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第1题

Which statement about the U.S. Constitution is NOT true？A. It is the supreme law of th

Which statement about the U.S. Constitution is NOT true？

A. It is the supreme law of the land.

B. It is the oldest written constitution in the world.

C. It was adopted in 1781 at the Second Continental Congress.

D. It provides the basis for political stability, economic growth and social progress.

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第2题

Why has President Bush's ban on lie detector evidence in military courts in 1991 been over

-turned？

A．Because lie detection is surrounded by uncertainties.

B．Because it restricts the defendant' rights to prove that they are innocent.

C．Because 12 U.S. states also allow lie detection evidence to be heard in courts.

D．Because federal judges from the Supreme Court make their decisions on the basis of lie detection.

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第3题

After decades of exile from U.S. courts, the science of lie detection is gaining new accep

tance. But the federal government wants to put a stop to it, and the U.S. Supreme Court has now agreed to consider a request from the Department of Justice to bar the technology from military courts.

Uncertainties surround the science of lie detection, which uses a device called polygraph. In 1991 President George Bush banned lie detector evidence in military courts. But that ban has since been overturned by the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, which ruled that it restricts defendants' rights to present evidence of their innocence.

In the past two years, some federal courts have also ruled that polygraph evidence can be heard. This follows a decision by the Supreme Court in 1993 that gave federal judges more discretion to decide on the admissibility of evidence.

A polygraph consists of monitors for pulse rate, sweating and breathing rate. The device is supposed to uncover lies by recording increases in these measures as the subject answers questions.

Critics have always argued that cunning defendants can control their physiological responses and sway polygraph results. But supporters of the technique argue that recent research has found it to be reliable. A psychologist named Charles Honts at a state university in Idaho, points to lab oratory studies, some of them being his own, in which student-subjects were offered cash to sway the test results.

This argument is rejected by Leonard Saxe, a psychologist at a Boston university. "There is a huge difference between students in a lab and a defendant", he says. Guilty defendants have time in which to rehearse their lies, and can even come to believe them to be true.

Saxe believes that the entire theoretical basis of lie detection is invalid. "It assumes you will be more nervous lying than telling the truth". But he says that for some people lies are trivial, while certain truth can be hard to swallow.

David Faigrnan of the University of California says that if the Supreme Court upholds the military appeal court's decision to allow polygraph evidence, polygraph bans would be overturned in federal courts across U.S. "That will put a big burden on judges to understand the science, and lead to a lot more' expert testimony in the courts", he predicts. The justice department fears that this will greatly increase the cost of trials.

According to the passage, which organization raised the proposal to stop the practice of lie detection evidence in military court？

A．Federal Government.

B．U.S. Supreme Court.

C．Department of Justice.

D．Military Courts.

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第4题

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to let stand a ruling in an online defamation cas

e will make it more difficult to determine correct legal jurisdictions in other Internet eases, legal experts said.

By opting not to take the case, the high court effectively endorsed a lower court's decision that a Colorado company that posts ratings of health plans on the Internet could be sued for defamation in a Washington court. The lower court ruling is one of several that makes it easier for plaintiffs to sue Web site operators in their own jurisdictions, rather than where the operators maintain a physical presence.

The case involved a defamation suit filed by Chehalis, Wash-based Northwest Healthcare Alliance against Lakewood, Colo-based Healthgrades.com. The Alliance sued in Washington federal court after Healthgrades.com posted a negative ranking of Northwest Healthcare's home health services on the Internet. Healthgrades.com argued that it should not be subject to the jurisdiction of a court in Washington because its publishing operation is in Colorado.

Observers said the fact that the Supreme Court opted not to hear the case only clouds the legal situation for Web site operators.

Geoff Stewart, a partner at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., said that the Supreme Court eventually must act on the issue, as Internet sites that rate everything from automobile dealerships to credit offers could scale back their offerings to avoid lawsuits originating numerous jurisdictions.

Online publishers also might have to worry about being dragged into lawsuits in foreign courts, said Dow Lohnes ＆ Albertson attorney Jon Hart, who has represented the Online News Association.

"The much more difficult problems for U.S. media companies arise when claims are brought in foreign countries over content published in the United States", Hart said. Hart cited a recent case in which an Australian court ruled that Dow Jones must appear in a Victoria, Australia court to defend its publication of an article on the U.S.-based Watt Street Journal Web site.

According to Hart, the potential chilling effect of those sorts of jurisdictional decisions is substantial. "I have not yet seen publishers holding back on what they otherwise publish because they're afraid they're going to get sued in another country, but that doesn't mean it Won't happen if we see a rash of U.S. libel cases against U.S. media companies being brought in foreign countries", he said.

Until the high court decides to weigh in directly on this issue, Web site operators that offer information and services to users located outside of their home states must deal with a thorny legal landscape, said John Morgan, a partner at Perkins Coie LLP and an expert in Internet law.

The author seems to believe that the Supreme Court's decision

A．can cause operators to issue balanced health plan ratings.

B．renders correct legal decisions in other cases impossible.

C．might put Web site operators at a legal disadvantage.

D．brings about a series of debates on Internet operations.

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第5题

Near the end of a five-day tour of highly automated, high-tech Japanese factories, the Ame

rican visitor was overwhelmed and feeling a little inferior. Watching a string of gleaming stereo sets move down an assembly line, he turned to the plant manager and said, "Gosh, even your industrial design is better than ours.

"Ah, yes," replied the manager, "but America has treasures that Japan can never hope to possess."

"You mean our mineral wealth and bountiful farms？

"Ah, no. I was referring to Caltech and MIT."

America's scientific institutions--its technological universities and government laboratories--are the en vy of the world , producing ideas, devices and medicines that have made the U.S. prosperous, improved the lives of people around the globe and profoundly affected their perception of the world and the universe. This tremendous creativity is reflected in tile technical reports that are published in scientific journals throughout the world. Fully 35 % of them come from scientists doing their research at American institutions.

Yet American dominance can no longer be taken for granted. Many recent U. S. achievements and a wards stem in large measure from generous research grants of the past, and any weakening of government and industry commitment to support of basic research could in the next few decades cost the nation its scientific leadership. Some slipping is already divalent. In high-energy physics, where Americans once reigned supreme, Western Europe now spends roughly twice as much money as the U. S. Result. the major high-energy physics discoveries of tile past few years have been made not by Americans but by Europeans.

Even so, money alone cannot guarantee scientific supremacy. Freedom of inquiry, an intellectually stimulating environment and continuous recruitment of the best minds must accompany it. That combination has been achieved in many U.S. institutions--educational, governmental and industrial--but perhaps no where more successfully than at the National Institutes of Health, Bell Laboratories and Caltech.

America's technological universities and government laboratories are generally ______.

A．loved by scientists in other parts of the world

B．disliked by scientists in other parts of the world

C．admired by scientists in other parts of the world

D．jealous of scientists in other parts of the world

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第6题

COU车间有好几个灯快掉了（）

A.1

B.2

C.3

D.4

E.5

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第7题

下面程序的功能是统计字符串中“广的个数，请填空。 Sub COU（) a$="Beijing University of

下面程序的功能是统计字符串中“广的个数，请填空。 Sub COU() a$="Beijing University of Technology" Dim n AS Integer n=Len(a$) For i=1 To n b$=【】 If【】Then x=x+1 Next i Print "x="；x End Sub

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第8题

Ryan most probably agree thatA. ideas are born of a relaxing mindB. innovativeness cou

Ryan most probably agree that

A. ideas are born of a relaxing mind

B. innovativeness could be taught

C. decisiveness derives from fantastic ideas

D. curiosity activates creative minds

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第9题

supreme（）

A.dj.最高的；极度的