[单项选择]The statement that women could be eliminated from their jobs if their behavior was "the least imprudent" suggests primarily that they ______.
A. (A) were more likely than their male colleagues to be rebellious
B. (B) participated in the creation of the standards by which the performance of researchers was judged
C. (C) could gain advancement if they avoided political confrontations about their rights as women
D. (D) were judged by a standard different from the one used to judge their male colleagues

[单项选择]Which statement about recovering from the loss of a redo log group is true?（）
A. If the lost redo log group is ACTIVE, you should first attempt to clear the log file.
B. If the lost redo log group is CURRENT, you must clear the log file.
C. If the lost redo log group is ACTIVE, you must restore, perform cancel-based incomplete recovery, and open the database using the RESETLOGS option.
D. If the lost redo log group is CURRENT, you must restore, perform cancel-based incomplete recovery, and open the database using the RESETLOGS option.

[单项选择]Which statement cannot be inferred from the passage
A. The mortality rate for breast cancer dropped.
B. The mortality rate among black women has increased.
C. The number of reported breast cancer cases is rising.
D. A woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is rising.

[单项选择]The statement "There is more politeness in women's language." is a view of ______.
A. pragmatics
B. historical linguistics
C. sociolinguistics
D. psycholinguistics

[单项选择]Which statement can be an inference from the output?（）
A. The FRA disk group has an asynchronous I/O bottleneck
B. The least number of I/Os are performed on the last data file in the list
C. The number of times that the backup or restore process directed the OS to wait until an I/O was complete is the highest for the last data file in the list
D. The number of times that the backup or restore process made an OS call to poll for I/O completion in Nonblocking mode is the least for the FRA disk group

[单项选择]How could noise from building sites be alleviated if Brisbane adopted daylight saving
A. If daylight saving was adopted, the daytime would be prolonged and the night would become quieter.
B. If daylight saving was adopted, the working hours during the daytime would be shortened while the night would be extended and thus quieter.
C. If daylight saving was adopted, the night would be shortened and thus quieter.
D. If daylight saving was adopted, both the daytime and the night would be shortened and the noise would be reduced.

[单项选择]What can be inferred from the underlined statement
A. All Olympic athletes are only winners, not heroes.
B. Some Olympic athletes are only winners, not heroes.
C. Some heroes are Olympic winners.
D. All of the Olympic champions are both heroes and winners.

[单项选择]Why did Ruth say that she could not dispute women's "Having" children


A. Only women can give birth to a baby.
B. Having children is a task assigned by their husbands.
C. Women have to do it to support the families.
D. Women love children

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Text 4 You could benefit from flipping through the pages of I Can’t Believe You Asked That, a book by author Phillip Milano that’s subtitled, A No-Holds-Barred Q&A A bout Race, Sex, Religion, and Other Terrifying Topics. For the past seven years, Milano—who describes himself as "a straight, white middle class married guy raised in an affluent suburb of Chicago’—as operated yforum com, a Web site that was created to get us talking. Through the posting of probing, provocative and sometimes simply inane questions and the answers they generate, people are encouraged to have a no-holds-barred exchange on topics across racial, ethnic and cultural lines. More often than not, the questions grow out of our biases and fears and the stereotypes that fuel misunderstanding among us. As with the Web site, Milano hopes his book will be a social and cultural elixir. "The time is right for a new ’ culture of curiosity’ to begin to unf
A. his confirmation of Milano's hope about his book.
B. his explanation of the purpose of Milano's website.
C. his description of various emotions and responses.
D. his quotation of the comments made by the experts.

[单项选择]It could be inferred from the first paragraph that ______.
A. lifeguards often failed to notice the people who get drowned
B. AI is an idea invented by a French company
C. anyone in the water can be saved by the AI
D. people often get drowned in Britain

[单项选择]Which of the following could be concluded from the article
A. An indisputable example of a terrorist group is PLO.
B. Actions to achieve political ends cannot avoid using force.
C. An acceptable criterion for terrorism is killing civilians.
D. International prestige is a justification for violence.

[单项选择]It could be inferred from the last paragraph that
A. culture exercises an influence over social interrelationship.
B. courteous convention and individual interest are interrelated.
C. various virtues manifest themselves exclusively among friends.
D. social interrelationships equal the complex set of cultural conventions.

[单项选择] I could see from his face that he__ bad news.
A. had received
B. receives
C. received
D. has received