[填空题]In the third paragraph, the author mentions Franklin’s inventions (such as the fire company, the improvements for city and the invention of the potbellied stove) to show that he was a man who had great sympathy and concern for the people.

[填空题]In Paragraph 3 the author mentioned the case of network power to justify ________.

[单项选择]In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures are those except ones that ______.
A) are useful in every aspect of our life C) are of much use in our life
B) should be made interesting D) have different forms


A. In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures are those except ones that ______.
B. are useful in every aspect of our life
C. should be made interesting
D. are of much use in our life
E. have different forms

[单项选择]In the last paragraph, the author suggests that emotional intelligence skills are indispensable ______.


A. for the attainment of one’s potentials
B. for a smart display of one’s executive competence
C. for an effective exercise of one’s influence as an executive
D. for the accumulation of one’s aptitudes

[单项选择]In the fourth paragraph, the author is primarily concerned with
A. restating the main idea of the passage
B. using research findings to make predictions
C. outlining the direction of future research
D. describing an additional aspect of a phenomenon
E. introducing a conflicting hypothesis

[单项选择]The first paragraph tells us the author （　）
A. was born to a naturalist’s family
B. didn’t like his brothers and sisters
C. lost his hearing when he was a child
D. was interested in flowers and insects in his childhood

[单项选择]The author mentions the research performed on hamsters and rats most probably in order to
A. demonstrate a case where the implications of the labeled-line hypothesis clearly do not hold
B. show the limits of experimental inquiry in determining the role of the individual neuron in taste
C. explain the necessity for determining the extent to which visual perception is analogous to gustatory perception
D. provide further corroboration for the predictions made by the across-pattern model of taste neurology
E. prove the salient differences between taste perception in humans and in animals

[单项选择]The author specifically mentions all of the following as issues that have been considered in the evolution of feminist literary criticism EXCEPT
A. The place of women in the literary canon
B. The question of culture in determining gender
C. The role of Freud in theorizing gender identity
D. The effect of biological differences on textual style
E. The political dangers of isolating women’s texts

[单项选择]The author mentions all of the following as associated with traditional art EXCEPT
A. A utile capacity
B. The correspondence of form with task
C. High regard for aesthetics
D. Unlimited production
E. A prototypal form

[单项选择]The author mentions all of the following as evidence that the revolutionary colonists were more intent upon expanding their roles in the old power order than in creating a new one EXCEPT
A. The system of commerce implemented after the revolution was relatively similar to the one that existed before it.
B. They established a chain of executive command which strongly resembled that which was in place before the revolution.
C. Their only attempt to change class structure was to outlaw the development of an aristocracy.
D. They maintained the same exclusive and undemocratic system of suffrage that existed prior to the war.
E. The colonists remained indifferent to the institution of slavery which a genuine revolution might have rectified.

[填空题]The author mentions the fact that Andy has changed her computers 5 times in the past 9 years with the intention to illustrate that e-waste is a wide-spread problem.

[单项选择]The author mentions the transfer of momentum and energy in order to indicate that
A. eddies, and not just jet streams, modify the distribution of temperature and kinetic energy within the atmosphere
B. the relationship between baroclinic waves and the jet stream that produces them is decidedly reciprocal
C. the process of secondary atmospheric circulation has a pronounced effect on the location and movement of the jet stream
D. eddies play as great a role in dictating fluctuations in global temperatures as do the jet stream
E. the meridional temperature gradient between the equator and poles produces a very diverse variety of atmospheric phenomenon

[单项选择]The author mentions "sight unseen" primarily in order to emphasize that Shor’s method
A. does not allow for the cloning of a bit of quantum information that has not first been recognized
B. tends to be less reliable than classical information correction, because it is impossible to discern whether Shor’s is successful
C. has been accepted by physicists without much skeptical investigation
D. allows for a quantum correction where the individual states of quantum bits do not need to be reported.
E. quantum correction circuits tend to operate at random

[填空题]The author mentions that she has had to develop time management skills.