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.

填空题 As concerns over man's impact on the global environment increase, many interesting innovations are being considered. For example, "green roofs" - plant-filled roof top gardens - are one substantial way to confront the country's ecological problems, and there seems to be very little in the way of a downside. For one thing, a green roof acts as a sponge for rainwater, absorbing the majority of water from a typical rainstorm. Only three to five inches of soil for a green roof is sufficient for this to occur, which keeps the weight of the roof to a minimum. Because the plantings on the roof absorb the rainwater, drainage and sewage systems have a decreased volume of water pumping through them, keeping these systems from becoming over-stressed. And while, the soil and plants are absorbing rainwater, they are also taking in pollutants for their own nourishment by storing carbon and then emitting necessary oxygen back into the atmosphere.

填空题 Since 1875, when Alexander Graham Bell first discovered how to send the human voice along wires, the telephone has been one of the world's most utilized and essential methods of communication. The first telephone exchange in America was established in 1878 and served a total of 21 people. At that time, operators would answer a call and connect two parties by completing an electrical circuit. Little could those operators envision that, one century later, calls would be transmitted along optical fibers and, soon after, would become totally wireless and portable. The idea of orbiting satellites picking up millions of calls and relaying them across the planet would have been unimaginable.

填空题Traditional critical scholarship has considered a literary work the product of one focused mind, along with its social influences, struggling to achieve self-expression. In such a context, the author"s intended meaning, especially as it may be inferred by the circumstances surrounding his life and the work, is extremely important: the author"s intention should be taken as the gold standard in determining what constitutes an accurate and valid reading of the text. A natural outgrowth of measuring the validity of readings by this standard is the rejection of those readings that do not fit what the author intended, or what the surrounding culture expected the author to intend. In the passage, "gold standard" most nearly means

填空题 A．同时发生 B．导致；有助于 C．其他的 D．支持；有利于 E．从……中取得 F．即将成功；即将达到 G．基于……推断；外推 H．使……脱颖而出 I．在……的控制之下 J．加固

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．回顾往事；事后看来 B．符合；与……一致 C．响应 D．数量级 E．就……而言 F．为……铺平了道路；为……奠定基础 G．有一点；有一丝 H．提出；解释 I．提出假设；猜想 J．更不必说

填空题When he was ordered from above to expel two________comrades―they insisted on challenging the leadership―he found himself caught between his official duties and his oldest________.

填空题 order of magnitude speculate on in response to a streak of conform to in retrospect as far as...is concerned lay out let alone pave the way for

填空题Nine times as many Americans died in the farmlands near Antietam Creek in the fall of 1862 than died on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the so-called longest day of World War II. The bloodiest single day of war in the nation's history came when General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army undertook its first engagement on northern soil. According to the Antietam National Battlefield park service, when the fighting had subsided, more than 23,000 soldiers lay dead or wounded, more than all of the dead or wounded Americans in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, and Spanish-American War combined. Just a week after his army's victory in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Lee resolved to advance the front into Northern territory. The vast farm fields of western Maryland were ready for harvest, and Lee saw in them an opportunity to nourish his soldiers, replenish his supplies, and turn the residents of the undecided border state to his cause.

填空题On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a law that sought to overturn four decades of discrimination. The National Origins Quota System, which had been in effect since 1924, determined which immigrants should be allowed to come to the United States based solely on their national origin. The 1965 Immigration Act changed all this by making individual work skills and relationships with current U.S. citizens the criteria for immigration. President Johnson captured the essence of this exciting change by declaring that "those who can contribute most to this country--to its growth, to its strength, to its spirit--will be the first that are admitted to this land.\

填空题 A．与……相处融洽 B．解决 C．归因于 D．大量的 E．通过解释消除 F．处于危险中 G．灭绝 H．退出；半途而废 I．反复；来回 J．受制于；依赖于

填空题"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Work without joy shall be as nothing. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." This quote becomes yet more inspirational upon learning it comes from Helen Keller, a remarkable woman who overcame both blindness and deafness. Her decision to be joyful despite adversity no doubt contributed to her many impressive accomplishments. She succeeded in learning to communicate, and reached out to others with her meaningful speeches and writings. Which of the following statements is most analogous to the quotation presented in the passage?

填空题She is so________, it is inconceivable how she is generally thought to be________.

填空题What Spinoza says of laws is equally true of party-platforms―that those are strong which appeal to reason, but________which compel the assent both of reason and the common affections of mankind.

填空题 Recently, a group of researchers from Tokyo developed a device that allows them to identify individuals of the endangered Ganges River dolphin species. Ganges River dolphins are rare in that, unlike the majority of their counterparts, they live in fresh water rivers and lakes rather than salt water oceans. The species is blind and uses clicks to send out sonar pulses for guidance and to find food. The Tokyo researchers' new underwater acoustic device measures these pulses, which are as unique as a human fingerprint, thus allowing the identification and tracking of individual dolphins. Scientists estimate that, in the last few decades, the number of Ganges River dolphins has dropped by 50 percent due to a lethal combination of fishing nets, hunters, pollution, and human construction. With this new technology, scientists hope to get a better idea of how many of these dolphins still exist, as well as their migration patterns and feeding habits. In turn, this information may help scientists protect and conserve this unique species.

填空题In view of the fact that his enemies knew him as cheerful, his allies exhorted him, as a matter of self-preservation, to________himself as taciturn.

填空题After a while, his anger abated, he stopped hurling________and, as he often did after such an outburst, became quite________.

填空题 Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises, has frequently been treated as a novel of the Lost Generation--a group of young American expatriate writers living in Paris who came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920's. They considered themselves "lost" because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world and they felt spiritually alienated from a country that they considered hopelessly provincial and emotionally barren. More broadly, the Lost Generation represented the World War I American generation. This approach to The Sun Also Rises has become something of a critical clich6. Hemingway described the novel as less about the life of postwar expatriates than about the rhythms of nature as an expression of eternity.

填空题 A．督促；呼吁 B．屈服；同意 C．连同；与……共同联合 D．来源于 E．从长远来看 F．在……范围内；一定程度上 G．只不过 H．用……替代…… I．抑制 J．大约