单选题LACHRYMOSE : TEARS ::(A) effusive : requests(B) ironic : jests(C) morose : speeches(D) profound : sighs(E) verbose : words

单选题 When I was preparing for my two-week vacation in southern Africa, ILine 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(5) 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 the third world.(10) When I walk the streets of my hometown now, I often find myself staring at all of the dogs and dog owners on the sidewalk. The way I see it, the American dog lives for the thrill: a hug, a scratch behind the ears, a new chew toy, another chance to fight against the leash it knows is only six feet long. Dog owners love to believe their animal is smart, while people who've never owned a dog tend to(15) believe the opposite. With a little training, the dogs don't bark, bite, or use the sofa as a toilet, but they do provide years of unconditional affection and loyalty, plus the occasional lame-brained escapade at which human onlookers can laugh. I am convinced African dogs could clobber their American counterparts. The relationship between a typical African and his dog is one of tangible mutualism.(20) 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 on 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(25) 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.

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单选题Although demographers cannot______that live TV broadcasting has a considerable impact on judges, it seems unconceivable to them that the judges will be______of the public attention.(A) intimate… chary(B) deny… respectful(C) admit… worthy(D) abide… reticent(E) prove … unaware

单选题The author considers the explanations put forward by Van West and Adler for the causes of the Anasazi evacuation to be(A) popular but suspect(B) partially persuasive, but individually insufficient(C) anachronistic and controversial(D) premature and illogical(E) ambitious but misguided

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单选题BADINAGE:(A) unambiguous allusion(B) solemn exchange(C) extensive conversation(D) exact version(E) thorough account

单选题The integers between 1 and 100，inclusive，are put in list A if they are divisible by 2and in list B if they are divisible by 3．How many integers in list A are—not in list B? A. 11 B. 16 C. 25 D. 33 E. 34

单选题DOGGEREL : POET ::(A) symphony : composer(B) easel : painter(C) caption : cartoonist(D) soliloquy : playwright(E) potboiler : novelist

单选题*Like her white friends Eleanor Roosevelt and Aubrey Williams, Mary Bethune believed in the fundamental commitment of the New Deal to Line assist the black American's struggle and in the (5) need for blacks to assume responsibilities to help win that struggle. Unlike those Of her white liberal associates, however, Bethune's ideas had evolved out of a long experience as a "race leader." Founder of a small black college in (10) Florida, she had become widely known by 1935 as an organizer of black women's groups and as a civil and political rights activist. Deeply religious, certain of her own capabilities, she held a rela- tively uncluttered view of what she felt were the (15) New Deal's and her own people's obligations to the cause of racial justice. Unafraid to speak her mind to powerful whites, including the President, or to differing black factions, she combined faith in the ultimate willingness of whites to discard (20) their prejudice and bigotry with a strong sense of racial pride and commitment to Negro self-help. More than her liberal white friends, Bethune argued for a strong and direct black voice in initi- ating and shaping government policy. She pur- (25) sued this in her conversations with President Roosevelt, in numerous memoranda to Aubrey Williams, and in her administrative work as head of the National Youth Administration's Office of Negro Affairs. With the assistance of Williams, (30) she was successful in having blacks selected to NYA posts at the national, state, and local levels. But she also wanted a black presence throughout the federal government. At the beginning of the war she joined other black leaders in demanding (35) appointments to the Selective Service Board and to the Department of the Army; and she was instrumental in 1941 in securing Earl Dickerson's membership on the Fair Employment Practices Committee. By 1944, she was still making (40) appeals for black representation in "all public pro- grams, federal, state, and local," and "in policy- making posts as well as rank and file jobs." Though recognizing the weakness in the Roosevelt administration's response to Negro (45) needs, Mary Bethune remained in essence a black partisan champion of the New Deal during the 1930s and 1940s. Her strong advocacy of admin- istration policies and programs was predicated on a number of factors: her assessment of the low (50) status of black Americans during the Depression; her faith in the willingness of some liberal whites to work for the inclusion of blacks in the govern- ment's reform and recovery measures; her convic- tion that only massive federal aid Could elevate (55) the Negro economically; and her belief that the thirties and forties were producing a more self- aware and self-assured black population. Like a number of her white friends in government, Bethune assumed that the preservation of democ- (60) racy and black people's "full integration into the benefits and the responsibilities" of American life were inextricably tied together. She was con- vinced that, with the help of a friendly govern- ment, a militant, aggressive "New Negro" would (65) emerge out of the devastation of depression and war, a "New Negro" who would "save America from itself," who would lead America toward the full realization of its democratic ideas.

单选题Which of the following best describes the organization of the first paragraph?(A) A theory is presented and criticized.(B) A method is described and evaluated.(C) A result is reported and its importance explained.(D) A phenomenon is noted and its significance debated.(E) A hypothesis is introduced and contrary evidence presented.

单选题GLARING : LIGHT ::(A) piquant : odor(B) ruined : building(C) grating : sound(D) infamous: performance(E) epidemic : malady

单选题GRANDIOSE: A. docile B. unlikely to occur C. simple and unimposing D. light in weight E. uncommunicative

单选题The passage implies that the strain on freshwater aquifers caused by poor irrigation patterns may be reduced by all of the following methods EXCEPT(A) Government compensation programs for surplus(B) Climate study(C) Soil management(D) Drip irrigation(E) Changes in patterns of food consumption

单选题The stage was set for simmering hostility between the two sects, and the breakdown in ______ relations was hastened by the high-handed attitude of those who had lost many of their ancestral privileges and lands.(A) intemperate(B) exogamous(C) consanguineous(D) amicable(E) idiosyncratic

单选题Reading Comprehension According to the theory of plate tectonics, the lithosphere (earth's relatively hard and solid outer layer consisting of the crust and part of the under-Line lying mantle) is divided into a few dozen plates (5) that vary in size and shape; in general, these plates move in relation to one another. They move away from one another at a mid-ocean ridge, a long chain of sub-oceanic mountains that forms a boundary between plates. At a mid-ocean (10) ridge, new lithospheric material in the form of hot magma pushes up from the earth's interior. The injection of this new lithospheric material from below causes the phenomenon known as sea-floor spreading. (15) Given that the earth is not expanding in size to any appreciable degree, how can "new" litho- sphere be created at a mid-ocean ridge? For new lithosphere to come into being in one region, an equal amount of lithospheric material must ,be (20) destroyed somewhere else. This destruction takes place at a boundary between plates called a sub- duction zone. At a subduction zone, one plate is pushed down under another into the red-hot mantle, where over a span of millions of years it (25) is absorbed into the mantle. In the early 1960's, well before scientists had formulated the theory of plate tectonics, Princeton University professor Harry H. Hess proposed the concept of sea-floor spreading. Hess's original (30) hypothesis described the creation and spread of ocean floor by means of the upwelling and cool- ing of magma from the earth's interior. Hess, however, did not mention rigid lithospheric plates. The subsequent discovery that the oceanic (35) crust contains evidence of periodic reversals of the earth's magnetic field helped confirm Hess's hypothesis. According to the explanation formu- lated by Princeton's F. J. Vine and D. H. Matthews, whenever magma wells up under a (40) mid-ocean ridge, the ferromagnetic minerals with- in the magma become magnetized in the direction of the geomagnetic field. As the magma cools and hardens into rock, the direction and the polarity of the geometric field are recorded in the magnetized (45) volcanic rock. Thus, when reversals of the earth's magnetic field occur, as they do at intervals of from 10,000 to around a million years, they pro- duce a series of magnetic stripes paralleling the axis of the rift. Thus, the oceanic crust is like a (50) magnetic tape recording, but instead of preserving sounds or visual images, it preserves the history of earth's geomagnetic field. The boundaries between stripes reflect reversals of the magnetic field; these reversals can be dated independently. (55) Given this information, geologists can deduce the rate of sea-floor spreading from the width of the stripes. (Geologists, however, have yet to solve the mystery of exactly how the earth's magnetic field comes to reverse itself periodically.)

单选题The author of the passage mentions which of the following as posing an alternative to the Headland Hypothesis?(A) Rain forests have always possessed insufficient quantities of carbohydrate-rich resources to support foragers without the aid of agriculturalists.(B) The difficulty of raising carbohydrate-rich plant species in certain areas of the rain forest may have led to the arrest of those species' co-evolution.(C) Trade relationships between agriculturalists and foragers may have been the cause of the disappearance of certain carbohydrate-rich plant species, not vice-versa.(D) Foragers may have been willing to trade carbohydrate-rich plants in exchange for the more nutritious food products of agriculturalists.(E) Environmental changes in rain forest composition may have led to the loss of certain foraging techniques.

单选题If the actual temperature is 13 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind speed is 14 miles per hour, then the apparent temperature could be

单选题METEOROLOGY: WEATHER ::