()other writers, Hemingway liked choosing simple words to extend his ideas.
A.Compared to
B.Compared with
C.Contrasted to
D.Contrasted with
A.Compared to
B.Compared with
C.Contrasted to
D.Contrasted with
The two writers mentioned in the first paragraph ________.
A) opposed judging students by the results of exams
B) must have proposed other ways of testing students
C) regarded exams as a way of punishing students
D) seemed to be worried about the poor marks of their students
Kaufman has also studied poets and mental illness. "What I found was pretty【C11】______ with the actual death findings. Female poets were much more【C12】______ to suffer from mental illness (e.g.【C13】______ suicide) than any other kind of writers and other【C14】______ women," he said. "I've dubbed this the 'Sylvia Plath Effect'."
There could also be a more benign【C15】______ for poets' early death, "Poets produce twice as much of their lifetime【C16】______ in their twenties as novelists do," he said. So when a【C17】______ novelist dies young, few people may notice. "A great novelist or non-fiction writer who dies at 28 may not have yet produced her or his masterpiece." Kaufman said poets should not worry, but should perhaps 【C18】______ health. "The fact that a Sylvia Plath may die young does not【C19】______ mean an Introduction to Poetry class should carry a warning that poems may be【C20】______ to one's health," he said.
【C1】
A.likely
B.prone
C.preferable
D.favorable
Some of these writers are doctors; others are lawyers or educators. But among the most famous writers of advice are two women without special training for this kind of work. One of them answers letters addressed to "Dear Abby". The other is addressed as "Dear Ann". Experience is their preparation for giving advice.
There is one writer who has not lived long enough to have much experience. She is a girl named Angel Brown, who started writing advice for newspaper readers at the age of ten. Her advice to young readers now appears regularly in the Philadelphia Bulletin in a column called "Dear Angel".
(19)
A.ask the people they know for advice.
B.ask their family members for advice.
C.write to newspapers for advice.
D.write to their friends for advice.
听力原文: Science fiction writers have often imagined human beings going to live on Mars. But these days, scientists are taking the idea seriously. It has a great deal to recommend it, since it might solve the problem of overcrowding on the earth. But obviously, it would not be worth making the effort unless people could live there naturally. If the atmosphere were like that of the earth, this might be possible. But in fact it is mostly carbon dioxide. Apart from that, there are other problems to be overcome. For example, the temperature would have to be raised from 60 degrees below zero to 15 degrees above it. Scientists who study Mars have laid down the program that they can follow. To begin with, they will have to find out whether life has ever existed on the planet of Mars in the past. Secondly, they will have to make a reliable map of its surface. And finally, they will have to make a list of the gases. Above all, they will have to discover how much nitrogen it possesses, since nitrogen is four fifths of the air we breathe. They are surprisingly optimistic about raising the temperature on Mars and believe it could be done in two hundred years. It will take a bit longer, though, to transform. the atmosphere so that human beings, could live there. Scientists estimate that this will take one hundred thousand years.
(33)
A.Because people might have to migrate there someday.
B.Because it is very much like the earth.
C.Because it is easier to explore than other planets.
D.Because its atmosphere is different from that of the earth.
【C7】______many of the best 'serious' British writers manage to be popular as well as pro found, the vast【C8】______of the books could not be classified as 'serious' literature. Britain is the home of【C9】______might be called 'middlebrow' literature.(That is, mid-way between serious and popular fiction)Many British authors write novels【C10】______as 'romances' , one of the middlebrow types. The British publisher which sells more books than any other is Mills & Boon,【C11】______books are exclusively【C12】______this type.
Poetry at the end or the twentieth century is【C13】______popular in Britain after it stopped being the normal【C14】______of literary self-expression 200 years ago. Books for poetry sell【C15】______comparatively large numbers. Their sales are not【C16】______as large as sales of novels, but they are large【C17】______for a few small publishers to【C18】______entirely on publishing poetry. Many of these poems are not academics and they are【C19】______to non-specialists. Perhaps the 'pop' idiom and the easy【C20】______of sound recording have made more people comfortable with spoken verse.
【C1】
A.route
B.road
C.path
D.way
【B1】
听力原文: (32) How men first learnt to invent words is unknown, in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, (33) somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feel hugs, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other, and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters we call words. (34) The power of words, then, lies in their associations--the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience, and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past, and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literery style. Above all, (35) the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by then position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar.
(33)
A.A legend handed down from the past.
B.A matter that is hidden or secret.
C.A question difficult to answer.
D.A problem not yet solved.
(33)
A.Because people might have to migrate there someday.
B.Because it is very much like the earth.
C.Because it is easier to explore than other planets.
D.Because its atmosphere is different from that of the earth.
(33)In the study, 33 undergraduate students were asked to proofread a one-page business letter—half of them using Microsoft Word with its red and green lines underlining potential errors. The other half did it in the old-fashioned way, using only their heads. (34)Without grammar or spelling software, students with higher SAT verbal scores made, on average, five errors, compared with 12.3 errors for students with lower scores. Using the software, students with higher verbal scores reading the same passage made, on average, 16 errors, compared with 17 errors for students. with lower scores.
Dennis Galletta, a professor of information systems at the Katz Business School, said spell-check software is so sophisticated that some have come to trust it too thoroughly. (35)"It's not a software problem, it's a behavior. problem," he said. Microsoft technical specialist Tim Pash said grammar and spelling technology is meant to help writers and editors, not solve all their problems. (35)The study found the software helped students find and correct errors in the letter, but in some cases they also changed phrases and sentences flagged by the software as grammatically suspicious, even though they were correct.
(30)
A.They are asked to find out the mistakes of a letter.
B.They are asked to provide proof of the deal.
C.They are asked to finish reading the letter quickly.
D.They are asked to write a business letter.
In the past, women tended to assume that they would be overtaken
by men in the race to the top. And, today's young women are far less 【S1】______.
philosophical about their status and are more aggressive in their 【S2】______.
resentment in being treated as in some way inferior than men. On the 【S3】______.
other hand, since lack of drive is one of the criticisms leveled with 【S4】______.
women, perhaps this aggression is a positive advantage. Some young
women, though, find it very difficult to come to term with the feeling that 【S5】______.
characteristics of authority which are acceptable in men are often not
acceptable in women. A reason often advanced for women fail to reach the 【S6】______.
top is their desire for balance between work and a life outside work.
Employers know this and tend, when a woman with young children
applies for promotion, treat the fact that she has young children as an 【S7】______.
important factor and, giving the choice, are more likely to give promotion 【S8】______.
to. a man than to her.
What about women whose children are almost grown up? Well, the
writers of the study recommend a far much more positive approach to 【S9】______.
women who want to return to their careers before their children are off 【S10】______.
their hands.
【S1】
听力原文: How men first learnt to invent words is unknown, in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feel hugs, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other, and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations--the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience, and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past, and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.
Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literery style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by then position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar.
(33)
A.A legend handed down from the past.
B.A matter that is hidden or secret.
C.A question difficult to answer.
D.A problem not yet solved.