单选题They tossed your thoughts back and forth for over an hour, but still could not make______of them.

单选题After______seemed an endless wait, it was his turn to enter the personnel manager's office.

单选题Closing Canada This month Christian Paradis, Canada"s industry minister, said in parliament: "We are pragmatic and welcome foreign investment". He has a funny way of showing it. Shortly before midnight on Friday, Mr. Paradis said he intended to block the $5.3bn takeover of Progress Energy Resources, a Canadian gas producer, by Petronas, Malaysia"s national oil company. The decision was misguided, threatening a deal that is good for Progress shareholders and for Canada"s industry. Worse than the ruling itself, though, was the arbitrary and opaque process from which it emerged. Since BHP Billiton"s $39bn takeover of Potash Corporation was blocked two years ago, international investors have been reassured that the Canadian government would intervene in acquisitions only very rarely. Over the weekend, Mr. Paradis has thrown that assumption into doubt. The repercussions for a country that needs hundreds of billions of dollars to develop its oil and gas reserves could be deeply damaging. The 1985 Industry Canada Act gives ministers the power to block a deal if it is not a "net benefit" to Canada based on a laundry list of possible criteria including corporate governance, state ownership, the effect on employment, exports and R&D, and national security. It is a bad law, allowing the government excessive discretion, but previous ministers have generally had the good sense not to use their powers. Mr. Paradis has broken with that precedent, and said that because of the confidentiality provisions of the act, he could not explain why he had done so. Petronas has proved itself a responsible trading partner and investor, and the objections to it are difficult to understand. If Mr. Paradis is saying that investment from state-controlled companies is now unwelcome, he is shutting Canada off from the rising powers in global energy, from China, Russia, and the Middle East. His ruling next month on Cnooc of China"s $15bn bid for Calgary-based Nexen has taken on added significance. The government"s most urgent priority, though, is for prime minister Stephen Harper to deliver on his promise of setting out a clear framework for foreign takeovers that will allow investors to predict what deals will be allowed, and show ways to address concerns that might lead to an acquisition being blocked. Until the policy is clarified, it will be understandable if investors believe their money is no longer welcome in Canada.

单选题The prices of TV sets are about 20% ______. The manufacturers are almost selling their products ______ cost.

单选题I felt that I was not yet______to travel abroad.

单选题It is reported that thirty people were killed in a______on the railway yesterday.

单选题They have ______ their names upon the pages of" history.

单选题A few species of mushrooms cause death or serious illness______.

单选题The housewives would usually ______ the fruit before making their minds up which to buy.

单选题Although economic ties between most Asia-Pacific economies have not yet suffered any fundamental damage.

单选题Several decades ago, wealthy people liked hunting wild animals for fun ______ sightseeing.

单选题At the time of Columbus" voyages, Native Americans used an astounding diversity of languages, ______ the diversity used by Europeans.

单选题The majority of nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are in a ______. A. minority B. scarcity C. rarity D. minimum

单选题Passage Three The premise with which the multiculturalists begin is unexceptional: that it is important to recognize and to celebrate the wide range of cultures that exist in the United States. In what sounds like a reflection of traditional American pluralism, the multiculturalists argue that we must recognize difference, that difference is legitimate; in its kindlier Versions, multiculturalism represents the discovery on the part of minority groups that they can play a part in molding the larger culture even as they are molded by it. And on the campus multiculturalism, defined more locally as the need to recognize cultural variations among students, has tried with some success to talk about how a racially and ethnically diverse student body can enrich everyone's education. Phillip Green, a political scientist at Smith and a thoughtful proponent of multiculturalism, notes that for a significant portion of the students the politics of identity is all-consuming. Students, he says, "are unhappy with the thin gruel of rationalism. They require a therapeutic curriculum to overcome not straightforward racism but ignorant stereotyping. " But multiculturalism's hard-liners, who seem to make up the majority of the movement, damn as racism any attempt to draw the myriad of American groups into a common American culture. For these multiculturalists, differences are absolute, irreducible, and intractable-occasions not for understanding but for separation. The multiculturalists, it turns out, is not especially interested in the great American hyphen, in the syncretistic (and therefore naturally tolerant) identities that allow Americans to belong to more than a single culture, to be both particularizes and universalisms. The time-honored American mixture of assimilation and traditional allegiance is denounced as a danger to racial and gender authenticity. This is an extraordinary reversal of the traditional liberal commitment to a "truth" that transcends parochialisms. In the new race/class/gender formation, universality is replaced by, among other things, feminist science Nubian numerals (as part of an A, fro-centric science), and what Marilyn Frankenstein of the University of Massachusetts-Boston describes as "ethno-mathematics," in which the cultural basis of counting comes to the fore. The multiculturalists insist on seeing all perspectives as tainted by the perceiver's particular point of view. Impartial knowledge, they argue, is not possible, because ideas are simply the expression of individual identity, or of the unspoken but inescapable assumptions that are inscribed in a culture or a language. The problem, however, with this warmed-over Nietzscheanism is that it threatens to leave no ground for anybody to stand on, so the multiculturalists make a leap, necessary for their own intellectual survival, and proceed to argue that there are some categories, such as race and gender, that do in fact embody an unmistakable knowledge of oppression. Victims are at least epistemologically lucky. Objectivity is a mask for oppression. And so an appalled former 1960s radical complained to me that self-proclaimed witches were teaching classes on witchcraft. "They're not teaching students how to think," she said, "they're telling them what to believe./

单选题He is a diligent and______teacher, well liked by his students.

单选题Noting the murder victim's flaccid musculature and pear-like figure, she deduced that the unfortunate follow had earned his living in some ______ occupation. A. treacherous B. ill-paying C. illegitimate D. sedentary

单选题Beene"s new novel proves he isn"t just a______in the pan.

单选题His reputation in his profession was______he grew rich, and retired to an estate.

单选题He was concerned only with the mundane matters, especially the daily stock market quotations.

单选题Writing a resume of your achievements that will make a ______ employer want to meet you requires practice.