It was so noisy outside that the speaker could hardly ________.

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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Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened【B1】. As was discussed before, it was not【B2】the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre electronic【B3】, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the【B4】of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution【B5】up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading【B6】through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures【B7】the 20th-century world of the motorcar and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in【B8】.It is important to do so.

It is generally recognized,【B9】, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century,【B0】by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process,【B11】its impact on the media was not immediately【B12】. As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as【B13】, with display becoming sharper and storage【B14】increasing. They were thought of, like people,【B15】generations, with the distance between generations much【B16】. It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the【B17】within which we now live. The communications revolution has【B18】both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been【B19】views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed【B20】"harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult. 【B1】 A．between B．before C．since D．later

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听力原文：M: It's so cold now, but this morning it was so hot and sunny. I wish there was a way! could always be wearing the most suitable clothes for the temperature.

W: I recently read that in ten years we'll be wearing clothes that change with the weather. So when it's cold, our clothes will warm up, and when it's hot, our clothes will cool off. M: Oh, very funny! So we'll be wearing huge clothes with built-in air conditioners and heaters. W: I'm being serious! Researchers have discovered a method of treating fibers with plastic crystals capable of storing and releasing heat as the temperature fluctuates. These treated fibers absorb more heat than untreated fibers. Researchers are still working with this, but soon this process will be widespread. M: That's fascinating. I didn't know that fibers had the capability of storing heat. How does that work？ W: These fibers work with the heat by rearranging their structures. The treated fibers move back and forth between two solid shapes. M: I don't understand. What kind of shapes do they change into？ W: When the weather gets warmer, the crystals take on cube shapes and absorb heat. When the weather gets cooler, the crystals become cooler and come back to their original structure. M: That's truly unbelievable. You said that it'd be a decade before this type of clothes will be available, What a shame! I don't think I can wait that long. (23) A．He is indifferent. B．He is doubtful. C．He is disgusted. D．He is alarmed.

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Noisy as it Was，he went on listening to music________（好像什么事情都没有发生过一样)．

Noisy as it Was，he went on listening to music________(好像什么事情都没有发生过一样)．

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When was ______ you had the get-together（联欢)with the soldiers？A．that,itB．this,itC．it, th

When was ______ you had the get-together(联欢)with the soldiers？ A．that,it B．this,it C．it, that D．this, that

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短文翻译（英译汉)As a child—and as an adult as well—Bill was untidy. It has been said th

短文翻译(英译汉) As a child—and as an adult as well—Bill was untidy. It has been said that in order to counteract this, Mary drew up weekly clothing plans for him. On Mondays he might go to school in blue, on Tuesdays in green, on Wednesdays in brown, on Thursdays in black, and so on Weekend meal schedules might also be planned in detail. Bill’s contemporaries, even at the age, recognized that he was exceptional. Every year, he and his friends would go to summer camp. Bill especially liked swimming and other sports. One of his summer camp friends recalled, “He was never a nerd or a goof or the kind of kid you didn’t want your team. We all knew Bill was smarter than us. Even back then, when he was nine or ten years old, he talked like an adult and could express himself in ways that none of us understood.” Bill was also well ahead of his classmates in mathematics and science. He needed to go to a school that challenged him to Lakeside—an all-boys’ school for exceptional students. It was Seattle’s most exclusive school and was noted for its rigorous academic demands.” Lakeside allowed students to pursue their own interests, to whatever extent they wished. The school prided itself on making conditions and facilities available that would enable all its students to reach their full potential. It was the ideal environment for someone like Bill Gates.

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The box was so heavy_______nobody could lift it.

A．because B．that C．but D．when

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His handwriting was so tiny that it was hardly （).

A.legible B.readable

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The movie was so exciting that it took my___away.

A．life B．heart C．breath D．bread

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It was so noisy outside that the speaker could hardly ________.

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