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[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 the financial and operating problems encountered by MESBIC's primarily in order to ______.
[单项选择]The author refers to the excessive intake of alcohol, tobacco, and drug in order to illustrate that ______.
A. some health problems cannot be solved by better medical care
B. his use of alcohol and other substances is harmful to health
C. poor health results from tack of proper medical care
D. wealth may contribute to poor health status
[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 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
[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 their secrets to the world
D. anyone can now understand anything in a profession
[单项选择]The author refers to "external mechanisms" 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 the increase in animal bones in the fourth paragraph 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
