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Propulsion of the vast majority of contemporary merchant ships (especially containerships and VLCCs) utilizes（） as prime mover.
A . gas turbine
B . diesel engine
C . steam engine
D . gasoline engine
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The contemporary foreign policy of the UK is greatly influenced by its imperial history and also by its geopolitical traits.
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The movie Night at the Museum II is funny, and is made up of a _____ of accidents.
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---blocks---in front of---diner---sense---cooperated---lead to---landmark---gatherers---complicated---admitted---The museum is four ________ from the park.
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The method of section-by-section is especially useful when introducing a museum or a ________ project.
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National Museum of Scotland lies in ( ).
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The British Museum in London is a museum of human history,culture and natural science.
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1.Part 1 I’m Looking for the Museum.Listen to the conversation and circle the letter of the correct answer.What’s the man looking for?
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The reconstruction of _____ species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers.
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Kulangsu has the first piano museum and only organ museum in China.
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One of the big differences between a traditional nakodo and its contemporary version lies in the way______.
A．wedding gifts are presented
B．formalities are arranged
C．a proposed partner is refused
D．the middleman/woman is chosen
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Personally I think he's ______ the most original of all the contemporary fashion designers.
A．in all
B．by far
C．for all
D．at best
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听力原文：M: I'm going to the museum this afternoon. There's a new exhibit of the unearthed bronze sword of the Hall Dynasty. Will you go together with me？
W: I'd love to, but I have to take a biochemistry exam tomorrow. It's a make-up, you know.
Q: What does the woman mean？
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A．She will go to the museum with the man.
B．She likes the bronze sword very much.
C．She hopes the man can pass the exam the next day.
D．She can't go with the man for having an exam the next day.
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听力原文：M: I'm going to the museum Sunday afternoon. There is a new exhibit of Indian art from Arizona and New Mexico. Want to go with me？
W: I'd love to. But my best friend is getting married on Sunday. I won't miss it for anything.
What is the woman going to do on Sunday？
A．Go to the museum.
B．Attend a wedding.
C．See an exhibition.
D．Go to New Mexico.
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听力原文：My colleagues, next, I like to show you a five—year-old building, which serves as a museum holding a variety of antiques exhibited on all the five floors．
The speaker is mostly probably
A．a school librarian.
B．a museum director.
C．a tourist guide.
D．a famous historian.
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Vives anticipated both the contemporary motivational theorists who avoid social comparisons and those researchers who find the harmful elements of norm-referenced testing to outweigh their advantages,
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The Museum of London exhibition includes some of the goods sold by the movement.
A．YES
B．NO
C．NOT GIVEN
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It can be concluded from the passage that the Philadelphia Museum of Art ______.
A．only collects paintings by American artists
B．has sold many paintings to foreign collectors
C．has a larger collection of paintings than other museums
D．only exhibits a portion of its collection of paintings
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Contemporary technological reporting is full of notions of electronic communities in which people interact across regions or entire continents. Could such "virtual communities" eventually replace geographically localized social relations？ There are reasons to suspect that, as the foundation for a democratic society, virtual communities will remain seriously deficient.
87. For example, electronic communication filters out and alters much of the subtlety, warmth, contextuality, and so on that seem important to fully human, morally engaged interaction. That is one reason many Japanese and European executives persist in considering face-to-face encounter essential to their business dealings and why many engineers, too, prefer face-to-face encounter and find it essential to their creativity.
88. Even hypothetical new media (e. g. advanced "virtual realities"), conveying a dimensionally richer sensory display are unlikely to prove fully satisfactory, substitutes for face-to-face interaction. Electronic media decompose holistic experience into analytically distinct sensory dimensions and then transmit the latter. At the receiving end, people can resynthesize the resulting parts into a coherent experience, but the new whole is invariably different and, in some fundamental sense, less than the original.
Second, there is evidence that screen-based technologies (such as TV and computer monitors) are prone to induce democratically unpromising psychopathologies, ranging from escapism to passivity, obsession, confusing watching with doing, withdrawal from other forms of social engagement, or distancing from moral consequences.
Third, a strength--but also a drawback--to a virtual community is that any member can exit instantly. Indeed, an entire virtual community can decline or perish in the wink of an eye.
89. To the extent that membership in virtual communities proves less stable than that obtaining in other forms of democratic community, or that social relations prove less thick (i. e. less embedded in a context filled with shared meaning and history), there could be adverse consequences for individual psychological and moral development.
90. no matter with whom we communicate or how far our imaginations fly, our bodies--and hence many material interdependencies with other people--always remain locally situated. Thus it seems morally hazardous to commune with far-flung tele-mates, if that means growing indifferent to physical neighbors. It is not encouraging to observe just such indifference in California's Silicon Valley, one of the world's most "highly wired" regions.
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听力原文：W: Taxi! I'm going to the National Museum of Art. How long does it take to get there？
M: Well, it depends on the traffic, but shouldn't toke more than twenty minutes for the average driver. And I'm not average. So we should be able to cruise through traffic and get there in less than twelve minutes.
W: Oh. By the way, do you know what time the museum closes？
M: Around 6:00 o'clock.
W: Do you have the time？
M: Yeah. It's half past four. Hi, this is your first time to the city, right？
W: Yeah.How did you know？
M: Well, you can tell tourists from a mile away in this city because they walk down the street looking straight up at the tall buildings.
W: Was it that obvious？
M: Well...
W: Oh, before I forget, can you recommend any good restaurant downtown that offer meals at a reasonable price？
M: Umm...well, the Mexican restaurant, La Fajita, is fantastic. It's not as inexpensive as other places I know, but the decoration is very authentic, and theportions are larger than most places I've been to.
W: Sounds great! How do I get there from the museum？
M: Well, you can take the subway right outside the museum. There are buses that run that way, but you would have to transfer a couple of times. And there are taxis too, but they don't run by the museum that often.
M: Okay. Thank you so much.
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A．He is an average driver.
B．He is a skilled driver.
C．He is below average.
D．He is a green hand.
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The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play a significant role in the process of recovery from illness. As part of a nation-wide effort in Britain to bring art out the galleries and into public places, some of the country's most talented artists have called in to transform. older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2 500 National health Service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have significant collections of contemporary art in corridors, waiting areas and treatment rooms.
These recent initiatives owe a great deal to one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in north-eastern England.
The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering form. an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view on to a garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at during the early 1970s. he felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience.
A typical hospital waiting room might have as many as 5 000 visitors each week. What better place to hold regular exhibitions of art？ Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out-patients' waiting area of the Manchester royal Infirmary in 1975. Believed to be Britain's first hospital-artist, Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.
The effect is striking. Instead of the familiar long, barren corridors and dull waiting rooms, the visitors experience a full view of fresh colours, playful images and restful courtyards.
Compared with the total number of Britain's National Health Service hospitals, the hospitals which have art collections is only ______.
A．4%
B．40%
C．25%
D．50%.
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In the history of arts patronage(资助，赞助), entrepreneurs-turned-connoisseurs(艺术品鉴赏家，行家) are a young development. The world's greatest museums the Louvre, Hermitage, Prado began as lavish civilization-is-power statements by monarchs and emperors; private individuals did not emerge as significant museum patrons before the 19th century. Until a generation ago. those wanting to leave their mark in bricks usually did so in a room of their own in a state museum: the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Gallery at New York's Museum of Modern Art. But in the past 15 years, that has changed: worldwide, collectors seek immortality in glass and steel, through a museum of their own, designed by an architect of their choosing.
These are not latter-day Henry Tates or Pavel Tretyakovs, democratic visionaries who paid for buildings and donated core collections to kick-start evolving national, state-run institutions. Museum builders of the 1990s and 2000s, by contrast, are products of late capitalism, dedicated to more personal projects, with an individualistic flavor. They represent the legacy of Thatcher-Reagan words of choice, private philanthropy (慈善机构), me-generation celebrity.
Together, these and scores more bring diversity and flatten old geographical hierarchies. In Istanbul, collector Sakip Sabanci's museum, founded in 2002, is the first ever to show western modernism in Turkey. Thanks to Dominique de Menil, the greatest collection of paintings by Cy Twombly, who lives in Italy, is on permanent show in Houston, Texas, in a gallery designed in 1995 by Renzo Piano. In 1996 the late collector and dealer Heinz Berggmen launched his Museum Berggruen in Berlin, giving Germany its only Picasso collection.
Is all for the best in the best of all possible worlds？ Certainly, more private museums mean more art on display for more people to see. Today's collectors are reluctant to bequeath (遗赠) to established museums, where space shortages mean works may go straight into storerooms and stay there. By contrast, a dedicated museum maintains the integrity of a collection, keeping together outstanding groups of works, assembled with personal flair, in buildings designed to enhance them. Renzo Piano's light, see-through 1997 construction for Ernst Beyeler's cherry-picked modernist paintings in Basel is the shining European example. For contemporary work, private collectors have particular advantages: free of state bureaucracy, they can respond quickly to the fast pace, and show work in ways that are too radical for traditional museums.
How did the Louvre, Hermitage, and Prado museums originate according to the passage？
A．Donations of the richest collectors.
B．Patronage of private individuals.
C．Collections of connoisseurs.
D．Encouragements and approval by rulers.
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The contemporary legal systems of the world are generally based on one of four basic systems（1）,（2）, statutory law, religious law or combinations of these. However, the legal system of each country is
A．Common law
B．Civil law
C．Statute
D．Legislature
E．decision
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Part 1 I’m Looking for the Museum. Listen to the conversation and circle the letter of the correct answer. Where are the speakers now？
A．On First Avenue
B．On Holly BoulevarD
C．At the museum．
