[单项选择]According to the passage, one of Verdi' s achievements within the framework of nineteenth-century opera and its conventions was to______ .


A. limit the extent to which singers influenced the musical composition and performance of his operas
B. use his operas primarily as forums to protest both the moral corruption and dogmatic rigidity of the political leaders of his time
C. portray psychologically complex characters shaped by the political environment surrounding them
D. incorporate elements of folklore into both the music and plots of his operas

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Passage 4
One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is the voice of the advertisers. Its strident clamour dominates our lives. It shouts at us from the television screen and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from every page of the newspaper; plucks at our sleeves on the escalator; signals to us from the successful man as a man no less than 20% of whose mall consists of announcements of giant carpet sales.
Advertising has been among England’s biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to demonstrable achievement. Why all this fantastic expenditure
Perhaps the answer is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer. At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer——appeal to all his other problem
A. interferes with the privacy of our home life
B. influences our image of the kind of person we ought to be like
C. continually forces us into buying things we don't want
D. distracts us wherever we go

[单项选择]According to the passage, one should not only express himself clearly and directly, but also ______.

[单项选择]According to the passage, one misses most about the world when one______.


A. is blind
B. is deaf
C. has no senses of taste and touch
D. has no senses of balance and motion

[单项选择]We can learn from the passage that one of the consequences of globalization that many people worry about is ________.


A. the spread of culture from one country to another
B. the destruction of cultural identities
C. the prevalence of American culture
D. the resistance to globalization worldwide

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Passage Five
One evening Mr. Green was driving home along a lonely country road. He had ￡1,000 in his pocket. At the loneliest part of the road, a man asked for a lift(搭车). Mr. Green told him to get into the car and continued his driving. When he talked to the man and learned that the man had been in prison for robbery and had broken out of prison two days before, Mr. Green was very worried.
Suddenly he saw a police-car and had a bright idea. He just reached a small town where the speed limit was 30 miles an hour. But he drove the car as fast as it could go. He looked back and saw that the police-car had begun to chase him. After a mile or so the police-car overtook(赶上)him and ordered him to stop. A policeman got out and came to Mr. Green’ s car. Mr. Green hoped that he could tell the policeman about the escaped robber, but he felt the man had put a gun against his back. The policeman took out his notebook and pencil, saying he wanted Mr. Green’
A. Mr. Green didn' t go to the police station until the man got off his car and ran away.
B. Mr. Green would go to the police station as soon as possible.
C. The robber got out of Mr. Green' s car at the outskirts of London safely.
D. Mr. Green might not go to the police station unless he was wante

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Passage One
Much of a parent’s job is to provide the gifts of caring, love, and emotional support to children. But one gift is often beyond their reach: the resources to meet the financial demands of college tuition.
For more than 54 years, the United Negro College Fund has fulfilled the dreams of deserving students by closing the gap between the cost of college and what their parents can afford. More than 300,000 students have graduated from United Negro College Fund member colleges since 1944, and 54,000 more are currently enrolled.
The oldest and most successful minority higher education support organization, the United Negro College Fund, is a combination of 39 private, historically black member colleges and universities. Since its founding, it has raised more than $1.3 billion to keep the dream alive for needy families across the country.
What is it that makes the United Negro College Fund so important to America’s families
A. Bring up.
B. Collect.
C. Put on.
D. Lift.

[单项选择]It can be inferred that the author regards Verdi's revisions to his operas with______ .


A. regret that the original music and texts were altered
B. concern that many of the revisions altered the plots of the original work
C. approval for the intentions that motivated the revisions
D. puzzlement, since the revisions seem largely insignificant