It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in 1997, to support he Red Cross’s campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola, television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. "I knew the statistics," she said. "But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like when I met Sandra, a 13-year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her."
The Princess concluded with a simple message: "We must stop landmines." And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message.
But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press. They described her as "very ill-informed" and
A. She paid no attention to them.
B. She made more appearances on TV.
C. She met the 13-year-old girl as planned.
D. She rose to argue with her opponents.
Nowadays, people work longer hours than they used to, but are they really working harder than ever before Apparently, many people believe that the more time a person spends on work, (21) she or he accomplishes. However, the connection between time and (22) is not always (23) . In fact, many studies indicate that after a certain point, anyone’s productivity and creativity begin to (24) . Furthermore, it is not always easy for individuals to (25) that their performance is falling off.
Part of the problem is understandable. When (26) evaluate employees, they often consider the amount of time spent on the job (27) performance. Employees know this. Consequently, they work longer hours and (28) less vacation time than they did several years ago. Although many working people can do their job effectively during a (29) 40-hour-work week, they feel they have to spend more time on the job after normal working hours
A. regard
B. relative
C. regular
D. irregular
| In a paper just published in Science,
Peter Gordon of Columbia University uses his study of the Piraha and their
counting system to try to answer a tricky linguistic question. The Piraha, a
group of hunter-gatherers who live along the banks of the Maiei River in Brazil,
use a system of counting called "one-two-many". In this, the word for "one"
translates to "roughly one" (similar to "one or two" in English), the word for
"two" means "a slightly larger amount than one" (similar to "a few" in English),
and the word for "many" means "a much larger amount". This question was posed by Benjamin Lee Whorl in the 1930s. Whorl studied Hopi, an Amerindian language very different from tile Eurasian languages that had hitherto been the subject of academic linguistics. His work led him to suggest that language not only influences thought but, mo A. numbers were a better test of Whorf’s belief B. colors could be found and seen anywhere C. the Dani could recognize more than two colors D. the Piraha had a better grasp of numbers [单项选择]“可口可乐”标志的设计师是（）
A. 提格 B. 德雷夫斯 C. 罗维 D. 克里木特 [单选题]自动闭塞区段第三接近轨道电路故障，控制台（显示器）着红光带，（ ）影响进站信号开放。
A.不影响 B.影响 [判断题]按总公司统一规定涂打车型标记、标号的货车，均属国铁货车。
A.正确 B.错误 我来回答: 提交
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