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[单项选择]The author uses the statistics in the fourth paragraph to show that ________.
A. there are more companies owned by women than those owned by men
B. there is a trend for women to establish companies of their own
C. more people are willing to work in companies owned by women
D. women are as good as men in managing their business
[单项选择]Why does the author mention Davy Crockett in Paragraph 1
A. Because this is an example of the type of people among whom demands for portraits were constant.
B. Because Davy Crockett was a famous artist who would hold a display in his Boston gallery.
C. Because this is an example of the way artists used to attract attention and business.
D. Because gallery owners used to have famous people as customers.
[单项选择]The author's purpose in presenting the first paragraph is ______.
[单项选择]What the author tries to suggest in the last paragraph may best be interpreted as ______.
[单项选择]The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that ________.
A. children will get fatter if they eat too much
B. children will get thinner if they eat less
C. children will get fatter if they spend less time watching TV
D. children will get fatter if they spend more time watching TV
[单项选择]The author mentioned "a string of crimes" in paragraph 2 to show that ______.
A. (A) Crime is becoming more and more rampant and nasty in Britain.
B. (B) Crime rate is on the rise in Britain.
C. (C) The government has done little to crack down on crimes.
D. (D) Harsh sentence and prisons are not effective in alleviating crimes.
[单项选择]What does the author mean by "better off" in Paragraph 3
A. richer
B. wiser
C. happier
D. luckier
[单项选择]What is the author's main point in the first paragraph
A. The penny press was modeled on earlier papers.
B. The press in the nineteenth century reached only a small proportion of the population,
C. The penny press became an important way of disseminating information in the first half of the nineteenth century.
D. The penny press focused mainly on analysis of polities.
[单项选择]The author of the passage uses the second paragraph to
A. (A) summarize the main point of the refutation to the argument discussed in the passage
B. (B) explain why the hypothesis under criticism in the passage has been disparaged by critics
C. (C) suggest an alternate explanation that undermines the premises of the hypothesis critiqued in the passage
D. (D) introduce a hypothesis that will be discussed in detail later in the passage
E. (E) present evidence that is intended to qualify the critique of the hypothesis being discussed in the passage
[单项选择]The author in the passage uses the following devices in his writing EXCEPT ______.
A. questions
B. narrative
C. analogy
D. comment
[单项选择]The author uses Abstract Expressionist painter as an example to show that ______.
A. it is difficult to define real art
B. what photographers do differs from that of painters
C. Abstract Expressionist painters and photographers are different
D. they resemble serious photographers in giving up traditional aims of art
