[单项选择]Native Chinese artwork has been {{U}}enthusiastically{{/U}} collected and studied abroad recently.
A. eagerly
B. individually
C. thoroughly
D. positively

[单项选择]Native Chinese artwork has been {{U}}enthusiastically{{/U}} collected and studied abroad recently.
A. eagerly
B. individually
C. thoroughly
D. positively

[单项选择]Native American artwork and artifacts have been {{U}}enthusiastically{{/U}} collected and studied abroad for a number of years.
A. eagerly
B. periodically
C. thoroughly
D. systematically

[单项选择]As has always been the case when tragedy has struck our community, the people of our town feel the obligation, and rightly so, to ------- in support of the victim and his family.
A. (A) entrench
B. (B) rally
C. (C) disseminate
D. (D) convoke
E. (E) apologize

[单项选择]Where has the woman been


A. To Colorado.
B. To Arizona.
C. To the Nile River.
D. To the Museum of Natural History.

[单项选择]The new factory that has been built next to us has ______ the value of our house.
A. demoralized
B. depreciated
C. deterred
D. derailed

[单项选择]She has been in Tianjin for ten years. Tianjin has become her second ______.

[单项选择]The Business Advisory Council has been specifically designed for those in （） of advice about setting up new businesses.
A. need
B. want
C. duty
D. absence

[单项选择]The republican movement has been gathering momentum in Australia since became Prime Minister in 1992.
A. John Howard
B. Bob Hawke
C. Malcolm Fraser
D. Paul Keating

[单项选择]Entertainment has been made available to everybody by the cinema, radio and television.
A. 影院、收音机和电视使人人都可以享受各种娱乐。
B. 影院、收音机和电视是每个人的主要娱乐方式。
C. 影院、收音机和电视使娱乐成为每个人的可能。
D. 影院、收音机和电视是每个人能够得到的娱乐。

[单项选择]______ native to China, tea has now spread all over the word and enjoys a good reputation.
A. In spite of
B. That it is
C. It was
D. Although

[单项选择]—Has Lily come —Yes, she has been here for over ten minutes.
A. yet; already
B. already; yet
C. yet; yet
D. already; already

[单项选择]The British Industrial Revolution has been understood to mean the invention and application of various machines, which transformed Britain from a predominantly rural and agricultural country into______.


A. a commercial state
B. a mainly urban and manufacturing country
C. a country with a strong army
D. a country with a large number of consumer cities

[单项选择]Artificial rainmaking has been most successful in the ______.


A. lake area
B. western slope of mountains
C. prairie lands
D. windward side of mountains

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Extraordinary creative activity has been characterized as revolutionary, flying in the face of what is established and producing not what is acceptable but what will become accepted. According to this formulation, highly creative activity transcends the limits of an existing form and establishes a new principle of organization. However, the idea that extraordinary creativity transcends established limits is misleading when it is applied to the arts, even though it may be valid for the sciences. Differences between highly creative art and highly creative science arise in part from differences in their goals/’ For the sciences, a new theory is the goal and end result of the creative act. Innovative science produces new propositions in terms of which diverse phenomena can be related to one another in more coherent ways. Such phenomena as a brilliant diamond or a nesting bird are relegated to the r01e of data, serving as the means for formulating or testin
A. Has unusual creative activity been characterized as revolutionary
B. Did Beethoven work within a musical tradition that also included Hat, del and Bach
C. Is Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro an example of a creative work that transcended limits
D. Who besides Monteverdi wrote music that the author would consider to embody new principles of organization and to be of high aesthetic value