单选题Which of the following is NOT a U.K. newspaper?A. The Guardian.B. Christian Science Monitor.C. The Daily Telegraph.D. The Times.

单选题Thishasbeenquiteaweekforliterarycoups.Inanalmostentirelyunexpectedmove,theSwedishAcademyhavethislunchtimeannouncedtheirdecisiontoawardthisyear'sNobelprizeforLiteraturetotheBritishplaywright,authorandrecentpoet,HaroldPinterandnot,aswaswidelyanticipated,toTurkishauthorOrhanPamukortheSyrianpoetAdonis.TheAcademy,whichhashandedouttheprizesince1901,describedPinter,whoseworksincludeTheBirthdayParty,TheDumbWaiterandhisbreakthroughTheCaretaker,assomeonewhorestoredtheartformoftheatre.Initscitation,theAcademysaidPinterwas"generallyseenastheforemostrepresentativeofBritishdramainthesecondhalfofthe20thcentury,"anddeclaredhimtobeanauthor"whoinhisplaysuncoverstheprecipiceundereverydayprattleandforcesentryintooppression'sclosedrooms."Untiltoday'sannouncement,Pinterwasbarelythoughttobeintherunningfortheprize,oneofthemostprestigiousand(at1.3m)lucrativeintheworld.AfterPamukandAdonis,thewritersbelievedtobeunderconsiderationbytheAcademyincludedAmericansJoyceCarolOatesandPhilipRoth,andtheSwedishpoetThomasTranstromer,withMargaretAtwood,MilanKunderaandtheSouthKoreanpoetKoUnaslong-rangepossibilities.Followingonfromlastyear'ssurprisedecisiontonametheAustriannovelist,playwrightandpoetElfriedeJelinekaslaureate,however,thesecretiveAcademyhasonceagainconfoundedthebookies.Pinter'svictorymeansthattheprizehasbeengiventoaBritishwriterforthesecondtimeinunderfiveyears;itwasawardedtoVSNaipaulin2001.Europeanwritershavewontheprizeinnineoutofthelast10yearssoitwaswidelyassumedthatthisyear'sawardwouldgotoawriterfromadifferentcontinent.ThesonofimmigrantJewishparents,PinterwasborninHackney,LondononOctober10,1930.Hehimselfhassaidthathisyouthfulencounterswithanti-semitismledhimtobecomeadramatist.WithoutdoubtoneofBritain'sgreatestpost-warplaywrights,hislongassociationwiththetheatrebeganwhenheworkedasanactor,underthestagenameDavidBaron.Hisfirstplay,TheRoom,wasperformedatBristolUniversityin1957;butitwasin1960withhissecondfull-lengthplay,theabsurdistmasterpieceTheCaretaker,thathisreputationwasestablished.Knownfortheirmenacingpauses,hisdark,claustrophobicplaysarenotoriousfortheirmesmerisingabilitytostripbackthelayersoftheoftenbanallivesoftheircharacterstorevealtheguiltandhorrorthatliebeneath,afeatureofhiswritingwhichhasgarneredhimtheadjective"Pinteresque."Hehasalsowrittenextensivelyforthecinema:hisscreenplaysincludeTheServant(1963),andTheFrenchLieutenant'sWoman(1981).Pinter'sauthorialstance,alwaysradical,hasbecomemoreandmorepoliticalinrecentyears.AnoutspokencriticofthewarinIraq(hefamouslycalledPresidentBusha"massmurderer"anddubbedTonyBlaira"deludedidiot"),in2003heturnedtopoetrytocastigatetheleadersoftheUSandtheUKfortheirdecisiontogotowar(hiscollection,War,wasawardedtheWilfredOwenawardforpoetry).Earlierthisyear,heannouncedhisdecisiontoretirefromplaywritinginfavourofpoetry,declaringonBBCRadio4that."IthinkI'vestoppedwritingplaysnow,butIhaven'tstoppedwritingpoems.I'vewritten29plays.Isn'tthatenough?"In2002,Pinterwasdiagnosedwithcanceroftheoesophagusandunderwentacourseofchemotherapy,Whichhedescribedasa"personalnightmare"."I'vebeenthroughthevalleyoftheshadowofdeath,"hesaidafterwards."WhileinmanyrespectsIhavecertaincharacteristicsthatIhad,I'malsoaverychangedman."EarlierthisweekitwasannouncedthatheistoactinaproductionofKrapp'sLastTapebySamuelBeckettaspartofthe50thanniversarycelebrationsoftheEnglishStageCompanyatLondon'sRoyalCourtTheatre.HoraceEngdahl,theAcademy'spermanentsecretary,saidthatPinterwasoverwhelmedwhentoldhehadwontheprize."Hedidnotsaymanywords,"hesaid."Hewasveryhappy./

单选题______is a mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem, especially a lament for the dead or a funeral song. A. Ballad B. Fable C. Elegy D. Odyssey

单选题Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

单选题Which of the following is not a character of acquisition?

单选题Dr. Zelda Teplitz ______.

单选题Mesa Verde is the center of the prehistoric Anasazi culture. It is located in the high plateau lands near Four Corners, where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona come together. This high ground is majestic but not forbidding. The climate is dry, but tiny streams trickle at the bottom of deeply cut canyons, where seeps and springs provided water for the Anasazi to irrigate their crops. Rich red soil provided fertile ground for their crops of corn, beans, squash, tobacco, and cotton. The Anasazi domesticated the wild turkey and hunted deer, rabbits, and mountain sheep. For a thousand years the Anasazi lived around Mesa Verde. Although the Anasazi are not related to the Navajos, no one knows what these Indians called themselves, and so they are commonly referred to by their Navajo name, Anasazi, which means "ancient ones" in the Navajo language. Around 550 A. D. , early Anasazi--then a nomadic people archaeologists call the Basketmakers—began constructing permanent homes on mesa tops. In the next 300 years, the Anasazi made rapid technological advancements, including the refinement of not only basket-making but also pottery-making and weaving. This phase of development is referred to as the Early Pueblo Culture. By the Great Pueblo Period (1100 -1300 A. D. ), the Anasazi population swelled to over 5,000 and the architecturally ambitious cliff dwellings came into being. The Anasazi moved from the mesa tops onto ledges on the steep canyon walls, creating two-and three-story dwellings. They used sandstone blocks and mud mortar. There were no doors on the first floor and people used ladders to reach the first roof. All the villages had underground chambers called kivas. Men held tribal councils there and also used them for secret religious ceremonies and clan meetings. Winding paths, ladders, and steps cut into the stone led from the valleys below to the ledges on which the villages stood. The largest settlement contained 217 rooms. One might surmise that these dwellings were built for protection, but the Anasazi had no known enemies and there is no sign of conflict. But a bigger mystery is why the Anasazi occupied these structures such a short time. By 1500, Mesa Verde was deserted. It is conjectured that the Anasazi abandoned their settlements because of drought, overpopulation, crop failure, or some combination of these. They probably moved southward and were incorporated into the pueblo villages that the Spanish explorers encountered two hundred years later. Their descendants still live in the Southwest.

单选题"Death and the Surf', with its main character Fran, spends less time in Spain than in the creaky, peat-scented realmof bullfighting. There are thoughtful, well-researched sections on bull breeding, explanations of the byzantine system of scoring and scheduling professional bullfights, descriptions of the repertory of torero moves and the highly orchestrated three-act structure of the fight itself, as well as intelligent discussion of the work and influence of Hemingway, something an American journalist writing a book about bullfighting(with a protagonist who draws his bloodline through"The Sun Also Rises, "no less)is going to have to reckon with. What Lewine has created may be the most in-depth, incisively written literary guide to bullfighting available in English. Every drunken sophomore riding the rails to Pamplona this summer ought to keep a Volume in his backpack. At times, though, "Death and the Sun"is too thorough a guide. We learn that seating sections in a bullring are Called tendidos, what kind of seat you can get for ＄3. 50 in Madrid and that Pamplona was under control of the Visigoths, Franks and Moors. Not only do we bear wimess to the grueling nature of life on the road for Fran's team, but we find out who gets to ride shotgun in the Mereedes minibus, where everyone else sits, and who brings a pillow. Maybe the deep reporting is meant to fill in for plot. In the end, Fran's season doesn't have that Hemingway- Almodóvar Spanish drama—those lights—that Lewine was probably hoping for There are some exciting moments but the narrative doesn't order itself into the classic three-act structure we expect stories about bullfighters and boxers to hew to, thanks to Ron Howard. So Lewine, a frequent contributor to The New York Times, is left trying to pull the narrative torque from the person of Fran. Lewine writes often, and well, about how bullfighting is an art performed by two actors, one of them a 1, 200-pound horned ruminant bred to look scary and without much mind for collaboration. It's within this unpredictability that the beauty(and danger)of the bullfight lies; and sometimes the bull just doesn't cooperate. Fran himself, it turns out, wasn't very cooperative. He appears rigid, opaque, distant. Lewine had remarkable access to Fran and his cortege for the better part of eight months, but there are only a few human moments with the bullfighter, and even those are too small to stretch out into a character. He was in the middle of a public divorce, but you'd barely notice. Too bad. As it is, if Fran is something other than reticent, noble and bullfighterly, you wouldn't know it from reading the book. This is the problem with the genre: you commit to your subject, invest a year of your life, but sometimes you end up with someone either too self-conscious or, like most athletes, too unreflective to reveal himself to you. Unlike Hemingway, if Lewine didn't know what his matador was thinking, he wasn't allowed to make it up.

单选题Among the following, ______ is NOT one of the functions of adult's language according to Halliday.

单选题There is ______ age limit for adult education.A. no B. some C. definite D. None of the above

单选题The prefix "ex-" as in "ex-wife" or "ex-president" was borrowed into English from ______

单选题Jackson Carnegie Library was on the same street where our house was, on the other side of the State Capitol. "Through the Capitol" was the way to go to the Library. You could glide through it on your bicycle or even coast through on roller skates, though without family permission. I never knew any one who'd grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway, our librarian. She ran the Library absolutely by herself, from the desk where she sat with her back to the books and facing the stairs, her dragon eye on the front door, where who knew what kind of person might come in from the public? SILENCE in big black letters was on signs tacked up everywhere. She herself spoke in her normally commanding voice; every word could be heard all over the Library above a steady seething sound coming from her electric fan; it was the only fan in the Library and stood on her desk, turned directly onto her streaming face. As you came in from the bright outside, if you were a girl, she sent her strong eyes down the stairway to test you; if she could see through your skirt, she sent you straight back home: you could just put on another petticoat if you wanted a book that badly from the public library. I was willing; I would do anything to read. My mother was not afraid of Mrs. Calloway. She wished me to have my own library card to check out books for myself. She took me in to introduce me and I saw I had met a witch. "Eudora is nine years old and has my permission to read any book she wants from the shelves, children or adult," Mother said. Mrs. Calloway made her own rules about books. You could not take back a book to the Library on the same day you'd taken it out; it made no difference to her that you'd read every word in it and needed another to start. You could take out two books at a time and two only; this applied as long as you were a child and also for the rest of your life, to my mother as severely as to me. So two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While to Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn't nearly so important; it comes in its own time. I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that--there would be no more books left. My mother share this feeling of insatiability. Now, I remember her reading so much of the time while doing something else. In my mind's eye, The Origin of Species is lying on the shelf in the pantry under a light dusting of flour--my mother was a bread maker; she'd pick it up, sit by the kitchen window and find her place, with one eye on the oven. I remember her picking up The Man in Lower Ten, while my hair got dry enough to unroll from a load of kid curlers trying to make me like my idol, Mary Pick ford. A generation later, when my brother Walter was away in the Navy and his two little girls often spent the day in our house, I remember Mother reading the new issue of Time magazine while taking the part of the Wolf in a game of "Little Red Riding Hood" with the children. She'd just look up at the right time, long enough to answer--in character--"The better to eat you with, my dear," and go back to her place in the war news.

单选题A wise farmer replaces the organic matter in the crops that he removes ______.

单选题{{B}}TEXT E{{/B}} Learning for Its Own Sake For me, scientific knowledge is divided into mathematical sciences, natural sciences or sciences dealing with the natural world (physical and biological sciences), and sciences dealing with mankind (psychology, sociology, all the sciences of cultural achievements, every kind of historical knowledge). Apart from these sciences is philosophy, about which we will take shortly. In the first place, all this is pure or theoretical knowledge, sought only for the purpose of understanding, in order to fulfill the need to understand that is intrinsic and consubstantial to man. What distinguishes man from animal is that he knows and needs to know. If man did not know that the world existed, and that the world was of a certain kind, that he was in the world and that he himself was of a certain kind, he wouldn' t be a man. The technical aspects of applications of knowledge are equally necessary for man and are of the greatest importance, because they also contribute to defining him as man and permit him to pursue a life increasingly more truly human. But even while enjoying the results of technical and the results of technical progress, he must defend the primacy and autonomy of pure knowledge. Knowledge sought directly for its practical applications will have immediate and foreseeable success, but not the kind of important result whose revolutionary scope is in large part unforeseen, except by the imagination of the Utopians. Let me recall a well - known example. If the Greek mathematicians had not applied themselves to the investigation of conic sections, zealously and without the least suspicion that it might someday be useful, it would not have been possible centuries later to navigate far from shore. The first men to study the nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modem electrical technology, without which we can scarcely conceive of contemporary life. Pure knowledge is valuable for its own sake, because the human spirit cannot resign itself to ignorance. But, in addition, it is the foundation for practical results that would not have been reached if this knowledge had not been sought disinterestedly.

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单选题In the opinion of the author, Cry, The Beloved Country is a great and dramatic novel because of Paton's ______.

单选题It can be inferred that the author sees Zuckerkandl as believing that mathematics is a(n) ______.

单选题The victory at ______ was the turning point of the American Civil War. A. Gettysburg B. Philadelphia C. Louisiana D. Gadsden

单选题In the following speech, the speaker primarily intends to______.

单选题{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Author Emma Heathcote-James has spent nine years looking into real-life ghost stories, collecting tales from hundreds of people who claim to have seen evidence of an afterlife. The 27-year-old started her research at university and her thesis was turned into a BBC documentary that she re-wrote as her debut bestseller Seeing Angels. The book prompted so many people to write to her with their ghostly experiences that she used them for a second book After Death Communication, which has just been released in paperback. Her new book They Walk Among Us describes séances with mediums who can summon solid ghosts out of thin air. While working on the book she invited a medium to her home in the Cotswolds to demonstrate a form of ghostly communication where spirits take over the body. She explained: "This medium came to my house, sat in my front room, and went into a trance. An old man's body just appeared over the top of the medium-- he turned into an old man right in front of me. I was absolutely terrified at first--his hands became all arthritic and rheumatoid and his voice was old and staggered. The lights in my old cottage were going mad, going up and down by themselves but they had never done it before or since." Emma added: "The old man spoke to my boyfriend Paul and asked him to take the medium's pulse. Paul, an army doctor, felt his wrist and said 'think he's dead' --but he wasn't, he had let the spirit take him over." They Walk Among Us tells stories of people like Nick McGlynn, who was reunited with his wife Marie during a séance. She spoke to him through a medium hours after dying in hospital from multiple organ failure. Nick recalls the moment, halfway through the séance, when he heard his wife for the first time: "A fairly weak voice said, 'Nick, Nick I’m home, I'm home', in the special way I used to announce my arrival to her when I came home. He says he told her he was happy for her, and that she thanked him for staying with her in hospital and told him: "I want you to have a ball. Go out and have a good time." Emma says these paranormal experiences are "as natural as the sun and the rain" and since the book's release last month she's had hundreds more letters from readers. She adds: "It's such a huge subject, I feel like I am on the tip of a massive iceberg". "After the first book there were so many letters that the second one wrote itself." One miraculous tale retold in After Death Communication is that of Dave Barber, who believes his dead grandmother saved him from drowning. Dave describes the day he almost died swimming with his son: "As neither my wife or I can swim we sat at the side of the pool, watching my son splash about. I decided to climb into the shallows and join in the fun. Almost immediately, I slipped, and fell. As he lay at the bottom of the pool Dave saw a "white mist" at the end, which got closer until he saw his dead grandmother emerge from it. "Her arms were outstretched towards me and she was dressed in a white silken gown," he says. "Suddenly, I was aware that my nine-year-old son had dived in to save me. He was banging my head on the floor of the pool in an effort to lift me. My grandmother, Amelia, was now very close and 1 knew that if I turned to her, I would die. I looked at my son and knew he needed me. Immediately, the pain returned, I felt myself rising through the water and I blacked-out."