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In order to show his boss what a careful worker he was, he took _____ trouble over the figures.

I didn’t know the work. I had to _____ a dictionary.

By law, when one makes a large purchase, he should have _____ opportunity to change his mind.

Most broadcasters maintain that TV has been unfairly criticized and argue that power of the medium is _____.

Esperanto is what is called a planned, or artificial, language. It was created more than a century ago by Polish eye doctor Ludwik Lazar Zamenhof. Zamenhof believed that a common language would help to alleviate some of the misunderstandings among cultures.In Zamenhof’s first attempt at a universal language, he tried to create a language that was as uncomplicated as possible. This first language included words such as ab, ac, ba, eb, be, and ce. This did not result in a workable language in that these monosyllabic words, though short, were not easy to understand or to retain.Next, Zamenhof tried a different way of constructing a simplified language. He made the words in his language sound like words that people already knew, but he simplified the grammar tremendously One example of how he simplified the language can be seen in the suffixes: all nouns in this language end in o, as in the noun amiko, which means “friend,” and all adjectives end in -a, as in the adjective beta, which means “pretty” Another example of the simplified language can be seen in the prefix mal-, which makes a word opposite in meaning; the word malamiko therefore means “enemy,” and the word malbela therefore means “ugly” in Zamenhofs language.In 1887, Zamenhof wrote a description of this language and published it. He used a penname, Dr. Esperanto, when signing the book. He selected the name Esperanto because this word means “a person who hopes” in his language. Esperanto clubs began popping up throughout Europe, and by 1905 Esperanto had spread from Europe to America and Asia.In 1905, the First World Congress of Esperanto took place in France, with approximately 700 attendees from 20 different countries. Congresses were held annually for nine years, and 4,000 attendees were registered for the Tenth World Esperanto Congress scheduled for 1914, when World War I erupted and forced its cancellation.Esperanto has had its ups and downs in the period since World War I. Today, years after it was introduced, it is estimated that perhaps a quarter of a million people are fluent in it. Current advocates would like to see its use grow considerably and are taking steps to try to make this happen.1. The topic of this passage is ___.2. According to the passage, Zamenhof wanted to create a universal language _.3. It can be inferred from the passage that the Esperanto word malespera means _.4. Look at the expression “popping up” in Paragraph 4. This expression could best be replaced by _.5. The passage following the passage most likely discusses ___.

With its common interest in law breaking but its immense range of subject-matter and widely-varying methods of treatment, the crime novel could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of literature, or, at least, as a distinct, even though a slightly disreputable, offshoot of the traditional novel.The detective story is probably the most respectable (at any rate in the narrow sense of the word) of the crime species. Its creation is often the relaxation of university teachers, literary economists, scientists or even poets. Fatalities may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, but the world in which they happen, the village, seaside resort, college or studio, is familiar to us, if not from our own experience, at least in the newspaper or the lives of friends. The characters, though normally realized superficially, are as recognizably human and consistent as our less intimate associates. A story set in a more remote environment, African jungle, or Australian bush, ancient China or gas-lit London, appeals to our interest in geography or history, and most detective story writers are conscientious in providing a reasonably authentic background. The elaborate, carefully assembled plot, despised by the modern intellectual critics and creators of significant novels, has found refuge in the murder mystery, with its sprinkling of clues, its spicing with apparent impossibilities, all with appropriate solutions and explanations at the end. With the guilt of escapism from real life nagging gently, we secretly revel in the unmasking of evil by a vaguely super-human detective, who sees through and dispels the cloud of suspicion which has hovered so unjustly over the innocent.Though its villain also receives his rightful deserts, the thriller presents a less comfortable and credible world. The sequence of fist fights, revolver duels, car crashes and escapes from gas-filled cellars exhausts the reader far more than the hero, who suffers from at least two broken ribs, one black eye, uncountable braises and a hangover, can still chase and overpower an armed villain with the physique of a wrestler. He moves dangerously through a world of ruthless gangs, brutality, a vicious lust for power and money and, in contrast to the detective tale, with a near-omniscient arch-criminal whose defeat seems almost accidental. Perhaps we miss in the thriller the security of being safely led by our imperturbable investigator past a score of red herrings and blind avenues to a final gathering of suspects when an unchallengeable elucidation of all that has bewildered us is given and justice and goodness prevail. All that we vainly hope for from life is granted vicariously.1. The crime novel may be regarded as ___.2. The creation of detective stories has its origin in _.3. The characters of the detective stories are, generally speaking, _.4. The setting of the detective stories is something in a more remote place because _.5. The writer of this passage thinks ___.

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic impulse. To prove the letter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. Aggressive, destructive, sadistic impulses every child has and, on the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rather a safety valve than an incitement to overt action. As to fears, there are, I think, well-authenticated cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc., do not exist; and that, instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted girl-friend.No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child has ever believed that it was.1. According to the author, the best way to retell a story to a child is to ___.2. In the second paragraph, which statement best expresses the author’s attitude towards fairy stories?3. According to the author, fairy stories are most likely to _.4. If the child has heard some horror story for more than once, according to the author, he would probably be _.5. The author’s mention of broomsticks and telephones is meant to emphasize that ___.

Many people take for granted that all art should be beautiful. We may as well face the question squarely since it is basic to our whole attitude toward art. Why are there so many “ugly” works of art? There are several possible answers. We might reply that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. In other words, beauty subjective, and your personal taste leads you to reject things that might be beautiful to others. Both “beautiful” and “ugly” imply aesthetic value judgments.This possibility depends on the assumption that the artist’s proper aim is the creation of beauty. But there is another possibility. Perhaps the works are successes by artists who were sincerely aiming at something other than conventional, physical beauty. Would an artist intentionally make something ugly? And what, actually, do we mean by the words “ugly” and “beautiful”?Over the centuries numerous writers have grappled with the concept of beauty and tried to understand it. One of the most entertaining was the 18th-century British statesman Edmund Burke, who wrote an essay called “The Sublime and the Beautiful”. In the essay Burke defined beauty as a positive and striking quality that produces pleasure by being small, smooth, gradually or gently varied, delicate, softly and variable colored. It is submissive and may arouse love. Beauty is not related to proportion, said Burke, not to functional fitness, nor even to perfection. All these things are found apart from beauty.The sublime, by contrast, is vast even to infinity, difficult, magnificent, dark and rugged. According to Burke, it will “fill the mind with that sort of delightful horror, which is the most genuine effect and earliest test of the sublime”. A thing may be ugly and yet sublime if it is “united with such qualities as excite a strong terror”. Burke made it clear that greatness lies on the side of sublime, not of the beautiful.This is quite a useful idea. Let’s keep it in mind while we look at Ivan Albright’s painting Ida. Albright’s work is not smooth, delicate, or soft, and it is not likely to arouse love. For most people, though, it would evoke delightful horror. What is the artist aiming at? A common reaction is to say that the artist is showing us a person who is physically and mentally—even spiritually-exhausted. According to this interpretation, Albright teaches us about spiritual decay. Every bulge, every wrinkle, every wart stands for a nasty blow that.1. We can see from the first two paragraphs that ___.2. Which of the following statements might Burke have agree with?3. Which of the following can be said of Albright’s painting?4. It can be inferred from the passage that _.5. The author wrote this article to ___.

Charles Weiss, program director of science and international affairs at Georgetown University in Washington D. C., was the bank’s science adviser in the early 1980s. He believes this latest attempt to get the bank thinking about science has more chance of succeeding than his own efforts. This, he says, is partly because they have the support of senior executives, particularly James Wolfensohn, the bank’s president, and partly because the bank is now been to promote knowledge-based development.Unusually for a lending institution, the World Bank possesses world-class expertise on the projects and the regions where it lends money. Of its 8000 staff, 3000 have a PhD-level qualification, and many of these are top-ranked researchers headhunted from universities. The quantity and quality of the bank’s research is consistently high.But this more analytical aspect of the bank’s work has always been overshadowed by its lending arm-known as operations—which has generally considered research to be a function of lending, rather than an activity in its own right. In 1987, half of the research staff were sent to work operations.This tension between the research and lending wings remains, and is one of several challenges that will need to be overcome if the new strategy is to bear fruit. In particular, the need for a new department for science is being questioned by some who do not want to see science confined to a ghetto and think it should be part of the lending portfolio of all of the bank’s departments.Some operations staff have yet to be convinced of the merits of raising the bank’s research profile or funding research in developing countries. They believe that more attention should be paid to conventional infrastructure needs in poorer countries which, because of low credit ratings, will have little access to private capital.The reaction from developing countries will be an important test of the new strategy. The richer countries of Southeast Asia, Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East are likely to be more receptive than poorer countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where the bank is not popular, and where almost 50 per cent of bank-assisted projects have failed during this decade.1. Which of the following is True according to Paragraph 1?2. We can infer from the passage that _.3. One of the challenges for raising the hank’s research profile lies in .4. The word “infrastructure” (Paragraph 5) most probably refers to _.5. The best title of the passage may be ___.

Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo’s 17th century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanities, if anything, deepened in the 20th century.Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could afford to ignore its critics—but no longer. As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked “anti-science” in several books, notably Higher Superstition by Paul R. Gross, a biologist at the University of Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University: and The Demon-haunted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornel University.Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as “The Flight from Science and Reason,” held in New York City in 1995, and “Science in the Age of Information,” which assembled last June near Buffalo.Anti-science clearly means different things to different people. Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics who have questioned in science’s objectivity. Sagan is more concerned with those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the scientific worldview.A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.Few would dispute that the term applies to the Unabomber, whose manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pre-technological utopia. But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are anti-science, as an essay in US News & World Report last May seemed to suggest.The environmentalists, inevitably, respond to such critics. The true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrlish of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.Indeed, some observers fear that the anti-science epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless. “The term ‘anti-science’ can lump together too many, quite different thing,” notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti-science. “They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened.”1. The word “schism” (Paragraph 1) in the context probably means ___.2. Paragraphs 2 and 3 are written to _.3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?4. The author takes Paul R. Gross’ book Higher Superstition as an illustration to show that _.5. The author’s attitude toward the issue of “science vs. anti-science” is ___.

Directions: Write a composition in the title “Is University Expansion a Good Thing?” based on the following given outline. Your composition should be about 150 English words. Please write your composition on the Answer sheet.Outline1. Some people say that the recent increased enrollment of university students is a good thing.2. Others hold the opposite view.3. Your opinionPlease illustrate your point with adequate evidence.

Translate the following sentences into English.1. 如同人员与货物一样，人的思想观念也可以跨越大西洋自由地交流，尽管有时会略显迟缓。2. 你在一个新的环境待上一段时间后就进入了第二阶段—危机阶段，在这个阶段，美好的印象渐渐消失，你会明白必须面对日常生活中的实际问题。3. 在美国人经常光顾的那些欧洲国家，友谊跟其他更随意的人际关系有很大的区别，友谊与家庭生活的关联方式也各不相同。4. 第一阶段是蜜月阶段，在这一阶段中新的经历被视作是生动有趣，令人愉快和富有魅力的。5. 爱中有这样的矛盾：两个人合二为一，却又一分为二。

Translate the following passage into Chinese.In Germany, in contrast with France, friendship is much more clearly a matter of feeling, Adolescents, boys and girls, from deeply sentimental attachments, walk and talk together—not so much to polish their wits as to share their hopes and fears and dreams to form a common front against the world of school and family and to join in a kind of mutual discovery of each other’s and their own inner life. Within the family, the closest relationship over a lifetime is between brothers and sisters. Outside the family, men and women find in their closest friends of the same sex the devotion of a sister, the loyalty of a brother. Appropriately, in Germany friends usually are brought into the family. Children call their father’s and their mother’s friends “uncle” and “aunt”. Between French friends, who have chosen each other for the similarity of their point of view, lively disagreement and sharpness of argument are the breath of life. But for Germans, whose friendships are based on common feelings, deep disagreement on any subject that matters to both is regarded as a tragedy. Like ties of kinship, ties of friendship are meant to be absolutely binding. Young Germans who come to the United States have great difficulty in establishing such friendship with Americans. We view friendship more tentatively, subject to changes in intensity as people move, change their jobs, marry, or discover new interests.

There are three separate sources of hazard（1）to the use of nuclear reaction to supply us with energy. Firstly, the radioactive material must travel from its place of manufacture to the power station. （2）the power stations themselves are solidly built, the container used for transport of the material are not. Unfortunately, there are（3）only two methods of transport available, （4）road or rail, and both of these （5）close contact with the general public, （6）the routes are（7）to pass near, or even through, （8）populated areas.Secondly, there is a problem of wasters. All nuclear power stations produce wastes which（9）will remain radioactive for thousands of years. It is（10）to de-active these wastes, and so they must be stored（11）one of the ingenious but cumbersome ways that scientists have invented. For example, they must be buried under the ground（12）sunk in the sea. However, these（13）do not solve the problem completely, they merely store it, since an earth-quake could（14）open the containers like nuts.Thirdly, there is the problem of accidental exposure（15）to a leak or an explosion at the power station. （16）with the other two hazards, this is not very likely and does not provide a serious（17）to the nuclear program,（18）it can happen, as the inhabitants of Harrisburg will tell you.Separately, and during short periods, these three types of risk are no great cause for concern. （19）, though, and especially（20）much longer periods, the probability of a disaster is extremely high.

USA is one of the Powers in the world, but it’s a(n) _____ that in such a rich country there should be so many poor people.

Planning our vocation we must take the frequent _____ of the weather into consideration.

All draughts must be _____ from the room.

It is unfortunate that the members of the committee do not _____ in opinion.

In November 1987 the government _____ a public debate on the future direction of the official sports policy.

To a highly imaginative writer, _____ is a pad of paper and a pen.

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