单选题A forest fire will leave nothing but scorched earth in its wake.

单选题There is only time to ______ the plan and we will discuss it in detail next week.

单选题Not every ______ mansion, church, battle sits, theater, or other public hall can be preserved.

单选题Much has been written about poverty but none of the accounts seem to get at the root of the problem. It must be noted that the weakening effects of poverty are not only the result of lack of money but are also the result of powerlessness. The poor are subject to their social situation instead of being able to affect it through action, that is, though behavior that flows from an individual"s decisions and plans; in other words, when social scientists have reported on the psychological consequences of poverty, it seems reasonable to believe that they have described the psychological consequences of powerlessness. The solution to poverty most frequently suggested is to help the poor secure more money without otherwise changing the present power relationship. This appears to implement the idea of equality while avoiding any unnecessary threat to the established centers of power. But since the consequences of poverty are related to powerlessness, not absolute supple of money available to the poor, and since the amount of power purchasable with a given supple of money decreases ads a society acquired a large supply of goods and services, the solution of raising the incomes of the poor is likely, unless accomplished by other measures, to be ineffective in a wealthy society. In order to reduce poverty-related psychological and social problems in the United States, the major community will have to change its relationship to neighborhoods of poverty in such fashion that families in the neighborhoods have a greater interest in the broader society and can more successfully participated in the decision-making process of the surrounding community. Social action to help the poor should have the following characteristics; The poor should see themselves as the source of the action; the action should affect in major ways the preconceptions of institutions and persons who define the poor; the action should demand much in effect of skill; the action should be successful and the successful self-originated important action should increase the feeling of potential worth and individual power of individuals who are poor. The only initial resource which a community should provide to neighborhoods of poverty should be on a temporary basis and should consist of organizers who will enable the neighborhoods quickly to create powerful, independent, democratic organizations of the poor. Through such organizations, the poor will then negotiate with the outsiders for resources and opportunities without having to submit to concurrent control from outside.

单选题Almost as a (n) ______to the revival of Greek knowledge and values came the revival of interest in mathematics.

单选题Although I tried to concentrate on the lecture, I was ______ by the noise from the next room.

单选题What most______the magazine's critics is the manner in which its editorial opinions are expressed too often as if only an idiot could see things any other way.

单选题Laws do not ensure social order since laws can always be ______, which makes them______unless the authorities have the will and the power to detect and punish wrongdoing.

单选题Ravaged by pollution and war, many famous monuments have become eroded and stained.

单选题The very fact that there has been an armed clash with NATO forces for the first time in Russia's history is quite dangerous.

单选题The charter-school movement in the United States developed in the 1 990s as a reaction to the ______ failure of public schools, especially in the inner cities.

单选题The ink had faded with time, and so parts of the letter were______.

单选题An old woman was badly hurt in ______the police describe as an apparently motiveless attack.

单选题They believed that the merchants had {{U}}conspired{{/U}} to undermine the nation's economic independence. A. plotted B. planned C. strove D. managed

单选题The boys in the family are old enough for______.

单选题If the North Sea______in winter, you could walk from London to Oslo.

单选题Prices reach equilibrium at the level at which quantity demanded ______ quantity supplied.

单选题The ______ of social security benefits often feel that they are contributing more than they in fact receive in terms of medical care, pensions, etC.

单选题One November evening in 1989 I was loafing in my room at university when a friend began thumping on the door. "What is it?" I shouted irritably. "The Berlin Wall just fell," he shouted back For months afterwards I walked around in a daze of wonder, as crowds ransacked secret-police headquarters and Nelson Mandela walked out of jail. Two lines from Wordsworth about the French Revolution, which I"d read in some article about the1989 revolutions, kept going through my mind: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! It was the most optimistic political moment I"ve lived through, my generation"s version of 1945 or 1968. 6 . Now we"re at the peak of political pessimism. The political year is opening with almost nobody on either right or left expecting anything good. The great questions seem to be: how will an intervention in Syria go wrong? And will the US House of Representatives vote to repeal "Obamacare" for the 41st time? 7 The utopian urge persists; it has just migrated from politics to technology. Instead of developing a political policy to solve a problem, people now develop an app. In politics, you can hardly count all the lights that have failed since the invasion of Iraq a decade ago. Faith in unregulated capitalism died with Lehman Brothers. Then Barack Obama, the Occupy movements and the Tea Party all rapidly disappointed their followers. In 2009 in Copenhagen, it became clear the world wouldn"t agree to combat climate change. Now the Arab spring is eating its own children, the Russian demonstrators have gone home, and hardly anyone believes in the European project any more. 8 , even before its intellectual underpinning was revealed as an academic paper whose authors had accidentally left important bits of data off their spreadsheet. The western liberating impulse-previously directed at Iraq, Iran and Cuba-has died too. Myanmar finally opened up, and ethnic conflict promptly began. Even people who believed in al-Qaeda are now presumably disillusioned. It"s hard to find a self-proclaimed political messiah anywhere: Hugo Chavez is dead, and Fidel Castro himself says Cuba"s revolution has failed. Politicians have been reduced to celebrities who can gain our attention only with Anthony Weineresque private antics. 9 Meanwhile a rash of TV series like House of Cards, Veep and The Thick of It portray politics as a greedy, narcissistic pursuit. No wonder political parties are shedding members at record speed. The last emotion that still animates tots of western voters is rage at immigrants-an archetypal expression of pessimism. Andrew Adonis, leading thinker of the UK"s Labour party, says : "We"re in one of those periods like the 1970s where politicians manifestly don"t have the answers. " But meanwhile a group of people has stood up who do claim to have answers: technologists. In 2007, just as western economies began to crumble, Apple launched the iPhone. 10 The latter took time to decide how to use their new might. Nicole Boyer, director of the Adaptive Edge consultancy in San Francisco, explains: "Tech was late to the game for social problems. It took a generation of tech entrepreneurs to make money and then say, "OK, what are we going to do?" Now they are busy remaking the world: Google"s Erie Schmidt negotiates with North Korea, Jeff Bezos tries to save newspapers, Mark Zuckerberg plots to get the world"s poor online and Bill Gates fights infectious disease. "They have something of the white knight about them," muses Adonis. "There is a profound tech-optimism." In this budding tech-utopia, government scarcely features. Great technological achievements of the past—the atomic bomb, the moon landing and even the internet—began within the US government. Today, whether people like government or loathe it, they mostly ignore it. A. Austerity became the latest light to fail B. Since then, credibility has kept leaching from politicians to techies C. Strangely, it actually turned out pretty well D. But hope springs eternal E. Mandela on his deathbed still towers over today"s lot

单选题Every one-year plan must be ______ in relation to longer-term plans, and it should contain the stages that are necessary to achieve the final goals,