[单项选择]Mars has been nicknamed ______.


A. Viking I
B. Deimos
C. the Red Planet
D. Martian

[单项选择]Mars has been nicknamed ______.


A. Viking I
B. Deimos
C. the Red Planet
D. Martian

[单项选择]What program has been initiated


A. Spraying chemicals.
B. Building a high dam.
C. Raising funds in western countries.
D. Appealing for more international aid.

[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 man been


A. Swimming in a lake.
B. Washing clothes.
C. Visiting his hometown.
D. Sightseeing.

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

[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]The colombian goverment has been fighting leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitary force for nearly _______ years.


A. 40
B. 14
C. 50
D. 15

[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]What has been indicated by this incident


A. South Africa is a non-racial democracy.
B. Racism is still a problem in South Africa.
C. Police in South Africa react quickly to any criminal acts.
D. South Africa is still a dangerous plac

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Text 1
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. Unlike Beethoven, however, even the greatest of modem composers, such as Stravinsky, did not transcend existing musical forms
B. In similar fashion, existing musical forms were even further exploited by the next generation of great European composers
C. Thus, many of the great composers displayed the same combination of talents exhibited by Monteverdi
D. By contrast, the view that creativity in the arts exploits but does not transcend limits is

[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