[填空题]______(我宁可不云)than go with him. (rather)

[单项选择]TEXT D Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious parctical benefits in an increasingly globalized world.But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turned out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia(痴呆) in old age. This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child s academic and intellectual development. They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creat
A. its practical advantages
B. perceived language fluency
C. its role in cognition
D. its role in medicine

[单项选择]Successful leaders dominate events rather than react to them（　）.
A. control
B. contribute
C. convey
D. contact

[填空题]Many people have immigrated to America rather than elsewhere because they think in the United States there is a law to ensure their happiness.

[填空题]Rather than focus on explanation of grammatical rules in classroom teaching, the teacher of an Oral Approach class must encourage direct and ______ use of the target language in the classroom.

[填空题]Focusing on the outcome rather than the performance helps keep the game in perspective.

[单项选择]For firms that expense rather than capitalize costs, which of the following statements is least correct （）
A. Higher debt/equity and debt/assets will occur because of lower asset and equity levels. 
B. Net cash flows are the same regardless of which method is used. 
C. Lower ROA and ROE will occur because of higher asset and equity levels in the early years

[单项选择]Many tourists visit Muir woods rather than other redwood forests________.
A. because it has no admission fee
B. because it is near San Francisco
C. because it has a good view of the coast
D. because it can be seen in one hour

[单项选择]Why should the government, rather than industry or universities, provide the money to put a network of supercomputers in place Because there is a range of problems that can be attacked only with the massive data-managing capacity of a supercomputer network. No business or university has the resources to purchase by itself enough machines for a whole network, and no business or university wants to invest in a part of a network if no mechanism exists for coordinating establishment of the network as a whole.
Which one of the following indicates a weakness in the argument
A. It does not furnish a way in which the dilemma concerning the establishment of the network can be resolved.
B. It does not establish the impossibility of creating a supercomputer network as an international network.
C. It fails to address the question of who would maintain the network if the governments, rather than industry or universities provides the money for establishing it.
D. It takes for granted and without justification that it would enhance national preeminence in science for the government to provide the network.
E. (E) It overlooks the possibility that businesses or universities, or both, could cooperate to build the network.

[简答题]Rather than uniting the world, the new technologies could lead to societies of information haves and have-nots.

[单项选择]They prefer to postpone the meeting rather than hold it without the presence of the general manager.
A.没有收到总经理的礼物，他们宁愿推迟这次见面。
B.没有收到总经理的礼物，他们宁愿推迟见面。
C.总经理没有来，他们宁愿推迟这个会议。
D.总经理没有来，他们更愿意推迟这个会议。

[简答题]It is the prevention of disease rather than is successful treatment that has led to the tremendous increase in the population of the world during the past 75 years.