单选题Nobody could figure out this problem.A. make outB. think ofC. solveD. discover

单选题______ a book in his hand, he went in from the back door.A. to catchB. catchingC. caughtD. to be caught

单选题Their parents once lived under very severe conditions.

单选题The local government planned to launch a new program to help the poor.

单选题For young children, getting dressed is a {{U}}complicated{{/U}} business. A.personal B.strange C.funny D.complex

单选题The Commission has also begun looking into the {{U}}role{{/U}} of climate.

单选题I thought the rule not allowing women to compete was completely Uabsurd/U.

单选题Reading Something In English When you read to learn English composition, you 【51】 regard the language as the main thing. When you read a 【52】 in English, do you read it for the story or for the English? This is a question that is not so foolish 【53】 it may seem, 【54】 I find that many students of English 【55】 far more attention to the story than to the English. They read and enjoy and 【56】 a long time afterwards remember the story, but do not care to study the use of words and 【57】 in it. For instance, they know the plot (情节) of the story 【58】 , but do not remember a 【59】 sentence in the story and cannot tell what preposition is used before or 【60】 a certain word in the speech of a certain character(人物). Of course, it is all right to read and 【61】 and remember a story, and so long as one 【62】 to know the story only, one need not bother about the language. But the case is quite different 【63】 a student of English. I mean a student of English as distinguished (区别于)from a reader of stories or what is called the general reader. As you may have 【64】 form the above, a student of English should read very 【65】 and regard the language as the main thing.

单选题 Male-Female Expectation about Marriage The differences between men and women clarify why they have different expectations about communication in marriage. For women, talk {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}intimacy. Marriage is an orgy (狂欢) of {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}: you can tell your feelings and thoughts, and still be loved. Women's greatest fear is being pushed away. But men live in a hierarchical world, {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}talk maintains independence and statue. They are on {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}to protect themselves from being put down and pushed around. This {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}the paradox of the talkative man who said of his silent wife, "She's the talker." In public settings, he feels challenged to {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}his intelligence and display his understanding. But at home, where he has {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}to prove and no one to defend against, he is free to remain {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}. For his wife, being home means she is free from the worry that something she says might {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}someone, or spark disagreement, or appear to be showing off; at home she is {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}to talk. The communication {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}that endanger marriage can't be fixed by mechanical engineering. They require a new conceptual framework about the {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}of talk in human relationships. Many of the psychological explanations may not be {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}, because they tend to blame either women (for not being assertive enough) {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}, men (for not being in touch with their feelings). A sociolinguistic approach in {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}male-female conversation is seen as cross-cultural communication allows us to understand the problem and forge solutions without blaming either party.

单选题My sister has a talent for music.A. interestB. limitationC. dreamD. gift

单选题The construction of the railway is said to have been terminated.A. resumedB. endedC. suspendedD. cancelled

单选题Such subjects are not within the scope of this book.

单选题Norman Blamey is an artist of deep convictions .

单选题The Car Cars are an important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And even if a person is poor he doesn"t feel really poor when he has a car. Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably didn"t know how much the car was going to affect American culture. The car made the United States a nation on wheels. And it helped make the United States what it is today. There are three main reasons why the ear becomes so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a huge one and Americans like to move around in it. The car provides the most comfortable and cheapest form of transportation. With a car people can go anyplace without spending a lot of money. The second reason why cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed an efficient and inexpensive form of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been as common in the country as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air-service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently. The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don"t like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don"t like to have to follow an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule their own time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have. The gas shortage has caused a big problem for Americans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real solution will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much gas.

单选题The leaves have been swept into huge heaps.

单选题It would have been Uvirtually/U impossible to collect all the information needed.

单选题A small number of {{U}}firms{{/U}} have stopped trading. A. hotels B. shops C. restaurants D. companies

单选题John has made up his mind not to go to the meeting.

单选题Finding Enlightenment in Scotland In the 1740s, the famous French philosophy Voltaire said "We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization." That's not a bad advertisement for any country, especially when it comes to attracting people in search of a first class education. Yet some people go even further than that. According to the American author Arthur Herman, the Scots invented the modem world itself. He argues that Scottish thinkers and intellectuals worked out many of the most important ideas on which modem life depend everything from the scientific method to market economics. Their ideas did not just spread amongst intellectuals, but to those people in business, government and the sciences who actually shaped the Western world. It all started during the period that historians call the Scottish Enlightenment, which is usually seen as taking place between the years 1740 and 1800. At this time, Scotland was home to a number of thinkers who made an important shift in the course of Western philosophy. Before that, philosophy was mainly concerned with religion. For the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, the proper study of humanity was mankind itself. Their reasoning was practical. For the philosopher David Hume, humanity was the right subject for philosophy because we can examine human behavior and so find real evidence of how people think and feel. And from that we can make judgments about the societies we live in and make concrete suggestions about how they can be improved, for universal benefit. Hume was not a scientist himself, but his enquiry into the nature of knowledge laid the foundations for the scientific method the pursuit of truth through experiment. His friend and fellow resident of Edinburgh, Adam Smith, famously applied the study of mankind to the ways in which mankind does business. Trade, he argued, was a form of information. Money is the way in which people tell each other what they want, and how much people pay is the best way we have of knowing how much somebody wants something. In pursuing our own interests through trading in markets, we all come to benefit each other. Smith's idea of "enlightened self-interest" has come to dominate modem views of economics. It also has wider applications. He was one of the first major philosophers to point out that nations can become rich, free and powerful more efficiently through peace, trade and invention than by means of war and plunder. The original Scottish Enlightenment is thought to have ended with the lives of Smith, Hume and the other thinkers who lived in Scotland at that time. But a wider Scottish Enlightenment can still be seen. It exists in the way that the ideas evolved at that time still underpin our theories. It also exists in Scotland itself in an educational tradition that combines academic excellence with practical orientation. The Institute for System Level Integration (ISLI) is a good example. Founded in 1998 by a group of four Scottish universities, ISLI draws on the academic expertise of the university departments of computer science, electronic and electrical engineering and informatics, But though it works at the cutting edge of science, ISLI's ultimate aims are rooted in the needs of the real world: to produce highly skilled design engineers and researchers to meet the needs of the rapidly changing global semiconductor industry. Though only one amongst many educational institutions in Scotland, ISLI's existence shows that the principles of the Scottish Enlightenment still live on. It's a country that's still inventing, still modernizing, and still doing its best to spread enlightenment.

单选题We"ve been through some rough times together.