[单项选择]Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the ______ movie could not hold our attention.

[单项选择]Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the ______ movie could not hold tour attention.

[单项选择]Despite the wonderful acting and well- developed plot the ______ movie could not hold out attention.

[单项选择]Despite the wonderful acting and great stars the _____ movie couldn’t hold the audience’s attention.

[单项选择](The) great American supermarket is a wonderful place with (the) great variety of (healthy food) and (other commodities).
A. The
B. the
C. healthy food
D. other commodities

[单项选择]Fortunately the acting and photography are so good that they somehow manage to ______ the limitations of the film plot.
A. trace
B. transcend
C. tranquilize
D. trail

[单项选择]"The critics thought the acting was generally poor.""I didn't find _________ ."
A. it
B. it so
C. it to be too
D. it was too

[简答题]Initially acting as a sports announcer in the 1930's, Ronald Reagan entered national politics when he campaigned on TV for Barry Goldwater in 1964 president race.需要修改的哪个？修改为什么？

[单项选择]Despite their varied designs, navigation computers used in cars ______.
A. are more or less the same price
B. provide directions in much the same way
C. work on more or less the same principles
D. receive instructions from the same satellites

[单项选择]Saffron returned to London to （） her acting career after four years of modeling.
A. follow
B. chase
C. seek
D. pursue

[单项选择]Management was not acting in good faith when it alleged that worker's wages would have to be cut for the company to remain solvent.
A. prosperous
B. out of debt
C. productive
D. out of trouble

[单项选择]Despite the influence of western culture, orthodox ideas about love and marriage are still dominant.
A. religious
B. stereotyped
C. conventional
D. updated

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Text 4 Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary perspective, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman share certain beliefs. Common to all these writers is their humanistic perspective. Its basic premises are that humans are the spiritual center of the universe and that in them alone is the clue to nature, history, and ultimately the cosmos itself. Without completely denying the existence either of a deity (the God) or of irrational matter, this perspective nevertheless rejects them as exclusive principles of interpretation and prefers to explain humans and the world in terms of humanity itself. This preference is expressed most clearly in the Transcendentalist principle that the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self; therefore, all knowledge begins with self-knowledge. This common perspective is almost always universalized. Its emphasis is not upon the individual as a particular European or Ameri
A. The spiritual and the material worlds are incompatible.
B. Humanity can scarcely account for humans and the world.
C. Self-knowledge stems partly from the perception of the universe.
D. The structure of the universe can be discovered through self-knowledge.