertising ffeelancers by day, have turned themselves into Saturday afternoon street-corner oracles, they pull up lawn chairs and a table on a lower Manhattan street corner and dish out free advice to passersby. They've claimed the corner of West Broadway and Broome Street in Soho as their own for the last several months. Amy Alkon, who, with longtime friends Marlowe Minnick and Carolyn Johnson, bebomes a part-time shrink each weekend. "We use creative problem-solving to turn problem into fun", she says. On a recent steamy afternoon, a line has formed in front of the Advice Ladies' table.Obviously, New Yorkers need plenty of help. "People feel they have no control in this crazy world. And therapy can take years," Minnick says. "We solve problems instantly, it's instant answer gratification." The three brainstorm before delivering advice on everything from pet discipline, closet-space management, even hair care. But no legal advice. "By far, most of our questions are love-related. It's amazing the intimate sexual problems that people will divulge to a total stranger," Alkon says. But they won't be strangers much longer. The Advice Ladies are putting together a book deal. And Robert De Nitro is creating a talk show around them, due nationally this fall from his Tribeca Pictures. "De Nitro asked us for advice, but we think he's already perfect," purrs Alkon. And their career advice to Franklin? "He's written a book, so we told him to get a manager and go on the touring circuit. It's great money and great publicity for the book. " "Good advice", says Franklin.

单选题The next time the men were taken up onto the deck, Kunta made a point of looking at the man behind him in line, the one who lay beside him to the left when they were below. He was a Serere tribesman much older than Kunta, and his body, front and back, was creased with whip cuts, some of them so deep and festering that Kunta felt badly for having wished sometimes that he might strike the man in the darkness for moaning so steadily in his pain. Staring back at Kunta, the Serere's dark eyes were full of fury and defiance. A whip lashed out even as they stood looking at each other-this time at Kunta, spurring him to move ahead. Trying to roll away, Kunta was kicked heavily in bis ribs. But somehow he and the gasping Wolof managed to stagger back up among the other men from their shelf who were shambling toward their dousing with buckets of seawater. A moment later, the stinging saltiness of it was burning in Kunta's wounds, and his screams joined those of others over the sound of the drum and the wheezing thing that had again begun marking time for the chained men to jump and dance for the toubob. Kunta and the Wolof were so weak from their new beating that twice they stumbled, but whip blows and kicks sent them hopping clumsily up and down in their chains. So great was his fury that Kunta was barely aware of the women singing "Toubob fa!" And when he had finally been chained back down in his place in the dark hold, his heart throbbed with a lust to murder toubob. Every few days the eight naked toubob would again come into the stinking darkness and scrape their tubs full of the excrement that had accumulated on the shelves where the chained men lay. Kunta would lie still with his eyes staring bale fully in hatred, following the bobbing orange lights, listening to the toubob cursing and sometimes slipping and t. ailing into the slickness underfoot-so plentiful now, because of the increasing looseness of the men's bowels, that the filth had begun to drop off the edges of the shelves down into the aisleway. The last time they were on deck, Kunta had noticed a man limping on a badly infected leg. This time the man was kept up on deck when the rest were taken back below. A few days later, the women told the other prisoners in their singing that the man's leg had been cut off and that one of the women had been brought to tend him, but that the man had died that night and been thrown over the side. Starting then, when the toubob came to clean the shelves, they also dropped red-hot pieces of metal into pails of strong vinegar. The clouds of acrid steam left the hold smelling better, but soon it would again be overwhelmed by the choking stink. It was a smell that Kunta felt would never leave his lungs and skin. The steady murmuring that went on in the hold whenever the toubob were gone kept growing in volume and intensity as the men began to communicate better and better with one another. Words not understood were .whispered from mouth to ear along the shelves until someone who knew more than one tongue would send back their meanings. In the process, all of the men along each shelf learned new words in tongues they had not spoken before. Sometimes men jerked upward, bumping their heads, in the double excitement of communicating with each other and the fact that it was being done without the toubob's knowledge. Muttering among themselves for hours, the men developed a deepening sense of intrigue and of brotherhood. Though they were of different villages and tribes, the feeling grew that they were not from different peoples or places.

单选题Successful students sometimes become so ______ with grades that they never enjoy their school years.

单选题Agriculture must, therefore, ______ workers and savings to the new industrialized, urbanized sectors if a modern economy is to be achieved.

单选题Modern technology may not have improved the world all that much but it certainly has made life noisier. Unmuffled motorcycles, blaring car alarms, and roving boom boxes come first, second, and third on my list of most obnoxious noise offenders, but everyone could come up with his own version of aural hell—if he could just find a quiet spot to ponder the matter. Yet what technology has done, other technology is now starting to undo, using computer power, to zap those ear-splitting noises into silence. Previously silence-seekers had little recourse except to stay inside, close the windows, and plug their ears. Remedies like these are quaintly termed "passive" systems, because they place physical barriers against the unwanted sound. Now computer technology is producing a far more effective "active" system, which doesn't just contain, deflect, or mask the noise, but annihilates it electronically. The system works by countering the offending noise with "anti-noise", a somewhat sinister-sounding term that calls to mind antimatter, black holes, and other Popular Science mindbenders but that actually refers to something quite simple. Just as a wave on a pond is flattened when it merges with a trough that is its exact opposite (or mirror image) , so can a sound wave be negated by meeting its opposite. This general theory of sound cancellation has been around since the 1930s. In the fifties and sixties it made for a kind of magic trick among laboratory acousticians playing around with the first clunky mainframe computers. The advent of low-cost high-power microprocessors has made active noise-cancellation systems a commercial possibility, and a handful of small electronics firms in the United States and abroad are bringing the first ones onto the silence market. Silence buffs might be hoping that the noise-canceling apparatus will take the shape of the 44 Magnum wielded by Dirty Harry, but in fact active sound control is not quite that active. The system might more properly be described as reactive, in that it responds to sound waves already headed toward human ears. In the configuration that is usual for such systems microphones detect the noise signal and send it to the system's microprocessor, which almost instantly models it and creates its inverse for loudspeakers to fire at the original. Because the two sounds occupy the same range of frequencies and tones, the inverse sounds exactly like the noise it is to eliminate: the anti-noise cancelling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is heard as Beethoven's Fifth. The only difference is that every positive pressure produced on the air by the orchestra is matched by a negative pressure produced by the computer, and every negative pressure is matched by a positive, thereby silencing the sound. The system is most effective as a kind of muffler, in which microphones, microprocessor, and loudspeaker are all in a unit encasing the device that produces the sound, stifling it at its source. But it can work as a headset, too, negating the sound at the last moment before it disturbs one's peace of mind.

单选题One of the basic characteristics of capitalism is the private ownership of the major means of production—capital. The ownership of large amounts of capital can bring (21) profits, as well as economic and political power. Some recent theorists, (22) , have argued that our society has moved to a new stage of (23) that they call "postindustrial" society. One important change in such a society is that the ownership of (24) amounts of capital is no longer the only or even the most important (25) of profits and influence; knowledge as well as (26) capital brings profits and influence. There are many (27) with the thesis above, not the least of (28) is that wealthy capitalists can buy the experts and knowledge they need to keep their profits and influence. But this does not (29) the importance of knowledge in an advanced industrial society, as the (30) of some new industries indicates. (31) , genetic engineering and the new computer technology have (32) many new firms and made some scientists quite rich. In (33) with criticism of the postindustrial society thesis, however, it must also be (34) that those already in control of huge amounts of capital (i. e. , major corporations) soon (35) to take most profits in these industries based on new knowledge. Moving down from the level of wealth and power, we still find knowledge increasingly (36) . Many new high-tech jobs are being created at the upper-middle-class level, but even more new jobs are being created in the low-skill, low-paying service (37) Something like a caste line is emerging centered around knowledge. Individuals who fall too far behind in the (38) of knowledge at a young age will find it almost impossible to catch later, no matter how hard they try. Illiteracy in the English language has been a severe (39) for many years in the United States, but we are, also moving to the point when computer illiteracy will hinder many more people and (40) them to a life of low-skill and low-paid labor.

单选题Railways are ______ to the economic prosperity of the country.

单选题I don't think that this question is subordinate ______ the main aim of our company.

单选题It can be inferred from the passage that the Farmers' Holiday Association opposed the bill drafted by the Committee of Eighteen because______.

单选题These planes are among the most ______ aircraft now being manufactured

单选题In Paragraph 5, the phrase "have taken him to task for.." most probably means ______.

单选题He didn't do so well in the race ______ his training.

单选题The plan would require two, or possibly more, class periods for its fulfillment .

单选题After graduation, he won the famous Rhodes Scholarship and ______ advanced studies for 2 years in Oxford University in England.

单选题She believed that she was Uborn/U to be a film star.

单选题Hearing the news, she could feel anger ______ inside her.

单选题Which major change resulted from the prime of scientific times according to the author?

单选题Couples blessed with strength and aggression ______ looks are better off having boys, as these characteristics are of more use to males. A. other than B. rather than C. rather too D. in spite of

单选题The seminar, ______ by the Nobel Prize winner, probes the problem of wildlife extinction in African countries.