Because of difficulties in getting a v...

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Today we’ll discuss proposals （）the improvement of quality. M1 other proposals will be left to the next meeting.

A. similar to
B. relevant to
C. familiar with
D. regarded as

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I was most favorably struck by the assurance with which the boy answered all my questions（）

A. insurance
B. confidence
C. reluctance
D. independence

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Because of difficulties in getting a visa, the students had to ______ the idea of applying for study in the United States.

A. reduce
B. yield
C. relinquish
D. waver

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He will simply not listen to anybody; he is （）to argument.

A. impervious
B. imperceptible
C. impassable
D. blunt

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I don't think it's sensible of you to（）your greater knowledge in front of the chairwoman for it may well offend her.

A. show up
B. show off
C. show out
D. show away

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The medieval church condemned man’s partaking in ______ pleasures.

A. educational
B. ascetic
C. asexual
D. sensual

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The man told me under rose that he often took trouble on your account．

A．不辞劳苦
B．挑剔
C．打理
D．惹麻烦

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It is naive to expect that any society can resolve all the social problems it is faced with （）

A. for long
B. in and out
C. once for all
D. by nature

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Sometimes artists find it hard for their works to win popular（）

A. welcome
B. applause
C. appetite
D. appreciation

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One of the important properties of a scientific theory is its ability to（）further research and further thinking about a particular topic.

A. invent
B. stimulate
C. renovate
D. advocate

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Ice skates manufactured entirely of iron were first sold in the 1800’s（）

A. mainly
B. successfully
C. solely
D. routinely

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The playwright was known not for his original ideas but for his ______ of ideas that had been propounded by others.

A. invention
B. reiteration
C. consideration
D. rejection

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After our computer network （）for the third time that day, we all went home.

A. crashed
B. collided
C. smashed
D. fell

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The degree of downward slope of a beach depends on its composition of deposits as well as on the action of waves across its surface（）

A. sentiment
B. sediment
C. semester
D. segment

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Probability is the mathematical study of the （）of an event’s occurrence.

A. likelihood
B. desirability
C. predictability
D. malleability

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The car（）halfway for no reason.

A. broke off
B. broke down
C. broke up
D. broke out

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He was（）with attempted robbery and held in custody.

A. accused
B. prosecuted
C. charged
D. arrested

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The rigor of the winter in Russia was often described by Mogol（）

A. harshness
B. perturbation
C. dismay
D. pessimism

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Benin Mayer Alcott based the principal characters of her book Little Women on her sisters and herself（）

A. original
B. central
C. subjunctive
D. oriental

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Nowadays, the prescribed roles of the man as "breadwinner" and the woman as housewife are changing（）

A. ascribed
B. prevalent
C. original
D. settled

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If we don't stop flirting玩弄 with those deathly nuclear weapons, the Whole globe will be （）

A. empowered
B. punished
C. polluted
D. annihilated

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（）, he did become annoyed with her at times.

A. Much as he liked her
B. As he liked her much
C. Although much he liked her
D. Much although he liked her

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Another popular misconception is the that great talent is usually highly specific（）

A. notion
B. dilemma
C. domain
D. analogy

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Recently the car factory had to carry out personnel （） because of financial trouble.

A. cuts
B. demands
C. reductions
D. orders

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In 1816, an apparently insignificant event in a remote part of Northern Europe （）Europe into a bloody war.

A. imposed
B. plunged
C. pitched
D. inserted

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She was so obstinate that she wouldn’t adjust her opinions（）

A. inflexible
B. alert
C. wise
D. talented

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The discoveries of science often are a mixed blessing. On the one hand they give us valuable pesticides that enable the farmer to grow more abundant crops and on the other hand they ______ the benefits by destroying the balance of nature.

A. compromise
B. misplace
C. damage
D. counterract

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A most（）argument about who should go and fetch the bread from the kitchen was going on when I came in.

A. trivial
B. delicate
C. minor
D. miniature

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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative liter ature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A hu man frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming mysterious and uncontrol lable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneez ing fit.
One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they are really very sad peo ple-clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some oth ers, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorists fatten on trouble. They have al ways made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boot (or as Josh Billings wittily called them, "tire boots"). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite a fiction not quite a fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.
Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a humorist to taste the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a hu morous piece of writing brings a person to the point where his emotional responses are un trustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is because humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays close to the big hot fire, which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.
In the first paragraph the author wants to say that______.

A. just as scientists can dissect a frog, so analysts can dissect humor
B. detailed, scientific analysis is not appropriate for humor, for it may make humor lose its aesthetic value
C. some people’s analysis of humor are too scientific
D. analysts’ attempts at humor are not instructive enough to interest the author

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After a year’s hard work I think I am （）to a long holiday.

A. entailed
B. deserved
C. entitled
D. satisfied

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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative liter ature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A hu man frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming mysterious and uncontrol lable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneez ing fit.
One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they are really very sad peo ple-clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some oth ers, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorists fatten on trouble. They have al ways made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boot (or as Josh Billings wittily called them, "tire boots"). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite a fiction not quite a fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.
Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a humorist to taste the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a hu morous piece of writing brings a person to the point where his emotional responses are un trustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is because humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays close to the big hot fire, which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.
The author uses the example of the soap bubble blower to show that______.

A. skill is required to produce humor
B. neither too much exaggeration nor absolute explicitness is fit for humor
C. people should perfect the art of humor just as the bubble blower does to the bubbles
D. humor should make people frantic for a while

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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative liter ature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A hu man frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming mysterious and uncontrol lable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneez ing fit.
One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they are really very sad peo ple-clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some oth ers, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorists fatten on trouble. They have al ways made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boot (or as Josh Billings wittily called them, "tire boots"). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite a fiction not quite a fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.
Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a humorist to taste the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a hu morous piece of writing brings a person to the point where his emotional responses are un trustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is because humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays close to the big hot fire, which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.
According to the author, humorists differ from ordinary people in the sense that______.

A. they give vent to their sorrows in a laughable way
B. they have much trouble in their life and they are melancholy
C. they are more sensible of the sadness of life and they endure and express the pain cheerfully
D. they are mostly clowns with a breaking heart

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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative liter ature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A hu man frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming mysterious and uncontrol lable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneez ing fit.
One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they are really very sad peo ple-clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some oth ers, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorists fatten on trouble. They have al ways made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boot (or as Josh Billings wittily called them, "tire boots"). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite a fiction not quite a fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.
Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a humorist to taste the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a hu morous piece of writing brings a person to the point where his emotional responses are un trustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is because humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays close to the big hot fire, which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.
A humorous piece of writing can make the reader’s emotional responses untrustwor- thy because______.

A. it expresses the truth of the sadness of human life with a sparkling surface
B. everyone has his happy moments and unhappy moments
C. there is an obvious line between laughing and crying
D. it is like poetry, very rhythmic

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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative liter ature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A hu man frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming mysterious and uncontrol lable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneez ing fit.
One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they are really very sad peo ple-clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some oth ers, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorists fatten on trouble. They have al ways made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boot (or as Josh Billings wittily called them, "tire boots"). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite a fiction not quite a fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.
Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a humorist to taste the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a hu morous piece of writing brings a person to the point where his emotional responses are un trustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is because humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays close to the big hot fire, which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.
The passage’s success lies in its extensive use of______.

A. parallelism
B. metaphors
C. metonymy
D. similes

Because of difficulties in getting a visa, the students had to ______ the idea of applying for study in the United States.

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After our computer network （）for the third time that day, we all went home.

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The car（）halfway for no reason.

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Recently the car factory had to carry out personnel （） because of financial trouble.

In 1816, an apparently insignificant event in a remote part of Northern Europe （）Europe into a bloody war.

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After a year’s hard work I think I am （）to a long holiday.