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专业八级-938
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[单项选择]According to the passage, Greece has ______.
A. a dictatorship
B. a monarchy
C. a single majority party
D. too much red tape
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[单项选择]According to the passage, the educational changes were the result of ______.
A. plans developed by conservative and church leaders
B. efforts of interested individuals to redefine the educational system
C. the demands of social organization seeking financial relief
D. rallies held by westerners wanting to compete with eastern schools
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[单项选择]The "fiction" is closest in meaning to "______".
A. novel
B. man-made idea
C. false idea
D. story
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[单项选择]Why does the author mention both Boston and Chicago
A. To demonstrate positive and negative effects of growth.
B. To exemplify cities with and without mass transportation.
C. To show mass transportation changed many cities.
D. To contrast their rate of growt
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[单项选择]With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned
A. Types of mass transportation.
B. Instability of urban life.
C. How supply and demand determine land use.
D. The effect of mass transportation on urban expansion.
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[单项选择]Baby boom' refers to the great increase of birth rate between ______.
A. 1946 and 1964
B. 1860 and 1890
C. 1920 and 1935
D. 1845 and 1854
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[单项选择]______ refers to the utterance of a sentence with determinate sense and reference.
A. Locutionary act
B. Illocutionary act
C. Perlocutionary act
D. Speech act
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[单项选择]The Greek Government spends ______.
A. more than 25% of its budget on military terms
B. More than its collects
C. A third of a billion dollars in gold
D. Less than 25% of its budget on military terms
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[单项选择]______ is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
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[单项选择]Which of the following is the author's main purpose in writing the passage
A. To present the history of Harvard College and compare it with that of Yale University.
B. To criticize the conditions of the U.S. universities in the 19th century.
C. To describe innovations in the U.S. higher education in the latter 1800s.
D. To introduce what was happening in major U.S. universities before the turn of the century.
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT included in Dr. Eliot's reform program
A. Diversification of the courses offered.
B. Elevation of the admissions standards.
C. Enlargement of the enrollment.
D. Enforced professional training in some fiel
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[填空题]
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[单项选择]Greece imports annually goods and materials ______.
A. totaling almost $700 million
B. that balance exports
C. that are paid by tourists
D. costing $66 million
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[单项选择]Which of the following is the best idea of this passage
A. World governments should conduct serious campaigns against smoking.
B. World governments take timid measures against smoking.
C. Smoking is the most important source of income to many countries.
D. Tobacco industry spends a large sum of money on medical researc
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[单项选择]Why do men carry on the sex war against women
A. Because of their inferiority.
B. Because they shun real competition.
C. Because of their claim to supremacy.
D. Because they still look down upon women.
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[单项选择]______ is a design feature of human language that enables speakers to talk about a wide range of things, free from barriers caused by separation in time and space.
A. Displacement
B. Arbitrariness
C. Duality
D. Productivity
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[简答题]It is simple enough to say that since books have classes—fiction, biography, poetry— we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow- worker and accomplice. If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting its fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any o
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[单项选择]According to the passage, what was one disadvantage of residential expansion
A. It was expensive.
B. It happened too slowly.
C. It was unplanned.
D. It created a demand for public transportation.
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[多项选择]一天早晨,我站在窗前俯瞰街景。我说;“看,有个疯子正朝着这儿走过来。他家里人竟然会让他独自跑出来,实在令人可悲。”
(1)我的朋友懒洋洋地从椅子里站了起来,双手插在裤兜里,从我的背后望出去。(2)这是一个晴朗、清澈的二月的早晨。(3)地上还铺着昨天下的一层很厚的雪,在冬日的阳光下熠熠发光。(4)马路中心的雪被来往车辆辗成一条灰色带状的轮迹,但是两旁人行道上堆得高高的雪却仍然像刚下时那样洁白。(5)灰色的人行道已经清扫过,不过还是滑溜得厉害。(6)所以路上的行人比平常稀少多了。(7)实际上,从火车站方向朝这边走过来的,除了一位孤零零的先生外,就再也没有别人了。
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[多项选择]Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Sometimes it is better not to tell the truth. Write an essay of about 400 words to state your view.
In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
You should supply an appropriate title for your essay.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
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[单项选择]Generally speaking, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-16th centuries, its essence is ______.
A. science
B. philosophy
C. arts
D. humanism
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[单项选择]What is the main argument men have raised against women
A. Women are lack of cold reasoning.
B. They depend on intuition too much.
C. They are unreliable and irrational.
D. They are too still look down upon women.
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[单项选择]The tone of this passage is ______.
A. critical
B. ironical
C. distaste
D. amusing
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[单项选择]What does the first sentence imply
A. It is not really an enlightened age.
B. It is different from an enlightened age.
C. It is the same as an enlightened age.
D. It is like an enlightened ag
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[单项选择]In 1954, ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner
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[单项选择]The title below that best expresses the ideas of this passage is ______.
A. Greek income and expenditures
B. The improving economic situation in Greece
C. The value of tourism
D. Military expenditures
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[单项选择]Many peasants earn less than ______.
A. $60 a week
B. $2 a week
C. $1 a day
D. $10 a month
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[单项选择]The longest river in Canada is ______.
A. the Seven
B. the Yukon
C. the Mackenzie
D. the St. Lawrence
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[单项选择]The distinction between competence and performance is proposed by ______.
A. Saussure
B. Halliday
C. Chomsky
D. the Prague School
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[单项选择]______ is the most typically English sports and has been in existence since the 16th century.
A. Cricket
B. Football
C. Hunting
D. Baseball
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[单项选择]The author mentions Chicago in the second paragraph as an example of a city, ______.
A. which is large
B. which is used as a model for land development
C. where the development of land exceeded population growth
D. with an excellent mass transportation system
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[单项选择]What does the sentence "because you are in good company" in Par
A. A.1 mean Because you are backed by the government.B. Because you are not alone.C. Because you have good colleagues.D. Because governments are blind to evils of smoking too.
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[单项选择]In terms of size, America is the ______ country in the world.
A. largest
B. second largest
C. third largest
D. fourth largest
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[单项选择]Why do a few governments take timid measures toward smoking
A. Because they are afraid of people.
B. Because diseases cost a lot.
C. Because they are afraid of the cutting down of their revenue.
D. Because they are afraid of manufacturers.