单选题The target is multifaceted: the country hopes to gain military strength and be unafraid of foreign threats, while creating a high standard of living.

单选题The shorter working week, longer holidays, earlier retirement, more sabbaticals, job sharing these and other ways of reducing the amount of time people spend on their jobs are certainly likely to spread.

单选题The ministry announced at a State Council Information Office press conference on August 11 that 47 medical teams, with 779 members, were in Zhouqu treating patients, sterilizing the environment and drinking water, and ensuring proper disposal of corpses.

单选题She had a strong ______ to give a talk about her experiences, because she didn't like the limelight.

单选题Thank you for applying for a position with our firm. We do not have any openings at this time, but we shall keep your application on ______ for months.

单选题Global commodity prices are sluggish. Domestic demand is weak. Manufacturers do not have much initiative. They do not expand output in the short run.

单选题Ocean waves can cut imposing cliffs along coastlines.

单选题John was the first person I saw______hospital.

单选题Many of novelist Carson McCullers' characters are isolated , disappointed people.

单选题National poverty was ______ by rapid population growth.

单选题Little is known of his childhood______at a factory at the early age of ten.

单选题The ______ of smoking among women, formerly negligible, has grown to such a degree that lung cancer has become the chief causer of cancer-related deaths among women.

单选题Kate was ______ the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.

单选题At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest in Native American customs and an increasing desire to understand Native American culture prompted ethnologists to begin recording the life stories of Native American. Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the stories: they were after linguistic or anthropological data that would supplement their own field observations, and they believed that the personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase their understanding of the cultures that they had been observing from without. In addition many ethnologists at the turn of the century believed that Native American manners and customs were rapidly disappearing, and that it was important to preserve for posterity as much information as could be adequately recorded before the cultures disappeared forever. There were, however, arguments against this method as a way of acquiring accurate and complete information. Franz Boas, for example, described autobiographies as being "of limited value, and useful chiefly for the study of the perversion of truth by memory," while Paul Radin contended that investigators rarely spent enough time with the tribes they were observing, and inevitably derived results too tinged by the investigator"s own emotional tone to be reliable. Even more importantly, as these life stories moved from the traditional oral mode to recorded written form, much was inevitably lost. Editors often decided what elements were significant to the field research on a given tribe. Native Americans recognized that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English and that events that they thought significant were often deemed unimportant by their interviewers. Indeed, the very act of telling their stories could force Native American narrators to distort their cultures, as taboos had to be broken to speak the names of dead relatives crucial to their family stories. Despite all of this, autobiography remains a useful tool for ethnological research: such personal reminiscences and impressions, incomplete as they may be, are likely to throw more light on the working of the mind and emotions than any amount of speculation from an ethnologist or ethnological theorist from another culture.

单选题The father gave his son a horse, which was considered extravagant by the rest of the family.

单选题The lady in this strange-tale very obviously suffers from a serious mental illness. Her plot against a completely innocent old man is a dear sign of ______.

单选题Pottery enabled primitive people to boil and steam food, which in turn allowed them to gain ______ from new and more varied sources.

单选题It was with great effort that the_______between the two families was finally arranged.

单选题The plate dropped on the floor and______into little pieces.

单选题Professor Collins was ______ of the latest developments in physics because he had been in hospital for several months.