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[单项选择]In the sentence"As antiwar sentiment mounted in intensity from 1965 to 1970 so did violence, culminating in the killings of four students at Kent State in Ohio and of two at Jackson State College in Mississippi. ", the word"culmi-nating"probably can be explained as_____.
A. adding
B. increasing
C. resulting
D. climaxing
[单项选择]Antiwar champion Rep. John Murtha wants to attach conditions on the impending supplemental bill to fund the war（ ）.
A. approbations
B. approximations C. apprehensions
C. appropriations
[名词解释]garden path sentence
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While anti-slavery sentiment eventually dictated policy in both the United States and Great Britain, the course of abolition differed greatly in the two nations. In America, the institution of slavery was strongly defended in a debate that ultimately resulted in the Civil War of 1860. In Britain, by contrast, slavery was done away with by 1807 and barred throughout its colonial possessions by 1833. In analyzing Britain’s course, historians have well documented the influences of economic change, humanitarian protest and reform movement.
One factor that has been largely ignored by scholars, however, is the impetus that was provided by children’s literature. This medium gained great popularity in Britain during the last half of the 18th century and provided direct access to young, impressionable minds. Consequently, children’s literature constituted the perfect vehicle for spreading of humanitarian ideas and played a vital role in creating ant
A. the sympathy of the slaves by the people
B. the strong opposition to abolish the slavery system
C. the defense of human rights
D. the influences of economic change, humanitarian protest and reform movement
[单项选择]Sentence Completion
Soap operas and situation comedies, though given to distortion, are so derivative of contemporary culture that they are inestimable ______ the attitudes and values of our society in any particular decade.
A. contraventions of
B. antidotes to
C. indices of
D. prerequisites for
E. (E) determinants of
[填空题]What does the last sentence imply
[单项选择]Sentence Completion
According to one optimistic hypothesis, the dense concentration of entrepreneurs and services in the cities would incubate new functions, ______ them, and finally export them to other areas, and so the cities, forever breeding fresh ideas, would ______themselves repeatedly.
A. immunize...perpetuate
B. isolate...revitalize
C. foster...deplete
D. spawn...imitate
E. (E) nurture...renew
[单项选择]Sentence Completion
Among contemporary writers of fiction, Virginia Woolf is ______ figure, in some ways as radical as James Joyce, in others no more modern than Jane Austen.
A. a doctrinaire
B. an introspective
C. a peripheral
D. a disinterested
E. (E) an anomalous
[单项选择]Functional Sentence Perspective was put forward by
A. the London School.
B. the Prague School.
C. Boas and Sapir.
D. Post-Bloomfieldian linguists.
[单项选择]Sentence Completion
To the embittered ex-philanthropist, all the former recipients of his charity were______ , as stingy with their thanks as they were wasteful of his largesse.
A. louts
B. misers
C. ingrates
D. prigs
E. (E) renegades
[单项选择]Which sentence of the following is correct
A. In this remote area can only a small farm be found with a limited number of sheep and cattle.
B. In this remote area a small farm can only be found with a limited number of sheep and cattle.
C. In this remote area only could a small farm found with a limited number of sheep and cattle.
D. In this remote area could only be found a small farm with a limited number of sheep and cattl
