单选题______ are a set of vowel qualities arbitrarily defined, fixed and unchanging, intended to provide a frame of reference for the description of the actual vowels of existing languages.

单选题When I arrived in Aberdeen, I fell in love with the Doric—this linguistically______, witty and gritty dialect.

单选题To plant rice, farmers, ______, set young plants in the mud.

单选题Dr Johnson______the task of writing a comprehensive English dictionary.

单选题______evidence that language acquiring ability must be developed through practice.

单选题The beaver chews down trees to get food and material______its home.

单选题A A common use B with gold in the nineteenth century was C as a standard for the D value of money.

单选题The long wait for news of my exam results has already set my nerves ______.

单选题Saussure is closely connected with______. (大连外国语学院2008研)

单选题Of the following writers who is NOT a poet in English Renaissance? ______.

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} For the past several years, the Sunday newspaper supplement Parade has featured a column called "Ask Marilyn". People are invited to query Marilyn vos Savant, who at age 10 had tested at a mental level of someone about 23 years old; that gave her an IQ of 228--the highest score ever recorded. IQ tests ask you to complete verbal and visual analogies, to envision paper after it has been folded and cut, and to deduce numerical sequences, among other similar tasks. So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe (whose IQ is 100) as. What's the difference between love and fondness? Or what is the nature of luck and coincidence? It's not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. Clearly, intelligence encompasses more than a score on a test. Just what does it mean to be smart? How much of intelligence can be specified, and how much can we learn about it from neurology, genetics, computer science and other fields? The defining term of intelligence in humans still seems to be the IQ score, even though IQ tests are not given as often as they used to be. The test comes primarily in two forms; the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scales (both come in adult and children's version). Generally costing several hundred dollars, they are usually given only by psychologists, although variations of them populate bookstores and the World Wide Web. Superhigh scores like vos Savant's are no longer possible, because scoring is now based on a statistical population distribution among age peers, rather than simply dividing the mental age by the chronological age and multiplying by 100. Other standardized tests, such as the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), capture the main aspects of IQ tests. Such standardized tests may not assess all the important elements necessary to succeed in school and in life, argues Robert J. Sternberg. In his article "How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?", Sternberg notes that traditional tests best assess analytical and verbal skills but fail to measure creativity and practical knowledge, components also critical to problem solving and life success. Moreover, IQ tests do not necessarily predict so well once populations or situations change. Research has found that IQ predicted leadership skills when the tests were given under low-stress conditions, but under high-stress conditions, IQ was negatively correlated with leadership --that is, it predicted the opposite. Anyone who has toiled through SAT will testify that test-taking skill also matters, whether it's knowing when to guess or what questions to skip.

单选题The sounds, which are produced by a closure in the vocal tract or by a narrowing which is so marked that air cannot escape without producing audible friction, are known as______.

单选题Governments all over the world make public about the condition of their economies. Most countries , including the United States, have used a measure【C1】______the gross national product or GNP. It includes all【C2】______and services produced by citizens of the country【C3】______in the world. Recently the American Commerce Department has started using a new【C4】______to measure production. It is known as the gross domestic product or GDP. It counts only goods and services that have been produced【C5】______the nation" s borders. Money【C6】______by foreign companies operating in the United States is included in the GDP. Money earned by American companies operating in the United States is included in the GDP, but money earned by American companies operating in other countries【C7】______. Economic experts are generally in favor【C8】______the change. They say that the gross domestic product provides a truer measure of the【C9】______. They also note that most other industrial countries use this method. 【C10】______it will be easier to study the economies of different countries. Some【C11】______also hope the new system will help them【C12】______better economic policy decisions. It will provide them【C13】______a clearer understanding of economic activity in the US. The new measure is【C14】______likely to be affected by sudden changes in foreign oil prices or in the【C15】______of the American dollar in other countries. 【C16】______experts believe that the change from GNP to GDP will immediately reduce the value of American production【C17】______at least 40, 000 million dollars a year. But that is really a very 【C18】______change in the American economy—less than 1%. The Commerce Department reports the unofficial gross domestic product once【C19】______three months. The government also 【C20】______to report GNP as it has four times a year since 1941.

单选题______a machine, she met with a lot of difficulties at first.

单选题The verb "take" can be analyzed in the following way according to componential analysis.

单选题Structural metaphor means that human experiences with physical objects provide the basis for ways of viewing events, activities, emotions, ideas, etc. , as entities and substances.

单选题The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photography"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 defense 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. 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. In the nineteenth century, photography"s association with the real world placed it in an ambivalent relation to art; late in the twentieth century, an ambivalent relation exists because of the Modernist heritage in art. That important photographers 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, 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. 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. 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.

单选题The members of the club voted to______the meeting until after lunch.

单选题Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in ______.

单选题Hong Kong is a______city, and still more people are pouring in.