【单选题】in 1816, An AppArEntly insigniFiCAnt EvEnt in A rEmotE pArt oF northErn EuropE ______ EuropE into A BlooDy wAr.
A.imposED
B.plungED
C.pitChED
D.insErtED
A.imposED
B.plungED
C.pitChED
D.insErtED
【单选题】this wAtCh is ______ to All thE othEr wAtChEs on thE mArkEt.
A.supErior
B.ADvAntAgEous
C.supEr
D.BEnEFiCiAl
A.supErior
B.ADvAntAgEous
C.supEr
D.BEnEFiCiAl
【单选题】thEy suggEstED thAt An AgEnCy BE CrEAtED to CArry out thE rECommEnDAtion oF thE CommittEE.
A.implEmEnt
B.ComplimEnt
C.supplEmEnt
D.ComplEmEnt
A.implEmEnt
B.ComplimEnt
C.supplEmEnt
D.ComplEmEnt
【单选题】hE DoEs not ______ As A tEAChEr oF English As his pronunCiAtion is tErriBlE.
A.EquAl
B.quAliFy
C.mAtCh
D.Fit
A.EquAl
B.quAliFy
C.mAtCh
D.Fit
【单选题】ACCorDing to thE psyChoAnAlyst sigmunD FrEuD, wisDom ComEs From thE ______ oF mAturity.
A.FulFillmEnt
B.AChiEvEmEnt
C.EstABlishmEnt
D.ACComplishmEnt
A.FulFillmEnt
B.AChiEvEmEnt
C.EstABlishmEnt
D.ACComplishmEnt
【单选题】Americans have become addicted to superlatives. We seem to need our regular "hyperbole fixes" as if to validate our own existence. This national syndrome becomes most egregious during the run- up to the "SuperBowl," a football game that more often than not turns out to be the "ho-hum" bowl.But to the attuned ear, this pumped-up hype routinely infects most of our conversations. This exaggeration is not the exclusive province of the magpies of sports talk. In a broader sense, some of these embellishments carry with them a subtle but undeniable element of dishonesty.
The news media is perhaps most culpable in promoting our obsession with overstatement.Consider last November’s midterm elections. Television’s political pundits portrayed the results as a "landslide victory" for Republicans and a rejection of President Obam
A、While it’s true that the GOP picked up 63 seats, the "massive win" becomes a slim plurality when you crunch the numbers.
Michael McDonald, a professor of politics at Virginia’s George Mason University, found that only 41 percent of eligible voters even bothered to vote in the so-called GOP landslide.And within that 41 percent, the margin of victory for House Republicans in the national popular vote was about 7 percent. Still, the media acted as thoughAmerica had become a tea party nation. In reality, moreAmericans identify asDemocrats (31 percent) than Republicans (29 percent), according to a recent Gallup survey.
Distortions like this tend to be at their most shameful during triumphs and tragedies, precisely when facts and events should be able to stand on their own without being propped up by the banalities of those paid to read a TV teleprompter. I recall duringCNN’s live coverage of Pope John Paul Ⅱ’s funeral in 2005, one of my colleagues gushed in her impromptu on-air eulogy that the late pontiff was "the pope of the whole world!"
Such silly media pronouncements are so common that few of us even notice them as they float off into the ether. Yet such hyperbole is not just pompous; it also reveals considerable ignorance. My former colleague’ s remark marginalized not just the billion or so Protestants andEastern Orthodox adherents who don’ t follow orders from Rome but also the 4 billion Muslims, Jews, Hindus,Buddhists, and others who don’t consider the pontiff worthy of such adulation and veneration. Perhaps just as embarrassing amid this verbal extravagance was the failure to note the significantCatholic dissent over his legacy. Many RomanCatholic clerics, including Jesuits, had been quite critical of John Paul Ⅱ; some were privately relieved his time at the helm was up.
"Great" and "awesome" are other examples of overused words that have become almost meaningless.Earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornados bearing down on you are awesome.Bone- crunching NFL football tackles and films like "Avatar" are not. "Awesome" is so overused it can now be rendered to mean "rather ordinary. " "Tragedy" has become another nearly meaningless worD、It used to be reserved for events of mass casualties and deep suffering. Now it’s applied to stories ranging from lost puppies to quarterly earnings reports. The adage (attributed to Stalin) comes to mind: "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistiC、"
The real tragedy is the demise of intelligent self-expression, a consequence of our shriveling vocabularies. Well may we cringe listening to contemporary blather, especially superlatives like "unbelievable," which should properly be used to describe politicians. Sometimes this national obsession with superlatives does a genuine disservice. Wherever did we get the idea that everyone who serves in the military is a hero Heroism demands an act of valor.
A、retired US Navy captain I know put it best: "Heroes are selfless warriors who risk their lives and often give their lives so others may live. There are plenty of warriors and wannabes, but very few gen
The news media is perhaps most culpable in promoting our obsession with overstatement.Consider last November’s midterm elections. Television’s political pundits portrayed the results as a "landslide victory" for Republicans and a rejection of President Obam
A、While it’s true that the GOP picked up 63 seats, the "massive win" becomes a slim plurality when you crunch the numbers.
Michael McDonald, a professor of politics at Virginia’s George Mason University, found that only 41 percent of eligible voters even bothered to vote in the so-called GOP landslide.And within that 41 percent, the margin of victory for House Republicans in the national popular vote was about 7 percent. Still, the media acted as thoughAmerica had become a tea party nation. In reality, moreAmericans identify asDemocrats (31 percent) than Republicans (29 percent), according to a recent Gallup survey.
Distortions like this tend to be at their most shameful during triumphs and tragedies, precisely when facts and events should be able to stand on their own without being propped up by the banalities of those paid to read a TV teleprompter. I recall duringCNN’s live coverage of Pope John Paul Ⅱ’s funeral in 2005, one of my colleagues gushed in her impromptu on-air eulogy that the late pontiff was "the pope of the whole world!"
Such silly media pronouncements are so common that few of us even notice them as they float off into the ether. Yet such hyperbole is not just pompous; it also reveals considerable ignorance. My former colleague’ s remark marginalized not just the billion or so Protestants andEastern Orthodox adherents who don’ t follow orders from Rome but also the 4 billion Muslims, Jews, Hindus,Buddhists, and others who don’t consider the pontiff worthy of such adulation and veneration. Perhaps just as embarrassing amid this verbal extravagance was the failure to note the significantCatholic dissent over his legacy. Many RomanCatholic clerics, including Jesuits, had been quite critical of John Paul Ⅱ; some were privately relieved his time at the helm was up.
"Great" and "awesome" are other examples of overused words that have become almost meaningless.Earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornados bearing down on you are awesome.Bone- crunching NFL football tackles and films like "Avatar" are not. "Awesome" is so overused it can now be rendered to mean "rather ordinary. " "Tragedy" has become another nearly meaningless worD、It used to be reserved for events of mass casualties and deep suffering. Now it’s applied to stories ranging from lost puppies to quarterly earnings reports. The adage (attributed to Stalin) comes to mind: "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistiC、"
The real tragedy is the demise of intelligent self-expression, a consequence of our shriveling vocabularies. Well may we cringe listening to contemporary blather, especially superlatives like "unbelievable," which should properly be used to describe politicians. Sometimes this national obsession with superlatives does a genuine disservice. Wherever did we get the idea that everyone who serves in the military is a hero Heroism demands an act of valor.
A、retired US Navy captain I know put it best: "Heroes are selfless warriors who risk their lives and often give their lives so others may live. There are plenty of warriors and wannabes, but very few gen
【分析解答题】After nearly a year of emotional arguments inCongress but no new federal laws, the national debate over the future of human cloning has shifted to the states. Six states have already banned cloning in one form or another, and this year alone 38 anti-cloning measures were introduced in 22 states.
The resulting patchwork of laws, people on all sides of the issue say, complicates a nationwide picture already clouded by scientific and ethical questions over whether and how to restrict cloning or to ban it altogether.
Since 1997, when scientists announced the birth ofDolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, the specter of cloned babies, infants that are in essence genetic carbon copies of adults, has loomed large in the public psyche and in the minds of lawmakers.
Today, there is widespread agreement that cloning for reproduction is unsafe and should be banneD、Now, the debate has shifted away from the ethics of baby-making and toward the morality of cloning embryos for their cells and tissues, which might be used to treat diseases. The controversy pits religious conservatives and abortion opponents, who regard embryos as nascent human life, against patients’ groups, scientists and the biotechnology industry.
Today, there is widespread agreement that cloning for reproduction is unsafe and should be banneD、
The resulting patchwork of laws, people on all sides of the issue say, complicates a nationwide picture already clouded by scientific and ethical questions over whether and how to restrict cloning or to ban it altogether.
Since 1997, when scientists announced the birth ofDolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, the specter of cloned babies, infants that are in essence genetic carbon copies of adults, has loomed large in the public psyche and in the minds of lawmakers.
Today, there is widespread agreement that cloning for reproduction is unsafe and should be banneD、Now, the debate has shifted away from the ethics of baby-making and toward the morality of cloning embryos for their cells and tissues, which might be used to treat diseases. The controversy pits religious conservatives and abortion opponents, who regard embryos as nascent human life, against patients’ groups, scientists and the biotechnology industry.
Today, there is widespread agreement that cloning for reproduction is unsafe and should be banneD、
【单选题】{{B}}Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.{{/B}}
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A、He is worried about failing his supervisor and losing his joB、
B、He is worried about being infected with HIV.
C、He is worried about knowing someone infected with HIV.
D、He is worried about hurtingAIDS patients’ feelings.
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A、He is worried about failing his supervisor and losing his joB、
B、He is worried about being infected with HIV.
C、He is worried about knowing someone infected with HIV.
D、He is worried about hurtingAIDS patients’ feelings.
【单选题】Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news. A、Sixty-one.
B、One hundred and three.
C、One hundred and thirty.
D、Two hundred and thirty.
B、One hundred and three.
C、One hundred and thirty.
D、Two hundred and thirty.
【单选题】There is no more fashionable answer to woes of the global recession than "green jobs. " Some state leaders are pinning their hopes for future growth and new jobs on creating clean-technology industries, like wind and solar power, or recycling saw grass as fuel. It all sounds like the ultimate win-win deal: beat the worst recession in decades and save the planet from global warming, all in one spending plan. So who cares how much it costsAnd since the financial crisis and recession began, governments, environmental nonprofits, and even labor unions have been busy spinning out reports on just how many new jobs might be created from these new industries--estimates that range from the thousands to the millions.
The problem is that history doesn’t bear out the optimism.As a new study from McKinsey consulting points out, clean energy is less like old manufacturing industries that required a lot of workers than it is like new manufacturing and service industries that don’t. The best parallel is the semiconductor industry, which was expected to create a boom in high-paid high-tech jobs but today employs mainly robots.Clean-technology workers now make up only 0. 6 percent of theAmerican workforce. The McKinsey study, which examined how countries should compete in the post-crisis world, figures that clean energy won’t command much more of the total job market in the years ahea
D、"The bottom line is that these ’clean’ industries are too small to create the millions of jobs that are needed right away," says James Manylka, a director at the McKinsey Global Institute.
They might not create those jobs--hut they could help other industries do just that. Here, too, the story of the computer chip is instructive. Today the big chip makers employ only 0.4 percent of the totalAmerican workforce, down from a peak of 0.6 percent in 2000.But they did create a lot of jobs, indirectly, by making other industries more efficient: throughout the 1990s,American companies saw massive gains in labor productivity and efficiency from new technologies incorporating the semiconductor.Companies in retail, manufacturing, and many other areas got faster and stronger, and millions of new jobs were create
D、
McKinsey and others say that the same could be true today if governments focus not on building a "green economy," but on greening every part of the economy using cutting-edge green products and services. That’s where policies like U. S. efforts to promote corn-based ethanol, and giant German subsidies for the solar industry fall down. In both cases the state is creating bloated, unproductive sectors, with jobs that are not likely to last.
A、better start would be encouraging business and consumers to do the basics, such is improve building insulation and replace obsolete heating and cooling equipment. In places likeCalifornia, 30 percent of the summer energy load comes from air conditioning, which has prompted government to offer low-interest loans to consumers to replace old units with more efficient ones. The energy efficiency is an indirect job creator, just as IT productivity had been, not only because of the cost savings but also because of the new disposable income that is create
D、The stimulus effect of not driving is particularly impressive. "If you can get people out of cars, or at least get them to drive less, you can typically save between $1,000 and $ 8,000 per household per year," says Lisa Margonelli at the NewAmerica Foundation.
Indeed, energy and efficiency savings have been behind the major green efforts of the world’s biggest corporations, like Walmart, which remains the world’s biggest retailer and added 22,000 jobs in the U.S. alone in 2009. In 2008, when oil hit $148 a barrel, Walmart insisted that its top 1,000 suppliers inChina retool their factories and their products, cutting back on excess packaging to make shipping cheaper. It’s no accident that Walmart, a company that looks for savings wherever i
The problem is that history doesn’t bear out the optimism.As a new study from McKinsey consulting points out, clean energy is less like old manufacturing industries that required a lot of workers than it is like new manufacturing and service industries that don’t. The best parallel is the semiconductor industry, which was expected to create a boom in high-paid high-tech jobs but today employs mainly robots.Clean-technology workers now make up only 0. 6 percent of theAmerican workforce. The McKinsey study, which examined how countries should compete in the post-crisis world, figures that clean energy won’t command much more of the total job market in the years ahea
D、"The bottom line is that these ’clean’ industries are too small to create the millions of jobs that are needed right away," says James Manylka, a director at the McKinsey Global Institute.
They might not create those jobs--hut they could help other industries do just that. Here, too, the story of the computer chip is instructive. Today the big chip makers employ only 0.4 percent of the totalAmerican workforce, down from a peak of 0.6 percent in 2000.But they did create a lot of jobs, indirectly, by making other industries more efficient: throughout the 1990s,American companies saw massive gains in labor productivity and efficiency from new technologies incorporating the semiconductor.Companies in retail, manufacturing, and many other areas got faster and stronger, and millions of new jobs were create
D、
McKinsey and others say that the same could be true today if governments focus not on building a "green economy," but on greening every part of the economy using cutting-edge green products and services. That’s where policies like U. S. efforts to promote corn-based ethanol, and giant German subsidies for the solar industry fall down. In both cases the state is creating bloated, unproductive sectors, with jobs that are not likely to last.
A、better start would be encouraging business and consumers to do the basics, such is improve building insulation and replace obsolete heating and cooling equipment. In places likeCalifornia, 30 percent of the summer energy load comes from air conditioning, which has prompted government to offer low-interest loans to consumers to replace old units with more efficient ones. The energy efficiency is an indirect job creator, just as IT productivity had been, not only because of the cost savings but also because of the new disposable income that is create
D、The stimulus effect of not driving is particularly impressive. "If you can get people out of cars, or at least get them to drive less, you can typically save between $1,000 and $ 8,000 per household per year," says Lisa Margonelli at the NewAmerica Foundation.
Indeed, energy and efficiency savings have been behind the major green efforts of the world’s biggest corporations, like Walmart, which remains the world’s biggest retailer and added 22,000 jobs in the U.S. alone in 2009. In 2008, when oil hit $148 a barrel, Walmart insisted that its top 1,000 suppliers inChina retool their factories and their products, cutting back on excess packaging to make shipping cheaper. It’s no accident that Walmart, a company that looks for savings wherever i
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