【B1】 Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its origina
【B1】
【B1】
【B1】
A.considered
B.believed
C.regarded
D.thought
In a changing world, tradition can be a force for good or for evil.【B7】long as it offers a guide, it helps the ignorant and the uninformed to take a step【B8】and, thereby adapt themselves to【B9】circumstances. But if we make an idol of tradition, it ceases to be a guide. It becomes an obstacle【B10】on the path of course. Man is to accept the help which tradition can give but to be well aware of its limitations in a changing world.
【B1】
A.change
B.fit
C.adapt
D.adopt
【B1】
A.this
B.that
C.these
D.those
Most institutions provide courses which【B8】new students to develop the skills they need to be【B9】listeners and note takers. If these are【B10】, there are many useful study skills guides which【B11】learners to practice these skills【B12】. In all cases it is important to【B13】the problem before actually starting your studies. It is important to【B14】that most students have【B15】in acquiring the language skills【B16】in college study. One way of【B17】these difficulties is to attend the language and study skills classes which most institutions provide throughout the【B18】year. Another basic【B19】is to find a study partner with whom it is possible to identify difficulties,【B20】ideas and provide support.
【B1】
A.satisfying
B.frustrating
C.profiting
D.fascinating
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第二节 完型填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
Certainly dustmen prefer to be known as "Reuse Collection and Disposal Officers" (垃圾回收处理官员). You may think that this is rather【B1】, and it is better to call a spade a spade.
But dustmen can be as【B2】as people of any other occupation (职业), though we must【B3】 that their job is not a 【B4】one in the world. We often take dustmen for granted. Perhaps because they usually come very early in the morning, before most people are 【B5】. We are likely to forget their【B6】. Our dustbins are【B7】regularly, but we【B8】stop to think about the men who do this. However, it is one of the most important jobs in the world, and when there are no dustmen to【B9】 the rubbish, the general【B10】soon become aware that something is wrong.
Recently, the dustmen of England went on strike for higher wages. During the first few days it was regarded as a【B11】. But when the first two weeks had passed, and the dustbins were overflowing in nearly every backyard in the country, the joke did not seem so【B12】any more. 【B13】the strike continued, people could not【B14】the hills of rubbish around their dustbins, and they looked for other places in which to【B15】it. Even Leicester Square, in the heart of West End of London, was【B16】high with plastic bags full of smelly rubbish. This was a (n) 【B17】 attraction that the people of London were not at all【B18】to see. Even when the strike was over, it took several weeks for the country to get cleaned up completely, Perhaps now the English people 【B19】 the work of their dustmen rather more 【B20】and won't take them for granted any more.
【B1】
A.clever
B.silly
C.interesting
D.reasonable
In Favor of the Death Penalty
With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most controversial issue across the United States today is the death penalty. Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑) to murder, while others maintain there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty reduces the number of murders.
The principal argument advanced by those opposed to the death penalty, basically, is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, that it is the mark of a brutal society, and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as deterrent to crime anyway.
In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary evil. Throughout recorded history there have always been those extreme individuals in every society who were capable of terribly violent crimes such as murder. But some are more extreme than others.
For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in a fit of blind rage, but quite another to coldly plot and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style. of a butcher. Thus, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of relative degree. While it could be argued with some conviction that the criminal in the first instance should be merely isolated from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer.
The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to debate. But the overwhelming majority of citizens believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is reinforced by evidence which shows the death penalty deters murder. For example, from 1954 to 1963, when the death penalty was consistently imposed in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100,000 population. Since 1964 the death penalty has been imposed only once, and the murder rate has risen to 10.4 murder rate, which began when executions stopped, is no coincidence (巧合). It is convincing evidence that the death penalty does deter many murders. If the bill reestablishing the death penalty is vetoed (否决), innocent people will be murdered—some whose lives may have been saved if the death penalty were in effect. This is literally a life or death matter. The lives of thousands of innocent people must be protected.
The principle purpose of this passage is to ______.
A.criticize the government
B.argue for the value of the death penalty
C.speak for the majority
D.initiate a veto
There are great impediments to the general use of a standard in
pronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling.
(orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt
'naturally' and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt 【B1】______
deliberately and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact,
remain throughout our lives quite unconscious with what 【B2】______
our speech sounds like when we speak out, and it often 【B3】______
comes as a shock when we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. 【B4】______
It is not a voice we recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting
is something which we almost always know. We begin the 'natural' 【B5】______
learning of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or
write, and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and 【B6】______
practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many more hours
per every day than we ever have to spend learning even our difficult 【B7】______
English spelling. This is 'natural', therefore, that our speech-sounds 【B8】______
should be those of our immediate circle;after all, as we have seen,
speech operates as a means of holding a community and 【B9】______
giving a sense of 'belonging'. We learn quite early to recognize a
'stranger', someone who speaks with an accent of a different
community — perhaps only a few miles far. 【B10】______
【B1】
In history books,【B10】information about the political life of a country is【B11】; that is, facts about polities axe given,【B12】opinions are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is【B13】, it reflects emotions and opinions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya was perhaps the first【B14】"political" artist. In his well-known painting The Third of May, 1080, he【B15】the Spanish government for its【B16】of power over people.
In the same way, art can【B17】a culture's religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious alt was almost the only【B18】of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that【B19】people and stories from the Bible. By【B20】, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was(and still is) its absence of human and animal images.
【B1】
A.usual
B.typical
C.average
D.popular
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