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It hasbeen _______ a year since we last heard from him.
A.for
B. before
C. within
D. over
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A.willbe
B.willhavebeen
C.hasbeen
D.isbeing
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第5题
根据下列材料回答下列各 题。 The idea of a fishBeing able to generate electricity strong e
nough to light lampBulbs—oreven to mn a small electric motoris almost unbelievable，but several kinds of fish are able todo this．Even more strangely。this curious power hasBeen acquired inDifferent waysBy fishBe。longing to veryDifferent families． Perhaps theBest known are the electric rays，or torpedoes(电鱼)，of which several kindslive in warm seas,They posses on each side of the head，behind the eyes，a large organ consis—ting of a number of hexagonal shaped cells rather like a honeycomb．The cells are filled with ajeUy—like substance，and contain a series of flat electric plates．One side，the negative side，ofeach plate．is supplied with very fine nerves，connected with a main nerve coming from a specialpart of theBrain．Current passes from the upper，positive side of the organDownwards to thenegative，lower side．Generally it is necessary to touch the fish in two places，completing the cir-cuit，in order to receive a shock． The strength of this shockDepends on the size of the fish，but newlyBorn ones only about5 centimeters across canBe made to light theBulb of a pocket flashlight for a few moments， while a fully grown torpedo gives a shock capable of knocking a manDown，and，if suitablewires are connected，will operate a small electric motor for several minutes． Another famous example is the electriceel．This fish gives an even more poweIful shock．The system i8Different from that of the torped。in that the electric plates run longitudinally(纵向)and ale supplied with nerves from the spinal(脊骨)cord．Consequefitly，the current passesalong the fish from head to tail．The electric or gans of these fish are really altered muscles andlike all muscles are apt(1ikely)to tire，so they are not able to produce electricity for very long．The power of producing electricity may serve these flshBom forDefence and attack． （）It canBe seen from the passage that__________．
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A.the torpedo’s electric ceils have a shape with six sides
B.some fish can produce enough electricity toDrive a number of electric motors
C.the current travels in an upwardDirection from the positive side to negative sidein torpedo’s electric cells
D.the capacity to generate electricity is theDistinctive acteristic of the fish
第6题
Language is, and should be, a livingthing, constantly enriched with new words and forms
of expression. Butthere isa vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language,enabling us to say things wecould not say before, and bad developments, whichsubtract from the language by rendering it less precise. Avivacious, colorfuluse of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind ofslovenliness in whichsome professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin tothe cult (迷信). of theunfinished work, which haseroded most of the arts in our time. And the trueanswer to it is the same that art is enhanced, not hindered, bydiscipline. Youcannot carve satisfactorily in butter.
The corruption of written English hasbeen accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less well than wascommon among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.
The modem theatre has played a baneful (有害的) part in dimming our appreciation oflanguage. Instead ofthe immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw(who was also very insistent on good pronunciation.,audiences are now subjectedto streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, toexhibit'laek ofcommunication', and larded (夹杂). with theobscenities (下流的话). and grammatical errors of theintellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers: "Thetheatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciated speech. "Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons inhow to speakbadly, so that she should fit in better.
But the BBC is the worst traitor. Aideryears of very successfully helping to raise the general standard ofspokenEnglish, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unitcoyly (含蓄地). put it, "In the1960s the BBC opened thefield to a much wider range of speakers." To hear a BBC disc jockeytalking to thelatest ape-like pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbalsqualor. And the prospect seems to be of evenworse to come. School teachers areactively encouraged to ignore little Johnny's incoherent grammar,atrociousspelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such thingsmight inhibit his creative genius.
61、The writer relateslinguistic slovenliness to tendencies in the arts today in that they both_________
A.occasionally aim at acertain fluidity
B.appear to shunperfection
C.from time to time showregard for the finishing touch
D.make use of economical shortcuts
62、"Art is enhanced, nothindered, by discipline" (Lines 6-7, Paragraph 1 ) means_________
A.an artist's work will befiner if he observes certain aesthetic standards
B.an unfinished work is boundto be comparatively inferior
C.the skill of certain artistsconceals their slovenliness
D.artistic expression isinhibited by too many rules
63、Many modem plays, theauthor finds, frequently contain speech which _________
A.is incoherent andlinguistically objectionable
B.is far too ungrammatical formost people to follow
C.unintentionally shocks theaudience
D.tries to hide the author'sintellectual inadequacies
64、The author says that thestandard of the spoken English of BBC _________
A.is the worst among allbroadcasting networks
B.has taken a turn for theworse since the 1960s
C.has raised English-speakingup to a new level
D.is terrible because of a fewpopular disc jockeys
65、Teachers are likely tooverlook the linguistic lapses in their pupils since_________
A.they find that children nolonger respond to this kind of discipline nowadays
B.they fear the children maybecome less coherent
C.more importance is nowattached to oral expression
D.the children may bediscouraged from expressing their ideas
第7题
阅读：Language is, and should be, a livingthing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression
Questions61-65are based on the followingpassage.
Language is, and should be, a livingthing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression. Butthere isa vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language,enabling us to say things wecould not say before, and bad developments, whichsubtract from the language by rendering it less precise. Avivacious, colorfuluse of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind ofslovenliness in whichsome professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin tothe cult (迷信). of theunfinished work, which haseroded most of the arts in our time. And the trueanswer to it is the same that art is enhanced, not hindered, bydiscipline. Youcannot carve satisfactorily in butter.
The corruption of written English hasbeen accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken
English. We speak very much less well than wascommon among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.
The modem theatre has played a baneful (有害的) part in dimming our appreciation oflanguage. Instead ofthe immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw(who was also very insistent on good pronunciation.,audiences are now subjectedto streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, toexhibit'laek ofcommunication', and larded (夹杂. with theobscenities (下流的话). and grammatical errors of theintellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers: "Thetheatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciated speech. "Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons inhow to speakbadly, so that she should fit in better.
But the BBC is the worst traitor. Aideryears of very successfully helping to raise the general standard ofspokenEnglish, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unitcoyly (含蓄地). put it, "In the1960s the BBC opened thefield to a much wider range of speakers." To hear a BBC disc jockeytalking to thelatest ape-like pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbalsqualor. And the prospect seems to be of evenworse to come. School teachers areactively encouraged to ignore little Johnny's incoherent grammar,atrociousspelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such thingsmight inhibit his creative genius.
61、The writer relateslinguistic slovenliness to tendencies in the arts today in that they both_________
A.occasionally aim at acertain fluidity
B.appear to shunperfection
C.from time to time showregard for the finishing touch
D.make use of economical shortcuts
62、"Art is enhanced, nothindered, by discipline" (Lines 6-7, Paragraph 1 ) means_________
A.an artist's work will befiner if he observes certain aesthetic standards
B.an unfinished work is boundto be comparatively inferior
C.the skill of certain artistsconceals their slovenliness
D.artistic expression isinhibited by too many rules
63、Many modem plays, theauthor finds, frequently contain speech which _________
A.is incoherent andlinguistically objectionable
B.is far too ungrammatical formost people to follow
C.unintentionally shocks theaudience
D.tries to hide the author'sintellectual inadequacies
64、The author says that thestandard of the spoken English of BBC _________
A.is the worst among allbroadcasting networks
B.has taken a turn for theworse since the 1960s
C.has raised English-speakingup to a new level
D.is terrible because of a fewpopular disc jockeys
65、Teachers are likely tooverlook the linguistic lapses in their pupils since_________
A.they find that children nolonger respond to this kind of discipline nowadays
B.they fear the children maybecome less coherent
C.more importance is nowattached to oral expression
D.the children may bediscouraged from expressing their ideas
