考博考试

【单选题】 Part of the lake has been polluted. You can see the water is covered with ______ oil.
A．a coat of
B．a story of
C．a film of
D．a pad of

【单选题】 It is hard to imagine that this apparently______ professor was a drugpusher.
A．respectable
B．respective
C．respectful
D．respirable

【单选题】The head of the navy heaped scorn on both the methods and motives of the conspirators.
A．admiration
B．passion
C．contempt
D．offense

【单选题】The rocks are very big with______ of colors on them.
A．shapes
B．rails
C．bands
D．marks

【单选题】Human beings are animals. We breathe, eat and digest, and reproduce the same life (21) common to all animals. In a biological laboratory rats, monkeys, and humans seem very much the same.
However, biological understanding is not enough: (22) itself, it can never tell us what human beings are. (23) to our physical equipment the naked human body—we are not an (24) animal. We are tropical creatures, (25) hairless and sensitive to colD、We are not fast and have neither claws nor sharp teeth to defend ourselves. We need a lot of food but have almost no physical equipment to help us get it. In the purely physical (26) , our species seems a poor (27) for survival.
But we have survived—survived and multiplied and (28) the earth. Some day we will have a (29) living on the moon, a place with neither air nor water and with temperatures that turn gases into solids. How can we have done all these things Part of the answer is physical. (30) its limitations, our physical equipment has some important (31) . We have excellent vision and hands that can (32) objects with a precision unmatched by any other (33) . Most importantly, we have a large brain with an almost (34) number of neural (35) 。
A、meaningB、judgementC、perspectiveD、sense

【单选题】 Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford, notes that unlike greenhouse gases, which ______ rapidly around the globe, the sulfate droplets tend to concentrate over industrialized regions.
A．unify
B．fragment
C．disperse
D．shatter

【单选题】 What ______ did they employ when they selected this picture as the prizewinner
A．criterion
B．regulation
C．way
D．test

【单选题】Influenced by the environment, children's minds ______ bits and pieces of data when they grow up.
A．take on
B．pick in
C．work out
D．put down

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thE usE oF thE BiCyClE, or somE morE moDEm DErivAtivE oF it．is proBABly worth morE ConsiDErAtion thAn hAs rECEntly BEEn givEn to it．thE BiCyClE itsElF is A rEmArkABly EFFiCiEnt AnD simplE DEviCE For using humAn musCulAr EnErgy For trAnsportAtion．in purE EnErgy tErms, it is Four to FivE timEs As EFFiCiEnt As wAlking, EvEn though humAn wAlking itsElF is twiCE As EFFiCiEnt As thE movEmEnt oF EFFECtivE AnimAls suCh As Dogs or gulls．it is still wiDEly usED, not only in somE DEvEloping CountriEs whErE BiCyClEs ArE mAjor mEAns oF pEoplE AnD gooDs, But in A FEw riChEr towns suCh AsAmstErDAm in hollAnD AnDCAmBriDgE inEnglAn
D、
it usuAlly givEs inADEquAtE protECtion From thE wEAthEr,is not vEry suitABlE For CArrying gooDs, AnD DEmAnDs ConsiDErABlE musCulAr work to mAkE progrEss AgAinst winD or uphill．it Also oFFErs its riDEr no protECtion AgAinst Collisions with othEr vEhiClEs．All thEsE DiFFiCultiEs CoulD, howEvEr,BE grEAtly EliminAtED, iF not rEmovED, with rElAtivEly smAll ChAngEs in DEsign． thE wholE mAChinE CoulD BE EnClosED in A plAstiC BuBBlE whiCh woulD proviDE somE protECtion in CAsE oF ACCiDEnts．it woulD BE EAsy to ADD A smAll pEtrol or ElECtriC motor．A、wiDE vAriEty oF DEsigns woulD BE possiBlE．As in rowing, wE might Employ thE powEr oF thE Arms or thE gEnErAl BoDy musCulAturE, As wEll As thosE oF thE lEgs；morE musCulAr ExErCisE woulD BE gooD For thE hEAlth oF mAny pEoplE in CitiEs, AnD A wiDE usE oF BiCyClE likE musClE-powErED vEhiClEs woulD BE A usEFul wAy to EnsurE this．it CoulD Also proviDE AmplE opportunitiEs For showing oFF By thE young AnD vigorous．
morE AttEntion shoulD BE givEn to thE BiCyClE As A mEAns oF trAnsport BECAusE it is______．
A．A vEry EFFiCiEnt AnD simplE DEviCE
B．muCh ChEApEr thAn A CAr
C．wiDEly usED inAmstErDAm AnDCAmBriDgE
D、still usED By riCh pEoplE

【单选题】CAn thE intErnEt hElp pAtiEnts jump thE linE At thE DoCtor’s oFFiCE thE siliCon vAllEyEmployErs Forum, A sophistiCAtED group oF tEChnology CompAniEs, is lAunChing A pilot progrAm to tEst onlinE "virtuAl visits" BEtwEEn DoCtors At thrEE Big loCAl mEDiCAl groups AnD ABout 6,000 EmployEEs AnD thEir FAmiliEs. thE six EmployErs tAking pArt in thE siliCon vAllEy initiAtivE, inCluDing hEAvy hittErs suCh As orAClE AnDCisCo systEms, hopE thAt onlinE visits will mEAn EmployEEs won’t hAvE to skip work to tEnD to minor AilmEnts or to Follow up on ChroniC ConDitions. "whiCh our long CommutEs AnD trAFFiC, Driving 40 milEs to your DoCtor in your homEtown CAn BE A Big Chunk oF timE," sAysCinDyConwAy, BEnEFits DirECtor AtCADEnCEDEsign systEms, onE oF thE pArtiCipAting CompAniEs.
DoCtors ArEn’t ClAmoring to ChAt with pAtiEnts onlinE For FrEE; thEy spEnD Enough unpAiD timE on thE phonE. only 1 in 5 hAs EvErE-mAilED A pAtiEnt, AnD just 9 pErCEnt ArE intErEstED in Doing so, ACCorDing to thE rEsEArCh FirmCyBErDiAloguE. "wE ArE not stupiD," sAys stirling somErs, ExECutivE DirECtor oF thE siliCon vAllEy EmployErs group. "DoCtors gEtting pAiD is A CritiCAl piECE in gEtting this to work." in thE pilot progrAm, physiCiAns will gEt $ 20 pEr onlinE ConsultAtion, ABout whAt thEy gEt For A simplE oFFiCE visit.
DoCtors Also FEAr thEy’ll BE swAmpED By rAmBlingE-mAils thAt tEll EvErything But whAt’s nEEDED to mAkE A DiAgnosis. so thE nEw progrAm will usE tEChnology suppliED By hEAlinx, AnAlAmEDA,CAliF—— BAsED stArt-up. hEAlinx’s "smArt symptom wizArD" quEstions pAtiEnts AnD turns AnswErs into A suCCinCt mEssAgE. thE CompAny hAs onlinE DiAloguEs For 60 Common ConDitions. thE DoCtor CAn thEn DiAgnosE thE proBlEm AnD outlinE A trEAtmEnt plAn, whiCh CoulD inCluDEE-mAiling A prEsCription or A FACE-to-FACE visit.
CAnE-mAil rEplACE thE DoCtor’s oFFiCE mAny ConDitions, suCh As pErsistEnt Cough, rEquirE stEthosCopE to DisCovEr whAt’s wrong-AnD to AvoiD A mAlprACtiCE suit.EvEn lArryBonhAm, hEAD oF onE oF thE DoCtor’s groups in thE pilot, BEliEvEs thE virtuAl DoCtor’s visits oFFEr A "vEry nArrow" slivEr oF sErviCE BEtwEEn phonE CAlls to An ADviCE nursE AnD A visit to thE CliniC、
thE pilot progrAm, sEt to EnD in ninE months, Also hopEs to DEtErminE whEthEr onlinE visits will Boost workEr proDuCtivity Enough to oFFsEt thE Cost oF thE sErviCE. so FAr, thE intErnEt’s rECorD in thE hEAlth FiElD hAs BEEn unDErwhElming. thE ExpErimEnt is "A hugE roll oF thE DiCE For hEAlinx", notEs miChAElBArrEtt, An AnAlyst At intErnEt Consulting Firm ForEstEr rEsEArCh. iF thE "wEB visits" suCCEED, ExpECt somE hmos (hEAlth mAintEnAnCE orgAnizAtions) to pAy For onlinE visits. iF DoCtors, EmployErs, AnD pAtiEnts ArEn’t sAtisFiED, FigurE on onE morEE-hEAlth stArt-up to stAnD Down.
it CAn BE inFErrED From thE pAssAgE thAt thE FuturE oF onlinE visits will mostly DEpEnD on whEthEr ______.
A、thE EmployErs woulD rEmAin ConFiDEnt in thEm
B、thEy CoulD EFFECtivEly rEplACE oFFiCE visits
C、hmos woulD CovEr thE Cost oF thE sErviCE
D、nEw tEChnologiEs woulD BE AvAilABlE to improvE thEE-hEAlth projECt