[单项选择]The author regards the notion that heat pumps have a genuine drawback as a ________.


A. cause for regret
B. sign of premature defeatism
C. welcome challenge
D. focus for an educational campaign

[单项选择]The author regards the writing of the Constitution as a ______.


A. revolution of the magnitude of French revolution
B. miracle created by a collection of typical free man
C. victory of the 18th century
D. defeat for the forces of evil

[单项选择]The author regards the idea that differentiation is triggered randomly when paired claws remain intact as ______.

[单项选择]The author regards the idea that gendering stems from a composer's "practical consciousness" of how musical expression works with


A. serious caution
B. strong indignation
C. marked indifference
D. moderate amusement
E. (E) sharp derision

[单项选择]The author regards the practice of using drugs for medically valid purposes before FDA approval as ______.


A. an illegal activity
B. a dangerous policy
C. a necessary compromise
D. a short-term phenomenon

[单项选择]It can be inferred that the author regards Winslow's monograph (in Par


A. A．4) as ______. ill-conceivedB. incompleteC. authoritativeD. well organized

[单项选择]The author regards the average citizen's comprehension of the principles of democracy as ______.


A. critical dismay
B. jealous resentment
C. arrogant indifference
D. sentimental reverence

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Text 2
The use of heat pumps has’ been held back largely by skepticism about advertisers’ claims that heat pumps can provide as many as units of thermal energy for each unit of electrical energy used, thus apparently contradicting the principle of energy conservation. Heat pumps circulate a fluid refrigerant that cycles alternatively from its liquid phase to its vapor phase in a closed loop. The refrigerant, starting as a low-temperature, low-pressure vapor, enters compressor driven by an electric motor. The refrigerant leaves the compressor as a hot, dense vapor and flows through a heat exchanger called the condenser, which transfers heat from the refrigerant to a body or air. Now the refrigerant, as a high-pressure, cooled liquid, confronts a flow restriction which causes the pressure to drop. As the pressure falls, the refrigerant expands and partially vaporizes, becoming chilled. It then passes through a second heat exchanger, the evaporator, which
A. cause for regret
B. sign of premature defeatism
C. welcome challenge
D. focus for an educational campaign

[单项选择]It can be inferred that the author regards the independence from social class of the heroes and heroines of nineteenth- century opera as______ .


A. an idealized but fundamentally accurate portrayal of bourgeois life
B. a plot convention with no real connection to political reality
C. a plot refinement unique to Verdi
D. a symbolic representation of the position of the bourgeoisie relative to the aristocracy and the proletariat

[单项选择]The author regards Nevelson's sculpture in the art world as "remarkable" (Line 2, Par

[单项选择]The author regards the idea that all highly-creative artistic activity transcends limits with________.


A. deep skepticism
B. strong indignation
C. modest amusement
D. marked indifference

[单项选择]It can be inferred that the author regards a program of controlled fluoridation of public water supplies as ______.


A. an unnecessary government program that wastes economic resources
B. a potentially valuable strategy of preventive medicine
C. a government policy that has relatively little effect on the health of a population
D. an important element of curative medicine