单选题I was stunned by her request for a letter of recommendation {{U}}given{{/U}} our superficial knowledge of one another. A. thinking that C. with the preoccupation of B. considering the fact of D. as a result of deep contemplation of

单选题A corrupt public official was______by colleagues afraid of inquires into their own affairs.

单选题People say money doesn't buy happiness. Except, according to a new study from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, it sort of does — up to about $ 75, 000 a year. The lower a person's annual income falls below that benchmark, the unhappier he or she feels. But no matter how much more than $ 75, 000 people make, they don't report any greater degree of happiness. Before employers rush to hold — or raise — everyone's salary to $ 75, 000, the study points out that there are actually two types of happiness. There's your changeable, day-to-day mood: whether you're stressed or blue or feeling emotionally sound. Then there's the deeper satisfaction you feel about the way your life is going. While having an income above the magic $ 75,000 cutoff doesn't seem to have an impact on the former (emotional well-being), it definitely improves people's life satisfaction. In other words, the more people make above $ 75, 000, the more they feel their life is working out on the whole. But it doesn't make them any more jovial in the mornings. The study, by economist Angus Deaton and psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who has won a Nobel Prize for Economics, analyzed the responses of 450, 000 Americans polled by Gallup and Healthways in 2008 and 2009. Participants were asked how they had felt the previous day and whether they were living the best possible life for them. They were also asked about their income. The authors found that most Americans — 85% — regardless of their annual income, felt happy each day. Almost 40% of respondents also reported feeling stressed (which is not mutually exclusive with happiness) and 24% had feelings of sadness. Most people were also satisfied with the way their life was going. So, where does the $ 75, 000 come into play? Researchers found that lower income did not cause sadness itself but made people feel more ground down by the problems they already had. The study found, for example, that among divorced people, about 51% who made less than $ 1,000 a month reported feeling sad or stressed the previous day, while only 24% of those earning more than $ 3, 000 a month reported similar feelings. Among people with asthma, 41% of low earners reported feeling unhappy, compared with about 22% of the wealthier group. Having money clearly takes the sting out of adversities. At $ 75, 000, that effect disappears. For people who earn that much or more, individual temperament and life circumstances have much more sway over their lightness of heart than money. The study doesn't say why $ 75, 000 is the benchmark, but " it does seem to me a plausible number at which people would think money is not an issue," says Deaton. At that level, people probably have enough expendable cash to do things that make them feel good, like going out with friends. But in the bigger view of their lives, people's evaluations were much more tied to their income. The more they made, the more they felt their life was going well. The survey asked respondents to place themselves on a life-satisfaction ladder, with the first rung meaning their lives were not going well and the 10th rung meaning it was as good as it could be. The higher their income, the higher the rung people chose. " Importantly, the same percentage increase in income has the same effect on evaluation for everyone, rich or poor alike, even though the absolute dollar amounts differ," the authors write. So every 10% rise in annual income moves people up the satisfaction ladder the same amount, whether they're making $25, 000 or $ 100, 000. "High incomes don't bring you happiness, but they do bring you a life you think is better," conclude the authors. Might it be time for Oprah to give these guys their own show? Past research on money and happiness has also found that it's not absolute wealth that's linked with happiness , but relative wealth or status — that is, how much more money you have than your neighbors. It's no surprise, then, that when the same polls are done in different countries, Americans come out as a bit of a mixed lot; they're fifth in terms of happiness, 33rd in terms of smiling and 10th in terms of enjoyment. At the same time, they're the 89 th biggest worriers, the 69 th saddest and fifth most stressed people out of the 151 nations studied. Even so, perhaps because of the country's general wealth, they are in the top 10 citizenries where people feel their lives are going well, beaten out by such eternal optimists as the Canadians, New Zealanders and Scandinavians. Right. Now that Princeton researchers have untangled that life mystery, maybe someone at MIT can look into the optimal amount of money required to buy us love.

单选题Tom or you _____ the job. A. is going to do B. are going to do C. is doing D. has done

单选题If you want this pain-killer, you"ll have to ask the doctor for a ______.

单选题We go to the Summer Palace on foot______.

单选题Although pecans are most plentiful in the southeastern part of the United States, they are found ______ Ohio and Illinois.

单选题In a desperate attempt______some money, the wretched man resorted______some of his acquaintances.

单选题Even at 25 years" distance from that world-changing event, the fall of the Berlin Wall, what inspires admiration is the civilised manner in which the people of Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia,【R5】______dismantled communist regimes that had oppressed them since the late 1940s. The peaceful change that underpinned the rebirth of Poland and Hungary, the unification of East and West Germany in 1990 and Czechoslovakia"s "velvet divorce" in 1993 into separate Czech and Slovak states was a precondition for each country"s success. Where violence accompanied the end of communism, as in the former Yugoslavia,【R6】______ The collective term "eastern Europe" made little sense in the communist era, given the conspicuous differences in each country"s history, economy, ethnic composition, one-party system and relationship with Moscow, it makes even less sense today,【R7】______with Nato and the EU, of which they are members or partners. As David Lipton, the International Monetary Fund"s first deputy managing director, says in 25 Years of Transition, an IMF report: " After years of isolation from the western economic system, and after the distortions and deprivations of the communist system, most citizens just wanted to live in a normal country with a normal economy and,【R8】______, that vision was captured in the allure of integrating with western Europe. " Not everything is "normal" in the region. Per capita gross the star economic domestic product in Poland, which in some respects is performer, is slightly more than half that of Germany. This is a big improvement from 1989, when it was about a third, but there remains much catching up to do. Choose the following sentences marked A to D to complete the above article.A. progress has been more unevenB. given their history and geographyC. except insofar as all identify security and prosperityD. with varying degrees of help from reformers inside the power apparatus

单选题The painting he bought at the street market the other day was a ______ forgery. A. man-made B. natural C. crude D. real

单选题To solve a problem, we must identify it first, which psychologists______as problem representation.

单选题Even with the ______ of the Internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex enterprise to get people to truly see the problems of racial discrimination.

单选题Up to now we have tried to do a little bit of (everything)—and tried to do it (in) the headlines—(that) what we ought to do first is (draw) up a list of priorities.

单选题I won't see you off at the airport tomorrow, so I will wish you ______.

单选题My sister is quite ______ and plans to get an M.

单选题The International Law of the Sea Conference is an attempt ______major difference among countries with conflicting interests.

单选题A woman should some day write the complete philosophy of clothes. No matter how young, it is one of the things she wholly comprehends. There is an indescribably faint line in the matter of man"s apparel, which somehow divides for her those who are worth glancing at and those who are not. Once an individual has passed this faint line on the way downward he will get no glance from her. There is another line at which the dress of a man will cause her to study her own. This line the individual at her elbow now marked for Carrie. She became conscious of an inequality. Her own plain blue dress, with its black cotton tape trimmings, now seemed to her shabby. She felt the worn state of her shoes. "Let"s see," he (Drouet) went on, "I know quite a number of people in your town. Morgenroth the clothier and Gibson the dry goods man." "Oh, do you?" she interrupted; aroused by memories of longings their show windows had cost her. At last he had a clew to her interest, and followed it deftly. In a few minutes he had come about into her seat. He talked of sales of clothing, his travels, Chicago, and the amusements of that city. "If you are going there, you will enjoy it immensely. Have you relatives?" "I am going to visit my sister," she explained. "You want to see Lincoln Park," he said, "and Michigan Boulevard. They are putting up great buildings there. It"s a second New York—great. So much to see—theatres, crowds, free houses—oh, you"ll like that." There was a little ache in her fancy of all he described. Her insignificance in the presence of so much magnificence faintly affected her. She realized that hers was not to be a round of pleasure, and yet there was something promising in all the material prospect he set forth. There was something satisfactory in the attention of this individual with his good clothes. She could not help smiling as he told her of some popular actress of whom she reminded him. She was not silly and yet attention of this sort had its weight. "You will be in Chicago some little time, won"t you?" he observed at one turn of the now easy conversation. "I don"t know," said Carrie vaguely—a flash vision of the possibility of her not securing employment rising in her mind. "Several weeks, anyhow," he said, looking steadily into her eyes. There was much more passing now than the mere words indicated. He recognized the indescribable thing that made up for fascination and beauty in her. She realized that she was of interest to him from the standpoint, which a woman both delights in and fears. Her manner was simple, though for the very reason that she had not yet learned the many little affectations with which women conceal their true feelings. Some things she did appeared bold. A clever companion—had she ever had one—would have warned her never to look a man in the eyes so steadily. "Why do you ask?" she said. "Well, I"m going to be there several weeks. I"m going to study stock at our place and get new samples. I might show you round. " "I don"t know whether you can or not. I mean I don"t know whether I can. I shall be living with my sister, and—" "Well, if she minds, we"ll fix that." He took out his pencil and a little pocket note-book as if it were all settled. "What is your address there?" She fumbled her purse which contained the address slip, He reached down in his hip pocket and took out a fat purse. It was filled with slips of paper, some mileage books, a roll of greenbacks. It impressed her deeply. Such a purse had never been carried by anyone attentive to her. Indeed, an experienced traveler, a brisk man of the world, had never come within such close range before. The purse, the shiny tan shoes, the smart new suit, and the air with which he did things, built up for her a dim world of fortune, of which he was the center. It disposed her pleasantly toward all he might do.

单选题Cynics believe that people who ______ compliments do so in order to be praised twice.

单选题The new Treasury bill seeks to ensure the prosperity of all citizens, ______simply supporting large corporations and the wealthy.

单选题Have you ever heard that there are many plots which are designed against people? They are not designed by people on purpose, but sometimes, things happen as if they were to make people feel unhappy or frustrated. These things often happen with what is called "lifeless objects." The goal of all lifeless objects is to act against man and ultimately defeat him. Lifeless objects are classified into three kinds according to the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. Some objects are capable of breaking down at the moment when they are most needed. The automobile is an example. The automobile seldom breaks down while entering a filling station where a lot of repairmen have little work to do. It waits until it reaches a downtown crossroad in the middle of rush hour, or until it is fully loaded with family members and luggage on the way back from a vacation. Thus it creates inconvenience, frustration, anger, and misery for its owner. Washing machines, light bulbs, electrical fuse, automatic laundry dryers, water pipes, enclosed fireplaces, television sets, tape recorders, projectors are all in league with the automobile to take their turns breaking down whenever life threatens to flow smoothly for the humans. Many lifeless objects seem to be extremely difficult to break down. Money and keys, for example, are almost totally incapable of breaking down. Therefore, they have had to develop a different technique for resisting man — they get lost. It is not uncommon for money to climb all the way from a person's pocket onto the kitchen table in its single-minded determination to raise its owner's blood pressure. Keys have been known to hide themselves under mattresses. Women's purses, despite their great weight, frequently travel through two or three rooms to find a hiding space under a couch. Science has still not solved the mystery of how they do it. The most seemingly reasonable theory is that they have developed a secret method of movement by which they are able to escape from the constant human observation. The lifeless objects which don't work constitute the most curious of all the three kinds. They include such objects as car clocks, cigarette lighters, flashlights and toy trains. It is inaccurate, to say they never work. They work once, usually for the first few hours after being brought home, and then quit. Thereafter, they never work again. These things that don't work have attained the highest state possible of a lifeless object, the state which things break down and things that get lost can still only hope for. They have truly defeated man by conditioning him never to expect anything of them, and in return they have given man the only peace he receives from lifeless society. He does not expect his electric train to run, his cigarette lighter to light, or his flashlight to work, and when they don't, his blood pressure does not rise.