Many people feel that they are never in control of their lives.This can cause stress,depression and finally ( ).

A . normal B . ordinary C . average D . regular

A．their financial status is declining． B．their political influence is declining． C．their physical power is declining． D．their will power is declining．

A．True. B．False.

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A．一些企业界人士认为遵守职业道德无疑是对企业有利的好事情。 B．一些商人认为只有生意做好了才是道德的。 C．一些企业界人士感到遵守职业道德就是好企业。 D．一些商业人士觉得遵守职业道德是基本的经商要求。

A．Because their mothers didn'tteach them． B．Because they were influencedby feminism and consumerism． C．Because they were feminists． D．Because they were consumerists．

A: see B: to see C: seeing D: seen

A B C D _____________

Frank Lloyd Wright is called the greatest American architect because he started an American style【30】. Most of the architecture in the U. S. before Wright was really European,【31】. Wright's buildings do not【32】old European buildings. They have their own【33】. Wright's ideas about style. are still used in the U. S. and in other parts of the world. The most important idea in Frank Lloyd Wright's Style. of Architecture is that a building must【34】and the land around it . His houses are often called "grassland houses" because their lines are【35】to the lines on the grass land.【36】the lines of the grassland and the lines of Wright's houses【37】the horzon, the place【38】earth and sky seem to meet. They are horizontal lines. Most European style. houses,【39】, have many vertical lines that form. 90° angles【40】the horizon. (41) A．conscious B．conceited C．talented D．content

E.J. Masicampo and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University discovered this by doing some experiments on that most popular of laboratory animals, the impoverished undergraduate. They asked 121 psychology students who had volunteered for the experiment to watch a silent video of a woman being interviewed that had random words appearing in bold black letters every ten seconds along the perimeter of the video. This was the part of the experiment intended to be mentally taxing. Half of the students were told to focus on the woman, to try to understand what she was saying, and to ignore the words along the perimeter. The other half were given no instructions. Those that had to focus were exerting considerable serf-control not to look at the random words. When the video was over, haft of each group was given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it and half was given a glass of lemonade with sugar substitute. Twelve minutes later, when the glucose from the lemonade with sugar in it had had time to enter the students' blood, the researchers administered a decision-making task that was designed to determine if the participant was using intuition or reason to make up his mind. The students were asked to think about where they wanted to live in the coming year and given three accommodation options that varied both in size and distance from the university campus. Two of the options were good, but in different ways: one was far from the campus, but very large; the other was close to campus, but smaller. The third option was a decoy, similar to ope of the good options, but obviously not quite as good. ff it was close to campus and small, it was not quite as close as the good close option and slightly smaller, if it was far from campus and large, it was slightly smaller than the good large option and slightly farther away. Psychologists have known for a long time that having a decoy option in a decision-making task draws people to choose a reasonable option that is similar to the decoy. Dr. Masicampo and Dr. Baumeister suspected that students who had been asked to work hard during the video and then been given a drink without any sugar in it would be more likely to rely on intuition when making this decision than those from the other three groups. And that is what happened; 64% of them were swayed by the decoy. Those who had either not had to exert mental energy during the showing of the video or had been given glucose in their lemonade, used mason in their decision-making task and were less likely to be swayed by the decoy. It is not clear why intuition is independent of glucose. It could be that humans inherited a default nervous system from other mammals that was similar to intuition, and that could make snap decisions about whether to fight or flee regardless of how much glucose was in the body. Whatever the reason, the upshot seems to be that thinking is, indeed, hard work. And important decisions should not be made on an empty stomach. The word "taxing" in the fast paragraph means A．tiring. B．imposing taxation. C．paying taxation. D．relaxing.

A perversely B adversely C inversely D diversely

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2. Yet the implication that rapid change is a new phenomenon is again misleading. If you measure the time it takes for a technology to become widely diffused, today's experience does not seem unusual. Take the car. The basic patent for an internal-combustion engine capable of powering a car was fried in 1877. By the late 1920s—50 years later—over half of all American households owned a car. 3. The comparable dates for the computer axe harder to tie down, but the first big computer, based on vacuum valves, was built in 1946. The transistor—the first semiconductor device—was invented at Bell Laboratories in 1948. The first patent for an integrated circuit was filed in 1959. Now, in 1999-50 years after the first one was built—around half of American households own a computer. The pace of introduction has been similar to that of the car. 4. You have to cheat, choosing only the date for the personal computer, say(mid-1970s), or the internet (ditto) to make it seem much more rapid. Comparing its diffusion among private users is, you might say, unfair to the computer, for that machine's main use is in businesses. On that measure, the best historical analogy is with electrification, and the spread of the electric dynamo into factories. 5. According to Paul David, a historian at Stanford University in California, the first electricity-generating stations had been installed in New York and London in 1881, but it was well into the 1920s before the dynamo became widely used and started to raise productivity. The adoption of the computer in business has also been slow, and failed to have any measurable impact on productivity until very recently.

A、contradicted them by saying, make B、countered by saying, make for C、opposed by saying, make up D、have been lagged behind, slip off

是 否

A．1) B．2) C．3) D．4)