单选题B. Please answer the following questions based on the above passage. And your answers should be brief and to the point with no more than three lines of words for each question.

单选题Manual dexterity may be compromised by arthritis, affecting ability to grasp, manipulate and maneuver objects.

单选题Naturally men who were themselves learned praised learning, all the more because they found themselves the appreciated legatees of a classical inheritance to which their medieval predecessors had paid little attention. The enthusiasm for contact with the learned civility of the ancient world was expressed as early as the 1330s, when Petrarch exclaimed, "I am alive now, yet I would rather have been born in another time, " and wrote eloquent letters to the heroes he could only meet through their works. By including examples of these among his widely circulated correspondence, he encouraged others to see the part learning had played in antiquity, whether in the person of a Cicero, who was both philosopher and participatory man of affairs, or of a Livy who recorded public events as an inspiration to posterity. In Floreance in the 1430s, Matteo Palmieri wrote in his Delia Vita Civile or on "civil" life "now indeed may every thoughtful spirit thank God that it has been permitted to him to be born in this new age. " But, while mentioning the revitalization of the arts as part of the recapture of classical attainments, he stressed above all the importance of "philosophy and wisdom" being at last "drunk from the pure fountainhead. " He was writing for a politically responsible class for whom learning was more important than diversion. And this was the emphasis that was taken up in the North from the early sixteenth century. When Celtis urged his fellow Germans to show the world that they were not cultural barbarians he spoke not of the arts but of learning. For Erasmus in 1517 all over the world, as if on a given signal, splendid talents are stirring and conspiring together to revive the best learning, but it was for their blindness to learning, not the arts, that he criticized the "Philistines". Steadily, learning, or at least a more than superficial education, came to be taken for granted by those for whom it was not a vocation. As for the prince himself, Botero in 1598 repeated the medieval quip: "an unlettered prince is a crowned ass. "

单选题We should______with the difficulties we were confronted with.

单选题A membership card______the holder to use the club"s facilities for a period of twelve months.

单选题Blank verse consists of lines in iambic pentameters which do not rhyme. (南开大学2004研)

单选题A good reputation is a(n)______asset for a company.

单选题Which of the following is an "inflectional suffix"?

单选题Odgen and Richards argue that the relation between a word and a thing it refers to is not direct.（南开大学2004研)

单选题My wife and I got married right out of college, in 1978. We were young and naive and unashamedly idealistic, and we decided to make our first home in a Utopian environmentalist community in New York State. For seven years, we lived, quite contentedly, in circumstances that would strike most Americans as austere in the extreme: our living space measured just seven hundred square feet and we didn"t have a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, a lawn, or a car. We did our grocery shopping on foot, and when we needed to travel longer distances we used public transportation. Because space at home was scarce, we seldom acquired new possessions of significant size. Our electric bills worked out to be about a dollar a day. The Utopian community was Manhattan.(Our apartment was on Sixty-ninth Street, between Second and Third.)Most Americans, including most New Yorkers, think of New York City as an ecological nightmare, a wasteland of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams, but in comparison with the rest of America it"s a model of environmental responsibility. By the most significant measures, New York is the greenest community in the United States, and it is one of the greenest cites of the world. The most devastating damage humans have done to the environment has arisen from the heedless burning of fossil fuels, a category in which New Yorkers are practically prehistoric. The average Manhattanite consumes gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn"t matched since the mid-nineteen-twenties, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. Eighty-two per cent of Manhattan residents travel to work by public transit, by bicycle, or on foot. That"s ten times the rate for Americans in general, and eight times the rate for residents of Los Angeles County. New York City is more populous than all but eleven states; if it were granted statehood, it would rank fifty-first in per-capita energy use. "Anyplace that has such tall buildings and heavy traffic is obviously an environmental disaster— except that it isn"t, " John Holtzclaw, a transportation consultant for the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, told me. " If New Yorkers lived at the typical American sprawl density of three households per residential acre, they would require many times as much land. They"d be driving cars, and they"d have huge lawns and be using pesticides and fertilizers on them, and then he"d be overwatering their lawns, so that runoff would go into streams. " The key to New York"s relative environmental benignity is its extreme compactness. Manhattan"s population density is more than eight hundred times that of the nation as a whole. Placing one and a half million people on a twenty-three-square-mile island sharply reduces their opportunities to be wasteful, and forces the majority to live in some of the most inherently energy-sufficient residential structures in the world: apartment buildings. It also frees huge tracts of land from the rest of America to sprawl into.

单选题The Sony Play Station Portable looks and feels gorgeous. With its______and sophisticated lines, it's the iPod of games machines, aimed as much at adults as teenagers.

单选题James Shapiro follows his award-winning book on William Shakespeare, "1599" , which came out in 2005, with an unlikely subject: an investigation into the old chestnut that Shakespeare wasn't the man who wrote the works. Most mainstream Shakespeareans stand aloof from it. But apparently the claims of Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere and Christopher Marlowe, among others, are on the rise. An appetite for conspiracy theories, combined with a call for "balance" from some sectors of academe and the rise of Internet have given the thing new life. Respectable audiences turn up to listen to lectures on it. The controversy is even taught at university level. The authorship controversy turns on two things: snobbery and the assumption that, in a literal way, you are what you write. How could an untutored, untraveled glover's son from hickville, the argument goes, understand kings and courtiers, affairs of state, philosophy, law, music—let alone the noble art of falconry? Worse still, how could the business-minded, property-owning, money-lending materialist that emerged from the documentary scraps, be the same man as the poet of the plays? Many have shaken their heads at the sheer vulgarity of it all, among them Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Henry James, his brother William, and Sigmund Freud. Mr Shapiro teases out the cultural prejudices, the historical blind spots, and above all the anachronism inherent in these questions. No one before the late 18th century had ever asked them, or thought to read the plays or sonnets for biographical insights. No one had even bothered to work out a chronology for them. The idea that works of literature hold personal clues, or that—more grandly— writing is an expression and exploration of the self, is a relatively recent phenomenon. The central chapters of Mr Shapiro's book concentrate on the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the search for alternative claimants took off. The two main characters in his story are Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere. Mr Shapiro takes them both seriously, patiently following their lives and contextualising their ideas. The quest for the true claimant drove people mad. Here are secrets and codes, an elaborate cipher-breaking machine, an obsession with graves and crazy adventures to find lost manuscripts. One man spent months dredging the River Severn. Mr Shapiro himself turns sleuth, exposing as fraudulent a piece of evidence long thought to be genuine—one more hoax in the long history of Shakespearean wild goose chases. The last chapter is a return to sanity: a brilliant defence of the man from Stratford. Piece by piece, Mr Shapiro builds the case—the contemporary witnesses, the tracks left by printing houses and theatrical practice, the thousand details that show, apart from anything else, how unnecessary the whole farrago has been. The Shakespeare that emerges is both simple and mysterious; a man of the theatre, who read, observed, listened and remembered. Beyond that is imagination. In essence, that's what the book is about.

单选题______conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.

单选题Geoffrey Chaucer planned originally to have each of the pilgrims tell______stories on the way to Canterbury and the same number of stories on the way back in his famous The Canterbury Tales.

单选题If you want to set up a company, you must______ with the regulations laid down by the authorities.

单选题Which of the following words is formed by the process of blending?(对外经贸2006研)

单选题According to a survey, women are smoking two extra cigarettes a week, ______four years ago.

单选题A Because of the recent turmoil and until B further notice, any gathering more than two people C is prohibited in the interest of preserving D the law and order .

单选题When birds______, they sometimes fly in formation.

单选题It is true that words may shift in meaning, i. e. semantic change. The semantic change of the word tail belongs to______.