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[单项选择]"Proper words in proper places, makes the true definitions of a style" is a famous remark made by
[A] Henry Fielding. [B] Jonathan Swift.
[C] Daniel Defoe. [D] Tobias George Smallest.
[单项选择]Which types of words belong to functional words
A. Adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions.
B. Adjectives, nouns, articles.
C. Articles, prepositions, conjunctions.
D. Verbs, pronouns, prepositions.
[单项选择]If the average woman makes 77% of what a man makes for equal work, maybe she should only pay 77% for the purchases she makes as well.
That’s the idea behind a six-week campaign pioneered by Lean In DC, the local chapter (分会) of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In movement. The group convinced about a dozen local businesses to offer 23% discounts to customers on Tuesday, which is Equal Pay Day, as a way of raising awareness of the gender pay gap and highlighting the differences that can exist between men’s and women’s paychecks.
Equal Pay Day marks the symbolic point in the year when women’s earnings catch up with their male peers’—that is, a woman would have to work from January 1, 2013 until April 8, 2014 to make what a man made in 2013 alone.
"Hearing those same old numbers every year is bound to cause some fatigue," says Madeline Meth, 24, the Lean In group’s founder and president, whose day job is in media relations at the Center for American Progress. "That was the idea behin
A. To help young women advance their careers.
B. To celebrate that women’s earnings catch up with men’s.
C. To call attention to women’s being paid less than men.
D. To make a request for more discounts for female customers.
[填空题]
What makes it easier to share thoughts？
（）makes it easier to share thoughts.
[单项选择]Art, like words, is a form of communication. Words, spoken and written, render accessible to humans of the latest generations all the knowledge discovered by the experience and reflection, both of preceding generations and of the best and foremost minds of their own times. Art renders accessible to people of the latest generations all the feelings experienced by their predecessors, and those already felt by their best and foremost contemporaries. Just as the evolution of knowledge proceeds by dislodging and replacing that which is mistaken, so to the evolution of feeling proceeds through art. Feelings less kind and less necessary for the well-being of humankind are replaced by others kinder and more essential to that end. This is the purpose of art, and the more art fulfills that purpose the better the art; the less it fulfills it, the worse the art.The author develops the passage primarily by______.
A. theory and refutation
B. example and generalization
C. comparison and contrast
D. inference and deduction
[单项选择] Most words are "lexical words", i.e. nouns signifying "things", the majority of which are abstract concepts rather than physical objects in the world; only "proper nouns" have specific and unique referents in the everyday world. The communicative function of a fully-functioning language requires the scope of reference beyond the particularity of the individual instance. While each leaf, cloud or smile is different from all others, effective communication requires general categories or "universals". Anyone who has attempetd to communicate with people who do not share their language will be familiar with the limitations of simply pointing to things, given that the vast majority of lexical words in a language exist on a high level of abstraction and refer to classes of things such as "buildings" or to concepts like "construction".
We lose any one-to-one correspondence of word and thing the moment we group instances into classes. Other than lexical words, language consists of "functio
A. An assumption based on evidence already presented
B. A concession to the view opposing that of the author’’s
C. A hypothesis concerning a possible problem with the nomenclaturist view
D. An allusion to an argument presented earlier in the passage
E. An example of the application of the author’’s view of language
