填空题For Questions 9 and 10, select one entry from the corresponding column of choices for each blank. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

填空题Although a number of inventions not only change society but also bring the inventor enormous pride and even paychecks, some fizzle out because they just do not succeed as hoped. In fact, even the most famous inventors encounter some failed concepts. One of the world"s most prestigious inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, creator of the light bulb and the phonograph, tried to introduce the idea of cabinets and other furniture made out of concrete. This furniture was too heavy and too expensive to ever become popular, thus proving that nobody is always right.

填空题When I was preparing for my two-week vacation in southern Africa, I realized that the continent would be like nothing I had ever seen. I wanted to explore the urban streets as well as the savannah; it"s always been my goal to have experiences on vacation that most other tourists fail to find. When my plans were finalized, I left for Africa. The cultural differences were stunning, and made for plenty of laughter and confusion, but always ended up bringing smiles to our faces. What"s funny now, though, more than ever, is how ridiculous I must have seemed to the people of one village when I played with their dog. Apparently, the role of dogs in America is nothing like it is in Africa. I am convinced that African dogs could clobber their American counterparts, if only because African dogs are forced to be self-reliant. The relationship between a typical African dog and his owner is one of tangible mutualism. I say tangible because the African sees himself as the dominant creature not to be bothered by the dog, but nevertheless responsible for providing for it. Hence, no attempts at behavioral training are ever made with African dogs. Instead, the African seizes power with a chunk of scrap meat and a bowl of water. The dog soon learns to quit yapping and biting at the hand that feeds him. Never does the African speak to the animal. I"m not even sure such dogs get names. Their behavior becomes interestingly balanced, however, much to the surprise of the compassionate American dog lover.

填空题Skeptics have debated whether welfare rights, including those to medical care or employment training,________solidarity and fellow-feeling, or whether they erode initiative and________dependency.

填空题Regardless of what might be said about the vehement diatribes of the Minnesota senator, one can''t argue that he was any less than utterly________his beliefs and his tituents, for invariably, he voted his________.

填空题The language of the bureaucrats and administrators must needs be recognized as________of legal parlance, for there is no other way to explain its pedantic,________and pernicious style.

填空题For Questions 9 and 10, select one entry from the corresponding column of choices for each blank. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

填空题As a genre the musical has a great deal to________it: its dramatic rhythmic beats of alternating failure and success are________to the musical form, and the singing and dancing emerge naturally from the story.

填空题 submit oneself to substitute...for... little more than insofar as or so press for in conjunction with in the long run hold in check be rooted in

填空题 A．一些 B．根据 C．在……附近 D．简单提起 E．整个的 F．省略；忽略 G．参考系；推导问题所依赖的大框架 H．在任何情况下 I．推导；逻辑演绎 J．君主立宪政体

填空题In Homer''s Iliad, Akhilleus, the greatest of all Greek warriors, is driven towards immortality by his own need for________.

填空题 Reading Comprehension Questions {{U}}Directions:{{/U}} Multiple-choice Questions--Select One Answer Choice: These are the traditional multiple-choice questions with five answer choices from which you must select one. Multiple-choice Questions--Select One or More Answer Choices: These questions provide three answer choices; select all that are correct. Select-in-Passage: Choose the sentence in the passage that meets a certain description. Text Completion Questions {{U}}Directions:{{/U}} Select one entry from the corresponding column of choices for each blank. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. Sentence Equivalence Questions {{U}}Directions:{{/U}} Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. For Questions 1 through 3, select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.

填空题 For Questions 14 to 16, select one entry from the corresponding column of choices for each blank. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

填空题For Questions 14 to 16, select one entry from the corresponding column of choices for each blank. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

填空题A civilization"s level of advancement can be judged to an astonishing degree of accuracy by examining what it does with its sewage. Prehistoric people either behaved much like animals by individually burying their excretions, or they placed their waste in foul-smelling communal pit toilets. Later on, rivers were used as receptacles for bodily refuse to wash the offal out to sea. By the Roman times, plumbing had been invented to bring the river to inland settlements--though wastewater still flowed back out into the same rivers that might elsewhere be used for drinking. It is only in the modern age, at the pinnacle of human culture as achieved by western civilization, that we have developed systems for washing soiled water in treatment plants, where it can be chemically treated until it is safe to release back into the hydrosphere. Based on the attitudes displayed in the passage, with which of the following statements would the author most likely disagree?

填空题English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is probably best known for her collection of poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese. By title alone, one might assume that these poems were either translated from Portuguese or a product of Portuguese inspiration. Instead, the title refers to the author herself. Robert Browning, Elizabeth"s husband, affectionately called her his "little Portuguese," on account of her dark complexion. Indeed, it was Robert, himself a successful poet, who secured his wife"s literary fame through this volume of verse. While the poems in Sonnets from the Portuguese were intended as a private gift for him, he simply could not keep their beauty to himself. The book was subsequently published in 1850.

填空题We must learn to________sentences and to analyze the grammar of our text, for there is no________to the grammar of poetry, to the nerve and sinew of the poem, if one is blind to the poetry of grammar.

填空题 For Questions 9 and 10, select one entry from the corresponding column of choices for each blank. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

填空题Having been________as immoral by some reviewers of Tess of the D'' Urbervilles four years earlier, Hardy subsequently________to preface his work with declamatory caveats.

填空题For Questions 1 through 3, select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.