[单项选择]Mr. Dane went through his daughter’s essay carefully, to eliminate slang words from it.（　）
A. reduce
B. exchanged
C. remove
D. exhibit

[单项选择]Mr. Dane went through his daughter’s essay carefully, to eliminate slang words from it.（　）
A. reduce
B. exchanged
C. remove
D. exhibit

[单项选择]The leader went his own way in ______of the public opinion, which aroused great anger among the people.
A. defiance
B. reflection
C. obedience
D. observation

[填空题]When the author gives a draft of an essay to his friends, he wants to make sure two things: ______.

[单项选择]He（）losing his house when his company went bankrupt.
A. endangered
B. chanced
C. threatened
D. risked

[单项选择]Doctor Green went on with his experiment on human being ______ the debate going on around him.
A. for all
B. but for
C. despite of
D. due to

[单项选择]His speech was careful and ______, but his words seemed to make no sense.
A. distinguished
B. distinctive
C. distinct
D. distinguishable

[单项选择]His essay is well done, ______ his spelling.
[A] except
[B] except for
[C] beside
[D] besides

[单项选择]As an important prose writer, in his famous essay, Tradition and Individual Talent, Eliot put great emphasis on the importance of ______ both in creative writing and in criticism.
A. change
B. creativity
C. ethic
D. tradition

[单项选择]In his essay "The Parable of the Tapeworm," Mario Vargas Llosa argues that at the heart of the writer’s will to write is rebellion, a "rejection and criticism of life as it is." Moreover, he speculates, it is even possible that good literature may inspire actual acts of rebellion when the reader compares the better world of the book to the relative junk heap of real life. Whether or not this is universally true, it’s an attractive idea, and, in its way, a comforting one. Language is a lever that might move the enormous weight of the fickle, war-torn world we live in. It’s free, universal and highly portable: better than plastic bomb and difficult to govern.
Vargas Llosa’s idea is also, of course, a writerly sort of realpolitik, a wish that a good novel -- or story or poem -- can literally remake history. When Luis Alberto Urrea began his epic novel, "The Hummingbird’s Daughter," 20 years ago, the United States was in the first phase of a conservative backlash, the culture wars
A. both of them are portable.
B. both of them are difficult to govern.
C. both of them can be used in rebellion.
D. both are them are highly influential.

[简答题]Already he had discovered that his brain went beyond Ruth’s, just as it went beyond the brains of her brothers, or the brain of her father.

[填空题]

A.rough
B.daughter
C.delight
D.through

[填空题]

A. ghost
B. daughter
C. taught
D. through