Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?
(l)The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photograph's fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defence of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting. (2)Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselves—anything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art, except to proclaim that their own work is not involved with art It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art. (3)Photographers' disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried status of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photography's prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in the phenomenon of Pop painting during the 1960's. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist painting—that is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matisse—presupposes highly developed skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art. (4)Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activity—in short, an art.
Finding Your Excellence: Becoming Who You Are1. Be【T1】______Give effort and【T2】______to what you are doingSeek deeper and more【T3】______levels of engagement2. To increase【T4】______Make time for【T5】______ distractionsBuild spaces of quiet in life3. Be full of aweFind awe in small and【T6】______4. Be【T7】______Forget yourself and go to workKeep grounded,【T8】______ and open to thinking5. Be compassionateTwo essential parts:【T9】______An indispensable part of【T10】______
You will now read a short passage and then listen to a talk on the same topic. You will then be asked a question about them. After you hear the question, you will have 30 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.Activities on CampusI am writing this letter to make a couple of suggestions about school activities here at Albion College. First, the college really ought to upgrade its theater and auditorium equipment. The lighting and sound systems are both antiques. Plus, the number of seats needs to be increased. I believe this could be done without too much remodeling. Second, to go with the new facilities, the school needs to set up an online system for buying tickets. I mean, I can buy a plane ticket to Kathmandu online. I should be able to buy a ticket to a basketball game or concert on campus the same way. The service would be both convenient and time-saving. So come on Albion: let's move on into the twenty-first century!Now hear a conversation between two students.Question: The woman expresses her opinion toward the proposal of upgrading the auditorium facilities. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion. You will now read a short passage and then listen to a talk on the same topic. You will then be asked a question about them. After you hear the question, you will have 30 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.Activities on CampusI am writing this letter to make a couple of suggestions about school activities here at Albion College. First, the college really ought to upgrade its theater and auditorium equipment. The lighting and sound systems are both antiques. Plus, the number of seats needs to be increased. I believe this could be done without too much remodeling. Second, to go with the new facilities, the school needs to set up an online system for buying tickets. I mean, I can buy a plane ticket to Kathmandu online. I should be able to buy a ticket to a basketball game or concert on campus the same way. The service would be both convenient and time-saving. So come on Albion: let's move on into the twenty-first century!Now hear a conversation between two students.Question: The woman expresses her opinion toward the proposal of upgrading the auditorium facilities. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
Their reply was too _______ for anyone to doubt them.
The layout can be finished the day after tomorrow at a______, but that would mean I must lose my weekend.
PASSAGE TWO
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The mayor______ his political view on the radio.
Our neighbours are so reserved and unfriendly that they never speak to us. The underlined part means ______.
(l)How many times a day do you check your email? When you wake up? Before bed? A dozen times in between? If you're like many of us, the red blinking light of a BlackBerry is the first thing you see each morning—you've got mail!—and the last glimpse of color to fade out before bedtime. It's constant and nagging—yet most of us say we can't live without it. Add Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of our social-media obsessions to the mix, and the technology that was supposed to simplify our lives has become the ultimate time-suck: the average teen spends more than seven hours a day using technological devices, plus an additional hour just text-messaging friends. (2)The advantage to all that gadgetry, of course, is connectedness: email lets us respond on the go, and we are in touch with more people during more hours of the day than at any other time in history. But is it possible we're more lonely than ever, too? That's what MIT professor Sherry Turkle observes in her new book, Alone Together, a fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology, the result of nearly 15 years of study. Turkle details the ways technology has redefined our perceptions of intimacy and solitude—and warns of the perils of embracing such virtual relationships in place of lasting emotional connections. (3)Turkle talks to high-school students who fear having to make a phone call, and elementary-school children who become distraught when their toy robot pets "die." She wonders how her daughter will remember their relationship 40 years from now, if every long-distance communication between them happens via text message. But for Turkle, a psychologist by training, the biggest worry is what all this superficial engagement means for us developmentally. Is technology offering us the lives we want to live? "We're texting people at a distance," says the author, the director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. "We're using inanimate objects to convince ourselves that even when we're alone, we feel together. And then when we're with each other, we put ourselves in situations where we are alone—constantly on our mobile devices. It's what I call a perfect storm of confusion about what's important in our human connections." (4)What can't be denied is that technology, no matter its faults, makes life a whole lot easier. It allows us to communicate with more people in less time; it can make conversation simple—no small talk required. It can be therapeutic: robots are now used to help care for the elderly; in Japan, they're marketed as a way to lure addicts out of cyberspace. But it can also be seductive, providing more stimulation than our natural lives make possible. "The adrenaline (肾上腺素) rush is continual," Turkle says of our wired lives. "We get a little shot of dopamine（多巴胺) every time we make a connection." One high-school student she spoke with put it simply: "I start to have some happy feelings as soon as I start to text." (5)But are any of those feelings equal to the kind we feel when engaged in real, face-to-face intimacy? Online, you can ignore others' feelings. In a text message, you can avoid eye contact. A number of studies have found that this generation of teens is less empathetic than ever. That doesn't spell disaster, says Turkle—but it does mean we might want to start thinking about the way we want to live. "We've gone through tremendously rapid change, and some of these things just need a little sorting out," she says. If she has her way, the dialogue will start here—and not just on somebody's computer.
A. claim B. advanced C. challenge D. but E. constantlyF. declare G. piles up H. limited I. significance J. hesitatedK. and L. reduced M. regret N. scary O. totally Some years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe. I had been abroad a couple of times, but I could hardly【C1】______ to know my way around the continent. Moreover, my knowledge of foreign languages was【C2】______to a little college French. I hesitated. How would I, unable to speak the language,【C3】______unfamiliar with local geography or transportation systems, set up interviews and do research? It seemed impossible, and with considerable【C4】______I sat down to write a letter begging off. Halfway through, a thought ran through my mind: you can't learn if you don't try. So I accepted the assignment. There were some bad moments,【C5】______by the time I had finished the trip I was an experienced traveler. And ever since, I have never【C6】______to head for even the most remote of places, without guides or even【C7】______bookings, confident that somehow I will manage.The point is that the new, the different, is almost by definition【C8】______. But each time you try something, you learn, and as the learning【C9】______, the world opens to you. I've learned to ski at 40, and flown up the Rhine River in a balloon. And I know I'll go on doing such things. It's not because I'm braver or more daring than others. I'm not But I'll accept anxiety as another name for【C10】______and I believe I can accomplish wonders.
"The woman cleaning the floor is Tom's mother" has all the following possible meanings EXCEPT
The town's only claim to ______ is that Queen Elizabeth I once visited it.
Did you get your point ______ to the audience in the debate?
The railway station was criticized for its lack of disabled_______.
A. so that B. preference C. normal D. circle E. calls for F. problem G. longer H. cycle I. matter J. illustrates K. hand over L. formal M. reversed N. habit O. means The normal human daily cycle of activity is some 7-8 hours' sleep alternation with some 16-17 hours' wakefulness and that the sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness. Our present concern is how easily and to what extent this【C1】______ can be modified. The question is not merely an academic one. The ease with which people can change from working in the day to working at night is a【C2】______ of growing importance in industry where automation【C3】______round-the-clock working of machines. It normally takes from five days to one week for a person to adapt to a【C4】______ routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night. Unfortunately, it is often the case in industry that shifts are changed every week. This【C5】______ that no sooner has he got used to one routine than he has to change to another,【C6】______ much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very efficiently. One answer would seem to be【C7】______ periods on each shift, a month, or even three months. However, recent research has shown that people on such systems will go back to their 【C8】______ habits of sleep and wakefulness during the weekend and that this is quite enough to destroy any adaptation to night work built up during the week. The only real solution appears to be to【C9】______ the night shift to those permanent night workers whose【C10】______ may persist through all weekends and holidays.
As there was no road, the traveler______ up a rocky slope on their way back. （2010年考试真题）
He was reading excitedly the book published by his company in ______ with a famous press.
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