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Who were the ancestors of the English and the founders of England?()
A . The Anglo-Saxons.
B . The Normans.
C . The Vikings.
D . The Roma
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The Maori believe that their ancestors,and all living things in the world,were descended from()
A . the sky
B . the land
C . the God
D . the god
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All of the applicants who were able to speak English fluently would easily get the F1 visa at the Visa Section.
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Mei Lanfang was an actor who played the role of dan. Together with ____________ , they were acclaimed the “four famed Peking Opera female-role performers.”
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Which of the following languages was an ancestor of C?
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Some of Chaucer’s poems were written in the manner of the French poets who did not enjoy great popularity among the nobility.
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The Chamberlain's Men, in Shakespeare's time, were a remarkable group of people-excellent _____who were also business partners and close personal friends.
A.actors
B.students
C.teachers
D.writers
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Because many of the blacklists in the communications and entertainment industries were secret, the number of playwrights, script. writers, novelists, and journalists who were______to stop writing permanently is______.
A.happy… astounding
B.forced… unknown
C.unafraid … impressive
D.inclined… unsurprising
E.remiss … inconceivable
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Why were there hundreds of mourners in the Australian city of Newcastle who gathered to mourn the death of twenty people killed in bombings last year?
A.Because Newcastle is the home of three of the victims.
B.Because these people died in Newcastle last year.
C.Because four Islamist fighters have been found guilty of involvement in the bombings in Newcastle.
D.Because Newcastle is the city where there are many friends and relatives of the victims.
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Why does the author say that the knowledge of the shapes and habits of wild animals was important to our ancestors?
A.Because they loved animals so much.
B.Because animals were the frequent subject of their paintings.
C.Because they needed them to form. a religion.
D.Because they wanted to live in safety, preventing themselves from being hurt by animals.
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All of those who ( ) the peace conference were asked to sign their names on a piece of cloth.
A、 attended
B、 presented
C、 went
D、 was
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Jck is one of those men who_________ best eveningnd the most difficult situtions.hsB.hdC.hvJck is one of those men who_________ best eveningnd the most difficult situtions.hs B.hd C.hve D.were
A.has
B.had
C.have
D.were
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In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation of American youngster(年轻人)who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.
Nowadays when people grow old, we often send them to nursing homes. When they get sick, we transfer them to a hospital, where children are forbidden to visit terminally ill patients--even when those patients are their parents. This deprives(剥夺)the dying patient of significant family members during the last few days of his life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience.
Some of my colleagues and I once interviewed and followed approximately 500 terminally ill patients in order to find out what they could teach us and how we could be of more benefit, not just to them but to the members of their families as well. We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their serious illness were quite aware of its potential outcome.
It is important for family members, and doctors and nurses to understand these patients' communications in order to truly understand their needs, fears, and fantasies(幻想). Most of our patients welcomed another human being with whom they could talk openly, honestly, and frankly about their trouble. Many of them shared with us their tremendous need to be informed, to be kept up-to-date on their medical condition, and to be told when the end was near. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were better able to cope with the approach of death and finally to reach a true stage of acceptance prior to death.
Five hundred critically ill patients were investigated with the main purpose of ______.
A.learning how to best help them and their families
B.observing how they reacted to the crisis of death
C.helping them and their families overcome the fear of death
D.finding out their attitude towards the approach of death
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Who were invited to join the worldwide movement to rid films of their tobacco-promoting role?
Many famous _____________.
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Shortly after the British naturalist, Charles Darwin, published his theory of evolution, a Victorian lady was asked what she thought of the idea that humans and animals were descended from a common ancestor. "Let us hope it is not true," she said. (46)
This story is probably apocryphal, but it illustrates well the attitudes of the time. (47) Many people accept Darwin's view of how we came into being that our bodies evolved through the process of natural selection acting on our genes.
However, Darwin believed evolution was responsible for far more than just our physical characteristics. He saw it as the major influence in shaping our psychology. In- deed, he predicted that "in the distant future, psychology will be based on a new foundation". (48)
To proponents of concepts like free will and personal responsibility, such an idea seems absurd. (49) Their research has revealed increasing evidence that the human mind is made up of innate mechanisms, which control everything from the way we perceive time and space, to how we learn survival techniques and choose mates.
(50) Steven Pinker, Professor of Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, likens language ability to computer software, "children learn a new word every 90 minutes of their waking life for years, then they have to figure out how to string them together using a kind of mental computer program. The essence of human language is the ability to convey new ideas by putting words together in different combinations. Since we all have this language 'software' in our minds, we can figure out what others are saying by the meanings of the words and the order in which they are arranged."
A. Today, we are more comfortable with out past.
B. "And, if it is true, let us hope it does not become public knowledge."
C. But a growing number of scientists are questioning the extent to which our behavior. is controlled by our culture.
D. Many people are calling for controls on cloning immedicte1y before the practice is abused.
E. The foundation was, of course, his theory of evolution.
F. Nowhere is this more obvious than our innate ability to learn languages.
(46)
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Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and service that took place in eighteenth century England. McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm's remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferations of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children's toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three key questions remain: Who were the consumers? What were their motives? And what were the effects of the new demand for luxuries?
An answer to the flint of these has been difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. We still need to know how large this consumer market was and how far clown the social scale the consumer demand for luxury goods penetrated. With regard to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly restoring laboring people to the stage of eighteenth century.
English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism in general: for example, laboring people in eighteenth century England readily shifted from home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban breweries.
To answer the question of why consumers became so eager to buy, some historians have pointed to the ability of manufacturers to advertise in a relatively uncensored press. This, however, hardly seems a sufficient answer. McKendrick favors a Veblen model of conspicuous consumptions stimulated by competition for status. The "middling sort" bought goods and services because they wanted to follow fashions set by the rich. Again, we may wonder whether this explanation is sufficient. Do not people enjoy buying things as a form. of self-gratification? If so, consumerism could be seen as a product of the rise of new concepts of individualism and materialism, but not necessarily of the frenzy for conspicuous competition.
Finally, what were the consequences of this consumer demand for luxuries? McKendrick claims that it goes a long way toward explaining the coming of the Industrial Revolution. But does it? What for example does the production of high-quality pottery and toys have to do with the development of iron manufacture or textile mills? It is perfectly possible to have the psychology and reality of a consumer society without a heavy industrial sector.
That future exploration of these key questions is undoubtedly necessary should not, however, diminish the force of the conclusion of re cent studies: the insatiable demand in eighteenth century England for frivolous as well as useful goods and services foreshadows our own world.
In the first paragraph, the author mentions McKendrick and Plumb most probably in order to _______.
A.contrast their views on the subject of luxury consumerism in eighteenth century England
B.indicate the inadequacy of historiographical approaches to eighteenth century English history
C.give examples of historians who have helped to establish the fact of growing consumerism in eighteenth century England
D.support the contention that key questions about eighteenth century consumerism remain to be answered
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听力原文: The old house-allotting policy had at least two disadvantages. First, the government spent a lot of money building some houses, but these houses were allotted to people free of charge. Thus. the government would have no money to build more houses for people who badly needed them. Second, the persons who were in power could get more houses than those who were powerless. This was quite unfair. On the contrary, the new system of house allotment may bring about many new things. For example, the government will have more money which can be used in house construction. So, the housing industry can develop more quickly. Besides, because houses will be sold to people, the chances they get will be equal.
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The Chamberlain's Men, in Shakespeare's time, were a remarkable group of people-excellent ______ who were also business partners and close personal friends.
A.actors
B.students
C.teachers
D.writers
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The next time the men were taken up onto the deck, Kunta made a point of looking at the man behind him in line, the one who lay beside him to the left when they were below. He was a Serer tribesman much older than Kunta, and his body, front and back, was creased with whip cuts, some of them so deep and festering that Kunta, felt badly for having wished sometimes that he might strike the man in the darkness for moaning se steadily in his pain. Staring back at Kunta, the Serer's dark eyes were full of fury and defiance. A whip lashed out even as they stood looking at each other—this time at Kunta, spurring him to move ahead. Trying to roll away, Kunta was kicked heavily in his ribs. But somehow he and the gasping Wolof managed to stagger back up among the other men from their shelf who were shambling toward their dousing with bucked of seawater.
A moment later, the stinging saltiness of it was burning in Kunta's wounds, and his screams joined those of others over the sound of the drum and the wheezing thing that had again begun marking time for the chained men to jump and dance for the toubob. Kunta and the Wolof were so weak from their new beating that twice they stumbled, but whip blows and kicks sent them hem hopping clumsily up and down in their chains. So great was his fury that Kunta was barely aware of the women singing "Toubob fa!" And when he had finally been chained hack down in his place in the dark hold, his heart throbbed with a lust to murder toubob.
Every few days the eight naked toubob would again come into the stinking darkness and scrape their tubs full of the excrement that had accumulated on the shelves where the chained men lay. Kunta would lie still with his eyes staring balefully in hatred, following the bobbing orange lights, listening to the toubob cursing and sometimes slipping and tailing into the slickness underfoot—so plentiful now, because of the increasing looseness of the men's bowels, that the filth had begun to drop off the edges of the shelves down into the aisleway.
The last time they were on deck, Kunta had noticed a man limping on a badly infected leg. This time the man was kept up on deck when the rest were taken back below. A few days later, the women told the other prisoners in their singing that the man's leg had been cut off and that one of the women had been brought to tend him, but that the man had died that ,fight and been thrown over the side. Starting then, when the toubob came to clean the shelves, they also dropped red-hot pieces of metal into pails of strong vinegar. The clouds of acrid steam left the hold smelling better, but soon it would again be overwhelmed by the choking stink. It was a smell that Kunta felt would never leave his lungs and skin.
The steady murmuring that went on in the hold whenever the toubob were gone kept growing in volume and intensity as the men began to communicate better and better with one another. Words not understood were whispered from mouth to ear along the shelves until someone who knew more then one tongue would send back their meaning. In the process, all of the men along each shelf learned new words in tongues they had not spoken before. Sometimes men jerked upward, bumping their heads, in the double excitement of communicating with each other and the fact that it was being done without the toubeb's knowledge. Muttering among themselves for hours, the men developed a deepening sense of intrigue and of brotherhood. Though they were of different villages and tribes, the feeling grew that they were not from different peoples or places.
The living conditions for the Blacks in the salve ship were ______.
A.adequate but primitive
B.inhumane and inadequate
C.humane but crowded
D.similar to the crew's quarters
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The following authors were women writers who wrote novels in the late 19th and early 20thcentury with the exception of().
A.Emily Dickinson
B.Edith Wharton
C.Willia Cather
D.Kate Chopin
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Suppose that there were 25 people who had a reservation price of $500, and the 26th person had a reservation price of $200. What would the equilibrium price be if there were 24 apartments to rent?
A.$500
B.$200
C.$350
D.$488
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Why did Jenny kept her old love letters Becuse she loved some of the men who wrote to hWhy did Jenny kept her old love letters Becuse she loved some of the men who wrote to her. B.Becuse she thought they were prt of her life. C.Becuse her dughter often plyed with them.
A.Because she loved some of the men who wrote to her.
B.Because she thought they were a part of her life
C.Because her daughter often played with them.
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What type of argument is the following argument? None of the people who gave blood are people who were tested, so everybody who gave blood must have been untested.
A、Reasoning by principle.
B、Reasoning by definition.
C、Reasoning by analogy.
D、Reasoning by generalization.
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Rapid growth of industries was headed by a collection of colorful and energetic tycoons who were know as “captains of industries” or “robber barons”. The following are the examples except for()
A.John D. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Company
B.Andrew Carnegie of steel industry
C.J. P. Morgan of the investment banking firm
D.Cyrus McCormick of the railroad industry