单选题Given the persistent and intransigent nature of the American race system, which proved quite impervious to black attacks, Du Bois in his speeches and writings moved from one proposed solution to another and the salience of various parts of his philosophy changed as his perceptions of the needs and strategies of black American shifted over time. A. vigilant B. inadvertent C. impenetrable D. incongruous

单选题As you have seen, the value of a nation's currency is a ______ of its economy. A. reaction B. response C. reflection D. revelation

单选题In its early days, a penny paper often ______.

单选题A guide dog for a blind person must show good ______ and be able to follow some commands.

单选题Banking and financial systems are full of ______and corruption hinder the region's successes.

单选题Everyone was obligated to adapt their ways to these overarching rules, as they were commonly understood, and anyone could reasonably judge others, wherever they lived, by their degree of conformity to the ______ principle. A. fluid B. poignant C. vexatious D. immutable

单选题Chaucer has been called the Father of Poetry by ______ generations.

单选题Passage 2 French are elegant people. They are artists in everyday life, having a very good taste in everything. They don't like American tourists wearing jeans to go into their luxurious and exquisite five-star restaurants. So one of the restaurants put a notice outside its front door. It read "No trousers, please!" A gourmet coffee was sold in Tokyo as an antidote to stress. Its name supposedly meant to people that it would soothe the troubled breast. Yet when it was printed in English, it turned out to be "Ease Your Bosoms". Swedes started a promotion stunt to promote the sales of their vacuum cleaner named Electro. Their original ad slogan was translated as "Nothing Sucks Like Electro". The General Motors' selling of Chevrolet was very bad in South America. And the reason? The translation of this brand sounds like "no va", which means "It doesn't go" in Spanish. When Pepsi-cola invaded the huge Chinese and German markets, the efforts initially fizzled. The product's slogan, "Come alive with the Pepsi generation", was rendered into German as "come out of the grave with Pepsi". Coca-Cola discovered something had gone wrong in China. The Chinese characters chosen for the world-famous product sound like "Bite the Wax Tadpole". A beer company's slogan "Turn it loose" became, in Spanish, equivalent to "suffer from diarrhea". A company translated its sticky tape slogan into Japanese and came up with a sticky problem. The slogan "Sticks like crazy" became literally "it sticks foolishly" in Japanese. A tonic produced in China is made of royal jelly and is supposed to be very effective for some chronic diseases. Yet it was translated as "oral liquid", which means "saliva" in English. In the brochure, it was described in this way: "it tastes like medicine", when the language in the original meant to use it as a food therapy. Even the wrong nonverbal cue can bring havoc to a product. A baby food company initially packaged their African products just the same as in the U.S.--with a cute baby picture on the jar. They didn't realize that because so many Africans cannot read, nearly all packaged products sold in African carry pictures of what is inside. Pureed baby! How horrible! In an Asian city, where traffic is really very bad, to secure people's safety, the municipal government has built underground passageways. Pedestrians are asked to use them whenever they need to cross the main street. A sign was posted once on the roadside, pointing to the entrance to an underground passageway, intending to notify English-speaking passengers, "Go underground". We chuckled at such clumsy translations. Is there anything wrong in the language? We must be aware that few words and idioms can be literally translated. It's best to hire the best for translation. Don't take it for granted that as long as one speaks a little English, he is autonomously able to do the translation. It takes a while to learn to be a good translator.

单选题I don't know how to interpret her remark. I think it was deliberately______.(2003年上海交通大学考博试题)

单选题The invisible rays of the ______ beyond the violet end are called the ultraviolet rays. A. speculation B. spectrum C. sleet D. range

单选题I didn't listen to Mom and I was not surprised at the look of ______on her face. A.indifference B.compliment C.negligence D.reproach

单选题Modern technology and science have produced a wealth of new materials and new ways of using old materials. For the artist this means wider opportunities. There is no doubt that the limitations of materials and nature of tools both restrict and shape a man's work. Observe how the development of plastics and light metals along with new methods of welding has changed the direction of sculpture. Transparent plastic materials allow one to look through an object, to see its various sides superimposed on each other (as in Cubism or in an X-ray). Today, welding is as prevalent as casting was in the past. This new method encourages open designs, where surrounding and intervening space becomes as important as form itself. More ambiguous than other scientific inventions familiar to modern artists, but no less influential, are the psychoanalytic studies of Freud and his followers, discoveries that have infiltrated recent art, especially Surrealism. The Surrealists, in their struggle to escape the monotony and frustrations of everyday life, claimed that dreams were the only hope. Turning to the irrational world of their unconscious, they banished all dine barriers and moral judgments to combine disconnected dream experiences from the past, present and intervening psychological states. The Surrealists were concerned with overlapping emotions more than with overlapping forms. Their paintings often become segmented capsules of associative experiences. For them, obsessive and often unrelated images replaced the direct emotional message of expressionism. They did not need to smash paint and canvas; they went beyond this to smash the whole continuity of logical thought. There is little doubt that contemporary art has taken much from contemporary life. In a period when science has made revolutionary strides, artists in their studios have not been unaware of scientists in their laboratories. But this has rarely been a one-way street. Painters and sculptors though admittedly influenced by modern science, have also molded and changed our world. If breakup has been a vital part of their expression, it has not always been a symbol of destruction. Quite the contrary, it has been used to examine more fully, to penetrate more deeply, to analyze more thoroughly, to enlarge, isolate and make more familiar certain aspects of life that earlier we were apt to neglect. In addition, it sometimes provides rich multiple experiences so organized as not merely to reflect our world, but in fact to interpret it.

单选题It was difficult to see through the ______ fog.

单选题For 5O years they wore able to produce and sell their goods more cheaply than other countries and this gave them a ______ advantage in world trade. A.considerable B.concrete C.considerate D.conventional

单选题Successful students sometimes become so ______ with grades that they never enjoy their school years. A. passionate B. involved C. immersed D. obsessed

单选题Students learning about how life began on Earth may be presented with the {{U}}perplexing{{/U}} question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

单选题I don't know ______ it was that answered the phone this morning.

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