[单项选择]The passage seems to indicate that the United States is a country where______.


A. few people are indifferent to high imaginative art
B. handicrafts and decoration work lack artistic quality
C. handicraftsmen find it difficult to live a decent life
D. most artists seem to indulge in fancy day-dreaming

[单项选择]The passage seems to indicate that Dinah Washington was NOT an ______ artist.


A. eclectic
B. influential
C. exceptional
D. acquiescent

[单项选择]The passage seems to indicate at the end that children
A. help couples reinforce their friendship.
B. make no impact on the quality of friendship.
C. may pose obstacles in marital friendship.
D. command less time and care than expected.

[单项选择]On role-playing, the passage seems to indicate that chairman
A. talks as much as participants.
B. is usually a "constant talker".
C. prefers to take the role of an observer.
D. is frequently outshone by participants.

[单项选择]From this passage it seems that ______.

[单项选择]The author of this passage seems to believe that
A. the more police force the better.
B. the only solution is law enforcement.
C. more police force is not the solution.
D. the suppressive strategies will be effective.

[单项选择]The author of this passage seems to imply that Victorian novels ______.

[单项选择]The writer of this passage seems to imply that Victorian novels______.

[单项选择]At the beginning, the passage seems to suggest that Blackpool

[单项选择]The writer of the passage seems to think that Insurance is ______.
A. old-fashioned
B. useful and necessary
C. a form of gambling
D. a way of making money quickly

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Passage 2
It seems to shine unchangingly, pouring out a constant light year after year. But the sun may not be nearly so stable as we suppose. It is now thought to move quickly and irregularly and change in long-term cycles, growing dimmer and then brighter with each passing year. Some even fear that its frequent changing behavior would have a great influence on the Earth’ s climate.
The source of the sun’ s inconstancy is magnetism. Professor William Livingston has developed new theories about its magnetic nature.
"We don’ t yet know what causes sun spots, "he says, "but we now think they ’ re areas of high level magnetism that come up from the sun’ s interior. So strong is their magnetic pull that the highly ionized gas nearby is not able to transmit energy out. "As a result these areas send out less heat and light and thus appear from Earth to be almost dark irregular surface patches.
Sun
A. He thinks he has discovered a new possibility in the link between sun spots and the weather on the Earth.
B. He has great doubts about the theory that the sun' s frequent changes have an influenced on the Earth' s climate.
C. He has been recently informed by other scientists of the possibility that more sun spots will appear.
D. He does not think the causes of the sun spots will be fully revealed by scientists in the near futur