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[单项选择]The writer compares Lomas Garza's visual works to ______.
A. customs
B. facts and fiction
C. story telling
D. artistic trends
[单项选择]When the author refers to professions as no longer being "closed guilds", he means that______.
A. it is much easier to become a professional today than it was in the past
B. there is more social intercourse between professionals and others
C. popular science has told her secrets to the world
D. anyone can now understand anything in a profession
[单项选择]The author refers to the impact of railroads before the late 1860’s as "limited" because ______.
A. the track did not take the direct route from one city to the next
B. passengers and freight had to transfer to other modes of transportation to reach western destinations
C. passengers preferred stagecoaches
D. railroad travel was quite expensive
[单项选择]The author refers to "external mechanisms" primarily in order to
[单项选择]The author refers to the illusion of seeing crowds primarily in order to
A. (A) illustrate that relativity theory remains a useful tool in determining the topology of the universe
B. (B) indicate a descriptive advantage that toruses might have over Euclidean or hyperbolic universes
C. (C) argue that empirical methods of determining the shape of the universe are invariably doomed to failure
D. (D) suggest that the common sense behind the notion that the universe is simply- connected may be misguided
E. (E) assert that two models of the geometry of the universe may vary in terms of observable predictions but be mathematically equivalent
[单项选择]The author refers to the increase in animal bones in the fourth paragraph primarily in order to
[单项选择]The author refers to the Venus primarily in order to ______.
[单项选择]The author refers to straw embeded in fence posts in order to show ______.
A. where tornadoes occur
B. who makes reports about tornadoes
C. when tornadoes take form
D. how tornadoes affect physical objects
[单项选择]The author refers to Schubert and Brahms in order to suggest ______.
A. that their works are examples of great trash
B. that their works are examples of high art
C. that popular music could be employed in compositions intended as high art
D. that their achievements are no less substantial than those of Verdi
[单项选择]The author refers to the example of Oedipus the King (line 15) most likely in order to
[单项选择]The author refers to the ocean bottom as a "frontier" in Paragraph 1 because it ______.
A. is not a popular area for scientific research
B. contains a wide variety of life forms
C. attracts courageous explorers
D. is an unknown territory
[单项选择]The "pleasant day" to which the author refers was the period when we ______. ( )
A. did not feel guilty about wasting time
B. were able to act of our own free will
C. seemed to have better weather
D. did not have so many enemies
[单项选择]The author refers to lead and cadmium (line 18) in order to show
A. (A) elements commonly used in biochemistry
B. (B) elements that produce only a single desired product through their reaction
C. (C) elements more common in nature than alkali metals
D. (D) elements less efficient at producing electrical charges than alkali metals
E. (E) elements which are sometimes used in simple reagent design
[单项选择]The author refers to charms and quarks (lines 3-4) primarily in order to
A. (A) demonstrate the similarity between these particles and the gluon
B. (B) make a distinction between apposite and inapposite terminology
C. (C) offer an objection to suggestions of similar frivolous names
D. (D) provide illustrations of idiosyncratic nomenclature in contemporary physics
E. (E) cite preliminary experimental evidence sup-porting the existence of gluons
[单项选择]The author refers to the "largest fish" (lines 11-12) primarily in order to
A. (A) suggest a refuge from the long history of sexist literary criticism
B. (B) offer a sense of political purpose that can only be awakened through literature
C. (C) articulate the possibility for escape from the confines of gendered identity
D. (D) reference a unique feminist identity that must be extracted somehow from the body
E. (E) indicate a source of the patriarchal identification traditionally suffered by women writers
[单项选择]By "the nature of viruses" the author refers to ______.
A. shapes
B. characteristics
C. speed
D. self-sufficiency
[单项选择]The author refers to the excessive intake by Americans of alcohol and tobacco and drug use in order to ______.
A. show that some health problems cannot be attacked by better medical care
B. demonstrate that use of tobacco and intoxicants is detrimental to health
C. cite examples of individual behavior that have adverse consequences for health status
D. illustrate ways in which excessive affluence may contribute to a poor health status
