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School shootings across the country continue to discuss the story of the student who is outcast by fellow peers and decides to lash out. These reports may leave some wondering if ostracism is a legitimate cause for violence. Kip Williams believes it is. Williams, a professor of psychology at Purdue University, recently came to campus to speak about the effects of being ostracized. These effects can be distressing, but they often go unnoticed, he said. "I would have rather been beaten or bullied than be ignored," Williams said, reflecting on what some of the participants in his experiments felt after they were left out of a game of toss. "Even two minutes of invisibility is painful," he said. Ostracism, the act of ignoring or excluding, is a phenomenon not only found in the adult world, acco A. literature review B. face-to-face interview C. computer games D. social experiment [填空题]Before the Columbine High School shooting last year, ______ of American schools were considered safe.
[填空题]Stone is all around us, stone is usually very hard, but it can also be s【D1】______Stones have many uses in some countries. A【D2】______carve beautiful things out of soft stones, because they can be shaped easily. In a【D3】______times, people carved small persons or animals out of soft stones which could be carried along with. While in some European c【D4】______, statues are carved from hard stones and they do not change easily. In summer the hot sun s【D5】______on these statues and in winter the snow falls on them, but they still r【D6】______beautiful.
Stone is strong and long-lasting. So it is good e【D7】______for buildings. A house built of stone does not catch fire as easily as i【D8】______made of wood. Some stones are colored, so they make the buildings look w【D9】______People can also get a fire with stones. Besides some kinds of stones can be used to m【D10】______jewelry. We’re found stones are really amazing.【D1】
[单项选择]John Tiernan has spent five years trouble-shooting as an interim manager, hired on short-term assignments by a variety of companies to sort out their problems. He has no desire to return to the certainties of a permanent position, because now, whichever company he is working for, he is perpetually involved in a meaningful task that’s critical to the business at that time. Though he admits that sorting out the aftermath of other people’s misjudgments can be frustrating. At first he found the gaps between jobs traumatic, but now he has got used to them, so when a job ends he simply books a holiday.
Mr Tiernan is part of a relatively small pool of managers used by agency BIE. Whereas most suppliers of interim managers have large databases, which they tap into in order to match a manager’s qualifications and experience with a client company’s requirements, BIE tries to develop a good understanding of its managers’ personalities and of hew they are likely to fit into a company throu A. the opportunities to have extended holidays B. the chance to learn from other people’s mistakes C. the contact with a number of different companies D. the knowledge that the work he is doing is important [单项选择]After the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian electrician, the police should fear a backlash from the entire civilized community.
Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, who can normally be relied on for controversy, has declined to condemn either the specifics of this event or the shoot-to-kill strategy. The Liberal Democrats, whose purpose in life, surely, is to defend civil rights in difficult times, are similarly reticent. It has been left to the Brazilian Government to express anger about the manner in which Mr. Menezes died. The attempt to blame Mr. Menezes for his own death continues unabated. It was hinted that he might have been an illegal immigrant, as if that justifies what occurred. It has been argued that it was irresponsible of him to wear a quilted jacket in July, as if that were a crime. It is intoned, for the fact that he ran when armed plain clothed police officers shouted at him. At a minimum, the Metro A. the author is angry with the Brazilian man who was killed by the police as a terrorist. B. the author blames the shoot-to-kill strategy for the death of the Brazilian. C. the author thinks that the police are justified for their shoot-to-kill strategy. D. the author thinks that Mr. Menezes should also be blamed for his own deat 我来回答: 提交
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