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Were there any disputes()the figures?
A . at
B . in
C . on
D . over
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The Britons of the Celtic tribes were the forefathers of the modern()
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The ()were the original inhabitants in America.
A . blacks
B . Indians
C . PuertoRica
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Titans因反对()被打入冥界,成为冥界的神。
A . A、欧罗巴
B . B、狄俄尼苏斯
C . C、阿莱昂
D . D、宙斯
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The watches and the the camera materials were not stowed in the poop cabin. They were stowed in the chief officer’s cabin().
A . instead
B . instead of
C . replace
D . replace of
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The first known settlers of Britain were the()
A . Celts
B . Iberians
C . Beaker Folk
D . Roma
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The garden()while the Greens were away from home.
A . took good care of
B . was taken good care
C . was taken good care of
D . was taking good care
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After the typhoon, the repairmen found that there were about 35 classrooms ________ were broken.
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The thieves were ____ by the police as
they were entering the bank.
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When the contest was over and the results were posted, the team members were so exhausted they couldn’t even read __________.
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In The Bluest Eye actually Tony Morrison deeply concerned about the feeling of being ugly, she portraits a little hurt black girl because they are concerned less.
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Anne and John were not the only people in the garden. T here were _____.
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3. She once chose an (ugly) pullover for me and went on to choose the (awful) trousers that I had ever seen.
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_________ were the wars that were fought by Christians in Palestine against the Muslims during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.
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_of the house were damaged.
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________visitors to the UK were asked by newspaper reporters what their impressions of the British people were.
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The Wargs were not afraid of the fire.()
是
否
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1 For the Greeks, beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call-lamely, enviously whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person's "inside" and "outside," they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable, so seductive-and so ugly. One of Socrates' main pedagogical acts was to be ugly-and teach those innocent, no doubt splendid-looking disciples of his how full of paradoxes life really was.
2 They may have resisted Socrates' lesson. We do not. Several thousand years later, we are more wary of the enchantments of beauty. We not only split off-with the greatest facility-the "inside" (character, intellect) from the "outside" (looks); but we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent, talented, good.
3 It was principally the influence of Christianity that deprived beauty of the central place it had in classical ideals of human excellence. By limiting excellence (virtus in Latin) to moral virtue only, Christianity set beauty adrift-as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment. And beauty has continued to lose prestige. For close to two centuries it has become a convention to attribute beauty to only one of the two sexes: the sex which, however fair, is always Second. Associating beauty with women has put beauty even further on the defensive, morally.
4 A beautiful woman, we say in English, but a handsome man. "Handsome" is the masculine equivalent of-and refusal of-a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones, by being reserved for women only. That one can call a man "beautiful" in French and in Italian suggests that Catholic countries-unlike those countriesshaped by the Protestant version of Christianity-still retain some vestiges of the pagan admiration for beauty. But the difference, if one exists, is of degree only. In every modern country that is Christian or post-Christian, women are the beautiful sex-to the detriment of the notion of beauty as well as of women.
The author means _________ by "whole persons" in Para. 1.
A.persons of beauty
B.persons of virtue
C.persons of excellence
D.none of the above
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The children were still at the station.
A.Right.
B.Wrong.
C.Doesn't say.
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The Americans the author met were generally compassionate.()
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In the farm, among all the animals, a ()with ugly and weird looking, who has been despised, gains respect from Wilbur and forms a sincere bond with Wilbur.
A、pig
B、spider
C、goose
D、horse
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It is a blow for the Ugly Bettys and Plain Janes ——research shows that good looks lead to better pay. A study of 4,000 young men and women found that beauty boosted pay checks more than intelligence.
It is unclear what is behind the phenomenon but it may be that beauty creates confidence. The self-confident may appear to be doing better than they are and will not hesitate about asking for a pay rise.
Researcher Jason Fletcher, of Yale University in the U.S., rated the attractiveness of the 4,000 men and women. Just over half were judged average, while 7 percent were felt to be very attractive and 8 percent were judged unattractive or very unattractive. The volunteers also sat an IQ test and reported their salary. It became clear that pay scales were far from fair. For instance, a 14- point increase on the IQ score was associated with a 3 to 6 percent increase in wage. But being of above-average looks increased pay by 5 to 10 percent .
For a plain person to be paid the same as a very attractive one , they would have to be 40 percent brighter, the journal Economics Letters reports.
Dr Fletcher said:“The results do show that people ’s looks have an impact on their wages and it can be very important.”
6.What is the “plainness penalty ”?
A.To be paid less for being ordinarily-looking
B.To be laughed at for being ordinarily-looking
C.To be fired for being ordinarily-looking
D.To be questioned for being ordinarily-looking
How many people were rated as very attractive in Jason Fletcher ’s study?A.About 280
B.About 4,000
C.About 2,000
D.About 320
What ’s the average annual salary of a good-looking person?A.£2,500
B.£25,000
C.£22,500
D.£27,500
Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage ?A.IQ is less important than appearance
B.Confidence makes people prettier
C.Good looks earn an extra penny
D.How Plain Janes get a higher salary
Good-looking people are usually paid more probably because________ .A.they look smarter
B.they have higher degrees
C.they are better at pleasing others
D.they are more confident
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The plane was late and detectives were() at the airport all morning. They were expecting
The plane was late and detectives were() at the airport all morning. They were expecting a valuable parcel of diamonds() South Africa. A few hours earlier, someone had() the police that thieves would try to steal the diamonds. ()the plane arrived, some of the detectives were waiting inside the main building() others were waiting on the airfield. Two men took the parcel() the plane and carried it() the Customs House. While two detectives were() guard at the door, two others opened the parcel.() their surprise, the precious parcel was full ()stones and sand!
46、A、waited
B、wait
C、waiting
D、waits
47、A、over
B、in
C、across
D、from
48、A、tell
B、tells
C、told
D、telling
49、A、When
B、What
C、However
D、Since
50、A、that
B、when
C、while
D、which
51、A、down
B、on
C、in
D、off
52、A、off
B、away
C、from
D、into
53、A、keeps
B、kept
C、keep
D、keeping
54、A、Without
B、On
C、To
D、With
55、A、in
B、off
C、of
D、with