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The Norman Conquest is perhaps（）event in English history.
A . a trifling
B . the best-known
C . a horrifying
D . a sensational
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We can perhaps describe the west wind in Ode to the West wind with all the following terms except ___.
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The science of medicine, _______ progress has been very rapid lately, is perhaps the most important of all sciences.
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They kept trying to call, and call, and call again with just＿ hope that somehow perhaps the people were still buried underneath the rubble or had perhaps been taken to a hospital.
A、a glimmer of
B、a series of
C、an array of
D、a trace of
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Using ________ and, perhaps, a set of operation sheets, the machinist figures out how to set up the machine and keys in the data.
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In Discussion section, you should consider how the results of other studies may be combined with yours to derive a new or perhaps better substantiated understanding of the problem.
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If we can __________ (elimination) most of the environmental pollution, we will perhaps be able to save the world.
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The underwater world is perhaps the most popular place _________ people, esp. youngsters prefer to visit.
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All of the following are mentioned as evidence that elephants can recognize their own reflection EXCEPT:
A．They do not try to engage their reflection in social behavior.
B．They will use their reflection to help them clean themselves.
C．They attempt to rub their trunks against their reflection in greeting.
D．They will explore their reflection to see what they look lik
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听力原文： The eight elephants from Thailand destined for zoos in Sydney and Melbourne are due to arrive later this year.
Wildlife campaigners have insisted that scientific evidence has proved that elephants in zoos don't breed well and suffer a wide range of health problems. On top of that, it's claimed they die at a younger age than those living in the wild or kept in parks.
The government in Canberra is allowing these Asian elephants into Australia as part of a conservation program that it believes will help safeguard the species. The population of these magnificent animals has been reduced over the past century. It's estimated that fewer than 34,000 now remain across a dozen countries.
What can we know about the elephants in zoos？
A．They generally breed well.
B．They may not suffer health problems.
C．They may die relatively young.
D．They are cleverer than the wild elephants.
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Perhaps the most ________ aspect of this computer is that it is so easy to use.
A striking
B impressing
C dividing
D absorbing
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By about AD.500 the Mound Builder （筑堤人) culture was declining，perhaps because of at
By about AD.500 the Mound Builder (筑堤人) culture was declining，perhaps because of attacks from other tribes or perhaps because of severe climatic changes that undermined agriculture.To the west another culture，based on intensive agriculture，was beginning to flourish.Its center was beneath
present-day St.Louis，and it radiated out to encompass most of the Mississippi watershed，from Wisconsin to Louisians and from Oklahoma to Tennessee.Thousands of villages were included in its orbit.By about AD.700 this Mississippian culture，as is known to archaeologists，began to send its influence eastward to transform. the life of most of the less technologically advanced woodland tribes.Like the Mound Builders of the
Ohio region，these tribes，probably influenced by Meso-American cultures through trade and warfare，built gigantic mounds as burial and ceremonial places.The largest of them，rising In four terraces to a height of one hundred feet，has a rectangular base of nearly fifteen acres，larger than that of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.Built between AD.900 and 1100 this huge earthwork faces the site of a palisaded (用栅围护) Indian city which contained more than one hundred small artificial mounds marking burial sites.Spread among them was a vast settlement containing some 30 000 people by current estimations.The finely crafted ornaments and tools recovered at Cahokia，as this center of Misissippi culture is called，
include elaborate ceramics (陶器) finely sculpted stonework，carefully embossed and engraved copper and mica (云母) sheets，and one funeral blanket fashioned from 12 000 shell beads.They indicate that Cahokia was a true urban center，with clustered housing，markets，and specialists in toolmaking，hide-dressing，potting，jewelry-making，weaving，and salt-making.
1.What is the main topic of the passage？()
A.The Mississippian culture
B.The decline of Mound Builder culture
C.The architecture of Meso-American Indians
D.the eastern woodlands tribes.
2.The paragraph preceding this one most probably discussed.()
A.the Mound Builder culture
B.warfare in AD.500
C.the geography of the Mississippi area
D.agriculture near the Mississippi River
3.In relation to the Mississippian culture，the Mound Builder culture was located().
A.in essentially the same area
B.farther south along the watershed
C.to the east
D.to the west
4.The Mississippian culture influenced the culture of the().
A.eastern woodland tribes
B.Mound Builders
C.Meso-Americans
D.Egyptians
5.According to the passage，the mounds were used as().
A.palaces for the royal families
B.fortresses for defense
C.centers for conducting trade
D.places for burying the dead
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Instead of trying to reduce the discontent felt, try to raise the level or quality of the discontent. Perhaps the most that can be hoped for is to have high-order discontent in today' s society, discontent about things that really matter.【76】 Rather than evaluating programs in terms of how happy they make people, how satisfied those people become, programs must be evaluated in terms of the quality of the discontent they engender. For example, if consultant wants to assess, whether or not an organization is healthy, he doesn' t ask, "Is there an absence of complaints？" but rather, "What kinds of complaints are there？"
【77】 Instead of trying to make gradual changes in small increments, make big changes. After all, big changes are relatively easier to make than are small ones. Some people assume that the way to bring about improvement is to make the change small enough so that nobody will notice it. This approach has never worked, and one can' t help but wonder why such thinking continues. Everyone knows how to resist small changes; they do it all the time. If, however, the change is big enough, resistance can' t be mobilized against it.【78】 Management can make a sweeping organizational change, but just let a manager, try to change someone' s desk from here to there, and see the great difficulty he encounters. All change is resisted, so the question is how can the changes be made big enough so that they have a chance of succeeding？
Buck Minster Fuller has said that instead of reforms society needs new forms; e. g. , in order to reduce traffic accidents, improve automobiles and highways instead of trying to improve drivers. The same concept should be applied to human relations. There' s a need to think in terms of social architecture, and to provide arrangements among people that evoke what they really want to see in them selves.【79】 Mankind takes great pains with physical architecture, and is beginning to concern it self with the design of systems in which the human being is a component. But most of these designs are only for safety, efficiency, or productivity. System designs are not made to affect those aspects of life people care most about such as family life, romance, and esthetic experiences.【80】 Social technology as well as physical technology need to be applied in making human arrangements that will transcend anything mankind has yet experienced. People need not be victimized by their environments; they can be fulfilled by them.
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Man&39;s first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it. The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature-no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then, did man come to invent the wheel？ Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the carcass of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.
It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected, at their centers by a string stick. This would roll along just as the logs did, yet be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and axle came into being and with them the first carts.
1、The wheel is important because__________.
A.it was man’s first real invention
B.all transportation depends on it
C.every machine depends on it
D.both B and C
It was remarkable of man to invent the wheel because__________.A.it led to .many other inventions
B.man had no use for it then
C.there were no wheels in nature
D.all of the above
The wheel was probably invented by__________.A.a group of early hunters
B.the first men on earth
C.a great prehistoric thinker
D.the man who made the first cart
The wheel is called__________.A.simple
B.complicated
C.strange
D.unusual
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You know what a hotel is, of course. And perhaps, you also know what a condo is-aresidntial(居住的)building divided into seprate uniots that are owned by different people.What you may not know is that in someU.S. cities, the two have come together into somethingcalled a “condo hotel”.
Some condo hotels can now be found in beach and mountain towns and a few small cities,However, none is more famous than the great 105-year-old Plaza Hotel in New York,on Fifth Avenue across from Central Park. The Plaza closed for repair in When it reopened two years later,more than half of it had been changed into one of these modern condo hotels.
Here&39;s how it works: You buy what equals to an apartment(公寓). If it&39;s at&39;The Plaza,it will cost you between $ 1.5million and $9 mllion. So you own a part of the building. But there&39;s some inconvinience. You may stay there no more than 120 days a year. hereion. The rest of the time,the hotel&39;s workers can book guests into your place, just as they would in the regular hotel&39;s rooms. So if you&39;re lucky and rich,you can now live in really special quarters up to almost one thid of the year. While others pay off your mortgage(房贷)the rest of the year.
So far,a great monry of the nation&39;s condo hotel units have been purchased not by rich people but richer companiesm, including foreign ones. They want a nice place for their bosses to stay when they are in town or working late at the office.
47.A condo is a place where people .
A.live
B.work
C.eat
D.study
What do we know about a condo hotel？A.It is designed by rich companies.
B.It is built for foreign travellers.
C.It is usually sold at a low price.
D.It is owned by different people.
How long can you stay in your own condo hotel unit a most each year？A.120 days
B.One month
C.Half a year
D.Three months.
What does purchased in the last parngraph probably mean？A.Closed.
B.Bought.
C.Damaged.
D.Repaired.
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Life on land probably began about 430 million years ago, though it has existed in the water for perhaps much as 3 000 million years. When we think of the first life on land, we probably think of strange animals coming out of the oceans, but, in fact, no animals could have been living if plants had not been on land first. Plants had to be on land before animals arrived. They supplied the first land animals with the surrounding and food necessary, since the plants are the only form. of life that
is able to get and store energy.
The first plants to exist out of the water were probably certain kinds of algae (海藻) which were followed by other plants that grew close to the ground and needed water in which to reproduce. Once their move to land had been made, however, evolution (进化) took place quickly. By the end of 100 million years, plants had developed their roots (根), and some had got tree-like forms since height was very important in gaining sunlight. About 300 million years ago, much of the world was covered with forests of huge trees. In most ways they were like modern trees. They had loots, leaves, wood, but mostly they had not developed seeds.
The main idea of the first paragraph is ______.
A．life on land probably began about 430 years ago
B．the first animal on land came from oceans
C．there wouldn't be animals without plants
D．plants are the only form. of life that is able to get and store energy
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英译汉 Drinking habits vary widely among Americans. Some families never serve any drinks, others have them before dinner, or perhaps after dinner. You are more likely to be offered a cocktail before dinner than wine with the meal. If you do not get used to American cocktails, you can ask for something else. Moreover, drinks may be poured over ice.
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Perhaps only a small boy training to be a wizard at the Hogwarts school of magic could cast a spell so powerful as to create the biggest book launch ever. Wherever in the world the clock strikes midnight on June 20th, his followers will flock to get their paws on one of more than 10 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Bookshops will open in the middle of the night and delivery firms are drafting in extra staff and bigger trucks. Related toys, games, DVDs and other merchandise will be everywhere. There will be no escaping Pottermania.
Yet Mr. Potter's world is a curious one, in which things are often not what they appear. While an excitable media (hereby including The Economist, happy to support such a fine example of globalisation) is helping to hype the launch of J.K. Rowling's fifth novel, about the most adventurous thing that the publishers (Scholastic in America and Britain's Bloomsbury in English elsewhere) have organised is a reading by Ms. Rowling in London's Royal Albert Hall, to be broadcast as a live webcast. Hollywood, which owns everything else to do with Harry Potter, says it is doing even less. Incredible as it may seem, the guardians of the brand say that, to protect the Potter franchise, they are trying to maintain a low profile. Well, relatively low.
Ms. Rowling signed a contract in 1998 with Warner Brothers, part of AOL Time Warner, giving the studio exclusive film, licensing and merchandising rights in return for what now appears to have been a steal: some $500,000. Warner licenses other firms to produce goods using Harry Potter characters or images, from which Ms. Rowling gets a big enough cut that she is now wealthier than the queen—if you believe Britain's Sunday Times rich list. The process is self-generating: each book sets the stage for a film, which boosts book sales, which lifts sales of Potter products.
Globally, the first four Harry Potter books have sold some 200 million copies in 55 languages; the two movies have grossed over $1.8 billion at the box office.
This is a stunning success by any measure, especially as Ms. Rowling has long demanded that Harry Potter should mot be over-commercialised. In line with her wishes, Warner says it is being extraordinarily careful, at least by Hollywood standards, about what it licenses and to whom. It imposed tough conditions on Coca-Cola, insisting that no Harry Potter images should appear on cans, and is now in the, process of making its licensing programme even more restrictive. Coke may soon be considered too mass market to carry the brand at all.
The deal with Warner ties much of the merchandising to the films alone. There are no officially sanctioned products relating to "Order of the Phoenix"; nor yet for "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", the film of the third book, which is due out in June 2004. Warner agrees that Ms. Rowling's creation is a different sort of commercial property, one with long-term potential that could be damaged by a typical Hollywood marketing blitz, says Diane Nelson, the studio's global brand manager for Harry Potter. It is vital, she adds, that with more to come, readers of the books are not alienated. "The evidence from our market research is that enthusiasm for the property by fans is not waning."
When the author says "there will be no escaping Pottermania", he implies that______.
A．Harry Potter's appeal for the readers is simply irresistible
B．it is somewhat irrational to be so crazy about the magic boy
C．craze about Harry Potter will not be over in the near future
D．Hogwarts school of magic will be the biggest attraction world over
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No reference book, perhaps no book of any kind except the Bible, is so widely used as "the dictionary". Even houses that have few books or none at all possess at least one dictionary; most business offices have dictionaries, and most typists keep a copy on their desks; at one time or another most girls and boys are required by their teachers to obtain and use a dictionary.
Admittedly, the dictionary is often used merely to determine the correct spelling of words, or to find out the accepted pronunciation, and such a use is perhaps not the most important from an intellectual point of view. Dictionaries may, however, have social importance, for it is often a matter of some concern to the person using the dictionary for such purpose that he should not suggest to others, by misspelling a word in a letter, or mispronouncing it in conversation, that he is not "well-bred", and has not been well educated.
Yet, despite this familiarity with the dictionary, the average person is likely to have many wrong ideas about it, and little idea of how to use it profitably, or interpret it rightly. For example, it is often believed that the mere presence of a word in a dictionary is evidence that it is acceptable in good writing. Though most dictionaries have a system of marking words as obsolete, or in use only as slang, many people, more especially if their use of a particular word has been challenged, are likely to conclude, if they find it in a dictionary, that it is accepted as being used by writers of established reputation. This would certainly have been true of dictionaries a hundred years or so ago. For a long time after they were first firmly established in the eighteenth century, their aim was to include only what was used by the best writers, and all else was suppressed, and the compiler frequently claimed that this dictionary contained "low" words. Apparently this aspect of the dictionary achieved such importance in the mind of the average person that most people today are unaware of the great change that has taken place in the compilation of present-day dictionaries.
Similarly, the ordinary man invariably supposes that one dictionary is as good and authoritative as another, and, moreover, believes that "the dictionary" has absolute authority, and quotes it to clinch arguments. Although this is an advantage, in that the dictionary presents a definition the basic meaning of which can't be altered by the speaker, yet it could be accepted only if all dictionaries agreed on the particular point in question. But ultimately the authority of the dictionary rests only on the authority of the man who compiled it, and, however careful he may be, a dictionary-maker is fallible: reputable dictionaries may disagree in their judgments, and indeed different sections of the same dictionary may differ.
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage？
A．The Bible is the most widely used reference book.
B．The dictionary is the most widely used reference book.
C．The dictionary is actually the more widely used book than the Bible.
D．The Bible is used as widely as the dictionary.
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Imagine that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women, all of them heterosexual and in search of a mate．Since the numbers are even, everyone can find a partner．But what happens if you take away one man？ You might not think this would make much difference．You would be wrong，argues Tim Harford，a British economist， in a book called The Logic of Life． With 20 women pursuing 19 men, one woman faces the prospect of spinsterhood． So she ups her game． Perhaps she dresses more seductively． Perhaps she makes an extra effort to be obliging． Somehow or other, she “steals” a man from one of her fellow women． That newly single woman then ups her game, too, to steal a man from someone else． A chain reaction ensues．
Real life is more complicated, of course, but this simple model illustrates an important truth．In the marriage market, numbers matter．And among African-Americans，the difference is much worse than in Mr．Harford's imaginary example．Between the ages of 20 and 29, one black man in nine is behind bars．For black women of the same age, the figure is about one in 150．For obvious reasons, convicts are excluded from the dating pool．
Removing so many men from the marriage market has profound consequences．As imprisonment rates exploded between 1970 and 2007， the proportion of U.S.-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62%to 33%．Why this happened is complex and furiously debated．The era of mass imprisonment began as traditional mores were already crumbling， following the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the invention of the contraceptive pill．① It also coincided with greater opportunities for women in the workplace． These factors must surely have had something to do with the decline of marriage．
But jail is a big part of the problem, argue Kerwin Kofi Charles, now at the University of Chicago． They divided America up into geographical and racial “marriage markets”, to take account of the fact that most people marry someone of the same race who lives relatively close to them．② Then, after crunching the census numbers， they found that a one percentage point increase in the male imprisonment rate was associated with a 2.4-point reduction in the proportion of women, who ever marry．③ Could it be, however, that mass imprisonment is a symptom of increasing social malfunction, and that it was this social malfunction that caused marriage to wither？④ Probably not. For similar crimes, America imposes much harsher penalties than other rich countries．Mr. Charles and Mr. Luoh controlled for crime rates, as a substitution for social malfunction, and found that it made no difference to their results. They concluded that “higher male imprisonment has lowered the likelihood that women marry...and caused a shift in the gains from marriage away from women and towards men.”
阅读以上文章，回答 87～91 题
第 87 题 The word “ensues” in Paragraph 1 probably means __________．{Page}
[A] to result in something
[B] to happen after something
[C] to be welcome
[D] to be interrupted temporarily
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请阅读Passage 1。完成第小题。Passage 1African elephants have been slaughtered at alarming rate over the past decade, largely because they are the primary source of the worlds ivory. Their population has been dw
A．Subjective.
B．Neutral.
C．Pessimistic.
D．Active.
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There are many problems in our modern world. One very()serious problem is energy. We get a great () of energy we need from coal, gas, and oil. However, the () of energy which we use is () every year, and we only have enough coal, gas, and oil for the next twenty or thirty years. How will we live () the energy which these things give us？ Scientists are looking for () to this problem. They are looking for new () to produce energy. For example, they are working with new ways to () energy from the light and heat of the sun. They are also working with plans which produce energy from () of the oceans. All of the new methods () scientists are finding are still very expensive, but perhaps they will help solve our energy problems () the future.
1.A.number
B.group
C.price
D.deal
2.A.effect
B.amount
C.course
D.program
3.A.increase
B.increasing
C.had increased
D.is increasing
4.A.without
B.improve
C.producing
D.strength
5.A.key
B.a direction
C.a solution
D.service
6.A.cost
B.method
C.branch
D.pound
7.A.Show
B.pay
C.save
D.produce
8.A.property
B.remedy
C.welfare
D.movements
9.A.So that
B.which
C.whose
D.Of which
10.A.at
B.for
C.In
D.from
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The morning warmth changes the flowers in a way to make them more_to insects, perhaps causing them to release more attractive scents earlier in the day（）
A．immune
B．appealing
C．appearing
D．soothing
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The largest battle of the Civil War took place in July 1863 at______, where Lincoln later delivered perhaps the best-known speech in US history（）
A．Antietam Creek
B．Gettysburg
C．Vicksburg
D．Petersburg
