单选题His vocabulary, A in particular , both that which he uses actively B and that which he recognizes, C increasing in size D as he grows older as a result of education and experience.

单选题It is not long since conditions in the mines were worse than they are now. There are still 61 a few very old women who in their youth have worked 62 , with harness round their waists, and a chain 63 passed between their legs, crawling on all 64 and dragging tugs of coal. They used to go on 65 this even when they were pregnant. And 66 now, if coal could not be produced without pregnant women dragging it 67 and fro, I fancy we should let them do it 68 than deprive ourselves of coal. But most of the time, of course, we should 69 to forget that they were doing it. It is the 70 with all types of manual work; it keeps us alive, and we are oblivious of its existence. More than anything 71 perhaps, the miner can stand as the type of manual worker, not only because it is so vitally necessary and 72 so 73 that we are capable 74 forgetting it as we forget the blood in our veins. In 75 way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt 76 your own status as an "intellectual" and a superior person generally. For it is brought 77 to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only 78 miners sweat their guts out 79 superior persons can 80 superior.

单选题According to the author, the truly effective measures are

单选题He seems______to understand the simplest instruction.

单选题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, and D on ANSWER SHEET 1. The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is becoming mature. A man reaches the mature{{U}} (1) {{/U}}of his reasoning powers and mental faculties{{U}} (2) {{/U}}before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen. And then, too, in the case of woman, it is the only reason of a sort--very mean in its{{U}} (3) {{/U}}. That is why women remain children their whole life long; never seeing{{U}} (4) {{/U}}but what is quite close to them,{{U}} (5) {{/U}}fast to the present moment, taking appearance for{{U}} (6) {{/U}}, and preferring{{U}} (7) {{/U}}to matters of the first importance. For it is{{U}} (8) {{/U}}his reasoning faculty that man does not live in the present only,{{U}} (9) {{/U}}the brute, but looks about him and considers the past and the future; and this is the origin of{{U}} (10) {{/U}}, as well as that of care and anxiety which so many people{{U}} (11) {{/U}}Both the advantages and the disadvantages, which this{{U}} (12) {{/U}}, are{{U}} (13) {{/U}}in by the woman to a smaller extent because of her weaker power of reasoning. She may, in fact, be described as intellectually shortsighted,{{U}} (14) {{/U}}, while she has an immediate understanding of what lies quite close to her, her field of{{U}} (15) {{/U}}is narrow and does not reach to what is{{U}} (16) {{/U}}; so that things which are absent, or past, or to come, have much less effect upon women than upon men. This is the reason why women are inclined to be{{U}} (17) {{/U}}and sometimes carry their desire to a{{U}} (18) {{/U}}that borders upon madness. In their hearts, women think it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it--if possible during their husband's life,{{U}} (19) {{/U}}, at any rate, after his death. The very fact that their husband hands them{{U}} (20) {{/U}}his earnings for purposes of housekeeping strengthens them in this belief.

单选题Even ______ exhausted, the young actor continued to perform energetically.

单选题Only a person with a pair of keen eyes could pick out those______paintings from these unwanted materials.

单选题After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthquake scientists had good news to report. The damage and death toll could have been much worse. More than 60 people died in this earthquake. By comparison, an earthquake of similar. intensity that shook America in 1988 claimed 25,000 victims. Injuries and deaths were relatively less in Los Angeles because the quake occurred at 4:31 a. m. on a holiday, when traffic was light on the city's highways. In addition, changes made to the construction codes in Los Angeles during the last 20 years have strengthened the city's buildings and highways, making them more resistant to quakes. Despite the good news, civil engineers aren't resting on their successes. Pinned to their drawing boards are blueprints for improved quake-resistant buildings. The new designs should offer even greater security to cities where earthquakes often take place. In the past, making structures quake-resistant meant firm yet flexible materials, such as steel and wood, that bend without breaking. Later, people tried to lift a building off its foundation, and insert rubber and steel between the building and its foundation to reduce the impact of ground vibrations. The most recent designs give buildings brains as well as concrete and steel supports, called smart buildings, the structures respond like living organisms to an earthquake's vibrations. When the ground shakes and the building tips forward, the computer would force the building to shift in the opposite direction. The new smart structures could be very expensive to build. However, they would save many lives and would be less likely to be damaged during earthquakes.

单选题Americans today don't place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren't difficult to find. "Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than intellectual, " says education writer Diane Ravitch. "Schools could be a counterbalance." Ravitch's latest book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shorris, "we will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society. " "Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege, " writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-intellectualism in American life. a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in U. S. politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. " Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti- intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized—going to school and learning to read—so he can preserve his innate goodness. Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, reorder, and adjust, while intellect examines, thinks, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines. School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country's educational system is in the grips of people who "joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise. /

单选题Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read sortie of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won't stand much blowing up, and it won't stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A human frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming mysterious and uncontrollable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneezing fit. One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they are really very sad people—clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone's life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some others, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorists fatten on trouble. They have always made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boot (or as Josh Billings wittily called them, "tire boots"). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite a fiction not quite a fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe. Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don't have to be a humorist to taste the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a humorous piece of writing brings a person to the point where his emotional responses are untrustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is because humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays close to the big hot fire, which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.

单选题If you________stayed at home, this would never have happened.

单选题Before the 20th century the horse provided day to day transportation in the United States. Trains were used only for long-distance transportation. Today the car is the most popular 1 of transportation in all of the United States. It has completely 2 the horse as a means of everyday transportation. Americans use their car for 3 90 percent of all personal 4 Most Americans are able to 5 cars. The average price of a 6 made car was, $500 in 1950, $740 in 1960 and up 7 $750 in 1975. During this period American car manufacturers set about 8 their products and work efficiency. Meanwhile, the yearly income of the 9 family increased from 1950 to 1975 10 than the price of cars. For this reason, 11 a new car takes a smaller 12 of a family"s total earnings today. In 1951 13 it took 8.1 months of an average family"s 14 to buy a new car. In 1962, a new car 15 8.3 months of a family"s annual earnings. By 1975 it only took 4.75 16 income. In addition, the 1975 cars were technically 17 to models from previous years. The 18 of the automobile extends throughout the economy 19 the car is so important to Americans. Americans spend more money 20 their cars running than on any other item.

单选题Speaker A. Did you know that Whitney Houston was giving a concert last night in the town?Speaker B: ______

单选题Would you mind ______ a little less noise? A. to make B. make C. making D. to have made

单选题Some linguists maintain that a word group is an extension of word of a particular class. (清华2001研)

单选题The explorers came forward with gifts of ducks and flour-cakes and ______ troughs of water for the horses to drink. A. held in B. held with C. held under D. held up

单选题It was three weeks later _____ he heard the news.

单选题Societies from the primitive to (the highly civilizing) (have used) food, their (most essential) resource, in social bonding celebrations (of all kinds) and in sacred rituals.

单选题When Pat Jones finished college, she decided she wanted to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could 1 she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America first, so she got a job 2 an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish, 3 she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn"t know much English. A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream 4 a foreign language, you have really mastered it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and hoped that someday she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in English. One day, one of her worst students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had 5 early, and had slept badly. "What does this have to do with 6 ?" Pat demanded. "I dreamed all night, Miss, Jones, and my dream was in English!" "In English" Pat was very surprised, since he was such a bad students. She was 7 secretly jealous. Her dreams were still not in Spanish. But she encouraged her young student, "Well, tell me about your dream." "All the people in my dream 8 English," the student said, "And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English." "But that"s wonderful," said Pat, "What did all the people say to you?" "I"m 9 , Miss Jones. that"s 10 I slept so badly. I didn"t understand a word they said. It was a nightmare!"